The aim of the paper is to study the use of the advanced management methods in Romania, through the evolution of the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Business Intelligence (BI) systems. The study set sights on Romanian organizations which implemented a SIVECO ERP and BI software and the...

The first part of the article deals with the artistic ceramics sector, and it shows that the performance of firms in Sicilian “ceramics’ cities” is modest, if compared to Central and North-East Italian districts. This is due to the small dimension of Sicilian firms, and to their...

Using U.S. county data from 1990 and 2000, a family of spatial models examining growth in population and employment are reported. Special attention is paid to the role of microenterprises--firms with less than five employees--in predicting economic growth. Results suggest that microenterprises...

The article deals with the role of small and medium-sized enterprises, especially of the so-called high-tech enterprises, in terms of their contribution to the knowledge-based society performance in the Czech Republic. The research is based on background research of relevant scientific...

India is touted as a new entrepreneurship powerhouse and the next Asian miracle. There have been some successful and many unsuccessful attempts to promote entrepreneurship and small business development in India. There are also some well-founded rationales as well as a number of misinformed and...

The main objective of this study was to identify the critical factors that affecting the implementation of environmental management systems (EMSs) of manufacturing SMEs in Sri Lanka. Out of twelve factors, management commitment, professional expertise, financial resources, stakeholders and...

The term “conflict of interest” (CoI) is used in many different and often inconsistent ways, both by scholars and practitioners. CoI could be a serious problem and may lead to corrupt practices if it is not managed properly. CoI is still sometimes viewed as similar to corruption. But CoI...

This work investigates the variety of development processes of start up firms in a regional setting. The existing literature on entrepreneurship lacks accurate analysis of the processes that lead an idea of business to become an established firm. The present paper moves one step towards filling...

R&D consortia (collaborative R&D projects among private firms, universities, and public research institutes) have been attracting increasing attention as an effective means of promoting innovation. Especially for SMEs, such collaboration provides important opportunities to access and obtain...

Modern information and communication technology systems have accelerated processes of providing knowledge and enabled its organized utilization for the purposes of managing a firm. The quality of enterprise management has been significantly increased by the development of different techniques of...