Small firms’ use of e-business is limited and little is known about what drives small businesses (SMEs) to embrace e-business. It first discusses different growth strategies adopted by SMEs and reviews Internet adoption in SMEs. Drivers and inhibitors of e-business are identified. Three research questions are derived does strategic intent drive e-business adoption and is it a factor of market p...

This empirical study investigates the influence of organisational size, internal IT capabilities and external factors, such as competitive and vendor pressure, on ERP adoption within SMEs. Existing research on ERP adoption has indentified some of the potential factors affecting SMEs, such as organisation size as one of the most significant ones. Yet none of this previous research has looked at ...

In order to deepen the knowledge and further advance theory on business process management (BPM) on smallto medium sized enterprises (SMEs), the analysis of the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) on SMEs in emerging countries was conducted. The paper seeks to develop the conception of adaptive business process management on SMEs in the developing countries.

The smooth running of small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) presents a significant challenge irrespective of the technological and human resources they may have at their disposal. SMEs continuously encounter daily internal and external undesirable events and unwanted setbacks to their operations that detract from their business performance. These are referred to as ‘disturbanc...

In order to adopt IT, SMEs need to consider drivers and barriers that can influence the IT adoption success. This paper proposes a guideline to assists SMEs in adopting IT. The guidelines are formulated based on existing literature and authors’ experience in assisting Indonesian SMEs. An example of adopting email have been used to illustrate the process.

Small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) have an important impact on the development of new economy but SMEs have a need for venture capital (VC) and initial public offerings (IPOs) in order to grow. Therefore, It is very important to know how owners, managers and employees in the SMEs perceive the VC and IPOs in Turkey. A questionnaire is developed to understand these types of perceptions via ...

Competing in a global, open and dynamic ecosystem of firms, SMEs require a strategic management tool to manage co-evolution with dynamic environments. To sustain their competitive advantages, SMEs must enhance the capacity of orchestrating and integrating resources/capabilities to adopt/shape their chosen ecosystem and meet the emergent market needs. Drawing from existing literature and prelimi...

This paper examines management of change in SMEs in Malaysia during the time when the country was experiencing the Asian financial crisis. The types of changes investigated include change in objectives, change in work force, change in work practices, and change in strategies. The results clearly indicate that the SMEs carried out many organizational changes in response to the financial crisis. ...

In this paper a simple but novel control strategy is developed for Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage (SMES) unit. The SMES unit is used to improve the dynamic performance of power system. The gain of the controller is determined depending on the power system and the capacity of the SMES unit. A simple delayed function is used to determine the desired power from the SMES unit. Eigenvalue a...

Cloud computing technology is providing businesses, be it micro, small, medium, and large scale enterprises with the same level playing grounds. Small and Medium enterprises (SMEs) that have adopted the cloud are taking their businesses to greater heights with the competitive edge that cloud computing offers. The limitations faced by (SMEs) in procuring and maintaining IT infrastructures has be...