from the Article: "The diffusion of digital innovations among SMEs in developing countries like Ghana is slow due to several factors. Well-known adoption models appear to have often been from developed country contexts and have proposed antecedents of behavioral intention instead of actual adoption. Consequently, …

Tax evasion, delayed trains & untidy death seem to be parts of our daily lives. But what about the digitalisation dragons? Will they wipe away B2B sales and procurement as we know it, our will we see a more nuanced picture? The first Part on this topic so far has attracted 3700+ readers at our PSF website. …

Recent challenges such like climate, demographic, political, economy and market changes are the foundation for the establishment of the Regional Cooperative Westerkwartier (RCW) in the Northern Netherlands. This RCW is managing a vast range of regional programs and projects developed by multi-stakeholder …

We hear about disruptive technologies and live in a VUCA world (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous). New technologies will change business models as they have always done. However the four VUCA factors have varying impacts on business “which defies confident diagnosis and befuddles executives” …

Knelpuntinventarisatie bij upstreampartners binnen de supply chain van mkb-bouwbedrijven

Presentatie praktijkproduct SIA RAAK project Duurzaam Duurzamer Produceren

This paper addresses new funding issues faced by SMEs. Over a period of nine months, the authors conducted a preliminary study into the problems surrounding stacked funding faced by SMEs and their financial advisers. The study includes a short literature review, the outcomes of three round table discussions …

A year later, in 2013, the Westerkwartier Area Cooperative was established – a new form of cooperation at the regional level, involving hundreds of dairy farmers, other SMEs, Terra MBO as the representative of the knowledge institutions in the region, the National Forest Service in the Netherlands (‘Staatsbosbeheer’), …

Livability is a value driven, complex concept. SMEs seem to have a distinctive influence on how people evaluate livability in the Northern Netherlands. On the other hand demographic transition is changing the structure of the labour market in this area drastically. What are the changes and what are the …

Ondernemers in het midden- en kleinbedrijf (mkb) zijn vooral met klanten bezig. Alle activiteiten zijn erop gericht. Zo moet inkoop ook direct bijdragen aan waarde voor de klanten. Ondernemers vinden rendement belangrijk als het gaat om investeringsbeslissingen en het is zaak dat op een simpele manier …