scholarly journals Management Succession and Entrepreneurship Business Sustenance

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 256-276
Author(s):  
Solomon A. Kowo ◽  
Olalekan O. Akinrinola ◽  
Olufemi A. Akinbola

Succession planning has drawn substantial interest among researchers. Research reports designate deficiency of quality planning in the management of SMEs especially in developing countries like Nigeria and this constitutes a foremost limitation to the effective management of SMEs. Succession planning are fundamental to steady performance, sustainability and competitive advantage of SMEs. The objective of the study was to investigate the effects of HR planning/forecasting on family business continuity and also to examine the effect of workers education on survival of entrepreneur. 110 copies of questionnaire were administered to the employees in the five selected SMEs in Abeokuta Ogun state, Nigeria to get primary data that treated and tested appropriate research questions and hypotheses accordingly. Analysis of variance (ANOVA), correlation efficient and regression analysis was employed. The Yamane formula was used to determine the sample size. The test re-test reliability approach was adopted for the convenience of the researcher. Reliability was ensued by Cronbachs Alpha of 0.932. The data was analyzed using manual and electronic based methods through the data preparation grid and statistical package for the social sciences, (SPSS). The study found out that HR succession planning significantly assists SMEs to increase business continuity and Workers education significantly assists SMEs to increase business survival. The study recommends that organizational succession planning should be at regular interval as this will enable workers to know its importance and also business successors should be appointed based on merit so that the right and experience successors can manage the business.

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-87
Author(s):  
Muhammad Rifki ◽  
Muhajirin Muhajirin

Strategi segmentasi pasar merupakan kegiatan yang bertujuan untuk meningkatkan omzet penjualan. Setiap perusahaan telah berupaya untuk mewujudkan segmentasi pasar yang tepat yang dibutuhkan perusahaan transportasi, namun fakta di lapangan menujukan masih terdapat beberapa perusahaan transportasi yaang mempunyai segmentasi yang menunjukan hasil yang belum optimal. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui  dan menganalisis segmentasi pasar perusahaan jasa transprotasi (studi kasus PO Titian Mas Kota Bima). Jenis penelitian ini adalah deskriptif dengan menggunakan data kuantitatif dari sumber data primer yang berasal dari kuesioner berskala likert sebagai instrumen dalam penelitian ini. Populasi dalam peneliian ini adalah masyarakat yang menggunakan jasa transpotasi PO TITIAN MAS Kota Bima yang tidak dketahui secara pasti jumlahnya. Hasil perhitungan sampel berdasarkan rumus unkknwon population diketahui besar sampel pada PO TITIAN MAS Kota Bima adalah 96 responden dengan menggunakan teknik accidental sampling. Teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini yaitu observasi, kuesioner dan studi pustaka. Teknik analisa data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah uji validitas, uji relibilitas dan analisis statistik (t-test one sample). Berdasarkan analisa data yang telah dilakukan hasil penelitian ini menunjukan bahwa segmentasi pasar PO TITIAN MAS Kota Bima lebih dari 70% dari yang diharapkan  (baik).   Keywords: Segmentasi Pasar, Jasa Transportasi ABSTRACT Market segmentation strategy is an activity that aims to increase sales turnover. Every company has tried to realize the right market segmentation needed by transportation companies, but the facts on the ground show that there are still some transportation companies that have segmentation that shows results that are not optimal. This study aims to identify and analyze the market segmentation of transportation service companies (case study of PO Titian Mas Kota Bima). This type of research is descriptive using quantitative data from primary data sources derived from Likert scale questionnaires as an instrument in this study. The population in this study is the people who use the transportation service of PO TITIAN MAS in Bima City, whose exact number is not known. The results of the sample calculation based on the Unkknwon Population formula, it is known that the sample size at PO TITIAN MAS, Bima City is 96 respondents using accidental sampling technique. Data collection techniques used in this study are observation, questionnaires and literature study. The data analysis technique used in this research is validity test, reliability test and statistical analysis (one sample t-test). Based on data analysis that has been carried out, the results of this study indicate that the market segmentation of PO TITIAN MAS in Bima City is more than 70% of the expected (good).


