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Havlíček, Z., E. Šilerová, and Č. Halbich. "E-business solutions and OSS for the SMEs." Agricultural Economics (Zemědělská ekonomika) 54, No. 3 (March 31, 2008): 102–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.17221/243-agricecon.
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www technologies are developing very fast. The new technologies make possible the easier creation of the web applications, which support business activities. Small and medium size enterprises, which serve as the driving force for innovations and thus for economic development, can utilize these technologies for the creation of relatively inexpensive applications, which can be tailor-made for the given enterprise by using the open source software (OSS). This contribution presents several practical examples of how to create – update – the web site of an enterprise and how to supplement it with an e-shop option. Examples from the area of flower selling have been selected.
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Alwadain, Ayed. "Enterprise Architecture: A Business Value Realization Model." Sustainability 12, no. 20 (October 14, 2020): 8485. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12208485.
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Today, as organizations face constant change, they must rapidly adapt their strategies and operations. This involves continuous business transformation. However, guiding and managing such transformation can be an intimidating task because of organizational complexity. Hence, organizations resort to Enterprise Architecture (EA) to address this complexity and achieve their transformation goals. Nonetheless, there is a lack of research on EA benefits realization and a dearth of conclusive evidence on how EA enables business transformation and delivers value to organizations. Therefore, this research uses a case study method to explore how EA investment is converted into organizational value. This research makes two contributions. The first of these is the development of an EA value realization model, which comprises three iterative and interrelated processes: the EA conversion process, the EA use process, and the EA competitive process. The second contribution is the identification of factors that may influence the value realization process.
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Rahmanita, Myrza, Fetty Asmaniati, and Triana Rosalina Dewi. "Profiling Local Business Enterprises and Direct Effect of Tourism in Villages of Muntei, Madobag and Matotonan, South Siberut, Mentawai, Indonesia." TRJ Tourism Research Journal 4, no. 2 (October 31, 2020): 199. http://dx.doi.org/10.30647/trj.v4i2.99.
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Mentawai is well known as an ecotourism area in Indonesia, with its Siberut National Park recognized as part of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves. People come to visit this exotic area every year to do activities and enjoying the natural surroundings. Tourist visits to Mentawai were escalating by years, both domestic and foreign tourists. Regional income from tourism was also increasing. Ecotourism is known worldwide for its benefit for economic contribution to local communities and poverty alleviation. The economic contribution of ecotourism is often appreciated through its direct effect on local business enterprises on sites. However, statistics today showed that Mentawai are still categorized as underdeveloped and poor. Therefore, this descriptive research objective was to assess tourism contribution by means of direct effect to local business enterprises and challenges faced by villages near Siberut National Park, South Siberut, Mentawai. A survey was conducted in November 2018 by distributing questionnaires to 19 representatives of tourism-related Local Business Enterprises (LBEs) using an accidental sampling technique. Data collected were then processed, analyzed and interpreted. In conclusion, this study shows that there is a low direct effect of tourism to the existing Local Business Enterprise in the villages of Muntei, Madobag, and Matotonan of South Siberut, Mentawai Island Regency, West Sumatera, Indonesia. In addition, essential challenges exist, not to mention managerial, predominantly concerning financial and legal matters. It is recommended that local government and other stakeholders put more consideration not only on environmental and social aspects, but also economy, represented by local business enterprises. Initiatives and integrated actions should be arranged and put in practice as empowering tourism, particularly ecotourism to its optimum, to bring about foremost contribution to local economy through direct effect of tourism to local business enterprises.
Keywords: Tourism contribution, Direct effect of tourism, Local Business Enterprise, Ecotourism, Mentawai
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Monnickendam-Givon, Yisca, Dafna Schwartz, and Benjamin Gidron. "The surprising lack of connection between social networks and the enterprise success of ultra-religious female micro-entrepreneurs." Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy 12, no. 3 (July 9, 2018): 395–415. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jec-05-2017-0031.
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Purpose The utilization of social networks is known to have an impact on micro-enterprise success. This study aims to examine the contribution of social networks in acquiring resources and their role in the enterprise’s success. Design/methodology/approach A business’s success is influenced by its network structure and the network’s resources. The authors examine whether unique religious-cultural characteristics affect the social networks contribution to a business’s success. This model examines the network utilization of women entrepreneurs who own micro-enterprises in ultra-religious groups. The sample consists of 123 surveys completed by Jewish ultra-Orthodox women entrepreneurs in Israel. Data collection was conducted between February and June 2013. The authors used a snowball sampling approach where interviewees were asked to refer us to other entrepreneurs. In the hour-long interview, a questionnaire was used with open and closed questions. Findings Findings indicate that strong personal ties provide a micro-enterprise with social legitimacy, emotional support and assistance in the management and operation of daily activities. However, contrary to the existing literature, network utilization did not contribute to enterprise success. That is, in religious communities in particular, social networks enable the existence of businesses, but do not contribute to their success. Practical implications The practical implications of this paper are the mapping of the social network resources used by the business owner, such as financial consultations or professional assistance, as well as distinguishing between strong and weak ties, which reflect the intensity of the contact for better use of the social network by the entrepreneurs. Originality/value This study examined social networks’ contribution to the acquisition of resources, as well as the part they play in the success of ultra-orthodox women micro-entrepreneurs and perhaps other religious and minorities groups.
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Barton, Tina. "Small Business and Social Enterprise: To Thrive Not Fail." Papers in Canadian Economic Development 18 (April 11, 2019): 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.15353/pced.v18i0.91.
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<p>Small businesses (those with up to 99 employees) are the most common business type in Canada – comprising 97.9 per cent of businesses, and contributing close to one-third of Canada’s gross domestic product (GDP). Yet a significant number of these businesses fail, with only about 50 per cent lasting at least five years, according to Industry Canada. Social enterprises – businesses that provide valuable products or services while delivering social and sometime environmental returns – struggle even more than small businesses to attract finance, grow, and sustain. What are the similarities and differences between these two groups’ needs, and how can Canada’s three levels of government and the broader business ecosystem better support small businesses and social enterprises to thrive? This paper takes a comprehensive look at key business needs, barriers to success, enabling factors, and policy incentives, drawing upon academic literature, studies and reports from the government, non-profit, and social enterprise sectors, as well as recommendations from business advocacy groups primarily from Canada and the United States. </p><p><strong>Keywords: </strong>Small business, social enterprise, business financing, business growth, business ecosystem, procurement policy</p>
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Villalobos Araya, Rodrigo. "School “Brillo de Luna”: sustainable business model." Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies 10, no. 1 (January 2, 2020): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eemcs-11-2019-0314.
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Learning outcomes In entrepreneurship courses, the case would allow discussing the contribution of social innovation. On the other hand, in strategy courses the case would allow proposing the business model for a social enterprise, to evaluate the creation, delivery and capture of value of a social enterprise. Depending on the course and approach you want to give to the case discussion, it can serve as support for the following objectives: arguing the contribution of social innovation to solve problems in a region; propose the resources and value proposition of the business model of a social enterprise; and attitudes promotion: understand the importance of ethics and responsibility in the development of social enterprises. Case overview/synopsis The case addresses the opportunity of the school “Brillo de Luna,” when developing social entrepreneurship, which requires projection, evaluation and management support. In this context, the director of the school must propose a business model that is sustainable in the long-term in the market and that generates shared value. The institutional relationship of the school “Brillo de Luna” with the Cristalchile company, through the social entrepreneurship of glass recycling, could generate economic, environmental and social value to the school community and the company. Complexity academic level Courses in which the case could be applied: entrepreneurship and strategy. Supplementary materials Teaching Notes are available for educators only. Subject code CSS 3: Entrepreneurship.
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FORSMAN, HELENA, and SERDAL TEMEL. "INNOVATION AND BUSINESS PERFORMANCE IN SMALL ENTERPRISES: AN ENTERPRISE-LEVEL ANALYSIS." International Journal of Innovation Management 15, no. 03 (June 2011): 641–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s1363919611003258.
