[PDF] Top 20 E-business Maturity and Information Technology in Portuguese SMEs

... world and a higher degree of competitiveness, organizations that want to survive the challenges of the market, must be able to adapt themselves quickly to fast changing ...pace and it is important that ... See full document

... (Information Technology and Communication) for a thriving European ...new business models, to influence the chains value and increase the efficiency of ...ICT and e- ...ICT ... See full document

... process information. Instead, bounded rationality may result in using routines or rules of thumb (Simon, ...Likewise, in cases where investments in energy-efficient technologies are being ... See full document

... researchers and practitioners in information systems (IS) ...important in cases of systems such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), as the use of these systems involves significant ...use ... See full document

... accounting in two ...all Portuguese industrial SME are classified in the same stage of maturity, not allowing for their differentiation; using the proposed new model we are able to ... See full document

... on SMEs capital structure ...exporter SMEs in Portugal, covering a period from 2008 until 2014, the results indicate that firms’ size, profitability, asset structure, non-debt tax shields, growth, ... See full document

... (Information Technology and Communication) for a thriving European ...new business models, to influence the chains value and increase the efficiency of ... See full document

... (organized in themes from A to ...numbers and email addresses to contact for further information and indicator, including sustainability indicators to ...printed/downloaded and ... See full document

... Communications and Information Society (MCIS) proposes a national strategy, accompanied by an action plan that will lead to no time for the entire public sector orientation toward the information ... See full document

... original and counterfeited samples by measuring the colour of tablets’ surface and of a specific spot of the packages; suspicious samples were then compared to the corresponding original (spectral ... See full document

... IOS in the context of interorganizational relations, an important contribution came from Kambil and Short [1994], who argued that IOS represent patterns of interdependent relationships between the ... See full document

... usually SMEs suffer from a lack of financing, particularly long term stable funds, is strongly related to information asymmetry (Gregory, Rutherford, Oswald, & Gardiner, 2005; Berger & Udell, 1998; ... See full document

... project Information Technologies for Grandparents and Grandchildren (TINA) was launched in 2010 however, the idea goes back to 2002/2003 when developing Catraios' Portal - Kids and Adults of ... See full document

... changes in production ...situation and potential adverse ...industry and their usefulness to the ...innovative technology illustrated on Figure 3, is a set of indicators at the level of the ... See full document

... costs and return on investment (ROI) in information technologies (IT) and information systems ...recent and a fraction of all IT invested, even if growing at a faster pace than ... See full document

... small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) outsourcing decision with special emphasis on innovation and ICT ...benefits and problems for SMEs derived from their subcontracting ... See full document

... variable in a qualitative form, for example, bankrupt or ...companies and 33 were non-bankrupt or ‘’healthy’’ companies during the period of 1946 to ...similarities in terms of sector, size ... See full document

... distributed teams, EDI, empirical research, global software development, information technology, information technology outsourcing, insourcing, interorganizational rela- [r] ... See full document

... The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) provides a framework of best practices for managing of the information technology (IT) ...services. In the framework of this ... See full document

... stage in the post-industrial economy as the next sector of rapid growth as the relative importance of manufacturing reduced, making way for new, and intangible means of adding value for customers and ... See full document