Pub Date : 2017-10-01DOI: 10.5958/0973-9343.2017.00025.4
Ishfaq Hussain Bhat Dr. Sapna Singh
Retailing in India has been at the growth trend in recent years. India has seen a huge increase in number of players coming in organised sector. The food and grocery sector is the largest category with in the retail sector India. India is ranked 6th largest country in terms of food and grocery. In order to survive in the market competition, having loyal customers can be beneficial to organisations. So retailers look at different aspects to keep customers intact. Store Image has become one of the most important factors for the survival and development of stores. In this paper, a model of relationships among the multidimensional variables of store image, trust and commitment to the store is formed and tested with a sample size of 209 customers in three stores in the metro city of Hyderabad. The important conclusion of the research is that several interrelations among store image, trust and store commitment exist. The result showed that Store Image indirectly influences Store Loyalty through Trust. The results also show significant gender differences in perceptions of store image. These results provide several important insights for managing supermarkets and are also important for future research.
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The major focus of this paper was on the problems associated with the achievement of Millennium Development Goals in Africa. The baseline was that, for over thirteen years of inception of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Africa remains wanting in human development indices, poverty eradication, literate population, health development, economic, political, and social development. These have been the case despite the introduction of a number of strategies aimed at achieving the MDGs and associated cost estimates by the Millennium Project and the World Bank. Our aim was to appraise the extent of achievement of the MDGs in Africa, guided by the question of whether practical policy initiatives for achieving the MDGs can be identified for Africa. We would like to contribute significantly to the policy initiatives. Methodologically, we concentrated on a survey of the policy prescriptions for the achievement of MDGs in Africa and the extent to which these policies had contributed to achievement of the MDGs. The data sources were basically from: (i) the African regional development indicators; (ii) Millennium Development Goals Reports; (iii) the MDG Africa Steering Group; and, other relevant literature. The analysis of data was highly descriptive and appropriate enough for assessment of the extent of achievement of the MDGs in Africa. In a nutshell, our assessments indicate the following constraints to the achievement of MDGs in Africa: (i) discouragingly low human development indices in Africa compared to the global average; (ii) inappropriate policy recommendations for achievement of the MDGs in Africa; (iii) non-applicable predictive models; (iv) the problem of paucity of data in Africa; (v) low level of infrastructural development in rural areas; (vi) high rate of underemployment; (vii) deficiencies in policy implementation processes; and, (viii) lack of research and development culture. Based on these observations, the paper makes the following recommendations: (i) regional partnerships in development projects;(ii) development and application of country-specific strategy models; (iii) country-wide emphasis on availability of relevant data, complemented with research and development activities; (iv) emphasis on infrastructural development especially in the rural areas; and, (v) refined policy implementation processes based on the use of appropriate personnel and other policy implementation instruments, such as monitoring and evaluation. SINGAPOREAN JOuRNAl Of buSINESS EcONOmIcS, ANd mANAGEmENt StudIES VOl.3, NO.12, 2015 14 Chuks P. Maduabum, Ph. D is a professor of Public Administration and Dean of the School of Management Sciences. Onyemaechi J. Onwe, Ph. D is an associate professor of Management Economics and a Programme Leader in the School of Management Sciences.
本文的主要重点是与在非洲实现千年发展目标有关的问题。基准是，在千年发展目标开始实施13年多以来，非洲在人类发展指数、消除贫困、识字人口、卫生发展、经济、政治和社会发展方面仍然存在不足。尽管采取了一些旨在实现千年发展目标的战略以及千年项目和世界银行的相关成本估算，情况仍然如此。我们的目的是评估非洲实现千年发展目标的程度，其指导问题是能否为非洲确定实现千年发展目标的实际政策倡议。我们愿意为这些政策举措作出重大贡献。在方法上，我们集中调查了在非洲实现千年发展目标的政策处方，以及这些政策对实现千年发展目标的贡献程度。数据来源主要来自:(i)非洲区域发展指标;千年发展目标报告;千年发展目标非洲指导小组;以及其他相关文献。对数据的分析具有高度的描述性和适当性，足以评估非洲实现千年发展目标的程度。简而言之，我们的评估表明，在非洲实现千年发展目标存在以下制约因素:(i)与全球平均水平相比，非洲的人类发展指数低得令人沮丧;在非洲实现千年发展目标方面不适当的政策建议;(iii)不适用的预测模型;非洲缺乏数据的问题;农村地区基础设施发展水平低;就业不足率高;政策执行过程的不足;(八)缺乏研发文化。根据这些意见，该文件提出以下建议:(i)发展项目中的区域伙伴关系;(ii)制定和应用国别战略模式;在全国范围内强调提供有关数据，并辅之以研究和发展活动;强调基础设施的发展，特别是在农村地区;(五)在使用适当人员和其他政策执行工具，例如监测和评价的基础上，改进政策执行过程。14 Chuks P. Maduabum，博士，公共管理学教授，管理科学学院院长。Onyemaechi J. Onwe，博士，管理经济学副教授，管理科学学院项目负责人。
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