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Creativity is a cognitive function and a critical component of competition. While performance pressure is often associated with behavioral outcomes and regarded as greatly impacting creativity. To examine the intrinsic mechanism between performance pressure and employee creativity, we integrated the Transactional Model of Stress (TMS) with the Dual Pathway to Creative Model (DPWC) and investigated 405 knowledge workers....
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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Universally, many countries prioritize small business as a key growth sector that contributes to the local economy. The SMTE sector currently faces challenges in education, training and skills development. Given the size of this sector, skills development plays a critical role in transforming an enterprise. This paper focuses on Tourism businesses in East London.This study sought to investigate the problems in skills...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between innovation and marketing performance of small scale manufacturing enterprises in selected woredas of Sidama Zone. To this end, the author employed mixed research approach; and both primary and secondary data were used. The primary data was collected through questionnaire from a sample of 82 respondents out of a population of 92. Besides, the researcher...
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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...
Analysis of a Proper Strategy for Solar Energy Deployment in Iran using SWOT Matrix
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This paper aims to analyze and identify the most appropriate strategies to deploy solar energy in Iran. For this purpose, in a comprehensive framework of strategy development, the internal and external factors of general and specific environment were determined. Then, four different strategies, including aggressive (strong expansion and development), conservative (maintaining, internal protection), competitive...
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...
Tax Education and Voluntary Compliance, evidence from Nigeria
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This paper examines the extent of tax education on voluntary compliance in Nigeria in order to promote the level of revenue generation. A quantitative method of analysis was used through descriptive statistic and Chi- square test using Statistical Ppackage for Ssocial Science. Data was administered through survey questionnaire 345 respomdents of which 200 were disrtibuted to the taxpayers and 145 to tax officials. The...
Determinants of Network Marketing Success Strategies
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Remarkable successes have been registered throughout the world by individuals engaged in Network Marketing (NM). On the other hand, numerous individuals have failed to achieve significant economic successes in this field. In other countries such as the USA, China and India record numbers of successful stories in NM Network Marketing have been reported. The African economies, however, are lagging behind in this wealth...
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The research intended to investigate the impact of cashless economy on the performance of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Zimbabwe. The closure and failure to survive of MSMEs in a cashless economy prompted the researchers to carry out this study. The objectives of the study were to determine the effects of cashless economy on performance of MSMEs and to identify the factors hindering the adoption of...
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Albeit in its infancy, South Africa’s LED practice is a benchmark of a large number of African countries in general and southern African countries in particular. The practice stand out, for its massive and growing LED budgets, robust legal and a variety of LED governance structures, amongst others. This study seeks to answer three critical questions: What LED facets (particular aspects) are available in literature? Are...
Entrepreneurship in Tunisia: Motivators and Obstacles
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Due to the severe competitiveness in the marketplace, venture creation in big towns, such as Sfax-Tunisia, has become a serious challenge. Then, considering entrepreneurship as a source of wealth creation, economic growth, social progress, and technological development, the current paper seeks to identify the motivating and demotivating factors that are respectively triggering and impeding new venture creators‟ decision...
Changing work patterns: Implications for employment relations in Power Holding Company of Nigeria
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The notions of changing work patterns and employment relations have become an emerging subject of study by social scientists in recent times. New work situations have brought with them new risks and challenges for workers and employers alike. This paper examines the changing work pattern and its consequent implications on employment relations in Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN). Strategic choice theory was adopted...
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This study analyzes major factors of bank selection by educated young cohort people of Bangladesh to be bank customer. It is based on a survey of a mix of 300 university students and employees in diverse academic disciplines and background who are customers of private commercial bank(s) located in Dhaka City. The findings of the study reveal that the most important variables influencing choice are digital banking...
Competence of African negotiators in managing and mending business deals
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The ability of negotiators to demonstrate negotiations competence to facilitate business deals is very essential. Researchers argue that, for a negotiator to be able to facilitate a business deal, one need to have competencies and other personal characteristics that are essential for performing the required functions. This paper is of the view that, the nominal growth performance of African business manifested by the rise...
Dividend policy and share price volatility of Nigerian oil and gas industries
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This study was conducted to assess the effect of dividend policy on share price volatility of downstream sector of Oil and Gas Company in Nigeria. The population of the study comprised all the twelve quoted oil and gas downstream sector on the Nigerian Stock Exchange as of December, 2016, it covered the period of 5 years from 2011 to 2015. Four companies were selected as sample due to the availability of data. The study...
Institutionalism and Development Process of Family Firms in Kenya
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This paper uses institutional theory to investigate the nexus between the institutional context and the development of the entrepreneurial process in the family firm (from start-up, development, and growth to innovation and corporate entrepreneurship), focussing on the behaviour patterns of entrepreneurs. A qualitative case study methodology was used to examine 60 cases over a one-year period. Thirty of these cases were...
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The increasing attention in the field of value management is highlighting multiple challenges for researchers and practitioners. Building on previous managerial contributions, the paper aims to define a possible path for combining the conceptual contributions related to value in exchange, value in use, and value in context in a common framework to improve understanding of emerging social and economic dynamics under the...
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South Africa has its own texture of cultural diversity unparalleled by any in the history of the world. The diversity emanates from the period of the Dutch settlers (1640s) occupying land in the country by conquering the non-militant indigenous inhabitants. Soon the British arrived (1800s) and occupied more land, before long the two settler groups were fighting for ownership and control of the land. As soon as their...
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Various authors argue that empowering employee using different facets of empowerment like information sharing, trust, reward, training and autonomy has an impact on job satisfaction and service quality where as other authors disagree with this idea. This study has the objective of testing whether the facets of empowerment have a relation with overall job satisfaction. Questionnaires were distributed to the entire...
Divine modeling inflationary impact on beef mutton and chicken price increase in Pakistan economy
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This study investigates the relationship between commodity (beef mutton and chicken price) price increase, money supply, and inflation in Pakistan. The hypothesis says that an increase in commodity price leads to accumulation, higher growth rates of money supply and higher inflation. Consequently, higher inflation leads to appreciation of domestic currency with a resultant increase in import of goods seen in strategic...
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The sudden announcement of fuel subsidy removal by the Federal Government of Nigeria on the 11th of May, 2016 in Nigeria generated a lot of arguments and several reactions among observers and market analysts as to the likely consequences of such an action to the Nigerian economy on the market value of listed firms. This study aims to empirically investigate the reaction of the Nigerian stock market to the sudden...
Factors Influencing the Choice of Mobile Phones in Nigerian Knowledge Institution
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Understanding customers’ preference and factors influencing their choices are important to firms’ strategists. These provide opportunities for firms to design suitable products to attract customers’ attention and earn competitive advantage through strategic positioning. This study explored factors influencing the choice of mobile phones among public servants in Obafemi Awolowo University. Primary data were collected...
The financial statements contained informational and decision of Yemeni bank credit
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The objective of this study is to identify the determinants of policy bank lending in the context of Yemen. To achieve this goal, attempt was made to model the probability of lending investment companies Yemenis through a number of explanatory variables included in the multivariate model (model discriminant analysis) and a model of artificial intelligence (artificial Neural Network). To empirically study this problem,...
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