Local clusters of high technology small businesses are of increasing interest to politician and academics. This papers draws on a study of 237 high tech small businesses located throughout the UK. Combining information on activity and location, firms were grouped according to their potential degree of embeddedness in local industrial clusters. Businesses with differing levels of cluster involve...

Small businesses have limited resources that need to be utilised for maximum return. Business intelligence (BI) systems can provide decision-makers, who in small businesses are predominantly the owner-managers, with access to data that enables them to make informed decisions on where to apply their limited resources. Given the dearth of literature on the role of BI in small businesses this rese...

Businesses all over the world are transforming themselves into Electronic Businesses (E-Businesses) to meet the challenges of the 21st Century. Hence the current effort of the Banks in Nigeria aims at becoming efficient businesses in response to customers‟ demands. That is, delivers services more effectively and in so doing, reinforces revenue increase. The goal is to ensure a customer performs...

Web crawlers are automated tools that browse the web to retrieve and analyze information. Although crawlers are useful tools that help users to find content on the web, they may also be malicious. Unfortunately, unauthorized (malicious) crawlers are increasingly becoming a threat for service providers because they typically collect information that attackers can abuse for spamming, phishing, or...

Valuation and Damages for Franchised Businesses by Patrick L. Anderson A large number of businesses operate as “franchises,” in which a separate entity creates a brand identity for a product or service that is sold through a system of franchised retailers or wholesalers. Examples include automobile dealers, hotels, beer distributors, restaurants, video, auto and other rental outlets. These busi...

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Agricultural producers have been experiencing significant income pressures, leading to a search for alternative sources of income. One of such is value-added agricultural businesses that allow the farmers to stay on the farm and undertake entrepreneurial ventures to improve their finances. How do farmers make sense of their environment as they consider their options for value-added business ven...

Many small businesses require distributed information systems but do not have the resources to develop, host or maintain them. An alternative approach may be to offer the software as a distributed service. Students in the University of South Dakota (USD) Systems Analysis course partner with small businesses to design software services using a model-driven system development approach and the stu...

This paper describes the trends of Web service technologies that support ‘Dynamic Collaboration.’ For the realization of collaboration in business, five important features are shown: (1) connectivity and interoperability, (2) security and safety, (3) robustness and reliability, (4) dynamism, and (5) contract. There are various specifications proposed on Web services and ebXML, which is a comple...

This paper studies the specific Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) capabilities needed for the transformation of Engineered to Order (ETO) manufacturing towards Configure to Order business strategy. The material for the research comes from a project conducted with public private partnership. The four industrial companies that we studied engineer and/or manufacture highly customized products in ...