Abstract Decades of ambidexterity research have gained huge scholarly attention from diverse areas like marketing, organizational learning, innovation management, supply chain strategy, and entrepreneurship. However, it has been observed that past studies do not provide a quantitative assessment determinants applicable to small medium firms. In response, this study attempts address gap by provi...

In the last decades, numerous developments and legal changes moved the utility industry towards a liberalized market. Utility enterprises have to stay competitive and reduce costs while managing more complex IT systems. The authors of this work see special demand for aligning business and IT for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in this industry and identify the development of a referenc...

We explore whether intellectual capital is a precursor to Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) growth. use data from Inc. 5000 of fast-growing SMEs in the USA match companies patent applications. zero-inflated negative binomial model corrected for endogeneity account many without capital. find marginal benefit on SME growth, revenue, number years list. Across industries, we 1% increase results 3.6...

Global competition forces enterprises to concentrate on their core competencies while transforming themselves to participate in emerging interenterprise formations following the virtual enterprise (VE) paradigm. VE is a form that offers high flexibility, agility and resilience for enterprises to survive and prosper in the globalized economy. This paper introduces the real world VE that uses age...

Enterprises pursue innovation in terms of products, processes, market. In relation to market innovation, the paper presents a technique of exploration of new markets based on the participation of an organization’s members in sharing their knowledge of extra-curricular domains. The technique has been experimented in a Small/Medium Enterprise (SME) with good results, also in terms of knowledge sh...

This service aims to improve the knowledge and skills of Tempe small medium-sized enterprise (SME) entrepreneurs in effectively managing their businesses enhancing competitiveness. activity is carried out through a series workshops, motivational training, group mentoring. The community partners involved this project were SMEs located Pejuang neighborhood, Bekasi. results showed significant impr...

The strategic management represents current direction of management. It is applied in all types of enterprises, including small and medium sized ones. Using principles of process management within SMEs has its limitations caused mainly by size of the enterprise and the related focus on operational management. Other specificities are function accumulation, informal leadership, preference for ora...

In the last few years, business in internet become more and more significance. On other hand new development of internet technology is rapid and changed every day. Thus Business models have to be continually adapted to meet the requirements of new business ideas. One of these new and important business ideas is; how to supply the needs of small and medium sized enterprises (SME) with business s...

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...