Current Issue : April - June Volume : 2014 Issue Number : 2 Articles : 4 Articles
In new era, Business Intelligence (BI) is important particularly for many chief Information Officers\r\n(CIOs). BI especially plays an essential role in organizations and allows managers to analyze\r\nbusiness performance in a convenient way and hence, improve decision making. Despite knowing\r\nthe importance of BI implementation, many organizations still struggle to achieve this especially in\r\nfinancial companies. This paper proposes an Enterprise Business Maturity Model (EBI2M) and\r\nevaluates it in one of the financial companies in Malaysia. Preliminary result indicates that the\r\ncompany does not achieve in term of data warehouse, metadata management, knowledge\r\nmanagement and performance measurement perspective. Therefore, an EBI2M is used to provide\r\nsymmetric guidelines for these companies to improve the BI implementation in the future....
The SMEs that have been internationalized embark on the adventure of internationalization\r\nin various ways. Sometimes valiantly competitive, so they know how to develop efficient\r\nstrategies to hold strong positions in foreign markets. Such is the case of Japanese firms that\r\nhave jumped steps to effectively organize and develop their specificities. This was followed\r\nby radical innovations. However, only few studies have focused on analyzing the\r\ninternational development of emerging countries. Thus, it is possible to study this\r\ndevelopment at an earlier stage of the added value. Indeed, sometimes some timidly\r\nexporting, SMEs in developing countries are able to penetrate the foreign market without\r\nachieving global leadership; that is the case of the Tunisian industrial companies. The latter\r\nare not best placed in their area to create and adopt radical innovations, then they decide to\r\ngo on micro-radical innovations.The aim of this paper is to explain the international\r\ndevelopment of Tunisian SMEs. We want to know if the technological innovation could be an\r\nexplanatory factor for this development. Through a case study of a Tunisian industrial\r\ncompany and an abductive approach, our work gives rise the possibility for a SME to\r\ninternationalize by commercializing, on the external market, patented inventions which are\r\nmicro-radical innovations....
In the framework of this study, an attempt to identify the level of taxpayers� attitudes and tax\r\ncompliance behaviour towards tax systems, to identify factors which influence taxpayers�\r\nattitudes, to establish relationship between attitudes and tax compliance behaviour and to\r\nrecommend ways that may contribute to development of enhanced taxpayers� attitudes and\r\ncompliance behaviour among Small Medium Enterprises in Botswana. This research was a\r\nsurvey whose data is collected from two hundred taxpayers in Small Medium Enterprises.\r\nAfter the data was collected, it was analyzed using descriptive statistics then summarized and\r\npresented using statistical tools. From the findings, the conclusionis that taxpayer� attitudes\r\ndo affect their compliance behaviour and recommendations weremade to try andhelp these\r\nSMEs....
The leadership style of Chief Executives Officers� (CEO) in adoption and implementation of ebusiness\r\ntechnologies especially within the context of small and medium enterprises (SMEs)\r\nhave received increasing acceptance in the recent years. This study investigates sixty CEOs�\r\nleadership style towards adoption of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems among\r\nBruneian SMEs. The study used the Multi-leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) from Bass and Avolio\r\n(1995) to measure the leadership style. The results confirm that CEOs� transformational\r\nleadership (TRFL) style is significant towards adoption of ERP system. The results were\r\ndiscussed and some recommendations were made for the further research....
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