Effects of the pandemic crisis on social enterprise: A case study from Georgia

Gigauri, Iza; Bogacz-Wojtanowska, Ewa

doi:10.14254/2071-789x.2022/15-2/19

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“…Similarly, Dorado and Ventresca (2013) noted that institutions strongly influence entrepreneurship because of "institutional conditions that facilitate or hinder entrepreneurial engagement". In periods of uncertainty, institutional conditions must be supportive and conducive to productive entrepreneurship, without which entrepreneurship would impair and negatively impact economic performance and growth (Carree and Thurik 2010;Bylund and McCaffrey 2017;Gigauri and Bogacz-Wojtanowska 2022;Arranz et al 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

Thematic Review of Motivational Factors, Types of Uncertainty, and Entrepreneurship Strategies of Transitional Entrepreneurship among Ethnic Minorities, Immigrants, and Women Entrepreneurs

Raimi

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The current study examines the motivational factors, types of uncertainty, and entrepreneurship strategies of transitional entrepreneurship among ethnic minorities, immigrants, and women entrepreneurs, drawing insights from an extensive literature review. To understand the dynamics of transitional entrepreneurship, a thematic review, a qualitative research tool, was used to analyze the research problem and provide answers to the research questions. Three insightful findings emerged from the thematic review. First, six broad themes emerged as catalysts for transitional entrepreneurship among the three focused entrepreneurs, namely, the institutional environment, push factors, pull factors, ethnic resource dependence, cultural inheritance, and gender identity issues. Specific elements of each of the six themes are explicated. Moreover, two levels of uncertainty (Levels 1 and 2) confront transitional entrepreneurs depending on countries and institutional contexts. Level 1 uncertainty presents a clear future with likelihoods, possibilities, and probabilities of success, while Level 2 uncertainty presents several alternate paths and trajectories with a blurred possibility of success for these entrepreneurs. Finally, transitional entrepreneurs leverage optioned and adaptive entrepreneurship strategies in different ways to cope with the two types of uncertainty in their host countries. Given the prospects of TE, the paper provides implications on how to remove the institutional barriers facing transitional entrepreneurs for more balanced socioeconomic inclusion in host countries. It further explicates a need to leverage the motivational factors and entrepreneurship strategies for economic development. By providing a theoretical-based framework of motivations, types of uncertainty, and entrepreneurship strategies, the paper bridges the gaps in the literature and contributes to a better way of understanding TE among ethnic minorities, immigrants, and women entrepreneurs in the period of transition.

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confidence: 99%

Thematic Review of Motivational Factors, Types of Uncertainty, and Entrepreneurship Strategies of Transitional Entrepreneurship among Ethnic Minorities, Immigrants, and Women Entrepreneurs

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“…Sustainable entrepreneurship encompasses business entities that can achieve profitability by exploiting environmental market gaps [44]. They address social and environmental challenges through a business approach based on human values and go a step further to mitigate the impact of economic crises while promoting economic growth and social equity [45,46].…”

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Harmonization of investment and operational costs of the grain industry in the light of the theory of sustainable development

Makohon

2023

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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Approaches to harmonization of methods for determining the optimal level of investment in the renewal of the fleet of combine harvesters and current expenses of agricultural enterprises under conditions of implementation of sustainable development goals in the activities of economic entities are investigated. It is established that the implementation of the concept of sustainable development for the domestic agricultural sector intensifies the processes in it, brings to the fore the problems of ensuring food security of the State, increasing the production of safe products while preserving landscapes and minimizing anthropogenic pressure. At the same time, the seizure of part of the territory, mining of the liberated and adjacent to the combat zone areas raises the issue of rational use of land resources. Under such conditions, only further introduction of innovations aimed at increasing yields and the use of intensive technologies is the most important vector for the development of domestic agriculture. This places strict requirements on the technical condition of its resource potential. Unfortunately, the unsatisfactory technical condition of the grain harvesting machinery fleet and its destruction as a result of hostilities exacerbate the problem of technical support for grain production, in particular for harvesting. Under such conditions, an important task is to develop methodological techniques for determining the optimal, harmonized values of investments in the reproduction of resource potential and operating costs. The tested methodological approach allows determining the optimal level of investment in the renovation of the combine harvester fleet, taking into account the peculiarities of wheat production organization, grain price conditions, material resources, harvesting equipment, and financial factors. The calculations showed that it is economically inexpedient to invest in the renewal of the combine harvester fleet using the most common combine harvester models if one unit has less than 600 hectares of wheat crops. A positive feature of the tested approach is the ability to minimize unproductive costs by taking into account technological and market factors in determining the optimal level of costs. Instead, the introduction of innovations leads to a change in the form of the production function, which should affect the dynamics of the marginal efficiency of investments, and therefore it is promising to expand approaches to modeling and take into account the role of innovations in finding the optimal level of current costs and investments.

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