Technopreneurship in Small Businesses for Sustainability

Technopreneurship in Small Businesses for Sustainability

Author: Rafiki, Ahmad

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2024-08-15

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13:

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In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, small businesses face numerous challenges in staying competitive and sustainable. Limited resources, intense competition, and changing consumer demands create a complex environment where innovation and adaptability are paramount. Many small business owners need help to leverage technology effectively, hindering their ability to streamline operations, reach new markets, and achieve long-term growth. Additionally, businesses need to adopt sustainable practices, both for ethical reasons and to meet the increasing demands of environmentally-conscious consumers. Technopreneurship in Small Businesses for Sustainability offers a comprehensive solution to these challenges by focusing on the intersection of technology, entrepreneurship, and sustainability. This book provides practical insights, strategies, and frameworks that small business owners and managers can use to thrive in today's dynamic environment. It explores how technology can be leveraged to improve business performance, enhance customer engagement, and drive innovation, ultimately leading to greater sustainability and competitiveness.


Handbook of Research on Innovation and Development of E-Commerce and E-Business in ASEAN

Handbook of Research on Innovation and Development of E-Commerce and E-Business in ASEAN

Author: Almunawar, Mohammad Nabil

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2020-08-28

Total Pages: 883

ISBN-13: 1799849856

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Business-to-consumer (B2C) and consumer-to-consumer (C2C) e-commerce transactions, including social commerce, are rapidly expanding, although e-commerce is still small when compared to traditional business transactions. As the familiarity of making purchases using smart devices continues to expand, many global and regional investors hope to target the ASEAN region to tap into the rising digital market in this region. The Handbook of Research on Innovation and Development of E-Commerce and E-Business in ASEAN is an essential reference source that discusses economics, marketing strategies, and mobile payment systems, as well as digital marketplaces, communication technologies, and social technologies utilized for business purposes. Featuring research on topics such as business culture, mobile technology, and consumer satisfaction, this book is ideally designed for policymakers, financial managers, business professionals, academicians, students, and researchers.


Emerging Technologies and Marketing Strategies for Sustainable Agriculture

Emerging Technologies and Marketing Strategies for Sustainable Agriculture

Author: Garwi, Jabulani

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2024-04-09

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13:

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In the face of escalating environmental challenges and growing concerns about food security, the agricultural industry is at a critical juncture. Conventional farming practices deplete natural resources, pollute the environment, and contribute to climate change. This unsustainable approach is jeopardizing the future of agriculture and endangering the well-being of communities worldwide. To address these pressing issues, an urgent need for transformative solutions that promote sustainability and resilience in agriculture. Emerging Technologies and Marketing Strategies for Sustainable Agriculture offers a compelling solution to the agricultural industry's challenges. The book demonstrates the transformative power of sustainable agriculture and marketing by showcasing inspiring case studies and innovative approaches worldwide. It provides practical insights and strategies for creating a more sustainable and resilient food system, empowering farmers, policymakers, educators, and consumers to make informed decisions and take action towards a more sustainable future.


Entrepreneurship and Intrapreneurship in Social, Sustainable, and Economic Development

Entrepreneurship and Intrapreneurship in Social, Sustainable, and Economic Development

Author: Sebastian Aparicio

Publisher: MDPI

Published: 2021-01-25

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 3039437593

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Entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship have become a vehicle that offers solutions for social, environmental, and economic problems. Even though the level of entrepreneurial activity and its diversity have been motivated through public policies, social support has also played an important role in encouraging people to think of entrepreneurship as a desirable career choice. This book brings together analyses of those elements required for entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial intention and action, which ultimately become important leverages of development. Chapters highlight the importance of rural, urban, university, organizational, and family environments for a bunch of intentions and behaviors such as green, sport, social, corporate, innovative, traditional, and gender entrepreneurship. This entrepreneurial diversity is translated into higher development through the empowerment of women, environmental consciousness, and efficient production. Policymakers, scholars, and practitioners can find different examples and cases useful for decision-making, learning, and practice in this book.


