The National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS) Small-Enterprise Chicken study was conducted to better understand bird movement and biosecurity practices of commercial poultry operations having fewer than 20,000 chickens. A stratified random sample of 2511 operations having 1000-19,999 chickens was selected from a list maintained by the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), base...

This paper examines the traditional and contemporary approaches to conducting research into the marketing management activities of entrepreneurial small firms (ESF). It argues that these approaches are inappropriate in that they fail to take adequate account of the nature and characteristics of such enterprises and the individuals who manage them. It is contended that the best approaches are to...

Business Intelligence (BI) systems provide users for information and analysis to better support with tactical and strategic business decision processes. This article summarizes the current trends in BI systems, discusses aspects of BI tools and BI solutions in small and medium businesses. Principles of integration of multidimensional views of business data with analytical and visualization tool...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine a Chinese small enterprise’s failed attempt to adopt enterprise resource planning (ERP) and to identify the critical success factors for these type of projects. Design/methodology/approach – Information was collected through multiple site visits and semi-structured interviews with key staff of the ERP project, as well as examination of relevant ...

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In México 99.8% of existing enterprises are Small-Medium Enterprises (SMEs) which generates 52% of Gross Domestic Product and 72% of total employment. A previous study of AMIPCI (2014) shows that in Mexico 8 of 10 enterprises have their own social network profile and 5 of 10 enterprises uses social media for publicity and marketing purposes. There are many studies about social media marketing b...

In this paper, we assume that a professional pollutant treatment enterprise treats all of the pollutants emitted by multiple small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In order to determine the treatment price, SMEs can bargain with the pollutant treatment enterprise individually, or through forming alliances. We propose a bargaining game model of centralized pollutant treatment to study how th...

The goal of the work reported here was to explore the use of the Java 2 Micro Edition (J2METM) platform for applications connected to the enterprise, specifically focusing on Palm-based wireless applications. We found that the JavaTM platform on the Palm is still maturing. The Palm itself has been carefully engineered to support small native applications, with a distinctive graphical user inter...

A number of Hong Kong manufacturing companies have moved their production to the People’s Republic of China while retaining their supporting functions (such as marketing, distribution, etc.) in Hong Kong. As a consequence, their mode of operation has become more complex and demands better production planning and control (PPC). One solution is to use an information system in which all factory re...