Electronic business has a strong influence on the relationships between partners within supply chains. Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) need an affordable, integrated set of software tools to support integration of their supply chains and to take advantage of the new ways of doing business in the electronic business environment. The paper reviews evolution and current trends in supply ...

The paper presents relationships between market orientation (MO), knowledge management (KM) and growth and development of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Two basic questions are stated for this study: (1) what are the relationships between those two concepts, KM and MO, and growth of SMEs (direct or indirect), and (2) what is the direction of the relationship between KM and MO. To an...

In small countries such as New Zealand, small to mediumsized enterprises (SMEs) are defined as enterprises employing 19 or fewer employees. Small enterprises are defined as those employing zero to five full-time employees (FTEs) (often called microbusinesses), and medium-sized enterprises as those employing six to nineteen FTEs. Other countries, such as the United States and European countries,...

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) adopt Information Technology (IT) and Information Systems (IS) in order to achieve business goals and obtain net benefits. However, adopting IT/IS into an existing organizational structure is a complex and risky task. Many investments in IT/IS, outsourced as well as insourced, never fully reach the intended objectives and are therefore considered as not...

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...

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 ...

Large scale Indian manufacturers started implementing Six Sigma to their supply core to fulfill the endless need of high quality products. As well, they initiated encouraging their suppliers to apply the well-ascertain SS management practice and kept no resource for supplier enterprises, generally small midsized enterprises to think for the admittance of Six Sigma as a quality promotion drive. ...

In recent decades, along with a deeper integration into the world economy, when Vietnamese enterprises have had to respect and comply with international competitive laws, the issue of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has drawn a lot of attention and become an essential requirement for enterprises today. However, many Vietnamese small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are still wandering ...

Business model innovation (BMI) has become increasingly important, especially with fast changing business environment. While large enterprises approach these changes more or less systematically, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are left to their own resourcefulness. For the purpose of developing dedicated methods and tools to support different SMEs in addressing these challenges, we ha...

Due to the growing dependence of information society on Information and Communication Technologies, the need to protect information is getting more and more important for enterprises. In this context, Information Security Management Systems (ISMSs), have arisen for supporting the processes and systems for effectively managing information security. The fact of having these systems available has ...