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: 28 February, 2013; 7(8)

February 2013

Stock return and market risk: A comparison between conventional insurance and takaful

  The focus of this study was to examine the relationship between market risk and stock return of different markets of insurance, namely, conventional insurance and takaful. In order to estimate the market better with care, the variance of the stock return was examined as well. Earlier studies in determining the relationship between risk and return of insurer stock return employed the assumption that variance...

Author(s): Zaidi bin Isa and Rubayah binti Yakob

February 2013

The effect of price features on consumer’s purchasing behaviors

  Customer relationship management (CRM) has been identified to be one of the important tasks serving to promote customer satisfaction (CS). CS is the most distinctive target for measuring customer satisfaction in enterprise, product or service quality performance. Therefore, many enterprises have initiated investigations and surveys regarding what might constitute product satisfaction for their customers. From...

Author(s): Shang-En Yu, Tsung-Hao Chen, K.T. Hsu, C.H. Tsai, C.H. Tsou and C.W. Chen

February 2013

An empirical research on knowledge management orientation and organizational performance: the mediating role of organizational innovation

A great research suggests that effective knowledge management can strengthen organizational performance. But empirical research is very scarce. The concept of knowledge management orientation based on knowledge and resource views presents the degree to which organizations implement knowledge management.This paper mainly analyzes the relationships among knowledge management orientation, organizational...

Author(s):   WANG Yazhou and LIN Jian

February 2013

Ways of increasing the total factor productivity of cement industry for economic development: A case study in Iran and other selected countries (1990 to 2007)

  Man has always thought of efficient utilization of available potentials and sources. Today this subject drives more serious attention compared to the past. Limited available resources, increasing population and growing human needs and demands of those involved make the economy, politics and...

Author(s):   Mohammad Ja’farzadeh and Farz Aliov M.

February 2013

Exploration of the survival and competitiveness of the textile, leather and clothing industries in the Eastern Cape, RSA

  In the Southern Africa Region, the textile, leather and clothing industry has undergone many structural pressures in the face of increased low cost competition from South-East Asian countries but many firms have closed. Despite wholesale firm closures, significant numbers of firms have survived. This article seeks to explore in what sense the survival areas (firms who have survived or new entrants) in the...

Author(s): A. Mwamayi, G. Wood, R. Haines, M. Brookes and V. Mmbengwa

February 2013

The moderating effects of chief executive officer (CEO) duality on the relationship between research and development (R and D) spending and firm performance

  This study aims to examine a moderating effect of chief executive officer (CEO) duality, possessing both roles of the principle and the agent in a firm, to some extent, on the relationship between research and development (R and D) spending and firm performance. To test whether the moderating effect is significant, three-stage hierarchical regression analysis method applied. Using a Chow test further...

Author(s): Min-Tsung Cheng

February 2013

Target costing as a role of strategic management accounting in real-estate investment industry

  This research explored the role of strategic management accounting in target costing (TC) in real-estate investment industry. In contrast to the traditional target costing /strategic management accounting (SMA) in literatures that mainly view it as a system of cost management and profit planning, target costing in this research is seen beyond that. It is seen as the broad strategic management practices and...

Author(s):     Chi-Ling Wu, Pei-how Huang and David Brown