Abstract Little is known about where hotspots of gentrification emerge within a city, and the role that some types businesses play in process. We develop method to detect sectors whose presence heralds process neighborhood. show these sectors, mostly found cultural creative industries, help anticipate neighborhood change their predictive power complements traditional determinants. also examine ...

Franchising has been popular as a growth strategy for small businesses; it is even more so in today’s global and information-based economy. In early 2001, Entrepreneur magazine—well known for its Franchise 500 listing—added a Tech Businesses category to its Franchise Zone with three subcategories: Internet Businesses, Tech Training, and Miscellaneous Tech Businesses. This study applies Herbert ...

Strong and vibrant small businesses are a key to a healthy economy. Small businesses respond well to customer needs and allow an economy to adapt easily to changing circumstance. In addition, small businesses provide a major portion of employment in the U.S. economy: in 1994, businesses with fewer than 100 employees provided 55 percent of all jobs in the nation.1 Of course, some states are more...

10 Supply Chain Forum An International Journal Vol. 12 N°3 2011 www.supplychain-forum.com Seung-Kuk Paik, Ph.D. College of Business and Economics California State University, Northridge, USA [email protected] This article presents the findings of a survey study of small and mediumsized enterprises (SMEs) with regard to their supply management. The main purpose of this article is to underst...

This research investigates mobile commerce (MC) adoption in the supply chain (SC) of businesses in New Zealand. The evidence provided suggests that most of the MC applications are concentrated in the B2B type of relationships. Its use in B2C is limited. However, the evidence suggests that most of the MC activities are internally focused in streamlining operations and processes. The customers of...

S and local policymakers typically have three targets for their economic development policies: outside businesses, existing businesses, and new start-up businesses. Attracting outside businesses— especially large manufacturing plants—has long been a popular economic development activity, but increasingly this approach has come under fire.1 As policymakers reexamine the effectiveness and appropr...

Problem statement: Power outage has been mentioned as one of the most experienced and perceived risks by various types of businesses and organizations. Thus, reducing the impacts of power outage has become a key agenda in business continuity planning. Back-up or stand-by generators are among the most well known measures taken by power consumers to tackle the power outage problem. Approach: A su...

the objective of this research was to study barriers of starting and expanding home based businesses in rural areas of urmia county. the research was an applied research and a descriptive research in terms of goal and method of data collection, respectively. the target population of the research consisted of all rural residents who were owners of registered and approved home based businesses in...

in the present-day world, sports activities and events are not to be considered solely for the purpose of entertainment or recreation. the result of this research has shown that sports businesses have entered a wide domain of activities like management, new technologies, marketing, advertisement and the like. in this area, the number of businesses which are connected to the world by information...