The knowledge on financial management highly matters as it assists the micro-entrepreneurs in the making of right and sustainable business decisions. This research seeks to examine the effects of financial literacy on microenterprise decision-making...
In the construction industry, decision-making plays an important role in achieving sustainability. Decision-making processes have significantly expanded to consider detailed product information when selecting sustainable alternatives in order to make...
Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) face dynamic and competitive environments where resilience and data-driven decision-making are critical. Despite the potential benefits of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and optimizatio...
Inefficiencies and low productivity persist in the construction industry due to limited digital integration and weak data use in decision-making. This study examines how internal data analytics, such as the systematic use of organisational data-like...
Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) are key contributors to Indonesia’s economy. E-commerce can assist SMEs in gaining a competitive edge and is expected to be the largest contributor to the country’s digital economy by 2030. Howeve...
This study aims to examine the impact of marketing artificial intelligence (AI) and the specific channels it uses to influence the performance of Jordanian SMEs. In contrast to prior research that focused solely on the direct effects of marketing AI...
Despite the significant economic contribution of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), little is known about the extent to which they make use of accounting information (AI). Although AI is considered one of the main sources of information for S...
This paper proposes a hybrid collaborative framework to optimize technology selection in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) by integrating machine learning (ML) predictions with Planning Poker, consensus-based estimation technique used in agil...
While the rapid development of Chinese manufacturing SMEs has contributed significantly to economic growth, it has also resulted in environmental pollution and resource abuse problems. To resolve these problems, Chinese manufacturing SMEs need to acc...
Evaluating Industry 4.0 technology application in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is an issue that requires a multi-criteria strategy comprising quantitative and qualitative elements. The purpose of this study is to integrate performance es...
Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) increasingly rely on digital technologies to sustain innovation, yet limited empirical evidence explains how business intelligence capabilities translate into superior innovation outcomes, particularly in em...
The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) within the decision-making processes of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) presents both significant opportunities and substantial ethical challenges. The aim of this paper is to provide a theor...
Lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) on the basis of their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance is difficult for commercial banks. The data needed for a proper assessment are rarely at hand, and existing tools canno...
SME family businesses play a vital role in the world economy as a recognized sustainable contributor to economic growth. Aged owners of Taiwan’s family businesses have become the biggest problem; because of the dramatically changing technology...
Decisions by small and medium enterprise (SME) entrepreneurs are plagued by a variety of cognitive biases. Extant literature has mainly focused on a limited number of important biases (e.g., overconfidence) in a handful of important entrepreneurial d...
Entrepreneurs are the backbone of most small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), yet they have received little attention regarding how they prepare for organisational change readiness (OCR), especially in the current uncertain business environment...
This study presents a sustainable digital transformation framework to integrate sustainable practices into digital transformation initiatives within Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). The methodology includes a literature review, a framework creati...
Early insolvency prediction in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) is a critical challenge for financial stability, credit risk management, and public policy-making. Traditional approaches often rely on isolated predictive models that, despite...
In the digital era, companies have experienced a progressive change in their business models, which has led them to develop greater agility to adapt to changing environments, and the necessity to properly manage the group decision making in these com...
Energy efficiency is one of the most practical ways for China to simultaneously tackle environmental issues and achieve sustainable development. However, the issue of inadequate capital inflows is a bottleneck in energy efficiency projects, especiall...
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Europe risk their competitiveness if they fail to embrace digitalization. Indeed, SMEs are aware of the need to digitalize—more than one in two SMEs are concerned that they may lose competitiveness if they...
Organizations may examine both past and present data with the aid of information management, giving them access to all the knowledge they need to make sound strategic choices. For the majority of contemporary enterprises, using data to make relevant,...
Sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) integrates economic, social, and environmental goals within the supply chain to enhance long-term performance. It assists organizations in monitoring their performance concerning social, environmental, and e...
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are accounted for as a major part of the economy of the EU in terms of part of the population employed, turnover, value-added, etc. Causes of insolvency of SMEs can be different; they are categorized in the p...
This study examines how manufacturing SMEs can structure digital transformation as a strategic, risk-managed process under demand uncertainty and resource constraints. Integrating digital maturity assessment with cost–benefit analysis (D3A&ndas...
Strategic mergers and acquisitions (M&A) can support sustainable business models by enabling firms to adapt their capabilities and competitive positions as conditions change. This study examines how target listing status (public vs. private) and...
