{"title":"Empirical Study of Intergeneration Transmission of Factors among the Women Working in the Informal Sector","authors":"R. Rana","doi":"10.13189/AEB.2019.070404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13189/AEB.2019.070404","url":null,"abstract":"Women workers in Informal sector contribute significantly towards the transmission of physical, financial, economic, social and cultural factors intergeneration. The attempts to give insight into how the factors such as economic condition, living conditions, basic amenities, reason for work, status in family financial conditions, social and working conditions are transmitted and how significant is the contribution of attributes when they worked as a child, and as an adult. The working women in Informal sectors have neither change nor significant improvement in the factors under consideration despite working as child, adult and as they grew old. The objective of the paper is to find out the intergeneration transmission of factors depending on the stage of generation among the working women in Informal sectors. The research methodology adopted is descriptive and explanatory in approach. Primary data has been collected through structured interview schedule. The sample size is 485 female workers working in Informal sector. The research paper has implications for managers and researchers.","PeriodicalId":91438,"journal":{"name":"Advances in economics and business","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41302711","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":"Physician-to-patient Direct Primary Care: Entrepreneurial Country Doctors Offer a NewMedical Business Model","authors":"R. S. McCutcheon, D. McCoy","doi":"10.13189/AEB.2019.070403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13189/AEB.2019.070403","url":null,"abstract":"Starting in 1942, the United States federal government introduced five major healthcare policies with the intention of reducing the cost of healthcare while insuring millions of people without health insurance. These actions have steered the country towards a monopolistically competitive posture in the medical industry, and compelled consumers to purchase services from few companies at progressively higher prices. The laws of supply and demand cannot be changed, altered, or forced into contortions outside of their nature. Rather than work against market forces, the answer to monopolistic competition is to decentralize the market. Increasing competition for the consumer-patient using common sense, transparent pricing and visible menu lists in physicians' offices will lead to lower market prices for goods and services.","PeriodicalId":91438,"journal":{"name":"Advances in economics and business","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46715604","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":"Determinants of the Performance of Chinese Funded Projects in Kenya: A Case of \"One Belt One Road\" Initiative Project","authors":"Xia Anguan, James N. Maingi","doi":"10.13189/aeb.2019.070601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13189/aeb.2019.070601","url":null,"abstract":"A Research Project Submitted to the School of Business in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirement for the Award of the Degree of Executive Master of Business Administration, Kenyatta University, June, 2019","PeriodicalId":91438,"journal":{"name":"Advances in economics and business","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47544989","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 Phenomenon of Financial Integration and the Probable Issues in Financial Alterations Related to EU","authors":"A. N. Özker","doi":"10.13189/AEB.2019.070302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13189/AEB.2019.070302","url":null,"abstract":"The financial integration concept is a very important main key, as an integration phenomenon, that haven taken place in EU, and effect on the member countries' financial reform process for a long time. In this study, we aim to put forth the financial relations between financial alterations and recent developments, which include along the capital movements especially together with the last full member countries. Therefore, we have interrogated two cross-examine related to financial integration fact. That is first of their financial market standards affecting financial harmonization adjustment process. Secondly, the financial risk-sharing and prudential policies' effect that take place in applications related to integration process. In addition to, the price-based policies have been emphasized along the occurred global risks which make sense cross-country dispersion of bond yields among banks in the EU. However, since the process of financial integration represents a process that aims to harmonize national debt limits between member states, it also presents a process where the money market transactions are also questioned among banks on a global level. In this respect, the global alignment of financial markets emerges as the objectives of joint financial change as well as the alignment of macro financial indicators for EU countries, and it appears that this fact makes corporate integrations inevitable among member countries.","PeriodicalId":91438,"journal":{"name":"Advances in economics and business","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42308365","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 Editorial on Academic Freedom to Preserve Liberty in Teaching","authors":"R. S. McCutcheon","doi":"10.13189/AEB.2019.070301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13189/AEB.2019.070301","url":null,"abstract":"The noble task of teaching requires a free spirit of inquiry, exemplary open-mindedness, and conditions for the practice of responsibly relaying information to the student. (Justice Frankfurter, 1952) For the last century, academics have supported the idea of a ‘free spirit of inquiry' and have dubbed it academic freedom. In the current divisive climate between progressive and capitalist ideologies, having and keeping your academic freedom requires you to understand what academic freedom is, where it came from, and why it is important to defend it. Our students often don't hear the message of capitalism because the numerical majority of professors, across all disciplines, are progressive. In order for students to make rational decision about capitalism, they have to be taught about it by professors who are capitalists. More open dialogue, not less, between professors holding different ideologies, in front of an audience of students, is necessary.","PeriodicalId":91438,"journal":{"name":"Advances in economics and business","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49307229","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 Impact of Fixed and Mobile Telephones on Economic Growth in Algeria during the Period from 1963 to 2015","authors":"Leila Khaouani","doi":"10.13189/AEB.2019.070303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13189/AEB.2019.070303","url":null,"abstract":"Communication is considered as an inevitable consequence of any development policy, whether economic or social, and among the various