Volume 10 Issue 3
Editorial Comments: Volume 10 Issue 3
Articles
European Union and the utilization of GSP from importer's perspective with special reference to lesser developed economies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24052/JBRMR/224
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International trade had over recent years become more efficient and importers have looked for ways to keep costs down while maintaining quality. The European Union provides incentives to importers to trade internationally with lesser developed countries by reducing the entrance tariff to the EU. It provides a preferential trade agreement in the form of generalised system of preferences. However, there are many imports into the EU that qualify for the preference but importers are not registering these goods for preference so that there is under-utilization of the preferences available. While there are many studies of the generalised system of preference and the benefits that the preference provides to the exporter, along with its effects on the exporter’s economy, there are few studies of the effect on importers and how they apply the preferences. This paper explores the issues that importers face when wanting to import from Lesser Developed economies. It establishes why importers are not using preferences to the full potential. Senior management in ten European Companies were interviewed to understand the problems they face when importing from non-EU countries.
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World edible oil prices prediction: Evidence from mix effect of ever difference on Box-Jenkins approach
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The Box-Jenkins model assumed that the time series is stationary. Generally, researchers will conduct the first order difference as a necessary procedure of stationarity data. The first or second order difference seems to be a good solution towards nonstationarity counterparts, but this effort might lead into the possible over difference. Thus, alternative procedure of fractionally difference can be considered as a solution towards the over difference, since it permits the non-integer value of . However, the fractionally difference has been proved by several researchers to produced poor out-sample forecast as compared to its rival models. Therefore, we investigate the over difference’s effect on five of the selected world edible oil prices that observed to have long memory behavior. Besides, we compare the performance of two difference models which are the autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) and autoregressive fractionally integrated moving average (ARFIMA) models using the time series data that observed with the over difference and long memory behavior. The forecasting show mixed results and the addressed over difference seems not to give a significant effect neither ARIMA nor ARFIMA models. We also found that the ARFIMA model does not demonstrate poor out-sample forecasting.
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Local industrial development in Algeria
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In Algeria, regional development was first realized, in the framework of a planned economy in the 1970s, by local development programs or plans for local equipment focused on creating jobs, industry promotion, and development of rural and Saharan regions but without any decision-making autonomy granted to local authorities. The industry, which is the object of our study, then benefited from economic programs of the local industry (PIL). These were to be the basis for creating a second decentralized state industrial sector. The aim of the PIL was to offset the negative effects of state industrialization process in order to use local resources, ensure the satisfaction of local needs and to decentralize land use policy. Thus, the industrial areas have been created: nearly 500 business zones and 70 industrial zones spread over a total area of 22,000 hectares. These were, however, spaces of corporate storage. Following the liberalization of the economy since the 1990s, the lack of competitiveness of industrial enterprises has become a major problem, and then an industrial strategy has been developed since 2007. One of the principal objectives of this latter was to create integrated industrial development zones (ZIDI) or clusters. According to the national planning strategy, these ZIDI will be created in areas where there are concentration of businesses, infrastructure availability, proximity to university, research institutions and quality of services. We propose in this study
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The impact of firm characteristics on earnings management: an empirical study on the listed firms in Egypt
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Earnings management has been a great and consistent concern among practitioners and regulators and has received considerable attention in the accounting literature. Several techniques and reasons exist for the practice of earnings management each is based on the management’s objectives. This paper aims to assess the impact of firm characteristics on earnings management of the listed firms in Egypt. It selects the 50 most active firms in the Egyptian stock exchange and the analysis is done using the financial statements from the disclosure book for the period 2007-2011.After excluding banks and insurance companies, for having different disclosure requirements and different corporate governance code, the final count for the firms included in the paper is 60 firms in five years so this leave us with a total of 300 observations. The tests for this research are done using the random effect generalized least square regression model using the Stata program. Findings found that there is a significant positive relationship between firms' financial leverage and earnings management while other variables of the firm characteristics which are firm size, firm age and firms' audit quality have an insignificant relationship with earnings management.
