Recent developments in information and communication technology (ICT) have facilitated integration along supply chains. Besides technological advancement and governmental support, Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) still face significant challenges when integrating into global supply chains. In a study of SMEs operating in the Macedonian and American wine industries, we investigate the i...

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.

Small and the medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are socially and economically very important since they represent 99% of all enterprises in the EU and 96.2% of all enterprises in Slovenia. In the paper, the comparison of the e-business in Slovenian and in the EU countries is presented. Not only infrastructure is needed to extend e-business among SMEs what could be the case among Slovenian SMEs. E...

Models of organizational learning must be adapted to network enterprises, virtual enterprises, and other new organizational forms enabled by information technology. Since it is increasingly among these enterprises that e-commerce activity occurs, organizational learning is a requisite for reaping the benefits they offer and avoiding the pit falls. A model was developed and validated based on a ...

Gartner EXPPremier (2005) identified Business Process Management (BPM) as the number one business priority and building Business Process Capability as a major challenge for senior executives within the coming years. The focus of BPM in practice and related research has been its application in large organisations. The general value proposition of BPM, however, is also of significance for small a...

In most countries, micro-enterprises make up the majority of firms. Canada has more than 500,000 employer micro-enterprises, representing 77% of all firms (Industry Canada, 2001); if we include owner-operated firms with no employees, the number and proportion of microenterprises would be much larger. Although the development potential of this group of firms would seem to be huge, micro-enterpri...

The goals of this paper are to 1) examine the current practices of diagnostics, prognostics, and maintenance employed by United States (U.S.) manufacturers to achieve productivity and quality targets and 2) to understand the present level of maintenance technologies and strategies that are being incorporated into these practices. A study is performed to contrast the impact of various industry-s...

Using the Internet for electronic business has become an area of action for the Australian Government, and programs have focussed on raising the awareness of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to the opportunities offered by doing business on-line. As the manufacturing industry in Australia has experienced productivity improvements, the outlook is strong and Australian manufacturing SMEs...

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...

There has been limited coverage of the corporate responsibility (CR) practices of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the mainstream CR literature. Furthermore, there has been no systematic analysis of the responsibilities of the high value jewellery industry and jewellery SMEs in particular. This study explores the potential for harm and value creation by individual stakeholders in fi...