Essays about: "thesis about financing"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 53 essays containing the words thesis about financing.

  1. 16. Forecast-based Financing in Urban Informal Settlements - A Viable Disaster Risk Management Strategy?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

    Author : Mads Raun; [2018]
    Keywords : Forecast-based financing; disaster risk reduction; preparedness; early action; early warning; urban informal settlements; slums; flooding; inundation; rain; Science General;

    Abstract : Rationale: Urban informal settlements are vulnerable and exposed to hazards. Weather forecasting is possible and provides a “window of opportunity” to push cash or aid to vulnerable dwellers before the disaster strikes. Forecast-based Financing is a framework, which provides this system, and it has had great success with rural pilots. READ MORE

  2. 17. Entrepreneurial Ecosystems’ Impact on Immigrant Entrepreneurship : In Context of Kronoberg Region 

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för organisation och entreprenörskap (OE)

    Author : Ana Veljanovski; Arilda Basha; Polina Kuznetcova; [2018]
    Keywords : entrepreneurship; immigrant entrepreneurs; entrepreneurial ecosystem; domains; confrontation; narratives; Kronoberg; Sweden;

    Abstract : The literature argues that the immigrants act in segregated communities and they, in most of the cases, establish low-risk and low return businesses within their ethnic communities. The importance of connecting immigrant entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurial ecosystems is a challenge to be overcome taking into consideration that the immigrants usually are not involved in it as a consequence of a lack of information about how it can facilitate immigrant entrepreneurship. READ MORE

  3. 18. Business models for sustainable investments in the context of tropical forest restoration

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Anna Borgersen; [2017]
    Keywords : Sustainable development; business innovation; forest landscape restoration; sustainable business model; sustainable business; triple bottom line;

    Abstract : The Tropics continue to provide the most biologically diverse and carbon rich forest in the world, but they are being lost at alarming rates. To meet the global climate change targets and the UN sustainable development goals, financing is urgently needed to speed up and increase tropical forest restoration. READ MORE

  4. 19. Going international - firm internationalization support and the relevance of business networks : A comparison between Germany and Sweden

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för organisation och entreprenörskap (OE)

    Author : Jasmin Brundtke; [2017]
    Keywords : SME internationalization; internationalization support; networks;

    Abstract : Background: Globalization is well known in the business world and more and more firms, especially larger ones, are expanding into other countries. Though SMEs represent the largest share with about 99% of firms contributing to the wealth of import or export reliant countries, the majority is not taking the chance to grow by going international. READ MORE

  5. 20. Opening the Black Box of Financing Decision-Making : Exploring the Process, Actors and Arenas in Family Firms

    University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/Internationella Handelshögskolan

    Author : Anna Maria Bornhausen; Konstantin Benedikt Kuehl; [2016]
    Keywords : family firms; strategy-as-practice; financial decision-making; case study research;

    Abstract : Financing decisions are an important topic for all firms. Especially in family firms this topic is of high interest due to the interplay of financial and non-financial goals. Recent studies so far have resulted in inconsistent findings, as the process of how these decisions are made is not well understood. READ MORE