Global Journal of Business, Economics and Management: Current Issues最新文献

{"title":"Product knowledge and firm performance: A study of Dangote Group","authors":"O. Ogunkoya, O. Abatan","doi":"10.18844/gjbem.v12i1.5755","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18844/gjbem.v12i1.5755","url":null,"abstract":"Knowledge, according to researchers, is significant for competitive advantage. This study aimed to investigate the impact of product knowledge on firm performance in Nigeria. This study employed a survey research design. Primary data was employed for this study and 532 copies of the questionnaire were administered to the respondents of the study. Regression analysis was employed to verify the hypotheses formulated for this study. Results revealed that product experience knowledge is the most significant measure of product knowledge driving firm performance. The study concluded that the relationship between product knowledge and how efficient the salesperson will be in driving the firm's revenue reveals the process by which salesperson knowledge influences firm performance. The study, therefore, recommends that to increase their performance, firms should improve the salespersons' knowledge of their product and motivate them to seek creative ways to drive revenue.\u0000 \u0000Keywords: Firm Performance; Objective Product Knowledge; Subjected Product Knowledge.","PeriodicalId":152312,"journal":{"name":"Global Journal of Business, Economics and Management: Current Issues","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127900038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Comparison of foreign and domestic companies in terms of investment measurement and management","authors":"Martina Kánová","doi":"10.18844/gjbem.v12i1.5438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18844/gjbem.v12i1.5438","url":null,"abstract":"The study analyses selected areas of business management while comparing companies in the use of investment measurement and management models and methods. The paper aimed to find out dominant differences in investment tools linked with possible positive effects on business performance. The research tested the business entities in the transitional economy of Slovakia in Central Eastern Europe. Statistical analysis of contingency as an appropriate testing method for categorical variables was applied in the research. Findings demonstrated better business performance in companies with partly or fully foreign ownership. Results present statistically significant differences in the use of individual investment tools between foreign firms against local firms as well as comparison in automotive, engineering, and other industries.\u0000 \u0000Keywords: Business Management; Investment; Investment projects; Foreign companies.","PeriodicalId":152312,"journal":{"name":"Global Journal of Business, Economics and Management: Current Issues","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126828042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Strategic environmental assessment (SEA) process for business, economics, management, and eco-tourism, towards sustainable development","authors":"Dr.Vijayan Gurumurthy Iyer","doi":"10.18844/gjbem.v12i1.5282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18844/gjbem.v12i1.5282","url":null,"abstract":"Industry 4.0 protocol for SEA process is helpful for the sustainable business, economics, management and business, economics, management, and eco-tourism development. The SEA treaty protocol pertains to federal and official Government procedures that help make much earlier decisions than the EIA process. Therefore, it is a key tool for sustainable development. The objective of the study is to conceptualize the SEA process for the business, economics, management, and eco-tourism scientific sector based on fifteen sustainable detailed project reports. The design of the study is cross-sectional. Environmental Health Impact Assessment (EHIA) process has been conducted for China nuclear power plant/ IGCAR Nuclear Power plant at Kalpakkam, India to consider the safety and health impacts to mitigate psychological health loadings on workers and nearby residents. The significance of the research work is mainly confirmatory SEA process for achieving sustainable business, economics, management, and eco-tourism for Industry 4.0.\u0000Keywords: Assessment; business; economics; environment; eco-tourism; sustainability.","PeriodicalId":152312,"journal":{"name":"Global Journal of Business, Economics and Management: Current Issues","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116158764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Asymmetric effect, non-linear ARDL, and the J – Curve analysis among East African community members","authors":"M. Albiman","doi":"10.18844/gjbem.v12i1.5362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18844/gjbem.v12i1.5362","url":null,"abstract":"When a country’s balance of trade persistently records deficits, the most important policy is to devalue the exchange rate. This article aims to explore the symmetric effect of the exchange rate and its transmission channels on the trade balance. The recently developed method of Non-linear Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) was utilized for Quarterly data from 1990 Q1 to 2019 Q4 in unexplored areas of East African Community (EAC -5) members. The study found the presence of robust symmetric and asymmetric negative effects of exchange rate changes on trade balance only in Uganda, both in the short-run and long-run. Meanwhile, there was no evidence of robust J-curve phenomena within EAC members. Generally, the application of exchange rate policy in improving trade imbalance is doubted within the EAC region.