In recent decades, along with a deeper integration into the world economy, when Vietnamese enterprises have had to respect and comply with international competitive laws, the issue of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has drawn a lot of attention and become an essential requirement for enterprises today. However, many Vietnamese small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are still wandering ...

The paper presents relationships between market orientation (MO), knowledge management (KM) and growth and development of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Two basic questions are stated for this study: (1) what are the relationships between those two concepts, KM and MO, and growth of SMEs (direct or indirect), and (2) what is the direction of the relationship between KM and MO. To an...

Business model innovation (BMI) has become increasingly important, especially with fast changing business environment. While large enterprises approach these changes more or less systematically, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are left to their own resourcefulness. For the purpose of developing dedicated methods and tools to support different SMEs in addressing these challenges, we ha...

The importance of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) is today far beyond any discussion in countries all over the world in European countries as well as in Asia and in USA, in Africa as well as in Latin America. To meet market demands in present and future global industrial world, manufacturing enterprises of any kind and any size must be flexible and agile enough to respond quickly to p...

Due to the growing dependence of information society on Information and Communication Technologies, the need to protect information is getting more and more important for enterprises. In this context, Information Security Management Systems (ISMSs), have arisen for supporting the processes and systems for effectively managing information security. The fact of having these systems available has ...

Customer satisfaction is at the focus for most manufacturers and mass customization can in some markets be one of the many tools used to increase the customer perceived value of a product by combining low price with extensive variation and adaptation. As a result, mass customization is on the agenda in many small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) but the question is, what it will take for a S...

The need for small and medium scale enterprises to utilize information and communication technology (ICT) applications to boost their business necessitated this study which bordered on assessing the extent of utilization of e-marketing applications by small and medium enterprises in South Eastern States of Nigeria. Two research questions guided the study. Two null hypotheses were tested at 0.05...

Society is increasingly dependent on Information Security Management Systems (ISMS), and having these kind of systems has become vital for the development of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs). However, these companies require ISMS that have been adapted to their special features and have been optimized as regards the resources needed to deploy and maintain them, with very low costs and ...

This paper presents an e-engineering contracting system developed for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) by the EU funded e-HUBs project (“e-Engineering enabled by Holonomic and Universal Broker Services”, IST-2001-34031). As a dedicated service within the Business to Business (B2B) arena, the engineering e-Hub is designed to facilitate the outsourcing of engineering services. The projec...