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This research paper presents an empirical investigation into the nexus between cultural factors and entrepreneurial performance of small and Medium Scale Businesses in Nigeria. Africa is a continent dominated by Culture and culture affects daily sales and it also affects demands and supply as well as patronage of any business. This paper is aimed at investigating the effect of cultural factors on entrepreneurial performance as well as ascertaining the nature of relationship between cultural factors and entrepreneurial performance. This research adopted a descriptive survey method. This research used a quantitative approach to data gathering of 200 SME employees through a Likert scaled questionnaire for data analysis. The study concludes through its findings that social network capital, cultural factors, Risk-taking behavior and Work ethic and perseverance have a significant, positive and direct effect on entrepreneurial performance of SMEs in Delta state. The study also revealed that other cultural factors like Attitudes toward Failure and religious beliefs have a significant and direct effect on entrepreneurial performance of SMEs in Delta state. The research paper empirically showed that there is a great and significant relationship between cultural factors and entrepreneurial performance of SMEs in Delta state. The study has proven that people's culture does affect entrepreneurial performance. Therefore this study recommends that before setting up businesses in any location, a smart entrepreneur should first observe the culture of the people living in that geographical location of the proposed business to ascertain the kind of business that will be most appropriate for the culture of the people there. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aimed to determine whether financial information, business location, funding objectives and advertising content as intervening variables can help the success of funding through 10 crowdfunding platforms registered with OJK. This study used signalling theory in discussing equity crowdfunding platforms, which can be assumed by small investors as a signal of business quality and can convince investors to invest, thus reducing the problem of information asymmetry. The research method used in this study was descriptive quantitative with the analytical model used to test the hypothesis was the logistic regression analysis model. The population of this study consisted of companies seeking funding through crowdfunding platforms registered with OJK Indonesia. The research was conducted in 2023. The data used in this study was secondary data obtained from published crowdfunding platform data. A purposive sampling technique was used to determine the research sample. The results of this study are expected to provide information to funding project owners and investors to be used as a guide in making decisions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research was conducted at Udayana Park, Mataram City and aims to analyze the effect of business capital, length of business, working hours, and business location on microscale business income in Udayana Park, the data used in this study are primary data, obtained through observation, questionnaires, and documentation on objects that are relevant to this research. The results showed that the test results, business capital partially had a significant effect on business income (0.0011 <0.05). Duration of business has a significant effect on business income (0.0445 <0.05), then the variable working hours has a significant effect on income (0.0031 <0.05). While the business location has no significant effect on business income (0.9162> 0.05), then the results of the f test simultaneously show that the variables of business capital, length of business, working hours, and business location have a significant effect on micro-scale business income in Udayana Park, Mataram City. The results of the Adjusted R-squared calculation obtained a value of 0.352577 or 35.2%. This means that the contribution of business capital variables, length of business, working hours, and business location to microscale business income in Udayana Park, Mataram City is 35.2%, the remaining 64.8% is determined by other variables outside this study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the midst of intense competition in the cosmetics industry, customer loyalty is an important key in maintaining the sustainability and existence of a company. This study aims to analyze the influence of store location and service quality on customer loyalty with customer satisfaction as a mediation variable. The investigation aims to understand the relationship between variables, the nature of mediation, and become a cornerstone in formulating practical implications for the cosmetic retail industry. The population in this study is all customers of the cosmetic industry in Badung Regency. The study obtained 150 valid samples. The data collection method is a survey method using questionnaires which was carried out offline and online through a link. The analysis technique used is an inferential analysis technique with Partial Least Square (PLS) to analyze relationships among latent constructs by modeling both the measurement and structural components of a theoretical model. The results showed that there is a significant relationship between store location and service quality to customer loyalty both directly and indirectly through customer satisfaction and this is a partial mediation, suggesting that there are other factors not included in the research model that could explain the relationship between store location and loyalty, as well as service quality and loyalty. The suggestion proposed to increase customer loyalty in cosmetic retail is to pay attention to the availability of parking lots, location convenience, and ease of accessing store locations. In addition, the quality of service can be improved through supporting facilities and infrastructure, the ability of marketers to welcome customers and provide a good value and experience to customers that can be done through trained employees.

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This article estimates the relationship between business establishment location and split-rate property taxation. Using variation in split-rate adoption and intensity by municipalities across Pennsylvania, I apply data from the Census's County Business Patterns (CBP) between 1994 and 2017 to estimate difference-in-difference (DiD) style models. Findings suggest that moving from conventional property taxation to a split-rate system is associated with an initial increase of between 60 and 107 business establishments. The number of business establishments does not appear to be sensitive to changes in the split-rate ratio after implementation, but the initial increase in the number of establishments declines each year after implementation by between 3.3 and 5.5 establishments, or about 5 percent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A frequent theme in regional science is exploring the determinants of business establishment locations. We briefly review the theoretical perspectives motivating several frameworks underpinning locational determinant analyses. We summarize and review trade-offs involved in established and emerging econometric techniques that researchers use to analyse locational determinants. We conclude with opportunities for future research, including understudied frameworks, potential data sources and methodological developments.

