BACKGROUND Employment is associated with better quality of life and wellbeing in people with mental illness. Unemployment is associated with greater levels of psychological illness and is viewed as a core part of the social exclusion faced by people with mental illness. Social Firms offer paid employment to people with mental illness but are under-investigated in the UK. The aims of this phase ...

Service orientation is one of the solutions for achieving agile enterprises, that helps make an alignment between business and information technology. By the influx of service orientation into the business domain, a new concept called service oriented organization is created that in business modeling of these enterprises, new modeling elements such as business and software services, rather than...

E-commerce becomes an important element of the business strategy for both small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and large enterprises as online business and cyber market space continue to expand its size and volume. E-commerce has a particularly important implication for SMEs because it can help SMEs overcome many handicaps of the SMEs, such as the economies of scale, and compete against the larg...

the popular press, as well as most academic literature, claims that innovation activities areinherently linked to higher company performance. successful innovations usually increase the firm’s marketscope or reduce costs, helping firms to obtain superior benefits. therefore, most innovations are developedwith those objectives in mind. environmental orientation is defined as the managerial recog...

The transformation of resource-based cities has a crucial impact on the development local manufacturing enterprises. This study aims to assess Resource-Exhausted City Program (RECP) performance enterprises, with particular focus role policy measures. Using data enterprises from 2004 2014, this employs multiple difference-in-difference methods investigate RECP corporate and its potential mechani...

The paper analyses the adoption path of e-business technologies in the automotive industry. It has been showed that there is a profound and constantly increasing discrepancy in the diffusion of IT with respect to firm size. Large firms embarked on new technologies earlier and more intensive than SME’s (small and medium-sized enterprises). The observations of IT diffusion were confronted with th...

This paper reviews the experience of small and medium enterprises in recent years in the Philippines. It notes that, while Philippines economic growth picked up in the early 1990s, the share of its small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in manufacturing employment and value added stayed roughly constant. However, the overall stability masks some dynamism across firm sizes and sectors. Thus, very s...

This paper focuses on capabilities and strategic competitive tools implemented by niche-oriented micro firms in the food sector. During last decade, establishment of new food processing ventures has increased in Nordic countries. New potential for food-market entrepreneurship exists especially in the traditional farm sector. Also in the Nordic countries, farmers seek new income sources through ...

This paper evaluates performance differences between government owned, mixed sector and private sector enterprises in India for the period 1973–1974 to 1988–1989. The results establish that enterprises owned by the central government and state governments are less efficient than mixed or private sector enterprises, while mixed sector enterprises are less efficient than those in the private sect...