South African Computer Science and Information Systems Research Trends
| Author | : Aurona Gerber |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 467 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 3031648811 |
Anatomy Of The Small Medium Enterprises Smes Critical Success Factors Csfs In Zimbabwe
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Handbook of Research on Strategies and Interventions to Mitigate COVID-19 Impact on SMEs
| Author | : Baporikar, Neeta |
| Publisher | : IGI Global |
| Total Pages | : 628 |
| Release | : 2021-06-25 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1799874370 |
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every aspect of the modern world, and its impact is felt by all. The pandemic particularly has had a large impact on businesses as they were forced to close, supply chains were disrupted, and new health and safety precautions were adopted. As such, many businesses, especially small businesses, were faced with losses they could not afford. Governments and stakeholders across the world have thus needed to formulate various strategies and interventions to mitigate the negative consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly as they relate to small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The Handbook of Research on Strategies and Interventions to Mitigate COVID-19 Impact on SMEs is a comprehensive reference source that encapsulates the overall effect of COVID-19 on SMEs and a variety of strategies to overcome the negative effects and create more sustainable policies and organizations moving forward. The book offers a thorough overview of interventions and tactics to help organizations, entrepreneurs, and institutions of higher learning overcome the negative impact of COVID-19 while preparing policies for a more effective post-pandemic world. Covering topics that include sustainable practices for development, interventions to lessen the impact of COVID-19, and psychological resilience for SME employees, this book is Ideal for entrepreneurs, managers, executives, small businesses, family firms, academicians, scholar-practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and students.
Advances in Industrial and Production Engineering
| Author | : Kripa Shanker |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 854 |
| Release | : 2019-04-23 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 9811364125 |
This book comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on Future Learning Aspects of Mechanical Engineering (FLAME 2018). The book discusses different topics of industrial and production engineering such as sustainable manufacturing systems, computer-aided engineering, rapid prototyping, manufacturing management and automation, metrology, manufacturing process optimization, casting, welding, machining, and machine tools. The contents of this book will be useful for researchers as well as professionals.
Global Creative Ecosystems
| Author | : Tarek E. Virani |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 325 |
| Release | : 2023-09-22 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 3031339614 |
This book reorients the lens of global creative economies in order to focus on ecological articulations of cultural production ecosystems. While numerous volumes and studies exist of how cities and regions all over the world produce culture, this volume uses a creative ecosystems perspective to articulate and underpin examples of sustainable growth and development with respect to cultural production. This volume offer a distinctive, in-depth understanding of how creative and cultural policy works in cities from around the world – not solely from academic or policy perspectives but including practitioners as well. The book aims to question and reformulate policy as it has been developed through creative industries approaches and instead offer up different examples and approaches to regional development with a focus on cultural production. The book carves a creative economy policy-oriented path of development that reflects the real world.
Small and Medium Enterprises Across the Globe
| Author | : Meghana Ayyagari |
| Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
| Total Pages | : 40 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Pequeą y mediana empresa (PYME) |
| ISBN | : |
This paper describes a new cross-country database on the importance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). This database is unique in that it presents consistent and comparable information on the contribution of the SME sector to total employment and GDP across different countries. The dataset improves on existing publicly available datasets on several grounds. First, it extends coverage to a broader set of developing and industrial economies. Second, it provides information on the contribution of the SME sector using a uniform definition of SMEs across different countries, allowing for consistent cross-country comparisons. Third, while we follow the traditional definition of the SME sector as being part of the formal sector, the new database also includes the size of the SME sector relative to the informal sector. This paper describes the sources and the construction of the different indicators, presents descriptive statistics, and explores correlations with other socioeconomic variables. This paper--a product of Finance, Development Research Group--is part of a larger effort in the group to study SME-related issues.
Regional Development in Africa
| Author | : Norbert Edomah |
| Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 2020-08-19 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1789852374 |
Regional development is a broad term but can be seen as a general effort to reduce regional disparities by supporting (employment and wealth-generating) economic activities in regions. In the past, regional development policy tended to try to achieve these objectives by means of large-scale infrastructure development and by attracting inward investment” (OECD, 2014).A territorial and regional approach to development is crucial in addressing regional challenges, regional economic competitiveness, and reducing socio-economic discrepancies. This book provides a forum to articulate and discuss Africa’s regional development issues in view of the rising opportunities within the African region. This volume contains 14 chapters and is organized in four sections: Introduction; Industry, Trade and Investment in Africa; Agricultural Services and the Water-energy-food Nexus in Africa; and Environmental and Cultural Dimensions to Africa’s Regional Development.
Extending the Protection of Geographical Indications
| Author | : Michael Blakeney |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 385 |
| Release | : 2013-03-05 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1136478795 |
The TRIPS Agreement (for trade-related intellectual property rights) provides for the general protection of geographical indications (GIs) of product origin, including for example the special protection of wines and spirits and for the creation of a multilateral register for wines. The African Group of countries has been in the forefront of countries agitating in the World Trade Organization TRIPS Council for the extension of this special protection and of the multilateral register to industries which are of interest to developing countries, primarily agriculture. The so-called "extension question" is the central feature of the Doha Development Agenda at both the WTO and World Intellectual Property Organization. This book provides some empirical evidence and applied legal and economic reasoning to this debate. It provides both a general review of the key issues and a series of case studies from six Anglophone and four Francophone countries in Africa. These focus on major agricultural commodities such as coffee, cotton, cocoa and tea, as well as more specific and local products such as Argan oil and Oku white honey.
Sustainability for SMEs
| Author | : Elaine Cohen |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 130 |
| Release | : 2017-09-29 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1351274783 |
Sustainability for SMEs offers a comprehensive introduction to the key business cases and techniques for putting sustainability at the heart of your business strategy.Small businesses make a significant collective impact on the environment and society – but only a tiny percentage of SMEs complete a sustainability report. Sustainability Reporting for SMEs will enable any SME to get up to speed on sustainability reporting and plot a course of action for their business. Elaine Cohen distils the latest and best thinking on sustainability reporting for SMEs, and offers a process for reporting that will deliver significant business advantage, both in terms of more effective internal processes and in terms of reputation, customer loyalty and business-building.In many SMEs sustainability is one person’s passion and responsibility. A large part of their job becomes selling sustainability to other people in the business. Strategic Sustainability offers arguments, information and tactics that will help that person get the buy-in they need to move sustainability forward in their business. Sustainability is of strategic importance to a business. This book makes an airtight case for why action is essential and how sustainability can help a business not only survive but thrive in competitive marketplaces.The major environmental impact of most businesses derives from energy usage. There are many ways to make your organisation's energy usage more sustainable. In Sustainable Energy Options for Business, Philip Wolfe outlines the best available options for (1) reducing energy use and (2) improving the sustainability of energy supply. After an introduction to regulatory drivers and management issues, Wolfe looks at energy opportunities in five key areas.
The State of the Art in Small Business and Entrepreneurship
| Author | : Pierre-Andre Julien |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 417 |
| Release | : 2018-11-08 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 042977026X |
Published in 1998. This text is designed as not only a summary of a number of years of reflections by many different researchers, but also a guide for future research and for continuing development of a theory of small business and its environment; a theory that will apply to small businesses everywhere and that will help them become what they hope to be in the 21st century.
Organizational Change for Corporate Sustainability
| Author | : Dexter Colboyd Dunphy |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780415287418 |
Using specific examples of incremental and transformational changes, and outlining the long-term corporate benefits of sustainability, the book examines the changes required to achieve true sustainability.
