Adoption of innovations within small and middle-sized enterprises (SMEs) employing fewer than 250 employees is limited compared to large companies. Within the current study, our goal is to identify hindering factors influencing adoption of innovation within SMEs. To identify this, we conducted a case study on the usage of mobility related innovations within 20 small and medium-sized enterprises...

Innovation management has recently received much attention from research, industry and state support. However, much of the research has focused on large enterprises with much available financial wealth and required planning infrastructure, in order to be effective at managing innovation. This paper aims to understand the factors that affect the innovation management process within Turkish SMEs....

Small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) constitute a major part of the global economic activity. Due to the distinct characteristics of these enterprises, approaches to information security management that were mainly developed for larger organisations can not be feasibly applied in the context of SMEs. In this paper, we present some of the challenges impeding the implementation of information...

Small firms’ use of e-business is limited and little is known about what drives small businesses (SMEs) to embrace e-business. It first discusses different growth strategies adopted by SMEs and reviews Internet adoption in SMEs. Drivers and inhibitors of e-business are identified. Three research questions are derived does strategic intent drive e-business adoption and is it a factor of market p...

This empirical study investigates the influence of organisational size, internal IT capabilities and external factors, such as competitive and vendor pressure, on ERP adoption within SMEs. Existing research on ERP adoption has indentified some of the potential factors affecting SMEs, such as organisation size as one of the most significant ones. Yet none of this previous research has looked at ...

In order to deepen the knowledge and further advance theory on business process management (BPM) on smallto medium sized enterprises (SMEs), the analysis of the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) on SMEs in emerging countries was conducted. The paper seeks to develop the conception of adaptive business process management on SMEs in the developing countries.

Health Science Center, Shanghai Second Medical University (SSMU) -Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences and Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200025, CHINA; Department of Pathophysiology, Shanghai Institute of Hematology, Rui-Jin Hospital, SSMU, Shanghai 200025, CHINA; Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, C...

Junjie Chen, Xianfeng Chen,* Yanzhi Ma, Yuanlin Zheng, Anhua Wu, Hongjun Li, Linwen Jiang, and Jun Xu Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1295 Dingxi Road, Shanghai 200050, China The State Key Laboratory on Fiber Optic Local Area Communication Networks and Advanced Optical Communication Systems...

There are errors in the author affiliations. The affiliations should appear as shown here: Daihui Peng, Feng Shi, Gang Li, Drew Fralick, Ting Shen, Meihui Qiu, Jun Liu, Kaida Jiang, Dinggang Shen, Yiru Fang 1 Division of Mood Disorders, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, 2 Department of Radiology and BRIC, University of North Caroli...

The smooth running of small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) presents a significant challenge irrespective of the technological and human resources they may have at their disposal. SMEs continuously encounter daily internal and external undesirable events and unwanted setbacks to their operations that detract from their business performance. These are referred to as ‘disturbanc...