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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Business failure"”.
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Predicting business failure in the food service industry
… which are the best predictors of impending failure in the food service industry. This study had two major objectives. The first was to determine which financial statement items and ratios show the greatest magnitude of difference between failed and nonfailed restaurants. The second objective …
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Strategic and financial factors in business failure, bankruptcy and reorganization
… financial and strategic factors relating to the failure and bankruptcy of 73 firms that went bankrupt from 1980 to 1986. The characteristics of the bankrupt firms were compared with those of a matching sample of nonbankrupt firms. On average the bankrupt firms were weaker than the comparison …
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Predicting business failure in the hospitality industry: an application of logit model
The phenomenon of business failure has attracted research interest in finance literature partly because of its impact on the U.S economy. Whereas an impressive body of knowledge has been accumulated on this subject thus far, the hospitality literature has lacked empirical studies that seek to …
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Study of business failure in the hospitality industry from both microeconomic and macroeconomic perspectives
Business failures in the hospitality industry were examined in this study from both microeconomic and macroeconomic perspectives. In the micro-level study, this paper developed a discriminant model for predicting bankruptcy of hospitality firms (lodging and restaurant firms). This model achieved a …
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BUSINESS FAILURE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP: THREE ESSAYS ON THE EFFECTS OF THE COST OF FAILURE
<p>When entrepreneurs encounter business failure, they have to bear the financial, emotional, and social cost of failure. Prior research on the effects of these costs has focused mainly on entrepreneurial exit context or on the quantity of new firms. Moreover, these studies suggest to policy makers …
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Behavioural economies in development decision making
This paper will research why businesses fail, the human connection to business failure – especially in the real estate market – and how to plan for success in real estate developments. It is important to understand the heuristics or rule of thumb of what, why and how an individual is driven to make …
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Business Exits and Reentry: Demand and Supply Explanations of Entrepreneur Career Choices
… entrepreneurial engagement subsequent to business exits. Collectively, the three studies provide insights into how and when variances between performance expectations and actual business outcomes shift the demand and supply of different groups of experienced entrepreneurs. On the demand …
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Modeling Urban Venue Dynamics through Spatio-Temporal Metrics and Complex Networks
… to cities, support urban policy, and inform business decisions. This dissertation explores how novel algorithmic architectures and techniques reveal and predict business trends and urban development patterns. The research informing this dissertation harnesses principles from network science, …
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Bankruptcy prediction in the casino industry
… for general industry usage to predict financial failure in the casino industry; The models tested were the ones developed by Edward I. Altman, Edward B. Deakin and Christine V. Zavgren. The financial information utilized in the study was limited to that which could be obtained from publicly …
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Ontleding van kleinsakemislukkings
About 75 percent of all small businesses started each year are predicted to fail within the first 5 years. It is important to identify and recognise the major reasons and pitfalls that often lead to small business failure to assure the survival of the small business. The small business owner will …
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The doctrine of piercing the corporate veil in South Africa: an analysis of the South African approach with lessons from the Canadian jurisprudence
… in the active management of the corporation's business. The corporation is owned by shareholders. The shareholders, as the natural persons with ownership rights in the artificial entity, retain obligations distinct from those of the corporation. The shareholders thus cannot be held liable for …
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Rethinking cross-border insolvency and rescue law theory: towards a better understanding of European harmonisation
… and assess EU initiatives in the policy area of business failure, but which can also be used as a model in other policy areas. This thesis ultimately argues in favour of an abandonment of the strict understanding of harmonisation, as synonymous with uniformity. Instead, the new theory assigns a …
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A cross sectional analysis of SME failure within the industrial sector: focus on IDC funded investments
… example, a significant proportion of the formal business entities are SMEs; and they contribute between 52 and 57% to GDP, and provide about 61% to employment. However, despite their significance in the local economy, SMEs regularly encounter the threat of failure. Business failure can be …
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Determination of the key operational variables of construction companies that impact on their corporate performance
… quality work on time and have a high rate of business failure. In an effort to improve the effectiveness and viability of smaller construction firms in South Africa, this research investigates key operational variables affecting their corporate financial performance. Operational variables …
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The effects of government funding agencies’ support on the success of SMMEs within the King Cetshwayo District: a study of uMhlathuze Municipality
… and job creation, South Africa faces a high business failure rate, exacerbated by inadequate support from numerous government funding agencies. This study employed a mixed-methods approach to comprehensively assess the impact of government funding agencies’ support on the success of SMMEs in …
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On estimation and goodness-of-fit testing for the Pareto distribution
… which was initially proposed as a model for business failure, but has since found a wide range of other applications. We propose several classes of goodness-of-fit tests for the Pareto Type I distribution based on two characterisations. The first characterisation relates to the distribution …
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Testing the accuracy of the emerging market scoring model for measuring and predicting financial distress for South African firms
… firms, thereby alleviating the societal costs of business failure.
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Leadership and its Impact on Employee Motivation: A Study of Small and Medium Enterprises in Leicestershire
… need of guidance with regards to preventing business failure as well as operating optimally and efficiently. This research tested “The Ladders of Leadership and Employee Motivation” at 6 inspected SMEs in Leicestershire by conducting 13 semi-structured interviews with owners, managers and …
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The transformation of the small master economy in the boot and shoe industry 1887-1914 : with special reference to Northampton
… the often wide divergence of experience within business communities as a whole. In small master-dominated industries, like shoemaking, there existed a range of business experience - both business success and failure - which has not been the subject of close empirical study. Here, the assumption …
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The effect of the acculturation process on consumers’ acceptance of e-commerce platforms
The Internet has revolutionised the way in which business is conducted in the twenty-first century. It has changed the face and pace of business offering an indispensable opportunity to operate on digital platforms. Through those digital platforms, businesses find new sources of competitive …
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