This study examines the interaction between formalization of the artisanal and smallscale mining subsector and the regulation of negative environmental impacts in Tanzania. Formalization generally seeks to move the artisanal and small-scale mining subsector to legal status. Using documents,...

This study provides a comprehensive assessment of firms' operation and environmental protection polices in Nigeria and Ghana, where there has been a rising industrial growth amidst low regulatory and institutional frameworks. We analyze the extents to whic h firms' adoption of environmental...

Testing circular economy business models is crucial in understanding Circular Economy features across various industries. This paper analyses Circular Economy perceptions in Romanian SMEs by investigating entrepreneurs from PVC joinery industry. Using a multidimensional framework, ReSOLVE, as a...

Water intensive manufacturing enterprises implicates a specific modality of human-nature relations, in which resources are "extracted" from nature to meet the demands of humans and the effluents (wastewater) and wastes produced in this process are ‘dumped’ back into nature (sea, river,...

This paper focuses on a new concern in the small firm’s literature, namely what makes a small firm stay in business for a long time. It reflects a change in economic policy, away from an emphasis on volume of start-ups to an emphasis on quality of start-ups. The basic hypothesis is that...

Limited access of small enterprises to reliable and well-prepared information about their condition is mentioned as one of the main barriers to small business development. One of the key types of information used in management is financial information. It concerns the resources and financial...

Die weltweite Corona-Pandemie hat die globale Wirtschaft stark beeinflusst und weiterhin fest im Griff; nahezu alle Branchen sind betroffen. Von den Konsequenzen sind auch die kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen (KMU), die mit einem Anteil von über 99% aller Unternehmen das Herzstück der deutschen...

Using Germany as an example, this article examines how different groups of small andmedium-sized enterprises were impacted by and recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic.The study found that at the onset of the pandemic, turnover losses were experienced notjust by enterprises regarded as poor...

IT-Compliance als Teilbereich der IT-Governance erlangt derzeit wachsende Bedeutung. Dass die Forderung nach Gesetzestreue trivial erscheint, offenbar jedoch nicht ist, belegen allein schon die in 2008 bekannt gewordenen Compliance-Verstöße. Diesbezüglich wird die Befolgung der Vorschriften...

Für westeuropäische Unternehmen im Allgemeinen und für westeuropäische kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMU) im Besonderen bildete die politische und wirtschaftliche Marktöffnung in Mittel- und Osteuropa (MOE) zu Beginn der 1990er Jahre und die Integration vieler dieser...