Ololade Grace Adewole, Festa Ndutimi Okrigwe, Jacob Kehinde Opele, Kehinde Oluwaseun Omotoso
{"title":"A Qualitative Analysis of the Impediments to Business Innovation and Information Management in Nigeria: A Policy Stance","authors":"Ololade Grace Adewole, Festa Ndutimi Okrigwe, Jacob Kehinde Opele, Kehinde Oluwaseun Omotoso","doi":"10.18488/journal.62.2021.81.31.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18488/journal.62.2021.81.31.38","url":null,"abstract":"The ability of the Nigerian business sector to actively engage in innovative activities is germane to sustainable national growth and development. While the government has the primary responsibility to formulate policies that can mitigate societal problems and sustain economic stability, the business sector in the country has continued to experience government failure to implement previously formulated policies. The current study attempted to investigate the impediments to Nigerian Business Innovation and Information Management through the lens of a qualitative approach. The authors conducted a guided oral interview through the WhatsApp platform which was created to gather all impediments to the survey from the field officers who took an active part in data collection in six geopolitical zones in Nigeria. Subsequently, data gathered was analysed through Atlas. Ti version 8 software and the findings were presented by the regional spread. The study revealed that there are benefits in conducting a national business innovation survey, and these include input into effective planning, formulation, and implementation of relevant policies for sustainable development in the country. The outcome of the survey helps to benchmark the results with what obtains in other African countries. Key impediments include the firm's unwillingness to declare turnover because of the fear of an increase in tax policy and poor collaboration between the government and the industry. It was recommended that the government should come up with policies that will encourage business activities in the country and improve the relationship between the government and the industry. Contribution/Originality: This study contributes to the existing literature by examining the impediments to Nigerian business innovation and information management. The study uses a qualitative analysis approach. The study documents one of the policy strategies that can be used to drive sustainable business innovation activities in Nigeria.","PeriodicalId":416720,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Business, Economics and Management","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122071248","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":"Satisfaction with Applications Fuels the Growth of Mobile Wallet Use in Thailand","authors":"D. Amoroso, Pajaree Ackaradejruangsri","doi":"10.18488/JOURNAL.62.2019.61.16.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18488/JOURNAL.62.2019.61.16.22","url":null,"abstract":"In this research, we study factors such as consumer attitudes and personal innovativeness in order to understand the effect of loyalty on satisfaction with mobile wallet applications in Thailand. We developed a research model, based upon previous research, where we propose and examine four constructs. In general, consumer attitudes and personal innovativeness loaded strongly on both loyalty and satisfaction with the Thai consumers sampled. We found strong support for all of the hypothesized relationships, albeit some at different strength levels. It was found that consumer attitudes are an extremely strong factor that increases loyalty and improves satisfaction with mobile wallet applications in Thailand. We also found a very strong impact of satisfaction on loyalty with Thai consumers. This study helps to understand how specific factors influence consumer satisfaction with mobile wallet apps, and what drives consumers’ decisions to be loyal and satisfied customers.","PeriodicalId":416720,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Business, Economics and Management","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127058005","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":"The Contingent Fit between Management Control System and Capabilities on Sustainability Performance","authors":"Iin Rosini, J. Gunawan, D. R. Hakim","doi":"10.18488/journal.62.2020.76.375.386","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18488/journal.62.2020.76.375.386","url":null,"abstract":"Article History Received: 12 June 2020 Revised: 17 July 2020 Accepted: 21 August 2020 Published: 23 September 2020","PeriodicalId":416720,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Business, Economics and Management","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128691820","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":"The Role of Emotional Intelligence in Project Success, Mediated by the Management of Conflict, Communication and Trust","authors":"Samir Cavaletti, Flavio Santino Bizarrias, Renato Penha, Luciano Ferreira da Silva","doi":"10.18488/journal.62.2021.85.372.389","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18488/journal.62.2021.85.372.389","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":416720,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Business, Economics and Management","volume":"62 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130741155","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}
Macário Neri Ferreira Neto, Sérgio Henrique Arruda Cavalcante Forte, F. Araújo, Cristiane Maria Galvao Viana
