...Sang M. Lee Business performance Electronics industry Green supply chain management Republic of Korea Small- and medium enterprises Small to medium-sized enterprises Supply chain management Article Type: 2013 Awards for Excellence From: Industrial Management & Data...

... interests are in the divergence between theory and practice in SCM. Edward Sweeney is the corresponding author and can be contacted at: edward.sweeney@dit.ie [1] In this paper, the European Union definition of small and medium sized enterprises has been adopted. According to this definition, firms...

... collected from small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) belonging to the sector of Spanish technology‐based firms (TBFs). This study employs the structural equation model (SEM) to examine the relationships between product and process innovation, knowledge combination capability, and organizational...

... tecnhologies have been, in general, less studied (Nevo et al., 2010 ; Boothy et al., 2010). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Small to medium‐sized enterprises Manufacturing industries Spain Information technology Communication technologies Organizational...

... management Electronics industry Small and medium enterprises Business performance Small to medium‐sized enterprises Supply chain management Republic of Korea In the resource dependence perspective, establishing inter‐organizational collaboration is essential to gain competitiveness, especially...

...Ismail Sila; Dawn Dobni Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the B2B e‐commerce (B2BEC) usage patterns of North American small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in their supply chains, the contextual factors that influence usage patterns, and the subsequent effects of these patterns...

... and resources by supporting execution of operational transactions and advanced planning, alongside real‐time data access (Klaus et al., 2000). Portugal Spain Resource management Small to medium‐sized enterprises Enterprise resource planning Diffusion of innovation Resource‐based view...

...Roman Kmieciak; Anna Michna; Anna Meczynska Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore two basic research questions: what are the effects of information technology (IT) capability and employee empowerment on the innovativeness of small to medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs), and what...

...Levi Shaul; Doron Tauber Purpose The purpose of this paper is to construct a consensus from previous research and develop a comprehensive success model for enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation in small to medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) that incorporates additional empirical...

...Jan Devos; Hendrik Van Landeghem; Dirk Deschoolmeester Purpose The purpose of this paper is to critically rethink the concepts and the theoretical foundations of IT governance in small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on multiple case studies...

...‐adoption of different EC applications within small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach A questionnaire‐based survey was conducted to collect data from 235 managers or owners of manufacturing SMEs in Iran. The data were analyzed by employing factorial analysis and relevant...

...@inet.polyu.edu.hk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Financial risk Research Business performance China Small to medium‐sized enterprises The US investment bank, Lehman Brothers, one of the most powerful players on Wall Street and the fourth‐largest securities firm in the USA, filed...

.... A favorable WE for an ERP system will positively affect PU. Sang M. Lee can be contacted at: slee1@unl.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Manufacturing resource planning South Korea Small to medium‐sized enterprises Customer satisfaction The adoption of enterprise...

... competitive advantage in the market, SMEs need to exploit other internal facilitating factors such as human capital. Yu‐Lin Wang can be contacted at: ywang@mail.ncku.edu.tw © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Knowledge management Small to medium‐sized enterprises Innovation Learning...

...Mahmoud Migdadi Purpose This paper attempts to accomplish the following aims: first, identify the preliminary knowledge management (KM) critical success factors (CSFs) or enablers that need to be concentrated by small‐and‐medium sized enterprises (SMEs) before launching a full‐scale KM initiative...

... adoption. Originality/value The study is perhaps one of the first to comprehensively address internet‐based ICT adoption among the SMEs through the use of a wide range of variables. Internet Communication technologies Small to medium‐sized enterprises Malaysia The information...

... of these technologies is still missing. Riccardo Mogre can be contacted at: riccardo.mogre@polimi.it © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Italy Small to medium‐sized enterprises Mobile communication systems Internet Employee communications The case studies research method has been...

...Maneesh Kumar; Jiju Antony Purpose The last two decades have witnessed an explosion of research into the area of quality initiatives (QI) such as ISO, total quality management, lean, Kaizen and its application within small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs). However, very few empirical studies...

...‐ineffective companies that were not adapted to the market economy. Small enterprises helped to stabilise the economic situation, which once again speaks in favour of the important role small and medium‐sized enterprises play in the economic development of Slovenia (Tajnikar, 2000). Entrepreneurial activity...

...Louis Raymond; François Bergeron Purpose The present study aims at a deeper understanding of the performance outcomes of the alignment between the e‐business capabilities of manufacturing small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) and their business strategy in terms of Miles and Snow's recognised...