December 2012
Social and ecological challenges: How sustainable are sustainability reporting systems?
Sustainability debate is founded on the premise that corporations have to focus their attention on social and ecological activities, apart from their economic endeavours. Thus, corporate sustainability which embraces both ecological and social components, poses an inescapable challenge in that without sustainability of business there will soon be no more profits for companies. This paper presents a desk research that...
December 2012
Assessment of job design and job satisfaction among doctors and nurses in Lagos, Nigeria hospitals
This study examines the effect of job design on job satisfaction among Doctors and Nurses in selected hospitals. Data were collected from a sample size of 400 medical personnel (Nurses and Doctors) employed in four major medical centers in Lagos, Nigeria. Results from Pearson product moment correlation revealed that job design is associated with all dimensions of job satisfaction. In addition, the findings...
December 2012
Application of fuzzy multi-criteria decision making for choosing the best strategy in joint stock fishing net manufacturing company: A case study in Iran
In the process of strategic planning, time and uncertainty play an important role. Unpredictable changes in the environment have paralyzed many small and medium industries, wiped them out from competition scene and made the forecasts about the future status of the company fallen short. Companies are facing unpredictable new technologies, new products and emerging markets. Under such conditions, the current...
December 2012
An analysis of the response from private sector to public policy generated by programme for acceleration (PAC) of economic growth focusing on Northeast Brazilian
The private sector is constituted by the executing agents of economic activity in the production of goods and services. In the free market economy, these agents can be inhibited when economic variables become slow, especially in lapses resulting from destabilizing internal, economic adjustments or by impacts from external effects, as are currently experimenting with the global crisis. However,...
December 2012
Researching entrepreneurship from a cognitive perspective: A focus on necessity entrepreneurs in the Johannesburg area
Based on the prevalence of necessity-motivated entrepreneurial activity in Africa, this study investigates attitudes towards enterprising and cognitive styles of this category of entrepreneurs. Although, most studies on necessity entrepreneurship tend to focus on structural obstacles to explain the systematic failure of entrepreneurs, this paper argued that enterprising determinants might be more...
December 2012
Empowering business organizations through information and communication technology (ICT) and e-business
Over the last decade, business organisations have been forced to re-examine the role of Information And Communication Technology (ICT) as a support tool within the organisation and accept that it has become a major driver for business change. E-business is no longer optional and has become the standard mode of operating not only in financial services, publishing and retail where we have already...
December 2012
Accentuating the inherent precarious nature of the remedy of reinstatement in employer-employee relationships
Maslow (1954), in his masterpiece treatise, fashioned the hierarchy of needs, namely physiological, safety, belongings, esteem and self-actualization needs. He was of the opinion that on fulfilling one stage substantially, an individual aspires and is only motivated by the attributes of the next stage. In Nigeria, most of the population oscillates between the first and the second level. People work in order...
December 2012
The chaotic long-run monopolistic competitor’s output growth model
A monopolistically competitive market structure has some features of competition and some features of monopoly. Monopolistic competition has the following attributes: (i) many sellers; (ii) product differentiation; and (iii) free entry. In the long run equilibrium, price equals average total cost, and the firm earns zero economic profit. This paper want to show that the well known neoclassical...
December 2012
Note on some revelations in prioritization, theory of choice and decision making support methodology
Providing unique answers for any multicriteria decision making support methodology seems to be a crucial issue not only from the perspective of its creditability but also the entire concept validity. However, it is known that the analytic hierarchy process (AHP), as the prioritization and choice theory, can provide different priority vectors, depending on the method applied during the realization of the...
December 2012
Environmental management in Brazil: A survey evaluating current practice and performance in the industrial sector
The rapid urban development observed in major cities and the resulting environmental impacts have made the lessening of these impacts a key objective in sustainable development and companies have been required to consider economic, environmental and social consequences in their cultures, strategies and decision-making processes. The goal of this paper was to evaluate to what extent manufacturing companies...
December 2012
Enterprise risk management: A managing ‘partner’ for business success
Research has shown that small, micro and medium enterprises (hereafter referred to as SMMEs) are crucial in promoting international economic growth and development; along with the overall reduction in current unemployment levels. In South Africa, this phenomenon is no exception as the concept of SMMEs was introduced to alleviate poverty and improve overall living conditions through job creation in the...
December 2012
Zimbabwe commercial banks liquidity management in the hyperinflation environment
The paper investigated liquidity management by commercial banks when there was hyperinflation. The main enquiry of this study was to understand how Zimbabwe commercial banks managed liquidity risk in a hyperinflationary environment. To achieve this, information was obtained from primary sources with data collected from decision makers of fifteen commercial banks which met the criteria of full scale operation from 2000...
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