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dc.contributor.author | Azzopardi, Joseph G. | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-04-04T10:30:18Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2019-04-04T10:30:18Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Azzopardi, J. G. (2015). Solving problems, the island way: human resourcefulness in action among the islanders of Gozo. Island Studies Journal, 10(1), 71-90. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.issn | 17152593 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/42006 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This paper offers glimpses into how businesspersons, entrepreneurs and small business managers resolve their most pressing problems under conditions characterized by smallness and islandness in order to survive. Applying a nissological approach complemented by an action-oriented grounded method, the researcher explores and inductively analyses the mind-sets of islanders to explicate the basic socio-psychological process that influences how they resourcefully overcome problems associated with mistrust and powerlessness, transforming these into opportunities of trust-building and empowerment. Two concurrent and seemingly contradictory processes emerge from the analysis, suggesting that Gozitans – the residents of the small Mediterranean island of Gozo – apply both overt formal and covert informal processes to solve their problems. | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | University of Prince Edward Island, Canada. Institute of Island Studies | en_GB |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_GB |
dc.subject | States, Small | en_GB |
dc.subject | Problem solving | en_GB |
dc.subject | Action research | en_GB |
dc.subject | Businesspeople -- Malta -- Gozo | en_GB |
dc.subject | Small business -- Malta -- Gozo | en_GB |
dc.subject | Entrepreneurship -- Malta -- Gozo | en_GB |
dc.title | Solving problems, the island way : human resourcefulness in action among the islanders of Gozo | en_GB |
dc.type | article | en_GB |
dc.rights.holder | The copyright of this work belongs to the author(s)/publisher. The rights of this work are as defined by the appropriate Copyright Legislation or as modified by any successive legislation. Users may access this work and can make use of the information contained in accordance with the Copyright Legislation provided that the author must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the prior permission of the copyright holder. | en_GB |
dc.description.reviewed | peer-reviewed | en_GB |
dc.publication.title | Island Studies Journal | en_GB |
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