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Physical Evidence and Customer Patronage: An Empirical Study of Nigeria Banking Sector

Kenneth C. Adiele, Miebaka D. Grend & Ezirim Aloy Chinedu · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2015

This study examines the impact of physical evidence on customer patronage of quoted Banks in south-south zone of Nigeria. 14 quoted Banks at the Nigeria Stock Exchange Market were used for the study. The research considered firm level of analysis and top managers unit of analysis...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJEMT/2015/14176

Promoting Life Insurance Products via Personal Selling: The Case of a Leading Insurer in Ghana

Israel Kofi Nyarko · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2015

Personal selling is a paid personal communication that seeks to inform customers and persuade them to purchase products in an exchange situation. It is a powerful two-way form of communication. It allows an interactive relationship to develop between buyer and seller in which the...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJEMT/2015/15807

Impact of Job Rotation on Organizational Performance

Austin O. Oparanma & Lawrence I. Nwaeke · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2015

This paper attempts to examine the effects of job rotation and employees’ performances in business organizations. It was mainly concerned with assessing, evaluating, and ascertaining the overall impact of job rotation on productivity, improvement of skills, talents, and correctio...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJEMT/2015/12051

Perception on Organisational Attractiveness: An African Sample

Paul Okon Udofot, Emem Bassey Inyang & Anietie Peter Akpan · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2015

A major concern of entrepreneurs worldwide is how to identify and engage the services of workers that would stay for a reasonable period of time with minimal personnel turnover consequences on the organization. Understanding the worker’s initial attraction to the organization pro...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJEMT/2015/16537

Do Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) Really Increase Vietnam’s Foreign Trade and Inward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)?

Hoang Chi Cuong, Tran Thi Nhu Trang & Dong Thi Nga · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2015

Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), the first stage of economic integration, can have possible impacts on member countries through foreign direct investment (FDI) and foreign trade. In this study, we attempt to evaluate the impacts of FTAs that Vietnam has engaged successfully recently...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJEMT/2015/16253

Determinants of Competitive Advantage in the Textile and Apparel Industry in Tanzania: The Application of Porter’s Diamond Model

John Mboya & Khatibu Kazungu · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2015

This study explores the magnitude of the key attributes underlying competitive advantages in the textile and apparel industry in Tanzania by using Porter’s Diamond Model (PDM). The sampling design used in this study is non-probability and data were collected from 204 respondents...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJEMT/2015/16208

Big Events and the Structural Changes of Foreign Trade in Guangdong Province of China

Qishui Chi & Yue Mao · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2015

Foreign trade in Guangdong province of China plays an important role in the country and even the whole world. There are two kinds of big events which may impact Guangdong’s imports and exports, one is universal events such as the outbreak of financial crisis in 2008, the other is...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJEMT/2015/16562

The Clients of Specialized Organic Retailers in Italy

Fabio Maria Santucci & Francesco Diotallevi · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2015

Aims: The organic share of the Italian food market is still small, probably below 2%, but is growing steadily, with a progressive expansion of different typologies of points of sale. The Italian consumers of organic products have been studied by many authors, from different point...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJEMT/2015/16425

The Impact of Globalisation on the Growth of Nigerian Economy from 1960-2010: Error Correction Model Analysis

I. M. Shuaib, Ekeria O. Augustine & Ogedengbe A. Frank · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2015

The paper empirically examined the impact of globalization on the growth of Nigerian economy using times-series data from 1960 to 2010. The paper utilized secondary data and various econometrics and/or statistical packages analytical (View 7.2) method were explored to examine the...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJEMT/2015/14698

Location of a Competitor and the Regional Innovation Activity of Industrial Systems in Transition Country–Poland’s Case Study

Arkadiusz Swiadek · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2015

Aims: Spatial proximity with competitive enterprises is a factor influencing the acceleration of the technological progress in industrial systems in the most developed countries, but is it like that also in Poland? The main objective of the conducted studies was the identificatio...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJEMT/2015/14355

An Empırıcal Investigation of the Contributıon of Agriculture, Petroleum and Development of Human Capital to the Economıc Growth in Nıgeria, 1970-2012

Charles Uche Ugwuanyi & Matthew Abula · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2015

An empirical investigation of the contribution of agriculture, petroleum, human capital to the economic growth in Nigeria were carried out in this paper by employing cointegration test, Granger causality test and ordinary least square techniques, using the data of annual time ser...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJEMT/2015/14856

The Impact of International Remittances on the Nigerian Economy

Joseph Chukwudi Odionye & Okwudili Beede Emerole · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2015

The study investigated the impact of international remittances on the Nigerian economy. The recent global surge in remittance flows and the twin consequences of migration and remittances on economic development have become contemporary topical issues. Thus the need to obtain evid...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJEMT/2015/13290