This is the first paper that highlights the role of spatial interactions, in the context of state bankruptcy laws, in the entrepreneurship decision. The focus of the paper is on small businesses. Small and medium enterprises represent between 96 percent to 99 percent of all enterprises in the US. This paper asks whether laws that facilitate easy exit are an important consideration in entry of s...

Instead of the data or information-based interoperability occurring nowadays, many application domains will profit from and strongly require knowledge-based interoperability. In Virtual Enterprises (VE) domain, for example, knowledge-based interoperability is of major importance due to the limitations of data integration supporting the dynamic and ill-specified interconnection of entities. In f...

During the past 20 years, China has maintained a high economic growth rate that has attracted worldwide attention. Small enterprises have contributed the lion’s share to this achievement. In 1995, small enterprises accounted for 62.5 percent of China’s total industrial output and 73.6 percent of its industrial employment. While most largeand medium-size enterprises are still owned by the state,...

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....

Family enterprises are a vital yet understudied element of our economy and society. We believe that more attention should be devoted to the research on family enterprises, especially on particularities of strategic management in these enterprises. Most of the researches on strategic management of family enterprises has not been conducted from the strategic management viewpoint. Therefore the mo...

FDI enterprises from the same source country agglomerated in a region in China, i.e., a geographical agglomeration, was a main trend in recent years. An oligopoly output competition model was therefore developed between FDI enterprises and host country enterprises, with a conjectural variable introduced to weigh up the cooperation level between relevant enterprises, thus simulating and analyzin...

Agile processes can be applied to any software process for effective response to changing requirements during the development process and effective communication among stakeholders. There is lack of surveys related to agile processes in large web development enterprises in the world and the current state of adoption of agile processes by large enterprises is still unknown. A survey has been con...

The agglomeration of innovation determinants has a significant influence on the innovation performance of industries and enterprises. Such an effect has received less attention in empirical research studies. This study involves a survey of the agglomeration effect of two important innovation determinants, R&D investment and R&D personnel, and its influence on innovation performance from the per...

The stiff competition in the market, and continuous pressures from various stakeholders such as customers, business owners, environmental authorities, society, general, to produce unique products services, protect environment, obtain competitive advantage continue challenge sustainability of enterprises especially small ones. Accordingly, minimize effect these challenges pressures, can improve ...