scholarly journals E-commerce as a tool for the development of small business

2021 ◽  
Vol 106 ◽  
pp. 01022
Author(s):  
Niiara Demiroglu
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Electronic Commerce ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Internet Technologies ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The Past ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Coronavirus Infection ◽  
Use Of Social Media

E-commerce has gained particular importance for the development of small businesses in the past year due to the restrictions imposed due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection. The article provides a review of scientific literature in order to generalize the methodology for defining the concept of “electronic commerce”. The main trends in the field of e-commerce in small business are characterized. The data on the development of the e-commerce market are analyzed and the following is emphasized: in the number of purchases from mobile devices has increased; creation and widespread use of social media pages is a key factor in the development of e-commerce by entrepreneurs. The advantages and disadvantages of using electronic commerce by small businesses are systematized. Conclusions are made about the growth in the volume of transactions using Internet technologies, and about the increase in digitalization of small businesses.

Applying Security Policies in Small Business Utilizing Cloud Computing Technologies

2013 ◽  
pp. 112-124
Author(s):  
Louay Karadsheh ◽  
Samer Alhawari
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Small Business ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Cost Reduction ◽  
Security Policies ◽  
Computing Architecture ◽  
The Past ◽  
Computing Services ◽  
Computing Technologies ◽  
Cloud Computing Services

Over a decade ago, cloud computing became an important topic for small and large businesses alike. The new concept promises scalability, security, cost reduction, portability, and availability. While addressing this issue over the past several years, there have been intensive discussions about the importance of cloud computing technologies. Therefore, this paper reviews the transition from traditional computing to cloud computing and the benefit for businesses, cloud computing architecture, cloud computing services classification, and deployment models. Furthermore, this paper discusses the security policies and types of internal risks that a small business might encounter implementing cloud computing technologies. It addresses initiatives towards employing certain types of security policies in small businesses implementing cloud computing technologies to encourage small business to migrate to cloud computing by portraying what is needed to secure their infrastructure using traditional security policies without the complexity used in large corporations.

Applying Security Policies in Small Business Utilizing Cloud Computing Technologies

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louay Karadsheh ◽  
Samer Alhawari
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Small Business ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Cost Reduction ◽  
Security Policies ◽  
Computing Architecture ◽  
The Past ◽  
Computing Services ◽  
Computing Technologies ◽  
Cloud Computing Services

Over a decade ago, cloud computing became an important topic for small and large businesses alike. The new concept promises scalability, security, cost reduction, portability, and availability. While addressing this issue over the past several years, there have been intensive discussions about the importance of cloud computing technologies. Therefore, this paper reviews the transition from traditional computing to cloud computing and the benefit for businesses, cloud computing architecture, cloud computing services classification, and deployment models. Furthermore, this paper discusses the security policies and types of internal risks that a small business might encounter implementing cloud computing technologies. It addresses initiatives towards employing certain types of security policies in small businesses implementing cloud computing technologies to encourage small business to migrate to cloud computing by portraying what is needed to secure their infrastructure using traditional security policies without the complexity used in large corporations.

Issues and Challenges for IT in Small Business

2005 ◽  
pp. 1692-1696
Author(s):  
Stephen Burgess
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Small Business ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Small Business Owners ◽  
Internet Technologies

This article examines the main issues and challenges facing small business owners and managers in the manner in which they use information technology and Internet technologies within their businesses. The first part of the article concentrates upon the issues. The “Challenges” section examines some of the areas that small business researchers are targeting in their recommendations for how the use of IT in small businesses can be improved. These are areas that small businesses often neglect or, even worse, know nothing about.

