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Temporary shop ed economia resiliente

2016

Cities are composed of different systems each one with its own life cycle. Retail systems contribute to cities’ sustainability. In Italy, during the last two decades, the retail system has suffered the threat of large-Scale retail trade and e-commerce. The consumer’s behaviour has changed during these years. In order to overcome the crisis that has made the historical center less interesting from a retailing and commercial point of view, in this paper we analyze crisis response strategies and in particular the proposal of temporary shops.

Exploring the intersection of e-commerce and context in family business in China: the effects on organisational form and identity

2019

This chapter melds these interests of understanding how the context of e-Commerce and family business affects organisational form and subsequently organisational identity by integrating a narrative about the development of family business and e-Commerce in China with an exploratory analysis of two Chinese family businesses. Institutional theory informs this discussion (Scott, 2008: Suddaby, Elsbach, Greenwood, Meyer and Zilber, 2010). After describing why businesses adopt e-Commerce, and illustrating the contextual conditions in China that foster the development of private enterprises such as family businesses, and the adoption of e-Commerce, the chapter subsequently explores the question “…

Dinámica organizativa y flexibilidad productiva en sistemas territoriales de pequeña y mediana empresa : el caso de la industria del calzado de las c…

1997

Tīmekļa vietnes aizmugursistēmas ātrdarbības uzlabošana mērogojamības nodrošināšanai

2018

Kvalifikācijas darbā “Tīmekļa vietnes aizmugursistēmas ātrdarbības uzlabošana mērogojamības nodrošināšanai” ir veikta tiešsaistes interneta veikala sistēmas, kas balstīta uz atklātā koda ietvara Opencart, izstrāde veiktspējas uzlabošanai. Uzlabojumi veikti sistēmas dzinēja PHP kodā un MySQL DBPS, panākot efektīvāku sistēmas resursu izmantošanu. Ieviests meklēšanas dzinējs Sphinxsearch un uzlabota satura kešdarbe. Sistēma nodrošina atbilstošu ātrdarbību pie 1 000 000 produktu vienībām un 14 000 produktu kategorijām. Tīmekļa vietne tiek pilnvērtīgi izmantota produkcijā.

Invariant aspects in M-commerce environments

2005

Mobile phones and other small and powerful portable devices have revolutionized personal communication and affected the lifestyles of the people in the industrialized world. Following credible estimates, in a few years there will over two - billions of such portable devices in use. An emerging trend is the electronic commerce performed using mobile terminals over wireless networks, often called mobile commerce or M-commerce. Mobile commerce environments are characterized by high complexity, including myriads of technical and organizational aspects. This property makes it difficult to distinguish the more fundamental issues, structures, and concepts in mobile commerce from the hype. To captu…

Strategic Asset Building and Competitive Strategies for SMEs which Compete with Industry Giants

2014

This chapter studies companies which are arguably business super-heroes – the small firms which despite the apparent handicap of very limited resources are able to compete against much larger, multinational firms – the micro-giants Davids that take on Goliaths. Through a process of detailed case studies of actual firms, analysis of asset structure, and experiments with a simulation model, the relationships between key assets, critical success factors, and micro-giant competiveness are explored. The model produces six scenarios reflecting different strategies for developing tangible and intangible assets and, critically, the balance between them. A level of aggression is needed in asset buil…

An exploratory analysis of website quality in the agrifood sector: The case of extra virgin olive oil

2018

Besides verifying the current consistency on the Internet of websites set up by Sicilian (Southern Italy) EVO oil firms, this paper aims to verify their e-service quality by evaluating which main quality features, as derived from the literature, they have. To process the data, descriptive statistics were used, which allowed detection of the presence/absence of the variables examined. The study found 280 websites with some qualitative gaps. Findings highlight that EVO oil firms do not exploit the potentialities of the web adequately. They often use the Internet as a communication and promotion tool, but only to a lesser degree for e-commerce. The results may be useful to both agrifood manage…

Structure, Effects and Deficiencies of an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: the Spanish Case

2017

In this paper, we rely on the Spanish GEM Project to analyze the basic conditions that shape the profiles of the Spanish regional entrepreneurial ecosystem and to configure which aspects are given and which should be met in order for that ecosystem to be considered as a tool to support entrepreneurship and not just a wasteland. Although some media are incorporated, the nutrients needed for germination are not included.

Factors Affecting E-Business Adoption by SMEs in Sub-Saharan Africa

2009

The use of information communication technologies (ICT) especially the Internet by small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is on the increase in many regions of the world, including Africa. Nevertheless, empirical evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) regarding the factors that affect the adoption of e-business is scarce. In that regard, the main objective of this chapter is to fill the research gap with an exploratory study that is aimed at eliciting views from SMEs in Nigeria. This article made use of a theoretical framework encompassing organizational, external and technological contexts to deliberate the issue. A survey is conducted in three Nigerian cities and the findings of the s…

Supervisores bursátiles, gobierno corporativo y cumplimiento de las NIIF: el caso de la CNMV

2015

Las Normas Internacionales de Información Financiera (NIIF), emitidas por el International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) y los US-GAAP, son hoy el referente global en convergencia hacia un estándar global. Las NIIF se utilizan fundamentalmente en los mercados de capitales, si bien carecen de una superestructura que garantice un sistema contable de elevada calidad. La Unión Europea, en su nueva propuesta de reglamento de auditoría para Entidades de Interés Público (EIP), da un gran protagonismo a los supervisores bursátiles como controladores de una adecuada aplicación de estas normas en la confección de los estados financieros. En este contexto, el objetivo que persigue el presente trab…