Small family-owned businesses (FOBs) represent an important sector of
the economy in the English-speaking Caribbean (ESC). But the
generational transition and longevity of these businesses is threatened by
the depletion of key areas of knowledge, due in part to inadequate
knowledge management; and compounded by the unstructured and
informal nature of these businesses.
Drawing on data from Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago,
and using a Design Science approach, this article proposes a knowledge

Growth in mobile phone penetration is one of the most significant
technological developments in human history, spurring a number of
innovations and entrepreneurial opportunities. Among these is the
conduct of monetary transactions via the mobile phone, which promises to
revolutionise access to financial services and opportunities for business
and entrepreneurship in developing countries. However, whereas mobile
banking via M-Pesa has revolutionised financial services and access in

This article investigates the relationship between e-money, consumption
and sectoral growth in Jamaica using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag
(ARDL) model. Using this technique, we evaluate whether e-money has a
long run relationship with the real economy. The definition of e-money is
restricted in this article to card payments. Both the size of card payments
and the payment penetration were evaluated. Card payments were
disaggregated into internet, point of sale (POS) and automated bank

Non-profit organisations (NPOs) are mistrusted, due to a percep-tion that
they are ineffective, poorly managed, and dependent on financial support.
This has led to demands for more accountability and for more business-like
behaviour.
While International NPOs have embraced key social entrepreneurship
(SE) practices, there is little empirical evidence that these
practices ensure accountability. This article addresses that information gap
from a conceptual and contextual perspective, demonstrating that

Macro-economic conditions in host countries influence the direction of
foreign direct investments flows. This article, using a 12-year panel data
(2000-2011) for 35 SIDS, modelled the relationship between country
conditions in the host country and the flow of FDIs to SIDS, an understudied
location in the FDI literature. Using the eclectic paradigm as the
main theoretical lens, the study modelled the critical variables that are
defined as country conditions, to measure their impact on FDI flows to

This article introduces the special issue to the Inaugural Conference on
Business and Management hosted by the Mona School of Business and
Management in 2015. It pulls together the main findings, arguments and
perspectives of those papers that were most closely aligned with the theme
of the conference. In so doing, it focuses on the challenges to increasing
entrepreneurship, enterprise, competitiveness and growth in Small Island
Developing States (SIDS), such as those in the Caribbean, and the strategies

Securing a reliable work force for Canada’s agricultural sector has been
challenging (Ferguson 2007). Canada has sought to meet these challenges
through its Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP), a managed
migration programme that brings temporary workers to Canada. The
experiences of farm workers have garnered much attention over the last
two decades but relatively little has been written about the experiences of
Caribbean workers. This paper is based on a qualitative study of farm

Martinique, a French territory, is geographically located in the Caribbean
Sea. It is also an associate member of a number of regional organizations
in the area, such as the Association of Caribbean States (ACS), the United
Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
(ECLAC) and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS). Its
application to become an associate member of the Caribbean Community
(CARICOM), submitted in 2014, is pending. This paper presents the

The Caribbean Sea Commission (CSC) was established by the
Association of Caribbean States (ACS) in 2007, as a structured
mechanism to promote the sustainable development of the
Caribbean Sea (Association of Caribbean States 2007, 2). Chief
among its mandates is the elaboration of the Caribbean Sea
Initiative (CSI)—the proposal tabled by Member States of the ACS
at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in 1999, calling
for designation of the Caribbean Sea, as a ‘special area,’ within the

Three important fisheries initiatives in the Caribbean Large Marine
Ecosystem (CLME) are the Caribbean Network of Fisherfolk
Organisations (CNFO), the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism
(CRFM) and the Caribbean Community Common Fisheries Policy
(CCCFP). We examine the recent development of the CNFO from an
institutional analysis perspective. This highlights the interaction, or lack
of it, with the CRFM and CCCFP. We argue that a regional fisherfolk
organization, such as the CNFO, can play a critical role in fisheries