It is very obvious that the global financial crisis has made a negative impact on Chinese economy. A large number of small and medium-sized enterprises’ production and operations have gotten into a difficult situation. Although many policies and measures have been introduced by our government to help the small and medium-sized enterprises to spend the winter, and there was a decent effect, the ...

Due to the gradual importance of e-Supply Chain Management (e-SCM) to the Smalland Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Taiwan, this research intended to explore the critical factors which allowed the Smalland Medium-Sized Enterprises in Taiwan to employ e-SCM. The research further studied that under these critical factors, how the adoption of e-SCM affected their organizational achievements. In ...

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are a vital and growing part of any national economies. In common with most large businesses, SMEs have recognized the importance of knowledge management. Using survey data from 219 small and medium-sized enterprises in Austria and Switzerland including Liechtenstein, this paper investigates the use of knowledge processes and knowledge methods for SMEs....

Big data management is no longer an issue for large enterprises only; it has also become a challenge for small and middle-sized enterprises, too. Today, enterprises have to handle business data and processes of increasing complexity that are almost entirely electronic in nature, regardless of enterprises’ size. Enterprises’ information systems need functions based on specific technologies to be...

The paper argues that the study of ICT usage among small and medium sized enterprises benefits from a combination of methods, including diffusion studies, institutional analyses, and studies of post-adoption behaviour.

High availability of information in medium and large-sized enterprises may naturally benefit from a wide-area replication of data. We discuss recent developments of replication architectures that boost the availability of business data in distributed information systems.

Innovation is the soul of modern enterprise, and sustainable innovation is the essential for enterprises to keep their long-term energies. Small and medium enterprises should start from the construction of interior sustainable innovation ability cultivation system, cultivate innovational leading thinking, establish innovational enterprise culture, improve innovational encouragement system, walk...