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
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...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/14176
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...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/15807
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...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/12051
This paper recognises the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) reference to Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) as “Banks” and notes that this appellation connotes a meaning, which is liable to misinterpretation; hence, microfinance practice has been misconstrued and extended by some Nig...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/15107
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...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/16537
Despite the growing importance of Frontier Markets within the investment management landscape, relatively few studies have focused on them. However, understanding their behaviors and the way they relate to oil prices is of paramount importance for financial market participants. T...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/16535
Mechanisms that influence organizational performance of firms, like investments in corporate education, still are not deeply studied when industries and countries are considered in the analysis. The main objective of this paper is study the influence of corporate education on per...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/16511
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...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/16253
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...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/16208
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...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/16562
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...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2015/16425