ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES " CASE STUDY ON CARPETS INDUSTRY

Document Type : Review Article

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1 Postgraduate student, Faculty of Graduate Studies and Environmental Research, Ain Shams University

2 Faculty of Commerce, Ain Shams University

3 Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University

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The study aimed to clarify the relative importance and the inevitability of the economic and environmental impacts of small and medium enterprises as an application to some carpet industries in the light of sustainable development, taking into account the environmental aspects and their effects, as with the passage of time the need for small and medium enterprises increases, as we live in a world in which growth and variables increase, Which requires everyone to realize the requirements of development in the present and the future. To achieve the objectives of the study, a questionnaire was designed and collected in the interview, which included a set of phrases that measure the sample’s trends towards the study variables. The study sample consisted of 156 workers representing all administrative levels in a number of carpet production projects. The researchers conducted data analysis using the method and measures of central tendency, where arithmetic averages and standard deviations were calculated for the responses of the study sample members related to the reality of interest in the development of economic, social and environmental dimensions in the field. The study concluded that project management should pay more attention to the concept and types of environmental information systems because of its contribution and enhancement to the development of the process of improving human resources performance in the light of sustainable development, and there is an average practice by those workers to generate or identify ideas or alternatives. Or the possibilities, from the available data and then converting it into information and transforming the information into new ideas and reality to help projects achieve their goals. While there is a statistically significant effect for activating and establishing the environmental, social and economic dimension in society in light of the concepts of sustainable development in the projects sample research, The study recommends the need to increase the attention of project administrations to the need to pay attention to financing and marketing and to study market requirements for the advancement of these projects. To turn these projects into a major source of national income while opening up areas for digital marketing Electronically, which will enhance the administrative growth of workers and recipients of production processes and the need to increase cooperation with local community institutions and recipients of goods, because society is subjected to intentional and planned change processes in what is known as sustainable development, so it is not the society that wants to maintain the status quo as it is.

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Journal of Environmental Science
Volume 51, Issue 12 - Serial Number 12
Part.3 : Economics, Law and Management
December 2022
Pages 1-18

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