The article examines organizational and personal factors in relation to the retention of the female workers in the IT SMEs. The organizations operating in the business cities of India were targeted using convenience sampling technique. In addition to that, purposive sampling was used for...

Fast changing economic environment has led exporting to be evolved as one of the fastest growing economic activities in the recent times. However, in this highly competitive global era exporting firms have to overcome several barriers in achieving superior performance in the international...

Limited access of small enterprises to reliable and well-prepared information about their condition is mentioned as one of the main barriers to small business development. One of the key types of information used in management is financial information. It concerns the resources and financial...

Limited access of small enterprises to reliable and well-prepared information about their condition is mentioned as one of the main barriers to small business development. One of the key types of information used in management is financial information. It concerns the resources and financial...

This empirical survey is based on a questionnaire which was distributed to 6,000 medium-sized German companies with international activities. The analyses included responses from a total of 533 enterprises. The areas examined include the importance of globalization, the motives for and the...

This paper attempts to identify and evaluate certain critical pitfalls in the planning stage of ERP adoption in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and develop into a model for evaluating the risk of failure. In the planning stage a set of risks have been identified based on past research work...

This research paper addresses the adoption of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and examine their effect on organizational performance and Return-on-Investment (ROI) in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). In this two-part paper, the first part identifies and measures tangible and intangible...

This empirical study attempts to investigate the effect of organizational learning on innovation as well as the impact of innovation on company performance. Based on the literature review, two hypotheses are proposed to guide the study: the positive impact of organizational learning on...

In-depth personal interviews are conducted with nine Chinese entrepreneurs. They are located in three different geographical regions from coastal to interior. Their businesses span eight sectors from clothing to industrial automation. This article focuses on their motivations to start new...

The paper studied the factors affecting SME competitiveness in terms of their capacity to access, link, and upgrade as well as entrepreneurial characteristics and the business environment.Using a survey of 480 randomly selected SMEs in Metro Manila, Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, and Quezon,...