2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-60
Author(s):  
Selaelo John Mabeba

Authors use social media platforms to reach out to potential readers. Social media play an important role in book marketing and advertising and is convenient for meeting authors' goals of finding a wide target market in a short space of time. In light of this, this paper assessed the impact of social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and WhatsApp) on marketing and advertising books: poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. The paper emanates from an empirical study undertaken to establish whether such platforms do guarantee optimum sales for authors. The paper is grounded on the Uses and Gratification Theory (UGT) that explains the different reasons that inspire social media users to choose certain media to satisfy their specific needs. These needs develop out of the social territory. The theory states that receivers select the types of media and media content to fulfil their needs. UGT links the need for gratification to a specific medium choice that rests with the audience member. As a result, a qualitative method was used with an unstructured questionnaire to collect primary data. The findings show that authors have a challenge in terms of identifying the right target market on their social media accounts. The findings further show that social media platforms do not necessarily guarantee sales; instead, they are crucial for creating awareness.


2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thoriq Tri Prabowo

The use of social media for public institutions during the covid-19 pandemic is a necessity. In its use, social media brings both opportunities and challenges at the same time. Monitoring and evaluation of the use of social media for institutions finds the right time to be implemented immediately. This study aims to describe the types of content uploaded on the social media of the archive of UGM during the covid-19 pandemic and to describe the opportunities and challenges of using social media during the covid-19 pandemic at the archive of UGM. This research is a combination of qualitative and literature research. Primary data was collected through observations on uploading the Archive of UGM Instagram account (@arsipugm). Data collection on uploads in the last three months (September-November 2020). The data were verified with secondary data obtained through documentation in scientific publications and information channels related to the Archive of UGM. Data analysis was conducted by reducing the findings from the observation and documentation process. Data were presented in the form of tables, figures and narration. The results of this study indicate that during the covid-19 pandemic there were only two types of uploads from @arsipugm. They are archival material and reports. The percentage of uploads with archived material was 89.29% and report-type uploads was 10.71%. The use of social media for the archive of UGM during the covid-19 pandemic finds its opportunities, includes: socialization of archival services during the covid-19 pandemic; cooperation between unit and parent institutional accounts; and creative media uploads. Meanwhile, at the same time it has some challenges, includes: unoptimal use of Instagram's features; lack of interaction between the admin and the audience; the variant and volume of uploaded material has not been maximized; and monotone time lines.


2006 ◽  
pp. 54-75
Author(s):  
Klaus Peter Friedrich

Facing the decisive struggle between Nazism and Soviet communism for dominance in Europe, in 1942/43 Polish communists sojourning in the USSR espoused anti-German concepts of the political right. Their aim was an ethnic Polish ‘national communism’. Meanwhile, the Polish Workers’ Party in the occupied country advocated a maximum intensification of civilian resistance and partisan struggle. In this context, commentaries on the Nazi judeocide were an important element in their endeavors to influence the prevailing mood in the country: The underground communist press often pointed to the fate of the murdered Jews as a warning in order to make it clear to the Polish population where a deficient lack of resistance could lead. However, an agreed, unconditional Polish and Jewish armed resistance did not come about. At the same time, the communist press constantly expanded its demagogic confrontation with Polish “reactionaries” and accused them of shared responsibility for the Nazi murder of the Jews, while the Polish government (in London) was attacked for its failure. This antagonism was intensified in the fierce dispute between the Polish and Soviet governments after the rift which followed revelations about the Katyn massacre. Now the communist propaganda image of the enemy came to the fore in respect to the government and its representatives in occupied Poland. It viewed the government-in-exile as being allied with the “reactionaries,” indifferent to the murder of the Jews, and thus acting ultimately on behalf of Nazi German policy. The communists denounced the real and supposed antisemitism of their adversaries more and more bluntly. In view of their political isolation, they coupled them together, in an undifferentiated manner, extending from the right-wing radical ONR to the social democrats and the other parties represented in the underground parliament loyal to the London based Polish government. Thereby communist propaganda tried to discredit their opponents and to justify the need for a new start in a post-war Poland whose fate should be shaped by the revolutionary left. They were thus paving the way for the ultimate communist takeover


2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca Alice Vianello

This article examines different forms of Ukrainian migrant women’s social remittances, articulating some results of two ethnographic studies: one focused on the migration of Ukrainian women to Italy, and the other on the social impact of emigration in Ukraine. First, the paper illustrates the patterns of monetary remittance management, which will be defined as a specific form of social remittance, since they are practices shaped by systems of norms challenged by migration. In the second part, the article moves on to discuss other types of social remittances transferred by migrant women to their families left behind: the right of self-care and self-realisation; the recognition of alternative and more women-friendly life-course patterns; consumption styles and ideas on economic education. Therefore, I will explore the contents of social remittances, but also the gender and intergenerational conflicts that characterise these flows of cultural resources. 


