in this study the association between social capital and entrepreneurial locus of control among small and medium-sized enterprises’ managers is evaluated. the innovation of this study is theorizing and clarifying the role of social capital and its dimensions in fostering managers' internal locus of control. internal locus of control is one of the most frequently mentioned personal characte...

This literature review focuses on the best practices for implementing a knowledge management system in a small to medium sized enterprise. The literature helps to illustrate common challenges businesses face when implementing a knowledge management system. Fifteen sources are reviewed and divided into three main categories: (a) challenges in implementing knowledge management systems, (b) best p...

Small-business adoption of electronic business has been analyzed largely in conventional business terms such as benefits and costs, returns on investment, and competitive advantage. While these factors are important, small businesses are also embedded in social contexts which shape the rationalities with which they approach e-business. These rationalities are different from those that character...

El presente trabajo se destaca la economía globalizada y sociedad del conocimiento que predomina a nivel mundial, las empresas basan en el son una fuente para generación de empleo, los gobiernos han creado políticas públicas apoyo con respecto creación expansión Pymes fundamentadas tecnología I + D i. Entre deficiencias pequeñas medianas país están: acceso mercados, relación al capital, recurso...

Modern manufacturing is under ever increasing pressure to develop solutions for highly complex tasks. In order to maintain the business survival in a highly competitive environment, it is vital to obtain customer satisfaction, which requires developing products with shorter lifecycles and higher quality meanwhile to reduce the production costs. In order to achieve such objectives a paradigm has...

There are many studies carried out in countries about entrepreneurial characteristics over a long period of time. However, there is no consensus among the scholars on common set successful entrepreneurs world. Therefore, this study it expected to explore that may affect success. In study, thirty-one were taken from literature and they investigated through 121 who into micro, small, medium large...

Modern manufacturing is under ever increasing pressure to develop solutions for highly complex tasks. In order to maintain the business survival in a highly competitive environment, it is vital to obtain customer satisfaction, which requires developing products with shorter lifecycles and higher quality meanwhile to reduce the production costs. In order to achieve such objectives a paradigm has...

Introduction The research reported in this paper relates to an empirical study of business start-ups and their survival and growth or, conversely, their failure (exit) in the early years following start-up. A cohort of new start small or micro businesses which were set up with the support of a Training & Enterprise Council (TEC) in the West Yorkshire area are investigated. TECs are a government...