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This paper explores links between developed innovations and business performance in small enterprises with fewer than 50 employees. It also examines how performance has changed over time during a period of five years. The empirical evidence is based on two quantitative datasets describing innovation and business performance in 145 small enterprises in 2005–2009. The study makes a contribution to academic literature by providing a detailed view of the differences in performance across innovation types. The results suggest that during the period of five years, non-innovators have been the best performing enterprises in terms of operating earnings and return on investments while radical innovations can be connected with sales growth. During the recession, the less vulnerable enterprises have been non-innovators and innovators characterised by the high diversity of developed innovations. Applying these results helps small business owners to consider what is the nature and timescale for getting return on innovations.
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Qin, Min, and Su Liang. "User recognition mechanism and user contribution behavior in enterprise-hosted online product innovation communities." Nankai Business Review International 10, no. 1 (February 21, 2019): 17–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/nbri-01-2018-0008.
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Purpose This paper aims to conceptualize two patterns of user recognition mechanisms and two kinds of user contribution behavior in enterprise-hosted online product innovation community and explain their relationships between user recognition mechanisms and user contribution behavior of online product innovation community. Design/methodology/approach A Chinese enterprise-hosted online innovation community and an American enterprise-hosted online innovation community are selected as research objects. Four Logit models are developed and some hypotheses are supposed from the perspective of prosocial behavior theory. Objective user data with three months from two online product innovation communities are collected to test with Logit regression analysis. Findings Findings show that there are obvious correlations between user recognition mechanisms and user contribution behavior, and there is also an obvious difference in community user activity level between the quantity-based user recognition mechanism community and the quality-based user recognition mechanism community. More specifically, in the online product innovation community with quantity-based recognition mechanism, both variables of peer recognition and community image motivation significantly affect user proactive contribution behavior. In the online product innovation community with quality-based recognition mechanism, the variable of peer recognition significantly affects both user proactive contribution behavior and user responsive contribution behavior; the variable of community image motivation significantly affects both user proactive contribution behavior and user responsive contribution behavior. Practical implications Although it is voluntary, online user voluntary contribution behavior still need to be presented, recognized and affirmed by community. For enterprise-hosted online community managers, they should pay more attention to design the reasonable online community user recognition mechanism with the coexistence of quantity and quality. Originality/value The theoretical contribution in this study is to enrich the existing research theme about enterprise-hosted online product innovation community. First, it conceptualizes two patterns of user recognition mechanisms. Second, it regards the variable of user contribution behavior as the co-existence of proactive contribution and responsive contribution. Third, from the perspective of prosocial behavior theory, it is an important supplement to explain the mechanism of user contribution behavior in enterprise-hosted online product innovation community. Fourth, it deepens the overall understanding of the relationship between user recognition mechanism and user contribution behavior. This study provides theoretical guidance for enterprises how to design reasonable and efficient online product innovation community platform. The theoretical contribution in this study is to enrich the existing research theme about enterprise-hosted online product innovation community. First, it conceptualizes two patterns of user recognition mechanisms. Second, it regards the variable of user contribution behavior as the co-existence of proactive contribution and responsive contribution. Third, from the perspective of prosocial behavior theory, it is an important supplement to explain the mechanism of user contribution behavior in enterprise-hosted online product innovation community. Fourth, it deepens the overall understanding of the relationship between user recognition mechanism and user contribution behavior. This study provides theoretical guidance for enterprises how to design reasonable and efficient online product innovation community platform.
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Наmкаlо, О. В. "Non-Financial Reporting as a Tool for Measuring the Social Activity of Domestic Enterprises." Statistics of Ukraine, no. 4(79) (December 20, 2017): 79–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.31767/su.4(79).2017.04.10.
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The research is devoted to the peculiarities of the formation of non-financial reporting as one of the tools for measuring the social activity of enterprises.
The financial stability and successful business of enterprises is conditional on non-financial indicators and business orientation, ranks, reputation, openness and social responsibility. Non-financial reporting or a CSR report is an effective tool for measuring the performance of enterprises, a basis for the development and implementation of various strategic projects and programs. Information from non-financial reporting allows for assessing the effectiveness of management at an enterprise by economic, environmental and social component, their interdependence and contribution in achieving the main goal, and for subsequent goal setting and more effectively management of change. It means that the report in question serves as the main platform for communicating the results and impacts (positive or negative) of sustainable development. It shows the real effort of an enterprise in creating social, environmental and economic benefits.
However, domestic enterprises do not have sufficient experience in the field of socially responsible business and need to create their own internal concept of corporate social responsibility considering international trends, which determines the relevance of this study
Various international non-financial reporting standards are analyzed; it is demonstrated that the most popular mechanism for regulating non-financial reporting is the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), which defines a set of indicators measuring the social, ecological and economic component of the economic activity of enterprises The mechanism for making up a non-financial report by phase of the enterprise development is built. The use of the proposed mechanism in making up non-financial reporting will enable to set up an effective link between the enterprise and the stakeholders, and to determine the strategic directions of the enterprise's activities in the context of its development.
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Ананьев, Александр, and Aleksandr Ananev. "The Development of Human Resource Planning in the Tourism Business Sector." Servis Plus 7, no. 4 (December 11, 2013): 31–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1694.
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The article studies the current ways of introducing elements of human resource planning into tourism and service enterprise development strategies. The author considers the specifics and peculiarities of the tourism and service business and identifies the major lines of application as well as the workability of corporate and HRplanning in reference to small- and medium-sized enterprises operating in the focus areas. Special stress is laid on the contribution ofmarketing research, pursuing prospective lines of tourism and service enterprise development and introducing elements of HRplanning to delivering the targeted results. The author regards the basic stages and methods of personnel planning as employed by tourism and service enterprises in terms of occupation, skill and qualification.
The article may serve the scientific, special and teaching purposes of those studying the problem of HR planning in the context of tourism and service business.
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Terminanto, Agung, Achmad Nizar Hidayanto, and Wahyu Nugroho. "Measurement of Readiness Levels for Adoption of Enterprise Resource Planning Clouds in Small Medium Enterprise with Net Ready Model." Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience 16, no. 12 (December 1, 2019): 5396–407. http://dx.doi.org/10.1166/jctn.2019.8609.
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Industry 4.0 has changed the way we live, work and interact, creating new opportunities and challenges. To deal with these challenges, SMEs need an application that can integrate and automate SME business processes. Small and Medium Enterprises are very important for Indonesia’s economic growth. The 2016 economic census conducted by the Central Bureau of Statistics stated the rapid economic growth among MSMEs. The more rapid growth of the market, the greater the competition in the market coupled with the current digital era. The study was conducted to measure the readiness of small and medium enterprises in the Bogor area that are engaged in fashion for Cloud ERP adoption. Readiness measurement is done by the Net Ready method which has four variables, namely: Leadership, Governance, Competencies, Technology. The Net Ready method further assesses the readiness to the level of the organization and the results of measurements which each have different value contributions. Governance provides the biggest contribution in the assessment of Net Ready which has a score of 1.06. Competencies provide the second largest contribution which has a score of 0.77. Technology provides the third largest contribution which has a value of 0.72. Leadership makes the smallest contribution in this study which has a score of 0.58, lack of management awareness of integrated information systems to make new business strategies. The total score obtained from the summary of each variable total score produces a value of 3.12. The total score can be categorized as Bogor region SMEs engaged in fashion, quite ready to adopt Cloud ERP.
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Rábová, I. "Methodology of the Enterprise Architecture creating and the role of the Enterprise Architecture in rural development." Agricultural Economics (Zemědělská ekonomika) 56, No. 7 (July 20, 2010): 334–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.17221/59/2010-agricecon.
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This contribution deals with the concept of the Enterprise Architecture, the practice that tries to describe and control an organization structure, processes, applications, systems and technology infrastructure, software components, services and roles in enterprise. It links the goals, resources and rule in enterprise with the processes and activities in business organization and creates a large document for planning, investing and the enterprise information strategy. The aim of the article is the methodological approach, the common method for development of the Enterprise Architecture document. What is important in this document? All business managers must make sense of the architecture to optimize their activities according to the specific business goals and to develop a strategy for the innovation and for the introduction improvements in the current business situation and into the future. The Enterprise Architecture can serve as a basis of business knowledge. The description principles should be applied in every area of industry also in the Czech agriculture area. The conclusions of the paper evaluate the knowledge context and discuss the necessity of establishing the Enterprise Architecture in the company.
