Saadat Nakyejwe Lubowa Kimuli, Kasimu Sendawula, M. Humphrey
{"title":"Sustainable entrepreneurship of small businesses in Uganda: A confirmatory factor analysis","authors":"Saadat Nakyejwe Lubowa Kimuli, Kasimu Sendawula, M. Humphrey","doi":"10.5897/AJBM2021.9207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5897/AJBM2021.9207","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines specific constructs for sustainable entrepreneurship as perceived in the Ugandan context using confirmatory factor analysis. This study is cross-sectional. Data were collected through a face to face survey of 384 small businesses in Kampala selected through stratified and simple random sampling. Data were analyzed through exploratory factor analysis (EFA), confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and descriptive statistics using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 23. The study revealed that the constructs for sustainable entrepreneurship as perceived in the Ugandan context are production management, people and skills, ecosystem management, stakeholder, finance, strategy, marketing and sales. This suggests that seven factors with eigenvalues greater than one were identified, accounting for 63.23% of the total variance explained in sustainable entrepreneurship. This study presents initial evidence on the constructs of sustainable entrepreneurship that apply to the local context from the perspective of the business owners as opposed to the experts in the field. Implications on policy and practice were discussed. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 Key words: Sustainable entrepreneurship, confirmatory factor analysis, Uganda.","PeriodicalId":7666,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Business Management","volume":"136 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79479662","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 gender diversity and company financial performance in East Africa","authors":"Namanya David, W. Juliet, A. Johnson","doi":"10.5897/ajbm2021.9204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5897/ajbm2021.9204","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7666,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Business Management","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82560615","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 Importance of Strategic Thinking to Strategic Planning in the Strategic Management Process","authors":"Marc Salama Asobee","doi":"10.12691/JBMS-9-2-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12691/JBMS-9-2-2","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this paper was to explore the importance of strategic thinking to strategic planning in the strategic management process. It has been posited in this paper that, although the two concepts are interrelated, strategic thinking is different from strategic planning and each aspect makes a special contribution to the process of strategic management. Literature was reviewed to clarify the meaning of the two concepts as well as identify the importance of strategic thinking to strategic planning. Major findings revealed that strategic thinking is important in three different stages of the strategic planning: (1) before: Provides acumen, the raw material of strategic planning; (2) during: Prioritizes purposefully, makes trade-offs wisely and allocates limited resources intelligently; and (3) after: Determines key milestones so as to measure achievement. It is therefore critical for individuals as well as organizations to apply strategic thinking and strategic planning as two distinct but complementary concepts in order to benefit from specific inputs of each of them in the pursuit of personal or corporate goals.","PeriodicalId":7666,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Business Management","volume":"63 1","pages":"68-70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81772997","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":"A review of the Management Science theory and its application in contemporary businesses","authors":"Japhet Osazefua Imhanzenobe","doi":"10.5897/AJBM2021.9211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5897/AJBM2021.9211","url":null,"abstract":"The Management Science theory is one of the theories of management that attributes management effectiveness to the application of scientific methods. It goes a step beyond the famous scientific management theory by applying operations research tools and techniques to solving practical problems. Its origin can be traced to the Second World War in Britain. Its method of expressing business factors in form of variables allows for the accurate prediction of business phenomena and overall optimization of profits. The management science approach uses computer applications and operations research tools to solve business problems around quantitative management, operations research, total quality management and management information systems. Its major limitation is its inability to accurately predict business phenomena that contain behavioral elements. The theory ignores the importance of people, relationships and other non-quantifiable factors. Overall, the management science theory provides a new and proactive way of solving business problems by identifying relationships among different business variables that were previously considered unrelated and so, have provided modern businesses with a better way of doing things. