Innovation has become a recognized driver of economic prosperity of a country through sustained growth of its entrepreneurships. Moreover, recently coined term open innovation is increasingly taking a lead in enterprise management in terms of sustained profitability. Foci of researchers and practitioners are revolving around innovation methods, processes, and strategies. This chapter seeks to f...

This paper attempts to highlight a framework for the adoption of electronic commerce (EC) technologies in New Zealand with specific interest in the small to medium-size enterprise (SME) sector of the economy. The main thrust of the research was to develop the framework for EC adoption by the New Zealand SMEs and hence study the accelerators and impediments to the adoption and diffusion of EC te...

Recent changes in supply chains, especially globalization and collaboration, have created new risks for enterprises of all sizes. A variety of complex frameworks, often based on enterprise risk management strategies have been presented under the heading of Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM). The literature on promotes the benefits of a robust SCRM strategy; however, implementing SCRM is diffic...

INTRODUCTION Electronic Commerce 1 is not seen as a core activity for most small enterprises in Australia and it is quite often considered too expensive, technologically complicated and unsuitable for the small business environ-In spite of the reluctance of Australian SMEs to enter the online world, there are a growing number of small organisations developing websites to market their products a...

In this paper we describe an analytical model to determine the innovation capability of a small and medium enterprise (SME) as the first step towards the continuous improvement of performance in such a dimension of an organization. The model first assesses organizational variables and classifies companies by using the FlowsortTM multicriteria method. As second step, the classification module ca...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand how effective Turkish small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) use enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems in module aspect and to assess the adherence to lean manufacturing requirements. Obtaining each efficiency result separately is not adequate to make an inference about relationship between ERP and lean practices. Hence, a relational m...

As small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) face new challenges in a complex and dynamic competitive environment, they need to cooperate due to their restricted resources and limited capacities. At this, Enterprise 2.0 is seen as a supporting approach. To this date, there is a lack of academic publications concerning recommendations for the application of Web 2.0 artifacts in SME-networks. Thi...

This paper contributes to the discussion on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementations in the context of small and medium size enterprises (SMEs). Fewer than 30 % of ERP implementations have been successful, meaning the projects were completed on time, within budget, and with all required characteristics. The principal reason for failure has often been associated with the poor managemen...

In this paper we provide evidence on the survival and growth of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Vietnam relying on three partly overlapping enterprise surveys sampled during the period 1990-2002. Our empirical results indicate that classical determinants of performance including firm age, firm size, location, ownership, degree of capital intensive production and the type of activit...

the implementation of inter-organizational systems like business- to- business e-commerce (b2b e-commerce)  is being categorized as a system with high degree of difficulty since it involves complexity of the multiple relationships and interactions between trading partners. companies need to consider their own strengths and weaknesses before making decisions to explore new b2b e-commerce without...