1 Background The dynamic role of rural small and medium enterprises (RSMEs) in developing countries has long been recognized (Kayanula and Quartey, 2000). These RSMES can serve as engines through which the economic growth and employment objectives of developing countries can be achieved. However, for many years these rural enterprises have failed to grow beyond their micro enterprise nature and...

Using internet to operate business has become very important for traditional manufacturing enterprises and retailers. These enterprises are facing great risk when entering e-commerce due to lack of experiences and large volume of initial IT investment. This study analyzed the Commerce as a Service (CaaS) solution which can perfectly solve these problems. The solution is based on leading e-comme...

In many companies, a majority of business processes take place via email communication. Large enterprises have the possibility to operate enterprise systems for a successful business process management. However, these systems are not appropriate for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which are the most common enterprise type in Europe. Thus, the European research project Commius address...

1. Introduction Efficient information management and the processes therein become more and more important within enterprises or when enterprises are merging together. Most information systems use specific data models and databases for this purpose. This implies that making new data available to the system requires, that the data be transferred, into the system's specific data format. This is a ...

The information management has become an important base of developing an enterprise’s eBusiness. Although our country has spent abundant manpower, material resources and financial support on enterprise information management, most of the information systems were not so good to meet our need and they didn’t bring the effect into play sufficiently. Based on the two large questionnaires, this pape...

Croatian food industry is one of the most signifi cant strategic segments of the whole Croatian industry. However, the largest producers in Croatian food industry are still large lapsed enterprises formed before establishment of market economy. Hence, our purpose is to present the state, role and potential of SMEs inside the industry. Th e analysis of the role of SMEs is shown through data abou...

This paper is a first attempt of looking into the impact of IT and enterprise reform on productivity of Chinese manufacturing firms by using large scale firm level datasets from 1995 to 2002. It is found that enterprise reforms captured by entry and exit of firms have a positive impact on aggregated productivity growth. In addition, IT plays relatively more important role in productivity perfor...

This paper examines the concept of organizational emergence with respect to postmodern business organizations. We conclude that although there may be postmodern business enterprises in the United States, by and large they subcontract, not abolish, their modern work place relations. Information technology (IT) has been at the core of this process. Sophisticated information technologies have perm...

Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) includes the planning, management, control and improvement of enterprise architecture. The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) is the best known and most trusted enterprise architecture standard used to improve the operational e ciency. It brings many benefits, but is also associated with costs. While the applicability to large enterprises is beyon...

Cooperation between manufacturing enterprises has recently become widespread in order to cope with newly emerged challenges, such as growing customer expectations, increasing product variety and decreasing product lifecycles. Nowadays the response to these challenges seems to be the formation of tight relations in supply chains and networks, which enables joint handling of market risks and invo...