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Sustainability Practices in SMEs: An Explorative Study on Ethnic Minority–Owned SMEs in the United Kingdom

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The application of firm sustainability practices (FSP) in ethnic minority–owned small and medium–sized enterprises (ESMEs) has received significantly less scholarly focus, making ESME FSP an emerging academic field. This study aims to explore the factors influencing ethnic minority–owned SMEs involved in FSP and identify the factors hindering ...
Nurul Islam   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Clarence Blay: 'Ghana has 140,000 mobile money agents versus 1,300 bank branches' [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The most famous mobile payments system in Africa, MPesa, allows users to make payments by sending text messages from simple mobile phones, not necessarily smart ones.
Vieira, Helena
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Think Global, Act Local? Fortune 500 Business Strategies for Sustainable Cities and Communities (SDG 11)

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The role of business towards achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been well established. However, SDG contextualization continues to pose a conundrum, particularly for firms operating in multiple contexts. This becomes even more problematic in the case of SDG 11, the only goal in the sustainable development agenda directly
Andreas Georgiou
wiley   +1 more source

Digital Technologies Disclosure and the Cost of Capital: The Mediating Role of Sustainability Performance

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the economic consequences of Digital Technologies Disclosure (DTD), focusing on its impact on the cost of capital. The increasing significance of digital transformation in shaping corporate strategies and market perceptions motivates the study.
Hussein Mohsen Saber Ahmed   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Facilitating Cross-Border Mobile Banking in Southern Africa [PDF]

open access: yes
The use of mobile banking is an increasingly important component of national and regional economic development in Southern Africa. Mobile banking can help bring the large unbanked population into the formal financial sector, and can facilitate cross ...
Maimbo, Samuel   +2 more
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Navigating Market Constraints: Sustainable Startups Driving Transformative Change Through Venture Creation

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper contributes to venture‐creation research by examining how sustainable startups can overcome market constraints to drive transformative change through their business development. Conceptually, we address this question by identifying venture‐creation narratives in the learning and experimental phases of sustainable startups that ...
Ville‐Veikko Piispanen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of Mobile Money Access on Household Expenditures: A Case Study from Kenya

open access: yesJurnal Ekonomi Pembangunan: Kajian Masalah Ekonomi dan Pembangunan
This paper investigates the impact of access to mobile money services on household expenditure patterns in Kenya – focusing on essential expenditures: food, rent, cellphone, and transport – using data from the 2021 FinAccess household survey, which ...
Mussa Deme   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mobile money transactions and banking sector performance in Ghana. [PDF]

open access: yesHeliyon, 2022
Kulu E   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Catherine Wines: ‘International remittances help people directly’ [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The co-founder of WorldRemit talks about how the company disrupted the market by using mobile money ...
Vieira, Helena
core  

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