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Satta, Tadeo Andrew. "Enterprise Characteristics and Constraints in Developing Countries." International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation 4, no. 3 (August 2003): 175–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.5367/000000003101299546.
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There is currently a general consensus that enterprise promotion and growth constitute one of the viable strategies for achieving national development goals such as economic development and poverty alleviation. With various forms of support, enterprises are likely to improve their productivity and competitiveness, make a greater contribution to generating wealth and alleviating poverty among families of owners and workers alike, and create more jobs. Using data from a survey of 136 micro and small-scale enterprises (MSEs) in Tanzania, this paper examines enterprise characteristics and identifies a number of external constraints that influence enterprise growth. Based on the identified constraints the paper highlights a number of policy measures that may be relevant to the formulation of supportive programmes for MSE growth in Tanzania, and indeed other developing countries. This contribution probably comes at a critical moment when the Tanzanian government is in the process of developing a number of programmes to promote the MSE sector.
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Rainanto, Bambang Hengky. "Analisis Permasalahan Yang Dihadapi Oleh Pelaku Usaha Mikro Agar Berkembang Menjadi Usaha Kecil (Scalling Up) Pada Umkm Di 14 Kecamatan Di Kabupaten Bogor." Jurnal Ilmiah Manajemen Kesatuan 7, no. 1 (May 16, 2019): 201–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.37641/jimkes.v7i1.213.
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The existence of micro, small and medium enterprises (UMKM) has significant importance in supporting and promoting economy development in Indonesia. Other than encouraging economic growth, these UMKM have proven to reduce unemployment. UMKM contribution to gross domestic products develops from previously 57.84% to 60.34% in the last five years. The absorption of employment also rises from 96.99% to 97.22% in the same period. Of the three divisions of enterprises, micro enterprise is leading by the number followed by small and lastly medium enterprise. In terms of encouraging micro business to grow into small (scaling up), it is necessary to seek issues mostly encountered by micro business subjects. The research was administered using survey method with descriptive analysis to micro business subjects in 14 regions in Kabupaten Bogor. This is one of the efforts to clearly visualize the problems and obstacles in the development of micro business. The results found that aspects of marketing, funding, production, human resources, materials, product and production legal aspect, financial and distribution managements are among the biggest problems for the micro business in Kabupaten Bogor.
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Kanchana, V. S., N. Yesodha Devi, and S. Sujatha. "Women Entrepreneurs: Driving Factors and Growth – A Study in Coimbatore District." Journal of Global Economy 6, no. 1 (February 28, 2010): 21–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1956/jge.v6i1.103.
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he present investigation was carried out in Coimbatore District of Tamil Nadu state to know the socio economic background, impact of driving factors, and growth of women entrepreneurs. Total 150 respondents were interviewed with the help of pre-tested interview schedule. Random sampling technique was adopted for the selection of women entrepreneurs. The study was designed to cover the women entrepreneurs running their own enterprise. Tools applied are Percentage Analysis, Friedman Rank Test, Chi square Analysis and correlation. It was found that (60%) of them belong to backward community, (62.7%) have started a new business and (88%) of the women entrepreneurs do their business within the state, 53.3% have started their business out of own investment. Family members to certain extent had an influence in all the business matters. The performance level indicates that there is increase in sales when compared to the year of starting. (40%) of the respondents ranked contribution to family income as the motivational factor for starting their own enterprise followed by use of spare time. The personal factors like community, education qualification, type of family and family size shows a significant difference on the type of enterprise. The personal factors age, community, marital status and family size of the respondents have a significant difference on the type of organization and all the personal factor has a significant difference on the nature of business. Contributing to the family income is the important motive for starting an enterprise of their own.Â
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Suresh Rao, Shreyas, and Ashalatha Nayak. "EO Model for Tacit Knowledge Externalization in Socio-Technical Enterprises." Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management 12 (2017): 099–124. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/3680.
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Aim/Purpose: A vital business activity within socio-technical enterprises is tacit knowledge externalization, which elicits and explicates tacit knowledge of enterprise employees as external knowledge. The aim of this paper is to integrate diverse aspects of externalization through the Enterprise Ontology model. Background: Across two decades, researchers have explored various aspects of tacit knowledge externalization. However, from the existing works, it is revealed that there is no uniform representation of the externalization process, which has resulted in divergent and contradictory interpretations across the literature. Methodology : The Enterprise Ontology model is constructed step-wise through the conceptual and measurement views. While the conceptual view encompasses three patterns that model the externalization process, the measurement view employs certainty-factor model to empirically measure the outcome of the externalization process. Contribution: The paper contributes towards knowledge management literature in two ways. The first contribution is the Enterprise Ontology model that integrates diverse aspects of externalization. The second contribution is a Web application that validates the model through a case study in banking. Findings: The findings show that the Enterprise Ontology model and the patterns are pragmatic in externalizing the tacit knowledge of experts in a problem-solving scenario within a banking enterprise. Recommendations for Practitioners : Consider the diverse aspects (what, where, when, why, and how) during the tacit knowledge externalization process. Future Research: To extend the Enterprise Ontology model to include externalization from partially automated enterprise systems.
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Bull, Mike. "Reconceptualising social enterprise in the UK through an appreciation of legal identities." International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research 24, no. 3 (May 8, 2018): 587–605. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijebr-11-2017-0470.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review current conceptualisations of social enterprise and present a new theoretical model for social enterprise in the UK. Design/methodology/approach This conceptual paper draws on the rise of social enterprise in the UK context. Social enterprise in the UK emerged around the 1980s, in both political consciousness and as an academic discipline. The paper explores organisational antecedents to develop a conceptual model that prioritises different legal forms of social enterprise in the UK regulatory framework. Findings In critiquing policy, practitioner and academic publications, as well as the theoretical models that operationalise social enterprise, there are two observations from the literature this paper examines: first, Theories to date have tended to conceptualise social enterprise as a single hybrid form, neglecting a consideration of the various legal identities, ownership and governance types; second, Theoretical models have tended to overlook the cultural, regional and political-economic histories within their conceptualisations. Originality/value The value and originality of this paper lies in offering a new paradigm in the conceptualisation of social enterprise in the UK. This is a new contribution to knowledge that strengthens an understanding of the field. This paper creates the space to broaden and appreciate ideologically and operationally different hybrid business types of social enterprises that include charitable, solidarity and entrepreneurial type social enterprises.
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Kozlica, Admir. "Board Information Technology Governance and Business Agility." International Journal of E-Services and Mobile Applications 13, no. 3 (July 2021): 28–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijesma.2021070102.
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The goal of this paper is to empirically investigate and analyze the board's involvement in the information technology governance (ITG) function and how the ITG degree has implications for enterprise agility and financial performance. The analysis primarily relies on perceptual metrics. That is board members' views on the importance and impact of the decisions considered and made on the business outcome. The contribution is reflected in the relation of several of the most significant enterprise resources in complex conditions. The approach seeks to determine whether enterprise agility and business performance are the result of a higher degree of ITG or are critical elements of contingency. The test results show that enterprise agility has a significant indirect impact between ITG attainment and performance and that predefined IT role factors drive this relationship. The limitation of the research is that the capital market is not sufficiently developed in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the responsibilities of the IT supervisory and audit bodies are not fully formulated.
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Powell, Madeline, and Stephen P. Osborne. "Can marketing contribute to sustainable social enterprise?" Social Enterprise Journal 11, no. 1 (May 5, 2015): 24–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/sej-01-2014-0009.
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Purpose – This paper aims to explore the role of marketing as a route to sustainability for social enterprises providing public services. It examines the tensions between the economic and social objectives, both of social enterprises and of marketing. It concludes by offering a new model of the role of marketing for sustainable social enterprises. Design/methodology/approach – This paper used the case study approach which included four cases. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with the chief executives of each social enterprise. The cases were classified by age. Findings – The paper demonstrates that while marketing potentially has much to offer in terms of organisational resilience for social enterprises, its application is currently undermined by its misunderstanding in practise within a “product-dominant” business logic. Despite this, the study finds a strong element of the unconscious application of marketing by social enterprises. Originality/value – The implications of this are discussed in the context of the “public service-dominant” business logic that is currently emerging in public management, and recommendations are made for policy and practice as to how to enhance the contribution of marketing, both to sustainable social enterprises and to public services delivery.
