scholarly journals Entrepreneurship with Special Reference to the Status of Small Business Entrepreneurship: A Case Study Of Gondar, Ethiopia

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
F O Okpara ◽  
A D Mengistie
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Special Reference ◽  
The Status

scholarly journals In-Kind Model in Creative Productive Zakat Funds: Case Study on National Zakat Administrator Agency (Baznas) of West Kalimantan Province

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Sukma Indra ◽  
Muhammad Lutfi Hakim ◽  
Rofiul Wahyudi
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Venture Capital ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Field Research ◽  
West Kalimantan ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Government ◽  
Means Of Production

The results of the research in this paper aim to describe the implementation of the Small Business Capital Program, the constraints in implementing it and the creative productive zakat model that has been implemented by the Baznas of West Kalimantan Province in empowering the economy of Mustahiq. Therefore, the type of research used in this paper is field research with an empirical approach. Data collected from the results of interviews and documentation are then analyzed with qualitative data analysis. There are three research results in this paper. First, the Baznas of West Kalimantan Province implements the Small Business Capital Program to distribute zakat funds collected productively in the form of venture capital. The venture capital is then bought the means of production and given to Mustahiq to start or develop a business that he already has. The aim is to change the status of mustahiq to muzakki the following year. Second, there are two obstacles experienced by Baznas of West Kalimantan Province in empowering the economy of the poor through the Small Business Capital Program, namely the lack of human resources and the lack of zakat funds that have been collected by the Baznas of West Kalimantan Province. Third, the Small Business Capital Program at Baznas of West Kalimantan Province is included in the in-kind model in the distribution of creative productive zakat funds. It is hoped that this in-kind model can be used as a solution and contribution to the government in reducing poverty, especially in West Kalimantan Province.Hasil penelitian dalam tulisan ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan pelaksanaan Program Modal Usaha Kecil, kendala-kendala dalam melaksanakannya dan model zakat produktif kreatif yang dilakukan oleh Baznas Provinsi Kalimantan Barat dalam memberdayakan ekonomi mustahiq. Oleh karena itu, jenis penelitian yang digunakan dalam tulisan ini ialah penelitian lapangan (field research) dengan pendekatan empiris. Data-data yang terkumpul dari hasil wawancara dan dokumentasi kemudian dianalisis dengan analisis data kualitatif. Ada tiga hasil penelitian dalam tulisan ini. Pertama, Baznas Provinsi Kalimantan Barat melaksanakan Program Modal Usaha Kecil untuk mendistribusikan dana zakat yang terkumpul secara produktif kreatif berupa modal usaha. Modal usaha tersebut kemudian dibelikan alat-alat produksi dan diberikan kepada mustahiq untuk memulai atau mengembangkan usaha yang telah dimilikinya. Tujuannya ialah untuk mengubah status mustahiq menjadi muzakki pada tahun berikutnya. Kedua, ada dua kendala yang dialami oleh Baznas Provinsi Kalimantan Barat dalam memberdayakan ekonomi masyarakat miskin melalui Program Modal Usaha Kecil, yaitu kurangnya SDM dan sedikitnya dana zakat yang berhasil dihimpun oleh Baznas Provinsi Kalimantan. Ketiga, Program Modal Usaha Kecil di Baznas Provinsi Kalimantan Barat termasuk dalam in-kind model dalam pendistribusian dana zakat produktif kreatif. Harapannya, in-kind model ini dapat dijadikan solusi dan kontribusi bagi pemerintah dalam menekan angka kemiskinan, khususnya di Provinsi Kalimantan Barat.

CASE STUDY OF A QUALITY COST MODEL IN A SMALL BUSINESS

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Neto Jose Alves da Silva ◽  
◽  
Giacaglia Giorgio Eugenio Oscare ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Cost Model ◽  
Quality Cost

Varied Responses to Human-Induced Seismicity in the City of Azle, Texas

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Sarmistha R. Majumdar
Keyword(s):  
State Government ◽  
Induced Seismicity ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Prior History ◽  
Small Community ◽  
Regulatory Policies ◽  
The Status

