October 2016

Linking business intelligence to a knowledge-based sustainable competitive advantage in organizations

This study looks at the use of sentiment analysis and opinion mining in business intelligence by organisations to develop and sustain a competitive advantage. It discusses variables such as organisation structure, business intelligence, knowledge management, and opinions mining as some sources of competitive advantage. The approach for this research is based on a positivist paradigm. A survey research strategy was used...

Author(s): Nixon Muganda Ochara and Thato Mokwena

October 2016

Relationship between institutional quality and stock market performance: Evidence from emerging economies

The purpose of this study is to provide empirical evidence on the effect of institutional quality on stock market performance. In order to evaluate the effect of institutional quality on stock market performance, Calderon Rossell models have been estimated using generalized method of moment’s technique. A panel data of 41 emerging countries for the period 1996 to 2011 is used to estimate the results. The results...

Author(s): Ernest Christian Winful, David Sarpong and Jones Agyei-Ntiamoah