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Jokić, Miloš. "The importance of considering internal audit as a decision-making by top-management of an agricultural company." Oditor 6, no. 3 (2020): 123–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/oditor2003123j.
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The top management's decision-making in an agricultural enterprise should be based on valid information gathered within the enterprise itself. Collecting timely business information is done daily by all sectors of the enterprise. Merely improving the security of information gathering and the safety of all parts of the enterprise is a task performed by trained internal control and internal audit personnel in the company, appointed by top management. In performing their duties on a regular basis, internal auditors should apply procedures and methodologies that are consistent with International Standards on the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing in their work. The aim of the paper is to emphasize the importance of implementing the adopted methodology of work of internal auditors in agricultural companies. The author points out those standards that are in line with best audit practice should be applied in internal audit work. The contribution of the study authors is to emphasize the importance of applying the internal audit profession in the regular operation of agricultural enterprises, which is in line with the general objective of improving the regular business operation.
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Malo, Roman. "The Research on enterprise E-technology." Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis 60, no. 2 (2012): 197–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.11118/actaun201260020197.
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Today, a lot of enterprises use e-technologies as a tool that can help to improve their efficiency and enhance their position within competitive environment. An implementation of e-technology itself depends on the needs of business, resources availability and also understanding advantages and possibilities of e-technology.There are a few interesting questions in the given field from research’s point of view In our research, we aimed to theoretical and methodical issues of e-technologies in the context of e-business and technical support for providing and processing e-business and related e-activities. The main goal of the research is to provide a complex information platform for implementation and utilization of e-technology within enterprises. Results of our research are based upon analysis of literature, surveys of e-business and e-technologies and own survey. In this paper, we describe especially basic information about our research, objectives, theoretical background, and selected information gained from processed survey because the research is still in the progress. Our work is a kind of contribution to exploring the current state and the importance of economic informatics and its impact to business efficiency, competitiveness and progress.
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Shkoda, Tetiana, Mariia Tepliuk, and Mykhailo Sahaidak. "INTELLECTUAL POTENTIAL MANAGEMENT IN FORMING STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP OF SCIENCE-BUSINESS-EDUCATION." Baltic Journal of Economic Studies 6, no. 5 (December 2, 2020): 221–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.30525/2256-0742/2020-6-5-221-232.
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The purpose of the paper is to identify the components of the enterprise intellectual potential, which are promising areas of intellectual potential management that is the basis of a strategic partnership between business, science and education in the brewing industry of Ukraine. The novelty of the research is represented by the created theoretical model disclosing the specific advantages of such partnership for business, science and education in the context of intellectual potential management. The object of the scientific research is the process of the intellectual potential management and its role in forming strategic partnership of science-business-education. The research method includes the method of structural-logical analysis, the method of analysis and synthesis, the method of comparative analysis, statistical data and information analysis etc. The proposed algorithm for estimating the enterprise intellectual potential at the appropriate level of management includes ten stages, performing of which allows to get the calculated use level of the intellectual potential and its components: 1) providing the definition of generalized components of the enterprise’s potential and its important subspecies; 2) selecting and calculating the list of the indicators for defining the relative efficiency; 3) calculating the relative coefficients’ values for each enterprise considering average values in dependence of the type of activity; 4) aligning the contribution of the each subspecies of the potential; 5) calculating the efficiency coefficient of the consolidated relative use for each subspecies; 6) rationing the consolidated relative efficiency coefficient depending on their product; 7) calculating the potential share of each subspecies in the total value; 8) redistributing the obtained results by the components of the potential; 9) calculating the realized value of intellectual potential; 10) calculating the use level of intellectual potential and its components. The research is based on the Ukrainian brewing industry’s data for the period of 2016-2019. The obtained results highlight the most problematic components of the intellectual resources of the brewing companies in Ukraine such as "human resources", "technological resources" and "management resources". These components are recommended to be considered as the most promising areas of the intellectual potential development of the brewing enterprises in strategic partnership with educational and scientific institutions. The practical value of the proposed instruments for the brewing enterprises is in the use of the adapted graphanalytical model, which gives the opportunity to assess the structural components of intellectual potential of the enterprise and define the strategic directions of perspective partnership.
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Caló, Francesca, Michael James Roy, Cam Donaldson, Simon Teasdale, and Simone Baglioni. "Evidencing the contribution of social enterprise to health and social care: approaches and considerations." Social Enterprise Journal 17, no. 1 (February 3, 2021): 140–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/sej-11-2020-0114.
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Purpose As the provision of public services in many advanced welfare states has increasingly come to be marked by competition, social enterprises have actively been encouraged by governments to become involved in the delivery of public services. While the evaluation of complex public health interventions has arguably become increasingly more sophisticated, this has not been the case where social enterprise is concerned: evaluation of the actual impacts of social enterprises remains significantly underdeveloped by comparison. This study aims to support the establishment of a robust evidence base for the use of social enterprise as a policy instrument. Design/methodology/approach This paper assesses the potential of three methodological approaches common in the evaluation of complex public health interventions and applies them to the complex realm of community-led social enterprise. Findings Only through the involvement of different comparator groups, based on the research questions addressed, would it be possible to disentangle the embedded characteristics of organisations such as social enterprises. Each of the methods adopted in this research is time-consuming and resource-intensive and requires the researcher to possess advanced skills. Public officials should recognise the complexity and resource-intensive nature of such evaluation and resource it accordingly. If the aim of policymakers is to understand the added value of social enterprise organisations, an integrative research approach combining different research methods and design should be implemented to improve generalisability. Originality/value This study applies a range of favoured approaches to evaluate “complex” public health interventions include systematic reviews, realist evaluation and quasi-experimental investigation. However, such evaluation approaches have rarely been applied before in the context of social enterprise.
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Konečný, Vladimír, and Ivana Rábová. "Business Intelligence and competition ability of enterprise." Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis 53, no. 6 (2005): 85–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.11118/actaun200553060085.
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As far as the current state of the information and communication technologies usage is concerned, the information systems of the companies cover the major part of the transaction processes and the large amount of the processes at the level of the tactical decision-making.Intensive implementation of the information technologies in many areas of the human activities cause gathering of the large amount of the data. The volume of the internal and external databases grows rapidly and the problem is to take advantage of the data they contain. But the problem is not only the growing volume of the databases but also the different and database structures. To get the new information from the large and incompatible database sources is possible but very inefficient. A manager often needs the information very fast to achieve competitive advantage and to solve problems at the level of strategic decision-making. Another problem is the fact that the databases often contain information that is hidden there and there is no way known how to get this information out of the database. In this case, the user needs at least suitable tools in order to perform experiments and to explore and identify patterns and relationships in the data.The transformation process of the data to information and to knowledge that is used in the process of decision-making is called Business Intelligence. Modern database tools offer wide support for building the data warehouse, OLAP analysis and data mining.Our contribution focuses on the application of one of the data mining techniques such as neural networks and artificial intelligence. The application of those methods will be based on the assessment of the food quality and composing of the corresponding trend indicator.
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Patrusheva, Elena, Elena Sapir, and Igor Karachev. "Assessing the Stakeholders’ Contribution to Business Value." SHS Web of Conferences 89 (2020): 02003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20208902003.
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Stakeholder theory is the most attractive fundamental concept to ensure the necessary improvement of corporate governance in the modern world, integrated into the idea of value maximization as the main strategic goal of the enterprise. The proposed concept of total value considers this category as the sum of the organizational wealth and the values of the stakeholders, which together constitute the total contribution of the economic system to public welfare. Recognizing not only the financial implications of stakeholder relationships, the authors propose practical tools for value management, based on the agreed interaction of stakeholders – the modeling of resource flows to optimize the resulting total value and the algorithm of step-by-step management of interaction with stakeholders. The modeling of value creation reflects both the organizational benefits of interaction and explicitly identifies the value of the stakeholders’ benefits, and also discloses a list of key management factors: the economic value of the resources used by parties, the fairness of the exchange, the relationship between interacting companies, the opportunity costs, etc. Critical aspects of value creation that go beyond profitability and economic returns are highlighted. Corporate values can only be understood by reference to the multiplicity of stakeholders’ value perspectives.It is recommended that the process of managing interaction with stakeholders should be guided by an extensive interpretation of the target (value) setting of the business, taking into account the totality of material and intangible resource flows between the parties.
