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Description Rural Community is set outside of the city and towns. Rural communities are often farm lands. However, a rural community can also be woodland forests, plains, deserts, and prairies. There are few buildings, businesses, and people in rural communities. In these communities people live...

Description One of the main objectives facing marketers is to present consumers with information on which to base their decisions (Anderson and Rubin 1986; Bettman 1975). Presenting such information is not simple, and it contains an interesting dilemma. On the one hand, a vast amount of...

Description We find that order flows are highly informative about future exchange rates and provide significant economic value for the few large dealers who have access to these flows. Moreover, customer groups systematically engage in risk sharing with each other and differ markedly in their...

Description Market orientation research has accumulated a variety of findingsover the past two decades, during which researchers have emphasized the importance of information flow within an organization. However, even though market information isvery important for the organizationʼsadaptation to...

Description Productivity in the construction industry is trailing other industries. Architects and engineers are slowly adapting to a more digital way of working. Contractors are, on the other hand, not following this development, although they can see the advantage in using digital information...

Description The right management of information is crucial in construction projects and has been studied by many researchers. This paper begins by defining and discussing some information management concepts. In particular, it proposes a reflection about the pull-push model for transferring...

Description It is almost a commonplace to describe the current business environmental setting as turbulent. The marketplace has become more global and service oriented and clients' tastes have become more demanding and sophisticated (Albino et al., 2002). Under this circumstance, many firms have...

Description The common modelsfor computersecurity are proving inadequate. Security models have two goals: preventing accidental or malicious destruction of information, and controlling the release and propagation of that information. Only the first of these goals is supported well at present, by...

Description Flow management is a new integral management approach which was, especially, developed for medium-sized manufacturing companies. A purposeful development process is initiated which significantly increases the productivity of the companies by concrete and in practice proven procedures...

Description Case Study on Problems of Establishing a Small Business Enterprise in Nigeria - Alahteef Nig Ltd There exist lots and lots of business ventures that are being engaged by individuals, group of people or association, firms, industries and government with the main aim of maximizing...

Description The purpose of this paper is to examine factors influencing small- scale business performance in Lagos state, Nigeria using gendered based analysis. The study hinges on feminist theory which explains that the differences in behaviour of women and men in business could be attributed...

Description A business whether small or big, simple or complex, private or public, etc is created to provide competitive prices. Business in Nigeria has been classified as small, medium and large. However, a small scale industry can be defined by the criteria of project costs, capital, cost...

Description Small scale enterprises sector has been recognized as an integral component of economic development and a crucial element in the effort to lift countries out of poverty . Onwuka and Ile posited that the reason why government attention has always been on the small scale enterprises is...

Description Finance is the key input of production distribution& development. It is therefore aptly described as the "life- blood" of industry& is prerequisite for accelerating the process of industrial development. Especially in case of small scale industries, finance is the key input in growth...

Description After nearly two decades of severe economic decline resulting from several factors, including external shocks and domestic economic mismanagement, Africa's economic recovery has been gaining momentum over the past four years. Despite the encouraging signs of this renaissance, the...

Description "Rural and Women Entrepreneurship (RWE) Development Programme", which is managed by the Small and Medium Enterprises Branch. As a core contribution of UNIDO to poverty reduction, the programme supports rural people and women in their aspirations for entrepreneurial initiatives...

Description The dynamic role of micro and small-scale enterprises (MSEs) in developing countries as "necessary engines for achieving national development goals such as economic growth, poverty alleviation, employment and wealth creation, leading to a more equitable distribution of income and...

Description The importance of small scale industry sector (SSI) has been increasingly recognized in developing countries as a solution to the problem of scarcity of capital, widespread unemployment and poverty (see for example, Romijn 2001 and Junejo, et al 2007). In Ghana Rural Small-Scale...

Description The term agro-industry has acquired new significance in recent years in the wake of growing need of interdependence between agriculture and industry and the modernization of the former. In traditional agriculture system, various agricultural operations, storage facilities and...

Description This paper offers a critique of conventional approaches to so-called 'reputation management': the business function concerned with influencing, often through diverse communication practices, stakeholders' perceptions and estimation of an organisation's economic and social practices...