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Organizations require strategic tactics to help them conquer the competition they face in their operating environment. A strategic strategy allows a company to achieve a competitive advantage over its competitors and maintain market success. The failure of current seed companies in Nairobi City County to meet demand for improved maize seed reflects their limited results. The main study goal was to determine the influence...
MARKETING STRATEGIES AND CONSUMER PURCHASING BEHAVIOUR IN GHANA. A CASE OF NESTLE GHANA LIMITED.
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The role marketing strategies play in influencing purchasing behaviors of consumers in various economies can never be overemphasized. However, this assertion requires further investigation with respect to consumers of Maggi seasoning products in Ghana especially those in Tamale metropolis. The study analysed the effect of marketing strategies specifically sales promotion and perceived product quality on consumer purchasing...
Transaction Costs and Competitive Tendering in Public Procurement: Moderating Role of Integrity
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While the current economic crisis clearly puts pressure on governments to cut spending and save money, and whilst the call for a more cohesive interface between the public and private sectors is currently resonating, public procurement has been marred by scandals, mismanagement, and possibly malpractices. According to the literature, corporate integrity drives transactional behaviors by acting as a hidden hand of social...
Exploring global unionism to inform South African ICT sector union strategy
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Unions are prominent stakeholders in employment relations (ER), representing and protecting the rights of their members and other employees on labour-related issues that the workforce is overwhelmed with within the workplace. The purpose of this article was to examine global unionism to advise South African (SA) Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector labour unionism. It focuses on the recent trends of global...
Understanding affirmative action leadership in the South African financial context
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South Africa's (SA) history of apartheid produced racial inequality that was entrenched for centuries. Discrimination was promulgated in legislation that promoted inequality in the political, social, and economic areas of SA. After 1994, the goal of the new government was to transform the workplace. Numerous affirmative action (AA) legislation, policies, and procedures enforced organisational transformational obligation...
Impact of industrial relations on performance of employees
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Industrial relations are having great importance in industrial life .The word industrial relations describe the relationship of employees with employers, between the employees. Trade unionism, collective bargaining and labour management techniques are mostly helps to the industries to maintain the industrial peace. The research attempts to identify the factor which having more influences in industrial relations and to know...
Asymmetric Effect, Non-Linear ARDL and the J –Curve analysis among EAC Members
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The paper examined if the exchange rate effect to trade balance has J curve shapes within East African Community members. The recently developed method of Non-linear ARDL was utilized for Quarterly data from 1990 Q1 to 2019 Q4. The study found no evidence of asymmetric effect of exchange rate on trade balance for four countries with the exception of Uganda. Henceforth, there was no evidence of robust J-curve phenomena...
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF COST MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING PRACTICES: EVIDENCE FROM ETHIOPIAN INDUSTRY PARKS.
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This study attempts to investigate the degree of Adoption of cost and management accounting techniques in Selected Ethiopian Industry Parks Further, factors affecting the adoption of those techniques were examined. Finally, the perceived effect of adopting these techniques on the company's operating efficiency and financial performance were evaluated. In doing so, Descriptive and explanatory research designs were used for...
Compliance of External Auditors with Professional Code of conduct: In the Case of Ethiopia
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The objective of the study was to assess the compliance of external auditors with the code of conduct while discharging their responsibilities, and its effect on the existence of CSR within client organizations in the case of Ethiopia. The study adopted a mixed research approach and used cluster sampling to categorize the respondents based on their role within the organization, and probability sampling to select the...
THE “CUSTEN MODEL”: HOW EXPERIENTIAL IT IS FROM THE GHANAIAN HIGHER EDUCATION SPECTRUM
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The research aims to propagate the “custen model” that suggests how the management of Ghanaian universities could retain qualified and knowledgeable students through its relationship officers. A survey design was engaged. A total of 500 respondents from selected universities in Ghana was used. Data were explored using smartPLS 3. The results revealed that the “Custen Model” that is customer retention is built on an...
Strategies for Improving Local Content Development in Nigeria Oil and Gas Industry
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Local content development is a strategic management issue for multinational extractive companies in Africa with significant business implications. As local content statutory regulators aim to increase the average local content value in the Nigeria oil and gas industry from 26% in 2017 to 70% in 2027, supply chain managers need strategies for increasing local content. The purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was...
A review of Knowledge management and its application in the contemporary business environment
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The quest for a better way of enhancing firm performance has led to the discovery of knowledge as a unique and firm-specific resource for achieving competitive advantage. Knowledge management has gained the attention of practitioners and scholars in recent times. Knowledge management involves obtaining the right set of information and making them available to the right people, and at the right time. When an adequate...
