T paper seeks to contribute to the management development debate by providing insight into the dynamics of organisational learning and human interaction in the SME fi rm. The paper sets out to consider how a practice-based perspective of knowledge is useful in this regard. The paper is theoretical in its intent and adopts a social constructionist view of knowledge and learning. Using qualitativ...

Electronic commerce (e-commerce) has been utilised as a vehicle to rapidly transform the world into an information society. Yet despite the proven potential of e-commerce in the small business sector, studies have shown that it is the larger businesses that have reaped the benefits, with small/medium enterprise (SME) adoption remaining relatively low by comparison. This slow growth of e-commerc...

The need for SME owner/managers to engage in building and maintaining collaborative business relationships is paramount their success the resilience of these can be viewed as a crucial factor successful supply chain management SMEs. present study investigates relationship between social intelligence owner/manager firms with which they do business. objective this explore four components (situati...

This article analyses HRIS impact in a SME based on a longitudinal case study. This SME evolves in the educational sector and has just operated a fusion of four private schools. A HRIS (time management & activity software) is launched. A contextualist perspective is taken from 2002 to 2010 based on various stakeholders interviews (external actors as consultant; internal actors as HR manager, Fi...

The rapid rise of e-business has brought profound impact on, as well as significant challenges to, businesses of all sizes. The lack of anticipated engagement in e-business by small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) is still a concern to the UK government. Findings from the literature appear to have revealed a contradictory picture of SMEs’ engagement in e-business. There is limited systemati...