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Lending Crowdfunding : Principles and Market Development

2020

AbstractCrowdlending has emerged as the leading form of crowdfunding in terms of scope and scale. For lenders, it offers new investment opportunities, often offering better returns than some alternative investment channels, as well as opening to incorporate new small-scale investors that have not enjoyed such opportunities before. For borrowers, it offers new channels to access credit, often either offered at better terms or by including groups that have previously been marginalized and underserved by traditional credit service providers. In the current chapter we present the brief history of crowdlending, its diversity of models, the current state or the industry, as well as the underlying…

VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Økonomi: 210Matching (statistics)Scope (project management)Scale (social sciences)Institutional investorAlternative investmentMarket developmentBusinessService providerMarketingDiversity (business)
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Institutional quality and resource-based economic sustainability: the mediation effects of resource governance

2022

The discovery of extractive resources is associated with multiple opportunities and unbridled optimism on achieving socio-economic development for many countries. However, the question how the host governments meet expectations of indigenous people by ensuring an ideal resource-based economic sustainability (RES) has been receiving less research attention. Using the global panel dataset of 80 resource-endowed economies from 2010 to 2017, we postulate and empirically examine the mediating effect of the resource governance (RESOGV) on the relationship between institutional quality (IQ) and RES. The ANOVA and post hoc ANOVA results revealed significant disparities in terms of IQ, RESOGV, and R…

VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Økonomi: 210Resource governanceResource-based economic sustainabilityOriginal ArticleInstitutional qualityEconomic regionsExtractive resourcesSn Business & Economics
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Sustainable development goals research in higher education institutions: An interdisciplinarity assessment through an entropy-based indicator

2022

Since 2015, the United Nations has urged higher education institutions (HEIs) to adopt an interdisciplinary approach towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In other words, universities are encouraged to transcend any single disciplinary perspective in exploring sustainable development issues. This study examines the importance of driving the scientific production of HEIs towards the SDGs as a concrete institutional contribution to sustainable development. While bibliometric tools for the SDGs are currently emerging, the existing models have not focused on interdisciplinarity or on their usefulness as decision-management tools to drive SDG-related research at a micro-scale (i.e. t…

VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Økonomi: 210Social network analysisMarketingSustainable development goals Interdisciplinarity Social network analysis Higher education institutions Information system design theoryHigher education institutions:Samfunnsvitenskap: 200 [VDP]InterdisciplinaritySustainable development goalsInformation system design theory
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Boards in microfinance institutions: how do stakeholders matter?

2012

Published version of an article in the journal: Journal of Management and Governance. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10997-011-9191-4 Microfinance Institutions provide financial services to poor people. Governance of these organizations is important so that they can operate efficiently and sustainably. This study analyzes the influence of stakeholders (donors, employees, customers, and creditors), on board structure (board size and CEO duality), and on organizational performance. We use a global data set of 379 microfinance institutions from 73 countries, collected from rating organizations. Supported by stakeholder theory, agency theory and resource depend…

VDP::Social science: 200::Economics: 210board structuremicrofinance institutionsstakeholdersperformance
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Procedūras cīņai ar naudas atmazgāšanu attīstītajās valstīs

2019

Maģistra darba mērķis ir izprast finanšu iestāžu, konkrētāk, banku un starpnieku uzņēmumu atšķirības un attieksmi saistībā ar cīņu pret naudas atmazgāšanu. Precīzāk, šī pētījuma mērķis ir padziļināti izpētīt finanšu iestāžu procedūras un kāpēc daudzas iestādes šo problēmu neuztver tik nopietni. Lai izpētītu šos mērķus, tika veikta virkne analīžu, un izvirzīti galvenie uzdevumi: •Izprast problēmas vēsturisko pamatu •Izpētīt naudas atmazgāšanas un analītiskās sistēmas apkarošanas metodes •Salīdzināt finanšu iestāžu pārstāvju izvēlētās metodes cīņai pret naudas atmazgāšanu Pētījums parādīja, ka ne visas finanšu iestādes sniedz atskaites saistībā ar aizdomīgiem darījumiem. Kā arī šķietami attīs…

Vadībzinātnemoney launderingfinancial institutionsterrorist financingLiechtensteinSwitzerland
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Augstskolu gada pārskatu diahroniskā analīze

2022

Komunikācija ir jebkuras organizācijas nozīmīga daļa, tai skaitā arī augstskolu. Valodas pielietojuma analīzes augstskolu diskursos līdz šim veiktas tikai mājaslapām un brošūrām; gadu pārskati nav pētīti. Bakalaura darba mērķis ir analizēt LU Attīstības stratēģijā (2015. – 2020.) norādīto septiņu vērtību atspoguļojumu 2018., 2019. un 2020. gada pārskatā. Darba teorētiskajā daļā tiek izmantota integrējošā literatūras pārskatu metode un empīriskajā daļā tiek apspriesta pētījumā veiktā satura analīze. Analīzes rezultāti norāda, ka visos trīs pārskatos cilvēku un sadarbības vērtības ir ar lielāko leksisko vienību skaitu, no kā tiek secināts, ka tās ir visvairāk uzsvērtās.

