Plug and Play – The Era of Technology Convergence.Emergences of new technologies like Mobile, Cloud and robust payment gateways have enhanced the business models of e-commerce applications. Google pioneered the advertisement based revenue model. Amazon gave a whole new dimension to e-business...

This paper presents an analysis of the effects that Austria's accession to the EU had on several key financial ratios of small business firms in the retail and wholesale trade sectors. These two industries were selected because before 1995 they were protected in many respects, thus vulnerable to...

Namibia considers formal small-scale mining firms (FSSMFs) as an important part of the solution to the problems of high unemployment, poverty, and the diminishing role of large-scale mining firms facing the country. However, to be a solution FSSMFs must be profitable first. This paper examines...

This study investigates the relationship between bank market power and firms’ financing constraints, indicated by the likelihood of being discouraged from applying for bank loans. The full data sample covers more than 72,000 small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) in 113 countries around the...

We document the presence of multiple and varied constraints to small and medium firm growth. This presents both a practical problem for business training programs and a challenge to academic economists trying to identify mechanisms though which these programs may affect outcomes. External...

This research analyses small and medium enterprises directors' sensitivity to CSR, and more specifically to workplace wellbeing and risk management. We conducted a questionnaire survey of 1,800 directors of Belgian small and medium enterprises to determine their perceptions and actions regarding...

Research findings have established a relationship between organizational size and a substantial set of organizational outcomes, resulting in size's distinction as “perhaps the most powerful explanatory organizational covariate in strategic analysis”. We draw on the theory of the firm to...

The appearance of relationship quality paradigm in the field of international business has resulted in growing need to manage, develop and evaluate relationships amongst the exporters and importers besides influencing the profitability of the firm in the long-run. In the same light, this study...

Research in entrepreneurship has debated the differences between entrepreneurial and small business ventures for quite some time, arguing that entrepreneurial ventures are small growth-oriented, strategically-innovative firms, while small business ventures are neither growth oriented nor...

This paper provides a comprehensive review on different aspects of virtual teams 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 R&D collaboration in SMEs. SMEs are...