Aim: This study investigates the digital gap in enterprises (particularly SMEs) and introduces the Digital Gap Benchmarking Model as a solution to bridge this gap and enhance their digital transformation processes. Design / Research methods: The research employs a narrative literature review of...

Scientific research in digital transformation is expanding in scope, quantity, and relevance, bringing forth diverse perspectives on which factors and specific dimensions - such as organizational structure, culture, and technological readiness - affect the success of digital transformation...

The basic goal of this article is an attempt to conduct comparative analysis of innovation determinants in companies of small and medium enterprises sector in Brazil and Poland. The comparison shall enable evaluation which determinants stimulate and which are barriers to innovativeness...

Recognizing on one hand the importance of the MSE sector for growth and development of economies in the Pacific region and on the other, the financing constraints of the sector, we survey a group of MSEs in a Pacific island country and find that they may particularly be constrained by banks'...

China's external sector has been the engine behind the country's robust economic growth over the past four decades. By 2016, China's total merchandise trade accounted for 16.1% of the world total, compared to 0.6% in 1978 when its economic reforms were initiated. China's rapid trade growth was...

The main objective of this research is to propose a conceptual model, with the view of assess ing the link between size, age, market orientation and performance. We have chosen the foodprocessing small businesses as our empirical field of application. An important number of smallenterprises were...

Small and Medium Enterprise (SMEs), just like large corporates target foreign markets for growth, profit and survival motives. Reaching global markets is a dream for every business as there are better prices elsewhere as compared to local industries who might be controlled. Also opening new...

Using Germany as an example, this article examines how different groups of small andmedium-sized enterprises were impacted by and recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic.The study found that at the onset of the pandemic, turnover losses were experienced notjust by enterprises regarded as poor...

IT-Compliance als Teilbereich der IT-Governance erlangt derzeit wachsende Bedeutung. Dass die Forderung nach Gesetzestreue trivial erscheint, offenbar jedoch nicht ist, belegen allein schon die in 2008 bekannt gewordenen Compliance-Verstöße. Diesbezüglich wird die Befolgung der Vorschriften...

Für westeuropäische Unternehmen im Allgemeinen und für westeuropäische kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMU) im Besonderen bildete die politische und wirtschaftliche Marktöffnung in Mittel- und Osteuropa (MOE) zu Beginn der 1990er Jahre und die Integration vieler dieser...