types of communication, telecommunication representing one of the irreplaceable infrastructure for any society. The demand on these services is increasing, from a simple telephone line to the establishment an information transmission network that dominates the different substrates of conversion, cable, fiber optic, satellite, etc. The telecommunications sector at Algeria has been monopolized by the state and has suffered greatly in response to the growing demand for telephone lines. But things have changed thanks to the new law of the sector, which opened the doors to private investors after thirty eight years; the State has licensed the private sector, and led to increased supply in this area. This article aims to study the causal relationship between GDP and telecommunications across the Algerian fixed and mobile telephones from 1963 to 2015. The empirical analysis moves by steps to test chronological series characteristics by using the Phillips-perron (PP) tests, the Johansen cointegration test, and the Vector Error Correction Model short-term (VECM), ending with the Granger causality test. The results showed that the coefficient is statistically significant for the VECM test, and the Granger causality test that has showed a unidirectional causal relationship between variables.","PeriodicalId":91438,"journal":{"name":"Advances in economics and business","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45015094","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":"Night Lights and Economic Performance in Egypt","authors":"N. S. Omar, A. Ismal","doi":"10.13189/AEB.2019.070202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13189/AEB.2019.070202","url":null,"abstract":"This paper, to the best of my knowledge, is the first to estimate the association between Nighttime Lights (NTL) and real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at the national level, using sub-national GDP data for the 27 Egyptian governorates over FY08-FY13. The study finds that NTL has a positive and statistically significant correlation with GDP at the sub-national and national levels. Hence, NTL can measure and predict GDP in Egypt, at the national and sub-national levels. These findings affirm most previous research that NTL could be a good proxy for GDP when official data are unavailable or time infrequent in developing countries.","PeriodicalId":91438,"journal":{"name":"Advances in economics and business","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47065578","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":"Application of Gap Model in Finding Service Quality Gaps: Comparative Study on Domestic and Foreign Banks Operating in Pakistan","authors":"Kinza Yousfani, Hassan Ali Solangi, A. Lakhiar","doi":"10.13189/AEB.2019.070204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13189/AEB.2019.070204","url":null,"abstract":"The banking sector of Pakistan is growing with every passing year and the quality plays a major role in the developed banking sector. To retain loyal customers quality service is vital. Though, quality and customer service are major driving forces in the business community. Moreover, the product's quality is its capability which satisfies customers' expectations and needs. SERVQUAL scale questionnaire is used as research instrument which was developed by Parasuraman et al. (1988) which quantify the expected quality of banking services of selected samples of banks including domestic and foreign banks in Pakistan. The basic aim of this paper is to investigate the service quality and its relationship among domestic and foreign banks operating in Pakistan. A total of 300 respondents (account holders) were surveyed out of which, 50 account holders for each of the 6 banks including domestic and foreign Banks were surveyed. The sample selected is nonrandom convenient sampling method. This study is descriptive as well as comparative. The results, therefore, suggest that Bank Al-Falah has favorable gap scores in terms of Tangibility, Reliability, and Responsibility. Whereas Soneri Bank earned average Gap Scores in Assurance and Empathy. Also, national bank performed as less service quality measure and holding gap scores greater than all the other banks. Hence, therefore, this research indicates that all independent variables tangibility, empathy, reliability, assurance, responsibility, and empathy have significant relationship dependent variables consumer perceive quality. This study offers practical help to researchers and practitioners in providing a direction for service quality improvement by indicating the common theme that develops the service quality model.","PeriodicalId":91438,"journal":{"name":"Advances in economics and business","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46162717","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":"Analyzation and Optimization of the Omni-Channel Strategy of the Fashion Label 'Marc O'Polo'","authors":"A. Kluth, Yung-Shen Yen","doi":"10.13189/AEB.2019.070201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13189/AEB.2019.070201","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to identify the potential factors for improvement and to generate optimization measures for the Omni-channel strategy. We used the fashion label 'Marc O'Polo', a premium brand in the world, as a study case. This study found that the Omni-channel strategy of Marc O'Polo is compared with the competition with other fashion retailers well-developed, but there are some approaches which miss its target. Thus, we may suggest three points of the Omni-channel strategy for Marc O'Polo, which include that, firstly, triggered or location-based communication by using mobile apps as information and communication tools; Secondly, consistent and centralized social media presentation; Thirdly, personalized online marketing based on customer-generated data.","PeriodicalId":91438,"journal":{"name":"Advances in economics and business","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46688053","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 Study of Determinants of Supermarket Service Quality - the Case of Coopmart Supermarket in Vietnam","authors":"D. My","doi":"10.13189/AEB.2019.070205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13189/AEB.2019.070205","url":null,"abstract":"The study aims to identify the factors affecting the service quality of retail supermarket. Through approaching other studies, the study evaluated the service quality in general and the service quality of retail supermarket in particular. Qualitative method is used for exploring the research model and variables. The survey was conducted to collect the customer's opinion from Coopmart supermarkets in Ho Chi Minh City of Vietnam. This study revealed that five factors have impacted on the service quality in supermarket retailing – a modern retail business which provides both goods and services. The study proposed some policies for supermarket business managers and some suggestions for further studies.","PeriodicalId":91438,"journal":{"name":"Advances in economics and business","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46122642","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}