—Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are a major part of the industrial economies. Their survival and growth has therefore been a prominent issue. Research and development (R&D) enables firms to create new technologies and/or to build on existing technologies obtained through technology transfer. owadays unpredictable environment suggests that many firms seek new ways of conducting their ...

Cloud Computing (CC) has recently become a hot issue in today’s competitive market place. Many prior researches in Information Systems (IS) discipline have investigated significant factors influencing the adoption of new technologies or service solutions. However, due to the novelty of CC, adoption of CC especially in the Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) seems to be one of the less exp...

 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 take advantage of increased opportunities in domestic markets that follow from international trade. It is indeed a way for internationalization of SMEs. This paper analyzes income and...

Organizations today are faced with massive globalization, demanding customers with rapidly changing desires, shrinking response time, shrinking product lifecycles and demanding employees. This requires organizations to become fast, flexible, and participative and focused on customers, competition, teams, time and process. To respond to these forces, it is important to adopt a e-commerce in SMEs...

ERP systems have originally been developed for large enterprises (LEs). However, market saturation, integration of supply chains and improvements in technology have led to more and more small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) adopting ERP systems. Though there is a focus shift from LEs to SMEs in the ERP market, most academic literature on ERP systems is based on findings from LEs. In additio...

the purpose of this paper is to improve supply chain relationships in iranian small and medium-sized enterprises (smes) in automotive parts industry. for this reason, an importance-performance analysis (ipa) has been employed to categorized supply chain relationships metrics. also, the questionnaire method is used for gathering information. the paper identified thirteen supply chain relationshi...

SMEs can now afford enterprise-class services by adopting cloud computing. The four cases reported in the full article show that SMEs are getting great economic and business value from cloud services, including cost avoidance, cost savings, rapid deployment and scalability, management simplicity, and better security and resiliency compared to in-house IT provision. Cloud services have the poten...

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are normally required to attain dynamic success targets by improvement of their processes, products and services. One way to achieve this could be through quality initiatives and innovation in processes, products and services. In a knowledge based economy, use of quality measures alone may not bring competitive advantage due to severe resource constraints. Th...