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Professionalism in public procurement allow for functionality, transparency and significant saving in public expenditure. Professionalism depends on the staffing, knowledge, skills and capabilities of the human resources and on controls in the system that influences human behaviour. The study used descriptive research design, and data were collected from 48 respondents who were purposively selected from different...
Economic Analysis of Foreign Debt on Economic Growth in West Africa Countries.
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The study investigates the economic effect of debt on economic growth in West Africa. The main objective was to examine the effect of foreign debt as a means of driving growth using some macroeconomic factors such as total external debt stocks and total debt servicing on the resultant effect of the use of debt to drive economic growth in West Africa. Pie chart and line chart was used to illustrate some average ratio of...
Microfinance and Survival of Micro & Small Enterprises in Ethiopia
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The objective of the article is to examine the effect of microfinance on the survival of micro & small enterprise in Ethiopia using a survival analysis approach. A survey method was used and 340 MSEs were randomly selected. Cox Proportional Hazards analysis and Kaplan Meier survival analysis techniques were employed. The survival time was measured using MSEs business age. The study revealed that the highest failure of MSEs...
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Construction projects have playing a major role in Ethiopia’s economy. But it is riddled with delay, cost overruns and mediocre quality of work. The main objective of the study was to compare building project management practices of foreign and local contractors. Hence, building projects owned by Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) that were undertaken by local contractors were compared with their foreign contractor...
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The capital markets components are expected to guide long-term policies pertaining to economic growth. It is from these components that various capital markets develop. African economies are lagging behind in capital markets development when these are pivotal in providing the needed stimulus for financial intermediation and economic progress. Capital markets in the Sub-Saharan African countries are in that they are highly...
Internal Control Practices and Health service delivery in Local Governments of Uganda
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The main aim of this study was to examine the extent to which internal control practices affected health service delivery in Rukungiri District. The research adopted a case study design using both quantitative and qualitative approaches. The target population was 140 key stakeholders that lived and worked in Rukungiri District and a sample size of 104 was drawn from the target population. Our findings from the descriptive...
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The current empirical review article is premised on a constructionist and discursive approaches to consulting and facilitating conversations to co-create sustainable futures. The article is informed by scholarship of practice, scholarship of application, and scholarship of integration in facilitated evidence-based organization development. The article covers some theoretical frameworks that guide the need for dialogue in...
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This study aimed at examining the influence of internal controls on financial accountability in GILGHS, Uganda. The study’s research design was cross-sectional. The study findings were derived from a sample of 127 health center (unit of analysis), whose heads of department formed unit of inquiry. Data were amassed from respondents through questionnaires and their responses were aggregated to their corresponding health...
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The popularity of corporate social responsibility in the world of business has been on the increase. However, extant studies looking a building a business case in support of business organizations engaging in social initiatives and programs have churned our divergent findings, with most studies looking at the CSR-firm performance relationship from the linear perspective. However, there has been an increasing call for a...
Entrepreneurship Training for Artisans in the Informal Sector: A Catalyst for National Development.
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In many developing countries worldwide, a large number of the youth engaged in informal artisanal works to earn a living. Primarily, this study seeks to establish the extent to which, entrepreneurship training of artisans’ impact business development. This acts as an enabler to national development. Mixed methods approach was used to collect data from two categories of respondents (auto-mechanics and other customers). ...
Prestige pricing versus psychological pricing: An Exploratory
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The cost of a product or service set by an organization, to keep it durable, plays a critical role, and is very demanding and difficult for an enterprise to maintain itself in contemporary and threatening global markets. Therefore, the use of a pricing strategy to allow the company to improve revenue and profitability is extremely significant to manipulate consumers' attitudes and psyche; psychological pricing plays an...
Customer Loyalty Effect of Corporate Image, Service Quality and Customer Satisfaction
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Business is an effort to sell products or services produced to the market or consumers through various efforts that are made. This research is the result of a survey of three bank branches, namely PT. Bank Rakyat Indonesia, tbk Malang - Indonesia. The type of research used is quantitative with an explanatory approach model. Primary data was collected through a questionnaire with 150 respondents and tested its validity and...
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The paper is purposed to assess the expected impact of implementing the new international financial reporting standard (IFRS 16) Leases on key financial ratios and performance metrics of selected listed companies in Kenya. The study focused on the extent to which the key liquidity ratios, profitability ratios, and leverage ratios change once the new standard comes into effect. Basing the study on financial contracting...
