South African small and medium-sized enterprise owners’ intention to implement an environmental management system

Environmental management systems in small and medium-sized enterprises: an analysis and systematic review

This article seeks to answer the following question: based on the scientific publications on this topic, what aspects of environmental management systems are small and medium enterprises incorporating into their production processes? A bibliometric analysis and systematic review was performed to formulate a response. The study yielded a portfolio of 27 articles directly related to the research ...

Enterprise Systems in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

The market for enterprise systems (ES), continues to grow in the post millennium era as businesses become increasingly global, highly competitive, and severely challenged. Although the large enterprise space for ES implementation is quite stagnated, now all of the ES vendors are focusing on the small to medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector for implementations. This study looks at the current ES...

A Study of a Small-and- Medium-Sized Enterprise

This exploratory study focuses on ERP post-implementation issues in Small-and-Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs). The authors conducted a case study in a small Norwegian retail company, which experienced a performance dip that lasted longer than expected. The case demonstrates how overwhelming the ERP competence requirements can be for an SME. Errors in the configuration of the ERP system and impr...

Rethinking knowledge management and the experience of a small and medium-sized enterprise

Knowledge is widely considered a business imperative that contributes to long-term competitiveness, which in turn sustains organizational development. Managing knowledge effectively, therefore, becomes crucial agenda in business practices. Despite the evolving awareness and attention, prior studies on knowledge management (KM) have encountered inconsistent findings and many organizations have o...

An ERP System Life Cycle-Wide Management and Support Framework for Small- and Medium-Sized Companies