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Determinants of Intentions towards Sustainable Consumption among University Students in Nigeria: The Role of Sustainability-oriented Marketing Education and Morality 尼日利亚大学生可持续消费意向的决定因素:可持续导向的营销教育和道德的作用

African Journal of Business and Economic Research Pub Date : 2022-12-06 DOI: 10.31920/1750-4562/2022/v17n4a2

Agu Godswill Agu, Samuel G. Etuk, Aja Ebeke Egele, Francisca C. Ibekwe, Angela Nnamocha Obiageli

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A Framework for Evaluating the Impact of Business Process Outsourcing on the Operational Performance of the Mobile Telecommunications Industry, South Africa 评估业务流程外包对南非移动通信行业运营绩效影响的框架

African Journal of Business and Economic Research Pub Date : 2022-12-06 DOI: 10.31920/1750-4562/2022/v17n4a7

Samson Mbanje, Orthodox Tefera

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South Africa’s Businesses’ Resilience to COVID-19: Lessons from Latent Class Analysis of World Bank Enterprise Survey 南非企业对COVID-19的抵御能力:来自世界银行企业调查潜在阶层分析的教训

African Journal of Business and Economic Research Pub Date : 2022-12-06 DOI: 10.31920/1750-4562/2022/v17n4a1

Joseph Olorunfemi Akande, Olufolakemi Oludami Afrogha

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Business Rescue Legislation: Rehabilitating or Debilitating Business Rescue Success During Covid-19 商业救援立法：恢复或削弱新冠肺炎期间商业救援的成功

African Journal of Business and Economic Research Pub Date : 2022-12-06 DOI: 10.31920/1750-4562/2022/v17n4a5

Kajal Ramnanun, R. Rajaram, P. Nyatanga

{"title":"Business Rescue Legislation: Rehabilitating or Debilitating Business Rescue Success During Covid-19","authors":"Kajal Ramnanun, R. Rajaram, P. Nyatanga","doi":"10.31920/1750-4562/2022/v17n4a5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/1750-4562/2022/v17n4a5","url":null,"abstract":"In South Africa (SA), business rescue was introduced in 2011 to assist financially distressed companies. However, the COVID-19 pandemic triggered an avalanche of economic uncertainties, and in 2020, SA became the fifth highest country affected by COVID-19 infections, resulting in a total shutdown of all businesses, except for essential services. The combined effect of lockdown levels and collapses in supply chains resulted in a 42% increase in companies filing for business rescue between April and October 2020. This study diagnosed the shortcomings of the current business rescue legislation, in the context of a pandemic, which could have affected the financial rehabilitation of those companies applying for business rescue. The discussion is grounded on existing business rescue literature. This study comprised of a critical review of existing literature, as a methodology to conduct the study. The study identified several shortcomings such as inadequate time frames for the business rescue process, insufficient definition of reasonable prospect and a lack of procedures for a company filing for business rescue in a pandemic that could have impacted distressed companies and compromised prospects of resuscitation. The study recommends that amendments be made to current legislation as a panacea for distressed companies due to COVID-19.","PeriodicalId":37165,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Business and Economic Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48050166","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}

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The Interplay between Potential Capital Market Development and Bank Performance in an Emerging Economy Context: Do they Compete or Co-evolve? 新兴经济背景下潜在资本市场发展与银行绩效的互动：它们是竞争还是共同发展？

African Journal of Business and Economic Research Pub Date : 2022-12-06 DOI: 10.31920/1750-4562/2022/v17n4a10

