successor planning process in family businesses is recognized as one of the most important phases of family business lifecycle. family businesses play a vital role in developing regional and global economy and fuel the creation of new jobs, new business growth and increase in entrepreneurial activities. in this study, it was attempted to investigate the impact of family business characteristics...

a limited series of studies on capital structure have been conducted on small-to-medium size enterprises (smes). recent family-bases business literature suggests that these processes are influenced by firm owners’ attitudes toward the utility of debt as a form of financing. other factors like culture, entrepreneurial characteristics, and prior experiences may also be involved. this study intend...

identification and selection of entrepreneurial businesses, are key activities to encourage people to do entrepreneuship. the majer goal of the current study is to identify, and prioritize the effective components in selection off superior entrepreneurial businesses.the research method is mixed method . friedman rank test has been used to analyze the data. the findings has revealed that the fol...

Cloud computing technology is providing businesses, be it micro, small, medium, and large scale enterprises with the same level playing grounds. Small and Medium enterprises (SMEs) that have adopted the cloud are taking their businesses to greater heights with the competitive edge that cloud computing offers. The limitations faced by (SMEs) in procuring and maintaining IT infrastructures has be...

Abstract. Several frameworks for identity management exist, each of them with its own distinguishing features. These frameworks are complex however, and their features not easily understood. This makes it hard for businesses to understand the intricacies, and difficult to select and deploy one. This paper develops business selection criteria and applies them to four popular identity management ...

The successful adoption of e-business by regional communities throughout Australia has the potential to revitalise these communities. This paper draws on depth interviews with businesses and focus groups of consumers in a regional area to develop a model of success for regional community portals. The resulting model highlights the factors encouraging businesses to subscribe to such a portal, in...

In this article, we estimate expenditures by businesses, households, and governments in providing financing for health care for 1987-2000 and track measures of burden that these costs impose. Although burden measures for businesses and the Federal Government have stabilized or improved since 1993, measures of burden for State and local governments are deteriorating slightly--a situation that is...

Personalization of on-line content by on-line businesses can improve a user’s experience and increase a business’s chance of making a sale, but with stricter privacy legislation and Internet users’ increasing concerns about privacy, businesses need to ensure they do not violate laws or frighten away potential customers. This paper describes the design of the proposed Identity Management Archite...

Comprehensive evaluation of small and micro businesses was significant problem for the researchers and the managers in corporations for these years in China. Small and micro businesses played an important role in taxes payment and social employment, providing convenience of people's life in every country. The article collected the data of small and micro businesses in east of China in 2010, ame...

The arrival of unprecedented numbers of migrant workers in the rural counties of the UK, due to EU enlargement, has created a unique opportunity. Many of these migrants wish to become more than just a source of cheap labour; they aspire to become entrepreneurs. Lincolnshire has already seen a burgeoning of migrant businesses, but these have prospered largely by serving their co-ethnic market. T...