Optimal lubricants for urological practice

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 325-336
Author(s):  
Aleksandr M. Banaru ◽  
Roman V. Salyukov
Keyword(s):  
Adjuvant Treatment ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Clinical Situation ◽  
Focus Of Attention ◽  
Gelling Agents ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The Past ◽  
Treatment And Prevention ◽  
Main Components

The importance of choosing a lubricant depending on the therapeutic or diagnostic manipulation performed and the clinical situation is rarely the focus of attention of the practicing urologist. Meanwhile, the components of the lubricant can both provide adjuvant treatment and prevention of complications of the performed manipulations, and vice versa, be the cause of complications themselves. Based on the analysis of the scientific literature of the past 20 years, an overview of lubricants used in urological practice, as well as their main components gelling agents, anesthetics, antiseptics, is presented, their main advantages and disadvantages are shown.

scholarly journals АНАЛІЗ КРЕДИТУВАННЯ МАЛОГО БІЗНЕСУ ТА НОВОСТВОРЕНИХ ПІДПРИЄМСТВ У МЕЖАХ ДЕРЖАВНОЇ ПРОГРАМИ «ДОСТУПНІ КРЕДИТИ 5-7-9%»

2019 ◽  
pp. 369-379
Author(s):  
Svitlana Kushnir ◽  
Viktoria Karmazina
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
State Aid ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Fixed Assets ◽  
Strategic Goals

The development of small business in Ukraine is one of the strategic goals for today. The statistics on the degree of de-preciation of fixed assets by types of economic activity (the program funds are aimed at investing in fixed assets). Lending to economic entities, the number of existing large, medium, and small businesses, including microenterprises, is analyzed. The article describes the essence of the program "Available Credits 5-7-9%", which was introduced on February 1, 2020. The mechanism of providing state aid to enterprises under this program is disclosed. The stages of obtaining preferential loans for both existing and newly established enterprises are distinguished. The problems, advantages and disadvantages of the Create a Home project are explored. The possibility of lending to a low percentage of startup companies is discussed.

scholarly journals Trends in the development of crowdfunding in the domestic business environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (97) ◽  
pp. 31-35
Author(s):  
N. Radukh
Keyword(s):  
Small Businesses ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Internet Technologies ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Macroeconomic Indicators ◽  
Project Monitoring ◽  
Short Time

The article examines the interpretation of the economic essence of crowdfunding by various scholars, its features and foreign experience of application in financing ideas and projects in various spheres of socio-economic life. In the context of globalization the opening of new markets and opportunities, intensification of capital exchange processes, the use of innovative financial solutions can have a positive impact on national competitiveness and attract small businesses and individuals with innovative ideas but do not have sufficient financial resources for their development and implementation. It is described that crowdfunding is a fundraising tool that with the help of Internet technologies allows to receive investments in a short time from a large number of people to support small or medium business projects, while crowdfunding participants are: project authors, project donors, Internet workers and the state as a regulator of these relations. The main indicators that need to be analyzed if you want to use crowdfunding as a tool of alternative financing of self-organizing economic systems, in particular are: analysis of macroeconomic indicators in the country of its application; comparison of risks of economic development and introduction of crowdfunding; creation of state measures to stimulate the economy and ensure information and financial security at all levels of crowdfunding regulation. The main models of crowdfunding that are used in world practice are described: P2P (Peer-to-Peer) for financing of individuals and P2B (Peer-to-Business) for financing of small and medium business. The main advantages and disadvantages of crowdfunding and the possibility of its application in different economies are considered. The advantages are the improvement of the project management process and increase of their efficiency through the establishment of feedback, the efficiency of which increases significantly due to the use of modern Internet technologies, which allows to transfer a significant part of project monitoring functions to investors. The disadvantage of crowdfunding is the impossibility of its application to large-scale projects that require large investments. The Strategy of the Development of the Financial Sector of Ukraine until 2025 has been studied, according to which it is envisaged to improve the regulation of the payment market infrastructure in accordance with EU standards and to create a large number of FinTech companies in Ukraine.

scholarly journals MARKETING INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES IN SMALL BUSINESS: MODERN REALITIES AND APPROACHES TO RESEARCH