Fracking has helped to usher in an era of energy abundance in the United States. This advanced drilling procedure has helped the nation to attain the status of the largest producer of crude oil and natural gas in the world, but some of its negative externalities, such as human-induced seismicity, can no longer be ignored. The occurrence of earthquakes in communities located at proximity to disposal wells with no prior history of seismicity has shocked residents and have caused damages to properties. It has evoked individuals’ resentment against the practice of injection of fracking’s wastewater under pressure into underground disposal wells. Though the oil and gas companies have denied the existence of a link between such a practice and earthquakes and the local and state governments have delayed their responses to the unforeseen seismic events, the issue has gained in prominence among researchers, affected community residents, and the media. This case study has offered a glimpse into the varied responses of stakeholders to human-induced seismicity in a small city in the state of Texas. It is evident from this case study that although individuals’ complaints and protests from a small community may not be successful in bringing about statewide changes in regulatory policies on disposal of fracking’s wastewater, they can add to the public pressure on the state government to do something to address the problem in a state that supports fracking.

scholarly journals Discursive Strategies and Sequenced Institutional Change: The Case of Marriage Equality in the United States

2021 ◽  
pp. 003232172110205
Author(s):  
Giulia Mariani ◽  
Tània Verge
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
The United States ◽  
Marriage Equality ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
The Status ◽  
Private Actors

Building on historical and discursive institutionalism, this article examines the agent-based dynamics of gradual institutional change. Specifically, using marriage equality in the United States as a case study, we examine how actors’ ideational work enabled them to make use of the political and discursive opportunities afforded by multiple venues to legitimize the process of institutional change to take off sequentially through layering, displacement, and conversion. We also pay special attention to how the discursive strategies deployed by LGBT advocates, religious-conservative organizations and other private actors created new opportunities to influence policy debates and tip the scales to their preferred policy outcome. The sequential perspective adopted in this study allows problematizing traditional conceptualizations of which actors support or contest the status quo, as enduring oppositional dynamics lead them to perform both roles in subsequent phases of the institutional change process.

scholarly journals Determinants of judges’ career choices and productivity: a Polish case study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Przemysław Banasik ◽  
Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska ◽  
Małgorzata Godlewska ◽  
Sylwia Morawska
Keyword(s):  
Career Choices ◽  
Social Recognition ◽  
District Courts ◽  
Self Monitoring ◽  
Administrative Supervision ◽  
Judicial Efficiency ◽  
The Status ◽  
Service Mission ◽  
The Stability

AbstractThe goal of this paper is to identify factors which affect judges’ productivity and career choice motives with the view of increasing judicial efficiency. Specifically, the investigation focuses on such aspects as judges’ remuneration, promotion, threat of judgment revocation, service/mission, periodic assessment, the threat of a complaint about protracted proceedings or of disciplinary proceedings, the threat of destabilization of the employment relationship, status/prestige of the profession, power/authority, social recognition, leisure, as well as administrative supervision and self-monitoring. To this end, a survey was conducted among judges of three of the largest Polish regional courts and subordinate district courts. The descriptive and statistical analyses show that judges’ care for the number of cases resolved, proxying for their productivity, is significantly correlated with self-monitoring of their adjudication activity. The stability of employment, the status/prestige of the profession and a relatively high remuneration are the most important factors in terms of judges’ career choices. In their care for the number of cases resolved remuneration is, albeit, no longer a relevant factor. Judges monitor their productivity due to reasons other than remuneration, possibly the sense of service/mission and the threat of various adverse consequences, the evidence for which is, however, also rather weak.

scholarly journals Status epilepticus from GABABR antibody positive encephalitis due to de novo mixed small cell and adenocarcinoma of the prostate

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. e238172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Kwan ◽  
Aaron Sia ◽  
Cullen O'Gorman
Keyword(s):  
Status Epilepticus ◽  
De Novo ◽  
Locally Advanced ◽  
Small Cell ◽  
Gamma Aminobutyric Acid ◽  
Transrectal Biopsy ◽  
The Status ◽  
Adenocarcinoma Of The Prostate ◽  
Receptor Antibodies

We present a case study of a 67-year-old man who presented with a new onset of recurrent tonic-clonic seizures. He had tested positive to gamma-aminobutyric acid B receptor antibodies in his blood and cerebrospinal fluid, and subsequent CT imaging and transrectal biopsy confirmed the presence of a locally advanced mixed small cell and Gleason 9 adenocarcinoma of the prostate. His seizures remained resistant to treatment with multiple antiepileptic drugs, including sodium valproate, clobazam, topiramate, carbamazepine, phenytoin and lacosamide. He progressed to status epilepticus, which required intravenous immunoglobulin and steroids, followed by plasma exchange 1 week later. The status epilepticus was refractory and required multiple admissions to the intensive care unit.

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