It is very obvious that the global financial crisis has made a negative impact on Chinese economy. A large number of small and medium-sized enterprises’ production and operations have gotten into a difficult situation. Although many policies and measures have been introduced by our government to help the small and medium-sized enterprises to spend the winter, and there was a decent effect, the ...

Due to the gradual importance of e-Supply Chain Management (e-SCM) to the Smalland Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Taiwan, this research intended to explore the critical factors which allowed the Smalland Medium-Sized Enterprises in Taiwan to employ e-SCM. The research further studied that under these critical factors, how the adoption of e-SCM affected their organizational achievements. In ...

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are a vital and growing part of any national economies. In common with most large businesses, SMEs have recognized the importance of knowledge management. Using survey data from 219 small and medium-sized enterprises in Austria and Switzerland including Liechtenstein, this paper investigates the use of knowledge processes and knowledge methods for SMEs....

Big data management is no longer an issue for large enterprises only; it has also become a challenge for small and middle-sized enterprises, too. Today, enterprises have to handle business data and processes of increasing complexity that are almost entirely electronic in nature, regardless of enterprises’ size. Enterprises’ information systems need functions based on specific technologies to be...

The paper argues that the study of ICT usage among small and medium sized enterprises benefits from a combination of methods, including diffusion studies, institutional analyses, and studies of post-adoption behaviour.

High availability of information in medium and large-sized enterprises may naturally benefit from a wide-area replication of data. We discuss recent developments of replication architectures that boost the availability of business data in distributed information systems.

Small and medium sized enterprises have limited power in the supply chain and limited resources to invest in advanced planning systems. This makes it difficult to cope with the latest challenges such as mass customisation which puts higher demands on the companies’ ability to attune its production planning to customers' wishes and their suppliers. The paper presents possible types of supply cha...

Holonic modeling analysis which is the application of system thinking in design, manage, and improvement, is used in a novel context for business process modeling. An approach and techniques of holon and holarchies is presented specifically for small and medium sized enterprise process modeling development. The fitness of the approach is compared with well known reductionist or task breakdown a...

Teleworking is the key to a more flexible design of working time and places of work on the way to the modern information society with a knowledge oriented growth of economy. The rapid development of electronic networking systems such as Internet and the penetration of ISDN-based applications have demonstrated the enormous potential of technical facilities for new employment models. This paper d...