Small and medium enterprises play a significant role in economic and industrial development in the developed and developing countries. The main purpose of the study was to investigate the key factors in the effective of growth enterprises. The statistical population of this study according to assessment of Agri-Bank of the Semnan Province includes the managers of enterprises in agricultural sec...

The way of perceiving the environment is the factor informing on the condition of the environment and its impact on the operation of enterprises whereas the impact on the operation is the factor determining how enterprises operate in realities where there is no place for atomized actions of isolated enterprises and the impact of the environment and relationships with its constituents and all fo...

based on the theoretical and empirical evidences, the most important goal the privatization is to increase the efficiency and improve the fiscal status of the government and the government enterprises. one of the key factors for implementation of the privatization policy in iran is to overcome the inefficiency and fiscal problems of the government sector. the paper studies the privatization per...

Nowadays enterprises have played an important role in China’s economic development and increasingly become the main force of China’s growing research and innovation activities. Different from some related work on developing countries’ innovation policy and strategy, the evolutionary model of secondary innovation, based on Chinese enterprises’ innovation practice, highlights the significant role...

This paper presents an approach for supporting the connguration of Virtual Enterprises (VE) by holonic multiagent systems (H-MAS). At rst, we show that a VE can be naturally modeled as a H-MAS. Then, we take a closer look at two frameworks dealing with the systematic connguration of VEs. We will show that both frameworks are quasi identical and that in both decomposition , allocation and synthe...

Electronic commerce (E-commerce) is evolving from the simple notion of electronic catalogs to the notion of virtual enterprises (VEs). Existing enterprises form alliances, joining their services in order to share their costs, skills and resources in o ering a value-added service. Ad-hoc and proprietary solutions on the one hand, and lack of a canonical model for composing and managing VEs on th...

Community-based enterprises have been implemented in a wide range of circumstances in the US and around the world. Community-based enterprises relate to a variety of areas including social entrepreneurship, economic development, empowerment zones, grass roots enterprises, and collective entrepreneurship. Varied initiatives can be found in Indian nations in the U. founding. The current paper dev...

In the era of knowledge economy and information society, enterprises as a supporter of the social micro-economic, not all of the challenges facing the former is having a transformation that from the traditional resource-based enterprises to the operation of enterprises which are knowledge-based, virtual-enterprise in the modern. The discovery of knowledge, accumulation, conversion and use becom...

This paper focuses on the management of device-based identities within enterprises. This is a key requirement in enterprises where the identities of platforms and devices have become as important as the identities of humans to grant access to enterprise resources. In this context, access control systems need to understand which devices with what properties are being used to access resource, by ...

This paper aims at illustrating how a stigmergic approach can easily improve the speed and the stability of a planning process in an agile production environment. Adapting the collective behaviour of ant colonies to a stigmergic cooperation mechanism, logistically improved by a communication agent and a realistic environment, translates into powering the manufacturing resources in solving the p...