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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Micro-businesses"”.
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Reverse Logistics in Micro Businesses : An Exploratory Study
… firms. Hence, this research explores how smaller businesses, specifically micro enterprises, pursue reverse logistics to understand the related capabilities they have, and also to understand the way they address/perceive the related costs; this has the potential to contribute towards the …
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Entrepreneurship activities in rural Tanzania: understanding women's micro businesses.
… the way rural women start and run their businesses. Religious and customary laws discriminate poor rural female entrepreneurs and hinder their efforts in undertaking entrepreneurial activities. Unfavourable credit repayment conditions and misuse of loans have negative impact on the growth …
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Market orientation on trust and performance in London's ethnic minority micro businesses
… the London African and Asian ethnic minority micro businesses (EMMBs). Searches of the literature established that previous studies concentrated on trust and market orientation, or market orientation and performance. Market orientation, trust and performance were selected as variables based on …
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Exploring factors that sustain succesful women-owned informal micro businesses in the Western Cape
… that sustain successful women-owned informal micro businesses. This explorative qualitative study was conducted in Cape Town in the communities of Philippi and Khayelitsha. Face- to- face in-depth interviewing was carried out on a purposive sample of sixteen women-owned informal …
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Trapped in ideology. The limitations of micro-finance in helping women creating viable micro-businesses
My research asks whether or not micro-finance represents a viable alternative to waged employment for women, as is the current international policy claim. To answer this question, I compared the accounts of 22 micro-finance agency employees in the UK and in Belgium with those of 20 self-employed …
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Impact of technology adoption as a key growth contributor for women micro businesses in Malaysia
… are still loopholes in adopting technology in microbusinesses, especially amongst women microentrepreneurs. Less exposure to knowledge and experience has deterred them from adopting technology. This study examines the relationship between technology adoption readiness among women …
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Investigating the role of financial literacy in the financial sustainability of micro-businesses at Bokamoso Entrepreneurial Centre in Namibia
… literacy on the financial sustainability of micro-businesses at the Bokamoso Entrepreneurial Centre in Namibia. Data was collected from 18 micro-business owners operational in the Centre. The study employed a qualitative method using an interview guide to conduct face-to-face interviews. …
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Exploring the circumstances and experiences of youth immigrants when establishing and running a successful informal micro-business
… is the promotion of youth-owned informal micro-businesses. While literature acknowledges the challenges faced by youth in running their informal micro-businesses, there is much less in the way of information that explores immigrant informal businesses. This is a qualitative study aimed at …
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Decision-making in the micro-business
Despite their importance to the UK economy micro-businesses have been neglected by academic researchers. This thesis contributes to our knowledge of such businesses by focusing on decision-making in the micro-business. The research involved 55 semi-structured interviews with the owner-managers of …
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Exploring the Impact of Socio-Cultural Factors in the Case of Gendering Micro-Entrepreneurs in the UK and Pakistan
… impacts of socio-cultural factors on gendering microentrepreneurs and their coping mechanisms in the UK and Pakistan. There is limited explanation on how and what type of factors act as incentives or barriers for male and female microentrepreneurs based in both the rural and urban areas of these …
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The Impact of Entrepreneurship Skills Provision to Women in Micro and Small Enterprises Performance
… of entrepreneurship skills provision to women in micro and small enterprises performance done in Ilemela and Nyamagana districts. The aim was to find out the importance of training to women in micro businesses performance. Rationally, the study advocacy the importance of entrepreneurship trainings …
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Creating Copreneurial Identities. A phenomenological study of how copreneurs make sense of their lived experience of work and family life in copreneurial business
… The research context is copreneurs operating micro-businesses in the Greek leisure and tourism industry. Given the size of the tourism industry worldwide and the fact that many businesses within this sector are family-owned, this is an important area of inquiry. The aim is twofold: 1. To build …
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Impacts and issues of a social innovation approach to development finance: a case study of Zoona
… to finance and financial services to small and micro businesses and the unbanked in Zambia using an agent network. The research was qualitative study and gathered insights from 11 agents and 8 employees through 19 personal interviews. A hybrid approach to thematic analysis was employed in the …
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Gestão de estoque: estudo de caso numa microempresa de material de construção na cidade de João Pessoa
… precisely, with a focus in stock. And examining micro-businesses in construction materials, that, due to the large mix of products, which makes the possible improvements from the mismanagement of stocks, a relevant factor for the success of these types of enterprises. In this survey, we describe …
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An online collaboration framework for small and medium sized enterprises in the United Kingdom construction sector
… than 99% of the UK construction sector includes businesses that are defined within the category of SMEs (Small and Medium Sized Enterprises). Of these, most are categorised as micro-businesses that have less than ten employees (Department forBusiness, Innovation & Skills, Business Population …
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Reimagining small firm growth for a post-growth context: a regional study of artisan food producers at farmers' markets
… place-based, product-focused, family-oriented micro-businesses different from a traditional food-in-retail business model. An output is an empirical framework of business development centred around the symbiotic relationship of artisan knowledge and selling at farmers’ markets. A contribution …
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Pengaruh persepsi nasabah, margin dan kualitas pelayanan terhadap keputusan pengembalian pembiayaan murobahah di BMT Sidogiri
… provide financial assistance to the traders and micro businesses are still struggling to get loans from banks. Although the funds are lent is still small, but quite helpful because the payment can be paid in installments without aggravating customers. Financing Murobahah itself is one …
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Support for post start-up small business growth
… might be improved in order to help post start-up businesses in Devon and Cornwall to grow. Interest in this issue stems from (a) previous research carried out in the region highlighting a possible need for continued business support after the initial 12 month start-up period and (b) the increasing …
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Building personal lives as informal migrants in South Africa : narratives of poor African informal migrants in Johannesburg
… period of waiting in which two things stood out: micro-entrepreneurship and development of their social and personal lives but particularly micro-entrepreneurship, as the interviewees focused on achieving a better life through micro businesses. Their engagement in trade and services in a context …
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The Role of social relationships in the setting up and management of small tourism businesses in two Portuguese rural areas.
The successful setting up and management of micro and small businesses, and tourism related businesses in particular, is dependent on a range of situational and contextual factors (Gartner 1988, 1989; Reynolds 1991; Watson et al. 1998; Jack and Anderson 2002). When very small and micro businesses …
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