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Kannaiah, Desti, and A. Jayakumar. "Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Practices on Consumer Behavior (with Reference to FMCGs in Tamil Nadu)." International Journal of Business and Management 13, no. 3 (February 25, 2018): 28. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijbm.v13n3p28.
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Business enterprises are traditionally known as engines for driving the economic performance of an entity, its success being measured in terms of high returns on equity and its contribution to the development of the society. The business enterprises get everything from the society for its survival and it is the obligation of the enterprise to return positive attitudes towards the society. If it fails to meet the expectations of the society, the society will punish the firm through their purchase behavior. Hence, the success of any business enterprise depends mainly on the ethical behavior of the enterprise towards the society. The Indian Government has made mandatory the CSR provisions and almost all the companies are actively engage in CSR activities. Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMGCs) are the fastest growing industry in India and numbers of FMCGs companies are doing different CSR practices. Hence, it is essential to study about the impact of Corporate Social Responsibility practices on consumer behavior with reference to FMCGs in Tamil Nadu. For this, 600 responses were collected from selected corporations in TamilNadu by a structured questionnaire. Convenience sampling technique has been adopted to collect the primary data. The study concluded that there has been a positive impact among the consumers as the consumers in Tamil Nadu considered CSR in their purchase evaluation criteria, and they give much importance to CSR related products etc.
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Kotusev, Svyatoslav. "Enterprise architecture and enterprise architecture artifacts: Questioning the old concept in light of new findings." Journal of Information Technology 34, no. 2 (February 6, 2019): 102–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0268396218816273.
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Enterprise architecture is a description of an enterprise from an integrated business and IT perspective intended to bridge the communication gap between business and IT stakeholders and improve business and IT alignment. Enterprise architecture consists of multiple different artifacts providing certain views of an organization and the available enterprise architecture literature offers a number of comprehensive lists of artifacts that can be used as part of an enterprise architecture practice. However, these lists of enterprise architecture artifacts were never validated empirically and the practical usage of different artifacts still remains largely unexplored. Based on a comprehensive empirical analysis of enterprise architecture artifacts used in 27 diverse organizations, this study identifies the list of 24 common artifacts that proved useful in practice and describes in detail their usage and purpose. Although this study does not attempt to theorize on the findings, it makes a significant empirical contribution to the enterprise architecture discipline. In particular, this study (1) provides the first consistent list of enterprise architecture artifacts that actually proved useful in organizations, (2) offers the first available systematic description of their usage, (3) questions the common view of enterprise architecture as a set of business, information, applications and technology architectures and (4) questions the widely accepted conceptualization of enterprise architecture as a set of the current state, future state and transition roadmap. This study provides compelling empirical evidence in favor of reconceptualizing enterprise architecture and calls for further research in this direction.
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Mišovič, Milan, and Ivana Rábová. "Enterprise services and object-oriented methodologies." Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis 60, no. 7 (2012): 179–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.11118/actaun201260070179.
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In this paper we study the possibility of modifying the conventional, advanced object-oriented methodology for software development of enterprise information systems on an enterprise services platform. The presented solution is preceded with the draft of the formal description of the business process logic and its service solutions. In the design for the introduction of business services there is used the so-called native solution that is very close to the thinking of corporate management. Adjustment of the classic, advanced object-oriented methodology is oriented on its cardinal development phases INSEPTION and ELABORATION. In these two phases important descriptions of relevant information modeling results are formed for the following CONSTRUCTION phase and TRANSITION phase. Editing, however, is methodological, and meta-documented with an example of a transparent graphical description of business services and a logical architecture of the target software.In other words, it means that this contribution provides small software companies with valuable knowledge for the creation of their own development methodologies on a platform of enterprise services. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the formation of implementing development methodologies, which absorb current knowledge disciplines of Software and Information Engineering.
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Grandhi, Ramesh Babu. "The Role of IT in Automating the Business Processes in Retail Sector with Reference to Enterprise Resource Planning." International Journal of Business and Management Research 9, no. 2 (June 15, 2021): 190–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.37391/ijbmr.090209.
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The information technology plays an important role as an enabler in retail industry to automate the business processes. The companies had identified that without the involvement of information technology the businesses cannot move forward with smooth running of business operations. With the advent of latest technologies in the field of information technology, companies are managing the business processes in more effective and efficient way. It is important to identify the importance of technological trends that had enabled the business processes to smoothen the operations such as technological enabler of the retail industry and its overall contribution to the sector as a whole. Enterprise Resource Planning, as the concept suggests, it can play a vital role in dealing with daily processes of the company. The importance of the Enterprise Resource Planning can deal with more challenging factors that a company faces and how well they can automate the processes is an advantage to the company at large.
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Radović, Milan, Jelena Vitomir, and Slobodan Popović. "Movement of documentation as a part of the audit reporting of top agricultural company management." Poljoprivredna tehnika 46, no. 1 (2021): 47–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/poljteh2101047r.
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The movement of documentation as part of an implemented audit in the operations and management of an agricultural enterprise can contribute to improving the operation and management of an agricultural enterprise. This generally reduces the risk to the business of the agricultural enterprise. The movement of documentation within the company is done constantly. In this movement it is possible to make mistakes and omissions that will lead to worse business results of the company, which are essentially a consequence of poor internal factors of organization of work and business of top management. Therefore, the authors draw attention to the importance of establishing audit mechanisms that will contribute to improving the overall management of the agricultural enterprise, through better organization of the flow of documentation in the agricultural enterprise. The authors point out that their contribution in this paper is primarily focused on highlighting the importance of the movement of documentation within the company, which is the basis of audit monitoring and giving recommendations to the top management, who will then have the opportunity to make valid business decisions.
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Yoosuf, Amina, and S. P. Premaratne. "Building Sustainable Peace through Business Linkages among Micro-Entrepreneurs: Case Studies of Micro-Enterprises in the North of Sri Lanka." Journal of Peacebuilding & Development 12, no. 1 (April 2017): 34–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15423166.2017.1281754.
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Literature on peacebuilding emphasises the need for stakeholders at all levels of society to be engaged in the peace and reconciliation process for peace to be sustainable. Policy-makers around the globe strategically employ entrepreneurship, particularly self-employment and small enterprises development, to economically empower the communities in post-conflict areas. At the same time, researchers in the fields of entrepreneurship and small enterprise development have identified ‘networking’ as an important factor for the success of entrepreneurs. This paper examines the role played by business linkages among micro-entrepreneurs and its contribution to sustainable peacebuilding, including the development of business and social linkages among entrepreneurs from the North of Sri Lanka.
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Saldaña, Yolanda, Fernando Miguel Ruiz, Laura Leticia Gaona, Juan JesĂşs Nahuat, and Kelly Alejandra Muñoz. "CONTRIBUTION FROM THE FIELD OF FAMILY BUSINESS TO BUSINESS INCUBATORS, MICRO AND SMALL ENTERPRISES." CBU International Conference Proceedings 5 (September 23, 2017): 429–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.12955/cbup.v5.960.
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Most micro and small businesses start as family businesses, as they start from family savings as their main source of financing. However, the methodology used to incubate businesses in Mexico does not include tools to effectively manage family influence. This paper outlines the reasons why government agencies that allocate federal resources for business incubation should incorporate such tools into their methodologies. A documentary and a field investigation were carried out. The results show the tendency to start a business with family savings and therefore, with family interference. Likewise, it was found that newly created businesses show a high failure rate. It concludes the need to include in the methodologies used by business incubators in Mexico tools and knowledge in the field of family business. This, with the purpose of contributing towards the increase in the length of time that new companies last and the consolidation of existing micro and small enterprises in Mexico.
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Mika, Jason Paul, Nicolas Fahey, and Joanne Bensemann. "What counts as an indigenous enterprise? Evidence from Aotearoa New Zealand." Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy 13, no. 3 (July 8, 2019): 372–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jec-12-2018-0102.
