This review summarizes research on enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems within the domain of small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs). Due to the close-to-saturation of ERP adoptions in large enterprises (LEs), ERP vendors now focus more on SMEs. Moreover, because of globalization, partnerships, value networks, and the huge informat ion flow across and within SMEs nowadays, more and more ...

small and medium enterprises development policy by  cluster approach  program is a new method to attempt to industrial development goals in developed and developing country in the world. in the last decades in some of country such as iran concentrate that programmed. industrial development program by cluster approach need some measurable factor for control and assessment. program’s control must...

Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of many economies. However many SMEs have constraints such as limited financial resources that challenge their growth. Scholars and practitioners have therefore advocated using Information Systems (IS) to improve the competitiveness and survival rate of SMEs. Despite increasing implementation of IS in SMEs, issues of under-utilization w...

In spite of rapid advances in multimedia and interactive technologies, enterprise users prefer to battle with email spam and overload rather than lose the benefits of communicating, collaborating and solving business tasks over email. Many aspects of email have significantly improved over time, but its overall integration with the enterprise environment remained practically the same. In this pa...

The benefits of knowledge management are recognized mainly for the large organization. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can also achieve the real benefits of KM. This paper investigates the relationship between the KM process and the organizational performance of SMEs. The objective of this paper is to assess the KM process and its relationship to different components of organizational...

At present, the financing of small and medium-sized enterprises in China’s market economy has caused great concern of the whole society. Small and medium-sized enterprises financing difficulties directly affect our country to complete the “public entrepreneurship, people’s innovation” goal. There are many reasons for the financing difficulties of SMEs, such as the small and medium-sized enterpr...

The effective management of technology and new product development in a high technology small to medium enterprise associated with a large corporation with specific reference to the development of solar photovoltaic water pumps is investigated in this study. Innovative product and the development thereof have already become this century's battleground. The availability of information to all and...

Globalization, increased competitive pressure and rapid technological changes have brought the business world to a point in history and thus, the Small and Medium Enterprise (SMEs) sector in Africa and Ghana are the hardest hit and are now experiencing new challenges as they attempt to globalize their operations and become competitive. The objective of this study was to establish the extent to ...

Enterprise Modelling has been used successfully for years with different purposes. Nowadays, there are a lot of languages, methodologies and tools related to Enterprise Modelling, even for modelling Virtual Enterprises. However, some of the Enterprise Modelling weaknesses have not been solved yet. One of the most important is the lack of interoperability among enterprises that use different Ent...

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have been receiving less focus from the software vendors than large enterprises (LEs). Research on the implementation of ERP in certain European countries shows that the job of implementing an Enterprise Resource Planning package (ERP) is a riskier business for SMEs than for LEs. This paper presents a methodology for efficient implementation of ERP solutions ...