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Institutional Fragility and E‐Business Adoption: A Study of SMEs in a Conflict‐Affected Economy

Strategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines e‐business adoption among SMEs in Yemen, a conflict‐affected and institutionally fragile economy. Drawing on a mixed‐methods design, it combines Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS‐SEM) with qualitative interviews to analyse how war and firm size moderate the effects of key adoption drivers and barriers.
Ahmed Abdullah, Ahmed Almoraish, Abdul‐Fatahi Abdulai, Ahmad Samed Al‐Adwan, Wail Alhakimi, Ziad Abdelmoety   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Opening the Black Box of Nonprofit Reputation and Volunteer Attraction With Supervised Machine Learning

Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT With the aim to explore the potential of machine learning for nonprofit research, this article contrasts traditional linear regression with four contemporary supervised machine learning approaches. Concretely, we predict (1) reputation ratings and (2) the total number of volunteers for 4021 non‐profit organizations in the U.S.
Moritz Schmid, Hannes Lampe, Jurgen Willems   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nonprofit Governance and Financial Stability: A Study of Government‐Funded Social Services

Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nonprofit social service providers are essential in delivering vital services, often with public funding. This study adopts a contingency perspective to explore the relationship between organizational governance and financial stability in publicly funded nonprofit organizations. We use a combination of comparative multilevel analysis (CMA) and
Florentine Maier, Michael Meyer, Josef Baumüller, Christian Grünhaus, Franka Walde   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Islamic Public Administration in Practice: The Taliban's “Gender Apartheid” Governance in Afghanistan

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyzes the Taliban's post‐2021 governance model through the Islamic Public Administration (IPA) framework, focusing on justice, equality, and women's inclusion. It asks: (1) How does the Taliban's governance align with core IPA principles?
Parwiz Mosamim, Jean‐Patrick Villeneuve   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The impact of local taxes and fees on the financial sustainability of territorial communities in times of war

Economics. Finances. Law
The paper analyses the impact of local taxes and fees on the financial sustainability of territorial communities. The concept of financial sustainability is considered in relation to financial management, investment planning and debt control. It is noted that in the context of finance, the concept of ‘financial sustainability’ is identified with ...
Oksana ZAKHIDNA, Viktoriia DUBYK, Yaryna DANYLIAK   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

The Hidden Costs of Coffee Production in the Eastern African Value Chains

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is increasing recognition that significant hidden costs associated with agrifood systems are not reflected in market prices. Coffee is among the three most traded agricultural commodities in the world and supports the livelihoods of more than 30 million smallholder households.
Annet Adong, Lukas Kornher, Bezawit Beyene Chichaibelu, Aslihan Arslan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Analysis of the Effectiveness and the Contribution of Local Taxes and Local User Fees on the Local Own-Source Revenue Improvement in East Java

Journal of Development Economic and Social Studies
The performance of local revenue (PAD) is an indicator of the success of regional autonomy. To maximize regional autonomy and reduce dependence on the central government, local governments must increase own-source revenues, including local taxes and levies. This study aims to analyze the effectiveness and contribution of local taxes and local levies to
Vania Salsabillah Febriana, null Ajeng Kartika Galuh   +1 more
openaire   +1 more source

LAND FEE AS A COMPONENT OF PROPERTY TAX: THE ROLE IN THE FORMATION OF LOCAL BUDGETS AND RESERVES FOR INCREASING REVENUES

, 2018
The article analyzes the fiscal significance of the payment for land in the formation of the financial basis of local self-government, identifies the reasons for failing to receive this type of revenues into local budgets and reserves their increase, and also investigates the impact of fiscal tax innovations on strengthening the role of land payment as
Diegtyar A.O, Goncharenko M.V.
openaire   +2 more sources

Isolation, Insularity and Resilience: A Review of the Geophysical, Socioeconomic, and Environmental Vulnerabilities of Gran Canaria and Lesvos Islands for Policy Interventions to Global Change

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The dynamic nature of small islands being geographically isolated and their perceived connectedness with global networks complicates research attempts to draw general conclusions on whether insularity leads to marginalization or strengthens their resilience for sustainable development.
Toheeb Lekan Jolaosho, Mazen Marouani, Takwa Boughanmi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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Nonconventional Technologies Review, 2015
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