Collaborative applications – also known as collaborative software – are increasingly being used by companies. The applications are meant to support intensive, effortless cooperation among team members, management and clients at any place and at any time. The uniqueness is their combination with social media and Web 2.0 functionalities (McAfee, 2009). The aim of this […]
To support team and project work, internet-based collaborative applications are increasingly being used. They enable employees located within and outside of the organisation to communicate, share knowledge/data, and organise joint projects. These knowledge-based drivers of collaboration between team members can improve mastering dynamic and complex situations – key for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in […]
The purpose of this contribution is to show how Smart and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) can adapt their capacities to a higher level of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA) in their environment. We have reasons to believe that a traditional management of SMEs would be unable to effectively cope with a dynamic business environment and […]
To sustain growth in turbulent environments SMEs face major challenges due to their limited human, organizational and financial resources and capabilities. How to reconcile learning and growth to sustain competitive advantage of SMEs in turbulent environments is a vital but widely unsolved question in theory and practice. Based on a three year action research project […]