This Graduation Research was conducted in Woord en Daad to appraise the potential role that micro-equity finance can play in developing sustainable SMEs in Zambia. It focuses on the challenges currently facing SMEs as deciphered from the operations of Woord en Daad's Agribusiness and Enterprise development …

A great deal of research has been undertaken to identify the factors affecting the success, failure, performance and stability of international equity joint ventures (EJVs) (see, for example, Beamish and Killing, 1996 for a review). Most of these studies, however, are static in nature. Although some …

New Dutch agrifood business models are emerging in response to economic, social and ecological pressures: new players arrive, new logistical pathways come to the fore and innovative consumer and farmer relationships – food coöperatives – are forged. How do new business models relate to reconfiguring …