This research article focuses on the theme of violence and its representation by the characters of the novel “This Savage Song” by Victoria Schwab. How violence is transmitted through genes to next generations and to what extent socio- psycho factors are involved in it, has also been discussed. Similarly, in what manner violent events and deeds by the parents affect the psychology of children and how it inculcates aggressive behaviour in their minds has been studied. What role is played by the parents in grooming the personality of children and ultimately their decisions to choose the right or wrong way has been argued. In the light of the theory of Judith Harris, this research paper highlights all the phenomena involved: How the social hierarchy controls the behaviour. In addition, the aggressive approach of the people in their lives has been analyzed in the light of the study of second theorist Thomas W Blume. As the novel is a unique representation of supernatural characters, the monsters, which are the products of some cruel deeds, this research paper brings out different dimensions of human sufferings with respect to these supernatural beings. Moreover, the researcher also discusses that, in what manner the curse of violence creates an inevitable vicious cycle of cruel monsters that makes the life of the characters turbulent and miserable.


2020 ◽  
Vol 102 ◽  
pp. 656-676
Author(s):  
Igor V. Omeliyanchuk

The article examines the main forms and methods of agitation and propagandistic activities of monarchic parties in Russia in the beginning of the 20th century. Among them the author singles out such ones as periodical press, publication of books, brochures and flyers, organization of manifestations, religious processions, public prayers and funeral services, sending deputations to the monarch, organization of public lectures and readings for the people, as well as various philanthropic events. Using various forms of propagandistic activities the monarchists aspired to embrace all social groups and classes of the population in order to organize all-class and all-estate political movement in support of the autocracy. While they gained certain success in promoting their ideology, the Rights, nevertheless, lost to their adversaries from the radical opposition camp, as the monarchists constrained by their conservative ideology, could not promise immediate social and political changes to the population, and that fact was excessively used by their opponents. Moreover, the ideological paradigm of the Right camp expressed in the “Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Nationality” formula no longer agreed with the social and economic realities of Russia due to modernization processes that were underway in the country from the middle of the 19th century.


2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 393-398
Author(s):  
Andreas Ahrens ◽  
Olaf Bassus ◽  
Jeļena Zaščerinska

AbstractUniversity as a social enterprise has become the dominant response to the challenge of bringing up an engineer as a first-rate technical expert who acts as a social agent, rather than just a technician, with a “broad understanding of the social and philosophical context in which he will work” [3]. Aim of the research is to analyze student engineers' Enterprise 3.0 application in engineering curriculum. The meaning of the key concepts of university as a social enterprise, engineering curriculum and Enterprise 3.0 is studied. Explorative research has been used. The empirical study was conducted at Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia, in 2011. Descriptive statistics was implemented for primary data analysis. The findings of the research allow drawing the conclusions on the favourable context of Enterprise 3.0 application in engineering curriculum as the student engineers' knowledge and attitude towards Enterprise 3.0 application are positive. Direction of further research are proposed.


2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-140
Author(s):  
Gabriela Belova ◽  
Stanislav Pavlov

AbstractThe last decades present a significant development of the economic, social and cultural rights and specifically, the right to health. Until 2000, the right to health has not been interpreted officially. By providing international standards, General Comment No.14 on the right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health has led to wider agreement that the right to health includes the social determinants of health such as access to various conditions, services, goods or facilities that are crucial for its implementation. The Reports of the Special Rapporteur on the right to health within the UN human rights system have contributed to the process of gaining the greater clarity about the right to health. It is obvious that achieving the highest attainable level of health depends on the principle of progressive implementation and the availability of the necessary health resources. The possibility individual complaints to be considered by the Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights was introduced with the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, entered into force in 2013.


2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rio Saputra ◽  
Mokhammad Najih

<p><em>Suspects have the right to obtain legal assistance, especially for suspects who are classified as economically disadvantaged in accordance with Article 56 of the Criminal Procedure Code (KUHAP). The facts show that there are many irregularities in the implementation of legal aid, therefore it is necessary to know about the implementation of free legal aid for suspects who are incapacitated at the level of investigation and the factors that become obstacles in the implementation of legal aid. This legal research is an empirical legal research and this research is descriptive in nature. The data used are primary data and secondary data. The techniques used to collect data were document study techniques and interview techniques. Inhibiting factors affecting the implementation of free legal aid for suspects who are unable at the level of investigation can be classified and differentiated into 3 factors, namely, legal substance, legal structure, and legal culture).</em></p><p><strong><em>Keywords: </em></strong><em>Legal Aid, Criminal Cases</em></p>


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