Factors Affecting the Performance of Micro and Small Enterprises in Arada and Lideta Sub-Cities, Addis Ababa By Admasu Abera A Thesis submitted to the school of graduate studies of Addis Ababa University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree Addis Ababa University Addis Ababa, Ethiopia October 2012 Factors Affecting the Performance of Micro and Small Enterprises in Arada and Lideta Sub-Cities, Addis Ababa By Admasu Abera
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trade and investment liberalisation of trade, investment and financial flows initiated in the nineties has progressively lowered the barriers to competition and hastened the pace of globalisation. Though the precise definition of globalisation is still unavailable a few definitions worth viewing, Stephen Gill: defines globalisation as the reduction of transaction cost of Trans border movements of capital and goods thus of factors of production and goods. Guy Brainbant: says that the process of globalisation
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Corporate Insolvency Laws in Australia from 1901 through to 2001 Corporations Act is studied. The last part of this report reviews the ongoing debate on the need to relax the Corporate Insolvency & Bankruptcy Laws, in order to encourage entrepreneurship. This is followed by a final conclusion on the topic of the Australian Bankruptcy Law, and recommendations on where it could head for the better. History of Australian Bankruptcy Law The Beginning Before examining the development of any
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DEVELOPING INDIVIDUAL INNOVATION Entrepreneurship Imagination & Creativity: Imagination and Creativity goes hand by hand i.e. with out imagination you cannot be creativity. This combination is the key to success for entrepreneurs. Potential entrepreneurs always analyze from every possible angle. What is the problem? Whom does it affect? How does it affect them? What costs are involved? This is the type of analysis that blends creative thinking with systematic analysis. The Role of Creativity:
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produce output—that is, finished goods. * Factors of production may also refer specifically to the primary factors, which are land, labor (the ability to work), and capital goods applied to production * Resources: Land, Labor, Capital, Entrepreneurship and management skills 3. Scarcity and opportunity cost * Scarcity is the condition in which resources are not available to satisfy all needs and wants of a specified group or people. * Opportunity cost is the amount (or subjective
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concepts- globalisation and (good) governance have dominated international discourse for sometime now. The conceptual ambivalence and ambiguity that hover around them, however, are owing to their multidimensional and multifarious perspectives. Definitions Good Governance Before defining good governance, it is pertinent to define governance in order to use it as a point of departure to fully understand good governance. According to WB governance is the “manner in which power is exercised
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cuts across all disciplines of science and, is the study of complex systems and understanding their indirect effects (Introduction to the Theoretical and Conceptual Foundations of Organizational Management, n.d., p. 19). Another more specific definition of complexity theory is that it is the study of “how order, structure, pattern, and novelty arise from extremely complicated, apparently chaotic systems and conversely, how complex behavior and structure emerges from simple underlying rules” (Cooke-Davies
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1. Introduction 1.1 Definitions of entrepreneur An entrepreneur is an enterprising individual who builds capital through risk and/or initiative. The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to help launch a new venture or enterprise and accept full responsibility for the outcome. Over time, scholars have defined the term in different ways. Here are
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WOTRO Science for Global Development Food & Business Applied Research Fund (ARF) Second Call for Proposals 2014/2015 Valid for Round 3: 19 January - 12 May 2015 The Hague, - January 2015 Contents 1 5 Validity of the call for proposals 5 Aim and objectives 6 Foci 7 2.3 Target groups Guidelines for applicants 9 3.1 Who can apply 9 3.2 What can be applied for 10 3.3 When can applications be submitted 11 3.4 Preparing an
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Overall, the SME FDI is currently an extremely valuable initiative. Through appropriate and careful analysis of the data, public policy can be directed yet more efficiently to further improve competitive advantage of Canada's SMEs. In particular, the baseline survey associated with the SME FDI is an extraordinarily valuable research undertaking. It provides the potential to assess directly the extent to which financing gaps might occur in the capital markets on which SMEs rely
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