Zhenia Tahmasebinia, A. Mohebi, Sogand Fardmehrgan
This study investigates the correlation between Knowledge-oriented top management, Inward and outward knowledge-sharing practices, and the impact they have on Inbound open innovation and business performance. Leadership is acknowledged as a crucial factor in effectively managing an organization, particularly in relation to knowledge management success. Our focus is on knowledge-oriented leaders' perspectives on knowledge sharing strategies and practices, and their pivotal role in establishing and implementing open innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Such practices contribute to long-term success by reducing costs, expediting time to market, enhancing market differentiation, and creating new revenue streams for SMEs.To test our theoretical model, we utilized SMARTPLS version 4 and collected data from a sample of 247 IT, marketing, and sales managers in Tehran, the capital of Iran. The results indicate that knowledge-oriented top management has a positive and significant influence on both inward and outward knowledge-sharing strategies and practices, inbound open innovation, and ultimately, business performance.Hence, the top manager and chief executive officer of a company, as role models with higher positions and authority, play a pivotal role in mobilizing the tangible and intangible resources of the company. They can establish a conducive culture, foundation, and incentives for sharing valuable and relevant knowledge across the organization and departments. This, in turn, fosters creativity, innovation, and departmental outputs, ultimately leading to improved overall business performance for the firm.
{"title":"Empowering SME Success: Unraveling the Nexus of Knowledge-Oriented Top Management, Knowledge-Sharing Practices, and Open Innovation on Performance","authors":"Zhenia Tahmasebinia, A. Mohebi, Sogand Fardmehrgan","doi":"10.5296/ber.v13i3.21094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5296/ber.v13i3.21094","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the correlation between Knowledge-oriented top management, Inward and outward knowledge-sharing practices, and the impact they have on Inbound open innovation and business performance. Leadership is acknowledged as a crucial factor in effectively managing an organization, particularly in relation to knowledge management success. Our focus is on knowledge-oriented leaders' perspectives on knowledge sharing strategies and practices, and their pivotal role in establishing and implementing open innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Such practices contribute to long-term success by reducing costs, expediting time to market, enhancing market differentiation, and creating new revenue streams for SMEs.To test our theoretical model, we utilized SMARTPLS version 4 and collected data from a sample of 247 IT, marketing, and sales managers in Tehran, the capital of Iran. The results indicate that knowledge-oriented top management has a positive and significant influence on both inward and outward knowledge-sharing strategies and practices, inbound open innovation, and ultimately, business performance.Hence, the top manager and chief executive officer of a company, as role models with higher positions and authority, play a pivotal role in mobilizing the tangible and intangible resources of the company. They can establish a conducive culture, foundation, and incentives for sharing valuable and relevant knowledge across the organization and departments. This, in turn, fosters creativity, innovation, and departmental outputs, ultimately leading to improved overall business performance for the firm.","PeriodicalId":37165,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Business and Economic Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91112611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The global financial crisis of 2007 and the recent health crisis of 2019 revealed the inefficiency of the pure status of central banks. They have also prompted reflection on the question of a new "central banking". If the challenge for academic work is to redraw the theoretical contours, it is rather a question for central bankers to redefine the new framework of their action. In this sense, abundant literature has emerged examining the institutional arrangements most likely to make central banks effective. On the other hand, and to our knowledge, few analyses have focused on delineating a new intermediate status that would allow central banks to be more efficient.It is in this perspective of research on the efficiency of central banks that our article is written. The latter is an evaluation of the evolution of the efficiency scores of the Central Bank of Tunisia (BCT) with the change of its status, over the period from 2000 to 2020. The first part of the paper is a review of the theoretical and empirical literature on the issue of measuring central bank efficiency. In the second part, we propose to calculate and interpret the evolution of the BCT's efficiency, with its change of status.The calculation of the efficiency scores leads to an average score of 0.765 and also reveals frequent changes in scores and alternating periods of increase and decrease. Our economic analysis, split into two periods before and after the BCT's independence, allows us to show that the efficiency scores recorded are not linked to its status, but rather are explained by macroeconomic, financial, monetary, and institutional variables.