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The applicability of technology acceptance models in the Arab business setting
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Information Technology acceptance is one of the most advanced streams of Information Systems Research (Venkatesh et al., 2012; Venkatesh and Bala, 2008). Research work indicates that the most important strength of Technology Acceptance Models is their generalizability and applicability across a wide range of technologies and settings. However, the literature lacks research that explains technology adoption and use in developing countries; specifically the Arab business settings. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to review the most recent work on Technology Acceptance Models examined in Arab organizations. It highlights different drivers and impediments to the adoption decision of different information technologies in Arab businesses. The study outcome holds implications and provides recommendations for future research.
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Linking expectations and culture at links of London
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24052/JBRMR/229
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This field-based case which focuses upon Krissy, a new Assistant Store Manager at Links of London. She applied to work for the firm because she had read on their website how supportive and developmental they were yet her work experiences there were to the contrary. This paradox comes to light when she was with told by a new corporate leaderwho sought to change the company image with a last minute product repositioning. This request occurred while both her manager and regional manager were unavailable. In spite of her new job withnew job responsibilities and an“emotional†manager, she made a key unilateral decision to leave the store window displays empty overnight. This leads to a demonstrative confrontation with her manager the next day. This case was written to be employed in an introductory retail management or service marketing course although it could also be employed in an introductory management, human relations, or human resource management course.
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A meta-analysis of consumer irrational purchase behavior based on Howard-Sheth mode
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The character of consumer purchase behavior choice is the market basis and decision basis of enterprise marketing activities. The purpose of this research is to explore how those irrational behavior generate, what factors have great significance on consumer irrational behavior and what kind of marketing methods enterprises can take to increase their revenue. So, a meta-analysis of resent ten years’ empirical study on consumer irrational purchase behavior was conducted and a consumer irrational purchase behavior model was proposed. Furthermore, we tested it by using structural equation modeling. Our study provide an insight into the factors of consumers irrational purchase behavior which hasn’t been researched systematically. The results indicated that the attitude and intention of consumer, the marketing promotion, the product signal release and the guidance of consumer emotion have an obvious significance on consumer irrational purchase behavior. Those conclusions have important meaning on guiding to popularize new products, improve customer loyalty of enterprise and lead a new view to understand consumers purchase behavior.
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The making of an entrepreneur: aligning institutional paradigm to the industry needs
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Entrepreneurship is seen as a more viable solution that will both boost the economy and decrease unemployment indices in the Philippines. Researches show that education plays a very crucial role in the development of entrepreneurs. The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) ranked Business Administration and related program as the most populous program. The challenge is then left to the quality of business education programs of the Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). The paper assessed the significant differences in the responses of entrepreneurship students, teachers and selected entrepreneurs in attitudes and values needed to become successful entrepreneur, business skills needed to develop entrepreneurial spirit, training programs to develop entrepreneurial abilities and expectations on when to become entrepreneur. Descriptive approach was utilized through a self-made survey questionnaire. Participants were selected students and professors of colleges and universities offering Entrepreneurship and selected entrepreneurs within Quezon and Laguna Provinces in the Philippines. As taken collectively, the four (4) parameters resulted to a significant difference using ANOVA. Results were summarized as: what the teachers taught was neither what the students learned nor what the entrepreneurs need. There is a gap between theory and practice of entrepreneurship that challenges business schools. School administrators must revisit curriculum and input programs with long-range im
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Effect of Transformational Leadership and High Performance Work System on Job Motivation and Task Performance: Empirical Evidence from Business Schools of Thailand Universities
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This study investigates the effect of transformational leadership and high performance work system on job motivation and task performance at the business schools of Thai universities. Following the existing literature, transformational leadership, and high performance work system is an origin of job motivation that leads to task performance. Therefore, transformational leadership and high performance work system is important in creating job motivation for the improved performance of a lecturer. The sample was of 896 lecturers from business schools at government Universities in Thailand and the statistics used are tested by ordinary least squared regression. Furthermore, response bias, validity, and reliability were examined by the researcher. These results reveal that that transformational leadership and high performance work system have a significant positive effect on job motivation. Furthermore, job motivation still has a significant relation to task performance. Surprisingly, power distance has no significant positive moderating effect on the relationship of transformational leadership, high performance work system on the job motivation of lecturers in the business schools of government Universities in Thailand. Subsequently, managerial and theoretical contributions, and suggestions for further research are presented.
