The objective of this research is to investigate attitudes of management in Croatian small enterprises that use statistical methods towards statistical thinking in order to gain an insight into related issues. The research was conducted in 2013 using a web survey with a random sample of 631 Croatian small enterprises, but this paper focuses only on those enterprises that use statistical methods...

The emerging technology enterprises are the important supporter that emerging technology evolves into emerging industry, emerging technology enterprises entrepreneurial ability promotion path is a very complex fuzzy concept, how to improve entrepreneurial ability and this article defines that entrepreneurial ability has become a problem for emerging technology enterprises to keep their competit...

Products and processes innovation is a key-topic for the competitiveness of small and medium enterprises operating in the Information Technology field. The ESPINODE network links 18 European projects with the common goals of diffusing Software Process Improvement concepts and supporting the enterprises already involved in improvement experiments. This paper describes the methodology developed b...

OptiVE is a platform for designing and analyzing virtual enterprises. OptiVE has two modes of operations. In composition mode, business entrepreneurs can define elementary enterprises as well as create complex virtual enterprises from enterprises already registered in the system. In analysis mode, business analysts can explore the structure and properties of registered enterprises and ask the s...

The recent growth in diplomatic, civil and military conflicts presents evolving challenges for international business. These risks create new sources of country risk. Country risk, in this sense, is commonly associated with the risk faced by enterprises in developed countries while conducting their business operations in developing or politically volatile countries. Few studies, however, have b...

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 patent cooperation network which enterprises join is a very important network platform for enterprises’ open innovation. However, very limited work has been done to empirically investigate the dynamic change process of the network in China. To address this issue, this paper analyzes dynamic change process of cooperation network of enterprises and the small-world effect of the biggest subgro...

The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of trust and collaboration pattern on the learning willingness of the farmers and the enterprises’ knowledge transfer intension. The survey and literature research methodology are employed. 176 valid questionnaires were collected and OLS regression analysis is applied to answer whether trust and collaboration pattern have an impact on the learn...

The credit lack of third-party logistics enterprises has severely hampered the healthy development of the industry. This article establish the credit evaluation index system for third-party logistics enterprises based on the analysis of factors influencing the credit for a comprehensive, objective, scientific credit level evaluation. The authors determine the weight of every evaluation index wi...

The authors conducted questionnaire surveys and interviews on the engineers in several enterprises in China from Sept 2012 to Nov 2013. The research investigated the continuing education of engineering graduates in these enterprises and analyzed the relationship between continuing education with career development. This paper summarized the characteristics of continuing education of the enginee...