\u0000Keywords: EAC; Exchange rate; J –curve; nonlinear ARDL.\u0000 ","PeriodicalId":152312,"journal":{"name":"Global Journal of Business, Economics and Management: Current Issues","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128210610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Impact of land fragmentation on rice production efficiency, Comparative study of upper and Middle Sindh Province of Pakistan","authors":"M. Koondhar, Houjian Li, M. Joyo, F. Ahsan","doi":"10.18844/gjbem.v11i3.4694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18844/gjbem.v11i3.4694","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Impression of this study is to investigate the correlation of land fragmentation and rice production efficiency into two different major rice cropping zones, which mostly at middle and upper part of the Sindh province, Pakistan. For this study, randomly data of 450 rice growers were collected from 5 major growing districts (Dadu, Naushahroferoze, Sukkur, Larkana and Shikarpur) of Sindh province Pakistan, 432 respondents were analyzed out of 450, remaining 18 samples found an error in data due to auto-generated results. As for the empirical results Cob Douglas and censored normal Tobit model were analyzed by using SPSS and E-views. As for as  results of Cob Douglas production function opined that the production can be increased  owing to the increase in family income, ploughing, planking and irrigation also confirm that the 1% reduction in land rent, temporary labor with fertilizer usage such as; urea, DAP and chemical spray  would causes the production increase in middle part of the Sindh, followed by the upper Sindh rice production can be raised by the land rent increment, permanent labor ploughing, planking, seed rate and fertilizer; urea and NP, just need to reduce 1%  appliance on irrigation. In addition, the results of the censored Tobit model suggests that there is possibility to increase rice production efficiency by increasing the general characteristics of rice growers such as; age, education, experience, farm size, health of farmers, market availability near to farms, extension service and school, producer efficiency. The rice production can also be increased by the decreasing land fragmentation and distance from homestead to farm in middle Sindh. When the production efficiency would be increased in upper Sindh as compare to the middle Sindh gradually by increasing age, experience, land rented in, shared out land, farm size and availability of the market near farm, same variables for land fragmentation and distance from homestead to farm has negative coefficient impression. The results policy suggested the assurance of land fragmentation and distance from homestead to farm has significant correlation with rice production.  Therefore, government may revise land reform policies with its land consolidate; by this farmers may adopt modern agro-based technologies easily and resultantly to increase rice production and ultimately help to reducing poverty scale. \u0000Keywords: Rice, production, fragmentation, Policy and Sindh.","PeriodicalId":152312,"journal":{"name":"Global Journal of Business, Economics and Management: Current Issues","volume":"140 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132573793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Do macroeconomic variables impact stock market returns? Evidence from Kazakhstan.","authors":"F. Gnahe","doi":"10.18844/gjbem.v11i3.5620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18844/gjbem.v11i3.5620","url":null,"abstract":"Globalization has resulted in increasing connectivity in the worldwide financial market, as well as a plethora of profit potential for international investors through global diversification. The stock market, also known as the securities exchange, is one of the most active businesses, and it plays an important role in economic development, benefiting the whole industry and trade. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of macroeconomic factors on stock market returns: evidence from Kazakhstan. This analysis uses quarterly data from Kazakhstan's stock market indices, gross domestic product, interest rate, inflation rate, currency rate, and foreign direct investment from 2000Q1 to 2019Q4. From the findings, it is explained that regulators should keep interest rate relatively low to encourage economic business, improve external financing through rule-based exchange rate policy. The paper recommends that both macro factors and stock market returns should adequately compensate investments.\u0000Keywords: Kazakhstan, macroeconomic variables, stock markets return, World Bank Indicators","PeriodicalId":152312,"journal":{"name":"Global Journal of Business, Economics and Management: Current Issues","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129954988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"What is the optimal tax treatment that motivates donor corporations to make more monetary and in-kind donations to their communities?","authors":"Younis A. Battal Saleh","doi":"10.18844/gjbem.v11i2.5146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18844/gjbem.v11i2.5146","url":null,"abstract":"This aim of this study is to find out the optimal tax treatment that motivates donor corporations to make more monetary and in-kind donations to their communities with minimal damage to the interests of all the parties involved and the corporate social responsibility (CSR) idea. Economic impact, legal imbalances and the extent of closeness to or distance from the content of the idea of CSR are tax treatment methods used for corporate monetary and in-kind donations and to determine their advantages and disadvantages according to certain criteria to choose the optimal tax treatment method. According to the findings, the study adopts the method of government’s rights and corporation’s rights ‘donations as if they are loans’ by legislative bodies in all countries of the world due to the abundance of its advantages. This study has drawn up a draft law for this method, which could be used as a guide by the legislative bodies, if a decision is made to adopt this method.