December 2018

Factors influencing project selection in the renewable energy sector of Zambia

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors that influence decision making in the selection of projects in renewable energy sector of Zambia. Project selection and development of a portfolio of projects in line with corporate strategy is an important task of decision makers in the renewable energy sector of both public and private organizations. The selected projects have to meet the appropriate time frame...

Author(s): Percy Jennings Saili and Balimu Mwiya  

December 2018

Factorizing towards the prime determinants of job satisfaction: An integrative modeling across PCA and logistic regression

In recent years, job satisfaction has been seriously taken as one of the top priority concerns in developing countries, since the living standards of the people have been improving. The overarching aim of this study is to identify the top most determinants of job satisfaction among employees of Abay bank using a sample of 150 employees working in Addis Ababa. A combination of principal component analysis (PCA) and OLR...

Author(s): Timkete Aleme  

December 2018

Corporate social responsibility: An approach to peace?

The responsibility to promote sustainable development should be a joint effort among government, industry and other organizations. They can share the responsibilities and commitments that countries have with regard to the ratification of the global plans of action, such as Agenda 21, Kyoto Protocol and Agenda 2030. Delai and Takahashi (2012) explain that the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is the approach to...

Author(s): Alvany Maria dos Santos Santiago, Pamela K. Robinson and José Celio Silveira Andrade