Our society is changing the way of making business; it is changing the competitiveness rules among the organizations and it is demanding a bigger involvement of the companies in the ethical aspects of businesses. Thus, the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility has become important as an approaching strategy between firms and society. For this reason, this paper attempts to analyze the effe...

Family enterprises are a vital yet understudied element of our economy and society. We believe that more attention should be devoted to the research on family enterprises, especially on particularities of strategic management in these enterprises. Most of the researches on strategic management of family enterprises has not been conducted from the strategic management viewpoint. Therefore the mo...

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...

The current trend of extending operations management beyond the company’s wall focuses on the integration of suppliers and consumers into a single information network. The objective is to optimize costs and opportunities for everyone involved. However, small-sized enterprises can rarely carry the high acquisition and introduction costs of hardware and software. This reduces the attractiveness o...

Business-to-business e-commerce adoption has become increasingly important for small and 11 medium-sized enterprises, allowing them to gain and sustain competitive advantage. B2B 12 adopted at different levels based on different resource endowments leads to competitive 13 advantage being gained and sustained in proportion to that level of adoption. This study uses 14 structural equation modelli...

1 Motivation The discipline of Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM), while becoming firmly established with global enterprises, often remains unnoticed by medium-sized enterprises. In global enterprises the role of enterprise architects has been established for years, and they are equipped by EAM tools with underlying EA frameworks such as the Zachman Framework (Zachman 1987, p. 276-292) or...

Based on the analysis of an innovative medium sized enterprise from mainland China, this paper investigated the Knowledge Management (KM) issues by focusing on its KM enablers and process. This paper attempts to investigate how Chinese enterprises absorb knowledge from external sources; how they developed culture to facilitate Knowledge Management Processes (KMPs) and what major challenges they...

Based on the analysis of an innovative medium sized enterprise from mainland China, this paper investigated the knowledge management (KM) issues by focusing on its KM enablers and process. This paper attempts to investigate how Chinese enterprises absorb knowledge from external sources; how they developed culture to facilitate knowledge management processes; and what major challenges they raise...

Conventional supply chain management (SCM) considered only three stages: pre-manufacture, manufacture and use, while the present enterprises and specially the small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) need to consider the sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) for competitive and stability in the market. It means this chain have to consider from birth to death of the products or services. S...

At present, the financing of small and medium-sized enterprises in China’s market economy has caused great concern of the whole society. Small and medium-sized enterprises financing difficulties directly affect our country to complete the “public entrepreneurship, people’s innovation” goal. There are many reasons for the financing difficulties of SMEs, such as the small and medium-sized enterpr...