Presented is an analytic microeconomic model of the temporal price dispersion of homogeneous goods in polypoly markets. This new approach is based on the idea that the price dispersion has its origin in the dynamics of the purchase process. The price dispersion is determined by t...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/17849
Ghanaian’s demand for refined petroleum products keeps increasing although monthly prices of the product keeps rising. The paper aims to forecast refined petroleum products (gasoline, diesel, kerosene and LPG) future prices trends in Ghana. Employing benchmark techniques, cointeg...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/17766
Aims: This study attempts to test the revised model of Theory of Planned behavior to predict the factors and possible paths to encourage customers for green purchasing in the home appliance industry. Study Design: All constructs were measured on five-point likert scales anchored...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/17438
Aims: This study examines the influence of employee HR satisfaction on employee innovative work behavior. It also examines whether employee perceptions about the demanding aspects of their jobs mediate the relationship between HR satisfaction and innovative work behavior. Study D...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/14826
The purpose of present study is to investigate the relationship between information technology and organizational entrepreneurship, and organizational agility in Esfahan province general directorate of youth and sport. The sample consisted of Esfahan province general directorate...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/17759
The paper investigates the effect of gender diversity in the boardroom on the financial performance of non-financial listed firms in Ghana using panel data between 2007 and 2011. The fixed and random effects approaches were used in analysing the data. The findings revealed that t...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/17072
This paper examines a 238 cointegrated stationary observation for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) over the period 1978-2011. It employs a restricted Vector Autoregressive (VAR) model, and the estimation method is based on seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) model for a complete s...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/17818
Leadership skills are observed to have a huge impact on the development of the organizations. With the development of organizations, there has been a huge shift in the mode of operations within an organization, particularly after the advent of globalization. Managing dynamic chan...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/17124
The study investigates the impact of corporate governance on derivatives usage in African non-financial firms. Using a sample of 760 African non-financial firms from 17 African countries, the study shows that derivatives usage among African non-financial firm is very low. The stu...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/15580
The quantitative study aimed to identify effects of brand image and awareness to buying habits and usage of body soap products among its customers using structural equation modelling technique. Data were gathered through interview and treated in depth. Based on the findings, the...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/17403