{"title":"The Determinants of Central Bank Efficiency Scores: The Case of Tunisia","authors":"Abdeltif Andrea Ines, Bouhouch Faiza, Lamia Daly","doi":"10.5296/ber.v13i3.20749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5296/ber.v13i3.20749","url":null,"abstract":"The global financial crisis of 2007 and the recent health crisis of 2019 revealed the inefficiency of the pure status of central banks. They have also prompted reflection on the question of a new \"central banking\". If the challenge for academic work is to redraw the theoretical contours, it is rather a question for central bankers to redefine the new framework of their action. In this sense, abundant literature has emerged examining the institutional arrangements most likely to make central banks effective. On the other hand, and to our knowledge, few analyses have focused on delineating a new intermediate status that would allow central banks to be more efficient.It is in this perspective of research on the efficiency of central banks that our article is written. The latter is an evaluation of the evolution of the efficiency scores of the Central Bank of Tunisia (BCT) with the change of its status, over the period from 2000 to 2020. The first part of the paper is a review of the theoretical and empirical literature on the issue of measuring central bank efficiency. In the second part, we propose to calculate and interpret the evolution of the BCT's efficiency, with its change of status.The calculation of the efficiency scores leads to an average score of 0.765 and also reveals frequent changes in scores and alternating periods of increase and decrease. Our economic analysis, split into two periods before and after the BCT's independence, allows us to show that the efficiency scores recorded are not linked to its status, but rather are explained by macroeconomic, financial, monetary, and institutional variables.","PeriodicalId":37165,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Business and Economic Research","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84956732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Indebtedness is a huge global issue faced by all economies around the world since the older time until today. The high and increasing debt levels have become a concern, and public debt has become the core of the turmoil that began a few years ago. When the government's spending in a year exceeds its revenue, there will be a budget deficit for that fiscal year. Hence, it must use debt to fill the funding gap. This situation creates an annual deficit, which cannot end until the accumulated debt becomes unsustainable and the government's finances collapse. Hence, this study is aimed to assess the impact of the public debt threshold on current account balance and fiscal balance in selected ASEAN countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam) by adopting annual data from 1990 to 2021. In panel long run estimation by pooled mean group (PMG) estimator, public debt affects twin balances to have a positive relationship. In the empirical analysis, the single threshold sample splitting model is employed to assess the impact of the public debt threshold on the current account balance and fiscal balance either below or above the threshold level. The outcomes indicate that the public debt threshold level is at 63.36%. When the public debt threshold is below 63.36%, there is a negative relationship between the current account balance and fiscal balance; whereas when the public debt threshold is higher than 63.36%, there is positive nexus between the current account balance and fiscal balance. This result implies the situation of twin divergence situation when exceeding the public debt threshold level.
{"title":"Public Debt, Current Account Balance, and Fiscal Balance: The Threshold Effects in Selected ASEAN Countries","authors":"Xin-Lin Soo, J. Kueh, R. Ab-Rahim, J. Yau","doi":"10.5296/ber.v13i3.21070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5296/ber.v13i3.21070","url":null,"abstract":"Indebtedness is a huge global issue faced by all economies around the world since the older time until today. The high and increasing debt levels have become a concern, and public debt has become the core of the turmoil that began a few years ago. When the government's spending in a year exceeds its revenue, there will be a budget deficit for that fiscal year. Hence, it must use debt to fill the funding gap. This situation creates an annual deficit, which cannot end until the accumulated debt becomes unsustainable and the government's finances collapse. Hence, this study is aimed to assess the impact of the public debt threshold on current account balance and fiscal balance in selected ASEAN countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam) by adopting annual data from 1990 to 2021. In panel long run estimation by pooled mean group (PMG) estimator, public debt affects twin balances to have a positive relationship. In the empirical analysis, the single threshold sample splitting model is employed to assess the impact of the public debt threshold on the current account balance and fiscal balance either below or above the threshold level. The outcomes indicate that the public debt threshold level is at 63.36%. When the public debt threshold is below 63.36%, there is a negative relationship between the current account balance and fiscal balance; whereas when the public debt threshold is higher than 63.36%, there is positive nexus between the current account balance and fiscal balance. This result implies the situation of twin divergence situation when exceeding the public debt threshold level.","PeriodicalId":37165,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Business and Economic Research","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90471934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has recently attracted a heightened interest within the communities of AI theory and practice. Experts in this area have advanced their knowledge and understanding of AI systems and applications and the impact of these on existing technologies in terms of capabilities and benefits/risks. The development of these capabilities has created a different choice that needs to be decided on: let the potential effects of AI grow and become more exciting, at the expense of disturbing ethical concerns and issues, or balance these exciting developments by introducing suitable legislative approaches to address these concerns. The results from this research imply that urgent attention needs to be given to construct primary legislation (acts of Parliament, statutes) and then implement these as a matter of urgency. More focus and attention must be placed on ethical concerns and privacy issues that relate to existing and planned AI developments. It is further suggested that more collaboration and co-operation must be exercised across geographical boundaries between researchers to ensure that the interests of human beings world-wide are considered of paramount importance when developing and rolling out AI systems and applications.
