African Journal of
Business Management

  • Abbreviation: Afr. J. Bus. Manage.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1993-8233
  • DOI: 10.5897/AJBM
  • Start Year: 2007
  • Published Articles: 4194

Table of Content: 7 October, 2013; 7(37)

October 2013

Visitor-oriented information supply in the industrial fair

In a trade show environment, the contact between the booth exhibitor and interested visitors is relatively essential because it plays a key role in turning visitors into customers. Contact efficiency refers not only to visitor retention but also involves creating business development opportunities with visitors. Hence, exhibitors should develop strategies to contact with visitors based on visitors’ preferences in...

Author(s): Ching-Chi Lee and Cou-Chen Wu

October 2013

Measuring the performance of contractors in government construction projects in developing countries: Uganda’s context

Traditionally, the success of projects is measured on time, cost and quality parameters; although, most construction projects in Uganda have not performed well on each of these parameters. In this paper, we identify important indicators that are useful for measuring contractors’ performance in Uganda’s context. The paper develops a simple performance measurement framework for measuring performance of...

Author(s): Benon C. Basheka and Milton Tumutegyereize

October 2013

An analysis of consumer values, needs and behavior for liquid milk in Hazara, Pakistan

This study examines the relationship of consumer values, needs and behavior for effective positioning and target market. The purpose is to identify those motivational factors that influence the consumer to make purchase decision and types of personal values, motives, emotions and moods directing them. The research is based on survey with the sample from Hazara division using questionnaire. The findings indicate that...

Author(s): Khadija Humayun and SAF Hasnu

October 2013

The role of market liquidity, information efficiency on stock market performance: Empirical evidence from Uganda stock exchange

The purpose of this study is to examine the role of Market Liquidity, Information Efficiency on Stock Market Performance in Uganda. The research design adopted was cross-sectional and quantitative. Data were collected from 66 respondents from a sample of 80 investors, brokers and staff of Uganda stock exchange. We performed a Pearson correlation and multiple regressions in the analysis of data. The study posts a...

Author(s): Rogers Mwesigwa, Sulait Tumwine and Edson R. Atwine

October 2013

The relationship between the percentages of free float shares and liquidity of shares in the companies accepted in Tehran Stock Exchange

Free float share is a percentage of total company's capital which is available to stock market transactions. In this study, past information of the sample companies in Tehran Stock Exchange was used to investigate the relationship between percentage of free float shares and share market liquidity, number of buyers, number of transactions and turnover ratio of shares. The aim of this study is to assist investors and...

Author(s): Emad Rezaei and Atefeh Tahernia

October 2013

Risk management in Islamic banking

Islamic banking and finance has become a US$100 billion industry and is estimated to grow at a rate of 15% per annum. The essential feature of Islamic banking is that it is interest-free. As a result of this, the Islamic financial system is primarily equity-based. Islamic banks therefore conducts business on a profit-/ loss-sharing principle. Under this arrangement, the provider of capital and the entrepreneur share in...

Author(s): Nico P. Swartz

October 2013

Motivating innovation with a structured incentives scheme – Extending the Manso model

The conventional pay-for-performance schemes are designed for inspirit agents to exert effort. Manso structured incentive schemes to motivate innovation in a two-period production process. However, his solution is just dependent on the probability of success of different actions (work methods), and not on the amount of performance of these actions. In combining these two methods, this paper proposes a model and gives...

Author(s): Zheng Chengli and Chen Yan

October 2013

The impact of organizational justice on employee turnover, using Total E&P Yemen

This study analyzed the impact of organizational justice as encompassed by three components, namely distributive justice, procedural justice and interactional Justice on employee’s job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and turnover intention. This study included the design and distribution of a self-administered questionnaire to 183 Yemeni employees working for TOTAL E&P Yemen (TEPY), which is...

Author(s): Abbas Mohammed Ahmed Al-Salemi