In recent years, the increase in competitiveness, as a result of the economic globalization and crisis, has caused the bankruptcy of many Italian small family businesses working in traditional industries. Meanwhile, family firms that have been working in a perspective of process and product innovation have been able to maintain a durable competitive advantage. In particular, enterprises that ha...

Micro-finance has developed as a need-based program for empowering women and reducing poverty part of the development paradigm. One most successful strategies improving lives underprivileged via increased economic opportunity is microfinance. To reduce unemployment end poverty, microfinance programs like one discussed in this article attempt to help people start small businesses earning an inco...

Many small-to-medium sized enterprises are finding it extremely difficult to implement proper information security governance due to cost implications. Due to this lack of resources, small enterprises are experiencing challenges in drafting information security policies as well as monitoring their implementation and compliance levels. This problem can be alleviated by means of a cost effective ...