This paper explores the relationship between urban traffic, retail location and disease control during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis and tries to find a way to simultaneously address these issues for the purpose of street recovery. Drawing on the concept of the 15 min city, the study also aims at seeking COVID-19 exit paths and next-normal operating models to support long-term business prosperity using a case study of Royal Street, East Perth in Western Australia. Nearly half of the shops became vacant or closed at the end of 2020 along the east section of Royal Street, demonstrating the fragility of small business in a car-oriented street milieu that is inadequately supported by proper physical, digital and social infrastructure. A key finding from the analysis is the formulation of the concept of the Minute City. This describes a truly proximity-centred and socially driven hyper-local city, where residents and retailers work together on the local street as a walkable public open space (other than movement space), and benefit from ameliorated traffic flow, improved business location and a safer, connected community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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A frequent theme in regional science is exploring the determinants of business establishment locations. We briefly review the theoretical perspectives motivating several frameworks underpinning locational determinant analyses. We summarize and review trade-offs involved in established and emerging econometric techniques that researchers use to analyse locational determinants. We conclude with opportunities for future research, including understudied frameworks, potential data sources and methodological developments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper proposes a discussion on criteria related to decisions to be made in order to choose the business location, signalling that approach might be different in case of small businesses (as compared to large companies) as well as in the case of service businesses, in particular small businesses active in hospitality industry (food and drink shops). Based on cases and observations as well as impact factors consideration, the author suggests that success of such a business (usually located in densely populated urban and/or well-known touristic areas) might depend on other factors than simply location. Selected examples from several countries are presented to make the case. The paper conclusions and implications are equally important for theorists and practitioners, as entrepreneurs, small business owners and owner-managers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper combines theoretical models of housing and business locations and shows that they have the same determinants. It evidences that classical, behavioural, new economic geography, evolutionary and co-evolutionary frameworks apply simultaneously, and one should consider them jointly when explaining urban structure. We use quantitative tools in a theory-guided factors induction approach to show the complexity of location models. The paper discusses and measures spatial phenomena as distance-decaying gradients, spatial discontinuities, densities, spillovers, spatial interactions, agglomerations, and as multimodal processes. We illustrate the theoretical discussion with an empirical case of interacting point-patterns for business, housing, and population. The analysis reveals strong links between housing valuation and business location and profitability, accompanied by the related spatial phenomena. It also shows that assumptions concerning unimodal spatial urban structure, the existence of rational maximisers, distance-decaying externalities, and a single pattern of behaviour, do not hold. Instead, the reality entails consideration of multimodality, a mixture of maximisers and satisfiers, incomplete information, appearance of spatial interactions, feed-back loops, as well as the existence of persistence of behaviour, with slow and costly adjustments of location.

Choosing the physical place in which to locate a company or make investments is a strategic decision that managers must make when their business activities begin and as they expand. These decisions are key to firms’ survival. This study sought to shed light on this decision problem and assist managers in making these decisions. The first research objective was to examine the different dimensions that decision makers should consider regarding locations. The second objective was to test the efficacy of multi-criteria analysis methods regarding this decision problem. More specifically, this study applied a combination of the preference ranking organization method for enrichment of evaluations and the geometric analysis for interactive aid method, complemented by the analytical hierarchy process. The last objective was to rank major European cities on their suitability as business locations. The results include a preferential ranking of 66 European cities. London is the best positioned in all dimensions, followed by Paris and Barcelona. The findings’ originality comes from the inclusion of dimensions such as climate, security, and technology, which are given little weight in other similar indices, as well as the fresh approach to this decision problem from a business perspective and the combination of methodologies.

