The small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in China have achieved rapid and sustainable growth in the past two decades. Such growth has increasingly contributed to China’s economic development. Yet, weak linkages with external market, weak technological innovation, and limited SME financing have limited SMEs’ growth. This brings to the fore the need for more efficient and professional government s...

In recent years, corporate wikis have been increasingly adopted in enterprises. However, little research is devoted to the adoption and use of wikis in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which are of high social and economic importance. The purpose of this paper is to examine the usage of enterprise wikis in SMEs and potential concerns that may hinder the diffusion of wikis in SMEs as w...

E-business technologies, whereby business transactions are conducted remotely using the Internet, present unique opportunities and challenges for business. E-business technologies are applicable to a wide range of organizations and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are no exception. There is an established body of literature about e-business, looking at definitions, concepts, benefits a...

While the number of articles on IT evaluation and benefits management has been substantial, limited attention has been given to these topics in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), particularly the construction industry. This paper presents findings from a questionnaire survey that sought to examine the approaches used by 126 construction organisations to evaluate and justify their IT inv...

The maturity and security management systems are essential in order to guarantee the continuity and stability of the companies in the current market situation. However, this requires that enterprises know in every moment their security maturity level and to what extend their information security system must evolve. In small and medium-sized enterprises, the application of security standards has...

This article describes the collection and derivation of requirements for the integration of usability engineering (UE) methods in software engineering (SE) processes from the perspective of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). An exploratory, not generalisable survey of 11 typical SMEs was carried out in order to register their special needs.

R&D cooperative efforts between large firms and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have been accelerated to develop innovative projects and deploy profitable businesses. In general, win-win alliances between large firms and SMEs for sustainable growth require the pre-evaluation of their capabilities to explore high potential partners for successful collaborations. Thus, this research pro...

In an empirical study of teleworking practices amongst small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in West London, organisational factors such as management attitudes, worker autonomy and employment flexibility were found to be more critical than technological provision in facilitating successful implementation. Consequently, we argue that telework in most SMEs appears as a marginal activity perf...

The main goal of this research is to explore the difference between the critical success factors (CSFs) of enterprise resource planning (ERP) system implementation in large firms with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries. Understanding this subject can help the implementers and users of ERP systems to notice the CSFs of their particular enterprises and to improve th...

How to enhance interoperability between stakeholders and improve efficiency of supply chain management is the key issue that needs to be addressed in automobile industry. Existing interoperability solutions are suitable only for large enterprises, however, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) lack cheap, easy to integrate and easy to customize solutions. This paper proposes a methodology t...