This research examines the adoption of information technology in small and medium sized enterprises in Japan. SMEs comprise more than 99 percent of the total Japanese enterprises. These one million-plus businesses employ 72.7 percent of workers and account for more than 50 percent of the total value and almost 60 percent of the value added. SMEs are not only a crucial source of employment, but ...

This paper reports on a programme of research considering the innovative potential of small and medium sized manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) in Industrial South Wales (UK). We consider and assess innovative potential as the configuration of management practices, capabilities, internal and external links facilitating the generation and appropriation of ideas. In the project we are interested in...

Industry 4.0 is an element of entrepreneurial strategy to survive rapidly and constantly changing markets. Several studies acknowledge that small medium sized enterprises (SMEs) face challen...

The aim is to improve small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)' core competitiveness financing attainability using deep learning (DL) under economic globalization. Accordingly, this work constructs a supply chain symbiosis system based on DL, economics, Stackelberg game theory following status quo analysis of the SMEs. Afterward, structural framework (SCF) designed. Further, it verifies effect...

The enhanced R&D cooperative efforts between large firms and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have been emphasized to perform innovation projects and succeed in deploying profitable businesses. In order to promote such win-win alliances, it is necessary to consider the capabilities of large firms and SMEs, respectively. Thus, this paper proposes a new approach of partner selection when...

In this article, we put forward the small and middle-sized enterprises (SMEs) credit guarantee is the effective measure to solve the financing difficulty for SMEs. Through the analysis of the actuality of Chinese SMEs credit guarantee legal system, we try to find the shortages such as the deficiency of the SMEs special guarantee legislation, the unreasonable capital financing structure, the ris...

The demands for automobiles increased drastically in last two and half decades in India. Many global automobile manufacturers and Tier-1 suppliers have already set up research, development and manufacturing facilities in India. The Indian automotive component industry started implementing Lean practices to fulfill the demand of these customers. United Nations Industrial Development Organization...

The paper analyses the adoption path of e-business technologies in the automotive industry. It has been showed that there is a profound and constantly increasing discrepancy in the diffusion of IT with respect to firm size. Large firms embarked on new technologies earlier and more intensive than SME’s (small and medium-sized enterprises). The observations of IT diffusion were confronted with th...

The study aims to understand the influence of social information systems (SIS) on absorptive capacity (AC) and innovation in Austrian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). For this purpose, a framework was developed and empirically tested using a nationwide, mixed-mode survey on a random sample of 138 SMEs of knowledge-intensive industries. The results show that the backbone of SIS utiliza...

IT/IS assimilation in organizations has been analyzed mainly by large companies, where its greatest adoption is observed. However, studies that analyze the effects IT/IS have on SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) have also begun to appear. The institutional theory offers an approach to understanding IT/IS diffusion and the adoption process caused by isomorphismwithin the institutional en...