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John Kuada And Madei Mangori, How To Succeed As An Entrepreneur In Africa: A Practical Guide And Cases (2021), Felix M. Edoho Sr

Markets, Globalization & Development Review

This is a book review of How to Succeed as an Entrepreneur in Africa: A Practical Guide and Cases by Professor John Kuada and Madei Mangori. Despite what is going on about the region, the entrepreneurial success story in African environment is not at all an oxymoron. Across African continent, individuals in several countries, such as Botswana, Ghana, South Africa, and Zimbabwe, have enacted entrepreneurial triumphs, and the success stories are largely untold. Kuada and Mangori now tell the story of successful entrepreneurial ventures across Africa.

Grandchildren Of Ottomans Vs. Children Of Atatürk: A Script On Turkey's Emerging Political Identities Towards 2023, İrem Taştan, Ezgi Karanfil

Markets, Globalization & Development Review

The aim of this script is to take the initiative to open an updated discussion of the ways in which the global ideological market is shaping the collective political identities in the context of contemporary Turkey. We craft two seemingly opposing yet deeply connected political identities, namely the "grandchildren of Ottomans" and the "children of Atatürk", to critically explore the future possibilities for Turkey's contested ideological market.

Does Microcredit Reduce Poverty? An Empirical Exploration In India, Aneel Karnani, Seema Sahai

Markets, Globalization & Development Review

Microcredit has grown dramatically over the last few decades and its supporters have made extravagant promises about its potential impact on reducing poverty. However, much recent research has shown that microcredit has no significant impact on reducing poverty. In this exploratory study we interview 205 clients of for-profit microcredit to better understand the causes of why microcredit has not lived up to its promise. We find the basic problem is that the lending policies of the microcredit organizations are designed to lower the costs and risks, and hence increase the profits of the organization, and are not responsive to the …

Inequality, Economic And Cultural Polarization, And Entrepreneurship Challenges In Emerging Contexts, Nikhilesh Dholakia, Deniz Atik

Markets, Globalization & Development Review

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A Growth Model For Understanding Female-Owned Enterprises, Oyedele Ogundana, Amon Simba, Leo-Paul Dana, Eric W. Liguori

Rohrer College of Business Departmental Research

Numerous policy initiatives designed to support the growth of female-owned enterprises in the developing economies have repeatedly failed to achieve their objectives. Research recognizes the lack of contextualized growth models for defining female-owned enterprises in such contexts as the main issue. Thus, and drawing from our qualitative data, we propose a growth model to account for the business development activities of female-owned enterprises from a developing economy perspective. Through analyzing our qualitative data, it emerged that money (access and utilization), management (nonformal education and experience), and market (customer intelligence) were direct determinants of the growth trajectories of female-owned enterprises. Motherhood …

Renewable Energy Legislation In Nevada: 2017 - 2021, Peter Grema, Zachary Walusek, Caitlin J. Saladino, William E. Brown Jr.

Environment

The purpose of this fact sheet is to summarize legislative actions from the biennial 79th, 80th, and 81st Nevada Legislative Sessions (2017, 2019, and 2021) regarding solar energy production and state efforts to reach 50 percent energy production from renewable sources by 2030. By 2050, Nevada has a statutorily mandated obligation to be a net-zero carbon producer in fulfilling energy production needs from large scale utility services.

Death On The Job: Mountain West States, 2022, Miguel A. Soriano Ralston, Joshua Padilla, Saha Salahi, Caitlin J. Saladino, William E. Brown Jr.

Economic Development & Workforce

This fact sheet examines select data from the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) 2022 report, “Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect,” which reports on worker safety, health, and workplace fatalities. The original report provides a comprehensive national and state-by-state profile of workplace conditions in the United States. These data were originally reported to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). This fact sheet highlights workforce fatalities and injuries in the Mountain West region (Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah).

Berry Study Leads To Sweet Faculty Startup, Kateri Hartman

Nebraska Innovation Campus Materials

When the American Aronia Berry Association approached Husker researcher Changmou Xu with a problem, he set out to solve it in a big way. He and his wife and co-founder, Xiaoqing Xie, have worked with numerous campus entities to increase the value of the aronia berry through their startup, A+ Berry. The company is focused on juice products made from aronia berries. Due to their astringency,the berries don’t have an inherent demand; however, they have great potential to impact the Midwest and beyond through their high return value as a crop and impressive health benefits.They boast significantly higher levels of …

Unraveling Cyberloafing Paradox: Towards A Targeted Approach For Managing Cyberloafing, Bright Frimpong, Fatima Mohammed

