scholarly journals The Impact of the Business Environment on the Size of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Sector; Preliminary Findings from a Cross-Country Comparison

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 335-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erick Ariel Gonzales Rocha
Keyword(s):  
Business Environment ◽  
Country Comparison ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprise ◽  
Medium Enterprise ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Individual solutions to collective problems: the paradoxical treatment of environmental issues on Mexican and French YouTubers' videos

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (07) ◽  
pp. A07
Author(s):  
Cecilia Lartigue ◽  
Guillaume Carbou ◽  
Muriel Lefebvre
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Streaming Video ◽  
Environmental Discourse ◽  
Country Comparison ◽  
The Social ◽  
Environmental Discourses ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Country Specific

The impact of human activity on our planet is undeniable. However, this matter of fact is not fully understandable without analyzing the narratives through which people make sense of it. In this study, we aim to describe the narratives present in environmental discourses of Mexican and French YouTubers' videos. This corpus is intended to show how environmental issues are framed in the ever-growing discursive arena of entertainment and “influencing” streaming video. We set out to perform a cross-country comparison, with the purpose of contributing to the discussion of whether environmental discourse is country-specific or shared by various nations and, possibly, even global. Our study contributes to the understanding of the social construction of the environment via these discourses. Our main result points to a paradoxical treatment of environmental issues: the YouTubers of our sample represent them as collectively induced problems, but seem to mainly believe that individual-based solutions would resolve them. More broadly, our study suggests a tendency to the individualization and, therefore, the depoliticization of environmental issues as well as a globalization of the environmental discourses in YouTubers' videos.

Recruitment processes and labour mobility: the construction industry in Europe

2007 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivana Fellini ◽  
Anna Ferro ◽  
Giovanna Fullin
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
National Context ◽  
Labour Mobility ◽  
Construction Companies ◽  
Country Comparison ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Migration studies analysing firms' recruitment behaviour are quite limited.This article, built around and examining a demand-driven labour migration hypothesis, explores how recruitment decisions by companies can affect international migratory flows. The study focuses on the construction industry, where a foreign (nondomestic, or expatriate) labour force forms a major component. Through a cross-country comparison, we highlight the impact of the characteristics of the sector and of labour market conditions on recruitment decisions impinging on foreign (non-domestic, or expatriate) labour.The article finally suggests a typology of strategies that construction companies may adopt in order to recruit foreign workers, and it analyses those factors that influence the different decisions in each national context. By considering in depth the relationship between recruitment strategies and patterns of international labour mobility, it is then explained why a company's behaviour can either produce immobility or mobility of foreign workers.

Getting data analytics on board at The Cage

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-34
Author(s):  
Arif Perdana ◽  
Junaitha Gaffoor ◽  
Hwee Hoon Lee
Keyword(s):  
Enterprise Resource Planning ◽  
Data Analytics ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Resource Planning ◽  
Planning System ◽  
Data Governance ◽  
Customer Data ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprise ◽  
Medium Enterprise ◽  
The Impact

This case illustrates the challenges in implementing data analytics in a small and medium enterprise. A small and medium enterprise in Singapore, The Cage, runs a sports facilities rental business that has adopted basic data analytics and enjoyed the benefits data analytics offers. Since implementing enterprise resource planning in 2016 for their business processes, it now has readily available financial and customer data. Using available data from its enterprise resource planning system, The Cage now wants to incorporate more advanced data analytics into its decision-making process. While The Cage acknowledges the impact of data analytics on its business, it encounters practical challenges in the data lifecycle, namely, data discovery, data collection, analysis and modelling building, and data governance.

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