{"title":"Contextual Assessment of Adoption and Use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) by Small Businesses in Lagos, Nigeria.","authors":"Fortune Nwaiwu","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3154515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3154515","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the level of ICT usage by small business in Nigeria. Empirical arguments indicate that small businesses in Nigeria have low levels of ICT usage within their business processes, which consequently limits their capacity to fully benefit from the opportunities which ICTs offer for business process efficiency, growth, competitive advantage and new markets. A qualitative approach is adopted which employed observations, interviews and analysis of documents of the small businesses covered. This is backed up by a quantitative benchmarking of Nigerian businesses to other small businesses in select African countries; this is achieved by using secondary data from the World Economic Forum's 2013 Networked Readiness Index (NRI). The NRI is a component framework adopted in the annual Global Information Technology Report (GITR) published by the World Economic Forum (WEF). The paper concludes that the level of ICT usage by small businesses in Nigeria is significantly low, even when compared with what is obtainable in the other African countries benchmarked by the World Economic Forum's NRI. The study provides empirical evidence for low level of ICT usage among small businesses in Lagos, Nigeria.","PeriodicalId":332000,"journal":{"name":"ERPN: Other Societies (Sub-Topic)","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116729756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Two Systems of Public Finance: Entrepreneurial and Parasitical","authors":"S. Hanke, R. Wagner","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2113779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2113779","url":null,"abstract":"Expositions of the theory of public finance mostly assume that taxation must be the primary instrument for generating revenue. This assumption is neither historically accurate nor theoretically necessary. Rather, it universalizes an institutional arrangement that is particular to the nation-state, where taxation is the prime instrument of public finance. In contrast to this system of parasitical public finance, we explore a system of entrepreneurial public finance within a setting of city-states where attraction and not compulsion dominates public finance. Cities are corporate bodies which can be organized under diverse institutional arrangements. We use the United Arab Emirates to illustrate our analysis of divergent systems of public finance.","PeriodicalId":332000,"journal":{"name":"ERPN: Other Societies (Sub-Topic)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122148797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Financial Constraints and Economic Behaviour: A Study of the Specific Features of French Small and Medium-Sized Manufacturing Firms from 1985 to 1995","authors":"Bernard Paranque","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.56009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.56009","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to give an overwiev of the behavior of manufacturing firms, in particular the small ones and to go deeper into the conclusion of a previous paper (Equity and rate of return, ewp-fin-9608001 and 40th International Council of Small Business, Sydney, June 1996). After some quotes about capital structure and private firms, a comparison of own funds is made between german, french, spanish, italian and austrian manufacturing firms. We can find that french manufacturing firms, for each size studied, are less indebted than their foreign counterparts. Otherwise, french small firms are more profitable and more efficient than the larger ones. We then point out two economic behaviors. The first one depends on growth capacity of the firms and also on their accumulation outlay; the second depends on the intensity of the links with the financial markets, the facilities to obtain lendable funds, all aspects which oblige firms to make high financial profitabilities that can reduce accumulation decisions.","PeriodicalId":332000,"journal":{"name":"ERPN: Other Societies (Sub-Topic)","volume":"275 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122168113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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