Owner-Managers
The paradox of training in the small business sector : owner/managers' attitudes to, and actual provision of, training in the West Midlands region, 1993 1996
... the owner/managers’ training and human resource development strategies This quantitative survey, however, has raised a number o f questions relating to these issues, which must be answered before m ore ...
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Owner/managers' financing preferences and the proportion of firm's capital structure: evidence from successful SMEs in Malaysia
... Association between owner/managers' level of financing preference with the proportions of firm's capital structure This particular part of the analysis aims to establish whether there is[r] ...
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What do small business owner-managers do? A managerial work perspective
... business owner-manager ’ s workplace presence, this style depicts the structuring of activities within the limits of managers’ physical and visual ...their owner-managers’ will power, because ...
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Small tourism businesses in rural Scotland : exploring owner managers' understandings of social sustainability
... Chapter Two: Current conceptualisations of small tourism businesses The aim of this research is to explore how small tourism business STB owner managers’ OM views of their business’ loca[r] ...
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DETERMINING BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS IN ICT ADOPTION BY SMES OWNER MANAGERS IN RURAL KENYA
... Enterprises owner/managers in the rural areas of Nyeri County were drawn from the list of 5428 Small and medium Enterprises located in rural areas and licensed by the Nyeri County ...SMEs’ owner ...
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A Survey Of Personal Hurdles Contributing To Failures Of Rural Entrepreneurship: Economic Implications For Owner-Managers
... of owner-managers to attain set profitable margins and stated objectives are at times cited as the central indicators of business ...moment owner-managers are unable to access any of the three ...
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Understanding owner managers' preferences towards different sources of financing: the case of successful smes in Malaysia
... Gender, age, education, experience and business ownership were often used as indicators for owner-managers' personal characteristics in understanding firm's financial practices.. These i[r] ...
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Inconvenient truth : do UK owner-managers value social and environmental goals?
... existing owner-managers, the sample cleanly clustered into three groups: one dominated by economic goals (just under 50% of the sample), one with a majority of social goals (just over 25% of the sample), ...
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Identifying SME mortality factors in the life cycle stages: an empirical approach of relevant factors for small business owner-managers in Brazil
... EG owner-managers performed ...One owner-manager of EG described: ‘ I did it all; buying, selling, negotiating with bank; we never saw ourselves just as owners; I like to sell clothes but to sell we ...
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The Effect of Age and Educational Level of Owner/Managers on SMMEs’ Access to Bank Loan in Eritrea: Evidence from Asmara City
... firm’s owner-managers participated in the study and the distributions of the businesses in the industry in terms of access to finance, and owner/manager characteris- tics were ...
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THE NEXUS BETWEEN ENTREPRENEURIAL CHARACTERISTICS & BUSINESS PERFORMANCE IN KENYA: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF KINDERGARTEN OWNER MANAGERS IN NAIROBI
... kindergarten owner managers and performance of their ...kindergarten owner managers in Nairobi ...The owner managers were high on need for achievement and internal locus of ...
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The microlevel actions undertaken by owner managers in improving the sustainability practices of cultural and creative small and medium enterprises: a United Kingdom Italy comparison
... SME owner-managers directly influence (1) firm level strategies and (2) approaches for attracting, retaining and motivating human capital (comprising employees, society, supply chain and peer SMEs), ...
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7-23-2012 12:00 AM To Leave or To Stay? The Decision Context, Self-Images, and Owner-Managers' Persistence Decisions
... SME owner-managers and inviting them to complete a metric conjoint experiment and a follow-up survey, I find that owner- managers’ persistence decisions are jointly influenced by the decision ...
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Management development from the perspective of small firm owner-managers
... Important drivers of management learning and development were associated with the characteristics of owner-managers including: gender, age and psychological constructs such as the degree of belief in ...
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Learning to learn: A case for developing Small Firm Owner/Managers
... experiences, owner/managers were overly optimistic in comparison with their employees, for example when assessing their environmental ...solitary owner/manager. Understanding how ...
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An evaluation of financial management skill of owner managers in the development of small businessess
... to test the formulated hypothesis to evaluate the influence of financial management skill of owner managers on the development of small businesses. The analysis of findings show that small businesses must ...
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Understanding barriers to small business growth from the perspective of owner managers in Russia
... one, owner-managers perceive barriers to growth; two, these barriers are perceived to be important; three, they are seen by owner-managers as having a negative effect on business growth; and ...
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Resource mobilization and performance in family and non-family businesses in the United Kingdom
... as owner/managers individuals with a lower level of human capital (as measured by education level), provided they are ...business owner/managers seem willing to accept a poor financial reward ...
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The development of modern accounting and the changing position of shareholders 1864 2000
... 2.7 Dividend policies Pitts 1998b The first directors of the coal and iron companies were owner-managers, who were not diversified in their investments and relied on dividends to maintai[r] ...
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E learning in small and medium sized enterprises in Greece
... the owner-managers motivate their employees are to take the initiative to search and find the learning activities which will help them improve their work in the company and increase their skill ...
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