The adoption of the Internet as a business strategy tool is becoming an important way for firms to expand their business through innovative strategies. This study provides an insight concerning the factors that influence the adoption of the Internet to support business activities, also known as e-business among SMEs in Malaysia. In addition, the study also examines the relationship between e-bu...

Small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) lack an adequately skilled workforce and managers, since university education generally focuses on large enterprises and their needs. Complementary skills needed by SMEs have been of lesser interest even though several approaches, methods and environments could be utilized. For example, enterprise resource planning systems, business simulation games and ...

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have played a vital role in technology innovation and development of national economy throughout the world. To be competitive and to react faster to the market demands, SMEs need new information processing techniques to analyze the increasing amount of produced data, and innovative solutions in order to manage the computational resources with better flexibili...

ERP systems are more and more adopted in large companies. It seems that this trend is followed by small and medium companies too. We have conducted a questionnaire based survey to identify how Swiss SMEs perceive this phenomenon. The sample size is 687 of which 125 have actually implemented an ERP. Our main findings are twofold. First SMEs that have not implemented ERP invoke concerns (e.g. cos...

Being able to control logistics on the network level demands transparency to inventory and deliveries in the whole supply network. However, the information technology (IT) solutions enabling network transparency are expensive and heavy to install and, thus, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) often find them infeasible. This paper brings forth the difficulties small and medium sized enter...

The present paper focuses on the topics of “Collaborative Working Environments”, “eBusiness-Future forms of organisations, Technology and Applications” and “Semantic and Knowledge based systems”. It is based mainly on the Collective project Know Construct (COLL-CT-2004-500276) starting in March 2005. The main objective of the project is to develop a common internet-based platform for SMEs and o...

Drawing on family business studies and the knowledge-based view of economic growth, we develop and test a model of how the prevalence of smalland medium-size enterprises (SMEs) under family control affects economic growth. Specifically, we propose there is an inverted Ushaped relationship between family SMEs’ proportional representation and economic growth owing to their relative strengths and ...

While small dynamic firms propose PSS applications based on new technologies quite easily, large infrastructures are often required. SMEs don’t have the capacity to do this alone. For complex systems, different SMEs combine efforts to build an efficient infrastructure. Other SMEs can join and propose other PSS, creating a network. As networks grow the SMEs must understand their place within the...

This paper describes the evaluation of the use of information technology, efficiency of the use of computer, and the use of information technology for strategy of smalland medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). A framework, developed from previous research on information technology on organizational strategy, is used to exploring the use of information technology of SMEs. This study is based on surve...

This article focuses on innovation as the main driver of the competitiveness and market success of small and medium enterprises in the United Arab Emirates. The study overviews the still limited literature dedicated to innovation in SMEs in the UAE. It also analyzes the innovation model of small and medium enterprises in the UAE, and focuses particularly on Dubai‘s SMEs. The article highlights ...