The study was designed to analyze credit receipt and enterprise performance by small scale agro based enterprises in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. A multistage sampling technique was adopted in selecting 264 agro based enterprises and 96 agro based enterprises that accessed informal and formal credit respectively. The Heckman model was used to examine the factors affecting amount of inform...

The implementation of supplier portals is one of the tactics adopted by car manufacturers (OEM) to integrate with their suppliers. The portals have a significant impact on the supplier community which is largely formed of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). This paper applies the social shaping of technology (SST) perspective to analyse the implementation of standardised portal technolog...

The emergence of agent technology and it’s increased use in business applications arises the question, how organisations are changing due to the existence of intelligent agents. Those agents may affect the definition, the structure and the social interactions of the individual human organisation members. In this paper, some important research issues from different perspectives are identified, c...

This talk will explore the issues faced by enterprises in managing the complexity of information technology as well as progress in emerging autonomic technologies to address them. The discussion will consider the balance between technology automation and IT processes and human interactions with the management of technology. Recent trends in system management architecture, tools, and standards w...

Large enterprises find success through the collaboration among the members of the enterprise. It thus becomes a specific business goal to increase collaboration. By thinking of the enterprise as a network one can model interactions over time, and characterize interactions, frequency, and type and marry this to a set of outcomes. Beyond descriptive analytics, one can engage in predictive and pre...

Editor’s Note: Pharma/biotech companies and universities, though previously somewhat insulated from each other, are developing close ties as industry seeks new technologies and universities attempt to capitalize on the commercial value of their research enterprises. Because the relationships developed can vary markedly, and expectations on each side may be quite divergent, attendant agreements ...

This work describes the development of a protocol of analysis of a virtual network of manufacturing enterprises, with particular interest in the framework to support the distributed simulation. This wants to propose innovative solutions for the evaluation of the performances of manufacturing systems operating in uncertainty conditions and to simulate the interactions between the enterprises. Ev...

the study was designed to analyze credit receipt and enterprise performance by small scale agro based enterprises in the niger delta region of nigeria. a multistage sampling technique was adopted in selecting 264 agro based enterprises and 96 agro based enterprises that accessed informal and formal credit respectively. the heckman model was used to examine the factors affecting amount of inform...

Large industrial enterprises had innovation rates of 84% compared to 63% of similarly sized service enterprises. In excess of 67% of medium sized industrial enterprises engaged in innovation activity in the period while 58% of service enterprises were innovation active. Small industrial enterprises (ten to forty-nine persons engaged) had an innovation activity rate of 51% compared to 38% of sma...