The use of e-commerce in small medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has become an important topic in information systems research. At present, there is a large number of well-documented benefits derived from ecommerce for small-medium enterprises (SMEs) both in theoretical and practical literature. Despite the enormous attention given to encourage SMEs to adopt e-commerce both by academics as well a...

In the context of Industry 4.0, processes in industrial production are radically reorganized, including digitalization. The subject research is digitalization small and medium-sized enterprises. purpose study was to identify current areas implementation 4.0 at SMEs. Based on bibliographic analysis, it revealed need for special technologies SMEs, which will allow transform them into smart factor...

Bridging the gap between knowledge institutions (especially universities) and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is one of the challenges of present economic policy. Innovation is one important aspect of this policy. However, the characteristics of both universities and SMEs appear to be an obstacle in bridging the gap between these two groups. In particular, this paper aims to highlight...

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) projects are considered to be expensive, time-consuming, difficult to manage and risky. This paper presents how companies should consider and manage the risks in their ERP project. The focus in a qualitative case study is on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and it illustrates how the risks in the case firms are identified, analyzed and managed.

Most of the studies carried out on identification of barriers to knowledge sharing have focused on developing and developed countries. The purpose of this study was to explore the barrier factors inhibiting knowledge sharing in smalland medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in transition economies that have different social, cultural, and economic conditions as compared to other developing and develo...

Industries including SMEs employed contractual employees to cater the high demand of labor force during peak months. Through this, they will be able save costs on benefits. This study explored experiences employer and small medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Mandaue City, Cebu, 2022. utilized descriptive research using quantitative data. In particular, was conducted selected barangays where the...

Smallto medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) often lack the resources and knowledge to strategically adopt information and communication technologies (ICTs). Governments across the world have acknowledged this issue by designing intervention programs aimed specifically at the SMEs sector. Recent research on government intervention in SMEs’ ICT adoption has tended to focus on the role of technologica...

The Web offers a powerful tool for knowledge-sharing among small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Such online initiatives have, however, frequently been unsuccessful. This paper examines factors motivating SMEs to share knowledge online. It reports data from a telephone survey of 192 SME members of two successful regional business networks comprising members from diverse industries. Althoug...

In an assessment of software process improvement (SPI) in 15 software smalland –medium-sized enterprises (software SMEs), we applied the broad spectrum of software specific and system context processes in ISO/IEC 12207 to the task of examining SPI in practice. Using the data collected in the study, we developed a four-tiered pyramidal hierarchy of SPI for software SMEs, with processes in the hi...

This research seeks to explore and detect underlying relationships between identifiable barriers of electronic commerce (ecommerce) adoption in Indonesian small medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). A quantitative pilot study was conducted through a mail survey to collect the relevant data from several cities in three provinces in Indonesia, namely West Java, Bali and DKI Jakarta. The inter-correlat...