The topic of thesis is analysis and comparation of possibilities of financing unspecified microcompanies because they forge majority on the market. Due to the fact most of those companies are not highly inovative but follow the ordinary market model therefore they can rely mostly on common types of fundraising from financial institutions. Alternative forms such as venture capital or private equity focuses mostly on different segments regarding investment size and growth potential. Thesis should provide practical review not only to beginning entrepreneurs about possibilities of financing their further growth including example of recently financed business and what to beware of while requesting external financing. The reader will get to know what are the basics for financing common microcompany and what are the possibilities of further alternative support provided for instance from the government.

The study examined doctoral students‟ perceptions of the doctoral support and services offered by Mississippi State University (MSU). The research design used was descriptive, non-experimental design. Validity of the online survey instrument was established by a panel of experts. Internal consistency and reliability was determined using factor analysis, Cronbach‟s alpha, and test/retest reliability which revealed that the instrument was consistent and reliable. Participants included 172 doctoral students in the seven colleges which offer doctoral programs and 172 doctoral alumni who had graduated within the last 5 years. Data was collected in fall 2009. Responding participants equaled 142 (41% return rate). The results of this study revealed that both current and alumni doctoral students had a moderately positive perception of the doctoral support and services offered by Mississippi State University. The doctoral program of study was considered to be effective and suitable; support and services were considered sufficient and appropriate; doctoral supervision was considered to be sufficient and appropriate by participants. The study showed that doctoral student‟s utilization of external sources of support and services was low, but was perceived as beneficial. The financial support provided was adequate to complete their degrees. Doctoral students funded their degrees primarily through employment. Participants considered that the perceived benefits of obtaining a doctoral degree outweighed the financial cost of its completion. Multiple regression analyses revealed that predictor variables of academic status, race, and college had significant effects on doctoral student‟s perceptions. Alumni had a significantly higher perception of the doctoral support and services than current doctoral students. Speculation as to possible causes of the difference included the psychological phenomenon of memory bias. In addition, Black/African American doctoral students provided a significantly less positive endorsement of doctoral supervision than their white counterparts. Furthermore, doctoral students from the College of Education provided a significantly less positive endorsement of doctoral support and services. This sentiment was supported by the narrative responses. Avenues of future research and recommendation for the university are discussed and presented.The study showed that doctoral student‟s utilization of external sources of support and services was low, but was perceived as beneficial. The financial support provided was adequate to complete their degrees. Doctoral students funded their degrees primarily through employment. Participants considered that the perceived benefits of obtaining a doctoral degree outweighed the financial cost of its completion. Multiple regression analyses revealed that predictor variables of academic status, race, and college had significant effects on doctoral student‟s perceptions. Alumni had a significantly higher perception of the doctoral support and services than current doctoral students. Speculation as to possible causes of the difference included the psychological phenomenon of memory bias. In addition, Black/African American doctoral students provided a significantly less positive endorsement of doctoral supervision than their white counterparts. Furthermore, doctoral students from the College of Education provided a significantly less positive endorsement of doctoral support and services. This sentiment was supported by the narrative responses. Avenues of future research and recommendation for the university are discussed and presented.

Entrepreneurs from emerging countries lack the human capital that is critical to the success of ventures besides their limited resources, poor infrastructure, and low pre-entry knowledge. As a result, ventures in these countries face low business growth and performance. Incubators are an efficient solution to overcome these challenges. This research answers the question: “How can incubators help increase the human capital in order to improve the performance of the ventures in emerging countries? And how can financial support and networking help leverage the human capital gained in incubator programs?”. The paper adopts a qualitative study by interviewing participants of a Berlin-based organization that helps entrepreneurs in Egypt. The findings show that companies grew by 32% in revenue by providing entrepreneurial learning, financial support, and network to participants. Furthermore, the study shows the impact of learning on both networking and financing sourcing skills for entrepreneurs in Egypt. These findings have implications for ways to support emerging economies through incubation by offering effective solutions for the challenges of the entrepreneurs.