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 Key words: Management Science theory, scientific management theory, operations research, total quality management, linear programming.","PeriodicalId":7666,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Business Management","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85995469","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":"Tackling poverty in era of Covid-19 pandemic: The contributory pension option","authors":"I. Onwuka","doi":"10.5897/ajbm2020.9160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5897/ajbm2020.9160","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7666,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Business Management","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78466504","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":"ارائه مدلی جهت شناخت، دستهبندی و تحلیل عدم اطمینانهای موثر بر انتخاب شرکاء استراتژیک در بستر اقتصاد مقاومتی (مورد مطالعه شرکت ملی نفت ایران)","authors":"عادل آذر, هاشم معزز, مهدی هاشمی","doi":"10.22059/JIBM.2019.276770.3443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22059/JIBM.2019.276770.3443","url":null,"abstract":"هدف: دیدگاههای متفاوت، متضاد و اختلاف نظرها در خصوص توسعه کشور از جمله پیادهسازی اقتصاد مقاومتی، رابطه با غرب و تامین منافع غرب و یا قطع روابط با غرب، برقراری روابط با کشورهای عربی و تقویت روابط با کشورهای همسایه و یا قطع روابط با آنها، تحریمها، عدم قطعیت قیمت جهانی نفت، نوسانات نرخ ارز، نرخ تورم و ... مانع یک تصمیم منسجم و استراتژیک و منجر به ایجاد عدم اطمینانهای متعدد در انتخاب شریک یا شرکاء استراتژیک بینالمللی در صنعت نفت شده است. با توجه به ضرورتهای مطروحه فوق، هدف از انجام پژوهش، فراهم نمودن چارچوبی جامع جهت شناخت و تحلیل عدم اطمینانهای موثر بر انتخاب شرکاء استراتژیک در بستر اقتصاد مقاومتی در شرکت ملی نفت ایران است. \u0000روش: در این پژوهش، با استفاده از تکنیک تحلیل تم و مصاحبه با 15 متخصص مهمترین عدم اطمینانهای پروژههای نفتی با در نظر گرفتن اقتصاد مقاومتی شناسایی و دستهبندی گردید و در ادامه به منظور تائید دسته بندی فوق از تکنیک تحلیل عاملی استفاده شد. \u0000یافتهها:: مهمترین عدم اطمینانهای پروژههای نفتی در بستر اقتصاد مقاومتی در سه دسته کلی عدم اطمینان در مورد محیط کار، عدم اطمینان در باره ارزشهای راهنما و عدم اطمینان در مورد گزینههای طرحهای مرتبط دسته بندی شد. \u0000نتیجهگیری: بعد از طراحی مدل با استفاده از تکنیک تحلیل تم، خروجی لیزرل نشان داد چون مقدار کای دو محاسبه شده برابر با 1058.77 است و همچنین به دلیل اینکه نسبت کای دو به درجه ازادی از 3 کمتر باشد (در این پژوهش این نسبت در حدود 63/2 است) و میزان میانگین مربعات خطاهای تخمین کمتر از 08/0 است (در این پژوهش برابر با 012/0 است)، مدل پژوهش از برازش مناسبی برخوردار است.","PeriodicalId":7666,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Business Management","volume":"17 1","pages":"3-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81939531","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":"تاثیر تجربه فعالیتهای بازاریابی گیمیفیکیشن بر ابعاد هواخواهی برند با تمرکز بر نقش ارزش برند","authors":"لیلا گلی مختاری, سهیلا خدامی, بهاره اصانلو","doi":"10.22059/JIBM.2020.301937.3832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22059/JIBM.2020.301937.3832","url":null,"abstract":"هدف: با توجه به اهمیت فعالیتهای گیمیفیکیشن در فروشگاههای آنلاین، یافتن راههای افزایش هواخواهی برند و ارزش برند بخشی از یک استراتژی بازاریابی آنلاین موفق است. با در نظر گرفتن این اهمیت، در این پژوهش به بررسی تاثیر تجربه گیمیفیکیشن در حوزه بازاریابی پرداخته شده است. به طور مشخص، هدف این پژوهش بررسی تاثیر تجربه فعالیتهای بازاریابی گیمیفیکیشن بر ابعاد هواخواهی برند (هواخواهی وسواسی برند و هواخواهی هماهنگ برند) مبتنی بر ارزش برند است. \u0000روش: پژوهش حاضر از لحاظ هدف، کاربردی و از لحاظ گردآوری دادهها، توصیفی- پیمایشی است. جامعه آماری این پژوهش، مشتریان فروشگاه آنلاین دیجیکالا هستند. برای نمونهگیری از روش نمونهگیری غیراحتمالی در دسترس استفاده شده است. حجم نمونه با استفاده از فرمول جکسون، 221 نفر در نظر گرفته شده است. برای جمعآوری دادهها از پرسشنامه استفاده شد. روایی پرسشنامه از طریق روایی محتوا و پایایی آن نیز با استفاده از ضریب آلفای کرونباخ و ضریب پایایی ترکیبی تایید شد. تجزیه و تحلیل دادههای توصیفی به کمک نرمافزار SPSS و آزمون فرضیات از طریق مدلسازی معادلات ساختاری با نرمافزار SMARTPLS3 انجام شده است. \u0000یافتهها: نتایج بهدست آمده از پژوهش نشان داد که تجربه فعالیتهای بازاریابی گیمیفیکیشن بر ارزش کارکردی و ارزش لذتجویانه تاثیر مثبت و معناداری دارد. همچنین ارزش لذتجویانه بر هواخواهی وسواسی برند و هواخواهی هماهنگ برند تاثیر مثبت و معناداری دارد. بعلاوه، ارزش کارکردی بر هواخواهی هماهنگ برند تاثیر مثبت و معناداری دارد اما بر هواخواهی وسواسی برند تاثیر