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Christie, Lorna; Kempen, Elizabeth; Strydom, Mariette – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate custom-made apparel manufacturing micro-enterprise (CMME) owners' perspectives of sustainability within their business practices throughout the entire product development process and determine how educational initiatives can promote a more environmentally conscious product development process.…
Descriptors: Clothing, Manufacturing, Small Businesses, Ownership
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Heilmaier, Jana; Ling, Mayyer – Industry and Higher Education, 2021
This paper explores the role of higher education institutions in enhancing the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) ecosystem in Brunei Darussalam, particularly with regard to improving the spirit of entrepreneurship and the motivation to seek opportunities independently to propel the country's transition economy forward. A qualitative…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Entrepreneurship, Economic Development
Dilger, Robert Jay – Congressional Research Service, 2021
Several federal agencies, including the Small Business Administration (SBA), provide training and other assistance to veterans seeking civilian employment. In recent years, the unemployment rate among veterans as a whole has generally been similar to or lower than the unemployment rate for nonveterans 18 years and older. However, veterans who have…
Descriptors: Small Businesses, Public Agencies, Veterans, Federal Aid
Dilger, Robert Jay; Lowry, Sean – Congressional Research Service, 2021
Several federal agencies, including the Small Business Administration (SBA), provide training and other assistance to veterans seeking civilian employment. In recent years, the unemployment rate among veterans as a whole has generally been similar to or lower than the unemployment rate for nonveterans 18 years and older. However, veterans who have…
Descriptors: Veterans, Public Agencies, Small Businesses, Business Administration
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Fernandez, Gabith Quispe; Nina, Dante Ayaviri; Villa, Marlon Villa; Flores, Rodrigo Velarde; Muñoz, Marieta Tapia – International Education Studies, 2020
This research aims to identify the motivating factors that influence the development of informal trade by merchants in the Republic of Ecuador. For this, the inductive method, at causal-statistical level, is applied; making use of a questionnaire as an information collection tool, with a sample of 310 informal merchants from a population of 3,600…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Motivation, Retailing, Small Businesses
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Tentama, Fatwa; Abdussalam, Fakhri – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2020
Internal locus of control is one of the factors related to vocational high school students' entrepreneurial intention. This study aimed to empirically test the relationship between internal locus of control and entrepreneurial intention on vocational high school students. The population in this study was all students of class XII at Vocational…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Entrepreneurship, Intention, Vocational High Schools
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Apendi, Tatang; Saidi, Suid; Taufik, Ali – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2020
The background of this research starts from seeing and analyzing the importance of skills for Education Technology students, especially talent in the field of entrepreneurship. The purpose of this study is for them to gain learning and experience in the field of entrepreneurship as well as in the effort to create independence in finding employment…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Employment Opportunities, Educational Technology, Student Attitudes
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Caldarola, Enrico G.; Modoni, Gianfranco E.; Sacco, Marco – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2018
The Teaching Factory is an emerging paradigm aiming to enforce skills and competencies of engineers and operators working in the field of manufacturing, through an alignment of the teaching and training activities to the needs of modern factories. In this research work, the Teaching Factory principles are applied to envision ManuLearning, a new…
Descriptors: Job Training, Manufacturing Industry, Alignment (Education), Small Businesses
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Subramanian, Nagamani; Suresh, M. – Learning Organization, 2022
Purpose: The goal of this research is to create a conceptual model that identifies the relationship between organizational learning and green human resource management practices and its contribution to the circular economy. The focus of this research is to identify the organizational learning and green human resource factors that lead to a more…
Descriptors: Models, Organizational Learning, Labor Force Development, Economic Factors
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Subramanian, Nagamani; Suresh, M. – Learning Organization, 2022
Purpose: Circular economy has emerged as one of the most important approaches to addressing environmental challenges. Organizations have begun to act on their abilities to enhance their sustainability management to enable a circular economy. The role of organizational learning and green human resource management in the transition to a more…
Descriptors: Models, Organizational Learning, Labor Force Development, Economic Factors
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Laura Woodman – in education, 2022
This paper explores a framework of family ecological theory for overcoming the challenges facing family childcare educators (FCC educators), who care for small groups of children in their own home. Pathways to overcoming these barriers through an ecological approach will be outlined by critically examining current research on these challenges. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Caregivers, Barriers, Ecology
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Aggarwal, Ansita; Shrivastava, Umesh – Education & Training, 2021
Purpose: This study investigates the different environments in which high school students go through in their formative years and whether these environments affect their intention to study entrepreneurship as a career choice. Bronfenbrenner's social-ecological theory has been used as a backdrop to capture these environments. Four variables chosen…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Career Choice, High School Students, Adolescents
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Decius, Julian; Schaper, Niclas; Seifert, Andreas – Vocations and Learning, 2021
We investigated informal workplace learning (IWL) within an under-researched target group: blue-collar workers. IWL is particularly important for these workers because of learning barriers to participation in formal training. Based on meta-analytical conceptualizations and findings, we developed a conceptual framework of antecedents, processes,…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Workplace Learning, Blue Collar Occupations, Small Businesses
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Hwang, Jeongseon; Lim, Yeongjoo – Journal of Education and Work, 2021
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of education for employees on learning outcomes and educational quality characteristics on organisational performance through analysis of the relationship between education quality characteristics, learning satisfaction, learning outcomes, and organisational performance. In this study, a…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Corporate Education, Workplace Learning, Outcomes of Education
Dilger, Robert Jay; Lowry, Sean – Congressional Research Service, 2020
Several federal agencies, including the Small Business Administration (SBA), provide training and other assistance to veterans seeking civilian employment. For example, the Department of Defense (DOD), in cooperation with the SBA, Department of Labor, Department of Veterans Affairs, and several other federal agencies, operates the Transition Goals…
Descriptors: Small Businesses, Public Agencies, Veterans, Veterans Education
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