Among the multiple definitions for the Virtual Enterprise concept, the significance of two key elements: networking and cooperation, becomes clear. The lack of a unified definition is partially resulted by the large diversity in classes of networked organizations, which calls for the establishment of a taxonomy of virtual enterprises. An attempt to present some current definitions and a taxonom...

With advanced information technology, compare to the past operation, the significant difference is the companies no longer need to set up their own costly the large server, instead an external professional supplier "cloud computing" technology would be increasingly adopted nowadays. The main purpose of this study is to examine the financial performance whether would be improved after enterprise...

Internet-based total automation is proposed as a solution for manufacturing enterprises, which face constant changes in their markets, customer demands and business practices. When major changes occur, such enterprises require re-engineering of their information systems. This involves handling large numbers of functional objects and regulating many enterprise activities over three application l...

1 ABSTRACT Researchers in the adjacent fields of international business, organisation theory and strategic management recognise new organisational elements and a new organisational form in large multinational enterprises. In this paper a synthesised view of this new organisational form is presented, based on an extensive literature review. Further, the new organisation of multinational enterpri...

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are important for all kinds of enterprises. The selection and implementation of such systems are very difficult and many projects do not meet their expectations. While large companies have financial and human resources to engage in such a project, the situation for smaller sized enterprises is different. They have only limited budget, human resources a...

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...

Information technology has entered a big-data era. Large-scale data is becoming the basic factors of production and it would affect the corporate social responsibility disclosure deeply, the use of big data has become the key factor to improve the competitiveness of enterprises. Through this empirical analysis, we can draw the following conclusions: corporate social responsibility is mainly com...

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) was originally meant for large enterprises (LEs), hence most attention on ERP research focuses on LEs. However, ERP vendors have diverted their attention also to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in order to cater for their needs. This paper presents a systematic mapping study of ERP in the context of SMEs. The study concentrated on the ERP adoption an...

The "big-bang" liberalization of the inefficient Russian economy in 1992 provides a fruitful setting for analyzing the impact of several dimensions of market competition and other factors on enterprise efficiency. We analyze 1992-1998 panel data on 14,961 enterprises covering 75 percent of industrial employment, emphasizing the varied sources, geographic scope, intensity, time path, and surviva...

the study was designed to analyze credit receipt and enterprise performance by small scale agro based enterprises in the niger delta region of nigeria. a multistage sampling technique was adopted in selecting 264 agro based enterprises and 96 agro based enterprises that accessed informal and formal credit respectively. the heckman model was used to examine the factors affecting amount of inform...