This article explores the awareness and level of implementation of e-business in European small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) primarily operating in the manufacturing sector. The results of a survey of 232 small firms are used to identify the challenges and responses faced by SMEs. Finally, the author provides a research agenda and suggests paths which might be followed by such firms in se...

Original scientific paper The research within project Innovative Smart Enterprise (INSENT) was conducted in order to improve scientific understanding of the current state of Croatian manufacturing industry by promoting empirical, enterprise-level research on technological and non-technological processes and organizational innovation. The aim was to understand how manufacturing enterprises in Cr...

Using internet to operate business has become very important for traditional manufacturing enterprises and retailers. These enterprises are facing great risk when entering e-commerce due to lack of experiences and large volume of initial IT investment. This study analyzed the Commerce as a Service (CaaS) solution which can perfectly solve these problems. The solution is based on leading e-comme...

In addition of the four main R&D directions, i.e., adaptive manufacturing, digital manufacturing, knowledge-based manufacturing, and networked manufacturing, emphasised by the European initiative Manufuture, two additional requirements, i.e., the real-timeness and cooperativeness of production structures are also outlined in the paper, which are of high and increasing importance. The paper high...

This paper studies the impact of wireless technologies on enterprises. A multitude of new paradigms and new software technologies have emerged from the web. E-business and e-manufacturing have really transformed concepts and practices in enterprises. Wireless technologies added new possibilities for these technologies, by this work we propose mmanufacturing as a component of e-manufacturing whe...

Subsidies and Exports in Germany: First Evidence from Enterprise Panel Data We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate the link between production-related subsidies and exports. We document that only a small fraction of enterprises is subsidized, and that exports and subsidies are positively related. Using a matching ap...

development of modern economy without private sector and high vigilance entrepreneurs is vital to identify opportunities and use of opportunities around the world. in this regard, identifying the influencing factors on emergence and development of entrepreneurship culture can be effective to promote entrepreneurship in our country. for this purpose, the main issue in this study is to identify t...

There appears to be growing consensus that Small Business Enterprises (SBEs) exert a major influence on the economy of Trinidad and Tobago. This study investigated how and to what extent small businesses influenced macroeconomic variables such as employment, growth and productivity in the important sectors of manufacturing and services. The paper used a methodology that traverses the reader tho...

This paper reviews the experience of small and medium enterprises in recent years in the Philippines. It notes that, while Philippines economic growth picked up in the early 1990s, the share of its small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in manufacturing employment and value added stayed roughly constant. However, the overall stability masks some dynamism across firm sizes and sectors. Thus, very s...

it is widely agreed that small scale enterprises (sses) used to play a crucial role in achieving the industrial and economic development. though sses play indispensable economic role, studies are limited to analyze the external factors that affect the growth of sses independently. therefore, the objective of this paper is to examine the effect of external firm factors influencing small scale ma...