The Impact of the Entrepreneur's Educational Level on the Employment Creation by New Small and Medium Enterprises

This chapter examines the effects of different types of start-up rates on subsequent employment change. Longitudinal data on start-ups and employment in Portuguese regions in the period 1996–2007 is used for the analysis. The study addresses whether diverse types of new small- and medium-sized enterprise formation have heterogeneous effects on regional employment generation. It is found that, for the range considered, the seven types of start-ups led to significant and negative effects on the average variation of regional employment. It is also observed that these effects were more negative for start-ups with at least one business owner with higher education in engineering and for start-ups with at least one business owner with higher education in management. The last conclusion is that the share of highly skilled employees has a statistically significant and positive impact on the average employment change and, therefore, on regional development.

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The Impact of the Entrepreneur's Educational Level on the Employment Creation by New Small and Medium Enterprises

Business Education and Ethics ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-3153-1.ch037 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 707-726

Author(s):

João Zambujal-Oliveira ◽

Luis Contente

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Positive Impact ◽

Small And Medium Enterprises ◽

Business Owner ◽

Employment Change ◽

Negative Effects ◽

Regional Employment ◽

Heterogeneous Effects ◽

Medium Enterprises ◽

Start Ups

This chapter examines the effects of different types of start-up rates on subsequent employment change. Longitudinal data on start-ups and employment in Portuguese regions in the period 1996–2007 is used for the analysis. The study addresses whether diverse types of new small- and medium-sized enterprise formation have heterogeneous effects on regional employment generation. It is found that, for the range considered, the seven types of start-ups led to significant and negative effects on the average variation of regional employment. It is also observed that these effects were more negative for start-ups with at least one business owner with higher education in engineering and for start-ups with at least one business owner with higher education in management. The last conclusion is that the share of highly skilled employees has a statistically significant and positive impact on the average employment change and, therefore, on regional development.

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Extrapolative Collaborative Filtering Recommendation System with Word2Vec for Purchased Product for SMEs

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13137156 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (13) ◽

pp. 7156

Author(s):

Kyoung Jun Lee ◽

Yu Jeong Hwangbo ◽

Baek Jeong ◽

Ji Woong Yoo ◽

Kyung Yang Park

Keyword(s):

Collaborative Filtering ◽

High Performance ◽

Recommendation System ◽

Small And Medium Enterprises ◽

Personal Information ◽

Business Environment ◽

Share Data ◽

Artificial Intelligence Technology ◽

Medium Enterprises ◽

Start Ups

Many small and medium enterprises (SMEs) want to introduce recommendation services to boost sales, but they need to have sufficient amounts of data to introduce these recommendation services. This study proposes an extrapolative collaborative filtering (ECF) system that does not directly share data among SMEs but improves recommendation performance for small and medium-sized companies that lack data through the extrapolation of data, which can provide a magical experience to users. Previously, recommendations were made utilizing only data generated by the merchant itself, so it was impossible to recommend goods to new users. However, our ECF system provides appropriate recommendations to new users as well as existing users based on privacy-preserved payment transaction data. To accomplish this, PP2Vec using Word2Vec was developed by utilizing purchase information only, excluding personal information from payment company data. We then compared the performances of single-merchant models and multi-merchant models. For the merchants with more data than SMEs, the performance of the single-merchant model was higher, while for the SME merchants with fewer data, the multi-merchant model’s performance was higher. The ECF System proposed in this study is more suitable for the real-world business environment because it does not directly share data among companies. Our study shows that AI (artificial intelligence) technology can contribute to the sustainability and viability of economic systems by providing high-performance recommendation capability, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises and start-ups.

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Analisis Dampak Toko Modern Terhadap Keberadaan Usaha Mikro, Kecil, Menengah Di Kota Padangsidimpuan

AT-TAWASSUTH: Jurnal Ekonomi Islam ◽

10.30829/ajei.v4i1.4415 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 208

Author(s):

Rahmat Kurniawan ◽

Azhar Azhar

Keyword(s):

Human Resources ◽

Negative Impact ◽

Positive Impact ◽

Small And Medium Enterprises ◽

City Government ◽

Banking Institutions ◽

The Government ◽

Medium Enterprises ◽

Role Of The Government

This research is to find out the perceptions of micro, small and medium enterprises to modern stores, MSME partnerships with modern stores, constraints, and the role of the government in overcoming the problems of modern shops and MSMEs in Padangsidimpuan City. This research is a descriptive qualitative study by conducting in-depth interviews. The results showed the perception of MSMEs towards modern stores had a negative and positive impact. The negative impact, the income of MSMEs has decreased. The positive impact, the presence of modern stores motivates MSMEs to evaluate themselves from modern stores. The partnership established by MSMEs with modern stores is the use of business locations provided by modern stores. The constraints of MSMEs are business capital, human resources, business legality, business permits and products, while the constraints of modern stores are business permits, human resources and partnerships with MSMEs. The role of the City Government of Padangsidimpuan is for modern stores, namely to give an appeal not to add to modern store outlets and to call for partnerships in terms of marketing local MSME products. For MSMEs, facilitate MSMEs with banking institutions in terms of providing venture capital, training and guidance to MSMEs, and making packaging houses.

