Over the past few years, international indicators have shown that one of the main weaknesses plaguing Spanish companies is their abysmal competitiveness. In theory, nearly everyone involved agrees that one way to fix the problem would be for companies to make a firm commitment to innovation. However, in practice it is not always easy to distinguish between the different types of innovation, muc...

German small-and-medium sized software companies are facing an increasing pressure by their users with regards to usability expectations. While some software companies still heavily emphasize functional aspects of their products, others have identified the potential of usability to differentiate themselves. The study has an exploratory nature and employs cluster analysis to investigate response...

It is usually difficult for companies to keep up with the development of new information technologies and adapt in face of the opportunities and threats those advances may represent. This is especially true for small and medium enterprises (SME) in emerging economies, where resources tend to be scarce and markets more volatile. This paper describes an action-research conducted in a small Brazil...

Ever increasing ecological treats and unlimited, accelerated economic growth shall be evaluated in interaction with each other. In real estate industry investment environment unable to ensure sustainability without conformity of other economic sectors with the criteria of sustainable development. In practice entrepreneurs devoting insufficient attention to the outcome of a construction process,...

Tourism is characterized for being a sector that has been highlighted as one of the activities with greatest potential for expansion on a global scale. For its growth potential and for being a product that can only be consumed in loco, tourism accepts the prominence role of being a strategy for local development. In this context the search for competitiveness is one of the key concerns of compa...

present study seeks to investigate the existing canonical correlation among the effective factors including x variables that consist of environmental factors, inter-organizational factors and the creation factors of the perceptual value; on the components of competitiveness, as well as y variables consisting of enterprise performance against the market, the customers and the internal performanc...

The objective of this paper is to determine the efficiency of manufacturing companies in Kenya over the period of 2009 to 2011 as well as suggesting appropriate policies to be employed by the manufacturing companies in Kenya based on the findings of the study. Three critical inputs variables (raw materials, staff expenses and plant and machinery) and two output variables (net sale and earnings ...

Searching for competitiveness and excellence in quality, business companies have revisited their processes generating new demands for the Information Technology (IT) department, involving knowledge that goes beyond the software development itself: understanding the organisation, its processes and businesses as a whole. Regarding software development methods, we have perceived significant advanc...