This paper reports the results of a study that investigates changes in skill requirements of information systems professionals in Singapore. The study coded representative job advertisements that appeared in the newspapers over a period of fifteen years – from 1983 to 1998. The coding results indicate that job profiles for programmers and IS managers have not changed dramatically over the years...

Introduction Nowadays, the unemployment crisis has had irreparable effects as a fundamental problem on all the economic, social and cultural aspects of the community. So that the stability and destruction of some governments depends on solving the unemployment crisis. The issue of economic development has always been one of the main concerns of countries. There are two factors that affect deve...

This paper reports the findings of a study that examines the evolving relationships between the state’s entrepreneurial role and market factors such as business support services, business training and professional development, technological and information support services and SMEs’ development in Vietnam. This study uses an institutional approach to study how the entrepreneurial state influenc...

The aim of the paper is to investigate to what extent access to finance explains differences in entrepreneurial activity across European Union (EU) member countries. We use a dataset containing information across countries and time to investigate the determinants of entrepreneurial activity in twenty-five EU members over the period between 2007 and 2013. Our sample comprises both periods of dif...

Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) generate a substantial share of the GDP in industrial economies. The more than 20 million SMEs in Europe are an important source of new jobs and entrepreneurial activity (European Commission, 2002a, 2002b). Considerable funding has been granted to research programs targeting the development of SMEs in general and in specific areas such as the diffusion ...

This paper analyses the impact of megatrends of electronic business on small and medium sized businesses (SMEs). The limited resources of SMEs create particular challenges in surviving the fast pace of changes in electronic business. This paper discusses megatrends and presents a qualitative study of e-business trends. The authors reveal entrepreneurial opportunities for agile small businesses ...

The development of SMEs serves as a tool for creating employment opportunities in developing countries. SME growth can be attributed to how owners and managers use entrepreneurial marketing skills their day-to-day operations. A quantitative study was used gain an understanding the application Ghana. Findings indicate that entrepreneurs acquire during years operation, however, these are not tune...