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Business Development Services and Government Regulations: Prospects and Challenges of Youth-Owned Enterprises in Kigali Rwanda
Full text linkSmall and medium-sized businesses are crucial for creating jobs and reducing poverty, and Rwanda's economic growth. Business development services as a central component of government and non-government initiatives to expand occupation, provide greater income, and give economic stability. However, small and medium enterprises in Rwanda are experiencing poor performance since there was a reduction in SMEs Output from 58% in 2020 to 30% in 2021. Those obstacles can be improved by adopting business development services as an approach. Therefore, the focus of this paper was to examine how business development services affect the performance of youth-owned small and medium enterprises in Kigali City, Rwanda. The Resource-Based View, the Theory of Stage of Development, and Schumpeter’s Theory of Innovation were the main theories. This study used positivism as a research philosophy. An explanatory research design was employed on a sample size of 154 small and medium enterprises selected from the target population of 256 small and medium enterprises in Kigali, Rwanda. The study recommends policy and practice ramifications that can be used to improve business development services on the performance of youth-owned businesses in Rwanda. The study recommends the management of youth-owned enterprises strengthen their networking services, financial services, training services, and marketing services so that small and medium enterprises will be able to learn more and gain vital business potential which will enable them to better manage their businesses and enhance their long-term profitability and performance. Furthermore, the findings also established that government regulations in Rwanda significantly moderate the relationship between business development services and the performance of the business in Kigali city. In particular, the government should review taxes charged by the running of the enterprise and the process of obtaining a license to participate in the business. This will make it possible for young business owners to understand and take advantage of numerous business development services, which will ultimately improve their business performance
How Smart Firms Power Global Knowledge Acquisitions Through Socialization Mechanisms: Evidence from Malaysian Foreign Subsidiaries
Full text linkThis concept paper extends research on knowledge transfer based on the network and resource base. It claims smart firms can accelerate their stock of strategic knowledge by employing an efficient socialization process and gaining competitive advantages. Nonetheless, exploiting the knowledge in the corporate network is not straightforward. The transition of substantial strategic resources within a business must be acquired and used efficiently. Using the socialization process thus significantly reduces the barriers to best practices or strategic knowledge transfer. This paper presents a theoretical model explaining acquiring knowledge through socialization. Nevertheless, this paper demonstrates that without socialization mechanisms, subsidiary-headquarters embeddedness could adversely affect
Assessment Model for Programmatic Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Initiatives
Full text linkThe study of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, (DEIB) processes are an ever-evolving phenomenon that will continue to influence and change the world. These processes are becoming increasingly prevalent and are present in business and educational environments driven by societal demands, environmental awareness, and funding requirements. The next generation of business leaders has serious concerns about the environment they will soon inherit. Each generation has events that define them (Civil Rights Movements, Watergate, the Recession, the Clinton Administration and Y2K, the Great Recession, Global Warming and Climate Change). Today's students want to make a positive difference on Earth, unlike any generation in the past half-century. Furthermore, higher education faculty and administrators must meet the charge of effectively preparing post-secondary graduates to function in these initiatives
The Effect of Workload and Compensation on Employee Performance Through Motivation of Functional Tax Auditor Employees at the Bekasi Middle Tax Service Office
Full text linkThe purposes of this study are 1) to analyze the effect of workload and compensation on employee motivation, 2) to analyze the effect of workload and compensation on employee performance, 3) to analyze the effect of motivation on employee performance, 4) to analyze the effect of workload and compensation on performance through employee motivation. The research was conducted on functional employees of tax auditors at the Bekasi Middle Tax Service Office. The number of samples taken in this study was 58 employees with data analysis using path analysis. The results of the study are 1) there is an effect of workload and compensation on employee motivation, 2) there is an effect of workload and compensation on employee performance, 3) there is an effect of motivation on employee performance, 4) there is an effect of workload and compensation on performance through employee motivation
Ticket Sales Accounting Information System Design at PT. Taman Rekreasi Sengkaling UMM
Full text linkThe diverse tourism sector with its uniqueness and supported by the facilities and means of transportation available in tourist areas can make it easy for tourists to visit tourist attractions. The development of information and communication technology marked by the existence of the internet has brought society into a new era. The information and communication technology revolution has been marked in which information has become a commodity and a force for those who control it. Based on observations and interviews that the authors conducted in the field and on the internet, there is no website-based application that can map tourist attractions at PT. Taman Rekreasi Sengkaling UMM. This study aims to design and build a website-based tourism ticket sales accounting information system to make it easier for local and foreign tourists to access information and visit tourism objects at PT. Taman Rekreasi Sengkaling UMM. The system design model uses ADDIE. Based on the results of the application design that has been done, namely a website-based ticket booking application. The application can be accessed using the website from a smartphone computer or laptop and can provide information related to existing tourist objects and assist relevant agencies in promoting tourism at the PT. Taman Rekreasi Sengkaling UMM
Disruptive Innovation (DI) and Chief Executive Officer(CEO): A synthetic literature review
Full text linkObjective: This paper reviews the findings of empirical studies linking disruptive innovations directly or indirectly to CEOs for the period 2019-2023. It also explores disruptive innovation and the fuzzy concepts of CEO and CEO power and proposes future research directions.