The purpose of this thesis is to highlight the experiences of social workers regarding the ongoing impact of digitalization on the administration of economic assistance within social services. The literature presented discusses how digitalization influences social workers and clients in the current workplace. Additionally, the study analyzes factors that have proven  particularly demanding for social workers in relation to digitization. The discourse regarding whether or not increased digitalization within social service is beneficial or detrimental is further explored by applying theories such as Lean and New Public Management (NPM), along with the theoretical concept of transparency.  The effects of digitalization on economic assistance introduce characteristics and conditions that align well with these two theoretical perspectives. The implementation of NPM and Lean has notably influenced working methods in the public sector, leading to the establishment of new standards and approaches in the field. Through the application of these theories, the thesis aims to formulate an opinion on whether digitalization constitutes a positive transformation in the nuanced tasks of social workers or if it represents a new challenge and increased workload. The thesis seeks to analyze and comprehend the role of digitization as either a facilitating factor for the work of social workers or as a new aspect that adds to the workload within the organization.

The problem undertaken in this study is to attempt to determine the adequacy of financial support received by the small high school bands in Texas.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Boston University / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / Problem The purposes of this study were to determine what Congressional Record information on Federal financial support of education was available to Congress during the 1962 Session and to ascertain the direction and nature of this communication. Procedure The technique of content analysis was utilized. A seven-category system for the objective and quantitative description of the related conm1unioation was established from a study of authoritative works and a pilot study performed on a stratified random sample of the complete, one-session series of Congressional Records. The item and the theme were used as measuring units. All themes manifestly related to Federal financial support of education were individually categorized, classified favorable, unfavorable, neutral or ambiguous, grouped, and scored. The frequencies of all theme groups, individually and collectively, in the categories were computed and translated into percentages of the whole number of themes. All related communications were classified as favorable, unfavorable, neutral or ambiguous, with respect to Federal financial assistance to education, on the basis of this data. An adaption of an established outline for tha analysis of public opinion and propaganda was used to interpret the data. The study reliability of .87 was determined by performing a second analysis on a random sample of the Congressional Record series and computing a Pearson product-moment coefficient of correlation. Results A leadership elite was found to be the main source of 2246 communications of forty different types containing 57,549 themes. The themes formed sixty-four groups in the seven categories. Percentagewise, the themes were 76.03 favorable, 15.78 unfavorable, 7.54 neutral, and .64 ambiguous, indicating a favorable direction with respect to Federal financial assistance. Conversely, a measurable lag for Federal support was found in the nation's local community electorates, school boards, and newspapers. Expressed as percentages of the whole 57,549 themes, the totals of themes in each category were: educational needs, 43.7, economics, 22.0, national welfare, 12.8, Federalism, 9.8, religion, 6.1, social-psychological, 4.1, and race, 1.5. Conclusions On the basis of actual quantitative and comparative documentation, it was concluded that the Federal role in financing education was pervasively interrelated with the numerous aspects of major United States domestic and international issues, implicit in the categories, and problems in contemporary culture, such as alienation. It was further concluded that Congress was informed that this role was developing in a piecemeal, fragmented manner, in the form of Federal aid rather than support. It was affecting planned and unplanned change in educational administration, instruction, curriculums and research from the elementary to the post-doctoral levels and operating beyond the control of the whole educational system. A result was the initiation of numerous and varied proposals for Congressional action and legislation in the field of education, designed to increase the overall coherence of Federal financial assistance. Specific examples included cabinet status for education and greater standardization of educational statistics used in the public domain. The study determined the nature of the educational communication involved by identifying, quantifying, and describing its characteristics such as types, sources of origin, media utilized, frequencies of occurrence, and themes used on this basis, the conclusion was made that the study's category data formed an approach to the beginnings of a model of the comruunication dealing with Federal financial assistance to education, impinging upon the Congress and the public during one Congressional session. A utility was ascribed to the model as a basic framework for developing and implementing communication strategy and hypotheses designed to increase the moral and financial support of education. / 2999-01-01