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PurposeThis paper aims to contribute to indigenous entrepreneurship theory by identifying what constitutes an indigenous enterprise, focussing on Aotearoa New Zealand as a case.Design/methodology/approachThis paper combines policy (quantitative survey) and academic research (qualitative interviews) to answer the same question, what is an indigenous enterprise in Aotearoa New Zealand?FindingsThe authors found a degree of consistency as to what counts as an indigenous enterprise in the literature (e.g., identity, ownership, values), yet a consensus on a definition of Maori business remains elusive. They also found that an understanding of the indigenous economy and indigenous entrepreneurial policy are impeded because of definitional uncertainties. The authors propose a definition of Maori business which accounts for indigenous ownership, identity, values and well-being.Research limitations/implicationsThe main limitation is that the literature and research use different definitions of indigenous enterprise, constraining comparative analysis. The next step is to evaluate our definition as a basis for quantifying the population of indigenous enterprises in Aotearoa New Zealand.Practical implicationsThe research assists indigenous entrepreneurs to identify, measure and account for their contribution to indigenous self-determination and sustainable development.Social implicationsThis research has the potential to reconceptualise indigenous enterprise as a distinct and legitimate alternative institutional theory of the firm.Originality/valueThe research challenges assumptions and knowledge of entrepreneurship policy and practice generally and the understanding of what is the nature and extent of an indigenous firm.
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Kuang, Qing. "Grey Relational Analysis Model for Comprehensive Evaluation on Risk Early-Warning for Enterprises Investment Project." Advanced Materials Research 748 (August 2013): 1267–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.748.1267.
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With the development of economic globalization and the rise of knowledge-based economy, human capital as the knowledge and skills of the carrier for the contribution of economic development has been more than other material capital, the competition between the enterprises also change correspondingly to talented person's competition, therefore, human capital has become the strategic resource of enterprise compete. However, human capital is different from other physical capital is the property that makes enterprise on the human capital investment is possessed of the potential huge risk. For enterprise speaking, how to identify, evaluate and prevent human capital investment risk to become the enterprise manpower management the important content in the work, has become the key to business success or failure. Therefore, further, thoroughly studies the enterprise human capital investment risk related theory is of great theoretical significance and practical significance. In this paper, we investigate the group decision making problems for evaluating the risk early-warning for enterprises investment project based on the grey relational analysis model with interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy information. A modified GRA analysis method is proposed. Then, based on the traditional concept of GRA method, calculation steps for solving interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy group decision-making problems are given. Finally, an illustrative example for evaluating the risk early-warning for enterprises investment project is given.
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Oparaocha, Gospel Onyema, and Pokidko Daniil. "Theatricalization of enterprise education: A call for “action”." Arts and Humanities in Higher Education 19, no. 1 (August 28, 2018): 20–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1474022218793268.
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Changing environment requires not just creativity, but disruptive creativity. The traditional planning paradigm within business organizations heavily relies on long- and short-term forecasting in order to predict the future and plan accordingly. However, a large share of business development is now characterized by rapid changes, inconsistency and unpredictability. Taking that into account a key task for managers is to explore and innovate in chaotic conditions, but how can owner–managers, business leaders and the employees respond to such rapid changes without the appropriate skillset and educational background? This study calls for the modernization of enterprise education systems in order to provide students and graduates with tools relevant to the changing requirements of the business environment. We argue that such needed mastery of unconventional innovative thinking and acting “as if” rather have a lot in common with art education concepts and theatrical skills. Using videography as an example, we illustrate how advances in digital technology can help incorporate such theatrical concepts into enterprise education. As a contribution we provide insights and falsifiable propositions toward a renewal and revitalization of enterprise education pedagogy.
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Tamosiuniene, Rima, Maryna Demianchuk, and Viktor Koval. "State regulation of bankruptcy relations in the national economy." Economics. Ecology. Socium 3, no. 4 (December 30, 2019): 19–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.31520/2616-7107/2019.3.4-3.
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Introduction The deepening crisis in numerous business entities of various sizes is due to macroeconomic and domestic political instability, complicated by the consumer credit crisis, as well as tax and administrative pressure. Therefore, the acute problem of bankruptcy of business entities of different sizes and the need to regulate this issue at the state level. Unprofitable business entities of various sizes cause negative consequences for the domestic economy.
Aim and tasks. The purpose of the work is to study state regulation of relations in the field of bankruptcy in the economy of Ukraine.
Results. The factors, internal and external, preceding the bankruptcy of economic entities. Thus, the external preconditions of bankruptcy are international, economic, political, demographic and others. Internal prerequisites include economic, technical, technological, social and others. The characteristic and gradation criteria of business entities in accordance with legislative acts of Ukraine are presented. It was revealed that the proportion of sales of micro-enterprises is unequal to their share in the total number of enterprises, indicating their negligible contribution to the development of the national economy. According to the results of empirical studies, it was found that during the analyzed period the share of unprofitable enterprises of different sizes is at least a 25%. Such a large number entails not only low financial stability, insolvency and efficiency of business entities themselves, but also inhibits the process of economic growth of the whole country. The application of the method of multivariate discriminant analysis will allow us to draw a conclusion about the financial condition with assigning it a class in accordance with the values of the integral indicator and taking into account the probability of non-fulfillment of obligations, that is, to identify the presence of an unprofitable enterprise and the likelihood of bankruptcy.
Conclusions. So, an analysis of the criteria for graduation of business entities made it possible to establish the difference between the administrative and accounting interpretation of the criteria for the attitude of enterprises to various sizes. The dynamics of structural statistics indicators of domestic business entities were monitored, suggesting that individual entrepreneurs make an insignificant contribution to the development of the national economy. Since a quarter of business entities still remain unprofitable, it is necessary to take preventive measures to prevent the loss of solvency by enterprises, one of which is to identify the existence of an unprofitable enterprise and the likelihood of bankruptcy.
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Zakic, Nebojsa, Jovanka Popovic, and Miroslav Miskic. "The Linkages Between Investments in Innovation and Business Performance in Serbia." Management:Journal of Sustainable Business and Management Solutions in Emerging Economies 25, no. 3 (December 1, 2020): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.7595/management.fon.2019.0017.
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Motivation: Driven by an increasingly competitive marketplace, the savviest businesses invest heavily in corporate innovation as a kind of competitive intelligence that gives a business what it needs to operate with poise and precision. The strategy of investments in innovation by firms can potentially explain the heterogeneity of their income increase based on market success. Such a stimulus for growth has been a motivation for the research question being examined in this paper, namely the link between corporate financing and investment decisions of Serbian firms based on the bank loans as sources of innovation and hence improved enterprise performance. The paper is based on the research of Hottenrott et al. (2014), together with Ferrando & Preuss (2017) and Aerts & Schmidt (2008) concerning the relationship between external finance and business innovation activities. This paper provides information about a bank loan as a financing source that firms use to fund their innovative activities, with the research question whether that has the subsequent impact on the company's performance. The idea of the paper is that investments of enterprises in innovation significantly affect their revenue. Data: Empirical research has been provided by a survey in Serbia in 2017. The sample comprised 152 enterprises, mostly privately owned, of all sizes. Descriptive statistics: Cronbach's Alpha coefficient, regression analysis is used as the research tool and method. The link between business finance and innovation, and furthermore the link between innovation and income of Serbian firms have been investigated. Three groups of factors show that the degree of income and market success of the enterprise increases with the level of investment in innovative activities. These are: sources of financing and financing conditions as independent variables, and company's income revenues, as the dependent variable. Findings: Firms that use bank loans as financial instruments for innovation activities and investments are more likely to develop new products, methods and processes, and successfully increase their revenues and income based on developing this kind of added value. The findings indicate that tangible asset investment of SME’s is positively related to the use of bank finance, to new product development and to enterprise performance improvement. Contribution: Results of the research show that financial investments in business innovation directly contribute to the business sector performance improvement. It also demonstrates the theory of innovative enterprise, the significance of financing, and the impact of banking on the overall development of the economy. The results point to the need for further research in the area of access to finance, as well as the parallel development of non-banking sources of financing.
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Milovanović, Slavoljub, Tanja Janaćković, and Jovica Stanković. "The Role of Electronic Business in the Reengeneering and Integration of Business Processes." Economic Themes 55, no. 4 (December 1, 2017): 539–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ethemes-2017-0030.
