... of enhancing company image and being an important tool of doing business electronically. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Internet Electronic commerce Small‐ to medium‐sized enterprises Emerging markets Turkey For over a decade, global network diffusion has been occurring at exponential rates...

... Entrepreneurialism Europe Small‐ to medium‐sized enterprises The creation and closing down of businesses depend on multiple factors and therefore their changing over time, differences in the development of regions and the possibilities of taking profit from the enterprise in several ways will determine...

...Steven Peet; Clare Brindley; Bob Ritchie This paper explores and validates the premise that European small‐ to medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) are less advanced in their adoption of e‐business than their US counterparts. The authors then examine the efforts of the European Information Society...

...Ruth Fee; Andrew Erridge; Sean Hennigan The aim of the paper is to examine the support mechanisms that exist for small‐ to medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in Northern Ireland and how access to government contracts can be improved for SMEs. The paper will investigate the rationale for SME...

... as systems from some other countries do. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Austria Economic growth Franchising Research Small‐ to medium‐sized enterprises The Austrian franchise situation benefits from increasing public interest. Not only do most of the economic journals deal with the topic...

..., particularly those arising as spin‐offs from research conducted in institutions of higher education. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Eastern Germany Globalization Investment Small‐ to medium‐sized enterprises It would appear that it is not generally possible in practice to trace an irrefutable line...