\u0000 \u0000Keywords: Tax treatment, tax incentives, advantages, disadvantages, legal imbalances, economic impacts.","PeriodicalId":152312,"journal":{"name":"Global Journal of Business, Economics and Management: Current Issues","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131647119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Barriers and drivers towards eco-innovation for SMEs: Evidence from the context","authors":"Stefano Brogi, T. Menichini","doi":"10.18844/gjbem.v11i2.4697","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18844/gjbem.v11i2.4697","url":null,"abstract":"Eco-innovations have become a clear target of EU policy strategies. Consequently, measuring eco-innovation performance at the country level has become crucial to detect eco-innovation patterns and to design eco-innovation policy implementation. This paper focuses on EU small and medium enterprises (SMEs) with the aim to understand to what extent EU funding programmes influence barriers and drivers towards SMEs’ eco-innovation performance. A correlation analysis between data from Eco-Innovation Scoreboard index and competitiveness and innovation framework programme/Entrepreneurship and innovation programme/Eco-innovation programme projects database reveals that the countries with the highest number of EU funded projects are those with the lowest levels of green early-stage investments. According to the findings, EU funding programmes reduce financial constraints that SMEs face for developing eco-innovations. This paper recommends that policymakers should keep in mind the dynamic interaction between private and public funding support, the latter is customised according to the entity of risk along the innovation cycle.   Keywords: Eco-innovation, barriers, drivers, policy strategies, index.","PeriodicalId":152312,"journal":{"name":"Global Journal of Business, Economics and Management: Current Issues","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126417930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Working environment, team work, and diversity: perspectives and relationship to organizational satisfaction","authors":"J. Asio","doi":"10.18844/gjbem.v11i2.4850","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18844/gjbem.v11i2.4850","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this study is to analyze the working environment, teamwork, and diversity of employees in relation to organizational satisfaction. The study used descriptive research with a survey as the primary instrument for data gathering. 85 respondents took part in the survey using a purposive sampling technique. The researcher used an adapted and modified questionnaire to gather data. This study used SPSS 20 to analyze the gathered data with the following statistical tools: frequency, percentage, means, t-test, ANOVA, and Pearson-r. The study found that the respondents “agree” in all the mentioned statements from the four variables of the study. There were also significant differences found in the work environment, teamwork, and diversity when grouped according to demographic profile. And there is also a significant relationship between work environment, teamwork, diversity, and organizational satisfaction. The researcher provided pertinent recommendations at the end of the study.","PeriodicalId":152312,"journal":{"name":"Global Journal of Business, Economics and Management: Current Issues","volume":"132 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132688865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Management information system and firms’ performance in a developing economy: Evidence from the manufacturing sector in Nigeria","authors":"Benneth Uchenna Eze, Oluyemisi Agboola, Olawale Muideen Aremu","doi":"10.18844/gjbem.v11i2.5149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18844/gjbem.v11i2.5149","url":null,"abstract":"The employment of information system for conceptualisation of information analysis and control as well as decision-making, which depicts management information system (MIS), has aroused the interest of researchers and practitioners. This study examined the effect of MIS on manufacturing firms’ performance in Nigeria, by using two elements of MIS, namely the decision support system (DSS) and the executive information system (EIS). The study employed a survey research design, by administering questionnaires to some selected employees of manufacturing firms at Agbara Industrial Estate, Ogun State, Nigeria. The findings revealed that the two elements of MIS employed for this study (DSS and EIS) have an individual significant positive effect on manufacturing firms’ performance. It concluded that MIS elements (DSS and EIS) are important determinants of manufacturing firms’ performance. It is, therefore, recommended that manufacturing firms should employ MIS elements, particularly DSS and EIS, for the enhancement of their performance.\u0000 \u0000Keywords: Decision support system, executive information system, management information system, manufacturing firms, performance.","PeriodicalId":152312,"journal":{"name":"Global Journal of Business, Economics and Management: Current Issues","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127134791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}