Sources and Methodologies for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Study in Brazil

This article uncovers relevant sources and methodologies to gather knowledge about micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) in Brazil. To achieve its purpose, the text presents sources and methodologies. This type of study is relatively neglected concerning MSMEs. Until this moment, not much data has been reported about these companies’ categories, and even less in advanced research. Among the most significant data and methodology of addressing MSMEs in the country, the text highlights the surveys conducted by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), the Brazilian Micro and Small Business Support Service (SEBRAE), and the international annual research Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) a study on the entrepreneurial activity, which Brazil is part for more than 20 years. The Brazilian institutions, as well as consulting for those companies, collect key data that posteriorly become research sources. Also, when explaining how institutions chose and treated the data, they own specific methodologies regarding those businesses in Brazil. The paper also points out the importance of constant law monitoring, adjustment, and technology incentives. This article's contribution is to present a research methodology on MSME in Brazil with relevant data.

Model-Centric Fulfillment Operations and Maintenance Automation

As networks have evolved, there has been an evolution in how they are managed as well. This evolution has seen a move from manual configuration via command line interface (CLI) to script-based automation and eventually to a template-based approach with workflow to coordinate multiple templates and scripts. The next step in this evolution is the introduction of models to provide a more dynamic capability than is in place today. This chapter will discuss three major layers of modelling that should be considered during implementation of this approach: device models focused on the configuration of the hardware itself; service models focused on the customer or network facing services that leverage the hardware level configuration; and operational models focused on people, processes, and tools involved in application of device and service models. This includes the orchestration of activities with other tools, such as operational support systems (OSS) and business support systems (BSS).

Organizational and legal principles of public policy of business support in Latvia and Lithuania

Принаймні половина з 10 новостворених компаній припиняє свою діяльність у перший рік, часто вказуючи причиною збитковість, яку неможливо усунути через відсутність необхідних знань і порад. Своєю чергою, держава та суспільство в цілому зацікавлені у забезпеченні стабільності діяльності компаній, у тому числі й новостворених. Тому формуються організації підтримки бізнесу, цілями яких є постійний нагляд за різними подіями у зовнішньому бізнес-середовищі, щоб мати можливість застосовувати превентивні та/або коригувальні заходи для подальшої підтримки та зростання підприємництва. Подібне значення має і аспект працевлаштування. Підприємництво відіграє вирішальну роль у виробництві ВВП, необхідного для розвитку Латвійської та Литовської держав, який надалі матеріалізується у продуктах і послугах, необхідних для населення, кінцевим результатом яких є підвищення добробуту держави та населення. Саме з цієї причини держава та муніципалітети мають приділяти значну увагу розумінню аспектів, що заважають розвитку бізнесу, і цілеспрямованим покращенням функціональності системи підтримки держави та муніципалітету. Метою статті є проведення аналізу систем підтримки бізнесу з метою сприяння ефективній співпраці організацій підтримки бізнесу в Латвії та Литві шляхом аналітичної оцінки діяльності організацій підтримки бізнесу Латвії та Литви. Наукова новизна полягає в тому, щоб зібрати й проаналізувати відповідне середовище для підтримки бізнесу в Латвії та Литві. Висновки. Порівнюючи національні закони Латвії та Литви, а також документи стратегічного планування, які регулюють організацію, фінансування й оцінку впливу підтримки бізнесу на національному рівні, які не регулюються законодавством чи зобов’язаннями ЄС, можна зробити висновок, що, на відміну від законодавства Латвії, законодавство Литви чітко вказує на пріоритети підтримки бізнесу, цільові групи бенефіціарів, види підтримки (матеріали та нематеріальні активи) та постачальників підтримки (муніципалітети чи держава), а також має чіткий опис та оцінку допомоги. Законодавство Латвії (за винятком нового закону про допомогу підприємствам та законів, які визначають надання й моніторинг допомоги ЄС) не визначає підтримку бізнесу, її бенефіціарів, можливі види та розмір підтримки, необхідність та процедури моніторингу та впливу тощо.

STATE SUPPORT FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE REGION UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF THE SPREAD OF A NEW CORONAVIRUS INFECTION (COVIND -2019)

Theoretical and practical aspects of business support in the context of the spread of a new coronavirus infection (2019-nCoV) on the territory of the Republic of Dagestan are Studied. In order to implement measures to support business in the Republic of Dagestan, an action Plan (roadmap) is being implemented to improve the investment climate in the region.

Business Support Infrastructure in St. Petersburg

To develop entrepreneurship in large megacities, it is necessary to use organizations supporting entrepreneurs as effectively as possible. It is necessary to unite such organizations in the areas of support, coordinate and coordinate their actions to develop the most favorable climate for small and medium-sized enterprises.

