The partnership between banks and non-banks is one of the oldest and most common lateral business partnerships. While banks are looking for new markets and for cost efficient ways to implement new business models, SMEs presumably have considerable efficiency potentials within their financial processes. Some of these potentials could be realized by embedding functionality provided by banks withi...

College of Life and Environment Sciences (Y.-J.S., H.J., Z.-B.Z., G.W., C.W., Q.-B.Y., H.-J.L., D.-H.C., Z.-N.Y.) and Mathematics and Sciences College (J.-P.J., X.L., J.-H.G.), Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China; College of Agricultural and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China (B.X.); Shanghai Information Center for Life Sciences, Shanghai Insti...

1Institute of Health Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences (SIBS), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine (SJTU-SM), Shanghai, China; 2Department of Pathophysiology, Chemical Biology Division of Shanghai Universities E-Institutes, Key Laboratory of Cell Differentiation and Apoptosis of Chinese Ministry of Education, Shanghai Jiao T...

Control of regulatory T cells and T helper cells in human diseases: from bench to bedside Xiaohui Zhou, Bin Li, Huimin Fan*, and Zhongmin Liu* 1 Research Center for Translational Medicine, Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200120, China 2 Key Laboratory of Molecular Virology & Immunology, Unit of Molecular Immunology, Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Shanghai I...

8 Affiliations: 9 1. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ren Ji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao 10 Tong University, 160 Pujian Road, Shanghai 200127, China. 11 2. Shanghai Key Laboratory of Gynecologic Oncology, Ren Ji Hospital, School of Medicine, 12 Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 160 Pujian Road, Shanghai 200127, China. 13 3. Department of Gynecology, Obstetrics and Gynecolog...

Background. Whilst designing and implementing optimal Web information structures contributes to organisational goals and success, the size and structure of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) make Web information architecture (IA) a challenging task. At the same time, the attitudes and the capabilities of SMEs for online participation are crucial to a robust economy in nations across the world....

This paper examines the adoption and use of information and communication technology (ICT) in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) across four sectors in the UK. In the paper we report on a survey that explores the factors facilitating or hampering the successful adoption and use of ICT by SMEs. We find that SMEs are generally satisfied with their investments in ICT but that they are conce...

The main objective of this article is to identify the critical success factors (CSFs) for Business Intelligence (BI) systems implementation in small and medium enterprises (SMEs).The structure of the article is subordinated to this objective. The paper identifies the term Business Intelligence, characteristics of Business Intelligence systems, and various perspectives of their development. Then...

Purpose – The specific challenges which small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) face lead to a special knowledge management system with harmonised methods and supporting software tools. This paper seeks to address this issue. Design/methodology/approach – A theoretical framework is proposed as a layer concept to describe the special situation of knowledge management in SMEs. Based on this fra...

Manufacturing SMEs moving abroad in APEC face a challenge today of craft versus standard. Investment abroad in production facilities deprives globalizing SMEs of home country advantages, without assurance of similar contextual advantages abroad. Contextspecific advantages include networks of specialized producers, adept in local knowledgesharing networks regarding technologies of machinery and ...