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With the arrival of the knowledge economy, the speed of communication around the world has increased exponentially; as a result consumers are increasingly faced with goods and products from abroad. How to evaluate the quality of the foreign products, in particular cultural products, is becoming an important issue for international marketers. In this study 452 samples of Chinese cultural products were chosen as the test...
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The financial performance of MSEs is a major concern for Uganda with high solvency rate. Financial literacy has been identified as one of key competencies required for the success of these MSEs. However, its effect on the financial performance of MSEs hasn’t been fully established by existing literature thus the need for further research. Basing on gist of Resource Based Theory, the study sought to examine how financial...
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Many organisations in South Africa make the wrong assumption when trying to expand their business to other countries in Africa; there is usually an assumption that what works in South Africa will automatically work in another African country. Organisations have slowly through the years learnt that it is all about understanding the clientele, their cultural preferences, their environment, policies, procedures and how...
Sustainability of CSR Projects Done by Mining Companies in Zimbabwe compared to South Africa
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The purpose of the paper was to analyse the sustainability of CSR projects done by mining companies comparing Zimbabwe and South Africa. A qualitative research design was used and data was collected from 22 respondents from government representatives, mining representatives and community representatives. The results from the study show that in South Africa there is more stakeholder inclusion and ownership of the CSR...
SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES IN ETHIOPIA: CHALLENGES, OPPORTUNITIES AND DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES
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In every economy of the world, Small and Medium Enterprises are the largest investment sector (Culkin & Smith, 2000) and contribute almost 60% output of global economy (Gerstenenfeld & Roberts, 2000). Therefore, due to this strong importance of Small and Medium Enterprises, governments and scholars has been paid attention on different aspects of the sectors in developed nation. However, in developing nation like...
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The happening disasters of both natural and man-made have increased manifold during last few decades causing incalculable casualties and thus effecting hundreds of millions people around the world every year. The effects of disaster on logistics chain management of road projects during reconstruction phase have drawn an attention to the effective and efficient response to mitigate these impacts. The most significant factor...
STRATEGIC ASSOCIATION AND GROWTH OF FINTECH FIRMS: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF LITERATURE.
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Fintech represents an innovative and evolving field that has gained the attention of investors and regulators in equal measure. The 2008 post-crisis paradigm marked an era of new explorations by the skilled bankers who were rendered jobless and looking for new ventures and incidentally started innovative start-ups in the form of Fintech Firms. The collaboration between Fintech Firms and incumbent industry players like...
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The study examines emotional intelligence and job satisfaction as predictors of burnout among employees in manufacturing sector in Nigeria. It seeks to assess the influence of self-regulatory, self-consciousness and depersonalization on employees’ burnout. The study adopted Bar-on’s trait theory and Goleman’s competency theory in explaining how to satisfy an employee in an organization. Three hundred and fifty five...
Model of Success and Sustainability of Financial Life Skills Training Program
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Financial Life Skill (FLS) Training Program is a development program for youth with ages ranging from 18 until 34 years old. This training program's purpose is to prepare the young generation to be ready to work and to be skilled in managing finances. This program is categorized as a project held by Youth through Economic Participation (YEP) United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Indonesia with a period...
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This article shows Statistical community, methodology of research, sampling method explores the calculation of travel costs for travel agencies in tourism organizations, as well as the criteria and methods for their inclusion in the cost of tourism. And also discusses issues the development of the tourist sphere in Uzbekistan and the advantages of theoretical bases in the regulatory and legal basis of accounting, as well...
CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR EXPORT TRADE FACILITATION PRACTICES IN ETHIOPIA
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The purpose of the study is to assess the export sector related challenges and opportunities in the current trade facilitation practices of Ethiopia. Both quantitative and qualitative research approach was implemented. Besides, a descriptive research design was used for this study through primary data collection methods. Respondents have selected using Proportional, simple random, and purposive sampling techniques. Both...
GROWTH OF SMALL SCALE BUSINESSES IN UGANDA: A CASE OF BUWENGE SUB-COUNTY JINJA DISTRICT
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The study was carried out in Buwenge sub-county to establish the role of SACCOs in the growth of small scale businesses. The study sought to find out factors inhibiting the growth of small scale business supported by SACCOs, to establish the extent to which services offered by SACCOs have led to growth of small scale businesses and to establish the sources of credit used by small scale businesses in Buwenge sub-county. The...
