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Les difficultés d’accès au financement des PME marocaines, causes et alternative participative
No full textSME occupy an important place in the Moroccan economy. This importance comes from the fact that they have irreplaceable assets that make them an undeniable tool for the economic and social development of any country. However, this type of company encounters several problems at all levels: administrative, financial and even at the management level. In fact, the financing problem is considered as the major challenge that SMEs must overcome. This article studies the possibility of considering some participatory finance products as a solution to the problems encountered by Moroccan SMEs when accessing finance. To do so, a survey carried out among SMEs in the province of Kenitra in order to identify the problems related to financing Moroccan SMEs, the modes of financing most used by this type of firm as well as their expectations regarding participatory finance. The data collected through the survey was subjected to analysis using crosstabs. The results obtained show that the major problem encountered when applying for financing is the high cost of the products offered as well as the lack of a product that respects the specificities of SMEs. They also show that this population considers that participatory finance can constitute a real alternative for financing SMEs.
JEL Classification: M13
Paper type: Empirical research.Les PME occupent une place importante dans le tissu économique marocain. Cette importance vient du fait qu’elles sont dotées de plusieurs atouts qui font d’elles un outil indéniable pour le développement économique et social du pays. Or ce type d’entreprises rencontre plusieurs problèmes à tous les niveaux. En fait, le problème de financement est considéré comme le défi majeur auquel les PME doivent faire face. Cet article étudie la possibilité d’envisager quelques produits de la finance participative comme solution aux problèmes rencontrés par les PME marocaines lors de l’accès au financement. Pour se faire, une étude sur terrain a été mené auprès des PME de la province de Kénitra afin d’identifier les problèmes liés au financement auxquels font face les PME marocaines, les modes de financement les plus utilisés par ce type d’entreprise ainsi que leurs attentes vis-à-vis de la finance participative et les produits de cette dernière qui peuvent pallier aux problèmes d’accès au financement.
Les données recueillies à travers l’enquête ont fait l’objet d’une analyse approfondie à l’aide des tableaux croisés. Les résultats obtenus montrent que le problème majeur rencontré lors de la demande de financement est le cout élevé des produits proposés ainsi que l’absence d’un produit qui respecte les spécificités des PME. Ils montrent aussi que cette population considère que la finance participative peut constituer une réelle alternative de financement des PME.
Classification JEL : M13
Type de l’article : Recherche appliquée
VERS LA CONCEPTION D’UN PRODUIT CAPITAL RISQUE ISLAMIQUE
No full textLa finance islamique, dite aussi participative de par la nature de ses produits, est une pratique qui est de plus en plus répandu à travers le monde. Certaines techniques de cette finance sont souvent assimilées aux techniques du capital risque et considérées très proches avec quelques différence près. Dans le cadre de ce rapprochement existant entre le capital risque et quelques techniques de l’industrie financière islamique, ce travail tentera d’étudier la possibilité de création d’un produit capital risque islamique. Pour se faire, une étude du processus de financement par capital-risque ainsi que par finance islamique s’avère nécessaire afin de décliner les points de convergence et de divergence entre les deux pratiques et de ressortir les contrats de la finance islamique qui peuvent être assimilées à la pratique du capital risque, susceptibles de contribuer à son évolution et par conséquent répondre à la problématique de financement des entreprises.
 
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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