Is E-Learning That Important? SMEs Training and Economic Performance

Shamim Akhtar, Yanping Liu, Youyuan Zheng

Abstract


Fronting stress from a progressively competitive business environment, enterprises have, over the years, employed trainings in order to have more efficient work force and also to enhance performance. The drive of this study is to ascertain different problems to e-learning that small and medium enterprises faced in their training process and attests, through a case study, how well e-learning could resolve some of many hitches identified. This study also identifies how e-learning can enhance small and medium sized enterprises performance.


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5296/jpag.v8i4.14066

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