As a new means of management, empowerment has received the attention of small and mediumsized enterprises. Managers in small and medium-sized enterprises empower front-line salespeople, which will make front-line salespeople grasp the moment of truth, improve the on-site contact quality between salespeople and customers, increase customer satisfaction, bring the improvement of sales performance...

Efficient supply chain management demands transparency for inventory and deliveries along the whole supply network. However, the information technology solutions enabling transparency are expensive and intricate to install and few small and medium sized enterprises have adopted their use. This paper identifies the distinct difficulties small and medium sized enterprises experience with the prev...

The article includes the results and conclusions from empirical researches that had been done. The research focuses on the impact of investments made in small and medium-sized enterprises financed from EU funds on the competitiveness of these companies. The researches includes financial results in sales revenue and net income, expenses, and many other new products/services on offer, higher qual...

(BIM) within the Australian construction related small and medium sized enterprises: Awareness, practices and drivers In: Raidén, A B and Aboagye-Nimo, E (Eds) Procs 31 st Annual ARCOM Conference, 7-9 September 2015, Lincoln, UK, Association of Researchers in Construction Management, 691-700. BUILDING INFORMATION MODELLING (BIM) WITHIN THE AUSTRALIAN CONSTRUCTION RELATED SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED ...

Today's economic crisis has led to bankruptcy of many successful, but usually large-sized enterprises. This brought into question the future of large-sized enterprises. However, the only alternative to largesized enterprises (LEs) is networking of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) into Regional Production Networks (RPNet). RPNet is non-hierarchical organizational form in which every SME...

abstract small and medium-sized enterprises (smes) play a major role in national economy. e-business processes provide many opportunities for these companies to compete in regional and international markets. this study seeks to analyze the factors affecting e-business implementation in small and medium-sized enterprises. for this purpose, 10 factors and 61 indices were identified based on the l...

So far, e-learning has primarily been used when there are many learners involved. The up-front investments related to e-learning are relatively high, and may be perceived as prohibitive for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Some e-learning is, however, getting less expensive, and some e-learning models are more suited for small-scale training than others. Therefore, this article presen...

Electronic commerce becomes an important competitive advantage for small and medium-sized enterprises. Those enterprises therefore need a tool to easily exhibit and sell their products on the Internet. Electronic shops are the best solution to be accessible online but can be quite expensive. This paper presents eSarine, a Struts-based open source webshop, which is especially designed for small ...

This whitepaper discusses the internationalization of small and medium-sized enterprises. Furthermore it contains subjects like internationalization of SMEs in the time of globalization, reasons for internationalization, SMEs’ motives for internationalization, different forms and models of SMEs internationalization and dealing with internationalization by SMEs. INTERNATIONALIZATION OF SMES IN T...