Large scale Indian manufacturers started implementing Six Sigma to their supply core to fulfill the endless need of high quality products. As well, they initiated encouraging their suppliers to apply the well-ascertain SS management practice and kept no resource for supplier enterprises, generally small midsized enterprises to think for the admittance of Six Sigma as a quality promotion drive. ...

The competition inherent to globalisation has led enterprises to gather in nests of specialised business providers with the purpose of building better applications and provide more complete solutions. This, added to the improvements on the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), led to a paradigm shift from product-centrism to service-centrism and to the need to communicate and inter...

Abstract: This paper surveys empirical research that shows that small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are more constrained by financing and other institutional obstacles than large enterprises, exacerbated by the weaknesses in the financial systems of many developing countries. We use the concept of the access possibilities frontier to explain how difficulties in managing risk and transaction cos...

Patents, as technological innovation achievements and sign, are potential and intangible assets of enterprises and can enhance their core competitiveness. How to obtain useful information and knowledge from a large number of patents data, have become an urgent problem. In order to satisfy the actual needs of enterprises for patent information, the paper proposed a frame of patent information an...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to identify the risk factors of metabolic syndrome (MS) and to analyze the relationship between the risk factors of MS and medical cost of major diseases related to MS in Korean workers, according to the scale of the enterprise. METHODS Data was obtained from annual physical examinations, health insurance qualification and premiums, and health insuranc...

The impact of import competition on labour productivity is examined using panel data for a sample of Australian manufacturing firms over the period 1984 to 1993. Import competition is found to interact with domestic competition; such the positive impact of import competition on the level and rate of growth of labour productivity rises with the degree of concentration among domestic producers. T...

Financial markets in the past decade witnessed an enormous interest of IPO based financing of technology-based business. At the same time large sums of venture capital were provided to technology-oriented enterprises. In this article we review recent developments in the provision of equity for technology-based enterprises. After a brief introduction in the possibilities for financing enterprise...

Each business company collects, produces and exploits for its activities and goals large amounts of information. Most of the times this knowledge makes the intellectual capital for creating value and innovation. Knowledge management (KM) systems aim at manipulating knowledge by storing and redistributing corporate information that are acquired from the organizations members. In this context, Vi...

Effective control of large-scale enterprises requires a combination of long-range planning to identify appropriate strategies for meeting objectives and efficient scheduling of resources to ensure timely completion of tasks associated with those strategies. Given the highly dynamic operating environment of many enterprises, planning and scheduling must both be adaptive to unexpected events and ...