CLOUD COMPUTING ADOPTION FOR CORE COMPETITIVENESS OF SMES IN BEIJING CHINA
With the intensification of economic globalization and market competition, SMEs (the abbreviation of small and medium-sized enterprises) are playing an important role in the whole world. SMEs are seemed as a vital engine of economic development and growth, job creation and innovation. In many countries, small and medium-sized enterprises occupy the majority of enterprises, and their development is directly related to the stability and sustainable development of the entire economic system. Moreover, the maturity of SMEs is very rapidly because of their features of small size, low operating costs and quickly response. In this situation, the SMEs have to focus on their own core competitiveness to grow up and strongly (Xu, Nickel, Machado, & Hajiyev, 2015). However, at practical level, there are many difficulties and barriers preventing their development and growth. For example, they often face limited resources, difficulties in financing, fierce market competition, and inadequate management capacity. The existence of these problems leads the SMEs can only concentrate on how to survive in the complex and dangerous market environment, but ignore improve their core competitiveness, which limits their competitiveness and sustainable development ability in the market. Basing on years of research and observation suggest, cloud computing services have obvious effect on reduce cost and manpower (Furht and Escalante, 2010). Many researches and practices has proved that cloud computing can solve the problems of SMEs. And recently studies shows that SMEs are more appropriate to use cloud computing for seeking low cost and high efficiency than other firms (Bello et al., 2021).
SME, Core Competitiveness, Cloud Computing Adoption, Technology, Organization.