The European Union has added ten new members (EU 10) on May 1, 2004. This expansion is unique both in terms of the number of countries involved and their backgrounds. This paper compares the new and old members in economic terms, analyzes historical trading patterns, and looks into foreign...

Internet and Web-based technologies have provided firms significant opportunities to improve their value chain activities, both in primary and support functions. The main focus of this paper is to examine the literature on small- and medium-size enterprises' (SMEs) experience with such...

Agriculture has important role as a employer and contributor to the GNP throughout the last two decades in Turkey. There are still some traditional problems in agriculture. After Helsinki European Council meeting in 1999 with EU, to speed up the accession, a number of working groups have already...

This study reviews the global trends in Internet access and concludes the rest of the world is rapidly catching up with the Western world. The study then shifts to the Turkish case and reports the findings of a survey conducted at a Turkish University that focused on Internet usage, online...