{"title":"The Effects of The Covid-19 Pandemic on Exploitative and Explorative Strategies of Pharmaceutical Industries in Brazil","authors":"Macário Neri Ferreira Neto, Sérgio Henrique Arruda Cavalcante Forte, F. Araújo, Cristiane Maria Galvao Viana","doi":"10.18488/JOURNAL.62.2021.83.165.180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18488/JOURNAL.62.2021.83.165.180","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT","PeriodicalId":416720,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Business, Economics and Management","volume":"553 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123513547","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":"Determinant Analysis of Productivity on Rice Management in Indonesia","authors":"M. Salim, Darwati Susilastuti, H. Oktavia","doi":"10.18488/journal.62.2019.66.369.383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18488/journal.62.2019.66.369.383","url":null,"abstract":"Article History Received: 10 September 2019 Revised: 14 October 2019 Accepted: 20 November 2019 Published: 24 December 2019","PeriodicalId":416720,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Business, Economics and Management","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116733640","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":"International Business Expansion: The Roles of Affiliation and Ownership","authors":"Roxana Wright","doi":"10.18488/journal.62.2020.76.427.441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18488/journal.62.2020.76.427.441","url":null,"abstract":"The study provides a unique perspective that transcends firm motivations to understand business expansion outcomes, investigating the expansion connection with geography and the characteristics of the companies that pursue it. Specifically, the research evaluates whether selected factors related to the origin and location of expansion, the company’s ownership status and affiliation, and the ho me and host regions predict a compa ny’s expansion actions as international or domestic. The study uses a random sampling research design and a large sample of instances of company expansion, defined broadly as direct and indirect investments and business development actions. The procedure investigates the phenomenon over the long run, with a focus on prediction. The analysis concludes that affiliation position determines expansion type, with parent companies more likely to pursue international expansion. The paper also offers better understanding of the regions where international business development is more likely, with comparative findings in North America and Europe. Contribution/Originality: This study documents direct and indirect investments and business development actions based on a large data set, providing a unique perspective on international expansion. This study is one of very few studies which have investigated business expansion in the aggregate and in relation to business group affiliation and ownership status. type, of and host of home gross fixed predictive status.","PeriodicalId":416720,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Business, Economics and Management","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116103843","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":"Interest Rate Ceilings and Financial Exclusion in Kenya: Evidence from Commercial Banks’ Sectoral Credit Distribution","authors":"Loice Koskei","doi":"10.18488/journal.62.2020.75.301.309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18488/journal.62.2020.75.301.309","url":null,"abstract":"The Finance Act that was amended in November 2019 in Kenya saw the removal of the caps on interest charged on loans. The motive of repeal of interest rate caps was to encourage the commercial banks to offer credit to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) and other sectors of the economy. The interest rate caps that were implemented in September 2016 led to a significant reduction in lending to the private sector and in particular the small and medium size enterprises and the rural poor which were financially excluded by commercial banks. The main objective of the study was to find out whether interest rate caps contributed to financial exclusion in Kenya’s commercial banks’ sectoral credit portfolio. The target population of the study was 11 private sectors that benefit from commercial banks credit in Kenya. Secondary balanced panel monthly data spanning from January 2016 to December 2019 was used in the study. Fixed effects panel data regression model was used to analyze the data. The results from the study showed a positive and statistically significant relationship between interest rate ceiling and financial exclusion implying that interest rate ceilings affects credit access leading to financial exclusion in Kenya. The results for inflation rate indicated a negative but statistically significant relationship between inflation and financial exclusion implying that inflation affects loan credit growth. The results for exchange rate and public debt are statistically insignificant, suggesting that they do not have an effect on credit access in Kenya’s commercial banks. Contribution/Originality: This study is one of very few studies which have investigated on the effect of interest rate ceilings on financial exclusion in Kenya by focusing on stock of credit to private sector using fixed effects panel data regression model.","PeriodicalId":416720,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Business, Economics and Management","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116201981","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":"The Influence of Institutional Voids in the Institutionalization of Bitcoins as a Currency","authors":"Maike Rafael Sa, J. Verschoore, J. Monticelli","doi":"10.18488/JOURNAL.62.2021.83.219.233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18488/JOURNAL.62.2021.83.219.233","url":null,"abstract":"Article History Received: 4 June 2020 Revised: 20 January 2021 Accepted: 8 February 2021 Published: 22 February 2021","PeriodicalId":416720,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Business, Economics and Management","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131147854","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}
Samuel O. Oyieke, N. Osoro, John Innocent Karamagi
{"title":"Determinants of Technical Efficiency of Hospitals in Kenya: 2012-2016","authors":"Samuel O. Oyieke, N. Osoro, John Innocent Karamagi","doi":"10.18488/journal.62.2021.81.19.30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18488/journal.62.2021.81.19.30","url":null,"abstract":"Article History Received: 14 September 2020 Revised: 16 October 2020 Accepted: 30 October 2020 Published: 12 November 2020","PeriodicalId":416720,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Business, Economics and Management","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129965857","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}