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
Despite various researches has been carried out on mobile banking adoption but only a small quantity of studies were conducted in Malaysia. As a result, literature on the key determinants of the intention to adopt mobile banking within Malaysia is insufficient. Therefore, there i...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/17660
One current new technology in financial issues is XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) that is based on XML (eXtensible Markup Language). Actually, XBRL is a language to transfer data and a new way to publish financial reports on the internet. This is important for organ...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/16879
, Branch Banking, On-line banking, ATM Banking and Phone Banking for both male and female customers separately. It also identifies the characteristics affecting the satisfaction perceptions of customers of banks in Saudi Arabia. Study Design: This study was based on a questionnai...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/16858
This study purposed to answer the question of whether or not there exist a causal relationship between the lending interest rate and credit volume available to households in Namibia. Analytical methods of unit root, Johansen cointegration, Granger-causality and the impulse respon...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/13982
The paper examined balance of payments: Nigerian Experience: 1960-2012 using time series data from 1960-2012. The study explored secondary data from the Central Bank Statistical Bulletin for the period of 1960 to 2012 and used various econometric analyses and/or statistical analy...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/14638
Forecasting gross domestic product (GDP) is crucial for developing macroeconomic policies and managements. Vector autoregression models are one of the commonly used multivariate time series models for forecasting. The Bayesian vector autoregression models are used to avoid proble...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/17543
This paper examines the determinants of Google search in the banking area. The weekly Google data from 2004 to 2013 used for this study consists of the 30 largest banks, the Federal Reserve, and the European Central Bank. To my knowledge, this is the first study on the determinan...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/16956
Previous studies of empirical surveys that focus on WTO foreign trade effects on its country members have placed less attention on individual developing countries. This contrasts with the large body of studies that exist on the foreign trade effects of WTO on its entire country m...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/16254
Lately, mobile marketing has emerged as one of the compelling channels of interactive communication mode between company and consumer. The message through such medium varyingly influences the buying intention. In this backdrop, the purpose of the research is to study the consumer...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/16336
Robust employees training programme will enable business organisations to have the right set of workers with the required skills, knowledge and attitude to manage the different industries in Nigeria, as well as plan adequately and wisely to meet the challenges of skills deficienc...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/15001