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Informality, institutional inconsistency and information asymmetry as barriers for entrepreneurship and innovation in the non-wood forest products sector in Republic of North Macedonia

Central European Forestry Journal
Non-wood forest products (NWFPs) are crucial for rural development, offering opportunities for entrepreneur-ship and innovation in forest-dependent areas.
Stojanovski Vladimir, Živojinović Ivana, Hogl Karl, Weiss Gerhard   +3 more
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Towards a Better Understanding of the Factors of Entrepreneurial Failure: An Exploratory Study among Entrepreneurs in the Sfax Region, Tunisia

Journal of International Business, Economics and Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurial failure remains a complex, multi-dimensional subject of study that continues to generate academic debate due to the lack of consensus on its definition and implications.
Mourad Souissi
doaj   +1 more source

Developing a critical caste analysis within information science and technology: A research review: An annual review of information science and technology paper

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
wiley   +1 more source

Entrepreneurship education and development as an integral part of the enterprise system in Saudi Arabia [PDF]

, 2010
The impact of entrepreneurial activity on the economies of both industrialised and developing countries has been well established and theorised in the normative literature.
Almahdi, HK, Dickson, K
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A sustainable business ecosystem: a case study demonstrating biochar's potential

Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, EarlyView.
Abstract The need for renewable, climate‐friendly resources has become urgent as legislators worldwide have sought to find ways to cut emissions while ensuring resource security for consumers. The use of biochar could help to achieve these goals. This study examines the current state of commercial biochar production and the maturity of the related ...
Kivijakola Juuso, Erkheikki Eemeli, Lukka Viljo, Tervonen Pekka, Harri Haapasalo   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Listening to Hong Kong children's perspectives through pretend play

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) has become an increasing concern in recent years. The issue has been regularly discussed by different stakeholders. However, the rising concern regarding quality in ECEC has not seriously taken into account children's perspectives.
Suzannie K. Y. Leung
wiley   +1 more source

The Institutional Environment and the Banking - Growth Nexus: Theory and Investigation for MENA [PDF]

This paper seeks to provide some theoretical and empirical answers to the following question: Does the institutional environment affect the causality relationship between banking development and economic growth?
Nabi, Mahmoud Sami, Suliman, Mohamed Osman   +1 more
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‘Let's talk about the weather’: The activist curriculum and global climate change education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Activist movements have garnered significant global attention on a range of sustainability issues, often involving collectives of citizens coming together. Invoked is the idea of citizens informed to act, emerging not from a common‐sense understanding of everyday life, but rather from a deep political understanding of the world—one that is ...
Richard Pountney
wiley   +1 more source

‘Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such ...
Sharon Hunter, Claire Cassidy
wiley   +1 more source

Does innovation matter for economic development? An empirical study of small and medium-sized enterprises in the city of Kumba – Cameroon [PDF]

, 2007
In recent years, the development priorities of African countries have focused on private sector development to build a strong market economy that gives a more dynamic role to indigenous entrepreneurs and their innovative small and medium-sized ...
Ngoasong, Michael Zisuh
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