Small and micro-enterprises play a significant part in most economies. However, in developing countries these enterprises have tended to be looked at from a development, or poverty alleviation perspective, rather than as potentially growing businesses. This paper explores the possibility of...

For several years, the number of South Africans starting new business enterprises, has declined. According to the findings of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, in 2003, South Africa ranked 22nd out of 31 countries for new entrepreneurial activities. One of the greatest challenges for South...

Retail market consolidation and its effects on micro enterprises and corner shops present a long-termchallenge to the Hungarian retail grocery market. The authors hope this study will help the concerned partiesdeal with this challenge. The study is one of the first attempts at a comprehensive...

Investment decisions have to be made when there is little information about the scope of the project. New projects have to depend on historical evidences and experiences gained from previous projects of similar nature. However, such projects lack historical data and even if such data are...

Small and medium-sized communities often lack data that are complete, current, representative of the community, and appropriate for the travel demand models/software to be applied. To aid such communities, this research was conducted to meet the following objectives:(1) Identify and facilitate...

With the foreseeable increase in traffic frequency to and from orbit, the safe operation of current and future space vehicles at designated spaceports has become a serious concern. Due to their high explosive energy potential, operating those launch vehicles presents a real risk to: (1) the...

The purpose of this study was to determine people's ability to visually estimate postural angles of the shoulder, trunk, and wrist. One application of these findings is to determine the effect of estimation error on common risk analysis tools that incorporate posture. Considerations are given to...

Rice cultivation is intensively cultivated in some regions of Costa Rica thanks to the establishment of several irrigation projects. This is especially important for the case of several agricultural communities that cultivate their land around the Palo Verde National Park, where the development...

Forecasting is a necessity almost in any operation. However, the tools of forecasting are still primitive in viewof the great strides made by research and the increasing abundance of data made possible by automatic identificationtechnologies, such as radio frequency identification (RFID). The...

The trusting peer in order to determine the likelihood of the loss in its resources might analyze the Risk before engaging in an interaction with any trusted peer. This likelihood of the loss in the resources is termed as Risk in the interaction. Risk analysis is important in e-commerce...