Decisions made by businesses on where to locate or relocate are typically given less consideration than residential location in integrated transport and land use modelling systems. This is surprising given the important role that businesses play in defining employment opportunities, and hence the travel patterns of workers and any travel associated with accessing firms. As part of a larger study on giving firm location choices an endogenous representation in an integrated model system, this paper reviews the existing literature on the drivers of location and relocation decisions in various geographical jurisdictions. The findings provide a starting position in the design of future firm-specific surveys, and especially the attributes that are candidates for stated choice experiments and for inclusion in firm location utility equations embedded in integrated strategic model systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Inner city revitalization efforts centered on fostering new business activity are controversial because they assume that the job creating capacity of new businesses is capable of impacting aggregate employment levels in inner city neighborhoods. Given this controversy, this article examines the link between new business activity and inner city employment growth in Phoenix, Arizona. Analytical results highlight job creation from new business activity but a net negative association between new business activity and employment growth stemming from the loss of jobs from large employers in inner city neighborhoods. This relationship highlights that encouraging new business activity is not necessarily a bad idea for local residents and customers, but should not be viewed as a panacea for all inner city problems. Instead, new business activity should be viewed as one component of multifaceted initiatives to revitalize inner city neighborhoods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the growing race for the market share, companies geographically position their production and office buildings according to the new business rules. In order for the company to survive in the market, it is necessary to maximize the profit, minimize the costs, maintain a good quality of the product and constantly improve it. The choice of location is one of the vital decisions in the process of building of a production system, although the selection of the location is a problem related to certain time sections in the life of a given production system, the need for research on the effect locations have is stable in time. The aim of the research is the methodological approach to the selection criteria of broader and narrower location for the construction of the production system for pastry production in Vojvodina as an area which has a rich base in raw material. The Agricultural and food industry as branches of industry have a long time tradition as well as a great potential in strengthening economic performances of the Economy of Vojvodina. Evaluation criteria and their use in the model of dimensional analysis will allow a good selection of a good location for the construction of the business systems for the production of pastry.

The aim of this study is to present is to present what makes the location of accounting outsourcing centres successful given the complexity of their operations. For this purpose, a matrix developed by the author will be used (established on the basis of a pilot study realised in 2016) on the relationship between the complexity of processes and the costs generated in connection with their implementation. The study is currently being prepared (including an analysis of outsourcing market investors, decision-making in the proper sampling, and refining the specific research questions) and its planned execution time is 2017/2018. At this stage, basic research questions and hypotheses were formulated, and a preliminary selection of the statistical method permitting assessment of the studied parameters was made. The study’s results are to be made available to the parties concerned as a tool to support decision-making regarding the location of centres of outsourcing of accounting in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

While tackling the issue of place attractiveness for companies and investments in Canada and Switzerland at large, this research focuses on federal multi-level collaboration with two case studies: Ontario and Western Switzerland. Based on empirical data gathered from semi-structured interviews (n = 2 2) and surveys (n = 4 2) as well as on secondary data, it provides an analysis of the perception of intergovernmental collaboration by economic developers and a mapping of the challenges identified in both the Canadian and the Swiss contexts. A comparative perspective, complemented by data regarding business decision-making (n = 3 0), allows us to draw lessons for economic developers in both countries, aiming at extending both academic and practitioners' literatures. Findings show that the federal contexts in which attractive strategies occur cause specific challenges for economic developers. While judging that the system works well in general, the majority of Canadian economic developers interviewed mentioned different problems to solve, such as the confusion for companies generated by a federal multi-level system and the need for more business-oriented strategies away from political concerns. The majority of Swiss economic developers interviewed also acknowledged issues caused by the federal system and wished for improvements regarding coordination between federal entities and levels. In this regard, pragmatism is perceived as a crucial factor for the implementation of successful attractive strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the years, research on relocation activity has provided insights about the characteristics of firms and regions that drive relocation. The spatial dimensions of these relocation decisions, however, particularly within states or metropolitan areas, remain an understudied aspect of the relocation literature. There is also little work comparing the destinations of relocations originating from within metropolitan areas compared to relocation activity from other states. Given the theoretical and practical importance of higher resolution, comparative research on relocation activity within metropolitan areas, this article uses both areal and point-based spatial statistics to test hypotheses about similarities and differences in the relocation behavior of locally oriented and out-of-state businesses within the Phoenix, Arizona, metropolitan area. Analytical results highlight distinct differences in the destinations of relocation activity originating from within the metropolitan area compared to out-of-state relocation activity. Intrametropolitan relocations tend to locate in less expensive and racially and ethnically diverse neighborhoods, whereas out-of-state relocations locate in wealthier, well-known locations of the metropolitan area. Out-of-state relocations are also less likely to locate in the downtown core. This suggests that expensive smokestack-chasing efforts directed at attracting businesses from out of state are unlikely to help revitalize the downtown core. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The goal of this study is to quantitatively examine the relationship between walkability and arts-related businesses in metropolitan areas across the United States. Model results indicate that the relationship between arts businesses and walkability is sensitive to the size or scale of the business considered, as well as to the definition of the arts used. Larger-scale businesses are somewhat more likely to locate in walkable neighborhoods than are small-scale arts-related businesses, which are less likely to locate in walkable neighborhoods. This difference is likely due to the higher cost of property in these neighborhoods. In this regard, community-level economic development and planning entities need to take proactive measures to ameliorate the cost externalities associated with modifications to urban environments to make them more walkable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Peningkatan para pelaku usaha makanan di Kota Semarang, pada tahun 2011 sebanyak 80 pelaku usaha, tahun 2012 bertambah 85 pelaku usaha, pada tahun 2013 bertambah 92 pelaku usaha, dan pada tahun 2014 bertambah menjadi 108 pelaku usaha makanan yang ada di Kota Semarang. Dengan peningkatan para pelaku usaha makanan tersebut ternyata tidak berdampak baik pada pendapatan yang diperoleh. Dari jumlah seluruh pendapatan UMKM makanan yang berada di Kota Semarang, pada tahun 2011 pendapatan mereka mencapai Rp. 13.13.000.000, pada tahun 2012-2013 mengalami penurunan 28,90% yaitu menjadi Rp. 9.323.000.000, pada tahun 2013 mengalami penurunan mencapai 53,33% yaitu menjadi Rp. 4.351.000.000, dan pada tahun 2014 juga mengalami penurunan sebesar 32,58% yaitu menjadi Rp.2.933.657.000. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kuantitatif dengan metode penelitian regrresi linier berganda. Subjek penelitian adalah para pelaku usaha makanan yang berada di Kecamatan Tembalang Kota Semarang, data awal yang diterima dari Dinas Koperasi dan UMKM Kota Semarang, jumlah pelaku usaha makanan yang terdaftar sebanyak 38 pelaku usaha. Setelah peneliti melakukan penelitian secara langsung hanya tersisa 36 pelaku usaha yang masih aktif menjalankan usahanya. Metode pengumpulan data adalah observasi, dan kuisioner (angket). Hasil penelitian diperoleh (Uji F) untuk varibael (X1) manajemen, (X2) lokasi usaha, (X3) pemasaran, diperoleh sebesar 0,992 dengan probabilitas 0,000. Karena 0,000

