Business and Economic Research (BER) would like to thank the following reviewers for reviewing manuscripts from January 1, 2023, to March 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. Abeer M. Ali Abd ElkhalekAhmed ZouhairAlmir A. AlihodžićBratu (Simionescu) MihaelaCosimo MagazzinoCristina Alina NaftanailaElena GurguFayez Bassam ShriedehHengky Sumisto HalimJosé MartinsKimty SengMamta SinghMohsen MohagheghMuddassar SarfrazNemer BadwanOleksandr V. DluhopolskyiRabeya KhatoonRoderikus Agus TrihatmokoRomeo Victor IonescuSantosh B. ManjegowdaShyamkumar D. KalpandeYixun XingZi-Yi Guo
商业与经济研究(BER)感谢以下审稿人对2023年1月1日至2023年3月1日的稿件进行审阅。他们的意见和建议对作者提高论文质量有很大的帮助。许多作者，不管BER是否发表他们的作品，都很感激审稿人提供的有用的反馈。Macrothink出版社感谢以下审稿人为本刊所做的严谨和认真的努力。在此期间，下面列出的每位审稿人都至少回复了一篇评论。Abeer M. Ali Abd ElkhalekAhmed ZouhairAlmir A. AlihodžićBratu (Simionescu) MihaelaCosimo magazzzinoristina Alina NaftanailaElena GurguFayez Bassam ShriedehHengky summisto halimjoss MartinsKimty SengMamta SinghMohsen mohaghghmuddassar SarfrazNemer BadwanOleksandr V.德鲁霍博尔斯基irabeya KhatoonRoderikus Agus TrihatmokoRomeo Victor IonescuSantosh B. ManjegowdaShyamkumar D. KalpandeYixun XingZi-Yi Guo
{"title":"Reviewer Acknowledgements for Business and Economic Research, Vol. 13, No. 1","authors":"Daisy Young","doi":"10.5296/ber.v13i1.20837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5296/ber.v13i1.20837","url":null,"abstract":"Business and Economic Research (BER) would like to thank the following reviewers for reviewing manuscripts from January 1, 2023, to March 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. Abeer M. Ali Abd ElkhalekAhmed ZouhairAlmir A. AlihodžićBratu (Simionescu) MihaelaCosimo MagazzinoCristina Alina NaftanailaElena GurguFayez Bassam ShriedehHengky Sumisto HalimJosé MartinsKimty SengMamta SinghMohsen MohagheghMuddassar SarfrazNemer BadwanOleksandr V. DluhopolskyiRabeya KhatoonRoderikus Agus TrihatmokoRomeo Victor IonescuSantosh B. ManjegowdaShyamkumar D. KalpandeYixun XingZi-Yi Guo","PeriodicalId":37165,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Business and Economic Research","volume":"453 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135135658","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}
India has been averse to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) since its initial launch in 2013 because one of the core components of the initiative, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), is perceived as violating the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. This article discusses the geostrategic execution of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), which is viewed as a threat and constraint to India's security. The article further analyses the perception of the Indian government towards the forged alliance between China and Pakistan. Along these lines, this disquisition explains the knowledge of how infrastructural techno-political regimes shape the threat towards Indian security. It does so by building on an analysis of India's security strategy on China-Pakistan relations through the initiative of CPEC. The infrastructural techno-political regime of CPEC is discerned as a securitised threat by the Indian government. Infrastructure technology produced by CPEC promotes a securitised discourse of connectivity, flow, and territorial control as a cause of regional tension, national rivalries, unnecessary competitiveness, terrorism, and sovereignty issues. Simultaneously, other political entities might view the same regime as a border security threat.
