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...

This paper compares and contrasts the results of two similar studies into the software process practices in Irish Small and Very Small Enterprises. The first study contains rich findings in relation to the role and influence of managerial experience and style, with particular respect to the company founder and software development managers in small to medium seized enterprises (SMEs), whilst th...

The Internet is changing the ways of doing business in the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) of developing countries. The rapid diffusion of the Internet in China brings Chinese SMEs new business opportunities. This paper proposes a framework for studying the adoption of e-commerce in Chinese SMEs. The research model combines organizational innovation adoption literature and the theory ...

Adoption of innovations within small and middle-sized enterprises (SMEs) employing fewer than 250 employees is limited compared to large companies. Within the current study, our goal is to identify hindering factors influencing adoption of innovation within SMEs. To identify this, we conducted a case study on the usage of mobility related innovations within 20 small and medium-sized enterprises...

The small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in China have achieved rapid and sustainable growth in the past two decades. Such growth has increasingly contributed to China’s economic development. Yet, weak linkages with external market, weak technological innovation, and limited SME financing have limited SMEs’ growth. This brings to the fore the need for more efficient and professional government s...

internationalization and tendency of small and medium enterprises to move into international markets are important and one of the essential factors of economic growth and development in the developing countries. several factors affect the process of internationalization of firms has been studied. the main goal of this study is examination relations between business strategies and internationali...

SmallandMediumEnterprises(SMEs)inservicesectortakethelionshareofthemarketcompared toothersectorssuchasagricultureandmanufacturing.TheincreasingnumberofSMEsintheservice sectorbroughtthecompetitioninthemarkettoitspeak,whichforcedSMEstoinvestinimproving theirservices.However,solvingserviceproblemsrequiresmoreresourcessuchasskilledlaboro...

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 ...