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AbstractElectronic business leads to the reengineering of business processes in a company, which encompasses integrating processes through customer relationship management, supply chain management, and an enterprise resource planning system. The aim of the paper is to analyse the impact of electronic business on enterprise transformation through reengineering and integration of business processes. The significance of the research is to emphasise management problems and challenges encountered by companies due to electronic business and application of information technologies. The research applies an analytical method to examine the effects of electronic business on business processes. The main contribution of the research is to look at electronic business as an initiator and the cause of radical changes in business processes characterised as reengineering. By transforming their business practices into electronic business, companies make significant efforts in their restructuring in order to deal with the changes in the competitive environment. The basis of these efforts is a redesign and change of business processes. The conclusion is that introducing the Internet and Web-technologies in business does not require only a radical reengineering of existing basic business processes but also generation of new ones, which would support the new business environment.
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Charman, Andrew J. E., Leif M. Petersen, Laurence E. Piper, Rory Liedeman, and Teresa Legg. "Small Area Census Approach to Measure the Township Informal Economy in South Africa." Journal of Mixed Methods Research 11, no. 1 (July 8, 2016): 36–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1558689815572024.
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In this article, we describe a research approach to undertaking a small area census to identify informal economy activity, using a mixture of quantitative and qualitative tools. The method focuses on enterprise activity. The approach enables the researcher to record a broader spectrum of informal micro-enterprises through identifying businesses in situ within an area of sufficient scale to broadly reflect area-level market conditions and business dynamics. The approach comprises an enterprise census, a survey of all identified micro-enterprises in key sectors, in-depth interviews, and participatory research techniques. The article reports on the application of this method in eight case sites, located in township settlements within five major cities in South Africa. The research identified 9,400 individual enterprises, entailing 10,220 primary and secondary activities, distributed within a population of 325,000 and comprising 97,000 households. The approach permits significant advances to our understanding of the spatial dynamics of the informal sector. The research data has enabled the researcher to make original contributions to understanding informal enterprise activities in grocery retailing, liquor trade, and traditional medicine sectors.
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Pombinho, João, David Aveiro, and José Tribolet. "Value-Oriented Specification of Service Systems." International Journal of Information Systems in the Service Sector 7, no. 1 (January 2015): 60–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijisss.2015010104.
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In this paper, we analyze relevant state of the art in the areas of Service Science, Business Modeling and Enterprise Engineering in specifying service systems. The main shortcoming identified essentially resides in the lack of capability to model the purpose and value of a given service system in a structured way to guide current and future development efforts. In order to address these issues, our research focuses on modeling enterprises as service systems along three perspectives, namely: construction, function and contribution to differentiate and integrate their teleological and ontological models. With the proposed approach, we are able to clearly specify how each component of an enterprise system provides a service – thus value – to other components of the same system or of the environment along different, possibly intertwining and overlapped value chains.
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Wood, R., B. Gischner, L. Karns, and J. Fowler. "The National Shipbuilding Research Program Contribution in Advancing Information Technology in the Shipbuilding Enterprise." Journal of Ship Production 24, no. 02 (May 1, 2008): 57–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.5957/jsp.2008.24.2.57.
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The purpose of the National Shipbuilding Research Program is to apply information technologies that can reduce the cost of building and maintaining US Navy warships. The program targets solutions to consensus priority issues that exhibit a compelling business case to improve the efficiency of the US Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Industry and involves US shipyards, academia, technology companies, and government agencies. The projects are funded by the government with equal cost shared by project participants. The Systems Technology area projects involve all portions of the industry and cover a wide array of projects including: Product Information Modeling, Business Process Technologies, Common Parts Catalog (CPC), Automatic Generation of Control Program for Robotic Welding, Shipyard Design Tool Enhancement, Capturing As-Built Models For 3D CAD Systems, Shipyard Equipment Wireless Monitoring And Control, Open Architecture Standards, and Other Shipyard Computer Applications.
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Rowe, Barbara R., and Gong-Soog Hong. "The Role of Wives in Family Businesses: The Paid and Unpaid Work of Women." Family Business Review 13, no. 1 (March 2000): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-6248.2000.00001.x.
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This study used data from the 1989 Survey of Consumer Finance to examine wives' economic contributions to family businesses. Wives' contributions to family businesses take several forms: managing the household, working in the business, being employed by others, working in the business and holding outside employment at the same time, and simultaneously holding two jobs. Wives' employment in the business was significantly related to the size of the family business, their market employment, the husbands' self-reported health status, and the origin and type of business enterprise.
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Woollard, David, Michael Zhang, and Oswald Jones. "Academic Enterprise and Regional Economic Growth." Industry and Higher Education 21, no. 6 (December 2007): 387–403. http://dx.doi.org/10.5367/000000007783099836.
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This paper examines the potential and actual contributions to regional development and growth that UK higher education institutions can make through their ‘third mission’ activities. The authors adopt a case study approach and qualitative methods to analyse the details of academic activities, especially those related to business sectors and the welfare of local communities. Their data and analysis show that university-wide academic enterprise activities are not systematically organized or coordinated. The very concept of ‘academic enterprise’ has not been well received by the majority of academic staff. The findings have two major policy and managerial implications. First, there needs to be a reduction in the reliance on income from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) in response to the progressive decrease in unit funding. Second, universities need to enhance employer-led curriculum development both through the creation of new businesses and by improving university-business links.
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Widelska, Urszula, Laima Jeseviciute-Ufartiene, and Zivile Tuncikiene. "Leadership versus customer orientation in an innovative enterprise — a contribution to further exploration." Engineering Management in Production and Services 10, no. 4 (December 1, 2018): 21–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/emj-2018-0020.
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Abstract The consideration of the multidimensionality and multidirectionality of management science within the research process is currently a very important challenge. The search for dependencies and connections between leadership and customer orientation falls fully into the desired research trend. Both leadership and customer orientation are widely described within management science; however, the connections and dependencies which occur between them still require further, in-depth exploration and knowledge concerning leadership and customer orientation needs to be systematised. This article aims to identify further directions of study into leadership and customer orientation in an innovative company. Additional goals include the systematisation of knowledge regarding customer-oriented leadership and the formulation of research hypotheses which will become the starting point for future studies. The conclusions are supported by the results of a quantitative study which applied the CAWI method to a group of 204 business leaders from North-East Poland. The article presents the results of the preliminary research realized as part of a research grant from the National Science Centre entitled “Leadership and customer orientation in an innovative enterprise”. The results of the conducted research show that customer orientation among business leaders is not uniform and depends on the size of their company, the style of management and the type of innovation implemented by their enterprise.
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Kotusev, Svyatoslav. "Enterprise Architecture: What Did We Study?" International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems 26, no. 04 (November 14, 2017): 1730002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218843017300029.
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Enterprise architecture (EA) is a description of an enterprise from an integrated business and IT perspective intended to improve business and IT alignment, and is used in the majority of large companies. However, despite that EA was established as an independent discipline long ago, a commonly accepted “big picture” in EA research is still missing. As a result, the scope of the EA discipline is vague, the extent of diversity in EA publications is poorly understood and the progression of the EA research stream over time is unclear. In this paper I conduct a comprehensive EA literature review covering 1075 publications aiming to structure, clarify and consolidate the whole EA research stream. I analyze the distribution of the EA research stream by time, source, research methodology and attitude, code all the issues discussed in EA publications into 42 narrow EA-related topics and 11 broader themes, establish the conceptual relationship between them and present a picture of the EA discipline “on a page”. Moreover, I classify all EA-related topics into four categories according to their lifecycles helping future EA researchers to better understand the evolution of the EA discipline and make the maximum contribution to it.
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Markina, Iryna, Valeriya Lenʹ, and Vitaly Shapka. "Cost management as a factor for improving enterprise economic security." Actual problems of innovative economy, no. 3 (May 30, 2019): 83–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.36887/2524-0455-2019-3-12.
