A Review of Cybersecurity Challenges in Small Business: The Imperative for a Future Governance Framework

Technological shifts—coupled with infrastructure, techniques, and applications for big data—have created many new opportunities, business models, and industry expansion that benefit entrepreneurs. At the same time, however, entrepreneurs are often unprepared for cybersecurity needs—and the policymakers, industry, and nonprofit groups that support them also face technological and knowledge constraints in keeping up with their needs. To improve the ability of entrepreneurship research to understand, identify, and ultimately help address cybersecurity challenges, we conduct a literature review on the state of cybersecurity. The research highlights the necessity for additional investigation to aid small businesses in securing their confidential data and client information from cyber threats, thereby preventing the potential shutdown of the business.

Effective Utilization of Government-Provided CTI by Small Businesses within the Defense Industrial Base

There are two broad objectives of the research reported in this paper. First, we assess whether government-provided cyber threat intelligence (CTI) is helpful in preventing, or responding to, cyber-attacks among small businesses within the U.S. Defense Industrial Base (DIB). Second, we identify ways of improving the effectiveness of government-provided CTI to small businesses within the DIB. Based on a questionnaire-based survey, our findings suggest that government-provided CTI helps businesses within the DIB in preventing, or responding to, cyber-attacks providing a firm is familiar with the CTI. Unfortunately, a large percentage of small firms are not familiar with the government-provided CTI feeds and consequently are not utilizing the CTI. This latter situation is largely due to financial constraints confronting small businesses that prevent firms from having the wherewithal necessary to effectively utilize the government-provided CTI. However, we found a significant positive association between a firm’s familiarity with the government-provided CTI and whether a firm is being periodically reviewed by the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) or is compliant with the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program. The findings from our study also show that the participating firms believe that external cyber threats are more likely to be the cause of a future cybersecurity breach than internal cybersecurity threats. Finally, our study found that the portion of the IT budget that small businesses within the DIB spend on cybersecurity-related activities is dependent on the perception that a firm would be the target of an external cyber-attack.

Research on the Yunnan Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Economic Management Mode Innovation under Micro Business Environment

In this paper, we conduct research on the Yunnan small and the medium-sized enterprise economic management mode innovation under micro business environment. Small industrial clusters become the root cause of the important characteristics in today’s world economic development and so to speak, with the international competitiveness of industry cluster, which is the important guarantee of stay ahead in the developed countries and districts, the basic carrier of developing countries play a comparative advantage is the basis of transition countries achieve success across the industry. Under the impetus of the practice of the industrial cluster, constantly enrich and deepen the industrial cluster theory, formed the theoretical system of the system. Our research combines the theory of the micro business environment to propose the new business pattern that is meaningful.

PERFORMANCE-DRIVEN BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT METHODOLOGY FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED-ENTERPRISES

Based on the analysis of the common limitations of business processmanagement (BPM) methodologies and the requirements of small and medium sized-enterprises (SMEs),the importance of a 'performance construct' of BPM methodologies is identified, a six-phaseperformance-driven BPM methodology for the production and operation processes of Chinese SMEs isdeveloped. A case study on the process management of a medium-sized enterprise shows a successfulexample of running the methodology.

The Innovation Types Evaluation of Small Business

The technology innovation and technology innovation capability plays an important role in management study of small business's growth and development. In this paper, the types of innovation in small business are discussed. Then, a hierarchy comprehensive fuzzy index system evaluating the types of small businesses is proposed. Because of the fuzziness of 15 factors used to analyze the small business, L-R fuzzy number is applied to describe the basic fuzzy state index. Furthermore, the corresponding fuzzy evaluation algorithm is designed. An application example indicated the effects of the methods.

Fuzzy State Comprehensive Evaluation of Living Basis for Small Businesses

The problem of comprehensive evaluation of liying basis for small businesses is discussed, based on fuzziness of index, a corresponding fuzzy state comprehensive evaluation method is presented; the good results that is,the evaluation of living basis for small business are illustrated by a simulated example.

Small Business Server 2003 SP 1热点问题及解决方案

微软公司在2005年5月终于公布了Small Business Server 2003 Service Pack 1，并在6月份推出了中文版。这一版本的Service Pack包含了Small Business Server 2003所有组件的最新更新以及软件升级。

Opinion Leaders and Lead Users in Marketing and Management Accounting and Impact on Small Business Performance

This paper empirically investigates into the business performance benefit that lead users or opinion leaders among small business owners draw from their higher involvement in management accounting or marketing topics. This work also contributes to a better identification of network members’ roles solely through their ties between each other. Indeed, lead users and opinion leaders can be differentiated by a higher degree centrality in comparison to their peers. However, being an opinion leader or a lead user does not yield a measurable business benefit to the small businesses studied in this sample.

Analysis of Factors That Affect the Long-Term Survival of Small Businesses in Pretoria, South Africa

The paper is based on a 5-year follow-up study (2007 to 2012) of a random sample of 349 small business enterprises that operate in and around the city of Pretoria in South Africa. Data weregathered from each of the businesses on socio economic factors that were known to affect the long-term survival of small businesses. The objective of the study was to identify and quantify key predictors of viability and long-term survival. Pearson’s chi-square tests of associations, binary logistic regression analysis and the Cox Proportional Hazards Model were used for screening of variables, and for estimating odds ratios and hazard ratios of key predictors of viability and long-term survival. The study found that 188 of the 349 businesses that took part in the study (54%) were not viable, and that the long-term survival and viability of small businesses were adversely affected by lack of entrepreneurial skills, lack of supervisory support to newly established businesses, and inability to operators running newly established businesses to acquire relevant vocational skills.