Yitbarek Takele Bayiley, Mekdes Bulti

{"title":"The Interplay between Potential Capital Market Development and Bank Performance in an Emerging Economy Context: Do they Compete or Co-evolve?","authors":"Yitbarek Takele Bayiley, Mekdes Bulti","doi":"10.31920/1750-4562/2022/v17n4a10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/1750-4562/2022/v17n4a10","url":null,"abstract":"Recent theoretical arguments regarding financial institutions and capital market relationships signpost a paradigm shift from a superiority to interdependence. This study investigated the interplay between potential capital market development and bank performance in an emerging market context. To achieve its objective, the study used primary data collected through interviews with subject matter experts, consultants and seasoned leaders. The AHP and DEMATEL multi-criteria models were employed to establish a level of importance and interdependence relationships. AHP results in descending order indicate liquidity, capital adequacy, asset quality, profitability and efficiency as key performance indicators of banks in Ethiopia. The bank-market interdependence analysis projects market capitalisation, efficiency and asset quality as causes for the group and liquidity, trade volume and profitability as effects for the group. The study predicted competitive interdependence in future bank-market interplay in Ethiopia. Following the competition from the capital market, Ethiopian banks will have lower liquidity, improved service, and a higher interest rate structure. To mitigate a potential liquidity crunch, the study proposed lowering asset maturity periods and raising capital adequacy as plausible central bank policy measures.","PeriodicalId":37165,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Business and Economic Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48015204","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}

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Service Quality and Customer Satisfaction of Banking Services in Nigeria 尼日利亚银行服务的服务质量与客户满意度

African Journal of Business and Economic Research Pub Date : 2022-12-06 DOI: 10.31920/1750-4562/2022/v17n4a12

Nsobiari Festus Awara, Joseph Amaechi Anyadighibe, Frederick Offiong Bassey

{"title":"Service Quality and Customer Satisfaction of Banking Services in Nigeria","authors":"Nsobiari Festus Awara, Joseph Amaechi Anyadighibe, Frederick Offiong Bassey","doi":"10.31920/1750-4562/2022/v17n4a12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/1750-4562/2022/v17n4a12","url":null,"abstract":"A proper understanding of the high demands and sophisticated changes in customers’ needs in developing economies has made the study of service quality imperative in this 21st century banking operations. This study focused on the effect of service quality on customer satisfaction of banking services in developing economies, such as Nigeria. The research designs for this study were cross-sectional survey and phenomenological research. Topman formula was used to derive the sample size of 947 customers of commercial banks that participated in the study. Data were obtained from the questionnaire. Standard multiple regression analysis was employed for data analysis. Findings from the study revealed that there is a significant joint effect of service quality factors (service attractiveness, customer friendliness, bank automation effectiveness and safe transactions) on customer satisfaction. The study concluded that attractive services, customer friendliness, effective bank automation services, and safe transactions to customers are potentials for business re-engineering in organisations, especially in the banking sector.","PeriodicalId":37165,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Business and Economic Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47434209","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}

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A Critical Review of Antecedents of Unauthorised Extra-Budgetary Expenditure: Application of Fraud Triangle Theory 未经批准的预算外支出的前因:欺诈三角理论的应用

African Journal of Business and Economic Research Pub Date : 2022-12-06 DOI: 10.31920/1750-4562/2022/v17n4a14

Baba Adibura Seidu, Ebenezer Opoku-Boahen, Yaw Ndori Queku, Kwakye Boateng, Gloria Opoku-Boahen

{"title":"A Critical Review of Antecedents of Unauthorised Extra-Budgetary Expenditure: Application of Fraud Triangle Theory","authors":"Baba Adibura Seidu, Ebenezer Opoku-Boahen, Yaw Ndori Queku, Kwakye Boateng, Gloria Opoku-Boahen","doi":"10.31920/1750-4562/2022/v17n4a14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/1750-4562/2022/v17n4a14","url":null,"abstract":"Unauthorised extra-budgetary expenditures continue to pose threats to achieving and sustaining fiscal stability. It has resulted in budget overruns which have contributed to the rapid growth in government spending and borrowing pushing countries down toward an unsustainable economic path. It is against these that this paper sought to critically review unauthorised extra-budgetary expenditure, antecedents, and consequences. The paper applied fraud triangle theory (FTT) to conceptualise antecedents of unauthorised extra-budgetary expenditure. Three factors have been identified as antecedents of extra-budgetary expenditures through a critical analysis of the fraud triangle theory. These are budgetary system failure, political economy, and community of economy. The paper sought papers from Google scholar, Google, and Scopus databases. Scopus database was used to conduct bibliometric analysis using the “Biblioshiny” function in the “bibliometrix” package subsequent to the development of the theoretical framework and manual search from Google and Google scholar to determine the depth of empirical studies on the subject. The paper proposed three propositions and a theoretical framework to guide future research. It was also revealed that unauthorised extra-budgetary expenditure limits the success of fiscal consolidation. It is also deleterious to budgetary gains and savings and will adversely affect the health of economies. It also pushes an economy toward a distressing economic path through high public debts to finance such expenditures.","PeriodicalId":37165,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Business and Economic Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48765371","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}

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Logistics Costs for Seaborne Trade in Nigeria: An Empirical Study 尼日利亚海运贸易物流成本的实证研究

African Journal of Business and Economic Research Pub Date : 2022-12-06 DOI: 10.31920/1750-4562/2022/v17n4a4

Yekini Ojenya Salawu, Seyed Mohammadreza Ghadiri

{"title":"Logistics Costs for Seaborne Trade in Nigeria: An Empirical Study","authors":"Yekini Ojenya Salawu, Seyed Mohammadreza Ghadiri","doi":"10.31920/1750-4562/2022/v17n4a4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/1750-4562/2022/v17n4a4","url":null,"abstract":"Seaports are fundamentally connectivity points in the global economic system, especially container ports, which are supportive and well-connected to major global trade routes. Regular and dependable services from shipping are critical to lowering the costs of trade, particularly transportation expenses, integrating supply chains, and enabling global trade. For Nigeria, trade costs seem to be an impediment to international trade development, and improving trade logistics performance is crucial to enhancing nations' trade acceptability. Field surveys were conducted in some selected seaports and outward environments, and hypotheses were examined in order to assess the cost-effectiveness and efficiency of the ports' facilities and activities. The result revealed that logistics costs, customs effectiveness, quality of infrastructure, government policies, and logistics service deliveries have significant effects on the development of seaborne trade in Nigeria. Therefore, institutional improvements will lower logistics costs, providing opportunities to expand seaborne trade, and benefit consumers worldwide through competitive freight costs.","PeriodicalId":37165,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Business and Economic Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44968013","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}

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A Comparative Study of Social Media Marketing and Conventional Marketing – A Case Study 社交媒体营销与传统营销的比较研究——一个案例

African Journal of Business and Economic Research Pub Date : 2022-12-06 DOI: 10.31920/1750-4562/2022/v17n4a8

Ify Philomina Igbokwe

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The Role of International Trade and Agricultural Production on Economic Growth in Somalia: Johansson Cointegration Approach 国际贸易和农业生产对索马里经济增长的作用:约翰逊协整方法

African Journal of Business and Economic Research Pub Date : 2022-12-06 DOI: 10.31920/1750-4562/2022/v17n4a6

Ali Mohamud Hussein, Dahir Abdi Ali

{"title":"The Role of International Trade and Agricultural Production on Economic Growth in Somalia: Johansson Cointegration Approach","authors":"Ali Mohamud Hussein, Dahir Abdi Ali","doi":"10.31920/1750-4562/2022/v17n4a6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/1750-4562/2022/v17n4a6","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigated the role of international trade and agricultural production on economic growth in Somalia by utilising annual time series data stretching from 1989 to 2019. Gross domestic product (GDP) was the dependent variable, while exports, imports and agricultural production were the explanatory variables of this study. Augmented Dickey-Fuller test (ADF) and Phillips-Perron (PP) test were used to examine the unit root of the data, and all the variables were stationary both at the first difference I(1). Moreover, the study used the Johansen co-integration method and the Granger-Causality test to analyse the long-run cointegration and direction causality of the interested variables respectively. According to the result of the analysis, Johansson and Julius method revealed that there is long-run cointegration between international trade, agricultural production and economic growth in Somalia. The results also showed that there is more than one co-integrating vector as provided by both trace and max statistics which is less than the critical value at the 5% significance level. All explanatory variables such as exports, imports and agricultural production are positively related to GDP with coefficients of 0.332%, 0.2601% and 1.0685% respectively. Interpretively, a one percent change in exports, imports and agricultural production will increase GDP by about 0.332%, 0.2601 and 1.0685% respectively. Furthermore, the consistency of this result has been confirmed by an autoregressive distributed lag model (ARDL) robustly. In contrast, we found that there is strong evidence of unidirectional causality from agricultural production to economic growth and also from agricultural production to exports. Based on the empirical findings, the study recommended to policymakers to enact policies that enhance agricultural production and trade openness, since they are essential to economic growth.","PeriodicalId":37165,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Business and Economic Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43901191","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}

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