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ENTREPRENEURIAL BRICOLAGE, ENTREPRENEURIAL PASSION AND ENTREPRENEURIAL RESILIENCE AND THE PERFORMANCE OF SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES IN NIGERIA
Get PDFEntrepreneurial bricolage, entrepreneurial passion, and entrepreneurial resilience are relatively recent areas of study for scholars in the field of management and entrepreneurship. Only a small number of empirical research have investigated the connection between these variables and the success of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Nigeria. This research sought to bridge this gap by exploring the connections between entrepreneurial bricolage, entrepreneurial passion, entrepreneurial resilience, and SME success in Nigeria's Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The questionnaire was used for the survey, to gather information from SME owners and managers in the FCT, selected at random. A total of 452 copies of questionnaire were used for final analysis and were analysed using partial least square structural equation modelling processed Smart PLS2. A positive and statistically significant relationship was observed between entrepreneurial bricolage, entrepreneurial passion, and entrepreneurial resilience and the performance of SMEs in the FCT. The study recommends that SME owners and managers should constantly seek to combine current resources as well as novel ideas to provide effective solutions to new difficulties and issues
EXTERNAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT AND PERFORMANCE OF SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES IN KADUNA STATE: THE MEDIATING ROLE OF INNOVATION
Get PDFThe aim of this study is to investigate how innovation function as a mediator in the relationship between the technology and socio-cultural environments, as well as how well Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) function in Kaduna State. Based on the knowledge-based theory of the company, the research aims to understand how technological and socio-cultural contexts affect the performance of SMEs. There are 495 SMEs in the state that make up the research sample. Owners and managers of particular SMEs were given questionnaires to complete in order to collect data. Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) was used to examine the data. The findings showed a strong and positive relationship between the technical environment and the performance of SMEs, as well as between the socio-cultural environment and performance of SMEs. However, innovation was found to be important in the relationship between the socio-cultural environment and the success of SMEs, but not in the relationship between the technology environment and SME performance. Therefore, in order to foster innovation and improve the performance of SMEs in Kaduna State, policies and interventions must place a high priority on the development of a favorable socio-cultural environment and the expansion of the technological landscape
IMPACT OF OIL AND TAX REVENUE ON CAPITAL BUDGET EXPENDITURE IN NIGERIA
Get PDFCapital Budget Expenditure is vital to the economic, business and social welfare of any country, especially for the fact that its importance spans across all works of life and has great impact on business proceedings. Over the years, Nigeria has recorded low implementation of capital budgets and is yet to move above 75 percent implementation within a fiscal year since the inception of her democracy (1999); with expenditure percentages staggering between 6 percent to 65 percent between 2010 to 2016. This study examined the impact of government revenue on capital budget expenditure in Nigeria between 2009 First Quarter – 2017 Fourth Quarter. The study highlighted the importance of the various revenue components, thereby testing the efficacy of wagner’s theory in Nigeria. The dependent variable is capital budget expenditure, while the independent variables are oil revenue and company income tax, alongside two control variables: exchange rate and gross domestic product. The study made use of time series data; and the variables being a combination of I(0) and I(1) were subjected to ARDL model estimation in the short and long run. The Wald test showed that a long run relationship exists between government revenue and capital budget expenditure. The ECT was highly significant, with a very high adjustment speed to equilibrium after every quarter, thus concluding that government revenue influences government expenditure, recommending that all available frontiers of revenue including other forms of oil and non-oil tax should be given necessary attention
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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