Broad Perspectives
Oxford Brookes University (Gipsy Lane Campus)
UN Sustainable Development Goals and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Applied Research on Localized Outcomes in Toronto
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Shamette Hepburn, Uwafiokun Idemudia, Mary Goitom
This paper presents findings from a mixed methods study on the interlinkages between the COVID-19 pandemic and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the community level. Canada, a UN Member State, has adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which is a shared global model for partnership and prosperity. The pandemic has presented significant challenges that could stymie Canada’s progress in accelerating the implementation of the SDGs. In partnership with the Good Shepherd Non-Profit Homes Toronto, a leading an essential social service provider, surveys and individual interviews were conducted with 20 service providers and 20 clients to understand how the pandemic has impacted or shaped the capability of vulnerable communities to negotiate their health, well-being (SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being) and access nutrition (SDG 2 Food Security); and to channel the knowledge and insights gained to develop a methodology and evaluative criteria for the establishment of sustainable partnerships between NGOs and community stakeholders (SDGs 11 Sustainable Cities and (Inclusive and Resilient) Communities & 17 Sustainable Partnerships). Analytically, the study drew on perspectives of targeted universalism, resilience, and sustainability to analyze participants’ narratives. Findings highlight that global challenges are indeed local challenges that require integrated approaches directed at strengthening organizational capacity and service provider/service user agency so solutions based on recovery and community resilience can be surfaced quickly. Further, findings point to the need to facilitate stakeholder partnerships and dialogue between service providers and beneficiaries (stakeholder communities) if SDGs are to be achieved.
Resolving Insolvency Factors vs Economic Factors in Enhancing Entrepreneurial Activity: Evidence from Asia with Special Reference to India View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session N. V. V. Satyanarayana Puchakayala, Ramanujam Veluchamy
The purpose of present study is to establish a significant impact of resolving insolvency factors and economic factors on entrepreneurial activity of limited liability companies in Asian region with special reference to India in a probabilistic manner. The study is of empirical in nature uses secondary source of data obtained from the World Bank Reports for a period of 10 years from 2010 to 2019. A representative sample of five countries namely India, Singapore, Japan, Turkey, and Uzbekistan are drawn from the Asian region for study purpose. The study addresses three main research questions: 1) Whether resolving insolvency factors have significant impact on entrepreneurial activity?, 2) Whether economic factors have significant impact on entrepreneurial activity? And 3) Whether both resolving insolvency factors and economic factors have significant impact on entrepreneurial activity? A Tri- Factor Model will be used for this purpose. The entrepreneurial activity will be measured in terms of total business density, new business density, and closed business density. Both descriptive statistical measures such as mean, median and standard deviation; and inferential statistical measures such as multiple correlation and regression models will be used for data analysis with the help of Eviews software. The Akaike information criterion (AIC) and adjusted R2 will be used for testing the relative quality of each model. Although the study is limited for a select region and for a limited period, it is expected to enhance the entrepreneurial activity led by resolving insolvency factors in Asian region and India.
Business Confidence Indicator in European Union: The Social Identity Approach View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session De Chih Liu
This study explores the business confidence indicator dynamics in the nineteen European Union (EU) countries with an interdisciplinary social sciences perspective. The social identity approach predicts that: (i) the political factor-government instability is a crucial element in the business confidence formation process. (ii) the international lead-lag relationship holds for business confidence indicator in European Union. The empirical analysis using aggregate-level data provides empirical support to these predictions. This study argues that international confidence spill over channel information friction might exist because of fast growth in wiring capacity and low costs in the acquisition of information. This study finds that the lagged Germany, France, U.S. and China business confidence indicators have significant prediction ability in European Union (EU) countries. The theoretical and empirical content of this paper offers potentially valuable perceptions of the confidence dynamics.
