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The EU’s General Data Protection (GDPR) is an EU regulation that affects everyone in the EU and all organisations outside the EU that wants to do business with the EU. GDPR introduces tougher requirements for processing personal data, which may be difficult for many small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to follow without major adjustments. This work uses design science to develop a framework...
The growing trend of business collaboration exerts an extra pressure on global business communities. This collaboration can be evolved in the form of hierarchical and no-hierarchical. In this research, we have considered non-hierarchical collaboration, where manufacturing firms' especially small and medium enterprises (SMEs) enjoy equal power and freedom within their networks. In order to develop...
It is well known that e-commerce can help firms reduce cost, enlarge market and enhance efficiency etc.. Yet, e-commerce is not being adopted readily by small and medium-sized enterprises in China. So it's necessary to explore the mechanisms affecting its adoption and implement. Based on literature review, various types of factors previously considered are examined. According to this, a multi-level...
As interests in the impacts of business activities on environment have been growing, environmental policy is now shifting from the “end of pipe” stage to the next stage, “cleaner production”, which factor in the life cycles, and social efficiency. Since the early 90's, the concept of cleaner production has been recognized and promoted. An increasing trend in environmental departments of state and...
SMEs are confronting with huge challenge in the economic environment of global financial crisis. It is urgent to improve enterprise's innovation ability through converting traditional innovation mode to modern innovation of integrated technology mode. In this paper, we point out some problems in the development of SMEs' in the back ground of development situation of SMEs in Henan province. In the...
The article focuses on small or medium enterprises(SMEs), and briefly discusses the necessity of electronic marketing (E-marketing) using second-hand data on the Internet analysis and comparison. Specifically, it indicates the viral Internet marketing strategy, and analyzes its advantages and applicability. Moreover, base on the characteristics and status of the SMEs, the author points out specific...
In order to promote sustainable development of SMEs through intrapreneurship, we have made a related comprehensive research in this paper. Firstly, we have found that the SMEs in China should carry out product innovation intrapreneurship; by analyzing intrapreneurial management elements and management links, we have built the intrapreneurship process model, and established the dynamic management mechanisms...
Logistics outsourcing, as a new logistics mode, plays an important role in focusing resources on core business, and also reduces logistics costs and improves customer satisfaction. Therefore, more and more SMEs pay close attention to logistics outsourcing. However, when the enterprise selected the logistics outsourcing, there are also many risks. The success of logistics outsourcing depends largely...
Characteristics of extensive production and management of resources of high energy consumption and pollution emissions caused by small and medium enterprises, SMEs for short, in China lead to an enormous waste of resources and environmental pollution. Developing recycling economy model is the strategic choice of Chinese SMEs In the sustainable development concept to guide the larger environment. We...
Based on investigation and collection of disclosed information of listed companies on SEM board in China, the paper studies the influence of venture capital to technological innovation in SMEs by analyzing the proportion of venture capital holding as well as the investment and yield of technical innovation in SMEs. Research showed that investment of venture capital in SMEs enabled SMEs to have more...
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...
Quality management is an important aspect that needs to exert conscious and sustainable efforts to continuously improve all facets of business for a firm to survive and prosper. While a substantial body of literature has been developed linking quality management system to business performance, there is a dearth of evidence comparing the soft and hard factors and its impact on business performance...
Innovation is a process full of interaction. The innovation system needs the collaboration among different organizations in the interactive process of knowledge creation, diffusion and application. However what interactive innovation does to the development of innovation capability? It's still a question under research. This paper is going to find a solution to this research question from theoretical...
Modern economic growth has shown an increasing trend to rely on the innovation. SMEs are becoming the main innovation force which can not be ignored, and have significant impact on a country's economic growth and employment. Venture Capital plays an important role in SMEs' innovation and growth. This article uses the means of combining Positive Analysis and Normative Analysis, according to the practice...
This paper uses a DEA model to do an empirical analysis on the innovative efficiency of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the cluster based on inputs and outputs, and provides an effective way to identify existing issues and the causes of SMEs in Guangdong cluster of materials industry, puts forword the direction to improve SMEs' innovative efficiency in the cluster for the decision makers.
Applying safety behavior science into safety control meets the need of present, and it is the tendency of modern safety management. In this paper, the organization factors (safety climate, safety culture, and organization safety behavior) and individual factors (safety consciousness and safety skill) which affect safety behaviors of staff, the staff safety behavior's intervention methods (goal establishment,...
Harmonious employee relationship(ER) for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is similar to lubricant for machine, the fast growth of the SMEs will bring a lot of change inevitably, there is an important problems for management department to handle employee conflict and allow employees to express their views. This paper will give clear identification of ER at first, then carry on an appreciation...
Technological innovation is an effective way to enhance the competitiveness of SMEs. But with the relatively weak technical capacity, cooperation innovation has more advantage for SMEs than self-innovation, such as reducing innovation time, saving innovation cost, saving learning costs. SMEs can take these model as follows: technology alliance, innovation network and co-bulid entity.
With the rapid development of the E-commerce (or E-business) nowadays, the commercial banks are keeping continuous innovation and development of financing transaction. Chinese practice shows that E-commerce begun in 1998 promotes the development of supply chain financing, and has alleviated the problem of SMEs financing to some extent. However, SMEs are still facing the problems about excessive dependence...
New media are changing the entire environment of IMC. With its unique advantages, NM extends the concepts, theories and methods of IMC to a brand new stage. In the background of fast development of new media, SMEs and large enterprises are once again standing on the same starting line.
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