This special issue seeks to appreciate the long-term study of SMEs as key players in Latin American economies, with contributions on six countries: Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Chile. is a representative sample subcontinent’s diversity when it comes economy size, population, inequality index. The articles presented spot topics SMEs. introduction focus three central issues th...

The chapter is a systematic literature review of fundamental theories about small and medium business (SME) success. examines how they specifically impact digital SMEs. examined six theories: dynamic capability view (DCV), composition-based firm growth (CBV), resource-based (RBV), resource dependence theory (RDT), upper echelon (UET), strategic contingency (SCT). results showed that RBV, DCV, U...

Industry 4.0 concepts have brought about a wind of renewal in the organization companies and their production methods. However, this integration is subject to obstacles when it comes Small Medium sized Enterprises—SMEs: costs new technologies be acquired, level maturity company regarding its digitization automation, human aspects such as training employees master technologies, reluctance change...

At present, the financing of small and medium-sized enterprises in China’s market economy has caused great concern of the whole society. Small and medium-sized enterprises financing difficulties directly affect our country to complete the “public entrepreneurship, people’s innovation” goal. There are many reasons for the financing difficulties of SMEs, such as the small and medium-sized enterpr...

Electronic commerce becomes an important competitive advantage for small and medium-sized enterprises. Those enterprises therefore need a tool to easily exhibit and sell their products on the Internet. Electronic shops are the best solution to be accessible online but can be quite expensive. This paper presents eSarine, a Struts-based open source webshop, which is especially designed for small ...

Holonic modeling analysis which is the application of system thinking in design, manage, and improvement, is used in a novel context for business process modeling. An approach and techniques of holon and holarchies is presented specifically for small and medium sized enterprise process modeling development. The fitness of the approach is compared with well known reductionist or task breakdown a...

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, excel an...

Our society is changing the way of making business; it is changing the competitiveness rules among the organizations and it is demanding a bigger involvement of the companies in the ethical aspects of businesses. Thus, the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility has become important as an approaching strategy between firms and society. For this reason, this paper attempts to analyze the effe...