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 512-519
Author(s):  
V.S. Starostin ◽  
I.Yu. Okolnishnikova
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Small Business ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Internet Marketing ◽  
Big Data Analysis ◽  
Small Enterprises ◽  
Internet Technologies ◽  
Online Trading ◽  
Marketing Activities ◽  
Marketing Methods

The article is devoted to identifying promising areas of research in marketing Internet technologies in the field of small business. The digital component is increasingly being integrated into classic marketing processes and practices; the modern consumer is constantly “online’. Along with large and medium-sized enterprises, small enterprises apply and adapt Internet marketing approaches for successful activities in the selected market. The article considers approaches to adapting the marketing processes of small enterprises to activities in the digital economy based on Internet marketing technologies. The article pays attention to such areas as restrictions on the activities of small businesses, the integration of Internet marketing methods, and touches on the development of aggregator websites and online trading sites based on machine learning and big data analysis. The article analyzes static research on the specifics of the formation and cost recovery of Internet marketing activities of small businesses. It is concluded that the aggregate issuance of online trading platforms provides small businesses with an alternative to the complete adoption of marketing risks in the form of gaining access to the target audience upon the completion of the required target actions (claims, sales et al.). A visual table of promising areas of marketing Internet technologies research in the small business has been compiled.

Social Commerce Benefits for Small Businesses

2019 ◽  
pp. 1237-1255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ludwig Christian Schaupp ◽  
France Bélanger
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Business Success ◽  
Small Business Owners ◽  
Social Commerce ◽  
Small Companies ◽  
Stakeholder Pressure ◽  
Use Of Social Media

Small businesses represent an important element of many western economies. However, they often struggle with resources needed to succeed, and small business owners often have to perform many, if not all, roles in their organizations. One of the key functions that small businesses need to excel at for business success today is social commerce since much of their business is migrating towards the use of social media for business. In this study, determinants of social commerce benefits for small businesses are explored. Using survey data from 60 small companies, this research identifies stakeholder pressure and partner pressure as the most significant factors in determining social commerce benefits for small business. Implications of these findings and provide suggestions for future research are discussed.

E-Commerce Adoption Barriers in Small Businesses and the Differential Effects of Gender

2009 ◽  
pp. 429-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert C. MacGregor
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Commerce ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Technologies ◽  
Differential Effects ◽  
Government Organizations ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Level Of Importance

Over the last decade, the Internet and Internet technologies such as electronic commerce have experienced phenomenal growth. However, research shows that small businesses have been slow to adopt and to implement e-commerce due to a variety of barriers or impediments. Our understanding of these barriers and their importance has been fragmented and incomplete. This article presents an exploratory study of regional small businesses in Sweden that aims to improve our knowledge about e-commerce adoption barriers and to determine if there are any differences in the level of importance assigned to different barriers by males and females. The results of the study suggest that e-commerce adoption barriers fall into one of two distinct groupings: too difficult to implement or unsuitable to the business. The results also show that while males rate the difficulties of implementing e-commerce as more important, females indicate more concern about the unsuitability of e-commerce. The results of the study have significant implications for government organizations engaged in promoting e-commerce adoption, particularly among small businesses in regional areas.

What Led Us Here?

2009 ◽  
pp. 302-321
Author(s):  
Stephen Burgess ◽  
Carmine Carmine Sellitto ◽  
Stan Karanasios
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Internet Technologies ◽  
Background Material ◽  
The Way

This Appendix provides a brief overview of our PhDs - all of which involved research into small business adoption and use of ICT and Internet technologies. In effect, we felt that this appendix might provide some insights into how this book has evolved and the way that the various chapters have been ordered. In the case of Stephen and Stan’s PhDs, they particularly targeted small businesses, whilst Carmine’s PhD involved research into wineries in Australia – and involved a heavy emphasis on SMEs. More importantly, each of our PhDs involved the development of frameworks which have informed the outline of chapters in this book, and significant background material which have contributed the book’s contents. Each of us will discuss a little of how the PhD has lead us to where we are today.

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