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Financing Based on Relationship: Case of Moroccan SMEs

Management Science 2016
The main aim of this paper is to highlight a financing mode based on relationship. We examine the relational financing in the specific framework of relationship between small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and Banks. We show across a qualitative study that the establishment of a relational financing mode enables SMEs managers to reinforce their interaction experience and to enhance their negotiation capabilities. The SME manager's interpersonal competence and his bargaining ability become for the banker a vector of assessing failure risk of his client. The results of this study emphasizes how important it is for SMEs to use their interaction experience with banks so as to acquire more capacity when negotiating.

Mutual Funds in India: Evolution, Significance and Need for Study in Reference to ELSS Mutual Funds

Management Science 2016
A large number of investment avenues are available for investors in India. Risk and return are the major issues which an investor faces to maximize his returns while choosing investing avenues depending on his objectives, preferences and needs. The advent of mutual funds has helped in garnering the investible funds of this category of investors in a significant way. Mutual fund is one of the most viable investment options for the small investor as it offers an opportunity to invest in a diversified, professionally managed basket of securities at a relatively low cost. Mutual funds offer different schemes for different investment objectives. ELSS funds are one of the best avenues to save tax; also the investor gets the potential upside of equity exposure. Indian investors have little information to take prudent investment decisions. Such information drought is the breeding ground for misguidance, leading the investor to opt for a particular scheme without an in-depth analysis, resulting in dissatisfaction over fund performance. The present paper aims to identify and address this basic issue in detail, covering the history of mutual fund evolution, their significance for the small investor and the need for study of mutual funds and the ELSS funds. The study aims to benefit the tax-burdened small investor who is barely financially literate and has little time (or energy) to research before buying a fund.

FEATURES OF GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF SMALL BUSINESS

Management Science 2016
Features of state regulation of small business. Determined that the small business in transitional economies has a number of specific socio-economic functions. Functions and methods of state regulation of the economy differ significantly in the transition period to the market and during the prevailing market relations. The effectiveness of small business is in the field of public administration. The limits of state regulation, which materialized in normative legislation, constantly changing: they are narrow and inferior policy of deregulation. Thus the state regulation does not disappear, and qualitatively improving, gets new features, especially in the protection of the public along with the (public) interests and the interests of private entrepreneurs. With government regulation happens approval process of these interests.

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT TOOLS IN THE SYSTEM OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Management Science 2016
The essence of personal needs and experimentally proved that people with a clear need to achieve expedient to attract to work in local government, as they perfectly perform tasks that provide the opportunity to feel personally responsible for the outcome and the possibility of feedback. Persons with a clear need for power and high levels of internal inhibition and the level of affiliation, which is below the level of needs in power are people with leadership motive syndrome and they can create the optimal environment of the leader to meet the needs of the citizens of the territory. Individuals with a strong motive of affiliation and less strong motive power and achievements can hold positions on the boards of various evels, as they are more likely focused on caring for the welfare of citizens.

IMPROVING THE SYSTEM OF REGIONAL GOVERNANCE IN THE CONTEXT OF IMPLEMENTING THE CONCEPT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT «UKRAINE – 2020»

Management Science 2016
The article analyzes the problematic iss ues of formation of effective mechanisms of regional development at the level of the nation state. The features of introduction of managerial innovations in the public administration taking into account the characteristics of the regions. From the standpoi nt of scientific analysis of the peculiarities of the processes of regionalization and Europeanization in public administration. The main problems of implementation of administrative reform in Ukraine in the context of the constitutional and legal framework through the incorporation of the norms of legislation of European countries during the administrative reform are determined.

Toward We: A Conceptual Model to Reach Collaboration in Policy Making

Management Science 2016
The environmental contexts in which organizations operate are becoming increasingly complex and turbulent. Complexity principally stems from the nature of the problems organizations face: the issues that constitute these problems are extensive and interconnected, and usually associated with high levels of uncertainty. Turbulence, on the other hand, arises when the organizations that share it become increasingly interdependent. The complexity and turbulence of the environment thus makes it difficult for organizations to act unilaterally to structure and solve the problems they face. This issue is of great importance nowadays specially in public sector where problems are to be structured and the policies are to be implemented in collaboration. This research is going to present a conceptual model in problem structuring phase in order to maximize collaboration. Since the health sector and health policies are of utmost importance, health experts, policy makers and practitioners in this sector have been interviewed .The results prove that power, dialogue and shared meaning play the vital role among which dialogue has the key importance to reach collaboration among actors and stakeholders.