In an empirical study of teleworking practices amongst small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in West London, organisational factors such as management attitudes, worker autonomy and employment flexibility were found to be more critical than technological provision in facilitating successful implementation. Consequently, we argue that telework in most SMEs appears as a marginal activity perf...

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) play a vital role in Indian economy as more than 50% of country’s GDP is contributed by them. SMEs are also the backbone of manufacturing sector as they form critical upstream supply network to the large-scale firms and OEMs. Like their counterparts in other regions of world, Indian SME are characterized with family based businesses with loose manageABSTRACT

a r t i c l e i n f o This study analyzes the processes that explain high performance work system (HPWS) effect on company performance in small and medium size enterprises (SMEs). This study tests this relationship in SMEs by selecting three high performance work practices (HPWP) and an outcome variable based on the return on investment. A regression model with a sample of 78 companies tests th...

E-commerce has been predicted to be a new driver of economic growth for developing countries. The SME sector plays a significant role in its contribution to the national economy in terms of the wealth created and the number of people employed. Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Egypt represent the greatest share of the productive units of the Egyptian economy and the current national policy...

An ever-increasing number of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are gaining interest in environmental management systems (EMS). Today, eco-management standards are beginning to spread through the unbounded universe of medium, small and very small enterprises, which represent more than 80% of the total number of enterprises operating in Europe and are the true backbone of its industrial system....

........................................................................................................... Chapter One: 1.0 Introduction................................................................................................... 1.1 Scope of research.................................................................................... 1.2 Research Problem Definition..........................

â â â  â  zahra zamani [1] â â  seyed komail tayebi â  department of economics, university of isfahan, iran â â department of economics, university of isfahan, iran â â â  abstract â  international trade causes that markets to become more competitive and small-medium sized enterprises (smes) learn to compete effectively within this increasingly competitive global market place. smes are able to ...

In recent years, corporate wikis have been increasingly adopted in enterprises. However, little research is devoted to the adoption and use of wikis in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which are of high social and economic importance. The purpose of this paper is to examine the usage of enterprise wikis in SMEs and potential concerns that may hinder the diffusion of wikis in SMEs as w...

This paper aims to explore the causes of financing difficulties of Chinese small and medium-sized enterprises and give out corresponding solutions for handling the problem. Through building up the theoretical analytical framework of SMEs’ financing difficulties, and discussing the development of Chinese real economy in recent years and the characteristics of SMEs in China, this paper will analy...

Financing is the bottleneck that restricting the development of China's small and medium enterprises. The root cause of financing difficulty for SMEs is the serious information asymmetry that exists between financial institutions, which lead to adverse selection and moral hazard. In this paper, financing theories of SMEs information dissymmetry and credit rationing theories are used to analyze ...