This paper examines internationalization processes in the context of the Internet economy and presents some exploratory insights. Firstly, the impact of Internet in internationalization of SMEs including: Internet provides marketing intelligence, global sales promotion and communications, and enhances the production efficiency. But Internet is a limited tool for SMEs that intend to penetrate fo...

The aim of this study is to investigate those factors that influence SMEs in developing countries in adopting e-commerce. This study is motivated by the fact that the adoption of e-commerce by SMEs, especially in developing countries, is still very far behind the adoption by large companies. Yet to be able to survive in the new economic era, which is the information era; businesses, including S...

Purpose – The importance of involving subject matter experts (SMEs) in ERP implementations is well established. SMEs’ knowledge of business and system processes are critical to conducting gap analyses and configuring enterprise systems. But what happens to SMEs on completion of the implementation phase? Prior qualitative research found that some organizations return SMEs to their old department...

Open innovation has provided more opportunities and broader space for Smalland Mediumsized Enterprises (SMEs for short) in innovative practices, but also brought new challenges to SMEs. Focusing on the performance of SMEs in open innovation, this paper conducts a literature commentary from several aspects including innovation performance, constraints, impact and strategy of improving open innov...

In recent years, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) have contributed considerably Vietnam's economy. In 2005, there were 109,738 SMEs, which account for 96.81 percent of all enterprises in Vietnam. SMEs employed 2528623 employees, representing 40.5 percent of the total number people employed by enterprises in Vietnam. In the same year, SMEs contributed 54476 billion VND, comprising 34.33 perce...

in this paper a comprehensive approach is presented to improve power swings damping based on direct lyapunov method. the approach combines superconducting magnetic energy storage (smes) system with static synchronous compensator (statcom). considering the energy absorption/injection ability of smes, in transient states the combination exchanges both active and reactive powers with power system....

In the present turbulent times, survival and success of any organization increasingly depends on competitiveness. The Small-Medium Enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in both developed and developing country economies. To remain competitive, SMEs must adopt strategic technologies and innovative management practices to survive. In finding ways to increase competitiveness and productivity, ...

Many large enterprises develop their software nowadays in globally distributed settings. By using the option to outsource, the respective enterprises can realize decisive competitive advantages. In order to remain competitive, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are also forced to follow this trend and to outsource parts of their software development. However, most of the existing studies...

This paper explores potential advantages and barriers of virtual teams toward making an interrelation between small and medium-sized firms (SMEs) with a comprehensive review on different aspects of virtual teams in SMEs based on authentic and reputed publications. The purpose of the state-of-the-art literature review is to provide an overview of what is known about the structure and dynamics of...

Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are struggling to find ICT Providers who could assist them when identifying and implementing adequate Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Based on this, we conducted a study with 30 SMEs from various industry sectors within Sydney metropolitan region to identify the type of ICT assistance eTransforming SMEs require. Furthermore, to better underst...