background: today, the growth of major industries depends on their appropriate interaction with small and medium enterprises (smes). in iran, smes have 49 or fewer employees. the present study was an attempt to present an overall view of the condition of professional health and safety in such industries in order to gain information regarding activities related to occupational health and safety....

BACKGROUND Little is known about how organizations perceive and monitor occupational injury and illness costs. AIMS To explore perceptions of injury and illness costs, the extent to which organizations monitor their impact, attitudes towards this practice and views on using cost information in health and safety campaigns. METHODS Interviews were conducted with 212 representatives from 49 sm...

This study examines the relationship between firm absorptive capacity and organizational responsiveness in the context of growth-oriented small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). By measuring the different dimensions of absorptive capacity, external knowledge acquisition and intra-firm knowledge dissemination were found to be positively related to organizational responsiveness. In addition, t...

The advent of Web technology and standards as XML had many hope for seamless business integration. Especially small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) were considered to finally participate in existing EDI networks. But there are drawbacks to SME integration. In this paper we show that there are principle obstacles to integrating SMEs that are often neglected. If SMEs do not employ automated m...

Abstract Simulation solutions for manufacturing, as one of the key Industry 4.0 technologies, has received much attention in literature. In this paper, we show how different simulation have been discussed especially concerning small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This review was performed by systematically searching out literature Scopus database. The application areas SMEs, simulations t...

The outsourcing of ICT services has been common place in large organizations for many years. To date, most of the published research has focused on large organizations with very limited discussion exploring outsourcing in small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This paper reports on a major study (based on 900 completed questionnaires) of Swiss SMEs and their approach to outsourcing. The resu...

Enterprise architecture (EA) serves as a means to improve businessIT and strategy-operations alignment in an organisation. While it is a fairly mature domain in large enterprises, the need for EA in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has only been recently addressed. As SMEs have different characteristics and cope with specific problems, a different approach is essential to enable a succ...

This paper analyzes the contribution of the German banking system to the modernization of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in industry. The simultaneous greater relative importance of and relatively high wages in German SMEs appear to be paradoxical in terms of dual labor market theory, which claims that lower wages and greater flexibility in the use of labor are important for helping ...

The study investigates the practice of data warehouse system selection decisions for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and large enterprises (LEs) in Taiwan. The increasing number of companies looking for data warehousing solutions to gain a significant business advantage has created a need for systematic method for choosing appropriate data warehouse system. The aim of this study is to...

This paper starting with the present status of enterprise interoperability, focuses on enterprise interoperability of SMEs (Small and Medium-sized Enterprises), and based on a SMEs oriented framework of enterprise interoperability proposes an approach of process level interoperability. The approach appropriate for SMEs mainly solves two types of interoperability involving processes’ interior in...