Regulatory constraint and small business lending:do innovative peer-to-peer lenders have an advantage?

This paper investigates whether innovative Peer-to-Peer lending by FinTechs’has a regulatory advantage over the big banks in respect of small business lending.We do this through the lens of the regulations imposed by the Dodd-Frank Act,using a difference-in-difference methodology.The Act tightened traditional bank credit standards on business loans,especially for small firms.However,the new FinTech lenders were not subject to the same regulatory burden.We find that traditional banks significantly reduced their lending to small businesses,as compared to their FinTech competitors.Our results suggest that while the Dodd-Frank Act constrained lending to small businesses,innovative new lending models gained a regulatory advantage and the Peer-to-Peer lenders capitalized on this.

Modelling trust evolution within small business lending relationships

Trust is a key dimension in the principal-agent relationship and it has been studied extensively.However,the dynamics,evolution,and intrinsic motivation and mechanisms have received less attention.This paper investigates the intrinsic motivation of trust and it proposes a theoretical model of trust evolution that is based on the notion of‘trust response’and‘trust spiral’.We then specifically focus on trust within the lending relationship between banks and small businesses,and we run numerical simulations to further illustrate the evolution of involved mutual trust over time.Our model provides implications for future research in both trust evolution and small business lending relationships.

A Study on Business Succession in Small and Medium-Sized Chinese Enterprises

The survival and development of SMEs (small and medium enterprises) is an important issue for the Chinese economy. In particular, business succession in SMEs is a persistent issue. Business succession involves selection of a successor, asset inheritance, transfer of management rights, accumulation of business connections and technology succession, and soforth. This all requires smooth execution of a business succession plan. However, many SMEs do not have a business succession plan, nor are they preparing one. Our task is to explore the reasons these preparations are not being made. Here, the purpose of our research is to get a picture of the status of preparations for business succession in SMEs in China, and the actual circumstances of succession, based on the results of a fact-finding survey of Chinese SMEs, and at the same time bring to the surface the primary factors which influence preparations and plans. The results of the analysis shed light on the status of business succession preparations, successor’s awareness of issues, decision making, and so on. This survey highlights the awareness of business succession among business managers.

Knowledge Acquisition in Small and Medium Businesses

This article applies to the process of organizational knowledge acquisition by managers and specialists with the possession of manager license. The theoretical part explains： concepts of knowledge, knowledge management, knowledge sources, and the step of creating and acquiring knowledge. The research part focuses on the presentation and analysis of obtained results of research performed by the author.

An Instrument Variable Model of the Impact of Financing Decisions on Performance of Small Businesses in Australia＇s Pre-global Financial Crisis

Firm level empirical research on the impact of financing decisions on small business performance is scarce in the Australian context. This study adopts an instrument variable （IV） approach to analyze the impact of financing decisions, in particular, equity or debt are obtained, on the performance of small businesses by using the panel data from Australian Bureau of Statistics （ABS） Business Longitudinal Database （BLD） 2004-2005, 2005-2006, and 2006-2007. Performance variables, i.e., sales and expenditure, are used as dependent variables. Equity and debt obtained are used as independent variables （or known as treatments）. IV includes size of the business, age of the business, number of locations, and industry division etc.. The results from IV modeling outperformed those obtained from OLS （Ordinary Least Squares）. Findings include： （1） financing has significantly positive impacts on the performance of small businesses in Australia; （2） equity and debt financing are used as alternatives, comparatively, equity financing is preferred; （3） capital purchases are largely funded by debt financing, while non-capital purchases and salary expenses are funded by equity financing; and （4） equity financing is more often used by firms with increasing capital purchases and declining non-capital purchases, while debt financing is used by firms with the opposite trends. The paper concludes with a discussion of the limitations of this research and future research＇s directions.

Determinants of Small Business Owner Loan

Shareholders and debtholders have diverging objectives.Shareholders are residual claimants whereas debtholders are fixed claimants to firm’s assets.In leveraged firms,shareholders may increase the value of their claims at the expense of debtholders.The presence of shareholders being debtholders is a smart interest alignment,providing a solution to shareholder-debtholder conflicts.This paper focuses on small businesses,which play an important role in the United States economy but are generally neglected by academia.Utilizing National Survey of Small Business Finance(NSSBF)data,this paper shows that firms with higher agency cost of debt are more likely to issue owner loan.The incidence of small business owner loan is positively associated with external lending difficulty,low shareholder agency cost and firm valuation difficulty.

Study of Impacts of Small Business Innovation Research Programs

The development and commercialization of new technologies are important to the global economy. In this paper, the author first addresses Small Business Innovation Research （SBIR） background ; then, implicitly defines SBIR ; finally, I also analyze the impacts of smaU business innovation research programs. There are four aspects ： entrepreneurial orientation; environmental factors; organizational factors and performanee.

Small Business Server 2000化繁为简

在软件产品中，不管是专业软件，还是行业解决方案，对于中小企业用户，不是不对自己的胃口，就是软件太大，无福消受。其实，中小企业的业务关系并没有大家想像的那么复杂，因此，集几种重要功能且简单易用的软件才是他们梦寐以求的!大而笨重的专业软件，许多功能闲置不用，为了更好的利用它，还会多招一个网管员，小题大做，最后算来，倒是成本增加了!

MAXTOR One Touch Ⅱ Small Business Edition测评：精工细作又一春

大凡测试35寸移动硬盘．Maxtor One Touch这款里程碑式的产品必须被首先提到：铝合金外壳、250G容量、Firewire接口，支持MAC OS9／X备份。种种特色几乎为大家开辟了一个全新的产品领域。然而随着存储业界资深厂商的不断进入和原有产品的价格因素．市场竞争日趋激烈。