Repurposing support tendered youth owned Small, Medium, and Micro-Enterprises in urban agri-business sector in Durban
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Author(s)Tony NgwenyaLink to ORCID Index: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9565-6322
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Pfano MashauLink to ORCID Index: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0490-1925
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DOIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.21511/ppm.18(4).2020.35
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Food security is one of the most fundamental challenges facing many countries, especially in the developing economies, which still has a vast section of its population still trapped in the socio-economic cocoon of poverty, unemployment, and inequality. This paper aims to investigate the institutional support in the facilitation of empowerment and development of youth Small, Medium, and Micro-Enterprises (SMMEs) to be active participants in the agribusiness economic mainstream. The paradigm shift from primary agriculture into urban farming business models in agri-business could accelerate the ascendancy of youth SMMEs in the competitiveness stakes. The theoretical analysis focused on the resource-based view model, institutional theory, and the role of the CSR impact as a conceptual framework for the study. The research design was predicated on the quantitative methodology, which enabled the researchers to statistically test the reliability and validity of the theory. The findings indicated that the CSR interventions had not yielded a fundamental impact on assisting youth SMMEs within the agribusiness sector. The results also identified a lack of tangible and result-driven institutional support from policy-makers and authorities. Overall targeted technological transfer as a strategic and critical resource to youth SMMEs is another constraining factor from empirical findings. The results also revealed the lack of monetary and non-monetary access by youth SMMEs as hampering their competitiveness and profits ability. The findings advocated that the policy-makers could synthesize the theories encapsulated in the study and the empirical evidence as the bedrock for bespoke, customized, and tailor-made youth SMMEs’ bespoke support, empowerment, and development of their entities.
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JEL Classification (Paper profile tab)M10, M13, M15
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- Figure 1. Architect of sustainable youth SMMEs in the urban agriculture support mechanism
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- Table 1. Percentage’s sources of income
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Corporate social responsibility disclosure and firm performance: Evidence from Vietnam
Ngoc Mai Tran ,
Manh Ha Tran
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/imfi.19(3).2022.05
Investment Management and Financial Innovations Volume 19, 2022 Issue #3 pp. 49-59 Views: 1060 Downloads: 373 TO CITE АНОТАЦІЯCorporate social responsibility (CSR) is quite a new concept to business and society in Vietnam. Information on CSR reflects a firm’s commitment to ethical behavior in its activities and reputation. However, it is questioned whether the information disclosure has any relationship with firm performance. Employing panel regression of about 200 listed firms on the Vietnam Stock Exchange and space-based measurement of CSR disclosure, the study confirms a positive impact of CSR disclosure on firm performance. Firms use CSR disclosures to indirectly improve their performance. Firms that disclose CSR with greater degree of information experience higher marginal profitability. This finding supports stakeholder theory, legitimacy theory, and signaling theory in using CSR disclosure as a tool to improve firms’ reputation and transparency, maintain long-term operation, and hence improve financial performance. During the COVID-19 pandemic, firms that engage more in CSR will suffer less from the pandemic than firms that do not. Thus, the study implies a promising CSR picture for corporations in Vietnam. Investors, policy makers and any related authorities can utilize these findings to get more insight into the business through CSR disclosures.
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Determinants of sustainable development: The role of CSR disclosure
Meilda Wiguna ,
Sri Indarti ,
Thamrin ,
Andreas
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/ppm.21(2).2023.23
Problems and Perspectives in Management Volume 21, 2023 Issue #2 pp. 210-220 Views: 718 Downloads: 269 TO CITE АНОТАЦІЯThis study intends to assess the impact of adopting green accounting and environmental performance on sustainable development, with CSR disclosure acting as a moderator. The population of the study consists of the palm oil companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange and the Malaysia Stock Exchange for the 2019–2021 period. Purposive sampling was utilized as a sampling method to select 45 businesses. Partial least squares analysis was performed to examine the data. The results showed that the implementation of green accounting (β = 0.231; p < 0.05) and environmental performance (β = 0.285; p < 0.05) affect the sustainable development of palm oil companies. Then, CSR disclosure strengthens the effect between the implementation of green accounting (β = 0.293; p < 0.05) and environmental performance (β = 0.150; p < 0.05) on the sustainable development of palm oil companies. This study helps companies that properly implement corporate social responsibility or care about environmental safety become the best investment opportunities. It also serves as the material for investors and potential investors to help them make the best decisions about companies that employ green accounting in corporate reporting.