Research Design & Methods: Research methods are based on comprehensive literature reviews. In a three-step process, relevant papers are identified and categorized. These samples are then analyzed and brought into perspective to explain the concept of disruptive innovation and CEO, based on which recommendations for future research are made.
Findings: Although many studies imply a correlation between disruptive innovation and CEOs, there are no empirical studies specifically addressing this link. The main reason seems to be a lack of clarity about the concept of "CEO" itself.
Contribution & Value Added: This study introduces the concept of disruptive innovation based on the study of existing literature. Furthermore, it is an excellent starting point for scholars interested in clarifying disruptive innovation or preventing the discovery of the nature of the relationship between disruptive innovation and the CEO
The Effect of Corporate Social Responsibility on Tax Avoidance: The Moderating Role of Earnings Management
Full text linkThis research was conducted to analyze and prove the partial effect of corporate social responsibility on tax avoidance and to analyze and prove the effect of earnings management variables in moderating corporate social responsibility on tax avoidance. The research design is a multiple linear regression analysis and Moderated Regression Analysis (MRA) using the SPSS version 25 program. The subjects are the food and beverage sub-sector companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (BEI). 19 companies meet the criteria to be used as a sample. The results show that: corporate social responsibility has no significant effect on tax avoidance. Meanwhile, Earnings Management significantly strengthens the moderate effect of corporate social responsibility on tax avoidance
The Impact of Covid-19 on Consumption Patterns Among Malaysian Youths
Full text linkThis study investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the consumption patterns of youth Malaysians, focusing on three important variables: changes in income, savings habits, and consumer credit. This study also aims to comprehensively understand the changing consumption patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic and the differences in consumption patterns between gender, living area, and educational level. As the primary method of data acquisition, 169 Malaysian youths aged 18 to 30 were administered a questionnaire. The findings revealed that changes in income, savings patterns, and consumer credit had a significant impact on the consumption patterns of Malaysian adolescents, thus concluding that the pandemic had a substantial impact on one’s financial behaviours. The results also revealed no significant difference in consumption patterns based on gender or residing area, but significant differences are obtained based on education level. Therefore, this study contributes to the existing body of knowledge regarding the effect of COVID-19 on consumption patterns and offers valuable guidance for various stakeholders in navigating the pandemic landscape
How is the Choice of Owning Life Insurance Related to Consumer Protection? Consumer Finance, Consumer Protection, Insurance
No full textIn the United States, no two states are completely alike in how they govern their citizenry or regulate commerce within their borders. These differences may be used to examine the effects of various laws by contrasting the differences in the way each state attempts to resolve a perceived problem and the resulting outcome.
The following paper examines the relationship between consumer purchasing behavior and statutory solutions enacted to combat the perceived problems of unfair and deceptive acts. The statutory solutions are Unfair and Deceptive Acts and Practices (UDAP) statutes. This paper focuses on UDAP statutes and their relationship to life insurance ownership.
This paper finds that under some circumstances consumer ownership of life insurance is related to how a state chooses to protect its citizens from unscrupulous acts of persons or businesses. This article may serve as an opportunity for ethical professionals in financial services to understand how more significant levels of regulation can result in growth opportunities
Examines Iran-China Trade Relations: COVID-19 Challenges, Sanctions, and Positive Potentials
Full text linkArticle in English. In the field of international relations, governments use different tools to advance their national goals and interests, some of which are tangible and some of which are immaterial. In a way, these tools mainly indirectly affect the important interests of rival governments and cause them to change their behavior. At a time when the use of force in international relations has diminished or at least governments are more cautious in relying on this tool, the impact on sensitive areas has taken another form, which is a manifestation of sanctions. Sanctions imposed on Iran in recent years over its nuclear program have affected Iran's relations with other countries and thus its interests. Following the sanctions, Iran lost ties with many countries, especially European countries, and thus accelerated Iran's growing relations with China, especially in the fields of economy and trade. Therefore, in this paper, we investigated the positive capacity for cooperation between Iran and China and suggest seven effective criteria based on the objectives of this study