<p>The purpose of the study was to learn how donor-dependent NGOs in Tanzania, working with the issue of girls’ education, obtain and maintain legitimacy in the eyes of financial donors as well as in their local society. The investigation also aimed to explore which present and future organizational challenges they manage at the same time as they deal with the issue of legitimacy. A field study in Tanzania was conducted during ten weeks and three different NGOs concerned with legitimacy, were studied to see how they manage this issue and handle the demands from donors, government and society. Interviews and participant observation were made at each organization and a complementary study of SIDA and the National Ministry of Education was made in order to do a comparison of the situation and views. All organizations stressed the importance of well-working institutions in society, predictability in the financial support from the donors and most important: the societal support that leads to legitimacy. In order to gain legitimacy, the greatest need is transparency of the documents and records, keeping promises and being able to confirm the positive outcome of the work. The plan for future independence was not well developed at any of the organizations, even though they were at different phases. The major concern with being a donor-dependent NGO in the developing world is to manage the relationship with the government at the same time as you are accountable to society and tackle demands from the donors. The greatest fear of all organizations was that the financial support would be terminated.</p>

<p>The study looked particularly at the operations of national carriers and governments&lsquo / efforts to sustain the airlines&lsquo / operations. Evidence has shown that many countries struggle to maintain operations of their flag carriers, but few countries are willing to completely leave the airlines in the hands of the private sector because of national pride. On the other hand, many of those airlines that get into private hands fail and end up being closed down or go back into state hands. These airlines are also perceived to be development tools, in particular for tourism development which is a predominant economic activity in many developing countries. For this reason, many states do not favour privatisation, even though the perception is that the airline industry is better handled by private businesses. The main conclusion of the study for Botswana is therefore that neither full state ownership nor full privatisation is the solution to addressing the problem of ailing flag carriers. There is no single solution, but a combination of several. A broader global view of national airline operations clearly shows that approaches adopted by many successful national airlines, in both developed and developing countries, is some form of partial privatisation.</p>

The purpose of the study was to learn how donor-dependent NGOs in Tanzania, working with the issue of girls’ education, obtain and maintain legitimacy in the eyes of financial donors as well as in their local society. The investigation also aimed to explore which present and future organizational challenges they manage at the same time as they deal with the issue of legitimacy. A field study in Tanzania was conducted during ten weeks and three different NGOs concerned with legitimacy, were studied to see how they manage this issue and handle the demands from donors, government and society. Interviews and participant observation were made at each organization and a complementary study of SIDA and the National Ministry of Education was made in order to do a comparison of the situation and views. All organizations stressed the importance of well-working institutions in society, predictability in the financial support from the donors and most important: the societal support that leads to legitimacy. In order to gain legitimacy, the greatest need is transparency of the documents and records, keeping promises and being able to confirm the positive outcome of the work. The plan for future independence was not well developed at any of the organizations, even though they were at different phases. The major concern with being a donor-dependent NGO in the developing world is to manage the relationship with the government at the same time as you are accountable to society and tackle demands from the donors. The greatest fear of all organizations was that the financial support would be terminated.

<p>The study looked particularly at the operations of national carriers and governments&lsquo / efforts to sustain the airlines&lsquo / operations. Evidence has shown that many countries struggle to maintain operations of their flag carriers, but few countries are willing to completely leave the airlines in the hands of the private sector because of national pride. On the other hand, many of those airlines that get into private hands fail and end up being closed down or go back into state hands. These airlines are also perceived to be development tools, in particular for tourism development which is a predominant economic activity in many developing countries. For this reason, many states do not favour privatisation, even though the perception is that the airline industry is better handled by private businesses. The main conclusion of the study for Botswana is therefore that neither full state ownership nor full privatisation is the solution to addressing the problem of ailing flag carriers. There is no single solution, but a combination of several. A broader global view of national airline operations clearly shows that approaches adopted by many successful national airlines, in both developed and developing countries, is some form of partial privatisation.</p>