Institutions, Resilience, and Dynamic Capabilities of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Emerging Economies

Institutions, Resilience, and Dynamic Capabilities of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Emerging Economies

Author: Inder, Shivani

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2022-05-27

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 1668447479

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Entrepreneurial ecosystems enhance economic activities and growth in emerging economies. Such ecosystems sustain entrepreneurial ventures that provide a great push to the economic engine of an economy towards growth trajectory. The COVID-19 pandemic placed huge pressure on the survival capacity of entrepreneurial ventures and tested their resilience. Considering the special case of emerging economies, institutions play a substantial role in explaining the preferences of the business. Understanding the role of institutions and resilience capability of entrepreneurial ventures in emerging economies can provide suitable insights and contributions towards entrepreneurial ventures. Institutions, Resilience, and Dynamic Capabilities of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Emerging Economies presents innovative research that helps entrepreneurs to understand emerging economies in a better way and to gain meaningful insights. It describes entrepreneurship as a way to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and overcome institutional barriers and voids. Covering topics such as government initiatives, sustainable entrepreneurship, and economic growth, this premier reference source is an essential resource for entrepreneurs, business leaders, managers, economists, government officials, policymakers, libraries, students and faculty of higher education, researchers, and academicians.


Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Sustainability, and ICTs in the Post-COVID-19 Era

Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Sustainability, and ICTs in the Post-COVID-19 Era

Author: Carvalho, Luisa Cagica

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2021-04-30

Total Pages: 451

ISBN-13: 1799867781

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ICT has had a huge impact on businesses and organizations in general, with new business models, new marketing channels, and new markets being reached using these technologies. ICT can promote new strategies and enhancers to optimize various aspects of business, but this technology also provides important tools that can empower social entrepreneurship initiatives to develop, fund, and implement new and innovative solutions to social, cultural, and environmental problems. With the upheaval caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and its subsequent impact on the economy, the methods and tools used within this field will be forever impacted. ICTs and the digital economy are huge trends that will affect organizations in several dimensions, such as how to communicate and improve performance. Thus, new perspectives and research are needed to identify the trends emerging in these fields. The Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Sustainability, and ICTs in the Post-COVID-19 Era broadens the exploitation of entrepreneurship, innovation, and ICTs in a global approach to draw attention to multidisciplinary perspectives of these contexts and their influence in modern organizations. In addition, the book explores and discusses, through innovative studies, case studies, systematic literature reviews, and reports, the key developments in digital entrepreneurship, circular economy and digitalization, digital business models, digital market and internationalization, digital economy, trends and challenges for organizations, digital entrepreneurial ecosystems, IS/ICT in organizations, social aspects of information systems, and more. This book is ideally intended for business managers, industry professionals, entrepreneurs, practitioners, stakeholders, researchers, academicians, and students looking for how business and organizations are going to shift and advance in the post-COVID-19 era.


Sustainability of Higher Education: A Global Perspective (Penerbit USM)

Sustainability of Higher Education: A Global Perspective (Penerbit USM)

Author: Rosni Bakar

Publisher: Penerbit USM

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 9674613161

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As the higher education landscape is ever evolving, sustainability continues to be an essential concern. This publication covers existing sustainability matters ranging from internationalisation and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) to university social responsibility. The main contribution of this book is to reveal the efforts and issues of internationalisation of higher education for sustainable tomorrow from global perspectives. Since the institutions educate current and future decision makers, the play a key role in building more sustainable entities and creating new paradigms. The articles are written by a number of experts with various backgrounds in higher education that give global perspective on the issues of sustainability. Specific country studies give a timely review on the substantial growth of higher education institutions in certain parts of the world. This publication provides invaluable knowledge and skills to guide the reader in designing appropriate frameworks in critical problem solving of current higher education issues.


7th International Conference on Tourism Research

7th International Conference on Tourism Research

Author: Prof Rishi Balkaran

Publisher: Academic Conferences and publishing limited

Published: 2024-03-18

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13: 1914587952

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These proceedings represent the work of contributors to the 7th International Conference on Tourism Research (ICTR 2024), hosted by the Centre for Tourism Research in Africa at the Cape Town Hotel School, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa on 18-19 March 2024. The Conference Chair is Prof Rishi Balkaran and the Programme Chair is Dr Chris Hattingh, both from Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), South Africa. ICTR is a well-established event on the academic research calendar and now in its 7th year the key aim remains the opportunity for participants to share ideas and meet the people who hold them. The scope of papers will ensure an interesting two days. The subjects covered illustrate the wide range of topics that fall into this important and ever-growing area of research. Today, more than ever, there is a need for research and scientific guidance as the tourist sector struggles to cope with the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, inflation, socio-political turbulences, climate change and disaster risk.