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Introduction. Modern enterprises operate in conditions of political and economic instability. This requires enterpris-es to build an integrated system for ensuring economic security. In Ukraine, the issue of economic security is relevant. But not fully understood. Need to clarify issues related to improving cost management. This is a factor in improving the econom-ic security of the enterprise. The purpose of the study is the theoretical and practical justification of cost management. Results. One of the the main goal of the enterprise is maximum profit. A factor in the success of enterprises is to re-duce production costs. Business security is a prerequisite for stable sustainable development and effective operation of the enterprise. Economic security depends on many factors: the actions of competitors, unsuccessful state policies, changing market conditions, and crisis phenomena. Object of enterprise security: personnel (managers, structural divisions, share-holders and employees), financial, economic, material and intellectual capital of the enterprise; specifics of activity. The head of the enterprise makes a decision. The decisions concern the price of the product, the amount of expenses. Costs - a decrease in the volume of material assets, cash. Cost management involves functions: forecasting, planning, rationing, organization, calculation, motivation and stimulation, accounting, analysis, regulation and control of expenses. Conclusions. We consider the “Cost-Volume-Profit” (CVP- analysis) analysis to be successful. It allows you to iden-tify changes in costs. The dependence of changes in production volumes and incomes on sales is studied; expenses and net profit. It’s substantiated that cost and profit planning using CVP analysis has limitations. Marginal income (profit) – the difference between sales revenue and variable costs. The higher the marginal income level, the faster fixed costs are reim-bursed. The average marginal income is an “indicator” of the contribution of a unit of production to covering fixed costs. The purpose of break-even analysis (CVP-analysis) is to predict financial results. Break-even analysis of economic activity is an indicator of the brink of effective and inefficient management. The same is the condition for maximizing profits. The main thing is an effective defense mechanism of the enterprise. Provides economic security of the enterprise from the threat of bankruptcy. Keywords: economic security, cost management, profit, costs, cost-volume-profit analysis.
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GORYACHUK, V. F., and Y. A. NAZARENKO. "GROSS VALUE ADDED AS THE MAIN INDICATOR PRODUCTIVITY OF ENTERPRISES." Economic innovations 22, no. 2(75) (June 20, 2020): 25–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.31520/ei.2020.22.2(75).25-33.
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Topicality. Traditionally, output and profit are used as the main indicators of enterprise productivity, but they have significant shortcomings. All this determines the relevance of the search for new indicators that will provide an adequate idea of the productivity of enterprises and a single conceptual basis for assessing the results of economic activity at the micro, mega and macro levels. Aim and tasks. To analyze the existing indicators for assessing the productivity of enterprises, to identify their main short comings. Consider the experience of the Republic of Belarus in the use of gross value added as an indicator of productivity of enterprises. Justify the use of gross value added as a conceptual basis for assessing the results of economic activity at the micro, mega and macro levels. Identify the main indicators for assessing the productivity of enterprises on the basis of gross value added. Research results. As the main indicators of the enterprise, use "output" and "profit". The first indicator consists of gross value added and intermediate consumption and therefore it depends on the performance of other enterprises. In this case, the external contribution can be decisive and therefore the indicator "output" does not give an adequate idea of the productivity of enterprises. Another key indicator of enterprise activity is profit. With a focus on it, wages, social security financing and employee training are the costs of the enterprise and the smaller they are, the greater the company's profits. But in modern conditions to ensure sustainable economic development of the individual enterprise and the country as a whole, it is important to consider that employees are carriers of intellectual capital. The loss or reduction of this capital can lead to more significant losses than the loss of physical and financial capital. Under such conditions, it is advisable to change the benchmark, namely the use of gross value added as the main indicator of productivity of the enterprise. It is on the basis of this indicator that the main result of economic activity of the country (gross domestic product) and regions (gross regional product) is determined. Gross value added is a very important indicator in terms of meeting the needs of all stakeholders in the performance of the enterprise: employees, business owners, the state. The indicator "gross value added" is the main indicator of the enterprise in terms of the interests of society as a whole, and the indicator "profit" - the main in terms of the interests of business owners. The presence of these two indicators reflects the contradiction between the interests of society and business owners. Conclusion. Gross value added has a greater analytical value than the indicators "output" and "profit", because, firstly, it gives a more adequate picture of the results of enterprises, secondly, it determines the potential for capital accumulation and thirdly provides a single conceptual basis for evaluation of economic performance at the micro, mega and macro levels.
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Chowdhary, Chhote Lal, and I. C. Dhutta. "Value Chain Analysis of Rattan in Nepal." Nepal Journal of Multidisciplinary Research 4, no. 1 (April 24, 2021): 84–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/njmr.v4i1.36621.
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This study highlights the existing situations of production, value addition, marketing and uses of rattan cane in Nepal. Rattan enterprises exist as a small and medium enterprise (SME) within and outside the community forest user groups. The study was designed based on the exploratory research and was carried out in Kailali and Bardiya districts. The main objective was to assess the constraints and opportunities of rattan cane enterprise as well as design business solutions. Systematic random sampling method was followed to take the sampling of CFUGs, households and small and medium enterprises. Primary data was collected through focus group discussions, key informants interview, direct observations, open-ended questionnaires, and inventory of growing stock. Similarly, secondary data was collected from progress reports, Forest Operational Plans, audit reports and records of community forest user groups and Division Forest Offices. Sampling design was ascertained representing sampling units of rattan managed Community Forest User Groups and processing industries. The questionnaire survey was conducted to executive committee members of 8 Community Forest User Groups, 526 households and 12 rattan processing industries/ enterprises. Direct observation and interaction with CFUG and entrepreneurs were another major source of information. The quantitative data was analyzed using SPSS 20 and Microsoft Excel software tools. The identified major constraints concerning the selected value chains were: absence of detailed resource inventory in the approved Forest Operational Plans; inadequate knowledge about resource management, poor capacity to incorporate environmental policy concerns, weak business competitiveness, insufficient information about market and poor marketing knowledge. The study also identified a number of opportunities both in the community as well as enterprise perspective. For example, resource potential and monetary benefits to the community people; contribution in community development, involvement of service providers in forest resource management; employment generation and leveraging ecosystem services. The findings suggested technical and business solutions for the effective value chain of rattan cane.
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Hapsari, Aprina Nugrahesthy Sulistya, Intiyas Utami, and Yohanes Yakobus Werang Kean. "Revealing the potential of fraud in the financial management of village-owned enterprise." Jurnal Akuntansi & Auditing Indonesia 25, no. 1 (2021): 98–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.20885/jaai.vol25.iss1.art10.
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This research is a qualitative-descriptive study conducted to identify fraud that occurs in the financial management of BUMDes (Village-Owned Enterprises). BUMDes is a business entity established through village capital inclusion which aims to manage existing assets, services, and businesses for village income contribution. In connection with this capital management, villages are required to be fully responsible for managing their capital in a transparent and accountable manner. The object of this research is BUMDEs (Village-Owned Enterprise) X in Wologai Tengah Village of Ende, Flores, where data collection was obtained through in-depth interviews with sources and documentation of documents that can support the results of this research. The results show that BUMDes X in Wologai Tengah Village of Ende, Flores is still vulnerable to the potential risk of fraud. This is because some parties still feel that their interests are more important than that of others. However, BUMDes X still promotes a culture of deliberation that involves the community in making decisions.
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Simamora, Bachtiar H., Kuspuji C. B. Wicaksono, Harly Toindo, and Rudi Rudi. "Tingkat Keberhasilan Implementasi Enterprise Resources Planning di BUMN Sektor Manufaktur di Indonesia." Binus Business Review 6, no. 2 (August 31, 2015): 184. http://dx.doi.org/10.21512/bbr.v6i2.968.
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Implementation of the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is an investment that does not appear in an organization. Indonesia State-Owned Enterprise, in particular manufacturing sector that have the leeway and autonomy to do ERP investments in supporting the achievement of its vision and mission. The World Economic Forum, put Indonesia on a ranking of 82 among the countries in the world in ICT utilization. This research aimed to test how big the investment that has been implanted in the area of information technology in the manufacturing sector, State-Owned Enterprises and the extent of the investment for the competitiveness of the company as well as its contribution to the wind of change on the manufactures business in Indonesia. This research was conducted to explore the performance of ERP implementation project. ERP implementation success rates seen from aspect of project management, determination of critical elements of urgency and contextual factors. The result is that all independent variables influence significantly to the success of the implementation of ERP of SOE’s manufactures. The greatest contribution to the success of such in sequence is an element of urgency determination of critical factors, a contextual factors, and management of the project.