Potential economic resources in the Central Java Province provide interesting features for analysis, especially agricultural sectors, where many regencies have relied on since 2000, but declined in 2004. Based on the State Location Quotient (LQ), this study finds the change in some leading economic sectors from 2002 to 2004 in those regencies and cities as well. The tendency of the change has an implication in the growth of the role in every single sector, relatively among the regions (regencies and cities). On the other hand, the Dynamic Location Quotient (ΔLQ) shows LQ variation across regions and some coincidence in decrease. If the decrease continuously occurs in important sectors of the regions with lower and negative LQ growth, there will also be adverse economic implications. In contrast, regions with higher and positive LQ growth will improve their potential economic resources.

Many scholars have dedicated their studies to understanding the kind of assistance given to small business. Likewise, numerous studies have concentrated on how government in particular, through a small business policy, can be instrumental in providing business support. This article evaluates South Africa's small business policy by concentrating on its objectives, outputs and outcomes. Studies evaluating small business policy according to its objectives, outputs and outcomes, have been limited. Such policy evaluation goes beyond merely reporting to understanding why certain phenomena take place. As an emerging economy, South Africa is in dire need of well-developed policies. This article proposes that understanding the link between small business policy and the age and location of a business may help government to refine policy formulation and design. Using a survey method and cross-sectional research design, the sample size of 340 respondents consisted of start-up and established business owners. This study found that not the age of the business, but only its location (the metropolitan municipality where the business is located) has a statistically significant effect on the objectives, outputs and outcomes of the small business policy. These findings should assist both national and international policymakers to identify specific context-bound interventions relevant to the location of businesses with a view to improving them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to apply the theoretical lens of liminality to a consideration of non-traditional entrepreneurial locations. The study exemplifies such locations by empirically exploring self-storage based businesses: that is, businesses that operate for a significant number of hours each week from self-storage facilities. Design/methodology/approach – The study draws on interviews with entrepreneurs operating self-storage based businesses and operators of self-storage facilities. The interview data is supported by site visits, businesses’ websites, promotional and marketing materials and press coverage. Findings – Consistent with the liminal lens, entrepreneurs view their time operating from self-storage as a transitional phase. They do not suffer the high levels of uncertainty and unsettledness usually associated with liminality. However, they experience anxiety related to perceptions of operating from a business location outside the mainstream. Whilst the entrepreneurs benefit from additional services provided by the self-storage operators, this may be at the expense of extra “liminal” work and anxiety experienced by the storage operators’ staff. Originality/value – The study contributes to entrepreneurship by answering Steyaert and Katz’s (2004) call for studies in unfamiliar places and spaces. The authors identify a number of ways in which liminality can arise when considering entrepreneurial locations. Drawing on extant entrepreneurial studies, the authors theorise that idiosyncratic characteristics of such spaces attract entrepreneurs with particular personal characteristics and needs, who will in turn be influenced by those spaces. In the case of self-storage facilities, the liminal space allows trepidatious entrepreneurs to “try on” (Hawkins and Edwards, 2015, p. 39) operating a new venture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]