Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) have been the driving force to Chinese Taipei's economic development; especially in the 1970s and early 1980s, SMEs enjoyed a strong position in Chinese Taipei's production outputs, numbers of enterprises, numbers of employees and export value. During that period, the growth of the SME sector was mainly driven by the dynamic growth of enterprises in the manuf...

Models of organizational learning must be adapted to network enterprises, virtual enterprises, and other new organizational forms enabled by information technology. Since it is increasingly among these enterprises that e-commerce activity occurs, organizational learning is a requisite for reaping the benefits they offer and avoiding the pit falls. A model was developed and validated based on a ...

This paper aims to describe interrelationships between size of the organization and adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT). We hypothesize that size of the organization is interrelated with ICT usage. By analyzing the data from 68 organizations we have classified to micro, small, medium-sized and large enterprises and calculated composite index of ICT adoption in each orga...

Forty-percent of local companies in Malaysia failed within the first five years of company establishment (Leitrim, 2013). Some literature even reported a higher percentage of company failure, which was over 60%, in the first five years of establishments (Noor and Pi-Shen, 2009). These high percentages of failure reflect serious challenges and obstacles faced by domestic companies in the era of ...

Latin American economy is growing fast and national enterprises are looking for new ways of improving their competitive position against international firms, specially Small and Medium Enterprises. The concept of Virtual Enterprises can be a new way to do business and exploit business opportunities for these companies. In this report we will discuss the Framework for Virtual Enterprises develop...

Following ISO9000 and ISO14000, SA8000 standard is now attracting international attention and it exerts influence on the export trade of China, particularly on the export trade of labor-intensive products. Because Chinese enterprises lack understanding of this standard and the importance attached to this standard in the government’s macro-administration is not sufficient, at this stage, only a ...

The evaluation model on technical innovation ability of small and medium enterprises is set up based on analytic hierarchy process and fuzzy comprehensive evaluation methods, which takes quantitative index as main parts and considers reality so that better practicability is obtained. Meanwhile, technical innovation ability of small and medium enterprises in Heilongjiang Province of China are ob...

Small and medium enterprises play an essential and important role in economic development and social development in any country. Small and medium enterprises are found in every economy, both advanced industrialized and developing countries. In every economy there are only a few large enterprises, supported by a large number of small and medium enterprises, which explains why 90 % of enterprises...

Differences in the evolution of income distribution in Poland and Russia in the postsocialist era are striking: for example, in Poland, the gini coefficient on earnings went from 0.28 to 0.33 between 1988 and 1998 while in Russia it went from 0.27 to 0.47 (UNICEF, 2001). We argue that these differences can be accounted for, in part, by the different patterns of entry of de novo firms and of spi...

Past economic reform of the state sector in China consisted mainly of privatization, of agriculture and of small and medium-size state enterprises, leaving large state enterprises in the control of the state. Current reform consists of making state-owned enterprises and banks more efficient and functioning like private enterprises, and gradual privatization of some large state enterprises. Bure...