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In this study, current conditions and problems faced by SME in the Photovoltaic business will be studied and clarified. The PV selling production volume has been increasing rapidly at a rate of 140-150% since 2000. This is not only due to the technological progress in photovoltaic cell device and innovation in manufacturing technologies, but also due to the government support for the same. One of...
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...
Software Project Management (PM) relies on software tools. These tools must be selected according to the needs and characteristics of each company, especially when resources are limited, which is rather common for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). The purpose of this paper is to propose a selection model aimed at supporting software-developing SMEs in the selection of PM tools. This model encompasses...
This paper explores the development and implementation of a new information systems strategy at a service industry company based at three offices in southern England. The paper reports on a straightforward methodology used for developing the information systems strategy, the package selection process, implementation issues and overall costs and benefits to the company. It also reflects on how the...
Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) represent 90 % of all U.S. Enterprises and 99 % of all European Enterprises and are of high social and economic importance within the U.S. and Europe. Due to their limited resources, SME struggle with structural problems. A possible solution for SME is building networks to act on an extended resource base. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can act as...
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...
Previous work looking at software process improvement (SPI) in small organizations has highlighted difficulties faced by small organizations in implementing SPI successfully, but there is little analysis to understand why this is from an organization theory perspective. This paper presents an analysis of SPI across six software teams in the UK using a framework based on Giddens' Structuration Theory...
Software Process Improvement is an important mechanism to boost competitiveness and efficiency in software companies. Maturity models such as CMMI and MR MPS can support development organizations and contribute to the attainment of their quality goals when used as guides for software process improvement. However, implementing process improvements based on models implies long-term and large investments...
The aim of this paper is to show that the data stored in companies data warehouses can be used in order to improve business. By application of data mining method, neural clustering, we investigate age structure of employees and its influence on business companies. This would enable improvement in employment policy for small and medium-sized companies. The criteria while employing new people in retail...
eTransformation, the ability to select and implement appropriate Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) based on company's goals, objectives and operations is essential for the businesses today. This paper identifies how an online system - eTranformation Guide (eT Guide) allows companies especially Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to track, measure and guide their eTransformation journey...
Based on the thorough analysis of the financing efficiency of small and medium high-tech enterprises in Henan Province, this paper analyzes current financing model and capital structure of small and medium high-tech enterprises in Henan Province. This paper analyzes the factors that affect the financing efficiency in order to facilitate enterprises' rational financing behavior.
This paper examines the finance credit of small and medium sized high-tech enterprises, and then investigates the practical application of credit rating of small and medium sized high-tech enterprises. On this basis, this paper establishes index system of financing credit evaluation of the small and medium sized high-tech enterprises. Finally this paper makes a fuzzy comprehensive evaluation model...
The research tries to investigate the relationship between managerial overconfidence and R&D expenditure. Making small and medium-sized listed companies in China as samples, shareholding owned by manager and its variation as a substitute for the overconfidence, using OLS analysis method, we make an empirical analysis on the relationship between managerial overconfidence and R&D expenditure...
This paper analyzes the features of small and medium high-tech enterprises' financing structure; then based on the empirical study of influencing factors of small and medium high-tech enterprises' financing structure, and selects five indicator variables which indicate the significant features of small and medium high-tech enterprises. The study shows that the asset-liability ratio of small and medium...
Recent economic depression worldwide demand every department in industries to develop better control on their production cost, hence increasing company profit margin. Therefore, it is vital for maintenance department as a support team in the industries to acquire all maintenance data, to process information instantaneously, and subsequently to transform it into a useful decision. This study presents...
In an environment with competition and changes, it is critical for SMEs to achieve market responsiveness, the ability to rapidly sense and respond to changes from external markets. However, little research has been conducted to explore the relationships between IT resources, e-commerce adoption, and market responsiveness of SMEs. By drawing from IT business value and e-commerce literature, this paper...
The small and medium enterprises in the national economy occupy an important position in Chinese economic growth, labor, employment and social stability and development. For 2007-2008 global financial crisis, Chinese national economy caused by a powerful impact, but also the development of Chinese small and medium enterprises causing serious impact. Based on growth indicators of 218 cities listed...
In the global software development environment, the companies face the challenges of collaboration. This is particularly challenging for software companies in rural areas, which are typically small companies with limited resources. Often their customers and partners are also geographically dispersed. These factors, in addition to geographical distances, highlight the challenges of communication and...
Financing hindrance has become a bottleneck for the development of the technological Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (SMEs). Based on literature review, this paper collects the actual questionnaire from 17 cities in Guangdong Province and employs correspondence analysis to investigate the interrelation between the entrepreneurial Growth cycle and financing characteristics in technological SMEs,...
SMEs(Small and medium-sized enterprises) have played an important role in the process of promoting economic and social development, but the small and medium-sized enterprises are often at a disadvantage in the process of trading with large enterprises because of their own conditions. Through using the dynamic equations of duplicator, giving an analysis of the game question when Small and medium-sized...
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