Firm Level Strategy and Value Creation in Small Businesses: The Nigerian Experience by Adedeji Saidi Adelekan, Ayodele Samuel Majekodunmi, powel maxwell Worimegbe

“…Employing a survey research design, 689 small business owners and managers were surveyed utilizing questionnaire research instruments. …”
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FinTech in the Small Food Business and Its Relation with Open Innovation by Mukhamad Najib, Wita Juwita Ermawati, Farah Fahma, Endri Endri, Dwi Suhartanto

“…However, not all small business owners want to receive financing from FinTech companies. …”
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Disaster risk management and business education: the case of small and medium enterprises by Juan Pablo Sarmiento, Gabriela Hoberman, Meenakshi Jerath, Gustavo Ferreira Jordao

“…More often than not, small business owners invest large sums of money, time, and resources to make their ventures successful and yet, many of them fail to properly plan and prepare for disaster situations. …”
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Managing supply chain performance using a real time Microsoft Power BI dashboard by action design research (ADR) method by Dewan Hafiz Nabil, Md. Habibur Rahman, Altaf Hussain Chowdhury, Brenno Castrillon Menezes

“…The aim is to help small business owners effectively and affordably manage their supply chains. …”
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The Minang - nomads businesses’ performance: the role of proactive personality, creativity and innovative work behavior by Andri, Gus, Wiwiek Rabiatul Adawiyah, Purnomo, Ratno, Sholikhah, Zahrotush

“…Data was collected by mean of questionnaire that was distributed to 265 small businesses owners enrolled as the member of Minang business community in Purwokerto Central Java Indonesia. …”
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Early Detection Method for Money Fraudulent Activities on E-commerce Platform via Sentiment Analysis by Misiran, Masnita, Shi Er, Tan, Pheng Hong, Augustus Saw, Mohd Subri, Nur Azuin, Ahmad Darus, Nur Syazana, Md Yusof, Zahayu, Ahmad, Nazihah

“…The proposed model utilises free and readily available software, thus extending its usability to other small business owners…”
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Credit provision by banks: a case study analysis of small businesses in South Africa by Raphael N. Ngcobo

“…The findings of this study indicate that the mentioned factors are a challenge for small businesses in accessing bank loans to fund their operations.The findings of this study will be of great value to small business owners and policy makers in finding solutions to address the identified barriers.…”
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Exploring the Link Between Mentoring and Intangible Outcomes of Entrepreneurship: The Mediating Role of Self-Efficacy and Moderating Effects of Gender by Martin Mabunda Baluku, Martin Mabunda Baluku, Leonsio Matagi, Kathleen Otto

“…Overall, our findings suggest that whereas mentoring improves the competence of small business owners and consequently achievement of superior outcomes, mentoring should also focus on boosting self-efficacy which in turn is essential for the application of the entrepreneurial competencies.…”
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How market orientation induces small business performance: The role of strategic fits by Quang-Huy Ngo

“…For the findings, this study provides some practical implications for small business owners in Vietnam. This study also contributes to the strategic management literature by providing empirical evidence, which suggests the strategic fits between prospector strategy and market orientation induces performance. …”
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Can nationalism and religious approaches be harmonized? Three-way interaction effects on small business consumer brand identification by Fachrurazi, Sahat Aditua Fandhitya Silalahi, Fauziah

“…Moreover, those two identities simultaneously strengthen consumers’ emotional attachment to the brands. Hence, small business owners can develop communication strategies to affirm consumers’ nationalism and religious identities.…”
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Environmental Sustainability Practices of Immigrant-Owned Small and Medium Enterprises in South Africa by Fatoki Olawale

“…Data was collected from one hundred and eighty two immigrant small business owners. The survey method (self-administered questionnaire) was used for data collection. …”
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Ethics and social responsibility practices among entrepreneurs by Mhd. Sarif, Suhaimi

“…The study proposed that future research to use personal interview and self administered survey with more small business owners from other major cities.…”
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Ethics and sustainability during challenging times by Mohamed Saat, Maisarah, Mohd. Jamal, Noriza, Azman, Sariati

“…A total of 45 small business owners were interviewed in an urban area of Johor Bahru. …”

A Low-Cost Approach to Crack Python CAPTCHAs Using AI-Based Chosen-Plaintext Attack by Ning Yu, Kyle Darling

“…This chosen-plaintext attack method has raised a potential security alert in the era of AI, particularly to small-business owners who use the open-source CAPTCHA libraries. …”
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Analysis of the impact of insecurity on youth unemployment in Nigeria (1990-2020) by Ibrahim Musa

“…Firstly, the government should consider reducing interest rates in commercial banks to enhance the availability of loans for small business owners, enabling them to hire more employees. …”
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A Qualitative Study of Social Media Marketing in Ireland: The Facilitating Role of Higher Education by Simon Stephens, Christopher McLaughlin

“…In this paper we present a qualitative study of social media marketing by small business owners in Ireland. We present data from interviews with six owner/managers, six employees, and six experts. …”
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Innovation development of small business in Indonesia by Intan Permana, Tomas Chochole, Nizar Alam Hamdani, Retno Purwani Sari

“…A sample of 400 small business owners was analyzed using descriptive analysis to identify eight factors related to innovation development, including knowledge exploitation, interactive processes, knowledge-intensive business process improvement, new technology-based firms, go-to-market strategies, stricter regulation, and stimulation. …”
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The effect of small business leaders' organisational mindfulness and social learning on opportunistic behaviour to survive the COVID-19 pandemic by Lusiantoro, Luluk, Purwanto, Bernardinus Maria, Rostiani, Rokhima

“…An online survey on small business owners and managers in Indonesia was then employed as the main study, resulting in 291 valid responses for further analysis. …”
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Entrepreneurship Skills for New Ventures / by Kimball, David Charles, 1959-, author 250927, Lussier, Robert N., author 340077

“…Skill development features include: Entrepreneurial profiles of small business owners; Personal applications for students to apply questions to their new venture or a current business; Global and domestic cases; Elevator pitch assignments which put students in the venture capitalist position; Application exercises and situations covering specific text concepts; Business plan prompts to help students construct a business plan over the course of a semester Featuring pedagogical tools like review questions and learning outcomes, and online materials which expands upon skill development and offers instructor resources, the fourth edition of Entrepreneurship Skills for New Ventures is the perfect resource for instructors and students of entrepreneurship"--…”

Invitation choice structure has no impact on attendance in a female business training program in Kenya. by Faizan Diwan, Grace Makana, David McKenzie, Silvia Paruzzolo

“…A field experiment randomly assigned female small business owners in Kenya (N = 1172) to one of three invitation types: a standard opt-in invitation; an active choice invitation where business owners had to explicitly say yes or no to the invitation; and an enhanced active choice invitation which highlighted the costs of saying no. …”
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