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In recognition of the growing importance of small business ownership by women to the economic well-being of national economies, considerable academic attention has been given to identifying the reasons why women enter self-employment. However, little is known about the motivations for women to become franchisors. This represents an important gap in the literature. While the absence of research may be due to early beliefs that women are risk averse individuals that tend to limit the growth of their enterprises, more recent studies conclude that women perceive small business ownership as a vehicle for rapid growth and wealth creation. On this basis, franchising should represent an appealing business expansion strategy as it minimizes capital, labor, and managerial limitations on firm grow...
... marketing initiatives in their regional localities. This appears consistent with previous ..., survival, and success of female-owned firms (Adler and Kwon, 2002; Brush, 1997; Rosa and Hamil... Meetings, Entrepreneurship Division, Dallas, Texas. Carter, N. M., Gartner, W. B., & Reynolds,...Marlow, S.& Carter, S. (2004) "Accounting for Change: Professional Status, Gender Disadvanta...
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... presentations by policy staff in major regional centres, as well as before parliamentary committee...First, consumers, workers, and firms need to understand the difference between the pric... raises an interesting question of accounting. When the Bank of Canada purchases government bond...Dallas: Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Globalization and...
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... against Trojan and damages or an accounting of profits against North Bay. Calgon does not seek...Among other sources, the Regional Municipality of Waterloo takes water from infiltra... be seen as aligned with one of the several firms employing UV technology and secondly, she did not ... meant to refer to the June AWWA meeting in Dallas. In any event, it is not at all clear that Dr. Cla...
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... was exported to the United States, accounting for almost one-half (49.2 percent) of total Canadi...lumber firms contend that log export restrictions, most specifi... the softwood lumber dispute is further regional integration of the industry through cross-border i...Dallas Morning News [Online]. Retrieved from http://www.l...
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... and people, whether on a global or regional scale. In terms of the economic dimension of globa... with a controlling interest in U.S.-based firms, stood at one and one-quarter trillion dollars in ...accounting for about two-thirds of this FDI. (26) This is esp... Incomes and Productivity in North America (Dallas: Secretariat of the Commission for Labor Cooperati...
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...Neoclassical economists understand firms, and other economic actors, to make choices from a... now, for example, through the Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership. (6) Such cooperation could a... a trinational secretariat, based in Dallas, with an initial staff set of fifteen. The secreta... arbitrary and subjective nature of GDP accounting is simply more apparent as we move further away fr...