Information Systems Faculty Publications

Cyberloafing remains an important issue for organizations due to the ambivalent nature of its consequences. There is a need to extend the scope of motives that influence different kinds of cyberloafing to develop a broader understanding of cyberloafing and manage its consequences. Therefore, this study focuses on the triggers of specific cyberloafing behaviors towards developing targeted cyberloafing policies to address their prevalence

The Use Of Text Analytics To Investigate Concepts In Intra- And Inter-Disciplinary Software Piracy Research Inter-Disciplinary Software Piracy Research, Jerald Hughes, Juan A. Chavarria, Francis Andoh-Baidoo

Information Systems Faculty Publications

IS research has linked collaborators from diverse domains. IS research requires selecting and addressing an appropriate intradisciplinary or interdisciplinary scope. Identifying gaps in the current literature and deciding when and how collaborations among different disciplines may be fruitful poses challenges. We propose a process to analyze a corpus of documents from any topic, to identify potential collaboration areas.

A text analytics process is used to find areas of commonality and exclusivity among questions addressed in existing IS work by analyzing abstracts in papers from multiple disciplines studying 'software piracy.' We use term-term co-occurrence to find all the terms used in …

How Does Organizational Justice Work Across National Culture? Effects Of Procedural And Distributive Justice On Information Security Policy Compliance Across National Culture, Maliha Alam, Nan Xiao

Information Systems Faculty Publications

Information security policy non-compliance has been a major issue in organizations. While organizational justice plays an important role in ISP compliance., previous studies have found justice works differently for people in various national cultures. This study investigates how procedural and distributive justices affect information security policy compliance across national cultures.

What Explains Smartwatch Adoption? A Comparative Study Of South Korea And Indonesia, Mufida Sekardhani, Sujin Song

Asia Marketing Journal

Identifying factors that influence consumers’ intentions to adopt a smartwatch has become a major research interest in marketing literature, yet little is known about it in dissimilar cultural settings. The current research employs a comparative study of South Korea and Indonesia, which differ in location and cultural heritage, smartwatch penetration rate, geographic size, level of income, and developmental stage as a country. An extended model of TAM is proposed, and PLS-SEM is employed to test the model on data collected from 262 respondents. The findings indicate that complementary goods and healthtology have positive influences on perceived usefulness and visibility has …

Human Mobility, Hospitality, And Tourism Industries: A Perspective On Catastrophes, Asif Hussain

Journal of Sustainability and Resilience

The coronavirus outbreak has resulted in a significant reduction in peoples’ movements, migration and trade at both local and global levels. Lockdowns and travel restrictions all over the world have led to a rapid retrenchment of the world’s hospitality and tourism sector. This is not new. Historically, catastrophes impacted human mobility. Drawing from the historical connections between catastrophes, especially health crises, this paper highlights the impacts of catastrophes on the hospitality and tourism industries. This research shows that the relationship between pandemic and tourism is turbulent, and it explores the implications of the current health crisis for the travel industry …

Ewom Platforms As Productivity Catalyzers In The Travel Industry: A Two-Stage Double Bootstrap Data Envelopment Analysis, Tomas Saralegui

Journal of Sustainability and Resilience

In a fast-paced digitalization context, travel agencies face a challenge to increase productivity. Electronic word of mouth (eWOM) could allow better learning processes, improve communication with customers, and serve as a remarkable diffusion channel. However, this channel is not yet fully embraced by the sector. This research, delimited to Spanish travel agencies in the period 2012-2019, applies a two-stage double bootstrap data envelopment analysis to assess whether eWOM and how firms manage eWOM, contributes to achieving higher levels of efficiency. Results show that firms with higher valence and volume of online reviews tend to be closer to the efficiency frontier. …

Caring As A Fundamental Of Sustainability And Resilience In An Aboriginal Community, Denise Lawungkurr Goodfellow

Journal of Sustainability and Resilience

Caring is a fundamental of cultural/community sustainability and resilience among Aboriginal people. However, caring is not confined to community but, as this paper demonstrates can also be extended to both visitors and the wider society. The kindness engendered has application particularly in this time of COVID-19 for both tourism and mainstream society in general.

Marketing Transformation In Tourism Through Visual Ethnography, Isabel Coll-Barneto, Francesc Fusté-Forné

Journal of Sustainability and Resilience

This paper analyses the role of transformative tourism from the perspective of local establishments. The method is based on a visual ethnography study where 12 ecological accommodations located in Catalonia, north-eastern Spain, were asked to identify a photography that illustrates the philosophy of the establishments. Results discuss the meanings of the pictures focused on previous research in relation to the transformative facilitators. The physical, knowledge, social and psychological dimensions are analysed. The nature, the wood, and the relaxing areas are the most relevant elements provided by the hotels as part of their marketing strategy. Theoretical and practical implications are described.

