Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) and Poverty Reduction in Africa
Why have SME interventions failed to reduce poverty in Africa? This book offers an innovative approach, moving beyond technical training to focus on mindset, system thinking, and spirituality to help policymakers and entrepreneurs achieve real change.
SME’s and the Internationalization of Food Exports
As internationalization grows, firms see expansion as an opportunity for growth. This book identifies the internal and external factors associated with exporting foodstuffs into retail, conceptualising internationalization theory to address its unique problems.
Social Entrepreneurial Intent
What drives someone to tackle monumental problems? This book journeys into the heart of social entrepreneurship, uncovering the motivations that spark individuals to become agents of change and exploring how this knowledge can be used to make a lasting impact.
This book provides a profound analysis of creating business entities in Russia. It gives readers an understanding of Russian civil and corporate law, covering the legal system, business organizations, foreign investment, and corporate governance.
Sun & Sea Tourism
While foreign tourism companies condemn local corruption and nationals decry exploitation, they often flourish symbiotically. This book exposes this toxic cocktail and provides recommendations for creating a virtuous cycle to restore the beneficial effects of tourism.
Tax Reform in Uganda
Kwagala-Igaga employs political economy and optimal theory to explain the weaknesses evident in the tax system in Uganda since the introduction of extensive reforms in 1997, highlighting the constraints imposed upon tax design and tax reform in the country.
Taxation and Revenue Collection in Ancient India
In the first book to study taxation and revenue collection through an analysis of public finance and financial administration in four major Indian texts, Sharma shows how Ancient Indian writing can contribute to active knowledge today.
Technological Innovation Management
This book shows how to treat your organization as an entity of continuous learning and innovation. Use knowledge as a strategic asset to improve processes, products, and services, leading to improved performance and sustainable value for stakeholders.
Term Structure of Profit Rates of Sukuk
This book applies term structure models to analyse the financial instrument Sukuk. It establishes “profit rate yield curves” for sovereign and corporate bonds, providing informative case studies for students and researchers in financial economics.
The Changing Landscape of Global Businesses
Cross-border business has fundamentally changed. This book addresses today’s new dimensions alongside time-honoured principles. Integrating all managerial functions, it provides a comprehensive picture of global business through a rich blend of principles and case studies.
This guide to cluster development in Central Europe maps and compares conditions in Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, and Austria. It analyses good practices, proposes a development framework, and explores trends like inter-cluster cooperation and World-Class clusters.
The Corporation
This book traces the corporate path to power, exploring whether corporations will become superpowers or, like dinosaurs, give way to superior forms. It examines the rise of American corporations and considers how new technologies from bitcoin to AI will shape the future.
Written by global scholars and practitioners, this volume explores the changing landscape of 21st century business. Covering issues from consumer trends to management styles, it explains the theories behind the changes taking place in the global business environment.
This monograph explores the issue of deferred taxes at both the theoretical and practical levels, and studies their financial aspects and their economic function in companies. It looks at current methods and the role of deferred taxes in business management.
The EU at a Crossroads
This book summarises the dilemmas the European Union faces during its multilevel crisis. The first part concerns EU constitutional issues, the second is on public governance issues, the third details issues of the EU market and trade, and the fourth is on the Eurozone crisis.
This book explores the personal and environmental factors affecting university students’ entrepreneurial intentions. It provides insights for policymakers, educators, and students on developing entrepreneurial knowledge, skills, and career choices.
This book analyzes the US Federal Reserve’s extensive role in our daily lives and its consequences for the world’s economy. As its global dominance gives rise to international opposition, this book explores the Fed’s history, policies, and the key challenges it faces.
Global managers need to communicate and connect with many cultures. The new language of business is cultural literacy, which encompasses basic knowledge of business language, culture and the local economy. This work focuses on those aspects in seven countries in the G-20.
This book documents the effort of Barbados’s black-nationalist political elite to take control of the island’s petroleum resources. In a direct challenge to the white planter class, this brazen and defiant stand against colonialism was filled with political risk for the island.
Egyptian industry bypassed quality control, creating a gap that hinders global competition. This book presents the Holistic Egyptian Quality Management Approach (HEQMA), a new model tailored to Egyptian culture to diagnose problems and strengthen quality.