{"title":"China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC): A Threat to India’s Border Security","authors":"Manishahz A/P Sangkar, Mohd Ikbal Mohd Huda","doi":"10.5296/ber.v13i2.20717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5296/ber.v13i2.20717","url":null,"abstract":"India has been averse to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) since its initial launch in 2013 because one of the core components of the initiative, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), is perceived as violating the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. This article discusses the geostrategic execution of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), which is viewed as a threat and constraint to India's security. The article further analyses the perception of the Indian government towards the forged alliance between China and Pakistan. Along these lines, this disquisition explains the knowledge of how infrastructural techno-political regimes shape the threat towards Indian security. It does so by building on an analysis of India's security strategy on China-Pakistan relations through the initiative of CPEC. The infrastructural techno-political regime of CPEC is discerned as a securitised threat by the Indian government. Infrastructure technology produced by CPEC promotes a securitised discourse of connectivity, flow, and territorial control as a cause of regional tension, national rivalries, unnecessary competitiveness, terrorism, and sovereignty issues. Simultaneously, other political entities might view the same regime as a border security threat.","PeriodicalId":37165,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Business and Economic Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81742845","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}
This study seeks to assess bank marketing and its impact on customer retention in microfinance in Yaoundé, Cameroon. A cross-sectional research design consisting of 348 clients of category two microfinances were sampled from the center region of Cameroon. Data for the study was sourced using closed structured questionnaires. The analysis was concluded using statistical software’s such as Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS 24) and Analysis of Moment Structures (AMOS24). The results from the analysis reveal that Customer service and retention have a significant positive impact on customer retention. The study therefore concluded that emphasis on better customer services leads to a high customer retention rate in category two microfinances in Yaounde, Cameroon. A new model called Bank Marketing and Customer retention Model (BMCR Model) was developed to test the relationship amongst variables. This study contributes to the limited theoretical and empirical evidence of the impact of bank marketing on customer retention in microfinances in Yaounde, Cameroon.
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Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) can have a positive effect on the development of the economic and social potential of emerging countries provided that they make efforts to attract appropriate investors. Among developing countries, we are interested to analyze FDI attractiveness in Türkiye and Morocco and proceed with a comparative analysis between these two countries.Very few empirical studies present an overview of FDI determinants and how they can influence the FDI attractiveness of Türkiye and Morocco separately. Consequently, the contribution of this paper is to compare FDI inflows in these countries and then identify the determinants that impact their FDI attractiveness. For this purpose, we used an ARDL econometric model in both countries over the period 1980 to 2020.Our results show that there is an important similarity between the impacting factors on FDI flows in the short run in both countries. Openness and inflation have positive effects in both countries, while market size has a negative impact on FDI attractiveness. Credit, however, has a positive effect only in Türkiye but no significance in Morocco. On the other hand, there is less similarity between Türkiye and Morocco in the long run, since only GDP has a significant and positive impact in both countries. Inflation has a significant and negative impact only in Morocco, and human capital is positively impactful only in Türkiye, while openness and credit have a significant and negative impact also only in Türkiye. This difference between the long-run results in both countries shows that FDI determinants play a more effective role in attracting FDI inflows in Türkiye than in Morocco, which substantiates the difference in the level of FDI inflows that each country gets.
{"title":"Comparative Analysis of the Determinants of Foreign Direct Investments in Morocco and Türkiye","authors":"Ayoub Bendriouch, Kamil Uslu","doi":"10.5296/ber.v13i1.20675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5296/ber.v13i1.20675","url":null,"abstract":"Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) can have a positive effect on the development of the economic and social potential of emerging countries provided that they make efforts to attract appropriate investors. Among developing countries, we are interested to analyze FDI attractiveness in Türkiye and Morocco and proceed with a comparative analysis between these two countries.Very few empirical studies present an overview of FDI determinants and how they can influence the FDI attractiveness of Türkiye and Morocco separately. Consequently, the contribution of this paper is to compare FDI inflows in these countries and then identify the determinants that impact their FDI attractiveness. For this purpose, we used an ARDL econometric model in both countries over the period 1980 to 2020.Our results show that there is an important similarity between the impacting factors on FDI flows in the short run in both countries. Openness and inflation have positive effects in both countries, while market size has a negative impact on FDI attractiveness. Credit, however, has a positive effect only in Türkiye but no significance in Morocco. On the other hand, there is less similarity between Türkiye and Morocco in the long run, since only GDP has a significant and positive impact in both countries. Inflation has a significant and negative impact only in Morocco, and human capital is positively impactful only in Türkiye, while openness and credit have a significant and negative impact also only in Türkiye. This difference between the long-run results in both countries shows that FDI determinants play a more effective role in attracting FDI inflows in Türkiye than in Morocco, which substantiates the difference in the level of FDI inflows that each country gets.","PeriodicalId":37165,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Business and Economic Research","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90360604","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}
Purpose: The study aimed to investigate Greek consumers' attitudes and actual behavior toward virtual bank cards and to show whether Experimental Economics can incentivize these banking products.Methodology: For data collection, a specially designed experiment was conducted among Greek consumer samples according to Experimental Economics and Nudging Theory principles. Econometric analysis was conducted through Multi-level Models and Bivariate statistical tests.Results: Results suggest that demographic characteristics such as age combined with personalization and consumer risk perception play an important role in virtual bank card adoption. The youngest consumers are optimistic about their use, while the oldest are negative. Furthermore, Experimental Economics and Nudging Theory could identify behavioral changes.Novelty: The study's novelty and uniqueness are based on investigating Greek consumers' attitudes and behavior towards new and innovative banking products, which still need to be well known. The research methodology is also a groundbreaking feature of the study, as Experimental Economics is the most appropriate method to study human behavior and its unconscious influencing factors that cannot be studied in other ways.