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Impact of Corporate Governance on Investment in SMEs Vietnam

International Journal of Economics and Finance ◽

10.5539/ijef.v11n11p59 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (11) ◽

pp. 59

Author(s):

Nguyen Thi Kim Chi ◽

Bui Van Can ◽

Bui Minh Duc

Keyword(s):

Corporate Governance ◽

Agency Theory ◽

Positive Impact ◽

Small And Medium Enterprises ◽

Financial Leverage ◽

Board Chair ◽

Revenue Growth ◽

Medium Enterprises ◽

The Impact ◽

State Enterprises

Controlling the investment activities of company representatives helps to avoid inefficient investment activities. Shareholders will face with risks if manager’s decisions which not bring benefits to shareholders (according to agency theory). Studying the influence of corporate governance on investment has an important role in controlling investment activities of enterprises. Therefore, the authors analyze the impact of corporate governance on investment of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Vietnam from 2014 to 2018. With data collected from 480 small and medium enterprises in Vietnam. The results show that state-owned enterprises tend to invest less than non-state enterprises. Companies with manager is board chair and manager hold shares will make investing more. Revenue growth and financial leverage have a positive impact on investment. From the results of this study, the authors also make some recommendations to help control investment activities in the enterprise through corporate governance characteristics.

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Pemanfaatan Pelepah Pisang Menjadi Produk Inovatif sebagai Upaya Peningkatan Pendapatan Ekonomi Keluarga di Desa Jamberejo Kecamatan Kedungadem Kabupaten Bojonegoro

Engagement : Jurnal Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat ◽

10.29062/engagement.v3i1.47 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 21-31

Author(s):

Nur Laila Rahmawati ◽

Indah Fajrotuz Zahro ◽

Asnawi ◽

Nurul Fitriandari ◽

Eryul Mufidah

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Small And Medium Enterprises ◽

Economic Value ◽

Business Community ◽

Participatory Action ◽

Economic Competition ◽

Social Community ◽

The Social ◽

Asean Countries ◽

Medium Enterprises

The economic challenge in the era of ASEAN Economic Community (MEA) is economic competition in the ASEAN countries. Consequently, efforts to improve Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) must be sustainable and should be done by synergizing among the social community, higher education, and the business community. To implement it, Jamberejo village of Kedungadem Sub-district, Bojonegoro developed assets that the social community has, that is banana bark which was able to be used as crafts that have economic value. By using Participatory Action Research (PAR) method, 57 women and higher education were invited to make crafts from banana bark to be used as a home industry business. Based on 6 samples of product, the business got a profit of Rp. 2,100,000. Return of Investment (ROI) is about 2.2 months. Then the average income level of the Jamberejo people has increased by 42.9% or equivalent to Rp. 900,000 per month. It happened after they got a mentoring program for the innovation of banana bark

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The Effects of State Development Banks on the Performance of Small and Medium Enterprises

Economic Themes ◽

10.2478/ethemes-2018-0023 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 56 (3) ◽

pp. 389-411

Author(s):

Jadranka Petrović

Keyword(s):

Correlation Analysis ◽

Business Performance ◽

Positive Impact ◽

Small And Medium Enterprises ◽

State Development ◽

Net Profit ◽

Development Banks ◽

The Republic ◽

Empirical Context ◽

Medium Enterprises

Abstract The views regarding the role and the need for state development banks have evolved in the 20th century, from considering their role as very important in the 1950s, through the stance of their inadequacy and ineffectiveness, to a renewed interest for public development banks at the beginning of 21st century. In this study we will concentrate on the state development banks as an important instrument of state financial support to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The Republic of Srpska Investment-Development Bank (RSIDB) provided the empirical context for our research. By applying the Mann-Whitney U Test and the correlation analysis the authors examined the effect of RSIDB loans on certain business performance indicators of SMEs. From the results of Mann-Whitney U Test it can be concluded that the average sales, number of employees and net profit in the five-year period after using the RSIDB loan is statistically significantly higher for the RSIDB borrowers compared to non-borrowers. The results of correlation analysis show that there is statistically significant positive correlation of medium strength between the use of RSIDB loans and the total sales, net profit and number of employees in the 5-year period after using the RSIDB loan. The study showed the positive impact of RSIDB loans on the growth of sales, net profit and employment of SME borrowers.

