identification and selection of entrepreneurial businesses, are key activities to encourage people to do entrepreneuship. the majer goal of the current study is to identify, and prioritize the effective components in selection off superior entrepreneurial businesses.the research method is mixed method . friedman rank test has been used to analyze the data. the findings has revealed that the fol...

business is business! And business must grow –Dr. Seuss, The Lorax The paper investigates the agency argument that sales growth in firms with free cash flow (and without strong governance) is less profitable than sales growth for firms without free cash flow. It also tests whether strong governance conditions improve the performance of firms with free cash flow and/or limit the investments in u...

this study empirically examines whether managers manipulate reported income through the timing of sales of long-lived assets and investments. several empirical implications of the income-smoothing and debt-equity hypothesis in the context of asset sales were tested. the findings are consistent with the timing of asset sales by managers so that the recognized accounting income from these sales s...

This study empirically examines whether managers manipulate reported income through the timing of sales of long-lived assets and investments. Several empirical implications of the income-smoothing and debt-equity hypothesis in the context of asset sales were tested. The findings are consistent with the timing of asset sales by managers so that the recognized accounting income from these sales s...

E-business is viewed as a transformative technology that may affect supply chain coordination, reduce transaction costs, facilitate international sales, and enable new organizational structures. While Canadian figures indicate online sales account for less than 1% of total operating revenue, growth rates are high, with a 40% increase in online sales in 2003. (Statistics Canada, 2004). Given thi...

OBJECTIVE To assess the prevalence and characteristics of tobacco sales and point-of-sale promotions and advertising in predominantly Latino business districts, and in comparison districts; and the economic importance of tobacco sales and marketing to Latino owned small businesses. DESIGN Observational surveys of retail establishments and interviews with store managers. SETTING Demographica...

The main focus of this paper is to indicate the effect of quality management practices and concurrent engineering on business performance improvement. The research has been done by taking one of Brewery Company (Meta Abo Brewery S. Co) as a case study. Practical secondary data have been collected and analyzed to understand what it seems the actual company’s business results growth rate in terms...

OBJECTIVE To examine the impact of a government income management program on store sales. DESIGN AND SETTING An interrupted time series analysis of sales data in 10 stores in 10 remote Northern Territory communities during 1 October 2006 to 30 September 2009, which included an 18-month period before income management; a 4-6-month period after the introduction of income management; a 3-month p...

In this paper we present new evidence of cross-border shopping in response to sales taxation. While several instructive studies provide estimates of the cross-border shopping effect, we utilize a unique opportunity to evaluate the effect of a large discrete change in sales tax policy. Using county level data on food income and sales tax data for West Virginia over the 1982-2000 period we estima...

This paper analyzes entrepreneurs in South Africa‘s informal sector. The aim is to determine the extent to which African informal retail trade spawns viable enterprises. To assess the prospects for South Africa‘s informal retail sector, questionnaires were obtained from owners of small-scale establishments in random sample taken throughout the country in 2007. Owner salary and sales data provid...