What's Really New about the Neoliberal University? The Business of American Education Has Always Been Business

Journalists, academics, and ordinary Americans wrongly bemoan the student debt and college financing crises as two separate unhappy endings to a mythical story of unprecedented postwar federal and state support for higher education. Rarely have they considered that either catastrophe has anything to do with the labor question. Yet the thousands of Americans in debt and the many colleges facing bankruptcy (even before the pandemic) are intertwined disasters, which reveal that Americans never had genuine economic security or basic social welfare, a basic truth that has historically hurt and still overwhelmingly harms residents of color, particularly women, who disproportionately hold the most debt. Colleges and universities have always had to rely on tuition and business support because they never received adequate sustained funding from lawmakers, who had far more interest in offering young people and their families ways to creatively finance tuition in order to get the credentials needed to just compete for well-paying work. Business needs and demands did a lot to shape postsecondary schools before the emergency of the neoliberal university, supposedly a late twentieth-century phenomenon. As such, seemingly radical solutions, like forgiving debts and unionizing adjuncts, are not enough to transform universities into the progressive strongholds that they never really were. Lawmakers, taxpayers, and faculty would have to embrace a complete overhaul of how higher education is funded as well as how students are assisted in studying.

Converged Charging Method for Transportation Satellite SMS Service

This article introduces a billing method of pre-paid and post-paid transportation satellite short message service. It aims to solve the problem that the handheld transportation satellite equipment in China cannot use the SMS service due to the two staged dial prepaid system can’t charge and bill. The billing platform is connected with the SMS billing of the post-paid business support system, and uses the time series prediction algorithm Prophet to capture and early warning of abnormal SMS entries.

The role of business support interventions in promoting spatial justice : a case study of informal economic development in a residential zone, eThekwini (Ward 68)

The beginnings of apartheid initiated the manipulation of plans and policy to create cities which deeply entrenched segregation into the landscape of South Africa. This history of spatial exclusion is evident in the study area, Ward 68 in the South Durban Basin (SDB), with its diverse mix of industrial and residential land uses, with a proposed dug-out port planned for the area. In the three suburbs of Ward 68, some homes were spaces in which business was conducted. The diverse land uses, which has introduced formal and informal changes to space, have an impact on the people living and working in this area. In efforts to address the injustices of apartheid, South African strategy and legislation have included support to informal businesses; the National Informal Business Upliftment Strategy (NIBUS) serves as an example. This study uses the term “Business support interventions” (BSI) to describe the diverse approaches to providing financial or non-financial support to businesses. These interventions enable and strengthen informal businesses in residential zones, that is, home-based enterprises (HBE). The appropriateness of BSI and their effect on the quality of local spaces needed to be explored. Inadequate spatial orientation of BSI reduces the impact of HBE projects and programmes in townships. The mixed methods approach to this research includes a methodological design that uses qualitative and quantitative data. This research aims to contribute towards both practical methods for understanding the spatial-economic condition of local urban spaces, and towards providing more nuanced data and knowledge to BSI and urban management in the eThekwini Municipality (Durban). Distinctive challenges for the urban environment are related to the city’s spatial- economic disparities. A spatial justice lens and a case study approach have allowed for a critical investigation of how spatial logic can be applied to collaboratively address challenges of informality in urban spaces.

Sustaining South African small and medium-sized enterprises through monetary access and Literacy in the COVID-19 ERA

Research background: Monetary access and literacy are significant factors of concern confronting the survival and sustainability of small and medium-sized enterprises. Purpose: This led to this paper seeking to understand the impact monetary access and monetary literacy have on the sustainability of SMEs in the COVID-19 era. Research methodology: The method was employed by this study is a quantitative research method, which is supported by a positivism research paradigm. Data was collected using a questionnaire completed by 310 sampled participants. Using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences to analyse data, descriptive, the Pearson correlation and regression analyses were used to estimate the model. Results: The Pearson correlation indicated a positive and significant correlation between monetary access and monetary literacy to the sustainability of small and medium-sized enterprises (r = 0.564). The result indicated that some small and medium-sized enterprises do possess basic monetary skills while some do not. A significant number of small and medium-sized enterprises do not understand basic monetary terms, which justifies the lack of monetary literacy. Novelty: The study recommends that government agencies that assist with business registration should include a monetary training course as part of registration formalities. Further to that, the study recommended that government, banks and other business support institutions should simplify support programmes for the prosperity of small and medium-sized enterprises during and post COVID-19 pandemic.

Influence of Access To Finance On The Competitive Growth of SMEs in Lesotho.

Background: Access to finance is identified as one of the biggest problems faced by Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in most developing economies. Consequently, access to finance has been identified as a dominant constraint facing the SMEs sector in Lesotho. This paper established the factors of access to finance that influence the competitive growth of the SME sector in Lesotho. The factors addressed include financial information access, bank and business support services, the structure of banks and collateral requirements by the financial sector. Findings: The results from our analysis indicated that there is a relationship between independent variables of financial information access, Bank and business support service, the structure of banks and the collateral requirement by commercial banks and such influence SMEs capacity to attain competitive growth in Lesotho. In addition, the results indicated that Basotho entrepreneurs and managers see the predictors as critical factors of access to finance that constrained most enterprises access to needed credit from banks and such influence SMEs capacity to attain competitive growth in Lesotho. Conclusions: The study concludes that access to finance significantly affect the competitive growth of SMEs in Lesotho. Thus, this study suggests that several specific and harmonized financial policy actions are needed in the Lesotho financial market to identify enabling policy that ease enterprises access to adequate funding programs. These funding programs should target improved financial schemes that are coordinated, competitive and directed towards SMEs access to finance; harmonized credit policy which guarantees a win-win for SMEs loan applicants and the financial market operators.