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Embracing Complexity in HRM Research: A Call for System and Process Perspectives

Human Resource Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human resource management (HRM) is inherently complex. It involves systems of principles, practices, and activities operating at individual, group, organizational, and macro levels, which are interlinked through complex processes. Yet, empirical research has not kept pace with this conceptual richness.
Rebecca Hewett, Madleen Meier‐Barthold
wiley   +1 more source

What Role Do Finance Ministers Play in Political Business Cycles? Evidence‐Based on a New African Dataset

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how the personal characteristics of finance ministers influence political budget cycles in Africa. Using a new dataset covering 300 finance ministers across 23 countries from 1980 to 2020, we find that political budget cycles primarily take the form of increased government consumption during election years.
Christine Olivia Strong
wiley   +1 more source

How Does Vulnerability Framing by Microfinance Institutions Leverage Funding Success in Crowdfunding?

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study draws on framing theory to investigate how microfinance institutions (MFIs) strategically construct a vulnerability‐oriented organisational identity and how this framing influences their funding decisions during the pre‐campaign phase of prosocial crowdfunding.
Ana Paula Matias Gama, Ricardo Emanuel‐Correia, Fábio Duarte, Mário Augusto   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Growing Demand and Uneven Supply: Eight Years of Nature Education in China 需求增长与供给不均:中国自然教育八年发展回顾

Integrative Conservation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the role of nature education in advancing conservation and sustainability in China between 2014 and 2023. Drawing on national survey reports and historical–comparative methods, it analyses the dynamics of public demand, institutional supply, and practitioner capacity.
Qi Yunxi, Lyu Xiang, Huang Yu
wiley   +1 more source

Breaking dependency: The Cinderella complex and barriers to self-employment among rural women in Iran. [PDF]

PLoS One
Seyedtabatabaei Z, Fatemi M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Correlates of Help‐Seeking Behaviour in a Low‐Income Country: A Focus on Children's and Women's Outcomes

Journal of International Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In developing countries, where access to markets and services is limited, poor households often rely on social networks for support. We examine the correlates and outcomes of help‐seeking behaviour among impoverished households in Uganda. We use micro‐household data from the Living Standard Measurement Study—Integrated Surveys on Agriculture ...
Yuanhang Wang, Kashi Kafle, Shahriar Kibriya   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring differences among serial, portfolio, and novice entrepreneurs: A study of demographic and psychological factors in micro and small enterprises. [PDF]

PLoS One
Ropęga J, Lipińska-Grobelny A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Youth Entrepreneurship, Credit Access and Post‐Disaster Business Recovery: Evidence From Informal Food Enterprises in Ghana

Journal of International Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how access to finance (credit access) influences business recovery and entrepreneurial performance among youth‐led informal food enterprises in Ghana, with implications for financial inclusion, entrepreneurial ability and post‐crisis business resilience in developing economies.
Bernard Kwamena Cobbina Essel, Ebenezer Donkor, Ayat Ullah, Faizal Adams, Miroslava Bavorova   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gender Variations and Entrepreneurial Intentions: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Finalist Undergraduate Students at Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda. [PDF]

F1000Res
Rukundo A, Tumwebembire N, Aryatwijuka W, Tugiramasiko M, Twinamasiko S.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Overplacement and Market Entry Decisions: A Modified Market Entry Game to Detect Nascent Entrepreneurs' Goal‐Motivated Reasoning Amid Radical Uncertainties

Strategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Overplacement, a form of overconfidence characterized by the distorted belief that one is better than others, is considered a key driver of nascent entrepreneurship. The entrepreneurship literature typically associates entrepreneurial overplacement with negative outcomes and attributes it to erroneous information processing. The potential role
Zsófia Vörös, Olivér Béla Kovács, Papp Tamás   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source