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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Business survival"”.
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Transclave Economy: Immigrant Business Survival in An Era of Pandemic
… as a protected labor market where immigrant business owners and workers build beneficial or exploitative relationships. Scholars’ characterizations of the ethnic enclave economy have been dichotomized. Optimists argue that it allows immigrants to avert labor market discrimination and racism …
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Financial motivations and small business survival : the effects of gender and race.
… minority entrepreneurs are less successful with business ventures in comparison to whites and males. Motivation and growth expectations have also been shown to be positively associated with business success. This paper examines how differing motivations and business goals affect the disparity in …
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Navigating in Turbulent Times: Using Social Media Discourse to Examine Small and Family-Owned Business Survival and Government Actions During The COVID-19 Crisis
During a crisis, small and family-owned businesses tend to experience more severe economic consequences than their larger counterparts and often lack financial resources needed to weather the challenges brought about by the crisis. To comprehend the distinct challenges and concerns of small and …
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Government intervention in women entrepreneurship development: opportunities and challenges for Bumiputera women entrepreneurs (BWEs) in the handicraft industry in Malaysia
… the influences of government intervention on the business survival of Bumiputera women entrepreneurs in the handicraft industry in Malaysia in which Bumiputera refers to the indigenous people and the largest population group in the country. The Malaysian handicraft industry is largely made up of …
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The economic impact of education spending : evidence from self-employed households
… data from the linked accounts of small businesses and their owners. Households respond to the increase in education spending by downsizing business production and exiting self-employment. They increase medical and restaurant expenditures and cut back on mortgage payments. While education …
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Strategic Management of Crises in Small and Medium Businesses
… was to analyse what strategies small and medium businesses actually adopt when confronted with a major crisis such as a fire, flood or similar catastrophe, and determine what factors proved vital to the survival of the business. Up until this study, the research in the area has been focused on …
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IT Governance from theory to practice : the importance of accountability
… pose a singular new risk as according to Harvard Business Review Magazine that a $5 million project leads to an almost $200 million loss (Flyvbjerg and Budzier, 2011). Every organisation will have experienced complications of an IT implementation and this is why IT Governance is becoming a crucial …
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Atendimento de excelência em bibliotecas: estudo de caso na biblioteca do Instituto de Ensino Superior da Paraíba
… which plays an important role in all types of businesses and several aspects of people's lives. Points out that one of the greatest tools to delight your customers the company has to implement a culture and practice of excellence in the relationship with your client, who is now a matter of …
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Components of logging costs
Twenty-four independent logging businesses in the Southeastern United States were analyzed in a general systems approach to document the components of logging costs for mechanized operations, assess the sensitivity of these components to external stimuli, and to identify and describe the business …
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Integration of critical success factors from demand and supply sides to enhance micro financing framework for micro and small enterprises (mses) in Malaysia
… for most micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in business survival. The Malaysian government is aware of the financing issues among micro and small enterprises. Therefore, the National SME Development Council has approved the sustainable microfinance framework in 2006 to improve access for …
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Business model innovation towards energy transition in emerging markets: the case of South African coal industry
… dilemma for coal-dependent firms regarding business survival and the execution of fundamental resources reconfiguration and business model innovation (BMI). This exploratory cross-sectional qualitative study addresses the critical gap by empirically detailing the actionable frameworks …
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Essays on the transition from unemployment to employment with a special emphasis on start-up subsidies in Germany
… as well as the sectoral distribution of the new business. Furthermore, the business survival, income situation of founders and job creation by the new businesses is analyzed during a period of 19 months after start-up. The contribution of Chapter 4 is to introduce a new explorative data set that …
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Examining small and medium enterprises’ responses to public personnel petty corruption: the case of “The Arab Republic of Egypt”
… SMEs pragmatically shift their approach based on business survival or growth, and cost-benefit considerations. It also highlights the limitations of state-led anti-corruption measures and the role of informal networks in shaping business strategies. This research makes the following academic …
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Longitudinal principal components analysis for binary and continuous data
… where patients and customers are crucial to business survival. In this thesis, we develop new statistical methodologies for handling two types of datasets: continuous data and binary data. Time-varying associations among store products provide important information to capture changes in …
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Businesses as Cultural Icons: Their Application towards Understanding Urban Morphology
… development issues. This study premises that businesses are urban cultural icons which can be computed into four rankings: local cultural icons, focal, zonal, and global cultural icons. And through using dimensional measurement an index is measured. This index can then be used to assess urban …
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A Strategy to deploy rapid prototyping within SMEs.
… could potentially have a role in assisting their business survival through increased growth and competitiveness.
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Exploring Resilience Capabilities of Micro and Small Businesses during Crisis in Nigeria
… resilience capabilities in micro and small businesses (MSBs) within Nigeria's agriculture, manufacturing and pharmaceutical sectors during crises. Despite existing studies highlighting the importance of resilience in business survival during crises, there is a gap in understanding how MSBs …
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Essays on Entrepreneurship
… concentrations of related industrial firms and business owners' cognitive and non-cognitive traits on their business survival. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and the County Business Patterns, I find that incorporated businesses that operate in a location where …
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An Evaluation of alternative strategies for the revitalisation of the horticultural industry in the Plovdiv region of Bulgaria.
… of the main advantages and problems. " The business operational characteristics of the farms in the Plovdiv region, particularly with regard to current production and marketing structure. " The evaluation by the farm managers of a range of alternative strategic options, based on Ansoff …
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Measuring the business success of enterprise systems projects
… most of the information systems requirements of business organisations. ERP, or more simply enterprise systems (ES), have constituted the majority of investment in information technology by global businesses over the last two decades and have had a profound impact upon the way these businesses …
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