This paper evaluates the impact of institutional and governance factors on the performance of 10 smallholder … the performance of the selected smallholder cooperatives is influenced by institutional and governance problems … to the performance of enterprises initiated by groups of smallholders. South Africa’s new Cooperatives Act prevents …

to performance indicators. The companies were found to be in various transition stages. The results reveal that the most … show markedly worse performance figures. The restructuring process is complex and farms have adopted different strategies …; restructuring only firm's liabilities by capitalising transformation debts appeared insufficient for improving performance. …

This paper seeks a good measure of new business performance, and then explains this measure by various dimensions of … business strategy. Three criteria are used to create a one dimensional ordinal ranking of high, medium and low performance for … cluster analysis provides a convincing separation of a sample of new business starts into high, medium and low performance …

advantages, and to explore the double relationship between environmental proactivity and business performance. Design … environmental proactivity and performance levels, employing a two-step cluster analysis. Significant differences between groups were … performance levels. Hotels which achieve above average business performance levels are significantly more environmentally …

performance varies across these segments. The field of KM aims at enhancing performance through knowledge practitioners. However … performance scores vary between the three clusters. Post hoc test is used to determine the extent of variation between cluster … significant difference is found in organizational as well as financial performance between any two cluster pairs. Research …

competitive advantage, contributes to better business performance. Design/methodology/approach – Based on 105 food manufacturing … performance. Research limitations/implications – Research on Porter's dominant paradigm within Europe is surprisingly limited …'s original model and represents one of the few studies to examine the relationship between hybrid strategies and performance …