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Penerapan Teknologi Tepat Guna dan Diversifikasi Pangan pada UKM Olahan Ikan Bandeng di Desa Bulu Cindea Kecamatan Bungoro, Pangkep

Jurnal Pengabdian Pada Masyarakat ◽

10.30653/002.201944.237 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 4 (4) ◽

pp. 517-528

Author(s):

Nur Fitriani Usdyana Attahmid ◽

Rahmawati Saleh ◽

Muhammad Yusuf

Keyword(s):

Positive Impact ◽

Small And Medium Enterprises ◽

Vitamin B1 ◽

Appropriate Technology ◽

Omega 3 ◽

Processing Industry ◽

Processed Products ◽

Medium Enterprises ◽

Small Industries ◽

The Village

APPLYING APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY AND FOOD DIVERSIFICATION IN SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES OF MILKFISH PROCESSING IN BULU CINDEA VILLAGE, BUNGORO DISTRICT, PANGKEP. Village of Bulu Cindea Bungoro District is a village located in Pangkep Regency. The village has the potential in developing milk fish based processed food products. The abundance of milkfish products in this area has a positive impact on the Small and Medium Enterprises in the milk processing industry. Milkfish is very popular with the community because it has a low price and has a specific taste. Every 100 grams of fresh milkfish contains: 129 kcal energy, 76.85% water content, 20.38 gram fat content, 20.38 mg protein content, 150 mg phosphorus content, 2 mg iron, vitamin A l50 SI, vitamin B1 : 0.05 mg, and also contains Omega-3 of 14.2%. Milkfish has weaknesses, namely the presence of many thorn bones scattered throughout the meat section and the diversification of processed products is still simple with low product quality, packaging that is not hygenic, packaging identity that includes labeling and nutritional chemical composition has not been met and inadequate business licensing. Empowerment of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises is the key to the development of small industries in Pangkep Regency, both in terms of quality and quantity, as well as its supporting factors. Through the Community Partnership Program activities, a number of activities to develop fresh milkfish processing business without thorns and shredded fish to Small and Medium Enterprises who are partners are UKM Alifa Mandiri, which is one of the platforms to empower food processing industry players. This activity is very important considering the diversification of processed milkfish processing technology without thorns and shredded fish is still done conventionally so that it requires appropriate technology and diversification of appropriate processing.

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Facts or gut feelings: analysis of external pricing antecedents for SMEs in Germany

Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development ◽

10.1108/jsbed-12-2017-0398 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 25 (6) ◽

pp. 886-901

Author(s):

Lars Hendrik Achterberg ◽

Maktoba Omar ◽

Ambisisis Ambituuni ◽

Oliver Roll

Keyword(s):

Information Acquisition ◽

Large Scale ◽

Positive Impact ◽

Small And Medium Enterprises ◽

Theory Development ◽

Knowledge Generation ◽

Content Type ◽

Strategic Pricing ◽

Gut Feelings ◽

Medium Enterprises

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the external antecedents of pricing information acquisition in an integrative manner. The study develops understanding of determinants of information acquisition as a crucial prerequisite of successful pricing strategies within German small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach A large scale survey of sampled 2,542 SMEs was conducted. A total of 220 questionnaires were completed, reflecting a response rate of 9 per cent. This was acceptable considering the sensitivity of pricing issues. A final sample of 173 usable questionnaires were obtained. Findings The result indicates that external antecedents of pricing information acquisition practices have a positive impact on SME pricing performance, and pricing performance is positively related to firm performance. Practical implications The study indicates that external antecedents of pricing information acquisition are strategic pricing capabilities, which should receive attention by SME managers. Originality/value This study bridges significant obstacle to knowledge generation and theory development of the important issues of pricing information acquisition in SMEs.

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PELATIHAN DIGITAL BUSINESS BAGI CALON ENTREPRENEUR MUDA KOTA LHOKSEUMAWE DI MASA COVID-19

Jurnal Pengabdian Masyarakat Nusantara (JPMN) ◽

10.35870/jpmn.v1i1.274 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 36

Author(s):

Falahuddin Falahuddin ◽

Fuadi Fuadi ◽

Munandar Munandar ◽

Devi Andriyani ◽

Arliansyah Arliansyah

Keyword(s):

Digital Technology ◽

Positive Impact ◽

Small And Medium Enterprises ◽

Economic Potential ◽

Business Rules ◽

Business Plans ◽

Doing Business ◽

Points Of View ◽

Medium Enterprises ◽

Young Entrepreneurs

This service will provide an overview of entrepreneurship of small and medium enterprises using digital technology. From all points of view, be it motivation, business opportunities or ideas, as well as business rules according to sharia. During the current Covid-19 pandemic, it is very demanding for young people who already have business plans to adopt digital business tools more quickly to survive and develop in the new normal era. Therefore, prospective young entrepreneurs have great potential to be prepared to become excellent entrepreneurs, who will not only be economically independent, but will also develop regional economic potential which in turn will have a positive impact on the national economy. The purpose of this service is to overcome the problem of unemployment by the younger generation. The solutions we provide are in the form of training and providing motivation to develop and provide basic techniques for doing digital business, and do not forget to provide understanding to aspiring young entrepreneurs about doing business in an Islamic way as a form of development of the nation's.

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