Aims: Customer loyalty is considered to be a key component in enhancing the survival of businesses, especially in the situations faced by highly competitive industries. Therefore, Tele communication service providers should be conscious of the factors affecting customer loyalty i...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2017/36550
The goal of this paper is to examine the linkage between official development assistance (ODA) and economic development in the West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ). The study made use of annualized data from six WAMZ countries from 1986 to 2015. The Panel OLS technique was employed...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2017/36247
Aims: This study tends to measure the effectiveness of the Bahraini corporate governance code (BCGC) 2011 on curbing earnings management practices by using audit committee (AC) characteristics in the pre- and post- BCGC 2011. Study Design: The AC characteristics examined are AC i...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2017/36234
Service industries, such as banking and finance retailing, are different in many ways to industries that deal with a tangible product. Therefore, service-marketing gurus emphasize process, people, and physical elements to enable service providers to market themselves effectively....
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2017/35538
The study examined the effects of accounting ethics on audit quality in Nigeria. Although no method yet has been found to guarantee the optimum quality level for the financial information users, and implicitly the quality of audit services, efforts concerning this aspect has been...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2017/34826
The Nigerian agricultural sector was a resilient sustainer of the economy and the Nigerian people in terms of food supply, employment and national income generation. This was possible as a result of focused regional based policy and commodity comparative and absolute advantage. H...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2017/35973
This study examined the critical factors that influence the selection and assessment of suppliers in public institutions in Ghana. The study employed both descriptive and survey research design. The study was conducted between April, 2016 and March, 2017. Public institutions in t...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2017/35580
This study investigated the role of Microfinance Banks on employment generation in Karu Local Government Area (L.G.A) of Nasarawa State, Nigeria. The aim is to ascertain the extent to which microfinance banks have discharged their responsibilities of transforming the rural areas...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2017/35325
The paper assesses whether energy consumption leads to economic growth in Bangladesh applying the ARDL (autoregressive distributed lag) bounds testing approach of cointegration. We use time series data for the period from 1979 to 2014. Results report that energy use and economic...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2017/34156
This paper argues that for economies that have structural rigidities and irregularities, the received knowledge of equilibrium in the demand and supply of money should be interrogated. The paper proposes a third variable – equilibrium bias – to test its significance. Using quarte...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2017/35169