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A Trusted Negotiation Environment for Digital Ecosystems
Digital Ecosystems have emerged as a novel paradigm to support the endless evolution of networked organizations. Existing tools and platforms enabling business collaboration and contracting are often developed and owned by large companies and big market bodies and, hence, centrally controlled and not fully trusted by SMEs. Thus, there is...
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Knowledge Management (KM) is becoming a growing concern in management research and practice because of its role in determining firm innovation capability and in enhancing working life quality of knowledge workers. Although research and policy interest in KM is beginning to grow for small and medium-sized suppliers, still relatively limited...
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This paper investigates the relationship between Knowledge Management (KM), innovation and firm performance of smaller firms (less than 100 employees), based on a panel of more than 400 Dutch firms. Regression analyses explain the variations in sales turnover growth from various measures of KM strategies. The authors distinguish between KM...
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Factors Influencing the Decisions of SMEs to Purchase Software Package Upgrades
Despite the substantial contribution to the software industry by small and medium enterprises purchasing software package upgrades, to date there has been minimal research on the topic. Most businesses rely on packaged software for administrative and many core business functions. The practitioner press reports that managers experience frustration due to...
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Strategic Partnerships and the Internationalisation Process of Software SMEs
In this paper, the authors investigates the strategic partnering activities of software SMEs (Small to Medium sized Enterprises), their motivations to engage in strategic partnerships as part of the internationalisation process, the key benefits achieved and the main challenges encountered. A qualitative research methodology focusing on Irish indigenous firms is...
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Is Human Resource Management Profitable for Small Firms?
A substantial body of HRM research has investigated the relationship between HRM and organizational performance. Recent paper tends to explains the effects of integrated 'Systems' or 'Configurations' of HRM practices on different indicators of firm performance. A High Performance Work System (HPWS) can be defined as a set of distinct...
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Adoption of Icts Among Small Business: Vision Versus Reality
It is widely recognized that small businesses with less than 100 employees make a major contribution to local and national economies. The potential for economic growth is further enhanced when businesses collaborate with each other. The aim of this paper is to present a case study of the adoption of...
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Innovation and International Involvement of Dutch SMEs
This paper focuses on the relation between innovation and the international involvement of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), taking into account export as well as import activities of firms. The analysis is based on a sample of more than 1.800 Dutch SMEs using regression analysis. First, a positive impact is...
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The Impact of Absorptive Capacity on SMEs' Collaboration
Absorptive capacity plays a key role in determining firms' capability to access and make use of external knowledge. However, little evidence has been provided about this important determinant of knowledge acquisition in the SMEs context. This paper investigates the importance of absorptive capacity created and accumulated in R&D efforts and...
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IS/IT Investment Evaluation and Benefit Realization Practices in Taiwanese SMEs
This paper investigates the practices of IS/IT benefits and evaluation, critical success factors and the degree of satisfaction with the adoption of IS/IT investments in Business-To-Business Electronic Commerce (B2B-EC) by the Small and Medium-size Enterprise (SME) sector in an emerging economy - Taiwan. The survey reveals that the respondents had...
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