Globalization, increased competitive pressure and rapid technological changes have brought the business world to a point in history and thus, the Small and Medium Enterprise (SMEs) sector in Africa and Ghana are the hardest hit and are now experiencing new challenges as they attempt to globalize their operations and become competitive. The objective of this study was to establish the extent to ...

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...

Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) make an important & great contribution to increase the Indian economy at best level and are a focus of improving their efficiency and competitiveness. In this research we discuss the development of a project research to investigate the suitability of Six Sigma as an improvement methodology for Indian SMEs in the Indian manufacturing sector. Large scale ...

This report covers two aspects of efforts to increase adoption of chemical management services (CMS). The first is expansion of CMS into small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The second is reducing uncertainty among chemical users through a CMS “standard.” Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have a significant need for chemical management services (CMS). However, financial barriers make traditio...

Business Intelligence (BI) is the key attention of in-depth application of enterprise information. This paper analyzes the difficulties in putting business intelligence into SMEs information, proposes small and medium enterprises BI application solutions in the use of SaaS software distribution method, and deploys on SMEs applied model and the value of management model through a comprehensive a...

Enterprise resource planning systems (ERPs) are now being implemented in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). In addition to allowing for the integration of technological architectures, these systems make best practices available to small firms. This paper presents the results of a study that was aimed at identifying the dimensions of SMEs’ readiness for the adoption of this new technology.

The present research was conducted to build a conceptual model of internal effective factors of small and medium enterprises in Mazandaran Province. To accomplish the goal of the research first, a complete review of the related literature was conducted. Second, questionnaires were given to the corresponding population. Finally, the gathered data were calculated and analyzed using SPSS, Exce...

Emerging economies frequently show a large component of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to be dependant on the economic activity of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Nevertheless, e-business solutions are more likely designed for large companies. SMEs seem to follow a classical family-based management, used to traditional activities, rather than seeking new ways of adding value to their b...

in this study the association between social capital and entrepreneurial locus of control among small and medium-sized enterprises’ managers is evaluated. the innovation of this study is theorizing and clarifying the role of social capital and its dimensions in fostering managers' internal locus of control. internal locus of control is one of the most frequently mentioned personal characte...

This article describes the collection and derivation of requirements for the integration of usability engineering (UE) methods in software engineering (SE) processes from the perspective of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). An exploratory, not generalisable survey of 11 typical SMEs was carried out in order to register their special needs.