There are various studies on the eco-innovation in the literature, but there is a scarcity of studies on the adoption and diffusion within manufacturing small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs). Drivers to adopt eco-innovations by manufacturing SMEs are required to be understood properly and be analyzed regarding the relationships among them. Hence, the purpose of this study is to identify the ...

It is without a doubt that Internet has immensely helped the growth of e-commerce businesses. Thesmall and medium enterprises (SMEs) are businesses with lower number of employees than a giventhreshold. Theterm is generallyusedbyorganizationssuch as EuropeanUnion, United Nations, World Trade Organization, World Bank andso on. Inthispaper, we present the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that h...

Many large enterprises develop their software nowadays in globally distributed settings. By using the option to outsource, the respective enterprises can realize decisive competitive advantages. In order to remain competitive, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are also forced to follow this trend and to outsource parts of their software development. However, most of the existing studies...

Background: Today, the growth of major industries depends on their appropriate interaction with small and medium enterprises (SMEs). In Iran, SMEs have 49 or fewer employees. The present study was an attempt to present an overall view of the condition of professional health and safety in such industries in order to gain information regarding activities related to occupational health and safety....

Enterprises should find a new business model for their development, so as to make better use of their own advantages. At the same time, with rapid development of the economy and of science technology, the competition between small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and large enterprises is inevitable, so it is very important for small and medium-sized enterprises to find better ways to improve...

Enterprise credit rating is an important issue in finance field. Small and Medium Enterprises are playing more and more important role in world economy development. Especially, China SMEs has gained rapid development in recent years. However, financing difficulty is a predominant and common problem for the SMEs in China. It needs joint effort to solve the SMEs financing embarrassment. One of th...

As organisational learning in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) has been attracted by the academics in recent years, the relevant topics of organisational learning in SMEs are becoming an important issue both in the research of organisational learning and the investigation of SMEs. According to the previous literatures, the quantitative research showed that there are different characters betw...

Small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) are an important sector of the economy and in some countries constitute more than 90% of businesses (OECD, 2002). The management issues, problems and opportunities faced by SMEs are very different from those faced by large corporations, therefore the need to focus specifically on this segment. In this paper the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) defin...