Broadband Diffusion to SMEs in the UK

The Supply Side of Innovation Diffusion-a Uk Sme Broadband Adoption Perspective

Recent research suggests that the majority of the Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) ebusiness research focusses primarily on studying innovation diffusion within the SMEs themselves with limited research into the supply-side of innovation diffusion This study examines the supply side of innovation diffusion to SMEs in south east United Kingdom (UK). It aims to examine and provide an ind...

The UK SMEs Experience of Broadband Diffusion

Broadband has been introduced to the business community as a fast and easy way of exploiting the Internet. The benefits of its use (fast reliable connection, always on) are widely advertised and broadband diffusion is one of the items at the top of the agenda for technology related policies worldwide. In this paper, we argue that broadband research within small and medium size enterprises (SMEs...

The Effects of Broadband Infrastructure on Economic Growth in Developing Countries

In this paper we investigate the effects of broadband infrastructure providing high speed internet, on economic growth in developing countries. We have used two different broadband measures to classify developing countries into two groups for the period 1999-2008. By using logistic diffusion model and IV approach, a nonlinear diffusion model is specified. Differences in ceiling of diffusion cur...

Implementation of Agile Manufacturing Principles in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMES)

Modern manufacturing is under ever increasing pressure to develop solutions for highly complex tasks. In order to maintain the business survival in a highly competitive environment, it is vital to obtain customer satisfaction, which requires developing products with shorter lifecycles and higher quality meanwhile to reduce the production costs. In order to achieve such objectives a paradigm has...

A Socio-technical Approach to Broadband Diffusion by Smes