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Cloud computing can provide remote access to computing resources via the internet. It has the potential to transform economic activities considering its inherent pay-per usage model, flexibility and scalability features. This paper uses a socio-technical framework that maximizes selected development impact factors to analyze the use of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) cloud applications in sub-Saharan...
Doubly Fed Induction Generators (DFIGs) are widely used in variable speed wind turbine owing to its superior advantages that include ability to extract more energy from turbine, capability to control active and reactive power independently and the use of reduced converter rating that reduces its overall cost. On the other side fluctuating output power, weak fault ride through capability and high sensitivity...
This paper uses panel data of listed small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in China from 2004 to 2012 to examine the sensitivity between investment expenditure and internal cash flow. The high investment-cash flow sensitivity reveals that SMEs face severe financial constraints. Some firms can partly solve this problem by alternative ways. One is to improve their efficiency of internal working...
Small to medium sized business enterprises (SMEs) generally thrive because they have successfully done something unique within a niche market. For this reason, SMEs may seek to protect their competitive advantage by avoiding any standardization encouraged by the use of packaged software (PS). Packaged software implementation at SMEs therefore presents challenges relating to how best to respond to...
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the important driving forces for the growth of China's economy. However, financing difficulty has always been the important problem besetting the development of SMEs for a long time. In this paper, based on micro-data from 2007 China Industrial Enterprise Database, Propensity Score Matching (PSM) method is adopted to conduct empirical analysis of indirect...
The purpose of this study was to explore the perception of organizational culture how to affect the job performance. The study is a case study on basis; it will employ a quantitative research, the study will be conducted using a survey instrument called School Culture Survey, which is amended for use in the present study, to collect the data from the professional of the SMEs in the northern part of...
This paper analyzes the decision-making problem confronting SMEs considering the adoption of cloud computing as an alternative to in-house computing services provision. The economics of choosing between in-house computing and a cloud alternative is analyzed by comparing the total economic costs of the two options assuming the quality of service is identical across the options. The decision-making...
In recent decades with increasing of global economic competition, small and medium scale industrials (SMEs) have known as an economic growth engine and a tool for employment. Therefore, they have important role in growth and development of countries. In order that these firms can compete in the world and they use the advantages of information technology requires infrastructures which provides electronic...
The Static synchronous compensator is a shunt compensation device based on the principle of power electronics. Recent development of FACTS devices provides the reliable solution to potential problems. A cascaded multilevel inverter with Super Conducting Magnetic Energy Storage (SMES) is proposed for reduction of harmonics content. Multilevel inverter based FACTS offers improved voltage quality, decreased...
Innovation culture is relatively at a slow pace in South Africa compared to other countries. Leadership plays a critical role in creating an innovation culture within orgainsations. Due to globalization, uncertainties, technology, lack of skills and innovative leadership style, many orgainsations are struggling to survive firmly. This study was aimed to develop an innovative model by applying the...
There are a few qualitative studies for successful businesses-technology incubator (BTI). Developing countries still investigate a successful design for business technology incubator, but have not identified an appropriate one. This study examines the secondary data focusing on 10 developed and 20 developing countries. The data analysis bases on scenario method underlying an importance of the linkage...
Research and Development in a peculiar field such as Satellite Communications (as well as Space science/technology in general) is known to be the ideal stage both for large, transnational companies with the functions of large integrators and system/service providers, and for Small-Medium Enterprises (SMEs) specialized in vertical technologies and/or services. Both kinds of actors, and SMEs in particular,...
Although the growth of SMEs is in vogue in the economical literature, the decision making inside the small business is a comparatively less studied theme. By synthesizing leading decision theories and taking into account of SMEs' characteristics in China's context, this paper develops an evaluation framework of decision-making in SMEs with four main components: environment, organization, decision-maker...
Small and medium sized enterprises have been recognized as the main driver of economic development of a country. Hence their development is the main issue of discussions in the literature. In Pakistan, 96% of its SMES are employed less than five workers (Very Small and Medium Sized Enterprises-VSMEs). These enterprises face a lot of difficulties in their development. Hence, this paper examines the...
This paper presents improvement of transient stability of power systems with superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES). SMES has been connected at the generator terminal for single machine connected to infinite bus (SMIB). A comparison of performance of proportional type of SMES (P-SMES) proportional-Integral type of SMES (PI-SMES)and that of an Optimally Switched Dynamic Brake (OSDB) suggested...
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the most active component in our country's national economy, whose status, role and achievements have been universally recognized. However, technology innovation is a high-risk economic activity, whose innovation risk is also an important factor of affecting the sustainable development of SMEs. How to respond to the influence of technology innovation risk...
Using small and medium-sized enterprises as the research object, this paper studies their financing through commercial credit means in the industrial cluster environment. Based on the definition of industrial cluster of small and medium-sized enterprises, and competitive advantage and industrial cluster can ascend SME's financing capability, summarizes the research of industry cluster, the unique...
The five marketing strategies of Alibaba have accelerated its development and helped to distinguish itself in the field of e-trade in the world. Firstly this paper reviews Alibaba's development, then analyzes its five marketing strategies and the creditability it has attached importance to. Finally it provides some proposals for its future development after the global financial crisis.
It's an effective way for SMEs to select new business model to respond to more rigid competition of environment and to improve performance. The first step for SMEs to make choice of new business model is to identify the weakness of existing business model. Then identification of value creation sources in new business model is needed. Thirdly, SMEs should conduct designing of transaction structure...
In the post-financial crisis era, innovation plays an important role in the development of SMEs. It is the main driving force in the development of SMEs. It is an important way to enhance the core competitiveness of SMEs. The main methods of innovation are including strategic innovation, management innovation, technological innovation, cultural innovation and marketing innovation. Enhancing the core...
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