The rapid expansion of small and medium enterprise (SME) lending has intensified the need for accurate and interpretable credit risk forecasting. Financial institutions must anticipate potential business loan delinquency to maintain portfolio stabili...
To expand the field of governmental applications of Big Data analytics, this study presents a case of data-driven decision-making using information on research and development (R&D) projects in Korea. The Korean government has continuously expand...
Servitization is becoming an essential strategy for manufacturers to gain competitive advantage, and several successful cases have already been reported. However, these success stories are mainly studied for large enterprises such as GE, IBM, Xerox,...
The CE has attracted widespread interest due to the urgent issues of climate change and resource depletion. The implementation of the CE within small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is crucial, as they play a major economic role globally, includ...
Despite the importance of the role of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in developing and growing economies, little is known regarding the use of management control tools in them. In management control in SMEs, a holistic system needs to be modeled...
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) face challenges in implementing industrial robotics in their manufacturing due to limited resources and expertise. There is still good economic potential in using industrial robotics, however, due to manufact...
Industrial SMEs may take the decision to invest in energy efficient equipment to reduce energy costs by replacing or upgrading their obsolete equipment or due to external socio-political and legislative pressures. When upgrading their energy equipmen...
The skincare business in Southeast Asia is rapidly expanding, requiring SMEs to adopt digital tools that support more accurate and data-driven decision-making. This study presents the integration of the Trend Moment forecasting method into a web-base...
Corruption is one of the biggest barriers to sustainable development. Several objectives of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are directly linked with the fight against corruption, as it has an influence on the achievement of every single deve...
This article examines the impact of overconfidence, optimism, risk aversion, mimicry and intuition biases on the investment decisions of Moroccan SMEs managers. The study was based on a sample of 133 SMEs managers, who were randomly selected to ensur...
The contemporary green transformation of the economy is a strategic imperative for businesses, especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) operating in the energy market, forcing the integration of sustainable practices in decision-making pr...
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and women are important agents for economic and social development. This study attempts to understand how the economic crisis has affected the behavior of SMEs with high female participation in the decision-m...
Industry 4.0 revolution offers smart manufacturing; it systematically incorporates production technology and advanced operation management. Adopting these high-state strategies can increase production efficiency, reduce energy consumption, and decrea...
This study assesses De Lone and McLean’s Information System (D&M IS) Success Model concerning DAS throughout small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Saudi Arabia (SA). The present work mainly sought to evaluate the impact of information qual...
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the manufacturing sector often struggle to make effective use of production data due to fragmented systems and limited digital infrastructure. This paper presents a case study of implementing an AI-enhance...
In the competitive manufacturing era, agile manufacturing has evolved as a revolutionary manufacturing strategy that manages quality, innovation, responsiveness, introduction time of product, and uncertainties to maximize profit and to satisfy fluctu...
Researchers question the impact of governmental venture capitalists (GVC) compared to private venture capitalists (PVC), but we know little about why this difference occurs and if this criticism is justified. We observed a group of GVCs and developed...
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are central to economic growth, yet their viability in Sub-Saharan Africa is undermined by persistent financial and operational management challenges. These weaknesses manifest in stunted growth, poor decision-maki...
This paper develops an efficiency-based approach for evaluating the performance of available electronic markets (e-markets) in the active pursuit of sustainable electronic business through the selection of specific e-markets for small and medium-size...
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) face unique challenges that can be effectively addressed through the adoption of data mining and business intelligence (BI) tools. This systematic literature review scrutinizes the deployment and efficacy of...
We examine the fundamental tension between explicit and implicit power motives; and their combined impact on the importance attached to prosocial organizational goals in small businesses (SMEs). We show that key decision-makers with a dominant implic...
Small and medium enterprises (SME) face various challenges in order to remain competitive in a global market. Industry 4.0 (I4.0) is increasingly presented as the new paradigm for improving productivity, ensuring economic growth, and guaranteeing the...
This paper provided a novel definition of customer knowledge management (CKM) as the logical intersection of customer relationship management (CRM) and knowledge management (KM). The main aim was to investigate the digital technologies supporting sma...
Challenges related to effective supply and demand planning and inventory management impose critical planning issues for many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In recent years, data-driven methods in machine learning (ML) algorithms have prov...
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