{"title":"Exploring Attitude toward Virtual Bank Cards Using Nudge Theory and Experimental Analysis","authors":"Melpomeni Anysiadou","doi":"10.5296/ber.v13i1.20703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5296/ber.v13i1.20703","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: The study aimed to investigate Greek consumers' attitudes and actual behavior toward virtual bank cards and to show whether Experimental Economics can incentivize these banking products.Methodology: For data collection, a specially designed experiment was conducted among Greek consumer samples according to Experimental Economics and Nudging Theory principles. Econometric analysis was conducted through Multi-level Models and Bivariate statistical tests.Results: Results suggest that demographic characteristics such as age combined with personalization and consumer risk perception play an important role in virtual bank card adoption. The youngest consumers are optimistic about their use, while the oldest are negative. Furthermore, Experimental Economics and Nudging Theory could identify behavioral changes.Novelty: The study's novelty and uniqueness are based on investigating Greek consumers' attitudes and behavior towards new and innovative banking products, which still need to be well known. The research methodology is also a groundbreaking feature of the study, as Experimental Economics is the most appropriate method to study human behavior and its unconscious influencing factors that cannot be studied in other ways.","PeriodicalId":37165,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Business and Economic Research","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90854353","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}
Household expenditure on food consumption has become an issue of great concern in Nigeria today. This is so because an increasing percentage of the household in Nigeria was feeding less and therefore become more food insecure which made households suffer serious ailments arising from an acute deficiency in their diets. This study examined the effect of socioeconomic factors on household expenditure on food consumption in Nigeria. Data were gotten through the administration of questionnaires to 2500 household heads in three senatorial districts in Ondo State. The study adopted multistage sample techniques; we analyzed information extracted from the questionnaire using both descriptive and regression techniques. The result indicated that major source of income exerts a significant negative (t=-3.76, p<0.05) effect on household consumption expenditure in Ondo State, Nigeria, a positive relationship between household size and consumption expenditure (t=5,38, p<0.05), and a positive impact between education qualification and household expenditure for consumption (t-3.26,p<0.05). However, gender, age, marital status, and respondents' senatorial districts did not get a significant effect on households' consumption expenditure of food. The study recommended that government should try to pay workers' salaries as at when due to discourage reduction in food consumption expenditure of the people
{"title":"Socio-demographic Factors and Household Expenditure on Food Consumption in Ondo State, Nigeria","authors":"S. Olorunfemi, A. A. Fatukasi, O. Adeleye","doi":"10.5296/ber.v13i1.18953","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5296/ber.v13i1.18953","url":null,"abstract":"Household expenditure on food consumption has become an issue of great concern in Nigeria today. This is so because an increasing percentage of the household in Nigeria was feeding less and therefore become more food insecure which made households suffer serious ailments arising from an acute deficiency in their diets. This study examined the effect of socioeconomic factors on household expenditure on food consumption in Nigeria. Data were gotten through the administration of questionnaires to 2500 household heads in three senatorial districts in Ondo State. The study adopted multistage sample techniques; we analyzed information extracted from the questionnaire using both descriptive and regression techniques. The result indicated that major source of income exerts a significant negative (t=-3.76, p<0.05) effect on household consumption expenditure in Ondo State, Nigeria, a positive relationship between household size and consumption expenditure (t=5,38, p<0.05), and a positive impact between education qualification and household expenditure for consumption (t-3.26,p<0.05). However, gender, age, marital status, and respondents' senatorial districts did not get a significant effect on households' consumption expenditure of food. The study recommended that government should try to pay workers' salaries as at when due to discourage reduction in food consumption expenditure of the people","PeriodicalId":37165,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Business and Economic Research","volume":"62 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83987399","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}
This study examines short-term diverging returns between popular asset classes such as value vs growth, small vs large, and significant industry return divergences to determine if switching strategies can take advantage of relative valuations. Findings show Z-scores based on 1 to 3-month cumulative returns relative to the previous year are positively related to the proceeding one-month excess return. For size, value, and growth, the asset class that significantly outperforms their counterpart over six months or longer mean reverts. Industries significantly outperforming from one to six months are found to continue to do so. These results hold up across various time frames from 1926 through 2022 and outperform a simple buy-and-hold strategy over multiple time periods. Practical application using ETFs over the last 20 years continue to show success for size and value, but industry switching does not outperform a simple buy-and-hold strategy.
