African Journal of
Business Management

  • Abbreviation: Afr. J. Bus. Manage.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1993-8233
  • DOI: 10.5897/AJBM
  • Start Year: 2007
  • Published Articles: 4193

Table of Content: 28 August, 2013; 7(32)

August 2013

Development and growth of Islamic banking in Pakistan

This study analyzes the development and growth of Islamic banking in Pakistan. State banks of Pakistan are playing very important role in the development of Islamic banking and make Islamic banking as the first priority in the banking system. Islamic banking is providing a wide variety of the products which are competitive to the conventional banking system. Islamic banking generally shows an increasing trend in the...

Author(s): Muhammad Ashraf

August 2013

Impact of the external e-commerce on monopoly

Many traditional monopoly industries are pervaded by the external e-commerce in recent years. It is therefore important to address the internet in these special industries. We establish a model under the monopoly with the external e-commerce and the corresponding properties are achieved. This paper shows that it is advantageous for the e-commerce if there are more consumers with internet prone. The effects of the change...

Author(s): Xiao-xing Liu  

August 2013

A systematic approach for knowledge auditing

In today’s business environment, a knowledge base approach toward all organization’s aspects is inevitable. Having a method for identifying existed knowledge and experiences level and analyzing the need of knowledge acquisition from external sources or research and development to gain new knowledge, the organization will be able to reduce the gap between existed and needed knowledge toward achieving its...

Author(s): Azizollah Jafari and Nafiseh Payani

August 2013

The relationship between human resource productivity (HRP) and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB)

Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) describes actions in which employees are willing to go above and beyond their prescribed role requirements. Prior theory suggests and some research supports the belief that these behaviors are correlated with indicators of organizational effectiveness. In present research the sample size consists of 183 employees (69 women and 114 men) that were selected at random from Tabriz 3...

Author(s): Nour-Mohammad Yaghoubi, Habibollah Salarzehi and Jamshid Moloudi

August 2013

Evaluating advance efficiency of Bangladeshi online banks using stochastic frontier analysis

Online bank advance efficiency and various factors causing the efficiency level of banks are investigated using stochastic frontier technique for the period 2001-2007. A sample of 20 banks are used following four different groups like NBs (National Banks), ISBs (Islamic Banks), FBs (Foreign Banks), and PBs (Private Banks). A group wise, year wise, and individual banks with their efficiency scores are compared in this...

Author(s): Azizul Baten and Anton Abdulbasah Kamil  

August 2013

Designing effective female leadership model in governmental organizations

Since leadership is a critical factor for improving organizational performance, failure or success of an organization highly depends on efficiency of  leadership in all levels. Scholars elaborated that leadership is the ability of  influencing one's attitudes, aptitudes and  beliefs, in the way that it will lead to meet organizational objectives. The main purpose of this study is to consider two...

Author(s): Nosratollah Maleki and Aryan Askari  

August 2013

E-government project failure in Africa: Lessons for reducing risk

E-government project implementation in Africa is commonly associated with low levels of success. This review aimed at drawing lessons for successful E-government project implementation in Africa by analysing one of the successfully implemented E-government projects in South Africa namely the South African Revenue Services (SARS) e-filing program. The findings reported in the paper are mainly based analysis of secondary...

Author(s): Mercy Mpinganjira