The study focused on Thai Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the North Region of Thailand. In particular, the need to adopt Electronic Business (E-Business) by Thai SMEs is motivated by the intent to remain competitive. The aims of this study are:(1) to provide a current status of Thai SMEs and EBusiness; (2) to identify inhibitors; and (3) to report drivers for Thai SMEs in E-Business adop...

Smalland medium size enterprises are well known for being the backbone of the economy. They are the key factors of the economic growth as well as for innovating and developing products and services. Financial obstacles often occur for Swedish SMEs when they are searching for ways of financing the business. The lack of necessary financing to help SMEs’ businesses grow has been brought up in many...

The paper discussed Issues, Challenges and Prospects of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) in Port-HarcourtCity, Nigeria. This was informed by the high rate of unemployment in the society and the poor performance of SMEs in employment generation. While the research questions addressed the extent to which poor financing, inadequate social infrastructures, lack of managerial skills and mul...

Economic reform and liberalization in China have affected many institutional obstacles constraining the development and growth of Chinese small and medium size enterprises (SMEs). Using a firm-level data set that comprises all “above-scale” Chinese industrial enterprises for the period of 1995 to 2003, I investigate the patterns of entry and exit of Chinese SMEs and relate these patterns to the...

Institute of Systems Biology, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, P. R. China CAS-MPG Partner Institute of Computational Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, P. R. China Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai, P.R. China Institute of Health Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences,...

Department of Endocrinology, Xinhua hospital, School of medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China Department of Endocrinology, Xinhua hospital Chongming branch, School of medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China Shanghai Municipal Center For Disease Control And Prevention, Shanghai, China Department of Endocrinology, Ruijin hospital, School of medicine, Shanghai Jia...

IT outsourcing business tends to be the domain of large companies. However, with increase saturation of outsourcing market among large companies, the under-exploited SME market emerges as a potentially lucrative playground for vendors. SMEs, confined by limited resources, can benefit from having external services. Literature review shows a lack of outsourcing research among SMEs in Malaysia. Th...

High growth firms are critical for economic growth yet little is known about their funding arrangements. Examining a survey of over 8,000 UK Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs), this paper investigates the financial issues confronting high growth SMEs compared to non-high growth SMEs. The findings show that rapidly growing SMEs are significantly more likely to apply for finance than non-h...

Haichun Liu12, TianHong Zhang34 Yumeng Ye12, Changchun Pan12, Genke Yang12, JiJun Wang34, Robert C. Qiu56, Fellow, IEEE 1Key Laboratory of System Control and Information Processing, Ministry of Education of China, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200240, China. 2Department of Automation, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200240, China. 3Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiaoton...