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{"title":"Nigerian Communication Policy : Concept, Approach and Effects","authors":"V. Aganbi, Titiloye Oyeyinka Ojo","doi":"10.12816/0041745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12816/0041745","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":235451,"journal":{"name":"Oman Chapter of Arabian Journal of Business and Management Review","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122782684","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":"Another Look at Mapping the Territory : Seven Traditions in the Field of Communication Theory","authors":"Oberiri Destiny Apuke","doi":"10.12816/0041197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12816/0041197","url":null,"abstract":"Each passing day, we come across different signs, images, and symbols as well as impression flashing before our eyes. Different messages collide to prompt our own sense of reasoning. How we process and digest the diversity of information and understand the symbols of what each message means is something to be looked upon. There have been a lot of theories that has tried to explicate the nature of human communication and how human comprehend symbols as well as how it is applied in a given society or community, this is so because there are different, individualistic perception of a particular form of communication symbols and sign due to the complex nature of assimilating the meaning and application of communication. These have made different traditions of understanding, communication to be formed to better explain different concepts and viewpoint of communication. This paper highlights Robert Craig propounded model that encapsulates the field of communication into seven traditions. These are known as the semiotic, the phenomenological, the cybernetic, the socio-psychological, the socio-cultural, the critical, and the rhetorical traditions”. Thus, each of this tradition, captures a different aspect or specialized area of communication and knowing each one gives new and sometimes conflicting viewpoints on why we relate and comprehend the information we absorb on a daily basis.","PeriodicalId":235451,"journal":{"name":"Oman Chapter of Arabian Journal of Business and Management Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128510473","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":"Southren and Eastern Mediterranean Countries : Governance and Attractiveness of FDI","authors":"A. Mohamed, Mgadmi Nidhal","doi":"10.12816/0041196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12816/0041196","url":null,"abstract":"This article empirically examines the role of governance in attracting FDI for a sample of ten Southern and Eastern Mediterranean countries over a 15-year period. We have approximated the attractiveness of FDI by governance through an endogenous variable called FDI in relation to GDP. The quality of these variables was tested by the positioning, dispersion and shape indicators and verified the normality of these variables by the Jarque-Berra test and the quality of linear adjustment of each variable with respect to its mean. The empirical validation of the impact of good governance in the attraction of FDI was carried out using the static Panel technique and based on the assumption of the absence of a stationarity problem for the explanatory variables of our model . Homogeneity-heterogeneity tests were used to specify the reference model and model the role of governance in the attraction of FDI by a panel with individual effects. The estimation of this model by the Within and GLS procedures yielded significant results.","PeriodicalId":235451,"journal":{"name":"Oman Chapter of Arabian Journal of Business and Management Review","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130449146","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":"Civil Society Movement in Ghana : Engaging the Government for Improved Polity","authors":"Popoola Michael Akin, Barrister Olaniyi Arije","doi":"10.12816/0041198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12816/0041198","url":null,"abstract":"The contemporary political milieu suggests that the socio-economic development of a nation does not wholly depend on the government alone. The crucial role which civil society organizations can play in this has been widely acknowledged. The emerging consensus posits that any nation which desires to exploit and utilize the potentials of the citizens for a broad based national development and effective governance, in the overall interest of the people must give due recognition to CSOs and provide them a free political and legal space to operate. This paper discovers that CSOs engagement with the government in Ghana to seek political concession and socio-economic reforms dated back to the colonial era when CSOs initiated and sustained the agitations that led to the country’s independence. After political independence, CSOs in the country sustained their vibrancy to hold the new government accountable to the citizenry. Their struggle for social justice and political liberalization continued even all through the harsh political environment foisted on the country by incessant military interregnums. However, the emergence of the Fourth Republic has changed the fortune of CSOs and the friendly political environment which they enjoy now encourages them to complement the development efforts of the government and this has resulted in better polity in Ghana. The unrelenting oversight and complementary roles which CSOs have been playing to bridge the gap between the government and the citizenry is part of the reasons Ghana is portrayed as a beacon of democracy in Africa. The paper nonetheless identifies some factors which hinder the optimal performance of CSOs in Ghana and makes recommendations that would enhance their engagement with the government for better impact. Secondary source of data collection was used.","PeriodicalId":235451,"journal":{"name":"Oman Chapter of Arabian Journal of Business and Management Review","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130086313","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":"Credit Creation and Financial Instability in Nigeria","authors":"Babatunde O. Binuyo, C. O. Aruoriwo","doi":"10.12816/0041194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12816/0041194","url":null,"abstract":"The study investigated “Credit Creation and Financial Instability in Nigeria”. It is argued that it is credit creation that fuels bubbles, makes the system unstable and leads the economy into crises. Time series data collected from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Statistical Bulletin between periods of (19922015) was used to regress the model using The Error Correction Model (ECM) technique. The ECM showed a short run and long run relationship in the model. The economy adjusts back to equilibrium at 59%. As the lending rate decreases, while money supply and loans to deposit ratio increases, credit created to real estate increases. The implication of this is that an increase in speculative credit causes a bubble and eventually a burst in asset prices leading to banking sector crisis where debtors are unable to pay back loans when due. The central bank should get more involved, in form of enforcing credit-control, to restrict speculative credit creation.","PeriodicalId":235451,"journal":{"name":"Oman Chapter of Arabian Journal of Business and Management Review","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123338705","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":"Effect of Staff Training and Development on Organisational Performance : Evidence from Nigerian Bottling Company","authors":"Michael Adekunle Adelere","doi":"10.12816/0041195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12816/0041195","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the effect of staff training and development on organizational performance with reference to Nigeria Bottling Company. The study describes the concept of training and development, types of training and management development programs, factors that can help to improve employee productivity at work place, roles of staff training and development in an organization, why training fail in organizations, benefits of training and development, implication of training and development to management efficiency in Nigeria. The research adopted survey research design in gathering data with the use of the questionnaire. Therefore, population of this study is the entire staff of Nigerian Bottling Company Plc. The. A sample size of 120 was taken from the population, in which 116 (96.7%) questionnaires were retrieved for the study, using regression analyses, three hypotheses were tested. The research findings from research hypothesis one shows that staff training and development has a significant positive and strong relationship with Organizational Productivity, (r =.843; P<0.05). The findings indicate that Organizational Productivity is subject to staff training and development. Hypothesis two shows the value of R is 0.779 which is the correlation between observed and predicted values of the dependent variables, the coefficient of determination (R2) value of 0.607 shows that the explanatory variables accounted for 60.7% of staff salary, while the remaining 39.3% is explained by other exogenous variables that are excluded in the model, the calculated t-statistics for the parameter estimate of SS (t = 9.550), p< 0.05 is greater than tabulated t statistics (1.330) at 0.05 level of significance. Therefore, alternative hypothesis (H1) is accepted, while H0 is rejected. This shows that prompt payment of staff salary has significant impact on staff performance. Also with the value of R in the model it shows that there is significant relationship between dependent variable and independent variables at 0.05 level of significant (r = .779, sig. 0.000 p < 0.05). The beta coefficient of SS in the estimated regression line shows, .779 which implies that 77.9% significant relationship exist between SS and SP. Hypothesis three shows the value of R is 0.960 which is the correlation between observed and predicted values of the dependent variables, the coefficient of determination (R2) value of 0.922 shows that the explanatory variables accounted for 92.2% of staff job salary, while the remaining 7.8% performance is explained by other exogenous variables that are excluded in the model, the calculated t-statistics for the parameter estimate of SJS (t = 15.730), p< 0.05 is greater than tabulated t statistics (1.330) at 0.05 level of significance. Therefore, alternative hypothesis (H1) is accepted, while H0 is rejected. This shows that staff job security has no significant impact on organizational performance. Also with the value of R in the model it shows that th","PeriodicalId":235451,"journal":{"name":"Oman Chapter of Arabian Journal of Business and Management Review","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131215709","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":"An Analysis of Financial Performance of Private Sector Textile Units in Maharashtra Using Multiple Regression Model","authors":"M. Pervej","doi":"10.12816/0041200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12816/0041200","url":null,"abstract":"Indian Textile Industry is one of the leading textile industries in the world. The economic liberalization of Indian economy in 1991 gave the much needed thrust to the Indian textile industry, which has now successfully become one of the second largest in the world. There are many states like West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Kerala and Maharashtra which are textile hub of the Country. Among them Maharashtra is one of the giants in the textile manufacturing and also the one to owe highest industrial outputs in the textile sector. There are abundant natural resources, skilled manpower and premiere R&D centers. Additionally bulk of raw material available is all responsible for pushing down the cost of textile industry. Due to all these favorable factors, it contributes highest FDI in the country and highest contribution to India’s GDP. This industry comprises of both Public and Private sector textile units. Though it is leading textile producing state but it is struggling hard to uphold and maintain its position. Therefore, it is important to check the impact of Solvency, liquidity and turnover on the financial performance of Private sector textile units in Maharashtra. In the present study researcher has identified various significant ratios to study the impact of firm’s specific independent variables on financial performance of selected private textile units using multiple regression model.","PeriodicalId":235451,"journal":{"name":"Oman Chapter of Arabian Journal of Business and Management Review","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130368015","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":"Estimation of the Electricity Consumption Function Case of the Tunisian Regions","authors":"A. Mohamed, Mgadmi Nidhal","doi":"10.12816/0041199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12816/0041199","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study is to estimate the electricity demand from the residential sector in Tunisia. We use the Conditional Demand Analysis (DCA) developed by Party and Party (1980) as the basic methodological framework. The DCA's approach is to disaggregate the total electricity consumption of the sampled households into as exhaustive a list as possible of electrical uses, while linking these characteristics to the characteristics of households and their housing that can influence demand for electricity. We empirically validate the total consumption of electricity for twenty Tunisian regions during a study period from 2000-2014 by the static and dynamic panel technique.","PeriodicalId":235451,"journal":{"name":"Oman Chapter of Arabian Journal of Business and Management Review","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115820768","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":"Effect of Capital Needs, Halal Profit and Services on the Establishment of the Islamic Bank of Islamic Financing (BPRS) in the Province of Riau Islands, Indonesia","authors":"Chablullah Wibisono","doi":"10.12816/0039075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12816/0039075","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. Factual in Batam as the Reviews largest city in the Riau Islands province designated as a Free Trade Zone (FTZ abbreviated Fre Trade Zone) economic inequalities have the caused by the capitalist economic system, who have the capital will be decisive in the economic competition. FTZ does not Contribute Significantly to the community economy. Publishers Survey Statistics Agency stated that the behavior of private consumption tends consumptive Batam, Batam 65% of the money used to buy goods psikokogis, the remaining 35% to purchase goods physiological. The emergence of Islamic Banking and Islamic democracy is expected to stimulate the economy. It is, therefore, Necessary Effect of Capital Needs Survey Research, Halal and Islamic Profit Services Against Establishment BPRS At the Riau Islands. In this study, the variables can be divided into independent variables (independent variables) are variables that Affect, consisting of (X1) Capital Requirement, (X2) Profit Halal, (X3) Services Islami. The dependent variable is (Y) is the establishment of the BPRS. Population 175 Micro Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs), the size of the study sample, Slovin Carried out measurements using a formula so that the study sample was 122 SMEs / person. Multiple linear regression analysis Expressed in the following equation: Y = a + b1x1 + b2X2 + b3X3 + e. With the following results: The coefficient of determination (D) 56.9% means the establishment of the BPRS (Y) influenced Capital Requirement (X1), Profit Halal (X2), Islamic Services (X3), together amounting to 56.9%. The remaining amount of 100% - 56.9% = 43.10% influenced by other factors not Examined on this occasion. A survey of all SMEs in the Riau Islands BPRS states requires every district and town owned by the Government Provincial Capital to Anticipate needs and protects lenders in the guise of Cooperatives roommates are the very clutched sustainability of the SMEs. .","PeriodicalId":235451,"journal":{"name":"Oman Chapter of Arabian Journal of Business and Management Review","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131794315","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":"Exploring the Issues in Oil Production in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria : Security Challenges and Suggested Solutions","authors":"Oberiri Destiny Apuke","doi":"10.12816/0039077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12816/0039077","url":null,"abstract":"The Niger Delta is the oil capital of Nigeria and the region has been having a lot of problems based on the production of the oil in the region. This research dwells on the Niger Delta question in detail, exploring the problems which the oil production is bringing into the region. Before the discovery of oil, the Niger Delta had their means of survival, which were abandoned and focused solely on oil production oil, which in turn caused a regional environmental degradation, thereby dashing a big blow to the people of the land, who are no longer able to practice a successful agriculture, fishing and their likes. As a result of the high rate of poverty in the supposed land ‘flowing with milk and honey’ protests and violence ensued. The question how can a regions resources which is causing huge development to other regions, in turn become a curse to its inhabitant is what many researchers are trying to answer and also bring a permanent solution to this disheartening pandemonium. This works aim at suggesting solutions that can bring to an end to all these problems being brought on by oil production in the region. There are a lot of measures which have to be taken and these measures includes the issue of ending the conflict and more inclusion of the region in governing Nigeria, as the region feels that they are being marginalized therefore there is need to have a better inclusion of them in the governance of the country.","PeriodicalId":235451,"journal":{"name":"Oman Chapter of Arabian Journal of Business and Management Review","volume":"192 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114223231","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}