Current Issue : April - June Volume : 2015 Issue Number : 2 Articles : 5 Articles
Resource allocation influences productivity or profitability of crop enterprises, particularly\namong smallholder agricultural systems, yet many empirical studies tend to ignore this fact.\nIn this paper, we use profit efficiency measurement as a proxy for comparative advantage to\ndecide the crop for specialization in the Ejura-Sekyedumase District in the Ashanti Region of\nGhana. Using farm level data from 199 respondents who cultivate maize and cowpea, we\nemploy the stochastic frontier function to measure and compare the profit efficiencies of\nfarmers cultivating the two crops. Results from the analysis showed that the profit efficiency\nof maize farmers ranges between 47% and 96.7% while that of cowpea farmers ranges\nbetween 50.3% and 100% with mean profit efficiencies of 89% and 95% for maize and\ncowpea respectively. The study further showed that education, farm size and on-farm labour\nparticipation were major significant factors which influences profit efficiency in the study\narea. Farmers in Ejura-Sekyedumase stand to gain improvements in household welfare if\navailable land and other scarce resources are allocated to cowpea agribusiness....
The main objective of this study was to identify the importance of SMEs in Malaysian and\nPakistani economies. Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) play a vital role in the\ndevelopment and growth of the Malaysian and Pakistani economies. However, their\ncontribution to the national economies of both countries is still relatively small. Malaysian and\nPakistani governments have made various fundamental steps to improve the growth of SMEs.\nIn spite of this, SMEs are still facing heaps of challenges and obstacles that deter them from\nfurther expanding their businesses and sustainable growth. This study provides the review of\nthe importance of SMEs in Malaysia and Pakistan....
Small and medium enterprises due to their smaller size and resources face numerous\nchallenges to sustain themselves. In the face of mounting pressures from the competitors,\nSMEs need to position themselves in such a way so as to cater for the changing customer\nneeds and expectations of their customers. To achieve this, developing the internal knowledge\nand knowing capabilities becomes imperative. The present study is an attempt to investigate\nthe role of intellectual capital towards sustainability. Sample consisted of SMEs selected from\nthe database of Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers. Self-administered questionnaires\nwere distributed to 335 respondents with a response rate of 51%. The results of the study\nindicate that intellectual capital is having a significant relationship as well as influence on\nsustainability of SMEs. Further, multiple regression results reveal that knowledge and\ninnovativeness dimensions of intellectual capital are more influential in creating\nsustainability for small enterprises. However, employee competences, intellectual agility and\nskills have been found to insignificant in Malaysian context. The results reveal that if\nintellectual capital of the employees is not optimally harnessed, it would lead to failure. The\nstudy is significant not only for the owners/managers of SMEs but also for the policy makers.\nFuture directions are also provided for researchers interested in the area....
The study has tested by correlation coefficient index a firm�s comparison according to their\nperformance on innovation, and the measure has taken the online sources network. The study\nhas 365 firms observation including five special industries that were planned allowing by U.S.\nand China industry. Was used as a resources the link of Baidu, blogs and Wikipedia to collect\nthe final information, the findings was positive with a correlation between several\nsignificance data result; and important association on the variables performances....
ISO14000 is an international environmental standard that acts as a guideline for companies to\nimprove its performance in environmental aspects. Researches related to ISO14000 shows\nthat the implementation has not only improved companies� environmental performance, but\nthis has also enhanced companies� corporate performance. In this research, a project is carried\nout to determine the benefits and costs of ISO14000, which necessitates the inspections of\ncompanies� performance in corporate and environmental aspects. A questionnaire survey was\ncarried out to achieve this and s the results from the survey shows that ISO14000 had an\nexcellent performance in environmental aspects such as reducing waste and usage of\nmaterials and energy. In the business aspects, however, the performances were average due to\nhigh time expense for this system maintenance and cost of certification and surveillance....
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