Critical Success Factors for Entrepreneures in the Agricultural Sector

Textile  industry  is  playing  a vital  role in  the  Indian economic  growth  of  the country through its  contribution  towards  GDP,
employment,  exchange  rate,  exports,  total  production  etc.  The  purpose  of  the  study  is  to  identify  the  difficulties  of  textile
companies facing challenges from the general manager’s point of view on financial sustainability of  selected textile companies.
The study has used factor analysis for exploring various dimensions of barrier as well as weighted average method and other tests  for  selected  measurement  analyzes  using  SPSS-17  version  for  different  statistics.  Overall,  the  large  scale  companies performing very well with automatic plant with modern innovation products, medium scale unable to produce due to  various reasons and impacting the growth and technological factors as well as facing various difficulties. It reflects overall textile issues and challenges as general results towards the structured questionnaires.

Wine tourism development requires the willingness of the winery owners to undertake tourism activities when running their business, thus meaning that a shift from a ‘pure product’ orientation to a tourism and hospitality mindset needs to occur. The analysis of the perceptions and attitudes toward wine tourism has gained huge attention in the last few years. However, in Italy very little research has been devoted to this topic adopting a supply-side perspective at a national level. This study was therefore carried out on a sample of 308 Italian wineries to deepen the knowledge about their involvement in wine tourism. Findings reveal that for the most part wineries are SMEs, or even micro, already somewhat involved in wine tourism. However, wineries lever on tourism as a further channel to both distribute and promote their wine production, while the desire to intentionally become a pole of tourism attraction is not so relevant. The marketing and promotional tools they use are mostly traditional, with a relatively low use of social media marketing activities; further, wine producers were reported to keep little data on visitors’ socio-demographic profiles and satisfaction.

Past studies revealed only the different sustainability practices of foreign direct investors in developing countries, while the motives that influenced their sustainability practices remain underexplored. This study investigates how civil society organizations (CSOs) influence the sustainability practices of foreign investors in the Cambodian agricultural sector. It focuses in particular on interactions between civil society and government, drawing new links between existing theoretical debates concerning influencing strategies of civil society on companies, government strategies of regulatory enforcement and the political nexus between the government and corporations. Two cases of foreign joint venture investments (one rubber and one sugar plantation) in the agro-industry were selected for observation. Both qualitative and quantitative data were collected and analysed. This study used a process tracing method to analyse observable causes and outcomes within case causal mechanism p...

"Textile industry is playing a vital role in the Indian economic growth of the country through its contribution towards GDP, employment, exchange rate, exports, total production etc. The purpose of the study is to identify the difficulties of textile companies facing challenges from the general manager’s point of view on financial sustainability of selected textile companies. The study has used factor analysis for exploring various dimensions of barrier as well as weighted average method and other tests for selected measurement analyzes using SPSS-17 version for different statistics. Overall, the large scale companies performing very well with automatic plant with modern innovation products, medium scale unable to produce due to various reasons and impacting the growth and technological factors as well as facing various difficulties. It reflects overall textile issues and challenges as general results towards the structured questionnaires. "

Past studies revealed only the different sustainability practices of foreign direct investors in developing countries, while the motives that influenced their sustainability practices remain underexplored. This study investigates how civil society organizations (CSOs) influence the sustainability practices of foreign investors in the Cambodian agricultural sector. It focuses in particular on interactions between civil society and government, drawing new links between existing theoretical debates concerning influencing strategies of civil society on companies, government strategies of regulatory enforcement and the political nexus between the government and corporations. Two cases of foreign joint venture investments (one rubber and one sugar plantation) in the agro-industry were selected for observation. Both qualitative and quantitative data were collected and analysed. This study used a process tracing method to analyse observable causes and outcomes within case causal mechanism processes through which CSOs influence corporate sustainability practices. The causal mechanism refers to CSO mobilisation and the outcome is company sustainability practices.
Results revealed that CSOs employed a variety of influencing strategies, incorporating institutional and non-institutional tactics, in an attempt to influence government and foreign joint venture companies. However, these tactics did not necessarily influence foreign joint venture companies to behave in a more sustainable way. Rather, whether or not CSOs were able to influence the government, companies or both, they relied heavily on the political nexus between the government and the two companies in the two cases. For instance, CSOs were more effective in influencing the rubber company to behave more sustainably than CSOs targeting the sugar company. The sustainability assessment unveiled that the rubber company went to great effort to ensure sustainability and long-term investment after facing contention with indigenous communities, whereas the sugar company was more likely to neglect the sophisticated mobilisation approaches of the CSOs. In so doing, the sugar company caused negative outcomes for the communities.
The different sustainability practices of the two joint venture companies were determined by the different intensities of the client-patron networks between the foreign companies and government officials. The different intensity of networking tends to induce different capture of government (regulatory) institutions. Strong relationships between the foreign companies and government officials tended to influence government institutions, whilst weak relationships resulted in less influence. While strong network restricts CSOs’ ability to ensure sustainable practices, the weak network avails the CSOs to influence the company to attain better sustainability impacts. In this instance, the rubber company, due to its weak network between the government and local partner, which resulted in weak influence on government institutions, strives to perform well to deal with the concerns of indigenous communities and to ensure sustainable development. Meanwhile, the sugar company, having possessed a strong network between the government and local partner constitutes strong capture of regulatory institution not to enforce sustainability related regulations, resists the CSOs’ strategic influence. In contrast, the strong network of the sugar company tended to suppress the CSOs’ tactics. With these, failure or success of the CSOs to influence the government and the foreign joint venture companies to ensure sustainability in or surrounding the investment area is more often than not mediated and undermined by the political nexus between the government and the foreign joint venture companies. Not only this, corporate relationships with government negate CSO influence. To a certain degree, CSOs’ mobilisation, however, leverages a certain influence not only on the government but also shapes the behaviour of the foreign joint venture companies operating in a host country with lax regulatory enforcement and uncertain business environment.