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This study examined the effects of globalization on Small Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) performance in Ghana. Using the case study approach, the study adopted Kumasi Metropolis as the study area. The research explored the level of awareness of globalization among SMEs, examined the effects of globalization on SMEs performance and assessed the prospects and challenges globalization poses on SMEs market in Kumasi. Through...
THE PROSECUTION OF TAX EVASION IN RWANDAN LAW
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Taxes are being one of the wellsprings of national social and monetary development and advancement. Tax avoidance is the illicit avoidance of taxes by people, enterprises, and trusts, the demonstrations of taxpayers who purposely distort the genuine condition of their issues to the tax specialists to diminish their tax obligation and incorporate untrustworthy tax detailing, for example, proclaiming less salary, benefits or...
A review of public financial management issues in Nigeria
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The study examined issues faced in Public Financial Management and government reforms efforts in addressing these issues in Nigeria. Descriptive and simple regression techniques were employed to analyse secondary data generated form the NBS, UNDP and TI reports. The study revealed that the public financial management reforms of government are effective and positive. It was also revealed in the study that corruption does...
The Mediating Effect of Family Role Identification on Family Structure and Everyday Creativity
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This article explores how employee’s family role identification, as driven by family structure, affects everyday creativity at work. Using survey data from 345 working professionals and Master of Business Administration (MBA) students, the results indicate that respondents who were married-with-children reported higher levels of family role identification relative to other respondents. Gender moderated the positive...
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Quantity surveying firms (QSFs) in Nigeria are faced with numerous challenges and stiff competitions in the construction industry that have really threatened the growth and survival of the firms. Therefore, this study examined the current growth status of QSFs in Lagos and Ondo States, Nigeria. This was achieved by assessing some germane growth indicators of firms which include asset, profit, staffing, clients and so on....
IMPACT OF MANAGEMENT CONTRACTING ON EMPLOYEES’ COMMITMENT (A CASE STUDY IN ETHIOTELECOM)
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In this study the researcher investigates the impact of the management contracting and transformation of the ETC to ET on the commitment of the employees, the new managerial practices which influence the level of commitment of the employees negatively or positively. The study used different statistical sampling stages which include convenient sampling, judgmental sampling, stratified sampling and simple random sampling...
INTERNET BANKING IN INDIA- ADOPTION AND DIFFUSION
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Now-a-days, Information technology is said to be the key driver for the changes that are taking place throughout the world. To meet with the customer expectations and growing competition post globalization and liberalization, it is necessary for the banks to adopt new technologies. Today, Internet banking is used as a major tool by the global banking sector to attract the customers. The latest and most innovative service...
AN EMPIRICAL STUDY ON MOBILE BANKING ADOPTION IN BANGLADESH
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This research identifies the factors such as perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, perceived self-efficacy, perceived security and privacy, and perceived financial cost which influence the customer adoption of mobile banking in Bangladesh mediated through customer attitude. For the study, data was collected from 239 respondents via a structured questionnaire, Pearson’s correlation in regression analysis were used...
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This study was aimed to assess the economic role of micro and small scale business enterprise in case of Meket town, North Wollo. The specific objectives were to investigate employment creation in micro and small scale business enterprise, to assess the role of MSSEs in income generation, and to assess major constraints of MSSEs in the study area. In this study, owner of micro and small scale enterprise and out of MSSEs...
Risk assessment for demolition, dismantling and removal of chemical industry existing plants project
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Projects performed in the process chemical industry implies construction, reconstruction and rehabilitation part of the plants or the entire production facilities. Inwardly may contain a number of smaller projects within a civil, mechanical, technological and instrumental profession. Demolition works can be considered as a part of civil works and identification of risk events is one of the first steps of risk management....
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Corporate values" is the "heartbeat of excellence that intrinsically motivates and inspires people in organization". These values are anchored in the mission and vision of the company and integrated in the HR policies and practices. Corporate values integrated to Organizational Support (OS), Psychological Contract (PC), and Employee Engagement (EE) practices were considered in the study as basis for the development of...
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Despite the importance of employee Psychological Capital (self-efficacy, hope, optimism, resilience) as an organizational construct, previous studies on its antecedents have been sparse, suffered from a lack of generalizability, or failed to investigate unique ‘person x situation’ framework interactions. A total of 1406 employees from two large multinational corporations participated in this study. A ‘person x...
Organizational Learning and its Relationship with the Development of Managerial Skills
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The possible relationship between organizational learning and skills has been the subject of study of many researchers, how organizations learn and how to develop skills is a poorly understood process. Thus, this article aims to identify how learning processes are related to the development of managerial skills: a case study of the project coordinators of the Development Plan of University staff - PDA State University of...
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