The state by virtue of social contract with citizens and being a welfare state has the responsibility to provide services for its citizenry which include health and social services. Health services must include mental health services. The measurement of the performance of the quality of mental healthcare services cannot be appropriately be done in a linear process of input/output as the medical model is based, neither can it be done in a hierarchical system order of delivery as being controlled by the state using government targets and budgetary constraints. One of the major problems of the mental healthcare system is identified as lack of collaboration among actors of the mental health system. The research therefore will look at the possible solution to this problem. It is argue that to find the best possible solution one need to explore the notion or the concept of Actors-Dialogism-System which is the notion of dialogism as a way of expressing a plurality of logics in different ways, namely voices, styles, discourses, artefacts etc. All organisations in the mental healthcare services delivery could be labelled as storytelling organisations. Storytelling is therefore being used as a ‘facilitatory’ system’ to create and maintain the dialogism of the mental healthcare system.
Youth entrepreneurship has been argued to create a number of benefits, among others, an option to create employment for the youth; young entrepreneurs are more likely to hire fellow youths; and that young entrepreneurs are particularly responsive to new economic opportunities and trends (GEM global report, 2012). The main objective of this research is to identify obstacles to youth entrepreneurship in Botswana, using standardised data. We adopted a nationwide 2013 Adult Population Survey (APS) data provided by GEM to develop this study. A total of 2204 respondents we surveyed, 1272 among them youth (18-35 years) and the results showed that youth entrepreneurship is low in Botswana, with more than half of youth (52%) stating that it is difficult to start a new business in Botswana. Though 76% of youth revealed that owning a business is a better way of earning a living, quiet disturbing is that youth strongly agreed that those who started their own business where they live did so because they could not find jobs. Still with regard to where they live, youth strongly rated top two challenges as the difficulty in starting new businesses and lack of business knowledge. Overall, the top two barriers decried by youth are inappropriate funding (38%) and lack of business skills (25%). It is against this backdrop that we are calling for government and other policy makers to motivate youth to start new businesses as vocations and not out of frastration and also to improve on the existing funding models for youth over and above the current youth programmes such as Youth Development Fund. Futhermore, this can be done by ensuring that youth undergo more rigorous business awareness,  incubation and training to boost their already lacking business skills. This initiative will enhance functions performed by such government organs as Local Entreprise Authority(LEA).
Key words: youth entrepreneurship, challenges, barriers, GEM methodology, Botswana
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Abstract. Corporate governance differs significantly country wise by the influences of political, legal, economical & social dimensions. Nonetheless, ownership is the major component in corporate governance and it is believed that owners implement ownership strategies based on values to achieve desired results in the long run under a dynamic environment. Beside this, some research has been carried forward to understand the dynamic phenomena of corporate governance, but there is no research found which reviewed corporate governance focusing on values. Therefore, authors of this paper identified the following research problem, which is “Unavailability of corporate governance research based on values.†Based on the empirical evidence a conclusion is drawn under corporate governance to what extent values priorities reflected in owners’ behaviour and objectives. The main purpose to develop a better understanding has reached a view towards generating discussion and debate in this important research area.
Keywords: corporate governance, ownership research, values