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Mozambique’s Megaproject-Based Economic Model: Still Struggling with Uneven Development?
2019
Megaprojects in aluminium production, coal and natural gas extraction, and hydropower generation play a key role in the Mozambican economy. Based on the concepts of global value chains and linkages, this chapter shows that remarkable transformations are taking place in these sectors, including the expansion of production, the attraction of FDI and the emergence of new players from the Global South who now compete with transnational companies from traditional economic partner countries of Mozambique. The authors highlight potentials (in terms of economic transformation, especially positive side effects through the provision of electricity and rehabilitation of transport infrastructure) as we…
Combining system dynamics modelling and management control systems to support strategic learning processes in SMEs: a Dynamic Performance Management …
2015
Traditional management control systems, mainly centred on accounting-based measures, are widely recognized as useful tools to support Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) managers and entrepreneurs in steering business development. However, due to the increasing turbulence and dynamic complexity that characterize today’s competitive arenas, such systems need to be combined with simulation-based methodologies in order to improve entrepreneurial learning processes and, as a result, better detect possible crisis symptoms and weak signals of change—emerging from the business environment—to promptly react. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to show how a combination of traditional management con…
Methods of project management used in small and medium enterprises
2019
Abstract The paper presents the most important methods of project management and general management used in small and medium enterprises in the central area of Romania, as well as the degree of their use. Therefore, we have developed a research based on questionnaire in small and medium enterprises from various fields, in order to find how their managers combines these methods and which ones are used more frequently. Unfortunately, our research has found poor or mediocre use of project management methods, as well as most of the general management methods. Training employees of enterprises in project management field, hiring experts in management, or developing post-graduate courses in this …
POEMS: A Case Study of an Italian Wine-Producing Firm
2006
Over the last decade, researchers paid much attention to concepts such as Design for Environment, Extended Producer Responsibility, Responsible Chain Management, and Eco-design. Many management tools and standards (such as EMAS, ISO 14001, LCA, EPD, Ecolabel) have been developed to support companies in the evaluation and management of their environmental performance and to pursue continual environmental improvement. The more recent development of the aforesaid fields looks at interorganizational environmental management. Such an approach can complement the more traditional intraorganizational corporate environmental management approaches and tools. A typical example of this new trend is the…
Socio-economic assessment of direct sales in Sicilian farms
2015
Many farmers today adopt direct sales as an entrepreneurial strategy in order to achieve a competitive advantage. The aim of this study has been to analyze the role that direct sales play in Sicilian farms and how the short food supply chain is able to valorize the endogenous resources of rural areas and increase the net income of farmer. Our results showed that direct sales, in conjunction with conventional sales, can represent a growing opportunity for farmers and lead to an improvement in the economic performances of agricultural businesses, an increase in farm investments and the creation of new job opportunities.
Journal of Economics and Management Research, Vol.9
2020
Business intelligence requirements in small sized enterprises
2016
Pienet ja keskisuuret yritykset keräävät nykyisin suuren määrän tietoa ja ovat kiinnostuneet Business Intelligencestä (BI), liiketoimintatiedon hallinnasta, pärjätäkseen kilpailussa liiketoimintaympäristössä. PK-yritykset ovat merkittäviä paikallisessa, kansallisessa ja jopa globaalissa mittakaavassa, sillä ne muodostavat ison osan taloudesta. Siitä huolimatta on tutkittu hyvin vähän sitä, minkälaisia vaatimuksia ja tarpeita näillä yrityksillä on BI:tä kohtaan. Tämän Pro gradu -tutkimuksen tavoitteena on selvittää näitä vaatimuksia kvalitatiivisessa tutkimuksessa teema- ja puolistrukturoidulla haastatteluilla. Yhdistävä tekijä BI-termistössä ja näkökulmissa on, se että kaikissa määrityksiss…
Environmental Management Systems (Ems) - Control Instrument of the Impact of the Organization Activities on the Environment
2015
Abstract Due to the ability to create and use technology, the human being has found various ways to transform the resources of the Earth in all sorts of new materials, equipment and energy sources. At least since the last industrial revolution until now, each generation has added more technology to the received legacy, but at the same time, left the planet in a far more degraded state than the inherited condition. Within these changes, small and medium enterprises (SME) in their capacity as pillars of the economic development of a nation, have been compelled to change their previous strategies. Implementing an Environmental Management Systems (EMS) can be seen as the only way to connect the…
Les déterminants de la complexité des systèmes d’information comptables des dirigeants de PME : contingences culturelles et endogénéité
2018
Le premier objectif est d’étudier le lien entre les dimensions de la culture nationale et la complexité des systèmes d’information comptables (SIC) des dirigeants de PME. Le second est de contribuer au débat sur la présence potentielle de biais d’endogénéité dans les précédentes études réalisées sur le thème. Une régression multiple et un test d’Hausman ont été mobilisés en utilisant les réponses de 276 dirigeants de PME françaises, tunisiennes et syriennes. Les quatre dimensions de la culture proposées par Hofstede sont des déterminants significatifs de la complexité des SIC. Le test d’Hausman révèle que l’existence d’endogénéité est peu plausible.
Déterminants de la viabilité financière des PME
2020
To be interested in the survival of SME (small and medium-sized enterprises) is to question their ability to create rent and therefore their financial viability. Our panel study on French SMEs, between 2000 and 2018, shows that several factors play a different role in the annuity creation process. If the effectiveness of state governance seems to play a negative role, through the policies put in place, it turns out that debt plays a positive role in the wealth creation process of SME. Given the nature of the goods or service activities, the impact of suppliers and customers is different. In any case, SME in France suffer from a problem of generation renewal and transmission of knowledge whi…