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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The cocoa‐chocolate value chain faces significant environmental and social challenges, driving firms to adopt sustainability strategies ranging from individual practices to third‐party certifications. This study investigates the factors associated with these strategies by analyzing 304 cocoa‐chocolate companies using firm‐level data from the ...
Stella Marschner +3 more
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Small and Medium Sizes Enterprises (SMEs) and Foreign Trade Policy [PDF]
International Conference on Eurasian Economies, 2015 A high level of a country’s foreign trade is related to the growth of foreign earnings, to the acceleration of investments, to increase employment and contributes significantly to the growth of the country's economy. In this context, SMEs as one of the mile stones of the economy, foreign trade and economic growth are located in the leading roles ...
İlkay Noyan Yalman +2 more
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Firm Size and Regional Linkages. A Typology of Manufacturing Establishments in Southern Spain [PDF]
, 2007 Regions with different levels of development are characterized by different enterprise compositions according to firm size and regional productive linkages.
Romero Luna, Isidoro +1 more
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Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Innovation is a presumed channel through which finance affects productivity, yet there is limited research testing the relationship between finance and innovation in the food manufacturing sector. The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants (e.g., financing, R&D, firm size, expenditure on innovation) of the adoption of innovation ...
Getu Hailu, Deepananda Herath
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Production Engineering ArchivesDespite progressive occupational health and safety (OHS) laws, South Africa experiences high work-place injury rates, particularly in the manufacturing sector.
Raditsela Reagile +2 more
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Employee training as a tool to achieve goals depending on SME’s type [PDF]
Problems and Perspectives in ManagementEmployee training is one of the most important areas of human resources management and is key to the career development of employees. The aim is to determine how the sector and size of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) influence the corporate education
Iveta Kmecova, Stefan Gavura
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While ESG (environmental, social, and governance) is emphasized among listed companies for their stakeholders and ESG disclosures, ESG engagement among unlisted companies has been rarely examined due to data limitations. This is particularly problematic for the agri‐food industry that has significant impacts on the environment and consists ...
Ying Wang, Satoru Shimokawa
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Institutional and normative legal basis of small business activity
Aspekti Publìčnogo Upravlìnnâ, 2018 This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of the factors that influence small to medium-sized enterprise (SME) performance and particularly, growth.
S. V. Osadchuk
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study analyzes the effects of value co‐creation and creation of shared value in agricultural input marketing. This study used a sample of 178 agricultural companies in Costa Rica. The data were analyzed using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS‐SEM) with SMART PLS software. Our findings reveal the significant influence
Luis Ricardo Solís‐Rivera +1 more
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Exploring the viability of remote work for SME
Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market and ComplexityPurpose: This study aims to identify and examine the relevance of implementing remote work by small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) business operators during the post-COVID-19 era in developing nations. Design/methodology/approach: The study utilised a
Afzal Izzaz Zahari +4 more
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