International Entrepreneurship: “Glocal” Business Creation, Development and Sustainable Employability

2020 ◽  
pp. 414-420
Author(s):  
Florentin Popescu
Keyword(s):  
International Entrepreneurship ◽  
Sustainable Employability ◽  
Business Creation

Level of education and knowledge, foresight competency and international entrepreneurship

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vahid Jafari-Sadeghi ◽  
Salman Kimiagari ◽  
Paolo Pietro Biancone
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
International Entrepreneurship ◽  
National Level ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Sem Analysis ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Business Creation

Purpose Global economies are involved with enormous activities of internationalization that provide pure and untapped opportunities for entrepreneurs and businesses to place and promote their products. Design/methodology/approach The authors applied structural equation modeling (SEM) analysis with the partial least squares (PLS), conducting an empirical analysis of data from 28 European countries. Findings The results reveal that the higher level of education/knowledge in a country enhances the foresight competencies of entrepreneurs and that they both have a positive influence on the effective business creation. The findings of this paper also stress on the positive relationship between the effect of business creation and international intensity in economy level. Research limitations/implications The limitation of this study lies in the impossibility of obtaining a larger and more complete data. Consequently, this study uses national-level data from 28 European countries, which makes the sample too small. In addition, although innovation is one of the driving factors in both internationalization and entrepreneurship, because of the limitation, it has not been considered in this study. Practical implications The authors assert that countries, specifically European nations studied in this research, can improve their employment rate and value creation (through their products in international markets) by giving a special attention to the entrepreneurial-oriented human capitals. Social implications This research warns policymakers that they can have a serious contribution in promoting (international) entrepreneurship. They should draw a rigorous plan for formal and informal educational systems that effectively develops essential knowledge for launching new businesses and fosters the innovation and entrepreneurship. Originality/value This study set out to improve the understanding of the role of level of education/knowledge and foresight competencies, as the elements of human capitals, on international entrepreneurship.

The Return of Business Creation

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Hathaway ◽  
Jordan Bell-Masterson ◽  
Daniel Stangler
Keyword(s):  
Business Creation

scholarly journals Sustainability of Recycling Waste Picker Sustainopreneurs for Prevention and Mitigation of Municipal Solid Waste in Swat

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 6533
Author(s):  
Muhammad Nawaz ◽  
Muhammad Tariq Yousafzai ◽  
Tariq Shah ◽  
Chunlin Xin ◽  
Wisal Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Spare Parts ◽  
Tax Amnesty ◽  
Self Organized ◽  
Metal Recycling ◽  
Business Creation ◽  
Inductive Research ◽  
Waste Energy ◽  
Alternative Sources ◽  
Tax Holidays ◽  
Counterfeit Products

This study assessed the role of waste picker sustainopreneurs (WPS) by examining their recycling contributions in a special case of District Swat, Pakistan. Using a transformative worldview, this study acknowledges their contributions to recycling. The study envisages how entrepreneurial agency works in unanticipated ways where the poorest of the poor enterprise without resources demonstrate unexpected agency to improve the environment. An inductive research design in conjunction with grounded theory was used to analyze data from 37 interviews in three tehsils of District Swat. The recycling sector uses primitive measures, which are completely informal, self-organized, and self-controlled. Surprisingly, we discovered that informal recycling contributes unfavorably to waste, energy, and food (WEF) security due to intermixing and adulteration, as well as acts as a gray channel for illicit practices that have taken advantage of tax amnesty in the area until 2023. The uncontrolled welding of half cut and nose cut car parts has skyrocketed the motorization index and CO2 emissions; however, it has also resulted in alternative sources of livelihoods, as these accidental environmentalists had found modern sources of income. This is similar to low-tech innovation and business creation that takes advantage of tax holidays due to the special status of District Swat. The study highlights the most and least valuable recyclables and identifies the gray channel markets of spare parts, metal recycling, counterfeit products, fuel intermixing, and adulteration. The study contributes by untangling the understanding of a legal gambit of tax amnesty at a critical pre-policy input as well as advocates for rights of invisible stakeholders of waste management in Pakistan.

scholarly journals Tapping the perspective of employees with lower levels of education on sustainable employability

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
I Houkes ◽  
E Hazelzet ◽  
P Mignon ◽  
A de Rijk
Keyword(s):  
Construct Validity ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Criterion Validity ◽  
Job Control ◽  
Shared Responsibility ◽  
Vulnerable Group ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Sustainable Employability ◽  
Proxy Variables ◽  
New Instrument

Abstract Background Sustainable employability (SE) is top priority. However, employers find it difficult to develop SE interventions. Measures based on the employee perspective of SE that would give direction to interventions, currently fall short, particularly for the understudied group of employees with lower levels of education (1/3 of the Dutch labor population). Earlier, the Maastricht Instrument for SE (MAISE-NL) was developed and validated in a sample of high-educated employees. This study aims to adjust and validate MAISE-NL for use among Lower Educated employees (MAISE-LE). Methods By means of focus groups consisting of employees with lower levels of education, items and response categories of MAISE have been aligned with the perceptions of these employees. Other items from subscales such as job control, self-efficacy and lifestyle were added. Language was checked for clarity and ambiguity. A questionnaire containing these items, as well as proxy variables (health and vitality) and demographics, was answered online by 944 lower educated employees from five organizations (response rates 44-64%). Construct validity, reliability and criterion validity were tested through PCA, CFA, Cronbach's alpha and correlations. Results MAISE-LE comprises 10 scales divided over four areas: (1) Level of SE; (2) Factors affecting my SE; (3) Overall responsibility for SE; and (4) Responsibility for factors affecting my SE. Preliminary results indicate that reliability, construct and criterion validity were adequate to good. Employees' SE was moderate to high, and was generally considered a shared responsibility of employee and employer. The latter varies per factor though. Employees wish to participate more in decisions regarding their work. Conclusions The MAISE-LE appeared to be reliable and valid. We recommend that employers use the MAISE-LE as a needs assessment in order to develop SE interventions that will be readily accepted and effective for employees with lower levels of education. Key messages MAISE-LE (Maastricht Instrument for Sustainable Employability) is a new instrument for measuring SE and the responsibility for SE from the perspective of employees with lower levels of education. The MAISE-LE will facilitate employers in the development of effective SE interventions, which align with the needs of this vulnerable group of employees.

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