Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Central and Eastern Europe at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s were characterised by many people exposed to hazardous working conditions. Statistics recorded a considerable increase in the number of occupational diseases. They also showed that it was more dangerous to work for a small company. The transition from planned to market economy has brought ...

Small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) constitute a major part of the global economic activity. Due to the distinct characteristics of these enterprises, approaches to information security management that were mainly developed for larger organisations can not be feasibly applied in the context of SMEs. In this paper, we present some of the challenges impeding the implementation of information...

Electronic Commerce (EC) is becoming an increasingly important activity in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This paper presents a model of the factors influencing the levels of EC adoption and EC success in SMEs. Case studies of five SMEs in the IT industry were used to explore two constructs in the EC literature: (1) EC adoption and (2) EC success. Both were found to be relevant and ...

The factors that lead to business process re-engineering (BPR) success in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are not clearly understood. This article reviews the main contributing factors to BPR success using a framework that considers culture, structure, technology and resource. Eight Taiwanese case studies are used to explore issues contributing to, or impeding, successful process re-e...

Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) play a vital and pervasive role in the current development of Taiwan’s economy. Recently, the application of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have enabled large enterprises to have direct contact with their clients via e-commerce technology, which has led to even fiercer competition among the SMEs. This study develops and tests a theoretical m...

In the paper, the research subject is the ecological relationship between the Small and Medium-sized Enterprises(SMEs) and the Large-scale Enterprises(Les). From the perspective of ecology, setting up the competitive model basic on the Logistic model, and carrying out further analysis about the voluntary information disclosure of listed company, then getting the strategic choice about the volun...

This research examines the adoption of information technology in small and medium sized enterprises in Japan. SMEs comprise more than 99 percent of the total Japanese enterprises. These one million-plus businesses employ 72.7 percent of workers and account for more than 50 percent of the total value and almost 60 percent of the value added. SMEs are not only a crucial source of employment, but ...

The survival of the firms depends on the adoption of techniques and methods for encouraging learning among people. On other hand, it is necessary to have an attitude for interaction and endeavour in order for the learning to be built and conserved. Therefore, committed people in organizations have always been emphasized as a driving force of the extension and creation of learning. The aim of th...

The significance and imprint of SMEs as dominant employers is not proportionally reflected in people management scholarship. In an effort to map out the prospects for greater understanding, this paper critically evaluates prevailing understanding HRM. First, a case made definitional clarity avoid aggregate interpretations ill-defined applications then explores four key theoretical frames refere...