January 2018

Job embeddedness and employee performance in selected oil and gas companies in Bayelsa state of Nigeria

Despite the relatively high pay employees receive in oil and gas companies in Bayelsa State, some seem not to be happy about the uncertainty in their work environment. This is possibly the reason why the employees in this industry do not look back when they get job offers outside the community. This problem prompted this study on the extent to which job embeddedness correlates with performance of employee in selected...

Author(s): Onyeizugbe Chinedu Uzochukwu, Orogbu Lilian Obiageli, Obuebite Robinson Jonathan, and Enaini Stella Olohi  

January 2018

Business strategy and environmental practices: Evidence in the sugarcane energy sector in Brazil

One of the main concerns of this study is to translate environmental practices into strategic actions. This paper aims to analyze how a representative segment of the Brazilian agribusiness, the Mato Grosso do Sul sugarcane industry, is dealing with environmental management at the strategic level. Three data sources were used, which are: semi-structured interviews, questionnaire, and a review of documents and reports....

Author(s): Mary Fernanda Sousa Melo, Renato Luiz Sproesser, Willerson Lucas Campos-Silva and Roberta Souza