Title :
Technological penetration and cumulative benefits in SMEs
Author :
Lefebvre, Elisabeth ; Lefebvre, Louis A. ; Roy, Marie-Josée
Author_Institution :
Ecole Polytech. de Montreal, Que., Canada
Abstract :
The relative importance of the benefits derived from the adoption of computer-based administrative and production applications depends to a large extent on the level of technological penetration attained by a particular firm. This evolutionary perspective is investigated in an empirical study carried out in manufacturing firms operating in one specific sector of industrial activity
Keywords :
DP management; manufacturing data processing; production control; SMEs; computer-based administration; cumulative benefits; empirical study; evolutionary perspective; industrial activity; manufacturing firms; production applications; small manufacturing enterprises; technological penetration; Business; Costs; Flexible manufacturing systems; Lead time reduction; Manufacturing industries; Positron emission tomography; Production; Samarium; Technology management; Time to market;
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences, 1995. Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Hawaii International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Wailea, HI
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-6930-6
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.1995.375637