The Interest Sensitivity Of Commercial Bank Equity Returns: New Evidence, Daniel T. Walz, Roger W. Spencer

Southern Business Review (Archived)

Daniel T. Walz is an Associate Professor of Business Administration at Trinity University, San Antonio. Roger W. Spencer is Professor of Economics at Trinity University. San Antonio.

A Large-Scale Cross-Sectional Test Of The Risk-Return Implications Of The Consumption Risk Model, J. Austin Murphy

Southern Business Review (Archived)

J. Austin Murphy is an Assistant Professor of Finance in the Department of Accounting and Finance, School of Business Administration at Oakland University, Rochester, MI He is currently on leave as a Fulbright Scholar at the Freie Universitaet Berlin .

The Effect Of Insider Ownership On Firms' Financial Decisions, Gerald R. Jensen, Robert R. Johnson

Southern Business Review (Archived)

Gerald R. Jensen is an Assistant Professor of Finance in the Department of Finance, College of Business at Northern Illinois University. Robert R. Johnson is an Assistant Professor of Finance in the College of Business Administration at Creighton University.

An Evaluation Of Itami's "Adaptive Behavior Model" As A Managerial Accounting Framework Using Baiman's Criteria, Simon C. Dzeng*

Southern Business Review (Archived)

Simon C. Dzeng is an Assistant Professor in the Accounting. Finance Department at Glassboro Stale College, Glassboro. New Jersey.

An Integrative Model Of The Personal Selling Process, H. Robert Dodge, David L. Kurtz

Southern Business Review (Archived)

H. Robert Dodge is Professor of Marketing in the Williamson School of Business Administration at Youngstown State University. David L. Kurtz is the R.A. and Vivian Young Chair of Business Administration and Head, Department of Marketing at the University or Arkansas.

Holding Companies, The New Deal, And The Development Of The Aircraft Industry: A Historical Retrospective, William B. Carper, Carl Swickley

Southern Business Review (Archived)

William B. Carper is an Associate Professor of Management and Head, Department of Management in the School of Business at Georgia Southern College. Carl Swickley is Director of the Experimental Aircraft Association Museum, Wittman Air Field at Oshkosh. Wisconsin.

Southern Business Review Title Page

Southern Business Review (Archived)

Southern Business Review Title Page. Fall,1989 Volume 15 Issue 2

Southern Business Review Issue Cover

Southern Business Review (Archived)

Southern Business Review Issue Cover. Fall,1989 Volume 15 Issue 2

Debt Ratio Trends Of Major U.S. Corporations: 1975-1985, Mike Sibley

Southern Business Review (Archived)

Mike Sibley is Professor of Finance in the Department of Finance and Economics, College of Business Administration at Loyola University, New Orleans.

The Demand For Money With Real Interest Rates After Taxes, Willy Sellekaerts, Brigitte H. Bechtold

Southern Business Review (Archived)

Willy Sellekaerts is Professor of Economics and Dean. College of Busines, at Lamar University. Brigitte H. Bechtold is the Alan R. Warehime Professor of Economics at Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania.

Investigating Cost Variances: A Markovian Approach, Gerald H. Lander, Alan Reinstein, Michael L. Gibson

Southern Business Review (Archived)

Gerald H. Lander is Plante and Moran Professor of Accounting in the College of Business and Administration at the University of Detroit. Alan Reinstein is Professor and Chair of the Department of Accounting, School of Business Administration, Wayne State University. Michael L. Gibson is an Associate Professor of Management Information Systems in the College of Business at Auburn University.

Delisting Effects On Common Stock Prices, Richard B. Edelman, H. Kent Baker

Southern Business Review (Archived)

Richard B. Edelman is Professor of Finance in the Kogod College of Business Administration, Department of Finance and Real Estate at The American University, Washington, D.C. H. Kent Baker is Professor of Finance in the Kogod College of Business Administration, Department of Finance and Real Estate at The American University, Washington. D.C.

Deposit Shifting In The Sixth District Savings And Loan Industry: An Empirical Analysis, Douglas K. Agbetsiafa, Emil Albert

Southern Business Review (Archived)

Douglas K. Agbetsiafa is an Associate Professor of Economics in the Division of Business and Economics at Indiana University. Emil Albert is an Associate Professor of Management and Director of Entrepreneurship in the Division of Business and Economics at Indiana University.

Southern Business Review Title Page

Southern Business Review (Archived)

Southern Business Review Title Page. Spring, 1989 Volume 15 Issue 1