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Engagement in green procurement : antecedents and outcomes on manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprises from Iran

Khodaparasti, Ramin Bashir; Garabollagh, Hooshmand Bagheri - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 22 (2020) 53, pp. 102-120

Implementation of green procurement principles in the public and private sectors is an important issue in favour of sustainable development. This correlational survey aimed to identify and analyse the antecedents and outcomes of the adoption of product-based green procurement practices in...

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Using Meta-Analysis to Assess Benefits of Green Infrastructure Investments : Application to Small Urban Projects in Hinesville, GA

Landry, Craig E.; Pippin, J. Scott; Zarei, Reza - 2021

Small scale urban green infrastructure projects can provide local ecological services that should be accounted for in project assessment. Benefits assessment can be expensive and time consuming; benefit transfer provides an economical alternative, but the quality of the analysis depends upon...

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Sustainability drivers of small and medium sized firms : a review and research agenda

Korsakienė, Renata; Raišiené, Agota Giedré - In: Scientific papers of the University of Pardubice 30 (2022) 1, pp. 1-12

-sized enterprises (SME). This study seeks to systematically analyse the literature focused on sustainability of SMEs. Bibliometric … systematic analysis of SME and sustainability and develops recommendations on how to address prevailing research gaps. …

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Impact of global value chains on performance of small and medium-sized enterprises in Sri Lanka : evidence from Sri Lanka

Deyshappriya, N. P. Ravindra; Maduwanthi, B.C.H. - 2020

The current study examines the impact of GVCs on the performance of SMEs in Uva and central provinces of Sri Lanka while recognizing potential local business sectors that can be linked with GVCs. Apart from that, key challenges and main success factors in relation to linking SMEs with GVCs are...

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Tourism and SME development: performance of tourism SMEs in coastal tourist destinations in southern Sri Lanka

Deyshappriya, N. P. Ravindra; Nawarathna, A. M. D. B. - 2020

collect the data required for the study. As the survey findings highlight, the majority of SME owners are male, irrespective … of the SME type. Moreover, the survey recognized six main business types of non-tourism SMEs: agriculture, farming, and … profit of the entire sample of SMEs. However, the education level of tourism-related SME owners is slightly lower than that …

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Motivation program in small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises based on the preference for needs

Hitka, Milos; Lorincova, Silvia; Rowland, Zuzana; … - In: Journal of business economics and management 24 (2023) 3, pp. 471-488

Motivation and meeting the employee needs as a part of human resource management fundamentally affect the improvement of job performance and corporate culture. The research fills in the research gap in the field of the definition of the level of motivation factors in small and medium-sized...

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Konzepte und Wirkungen nachhaltigen Unternehmertums

Maaß, Frank; Chlosta, Simone; Icks, Annette; Welter, … - Institut für Mittelstandsforschung (IfM) Bonn - 2014

Betriebliches Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement zielt auf einen verantwortungsvollen Umgang mit Ressourcen und auf die entsprechende Gestaltung der innerbetrieblichen Abläufe ab. Dabei nutzen Unternehmen, die nachhaltiges Wirtschaften mit strategischen Zielen verbinden und hierbei über das gesetzlich...

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Regional efficiency and total factor productivity change for small and medium sorghum producers in Zambia : a slacks-based measure and Malmquist index approach

Chanda, Obed; Umetsu, Chieko - In: World development sustainability 4 (2024), pp. 1-13

Zambia's efforts to promote countrywide production of sorghum is backed by a number of apropos factors. It is not only an adaptive response to the climate change challenge, but also a dietary diversity improvement measure, to achieve food and nutrition security. Further, improved sorghum...

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Informed capital in a hostile environment : the case of relational investors in Germany

Schäfer, Dorothea (contributor); Schilder, Dirk (contributor) - 2006

Informed capital is a crucial ingredient to a well-functioning market for start-up finance, especially in times of difficult market conditions. For bank-based systems, the question regarding which investors actually supply informed capital has not yet been answered. To fill this gap, we conduct...

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Public venture capital in Germany : task force or forced task?

Schilder, Dirk (contributor) - 2006

This paper deals with the question of whether public venture capital (VC) is performing its task properly, taking a look at how public VC companies' selection process, investment behavior, and consulting services reflect goals that differ from those of private VC firms. The results present...

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