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Corporations, as well as small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are always looking to increase efficiency and effectiveness. Many companies today believe that the key to gaining and maintaining competitive advantage in the market development of intellectual capital, and know what, how and why and to understand the importance of such knowledge. Their ability to educate and train staff while maintaining...
Nigeria is a less-developed economy which is struggling to get industrialized. As a public-led economy in which foreign direct investment is an unreliable source of economic growth, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) assume critical role of sustaining the momentum of the country's quest for economic development. In apt recognition of this, the government overtime put in place some institutional arrangements...
The interest on environmental management has been increased significantly and now is often considered to be a mainstream challenge for organizations. Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in part can be of particular significance as their total impact towards environmental degradation is huge. Yet this sector still has not incorporated the concept of environmental sustainability into their strategic...
Today, the information flow within flexible production networks of small and medium enterprises for the production of hybrid micro systems is characterized by a lack of coordination and concepts as well a high portion of manual procedures. A new concept for an information system uses RFID-tags as data carriers, fixed at the load carriers, as a performance driver for these kinds of networks. As a basis...
This paper describes the Hybrid User Centered Development Methodology (HUCDM). This methodology is a simple, iterative and incremental development process. The methodology is based on structured disciplined development processes, on principles of User Centered Development (UCD) processes, specified in the International Organization for Standardization - ISO 13407, as well as practices and values of...
The paper offers a systematic review of 14 studies of the use of mobile telephony by micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in the developing world, detailing findings about changes to enterprises internal processes and external relationships, and findings about mobile use vs. traditional landline use. Results suggest that there is currently more evidence for the benefits of mobile use accruing mostly...
The research results reported in this paper mainly relate to the well-known limitations of e-sourcing, i.e. the difficulties and restrictions in browsing thousands globally operating e-marketplaces, differences between the requirements of a potential participant for buying purposes and those of the organizations seeking participation as suppliers, growing competitiveness and the changeability of the...
This research is looking forward for developing innovative tools for analysis and optimization of risk related to evolution of Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) respect to supply chain management issues. In fact, SMEs require decision supports in order to keep under control the dynamic evolution of the supply chain. In the last years, the globalization as well as the quick changes in world situation...
The lending rate and lending credit rely on the accurate evaluation of the credit risk of small business. In this paper, according to the running processes in some commercial bank in Nanjing in China, we construct an index system for small business credit evaluation which is a combination of qualitative indices and quantitative ones. Moreover we present an incremental clustering algorithm based on...
Although China's economy still keeps the growth rapidly for the last decade, some researchers have been aware that China has to develop its service sectors if China wants to sustain this growth. However, researches on the adoption of e- commerce in China's service industry are still lack and limited so far. This research selects 494 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in China, and finds that most...
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