SMES Are Embracing Innovation for Business Performance

Creative Business Model Innovation for Globalizing SMEs

EU SMEs and E-Business Innovation

Although motivating electronic business (e-business) adoption and implemention by smalland medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is endorsed by policies and initiatives introduced by the European Union (EU), a number of challenges arise as the result of a limited conceptual understanding of the relationship between SMEs and information and communication technologies (ICTs). Relatively little is known...

The Review of SMEs Open Innovation Performance

Open innovation has provided more opportunities and broader space for Smalland Mediumsized Enterprises (SMEs for short) in innovative practices, but also brought new challenges to SMEs. Focusing on the performance of SMEs in open innovation, this paper conducts a literature commentary from several aspects including innovation performance, constraints, impact and strategy of improving open innov...

Business Model Innovation in European SMEs: some preliminary findings

Business Models have been on the research agenda since the emergence of ecommerce and ebusiness in late last century. Although a lot of attention has been paid to the concept, ontologies, taxonomies and approach in the field of strategic management, information systems, digital business and high-tech entrepreneurship research, empirical research either in the form of cases studies or quantitati...

Embracing Integrated Complexity: Integrating Innovation and Performance in Humane Organizations

Total quality management, reengineering, downsizing and benchmarking have frustrated more organizations than they have helped. They have failed where management has not taken the whole organization and its environment into account. Instead, they tried to improve the performance of parts of their businesses as though they were mechanisms; a 400-year-old perception of human organizations. For yea...