small business financing practices: an empirical study

Agile Requirements Engineering Practices: An Empirical Study

T he rapidly changing business environment in which most organizations operate is challenging traditional requirements-engineering (RE) approaches. Software development organizations often must deal with requirements that tend to evolve quickly and become obsolete even before project completion.1 Rapid changes in competitive threats, stakeholder preferences, development technology, and timeto-m...

E-Government-Induced Business Process Change (BPC): An Empirical Study of Current Practices

Job Related Dimensions and Faculty Members Satisfaction at Indian Business Schools: AN Empirical Study

Purpose: The present study examines the relationship between job related dimensions and job satisfaction of teaching staff of B-schools in India using Structure Equation Modeling (LISREL 8.5). Methodology: The study is based on a single cross-sectional survey. In all three hundred ten responses were generated from teachers of management institutes located inIndia. A self-administered questionna...

IT Governance Practices in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Recommendations from an Empirical Study

Much has been learned through IT governance research about the nature of ITrelated decisions, the location of decision rights for these decisions, and governance mechanisms applied to facilitate associated decision processes in large organisations. Our knowledge about IT governance structures in small and medium-sized enterprises (SME), on the other hand, is quite limited. Adopting a qualitativ...

Business Process Digitalization and New Product Development: An Empirical Study of Small and Medium-Sized Manufacturers

Over the past decades, the rapid developments of the Internet and the information technologies have profoundly impacted every aspect of organizational and social activities. Many business organizations, including small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), have started to adopt business process digitalization (hereafter “BPD”) as a tool to gain market and operational efficiency (e.g., BarNir, Ga...

Factors Affecting Entry-Level Internet Technology Adoption by Small Business In Australia: An Empirical Study

The adoption of Internet technologies by the small business sector is important to their ongoing survival. Yet, given the opportunities and benefits that Internet technologies can provide it has been shown that Australian small businesses are relatively slow in adopting them. This paper develops a model from recent literature on the facilitators and inhibitors to the adoption of Internet techno...