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Established intellectual property can defend against negative effects and advocate positive effects, and for Taiwan's majority of small and medium-sized and newly created enterprises, patent analysis is essential for technical competition and technology trend analyses. Past patent analysis focused on the area of technology research analysis; however, this research takes semiconductor equipment components...
Small and medium enterprises occupy an important position in today's economic development, but many of their short-lived life are bothering entrepreneurs and researchers. According to Arie de Geus's ??life-oriented enterprises?? theory, some factors which impact on the life of this kind of enterprises were summed up and fuzzy comprehensive evaluation can be used to evaluate those factors. Then entrepreneurs...
Supply chain information infrastructure has been largely built on the basis of solid IT backbone using static identification technology such as barcode. However, like most emerging technologies, very few can integrate seamlessly together. Small to medium enterprises in the supply chain do not have the same resources as large multinational corporations are often left without RFID connectivity, and...
This paper explores potential advantages and barriers of virtual teams toward making an interrelation between small and medium-sized firms (SMEs) with a comprehensive review on different aspects of virtual teams in SMEs based on authentic and reputed publications. The purpose of the state-of-the-art literature review is to provide an overview of what is known about the structure and dynamics of virtual...
The healthy development of small and medium - sized civilian-run company calls for the support from a sound legal system in China. A legal system for the management and development of small and medium sized civilian-run company must been established. This article contributes to theory and practice on legitimacy by providing a framework for legitimacy building in an emerging economy. The four strategies...
Primarily by answering one critical question: what needs to be done to achieve quality? The answer is simple: go for ISO 9000. By following the development in Indian Business, it may be right to conclude that ISO 9000 has been a big hit with corporate India. Increasing competition, both local and global is making it difficult for Indian companies to continue in business without focusing on the needs...
On the condition that it is difficult for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to finance from specialized financial institutions such as banks, trade credit has been an important financing channel for SMEs. On the basis of theoretical research on trade credit, several hypotheses on the influencing factors of SMEs trade credit financing are proposed in this paper. And the panel data of 87 samples of...
This paper defines the concept and characteristics of small and medium commercial banks based on the evolution history of bank, from the present financing difficulties of SMEs status of research and development strategies to small and medium commercial banks, put forward three development strategies: restructuring, expansion and localization, and each development strategies chooses three, a total...
Traceability systems have become a dominant management information system within the production and marketing companies as they can efficiently control the supply chain, by minimizing the risks of the production process, and helping to enhance the consumer/customer reliability on products. There may have some limitations of using available traceability systems with small and medium scale industries...
This article presents implications of the research and conclusions regarding the understanding of the e-business practices amongst rural small and medium-sized enterprises. It showed the need for better support of rural small and medium-sized businesses in their transition towards modern enterprises competitive in the new era of information economy. The first section of the article summarizes the...
Beijing HaoCheng Dental enterprise, a Chinese small private dental enterprise to build e-commerce website actively for expansion of corporate, enhance the corporate image, optimize the structure of them, reduce procurement costs, Simplify treatment procedures and so on, was built in Sept 2007. This paper surveys the status quo of e-commerce application in Beijing HaoCheng Dental enterprise comprehensively...
Based on the definition of the European Commission, small enterprises can be defined as companies with less than 50 employees. Medium size companies are companies with less than 250 employees. For small and medium enterprises some research in regards to ERP selection criteria has been done. But this research did not distinguish further in the different behaviors that can be found during the ERP selection...
Today in changing business scenario the companies are highly concerned about reducing the lead times of various business processes so the ERP implementation becomes relevant. But this implementation requires huge investments in financial, manpower, time so successful implementation of ERP becomes major concern of the companies. The very fact that about 60-70% of all ERP implementations in organizations...
The objective of this paper is to examine the impact of motivational factors on the perceived state of quality management systems (QMS) within four small and medium sized companies from different industries in Germany. Although extensive research on motivational factors has been carried out in the last decade, none acknowledges the interrelation between the perceived status of a QMS and the existence...
The objective of this study is to test empirical relationships between export experience, export market information use, export knowledge, and export performance. In this respect we have developed a model that was presented previously by Toften (2005). To test the model we collected data from 158 top factory managers/owners in the Iranian dried fruit industry, mainly consisting of a number of small...
Entrepreneurs as the most important drivers, determine the whole enterprise's innovation capabilities in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Existing literatures concerned the relationship between innovation capabilities and entrepreneurs, consistently emphasize the important role of entrepreneurs; yet they do not clarify the question of "how"-how entrepreneurs leverage the innovation...
In some enterprises, the main problem that hinders the leverage of innovation capability is lacking the absorptive capability, which is usually caused by the high turnover rate of R&D talent. The root cause is the variance in strategic direction, which actually has negative effects on technological innovation. However, the research of enterprises' innovation capability leverage is still in the...
Transitioning towards an improved IT security culture that fosters desired IT security behaviour and attitudes in individuals is pertinent to any organizational IT security strategy. To improve the current IT security culture of an organization and its members, an initial assessment covering four core questions was necessary to determine how much of an improvement was needed. The assessments and data...
Cluster supply chain is a new economic theory for SMEs to improve each other's capabilities and face with global challenges through all kinds of collaborative strategies. However, it is still an open problem on how to bridge the gap between business theories and IT realization. The paper proposes a modeling framework to depict cluster supply chain from three views (business models, specification models,...
The current financial tsunami makes it difficult for enterprises, especially small and medium enterprises (SME) to ask for loans from banks to finance their future manufacturing activities and business development. Recent years, warehouse financing emerges as an effective and popular means for SMEs to get financing and investment from major banks and large corporations. In addition, it incorporates...
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