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A study of customer satisfaction on select service dimensions with reference to ATMs and CDMs services in Oman
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In order to provide better services to customers, banks have been using different types of online banking, ATMs, and CDMs. A very large proportion of bank customers use ATMs and CDMs for their routine operations. This study endeavors to gauge the customer satisfaction of ATM and CDM users using six dimensions- accessibility, convenience, efficiency, responsiveness, security & privacy, and reliability. These dimensions were selected based on the literature review and experts’ suggestions. Questionnaire, having closed ended questions only and duly tested in a pilot study, was used for primary data collection. A research model has been developed which consists of the six dimensions as response variables and customer satisfaction as latent variable. Descriptive statistics and structural equation modeling (SEM) technics were applied. The results revealed that all the selected dimensions are found to be significant in influencing the customer satisfaction level.
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Investigating the effect of the big five personality dimensions on compulsive buying behavior of Egyptian consumers
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24052/JBRMR/234
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Compulsive buying behavior is an emerging phenomenon nowadays, that has gained greater attention since the late 1980s (Magee, 1994), reflecting negative behaviours of consumers (Hafez et al., 2013). This research aims to discuss compulsive buying behaviour of Egyptian consumers, taking the “Big Five†personality dimensions as the independent variable that impacts this behaviour, and therefore discussing this topic in the context of developing countries, unlike previous researches. Although many theories exist about the measurement of personality traits, the most famous and widely used approach in the recent years is the “Big Five†model (Quintelier, 2014; Tommasel et. al, 2015), namely; openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism (Leung and Bozionelos, 2004; Lin, 2010; Tommasel et al., 2015). Quantitative research design is used, utilizing a structured questionnaire. Results are gathered from 400 respondents and are later analysed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences Version 20 (SPSS 20). Few tests are done, namely; reliability analysis, factor analysis, descriptive analysis, stepwise regression analysis, and ANOVA test. The findings of the analysis and tests resulted in a new model, consisting of four new personality dimensions that affect compulsive buying behaviour, namely; anxiety, openness, self-control, and self-confidence. It is recommended to use the resulted model in future research, testing the effect o
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Engagement in integrated reporting: evidence from the international integrating reporting council adoption framework
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The research objectives are to emphasize that companies in Thailand apply the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) framework into their integrated report, examine the board of committee responsiveness for the companies’ used the integrated report, investigate of the adoption of the IIRC framework into the integrated report for companies in Thailand, and promote a rethink of corporate reporting, through the release of framework, guidelines and standards to improve the contents of information and process of integrated report in Thailand.The populations of this research came from the delegates, who attended the International Symposium on National Integrity System hosted by Office of the Auditor General (OAG) of Thailand in Chiang Mai, Thailand, on 18-19 February, 2016. There were 42 questionnaires completed by random. The multi linear regression analysis was employed to analyze 5 independent variables. There are only 2 factors: governance and business model factors are significant and positively affected to the performance and outlook, basis of preparation and presentation at the 5% level of significance. The connectivity of information, OAG and business relationships, materiality, conciseness, reliability and completeness, and consistency and comparability should be discussed in the future research to be better instrument for stakeholders’ decision making.
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Does goods and services tax stimulate economic growth? International evidence
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This paper examines the impact of goods and services tax (GST) on economic growth in developing and developed countries using the Arellano-Bond dynamic panel GMM estimation. The empirical results reveal that GST is negatively correlated with economic growth in developing countries, while statistically significant and positively correlated with economic growth in developed countries. Therefore, we conclude that the implementation of the current flat rate of GST is least efficient in collecting the higher revenue and stimulate growth in developing countries. Hence, the implementation of the current GST should be revised to generate higher revenue and economic growth without burdening the consumption and real per capita income in developing countries.
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A study of factors influencing customer's purchasing behaviours of gold ornaments
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24052/JBRMR/237
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Since late 2013, the demand for gold ornaments in Thailand has been increasing after the global economic crisis had less impact on gold prices. The purpose of this study was to investigate factors influencing customer’s purchasing intention of gold ornaments. Data collected from 370 respondents in Bangkok and vicinity areas was analyzed by factor analysis and multiple regression. The results revealed that there are two major factors that are significantly related with customers’ intention to purchase gold ornaments; these factors are buyer preference and expected future value. These results can help gold retailers to develop appropriate marketing strategies and enhance business success in changing environments.
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