{"title":"A Fresh Look at Ethical Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence Applications and their Potential Impacts at Work and on People","authors":"E. Fisher, E. Fisher","doi":"10.5296/ber.v13i3.21003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5296/ber.v13i3.21003","url":null,"abstract":"Artificial Intelligence (AI) has recently attracted a heightened interest within the communities of AI theory and practice. Experts in this area have advanced their knowledge and understanding of AI systems and applications and the impact of these on existing technologies in terms of capabilities and benefits/risks. The development of these capabilities has created a different choice that needs to be decided on: let the potential effects of AI grow and become more exciting, at the expense of disturbing ethical concerns and issues, or balance these exciting developments by introducing suitable legislative approaches to address these concerns. The results from this research imply that urgent attention needs to be given to construct primary legislation (acts of Parliament, statutes) and then implement these as a matter of urgency. More focus and attention must be placed on ethical concerns and privacy issues that relate to existing and planned AI developments. It is further suggested that more collaboration and co-operation must be exercised across geographical boundaries between researchers to ensure that the interests of human beings world-wide are considered of paramount importance when developing and rolling out AI systems and applications.","PeriodicalId":37165,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Business and Economic Research","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86386661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has recently attracted a heightened interest within the communities of AI theory and practice. Experts in this area have advanced their knowledge and understanding of AI systems and applications and the impact of these on existing technologies in terms of capabilities and benefits/risks. The development of these capabilities has created a different choice that needs to be decided on: let the potential effects of AI grow and become more exciting, at the expense of disturbing ethical concerns and issues, or balance these exciting developments by introducing suitable legislative approaches to address these concerns. The results from this research imply that urgent attention needs to be given to construct primary legislation (acts of Parliament, statutes) and then implement these as a matter of urgency. More focus and attention must be placed on ethical concerns and privacy issues that relate to existing and planned AI developments. It is further suggested that more collaboration and co-operation must be exercised across geographical boundaries between researchers to ensure that the interests of human beings world-wide are considered of paramount importance when developing and rolling out AI systems and applications.
