•Local businesses respond inventively to challenges of sustained crisis.•Local entrepreneurship is triggered in crisis-affected business environments.•Business resilience is strengthened by ...embeddedness in livelihood strategies.•Entrepreneurship plays a pivotal role in enhancing livelihoods under crisis.•Entrepreneurship enhances business resilience beyond mere survival.
Natural disaster, economic recession and political turmoil pose major challenges to local tourism in developing countries. To address such challenges, this article investigates the multiple ways in which local tourism businesses respond to crises and the resources these businesses employ to build resilience in an unpredictable business environment. The data underlying this article have been generated in a longitudinal study of small-scale businesses in the accommodation sector in the city of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Based on qualitative research, comprising ethnographic methods, the study reveals that local tourism businesses show remarkable resilience during the decade of crisis that affected the Indonesian tourism industry. This resilience has to be understood in terms of the businesses’ embeddedness in a package of livelihood strategies.
Sindh Fruit Traders: Expanding Abroad Umrani, Waheed Ali; Solangi, Rukhman; Mirani, Manzoor ...
Asian journal of management cases,
03/2024, Letnik:
21, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
This case examines the establishment of a small-scale business, Sindh Fruit Traders, owned by Mr Imtiaz and Mr Tehseen. The saturated local market condition is compelling them to look at export ...markets as means of expansion. The core challenges they face are identifying and selecting an appropriate export country and making the necessary preparations for the expansion. All these decisions have to be made before the next harvest season in July 2017.
This case describes in detail the dates business in Khairpur, Pakistan. It provides information about how an individual commences business at a small scale and then expands with time by learning the techniques of the business.
This case also explains the local trading of crops and traditional ways of conducting business in the date market of Khairpur and looks into ways in which research should be conducted to expand the business for exports. After discussion, the students will be able to understand the production and sales business of dates in general. More specifically, the students will understand how entrepreneurs are attracted to a business, what role research can play in making informed decisions, and the potential means to expand a local business into an international venture.
We compared the management of chemical substances and leak prevention measures in small-scale business establishments during disasters with those of large-scale establishments. Businesses were ...categorized into four groups based on their number of employees（with a threshold of 20 people）and the amount of chemical substances they handle（with a threshold of 1 ton）. We distributed questionnaires to 1,571 businesses across 21 cities and towns in Osaka Prefecture, all of which potentially handle chemical substances. The primary questions revolved around: 1）annual expenses related to chemical substance management, 2）leak prevention measures, 3）reasons if no measures were implemented, and 4）awareness of seminars and informational pamphlets on chemical substance management. The valid response rate was 20.2％. For establishments handling over a ton of chemical substances, both awareness of seminars/pamphlets and the execution rate of leak prevention measures were noticeably low in smaller businesses. It was also found that the presence of a dedicated department for chemical substance management tends to increase awareness regarding such substances.
In recent years, policymakers have portrayed return migration as positive for development. In both migrant sending and migrant receiving countries, policymakers expect the transfer of economic, ...cultural and social capital by returnees to stimulate economic growth. Inherent in these assumptions is the idea of a unidirectional flow of capital from northern countries of immigration to the countries of return. The objective of this article is to contest this idea of a one‐way transfer of capital through a case study of Cape Verdean returnee business owners. To what extent have they accumulated their various forms of capital before emigration, during their sojourn abroad or after return? In this article, I examine the returnees' multi‐sited accumulation of capital and how it corresponds to the resources they need to run a sustainable business. In addition, I analyse how they adapt capital accumulated abroad to the conditions in Cape Verde.
The study investigated public library as a source of business information for small-scale business enterprises in Nigeria. Six states in the Southwest region of Nigeria were used for the study, while ...purposive sampling was used to select forty small-scale businesses from each of the states, which brought the population of the study to 240. As a survey research, a questionnaire was used for data collection. The findings of the study revealed that information on sources of business funding was the major information need of small-scale businesses, while books were the most available information sources in the public library. Based on the findings, the study recommends among others, that government should provide more funding to support small-scale businesses; and that public libraries should acquire more information sources particularly those on sources of business funding, to complement available ones. The study contributes to literature and its empirical data will be useful to policymakers on how to reposition public libraries for effective provision of business information to small-scale business people.
Through the case of Guinea‐Bissau, this article considers how small‐scale, often cross‐border entrepreneurs mitigate risk and establish resilient businesses able to cope with ongoing political and ...economic shocks. Nineteen interviews and 153 surveys were conducted over two months with business leaders and regulators within the commercial centers and markets of Guinea‐Bissau to assess entrepreneurial profiles and activities. Findings show that small‐scale private investment from the Global South is increasing. Through thematic analysis, 18 different drivers of foreign business and 23 impediments to foreign entrepreneurship and investment were identified within this risk‐prone environment. Limited assets imply limited opportunities, suggesting a need to mobilize all available resources to achieve entrepreneurial success. The implications of this research are that resiliency for these foreign investors has improved and risks are mitigated through established social capital that can be converted into financial capital, linked social–business networks across borders, microenvironmental knowledge, and maintaining relatively small businesses able to fly “under the radar.” In understanding foreign entrepreneurs' motives, the social and structural undergirding of South–South investment is exposed.
Small-scale business owners are among those who were very affected when the COVID-19 pandemic hit the country. This group supports their families solely through daily sales profits. However, when the ...country began implementing the Movement Control Order (MCO) from March 2020 to May 2020, it was difficult for this group to survive. Some of them were unable to do business at all, while the majority experienced a significant decline in sales. This study aims to measure the ability of small-scale business owners to survive before and after the COVID-19 period. GIS software (ArcMap 10.4.1) was used to map the ability of small-scale business owners to survive before and after the pandemic. Data were obtained through face-to-face questionnaires conducted throughout the state of Kedah. Findings indicated that several districts have successfully managed the pandemic for economic survival. This was achieved through a well-collaborated effort by the government and NGOs to strengthen certain aspects of these small-scale business and revive their growth. Future work should focus on studying the actions taken by successful business owners in coping with the pandemic environment.
In the Japanese Pollutant Release and Transfer Register（PRTR）framework, which is a chemical substance management system, small-scale business operators who employ less than 21 employees are not ...required to report the amount of any released chemicals. This paper proposes a method to estimate the distribution of the number of small-scale business operators by industry and another method to estimate the amount of chemicals released from their corresponding operations. By combining the relevant data, the distribution of emissions from small-scale businesses was estimated in an area with a cluster of small-scale business establishments in the Osaka Prefecture and visualized through geographic information system mapping. Depending on the chemical substance and industry, the estimated distribution of the released chemicals was different from that in the PRTR. This finding suggested that the reported release in PRTR is not sufficient in assessing the risk of chemical leakage during a natural disaster.
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