The ever-increasing complexity of contemporary products and services demands business supply chains that involve a large number of autonomous organizations. Competitive markets require that these chains are highly agile, effective and efficient. This is achieved by forming dynamic virtual enterprises within supplier networks, which we call instant virtual enterprises (IVEs). We present the Cros...

The flexibility and reusability afforded by service-oriented architectures seems to be of singular applicability to the management of virtual enterprises. In this paper we describe the architecture of the SOAVE platform: a Service-Oriented Architecture for Virtual Enterprises. The platform provides the members of a networked community with a set of tools with which they can collaborate on the p...

This study investigates the magnitude of insider profits in Canada and the ability of outsiders to earn abnormal returns. We focus on three groups of Canadian firms, technology firms, firms whose revenues are contract-oriented, and firms that do not fall under these two categories (general firms). We propose that insiders of the first two groups are likely to possess information that are genera...

emergence of new communication technologies made media industry available for small and entrepreneur media firms to enter venue, while before them the arena belonged to big media companies. now media industry includes a lot of small enterprises which market now innovations, even with limited resources, thanks to these new technologies. the same trend occurred in iranian media market too, but de...

Customers and firms must understand and appreciate one another’s personalization, privacy and security (PPS) vested interests. Customers and enterprises should establish and maintain sufficiently well implemented policies, mechanisms and behaviors to minimize unintended consequences of security breaches that breakdown relationships. An integrated model of personalization, privacy and security f...

Enteq3rises which are distributed in space and/or which are composed as a temporary joint venture of legally different units recently often called virtual (extended) enterprises. Planning, design and operation (management) goals and requirements of such firms are generally different from those of single, centralised enterprises. In this paper we suggest (software) solutions for design, planning...

We analyse the role of European development financial institutions (DFIs) in supporting innovation by empirically investigating impact their participation as investors equity deals on target firms' patenting activity. build a unique international data set and firm-level years 2007–2019. Econometric results highlight positive contribution DFIs mobilizing finance to support innovation, magnitude ...

Information Technology (IT) plays an important role in organizations, particularly in small and mediumsized enterprises (SMEs). These firms have a simple structure with less specialized tasks and tight human, financial and material resources, so it is particularly important to use an appropriate IT governance framework (ITG) to such enterprises. This paper shows the results of applying an ITG f...

This paper examines the traditional and contemporary approaches to conducting research into the marketing management activities of entrepreneurial small firms (ESF). It argues that these approaches are inappropriate in that they fail to take adequate account of the nature and characteristics of such enterprises and the individuals who manage them. It is contended that the best approaches are to...