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An Exploration of Influences of the Growth of Small Firms in Libya [PDF]

The development of small businesses and the increasing role they are playing as engines of economic growth, employment generation and social change is making them a subject of major strategic importance to governments, and growing interest to ...
Hajjaji, Iman Salem Ali
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Frugal Innovation as a Strategic Mechanism Linking Learning, International Growth Orientation, and Performance

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how international growth orientation and organizational learning capability jointly influence frugal innovation and organizational performance. Survey data were collected from 342 manufacturing firms in Santa Catarina (Southern Brazil) and analyzed using partial least squares structural equation modeling and multigroup ...
Júlia Quintino Sant'Ana, Giancarlo Gomes, Joaquin Alegre, Paula Gulart Munhoz   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Insights from a dataset on web system adoption among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs): A survey in Malaysia. [PDF]

Data Brief
Jaganathan M, Kolandan S, Uthama Puthran L, Saoula O.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Role of Institutional Pressures in Technology Adoption for Low‐Carbon Manufacturing

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Existing research highlights that the adoption of low‐carbon technologies in manufacturing operations is shaped by the external environment. However, limited understanding exists regarding how technology‐related uncertainty interacts with institutional pressures to influence firms' adoption strategies.
Diellza Salihu, Mika Immonen, Aleksi Harju   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring entrepreneurship among general practitioners: a scoping review of education and practice. [PDF]

BMC Prim Care
Pirouzi M, Harwood M, Scahill S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Clusters, Global Value Chains, and the Business Environment: A Hierarchy of Institutional Influence on Small and Medium Enterprise Sustainability

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) dominate the global business landscape, making their sustainability efforts crucial. Yet little is known about how institutional contexts shape these practices. Using Institutional Theory, we compare the influence of cluster membership (CM), global value chain (GVC) membership, and the organizational ...
Barbara Caemmerer, Valentina Stan, Giorgio Russolillo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Support services for rural women micro-entrepreneurs in Bangladesh: a sectoral comparison. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Begum J, Kusakabe K, Tsusaka TW.
europepmc   +1 more source

Innovative Way of Transferring Education and Training Facilities in Namibia. The Adult Skills Development for Self_Emplyments (ASDSE) Project [PDF]

This paper investigates new ways to transfer entrepreneurial education to previously disadvantaged individuals. It analyses the case of the ASDSE project, implemented in the form of partnership between the Namibian Government, a Non Governmental ...
Bruno Venditto, Caludio Tonin
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Analyzing the Development of a Sustainable Enterprise in an Emerging Economy: Black Cacau and the Bean‐to‐Bar Philosophy

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines sustainable entrepreneurship (SE) in emerging economies through the case of Black Cacau, a Brazilian bean‐to‐bar enterprise integrating agroforestry, direct trade, and Afro‐Brazilian cultural empowerment. Adapting the Patagonia‐based framework of Allal‐Chérif et al., the study explores how SE operates under conditions of ...
Marcelo Dionisio
wiley   +1 more source

From complexity to parsimony: A systems thinking validation of the multiple streams framework in abortion policy agenda setting. [PDF]

Health Res Policy Syst
Alvarado G.
europepmc   +1 more source