Small and medium-sized enterprises SMEs will be disadvantaged if they do not prepare themselves for a carbon-constrained environment, the Australian Institute of Management says.The institute's Victorian and Tasmania branch chief executive Susan Heron said all SME's would be affected by the federal government's planned emissions trading scheme even though...
LONDON (Reuters UK) - HBOS HBOS could cut as many as 650 jobs as it sets up a single business to serve small and medium-sized enterprises, stepping up efforts to compete in a sector dominated by four larger domestic rivals. HBOS plans to merge its business...
With embedded knowledge flows and innovation linked to communities of practice as well as technology, Australian Small and Medium Size Enterprises SMEs have the potential to both collaborate and compete by taking advantage of knowledge platforms founded on digital technologies and new relationships. A conceptual model is introduced that maps...
Web conferencing as a general-purpose business tool has undergone tremendous growth in adoption and usage over the past few years. While many think of Web conferencing as a large enterprise application, it has in fact shown remarkable attractiveness to small and medium enterprise SME users as well. ...
Web conferencing as a general-purpose business tool has undergone tremendous growth in adoption and usage over the past few years. While many think of web conferencing as a large enterprise application, in fact it has shown remarkable attractiveness to Small to Medium Enterprise SME users as well. This white paper...
Taiwan has been known for its effective policies and positive economic impact on the development of SMEs Small and Medium size Enterprises in that country. Recognizing the importance of the role that government can play in the development of SMEs, Costa Rica has started developing policies to strengthen its SMEs....
The objectives highlighted by the Defence Industrial Strategy DIS White Paper to identify innovative Small and Medium-sized Enterprises SMEs and their capabilities, to improve means of engagement with them, and to make SMEs aware of the opportunities available to them with defence as a possible market for their innovation and...
This paper explains patent that is an exclusive right granted by the State for an invention that is new, involves an inventive step and is capable of industrial application. It gives its owner the exclusive right to prevent or stop others from making, using, offering for sale, selling or importing...
Although a majority of all Small and Medium Sized Enterprises SMEs need advice the preparedness to accept advice among SMEs is often low. In what we call the formal institutionalized advice setting the SME owner finds him- or herself in a setting where the dispositions have been set before hand....
This paper aims at exploring the problems experienced by SMEs with international ambitions in gaining access to debt and equity finance for Foreign Direct Investment FDI projects. This paper develops several hypotheses why such SMEs are expected to face severe financing constraints for foreign investments and provide an explorative empirical...
This paper explores why Small and Medium-sized Companies SMEs engage in outsourcing of accounting services. It expands the transaction cost economics model by adding the variable resource deficit from resource-based theory, while controlling for personal characteristics of the SME executive (age, education), organizational structure, firm maturity and ownership structure. It...
Very little has been published on best practice approaches to managing eBusiness change for SMEs, particularly at the level of the small business. SMEs are however increasingly implementing more advanced eBusiness solutions, and in turn could benefit from adopting a more informed manner to taking on some of these change...
The successful development of new products and services is crucial to the long-term survival of business enterprises. With increased competition to the market place and shortening product life cycles pressure has been imposed on all enterprises to innovate more efficiently. This paper presents the development of an initial best practice...
Supply chain inefficiency is one of the most prevalent issues facing the Small to Mid-size Enterprise SMEs market today. The SME market continues to struggle to find ways to improve their supply chain while competing with larger enterprises that have the capital to invest in sophisticated systems. On Demand supply...
Now that most big companies have Enterprise Resource Planning ERP software - such as SAP, PeopleSoft or Oracle - in place, sales to Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises SME are fuelling new growth. But do SMEs know what they're getting into when they choose to implement an ERP system? Is implementing...
Successful New Product Development NPD activities need high amounts of new knowledge from a variety of different sources. When the NPD activities are seen as a process of knowledge accumulation, two knowledge processes are identified: knowledge acquisition and knowledge utilization. This paper focuses on the process of knowledge acquisition from...
The knowledge-intensive and networked society?s ability to manage knowledge flows is crucial for companies to gain competitive advantage. Knowledge management KM is a philosophy for effective utilisation of knowledge resources, offering tools for companies to better acquire, create, share, store, process and use knowledge flows when trying to reach a...
The author has met and spoken with many SMEs in the author's personal experience, it is generally viewed by small to medium sized business owners that branding is an external and cynically manipulative activity adopted only by larger and wealthier firms for large corporate positioning. There is also a common...
For the last three decades there has been a tendency in most of the older industrial countries to see SMEs Small And Medium Sized Enterprises as 'Failing' to invest in training. Nowadays, there have voices which have questioned this belief, not least from within the small business community. This is...
Payroll functionality has been introduced to Irish business customers by Mamut Enterprise, a provider of business software for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises SMEs, in conjunction with Irish software company Payback. Payroll functionality has been introduced to Irish business customers by Mamut Enterprise, a provider of business software for Small and...
