We find that the difficulty of business unit targets exerts a direct positive effect, but an indirect negative effect on firm performance where the latter is partly mediated by firms' target flexibility.
These rates may not reflect the full extent of the industry's weakness, however, as some landlords appear disinclined to evict even seriously delinquent tenants because of the difficulty of attracting businesses to replace them.
Even when the difficulty of registering businesses and land is overcome, entrepreneurs face other hurdles that make their productive activity riskier and less likely to succeed.
He said in an interview in Bismarck that the difficulty of attracting business to this remote, cold state, especially the financial businesses that have provided many new jobs, would be further complicated by banking laws that differ from regulations in most of the country.
The survey of each country covers the ease or difficulty of doing business by a number of measures, such as procedures needed to start a legal business, rules concerning the hiring and firing of workers, registering property and enforcing commercial contracts.
Given the difficulty of doing business in Haiti, they will probably prove hard to meet.
Sibneft's last-minute postponement underlines the difficulty of doing business in Russia without the imprimatur of the Kremlin.
Nor did you explain that the primary responsibility for policing Puerto Rico's borders lies with the federal government.You also noted the apparent difficulty of doing business here.
Several companies have recently decided to pull out of Iran because of pressure from the United States and its allies, shareholder divestment campaigns and the difficulty of doing business with Iran's government.
While the U.S. Congress is preoccupied with the country's bilateral trade deficit with China, which it attributes to the renminbi's exchange rate, many Western investors are more exercised about the difficulty of doing business in China.