معناداری ندارد. \u0000نتیجهگیری: نتایج این پژوهش نشان میدهد فراهم آوردن شرایط تجربه گیمیفیکیشن برای مشتریان از طریق جذاب نمودن محتوای نمایشی وبسایت بهگونهای سرگرمکننده و انگیزشی، ایجاد محیطی پویا بهمنظور تبادل اطلاعات مشتریان با یکدیگر و برند، ایجاد رابطه صمیمانه برند با مشتری و به روز نگه داشتن اطلاعات، به افزایش ارزش برند و هواخواهی برند کمک میکند.","PeriodicalId":7666,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Business Management","volume":"23 1","pages":"184-208"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72708320","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":"آسیبشناسی استراتژیهای تحقیق در پژوهشهای کسب و کار و بازاریابی در ایران","authors":"محسن نظری","doi":"10.22059/JIBM.2021.82015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22059/JIBM.2021.82015","url":null,"abstract":"با افزایش دورههای تحصیلات تکمیلی در مراکز آموزش عالی ایران و روند رو به رشد موسسههای تحقیقاتی، پژوهشهای اجتماعی در حوزههای کسب و کارها افزایش چشمگیری در سالهای اخیر داشتهاند. نگاهی به تعداد مقالهها و پایاننامهها و پژوهشهای انجام شده سالهای اخیر در سازمانها موید این نکته می باشد. \u0000آسیبشناسی روششناسی پژوهشهای انجام شده کمک خواهد کرد تا نتایج این پژوهشها بهبود یابد و کمک به حل مشکلات اجتماع نماید . یکی از لایههای پیاز پژوهش استراتژیهای تحقیق در رویکردهای کمی و کیفی و آمیخته و چند روشی می باشد. استراتژیهای پژوهش کمی شامل پیمایش، آزمایش آزمایشگاهی و آزمایش میدانی، مطالعات همبستگی و ... و استراتژیهای پژوهش کیفی شامل روایتی، پدیدارشناسی، قومنگاری، نظریه داده بنیاد، مطالعات موردی و... و استراتژیهای پژوهش ترکیبی شامل متوالی، همزمان و تبدیلی میباشد.","PeriodicalId":7666,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Business Management","volume":"2 1","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89205037","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":"Economy of the motorway concessions model in Italy","authors":"M. Bianchi","doi":"10.5897/AJBM2020.9022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5897/AJBM2020.9022","url":null,"abstract":"The article analyzes the management of the motorway system in Italy. It underlines the positive and critical aspects of the concession system, through the analysis of the financial statements of the main concessionary companies. From the analysis of the economic and non-financial performance, it is concluded that the current model is preferable to a totally public model, which would require significant investments. The current model, if managed economically, guarantees well-being to the community in the medium and long term. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 Key words: Economy, efficiency, environmental, social and governance (ESG).","PeriodicalId":7666,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Business Management","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77567673","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":"Predicting healthcare leaders readiness to lead the implementation of change","authors":"Parren Keith Shannon","doi":"10.5897/AJBM2020.9190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5897/AJBM2020.9190","url":null,"abstract":"A key challenge facing healthcare leaders is how to implement changes successfully. For change to occur in healthcare, leaders must be proactive, and they must have an ability to adapt to new policies and practices. Data from 105 healthcare leaders were used to address the question of to what extent leadership style, leader efficacy, seniority, and gender predict healthcare leaders’ readiness to lead change. The healthcare leaders were panel members of Centiment, an online survey research company that specializes in surveying hard-to-reach participants. A correlation analysis using Spearman’s rho tested the relationship between leadership style and leader efficacy, and multiple regression analyses predicted the readiness of healthcare leaders in leading the implementation of change. The results of the multiple regression analysis show that transformational leadership and leader efficacy are statistically significant in change implementation. However, the results also reveal that transactional and passive leadership, seniority, and gender are not statistically significance. The results suggest that seniority does not moderate the relationship between the leadership styles and organizational readiness for implementing change, and gender does not moderate the interaction between leader efficacy and organizational readiness for implementing change. Healthcare leaders can use the results of this study to mitigate the rate of failure while implementing change. Key words: Organizational change, transformational leadership, transactional leadership, passive-avoidant leadership, leader efficacy, organizational readiness for implementing change, healthcare leadership.","PeriodicalId":7666,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Business Management","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90869738","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}