This paper introduces the theories of open technology innovation and information ecology, from the perspective of information ecology. It combines a series of problems which small and micro enterprises face in the process of open technology innovation activities. It explore how to realize dynamic balance of the small and micro enterprises open technology innovation information ecosystem, in ord...

We report on the prevalence and patterns of non-farm enterprises in six sub-Saharan African countries, and study their performance in terms of labor productivity, survival and exit, using the World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study - Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA). Rural households operate enterprises due to both push and pull factors and tend to do so predominantly in eas...

Medium-sized and small enterprises play a key role in the process of economic and social development of countries around the world. In our country, the problem of financing difficulties that medium-sized and small enterprises are face with has become the main influence factors, thus blocking the medium-sized and small enterprises further development. To strengthen the study of medium-sized and ...

Nowadays enterprises have played an important role in China’s economic development and increasingly become the main force of China’s growing research and innovation activities. Different from some related work on developing countries’ innovation policy and strategy, the evolutionary model of secondary innovation, based on Chinese enterprises’ innovation practice, highlights the significant role...

Micro-enterprises make up the majority of firms in most countries. In New Brunswick, micro-enterprises represent around 73% of all firms (Bourgeois and Dulipovici, 2003). Canada has about one-half million micro-enterprises, representing around 77% of all Canadian firms (Industry Canada, 2001). The proportion of micro-enterprises within the population of firms is even larger when owner-operated ...

the study has been done regarding the systematic approach (including: input, process, output and feedback). initially a list of factors has been recognized through surveying the secondary resources and existing models. then the factors are summarized and completed. finally 30 factors are identified as composing factors of enterprises' marketing. these factors have been matched with the sys...

This exploratory study seeks to promote investigation about knowledge sharing between enterprises of the same enterprise group and is motivated by the growing importance of knowledge management (KM) to businesses. The data was collected from Community Innovation Survey (CIS) 2012 and three linear regressions were performed (one to all enterprises, one to SME and one to large enterprises). The r...

The present research study aims to discover the effects of IT adoption in micro-enterprises in the Latino community in the United States. While the majority of the IT adoption literature considers large organizations, this study relies on Sen’s Capability Approach and an adaptation of Action Research to support the adoption of IT by micro-enterprises. This “IT therapy” process enables IT to be ...

Following ISO9000 and ISO14000, SA8000 standard is now attracting international attention and it exerts influence on the export trade of China, particularly on the export trade of labor-intensive products. Because Chinese enterprises lack understanding of this standard and the importance attached to this standard in the government’s macro-administration is not sufficient, at this stage, only a ...

In most countries, micro-enterprises make up the majority of firms. Canada has more than 500,000 employer micro-enterprises, representing 77% of all firms (Industry Canada, 2001); if we include owner-operated firms with no employees, the number and proportion of microenterprises would be much larger. Although the development potential of this group of firms would seem to be huge, micro-enterpri...