The nature of corruption affecting entrepreneurship in transition economies: Some lessons from Montenegro

Williams, Nick; Radević, Dragana; Gherhes, Cristian; Vorley, Tim

doi:10.1515/jeb-2017-0014

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“…The research took place during a period of unrest in the country caused by the ‘protest of mothers’. In 2016, the corruption‐riven government (Williams, Radević, Gherhes, & Vorley, 2017) passed a law guaranteeing mothers of at least three children lifelong financial benefits if they renounced their jobs and pensions. Approximately 22,000 women opted for this incentive but were later left vulnerable when the governing party revoked the law 1 .…”

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Feminist solidarity building as embodied agonism: An ethnographic account of a protest movement

Jones

Winchester

Clarke

2021

Gender Work & Organization

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Feminist solidarity, after early and idealistic conceptions of an all‐encompassing sisterhood, has become preoccupied with understanding and theorizing differences between women. This study develops an account of solidarity as embodied agonism, where difference and contest are experienced and negotiated through the body. Difference and contest are reframed within feminist solidarity projects as resources for, rather than inhibitors to, generating collective agency. This is done through an ethnography of a protest movement in Montenegro, which drew together diverse groups of women, and bring our data into conversation with theories of agonistic democratic practice and embodied performativity. Embodied agonistic solidarity is theorized as a participative and inclusive endeavour driven by conflictual encounters, constituted through the bodies, language and visual imagery of assembling and articulating subjects. Our account of solidarity is presented as constituted through three dimensions, each of which represents a different emphasis on sensory experience: exposing, which is to make one's body open to the hardship of others, enabling alliances between unlikely allies to emerge; citing, which is to draw on others’ symbolic resources and to publicly affirm them; inhabiting, which is to embody the deprivations of others, enabling alliances to grow and persist.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Feminist solidarity building as embodied agonism: An ethnographic account of a protest movement

Jones

Winchester

Clarke

2021

Gender Work & Organization

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“…Corruption, which is the misuse of public office for personal gain, has affected entrepreneurial SMEs, which are mostly practised by concerned individuals because of SME registration procedures and weak corruption eradication institutions (Williams et al , 2017). Budak and Rajh (2014) stated that the main hurdle to doing business is corruption.…”

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Barriers constraining the growth of and potential solutions for emerging entrepreneurial SMEs

Khan

2022

APJIE

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Purpose Pakistan has marvellous growth and development capacity, and entrepreneurial small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a key role in its development. As it is believed that entrepreneurial SMEs make an important contribution to the economy by providing employment and soaring production capacity, the purpose of this study is to investigate the hurdles that affect their performance. Design/methodology/approach A questionnaire-based survey was used to collect data from 225 entrepreneurial SMEs owners and managers in the southern region of Pakistan. Statistical analysis in SPSS was conducted to determine the barriers that limit the growth and development of SMEs. Findings The findings show that factors affecting entrepreneurial SMEs’ performance in Pakistan are lack of finance and infrastructure as well as economic barriers, corruption and management issues. These obstacles are positively and significantly associated with entrepreneurial SMEs’ failure. Originality/value This study’s significance lies in its identification of the barriers that affect the performance of entrepreneurial SMEs in Pakistan. The author also suggests how policymakers can devise better policies for SME growth.

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“…Corruption is a phenomenon which affects all kinds of entrepreneurship. In the case of Montenegro, corruption harms entrepreneurship and is mostly facilitated by weak institutions and complicate procedures (Williams et al, 2017). El Alaoui et al (2016) state that policies toward SME, political instability, corruption and tax policies are the main common obstacles found to hinder SME growth in Albania, Georgia, Morocco, Nigeria and Pakistan.…”

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Barriers to growth of SMEs in Western Balkan countries

Rehman

Çela

Morina

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JMD

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Purpose Western Balkans countries (WBCs) have a great potential for growth and among the main focuses of entrepreneurial activity is small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME) sector. Moreover, SMEs are believed to contribute in the economy by stimulating employment, increasing production, transferring new technologies and so forth. Due to this crucial importance the purpose of this paper is to analyze the barriers that hinder labor productivity (LP) of SMEs in WBCs. Design/methodology/approach The research method employed to discover solution to this research problem is quantitative analysis by using survey data of World Bank. Research methodology applied in this paper found it correctly to use cross-sectional data and conducts a factor analysis and ordinary least square (OLS) regression as the best procedure for this type of data. Findings The results show variability for different countries access to finance, tax rates, tax administration, corruption, inadequately educated labor force, competition in informal sector and political instability appear to be some of the main obstacles that are negatively affecting LP of SMEs in WBC. Research limitations/implications Although this study is the first to analyze all the possible obstacles for the six WBCs using factor analysis better results could be obtained with larger samples and panel data. Practical implications The policy implications of this study suggest that in order to boost productivity of these firms there must be a reduction of the barriers and improvement of business environment. Although, this study is the first to analyze all the possible obstacles for the six WBCs using factor analysis and contributes as insight to policy makers, better results could be obtained with larger samples using panel data. Originality/value Differently from previous studies this work uses explanatory factor analysis and method OLS to estimate regressions for all barriers in each country of Western Balkan region.

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The nature of corruption affecting entrepreneurship in transition economies: Some lessons from Montenegro

Cited by 14 publications

References 61 publications

Feminist solidarity building as embodied agonism: An ethnographic account of a protest movement

Feminist solidarity building as embodied agonism: An ethnographic account of a protest movement

Barriers constraining the growth of and potential solutions for emerging entrepreneurial SMEs

Barriers to growth of SMEs in Western Balkan countries

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