It has long been recognised that the innovative and entrepreneurial capabilities of the small medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector can make an important contribution to the commercialisation of emerging technologies. In their role as centres of expertise and originators of new technical knowledge, universities are vital contributors to this process. Understanding the nature of relationships bet...

In today’s business world, Small-to-Medium enterprises (SMEs) increasingly join their larger counterparts in regarding use of Information Technology (IT) and Information Systems (IS) as fundamental to business operations. For SMEs, investment in packaged software that has not been customized to individual enterprise needs, allows ready access to much of the IT function enjoyed by their larger c...

Historically, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems were initially destined to large companies in order to standardize and streamline their key business processes. Recently, they have been increasingly adopted by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). However, making strategic tradeoffs among the various marketplace solutions is a troublesome balance task for SMEs without the rescue of syste...

Enterprise architecture (EA) serves as a means to improve businessIT and strategy-operations alignment in an organisation. While it is a fairly mature domain in large enterprises, the need for EA in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has only been recently addressed. As SMEs have different characteristics and cope with specific problems, a different approach is essential to enable a succ...

Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) are socially and economically important, since they represent 98% of all enterprises, providing around 90 million jobs in the European Union, and contribute to entrepreneurship and innovation. However, SMEs face particular difficulties in order to be competitive in a global world. In recent time, technology applications in different fields, especially B...

Due to increased requirements for small-to-medium enterprise organizations (SMEs) worldwide to manage and use vast amounts of data and information, an organization must be able to improve in the design of its performance measurement system. Research in the field of performance measurement systems among SMEs has slowly emerged, but very little is known about how the design of performance measure...

The competitive environment within the corporate have forced the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to be more dynamic in adapting new business strategies. To achieve this objective, SMEs resort to enterprise collaboration to ooze out more business opportunities. Eventually, this culminates into a need for more useful enterprise collaboration to develop the integrated products. This aspect has...

Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) face new challenges in a complex and dynamic competitive environment. According to this, SMEs need to cooperate due to their restricted resources and limited capacities. At this, Enterprise 2.0 is seen as a supporting approach. As there is a lack of academic publications concerning recommendations for the application of Web 2.0 artifacts in SME-networks...