Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME's) are prevalent in the South African Industry have been globally recognized for their contributions to economic development, job creation, poverty alleviation, innovation. Although SME's aware can benefit significantly from digital systems, time, skills, finances required develop SME-specific systems prohibitive. This is because ability define sensor ent...

By adopting a bibliometric analysis approach, this study systematically reviews and retrospectively analyzes the rapidly emerging literature on Corporate social responsibility in Small medium-sized enterprise (SME). The reveals intellectual structure of papers that have been published from 2000 to 2022 Scopus database. Based research conducted, number articles CSR SMEs is increasing, indicating...

To achieve effective stakeholder governance in the context of international social accountability certification (SA8000) requires constructing a network agreement. In case study small-to-medium-sized enterprise (SME), we examine managers’ attempts at enrolling participants supply chain to investigate how they strive engage these stakeholders. We adopt actor-network theory (ANT) and sensemaking ...

The implementation of businesstobusiness electronic commerce (B2B e-commerce) is being categorized as a system with high degree of difficulty since it involves complexity of the multiple relationships and interactions between trading partners. Thus, for Small Medium Enterprise (SME) to partake in the B2B e-commerce activities, they need to have attained some reasonable level of e-readiness meas...

Abstract This paper established some market-driven strategies that influence the competitive growth of small and medium-sized enterprises in Lesotho. The identified following factors; market orientation, intensity, technological dynamics as variables SMEs’ growth. investigation shows these critical factors are significant facets enterprise could capacitate SME entrepreneurs managers to attain r...

A key constraint for growing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is the business skills required to grow the enterprises through the stages of transformation. Criticism against growth stage models for SMEs is of concern, since these models contain the typical knowledge that appeals to managers of small enterprises as guidance in how to manage growth. In this article we propose the SMEAG model t...

In México 99.8% of existing enterprises are Small-Medium Enterprises (SMEs) which generates 52% of Gross Domestic Product and 72% of total employment. A previous study of AMIPCI (2014) shows that in Mexico 8 of 10 enterprises have their own social network profile and 5 of 10 enterprises uses social media for publicity and marketing purposes. There are many studies about social media marketing b...

Purpose This paper investigates the factors crucial for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in establishing business relationships with banks Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach To investigate how SMEs select banking using criteria, such as decision factors, decision-makers, processes, a comprehensive literature review was used to classify SMEs' bank selection. A survey questionnaire distribu...

Small and Medium Enterprise (SME), with its significant contribution to a country’s economy is gaining corresponding interest from the research community. However, SMEs face numerous risks that could affect their performance resulting in inability rise full potential. Thus, this paper seeks study effect of risk sources (innovation technology adoption risk, infrastructure legal regulation enviro...