ValodniecībaHigher education institutionsCommunicationSemantic fieldsAnnual reportsLexical units
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Augstākās izglītības iestādes pētnieciskā profila lingvistiskā analīze

2021

Akadēmiskā diskursa pētniecība ir piesaistījusi daudzu valodnieku interesi, taču līdz šim šajā jomā vēl nav veikta lingvistiskā analīze, lai raksturotu augstākās izglītības iestādes pētniecisko profilu. Šī darba mērķis bija kvantitatīvi un kvalitatīvi novērtēt Latvijas Universitātes Humanitāro zinātņu fakultātes pētniecisko profilu, apskatot fakultātes publikāciju virsrakstu lingvistiskās struktūras. Pētījumā tika izmantota diskursa un biežuma analīze, lai analizētu izvēlēto datu kopu un apkopotu secinājumus. Iegūtie dati ļāva secināt, ka Humanitāro zinātņu fakultāte sniedz ieguldījumu pētniecībā, apkopojot un vairojot zināšanas par kultūru un valodu, pētījumos galvenokārt apskatot terminol…

Valodniecībalexical choicepublication titlessyntactic structurelinguistic analysishigher education institution
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Birokrātismi sabiedriskajā saziņā

2016

Darbs pēta birokrātismus sabiedriskajā saziņā. Darba mērķis ir izpētīt, kā veidojas nozīme Eiropas Savienības (ES) diskursā un atklāt vissarežģītākos aspektus priekš tiem valodas lietotājiem, kam angļu valoda nav dzimtā. Šī darba loks ir sašaurināts līdz vienam programmas Horizon 2015 dokumentam, un visi piemēri šajā darbā ir ņemti no iepriekšminētā dokumenta. Pētnieciskā metode ir diskursa analīze. Autore pieradīja ka zināmas birokrātismu pazīmes, kā īpašības vārdi un modalitāte, var rādīt dokumentā neskaidrību . Šī darba rezultāti ir piemēru, paskaidrojumu un rekomendāciju kopsavilkums, kas varētu palīdzēt strādāt ar neskaidras valodas gadījumiem un ES dokumentācijas praktisks pētījums, k…

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Transition to distributed energy generation in Finland: Prospects and barriers

2015

Abstract Small-scale distributed energy generation is expected to play an important role in helping Finland increase its energy self-sufficiency. However, the overall strategy to date for promoting distributed energy remains unclear. It is not yet well understood which factors promote the growth of the distributed energy sector and what barriers need to be removed. In this article we present the results of a questionnaire directed at a panel of 26 experts from the distributed energy value chain and 15 semi-structured interviews with industry and non-industry representatives. We investigated, from a sociotechnical transition perspective, the possibilities and challenges of the transition to …

Value (ethics)EngineeringEconomic growthRenewable energySociotechnical systembusiness.industryEnergy (esotericism)Institutional changeTransition (fiction)ta1172Future imagesManagement Monitoring Policy and LawGeneral EnergyDistributed energyDistributed generationGrid connectionElectricitybusinessta512Industrial organizationEnergy transitionEnergy policy
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Socio-cultural factors and entrepreneurial activity

2011

Scholars who study entrepreneurship have lent great value by exploring the factors that explain how entrepreneurs create new businesses and thus, how societies and economies grow and prosper. Although there has considerable research based on psychological and economic approaches to entrepreneurship, the influence of socio-cultural factors on enterprise development remains under studied. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to integrate, from a theoretical perspective, the socio-cultural factors and entrepreneurial activity. In this sense, the article points out that the institutional approach could be an apt framework to develop future research analyzing the socio-cultural factors that influ…

Value (ethics)EntrepreneurshipInstitutional approachbusiness.industryPerspective (graphical)Research basedInstitutional economicsSociologyBusiness and International ManagementMarketingPublic relationsbusinessInternational Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurship
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