Small business owner-managers’ perceptions of entrepreneurship in the emfuleni district

Explanation of entrepreneurship small business challenges in rural area, The case of study: Bijar, Iran

The migration of young people and the aging of rural communities, for reasons such as poverty and unemployment, will create a lot of need for identifying new approaches to the survival of rural communities. Small business entrepreneurship has an important role in reducing poverty and, ultimately, rural development. However, this kind of entrepreneurship faces many challenges in terms of environ...

District health managers’ perceptions of supervision in Malawi and Tanzania

BACKGROUND Mid-level cadres are being used to address human resource shortages in many African contexts, but insufficient and ineffective human resource management is compromising their performance. Supervision plays a key role in performance and motivation, but is frequently characterised by periodic inspection and control, rather than support and feedback to improve performance. This paper ex...

Entrepreneurship for Managers Strategic Decision-Making for Business Growth

SME Managers' Most Important Entrepreneurship and Business Competences

The requirements of an increasing globalized and competitive economy lead managers to search for training solutions which can rapidly bridge the gap of their lacking skills, knowledge or competences. To assert with adequate training programs, in particular for SMEs managers, a study was conducted in six European countries with the objective of identifying the most relevant competences they need...

The Development of Entrepreneurship and Small Business in Transitional Economies

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