This paper investigates the role of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems in the context of small and medium size enterprises (SMEs). The paper reports on research findings from a case study that has been conducted in 14 SMEs, operating in steel manufacturing and woodworking. By dividing the enterprises into three different groups; medium-sized, small, and micro enterprises, this study pro...

The need for small and medium scale enterprises to utilize information and communication technology (ICT) applications to boost their business necessitated this study which bordered on assessing the extent of utilization of e-marketing applications by small and medium enterprises in South Eastern States of Nigeria. Two research questions guided the study. Two null hypotheses were tested at 0.05...

Small and medium enterprises' financing constraints are an important reason for its development in recent years, national policy and legal aspects are also efforts to promote the development of SMEs, the SME financing is still a lot of the biggest obstacles to entrepreneurs. In this paper, the status of financing small and medium enterprises start to analyze the reasons for its financing of the...

currently, one of the most important challenges to smes is financing as their managers are faced with many problems in this area. in this study the barriers to smes financing were identified by using q methodology which is a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. after literature review and conduct of interviews with 12 executive managers of smes, 64 barriers were identified to th...

The present research was conducted to build a conceptual model of internal effective factors of small and medium enterprises in Mazandaran Province. To accomplish the goal of the research first, a complete review of the related literature was conducted. Second, questionnaires were given to the corresponding population. Finally, the gathered data were calculated and analyzed using SPSS, Exce...

It is without a doubt that Internet has immensely helped the growth of e-commerce businesses. Thesmall and medium enterprises (SMEs) are businesses with lower number of employees than a giventhreshold. Theterm is generallyusedbyorganizationssuch as EuropeanUnion, United Nations, World Trade Organization, World Bank andso on. Inthispaper, we present the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that h...

Being able to control logistics on the network level demands transparency to inventory and deliveries in the whole supply network. However, the information technology (IT) solutions enabling network transparency are expensive and heavy to install and, thus, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) often find them infeasible. This paper brings forth the difficulties small and medium sized enter...

This article focuses on innovation as the main driver of the competitiveness and market success of small and medium enterprises in the United Arab Emirates. The study overviews the still limited literature dedicated to innovation in SMEs in the UAE. It also analyzes the innovation model of small and medium enterprises in the UAE, and focuses particularly on Dubai‘s SMEs. The article highlights ...

So far, e-learning has primarily been used when there are many learners involved. The up-front investments related to e-learning are relatively high, and may be perceived as prohibitive for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Some e-learning is, however, getting less expensive, and some e-learning models are more suited for small-scale training than others. Therefore, this article presen...

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...