African Journal of
Business Management

  • Abbreviation: Afr. J. Bus. Manage.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1993-8233
  • DOI: 10.5897/AJBM
  • Start Year: 2007
  • Published Articles: 4187

Table of Content: 21 November, 2013; 7(43)

November 2013

The dimensions of relationship value between suppliers and customers based on complex products and systems

The dimensions of relationship value are different from different industry. There are no studies in Complex Products and Systems (CoPS) yet. It is more important to study relationship value for buyers and sellers in CoPS. This paper investigates the dimensions of the relationship value between suppliers and customers in the context of CoPS. Theoretically, the relationship value based on CoPS includes three aspects:...

Author(s): Ye Jianhua and Zhang Mingli

November 2013

7Ps in corporate hospitals – Administrators’ perspective

The prime objective of the paper is to study 7Ps - Product, Price, Place, Promotion, People, Physical Evidence and Process - in selected corporate hospitals in India which is very pivotal in strengthening the effectiveness of a hospital. It is needless to say how important service sector is in the national economy. In India, more than 50% of the GDP is now accounted for by the service sector. Though this sector has...

Author(s): T. Sreenivas, B. Srinivasarao and U.Srinivasa Rao

November 2013

The degree of competition in Iranian banking industry: Panzar-Rosse approach

The Iranian banking sector has undergone huge and substantial reform in the last decade;¬ privatization¬, establishment of private banks and development of modern technologies (IT). Based on a sample of 19 banks, This paper investigates the competitive condition of the Iranian banking industry over the period 2005-2010 using the H-statistic proposed by Panzar and Rosse.. The properties of this non-structural...

Author(s): Farhad khodadad Kashi and Jamal Zarein Beynabadi

November 2013

The relationship between conscientiousness, extraversion and leadership effectiveness among local government managers in Eastern Cape, South Africa

For the last 18 years, an insignificant development has been achieved in creating one organisational culture of the Eastern Cape local government that can promote an effective and efficient spending of the annual provincial budgetary allocation of more than fifty-six billion rands ($56,964,320,000). The development and fall of the local government administration is centred on the abilities and values of leaders present....

Author(s): Clement Bell and Chan Murugan