Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a study of knowledge management understanding and usage in small and medium knowledge-intensive enterprises. Design/methodology/approach – The study has taken an interpretative approach, using two knowledge-intensive South ISFAHAN (Iran) companies as case studies, both of which are characterized by the need to process and use knowledge on a dail...

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...

The objectives of this research are to examine the awareness level Small and Medium Enterprise (SMEs) their knowledge CA2010 role MyCC. In addition, further analysis SMEs by state, market structures sectors also compared with baseline study which conducted in year 2013. A total 154 respondents involved results show that increased about MyCC CA2010. showed most states were aware existence Meanwh...

This paper analyzes the nature and determinants of product innovation for food agribusiness firms in India. The study is based on World Bank’s Enterprise Survey India Innovation Follow-up from 2014. These surveys included 294 Indian operating different regions country. Simple statistical tools, such as chi-square test logistic regression, are used analyzing raw data. It evident analysis that th...

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the main purpose of this research was to determinate the factors effective on environmental attitude of owners and managers of small and medium-sized enterprises (smes) by using structural equation modeling. according to the data from agriculture department of two counties, small and medium-sized enterprises were estimated at 540 units. using cochran’s formula determined the sample & 202 owners...

modern manufacturing is under ever increasing pressure to develop solutions for highly complextasks. in order to maintain the business survival in a highly competitive environment, it is vital toobtain customer satisfaction, which requires developing products with shorter lifecycles and higherquality meanwhile to reduce the production costs. in order to achieve such objectives a paradigmhas bee...

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....

â â â  â  zahra zamani [1] â â  seyed komail tayebi â  department of economics, university of isfahan, iran â â department of economics, university of isfahan, iran â â â  abstract â  international trade causes that markets to become more competitive and small-medium sized enterprises (smes) learn to compete effectively within this increasingly competitive global market place. smes are able to ...