{"title":"A Fresh Look at Ethical Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence Applications and their Potential Impacts at Work and on People","authors":"Eddie John Paul Fisher, Eddie Fisher","doi":"10.5296/ber.v12i3.21003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5296/ber.v12i3.21003","url":null,"abstract":"Artificial Intelligence (AI) has recently attracted a heightened interest within the communities of AI theory and practice. Experts in this area have advanced their knowledge and understanding of AI systems and applications and the impact of these on existing technologies in terms of capabilities and benefits/risks. The development of these capabilities has created a different choice that needs to be decided on: let the potential effects of AI grow and become more exciting, at the expense of disturbing ethical concerns and issues, or balance these exciting developments by introducing suitable legislative approaches to address these concerns. The results from this research imply that urgent attention needs to be given to construct primary legislation (acts of Parliament, statutes) and then implement these as a matter of urgency. More focus and attention must be placed on ethical concerns and privacy issues that relate to existing and planned AI developments. It is further suggested that more collaboration and co-operation must be exercised across geographical boundaries between researchers to ensure that the interests of human beings world-wide are considered of paramount importance when developing and rolling out AI systems and applications.","PeriodicalId":37165,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Business and Economic Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135210791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Business and Economic Research (BER) would like to thank the following reviewers for reviewing manuscripts from March 1, 2023, to June 1, 2023. Their comments and suggestions were of great help to the authors in improving the quality of their papers. Many authors, regardless of whether BER publishes their work, appreciate the helpful feedback provided by the reviewers. Macrothink Publishing appreciates the following reviewers’ rigorous and conscientious efforts for this journal. Each of the reviewers listed below returned at least one review during this period. Cristina Alina NaftanailaEddie John FisherFayez Bassam ShriedehGita SugiyartiHengky Sumisto HalimHui Shan LeeJosé MartinsMohsen MohagheghNaftaly MoseNana Osei-BonsuNemer BadwanRoderikus Agus TrihatmokoSaid Sayed AbdoSantosh B. Manjegowda
{"title":"Reviewer Acknowledgements for Business and Economic Research, Vol. 13, No. 2","authors":"Daisy Young","doi":"10.5296/ber.v13i2.21100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5296/ber.v13i2.21100","url":null,"abstract":"Business and Economic Research (BER) would like to thank the following reviewers for reviewing manuscripts from March 1, 2023, to June 1, 2023. Their comments and suggestions were of great help to the authors in improving the quality of their papers. Many authors, regardless of whether BER publishes their work, appreciate the helpful feedback provided by the reviewers. Macrothink Publishing appreciates the following reviewers’ rigorous and conscientious efforts for this journal. Each of the reviewers listed below returned at least one review during this period. Cristina Alina NaftanailaEddie John FisherFayez Bassam ShriedehGita SugiyartiHengky Sumisto HalimHui Shan LeeJosé MartinsMohsen MohagheghNaftaly MoseNana Osei-BonsuNemer BadwanRoderikus Agus TrihatmokoSaid Sayed AbdoSantosh B. Manjegowda","PeriodicalId":37165,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Business and Economic Research","volume":"419 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136354485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-18DOI: 10.31920/1750-4562/2023/v18n2a15
Renaldy Nkogho Beyeme
{"title":"A Delphi Approach to Explore the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem of Gabonese and South African National Park Tourism","authors":"Renaldy Nkogho Beyeme","doi":"10.31920/1750-4562/2023/v18n2a15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/1750-4562/2023/v18n2a15","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37165,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Business and Economic Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42443154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-18DOI: 10.31920/1750-4562/2023/v18n2a12
R. Utete
{"title":"Investigating the Relationship between Capacity Building and Employee Performance at a Leading Organisation in Durban, South Africa","authors":"R. Utete","doi":"10.31920/1750-4562/2023/v18n2a12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/1750-4562/2023/v18n2a12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37165,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Business and Economic Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42291365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-18DOI: 10.31920/1750-4562/2023/v18n2a9
John Manso Frimpong, M. Owusu-Bio, Abdul Samed Muntaka
{"title":"Early Supplier Involvement, Cost Reduction and Performance of Manufacturing Firms: The Role of Firm Size","authors":"John Manso Frimpong, M. Owusu-Bio, Abdul Samed Muntaka","doi":"10.31920/1750-4562/2023/v18n2a9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/1750-4562/2023/v18n2a9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37165,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Business and Economic Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46687023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-18DOI: 10.31920/1750-4562/2023/v18n2a11
Zandile Charmaine Ngwenya, Kgaugelo Sammy Boya
{"title":"Do Government’s Export Programmes For Small Businesses Make Export Competency Possible?","authors":"Zandile Charmaine Ngwenya, Kgaugelo Sammy Boya","doi":"10.31920/1750-4562/2023/v18n2a11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/1750-4562/2023/v18n2a11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37165,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Business and Economic Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49058540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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