This research has studied an established Irish retail business as it takes its first tentative steps into the e-commerce arena. Although the adoption of e-commerce is widely studied in the academic world, only a small percentage of these studies focus on the Small to Medium size Enterprise (SME) retail sector. SMEs account for 97% of Irish companies and employ up to 800,000 people (Chamber of C...

Analysis of multiplexers with a small number of input traffic streams is appropriate considering the emergence of Voice over IP (VoIP) that is now ubiquitous in Enterprise networks. It is suggested in the literature that VoIP switches designed to cater for small/medium-sized enterprises (SME) may have as few as 8 input traffic streams [VEGA2000]. These new small switches illustrate a shift in t...

The research is explanatory about Green Human Resource Management (GHRM) and its Impact on Employee Performance in Pakistan's Small Medium Enterprise sector. PLS Software has been used for statistical analysis, discriminant validity, loading factors, average variance executor, composite reliability, predictive value, bootstrapping value from 308 small-medium enterprises (SME) employees. Data ta...

This research investigates the effect of knowledge on perception internationalization barriers and intention to internationalize among emerging market small/medium enterprise (SME) managers. Drawing from social cognitive theories in entrepreneurship, study tests a paradoxical sample 150 The model predicts that characteristics specific SMEs will reverse traditionally positive relationship common...

This paper describes how the PSP (Personal Software Process) defined by Watts Humphrey, and specifically the PSP0, has been adapted to be applied in the same way by all members of a software development team in a SME (Small Medium Enterprise). The adaptation allows each member to collect the same measures and use the same process. Therefore measures can be aggregated at the team level, on an an...

The enterprises today including small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are dependent on software to accomplish their objectives and maintain survivability and sustainability in their businesses. Although many studies in software quality have been carried out previously, they still lack for the correlation between software quality and the impact to SMEs productivity. The objectives of this study ar...

this paper presents a comprehensive review of the works done, during the 2000–2012, in the application of data mining techniques in credit scoring. yet there isn’t any literature in the field of data mining applications in credit scoring. using a novel research approach, this paper investigates academic and systematic literature review and includes all of the journals in the science direct onli...

Due to significant challenges and increase in competition within the global environment, manufacturing companies need to focus on Manufacturing Planning and Control (MPC) systems in order to gain a competitive edge. This research paper describes a contribution towards the design and implementation of a bespoke MRP II system for a SME company dealing in tool reclamation. The paper covers the inv...

This paper presents the results of a mail survey used to investigate the relationship between continuous improvement/innovation management practices and SME performance in Australia. Multi-item scales were developed and used to measure key components of continuous improvement and innovation management. Nine dimensions of SME performance were measured, for example, speed to market, success rate ...