{"title":"Dynamic Z-score Asset Allocation to Size, Value, and Industry Return Shocks","authors":"W. Trainor, G. L. Shelley","doi":"10.5296/ber.v12i4.20351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5296/ber.v12i4.20351","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines short-term diverging returns between popular asset classes such as value vs growth, small vs large, and significant industry return divergences to determine if switching strategies can take advantage of relative valuations. Findings show Z-scores based on 1 to 3-month cumulative returns relative to the previous year are positively related to the proceeding one-month excess return. For size, value, and growth, the asset class that significantly outperforms their counterpart over six months or longer mean reverts. Industries significantly outperforming from one to six months are found to continue to do so. These results hold up across various time frames from 1926 through 2022 and outperform a simple buy-and-hold strategy over multiple time periods. Practical application using ETFs over the last 20 years continue to show success for size and value, but industry switching does not outperform a simple buy-and-hold strategy.","PeriodicalId":37165,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Business and Economic Research","volume":"277 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74946170","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}
This paper aims to scrutinize bank employees' perspectives on customer relationship management (CRM) practices in the banking sector, particularly private sector commercial banks operating in Goalpara District of Assam, India. The research plan consists of experimental in nature whereby different aspects of CRM in the banking sector have been extracted from the previous literature and tested on a sample size 24 number of employees working in the banks selected taking 3 each from 8 branches. Based on Bank Service Quality (BSQ) scale, variables were selected and analysed with the help of descriptive statistics and ranking analysis of identified parameters was utilized with the help of the Garret ranking technique. The study found that the loan facility and ATM facility along with service variety are found as the major product-related factors; timely services with trustworthy behaviour of the employees and the quality of services along with procedural simplicity and convenience is the most important service-related factors for evolving an effective CRM practice. The employee perceptions on the personal relationship of the bank officials with their customers’ staples in selecting the banks and retaining the customers.
本文旨在审视银行员工对银行部门客户关系管理(CRM)实践的看法，特别是在印度阿萨姆邦戈帕拉地区运营的私营部门商业银行。研究计划本质上是实验性的，即从以前的文献中提取了银行业CRM的不同方面，并对24名在银行工作的员工进行了样本测试，从8个分支机构中选择3名员工。以银行服务质量(Bank Service Quality, BSQ)量表为基础，采用描述性统计对变量进行选择和分析，并利用Garret排序技术对识别参数进行排序分析。研究发现，贷款便利和ATM便利以及服务种类是主要的产品相关因素;及时的服务、值得信赖的员工行为、服务质量以及程序的简单和便利是发展有效的客户关系管理实践的最重要的服务相关因素。在选择银行和保留客户时，员工对银行官员与客户的个人关系的看法。
{"title":"Customer Relationship Management Practices and Employee Sensitivities of Private Sector Banks: An Analysis in Indian Context","authors":"Mehbooba Sultana, Ditalak Mpanme, J. U. Ahmed","doi":"10.5296/ber.v12i4.20426","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5296/ber.v12i4.20426","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to scrutinize bank employees' perspectives on customer relationship management (CRM) practices in the banking sector, particularly private sector commercial banks operating in Goalpara District of Assam, India. The research plan consists of experimental in nature whereby different aspects of CRM in the banking sector have been extracted from the previous literature and tested on a sample size 24 number of employees working in the banks selected taking 3 each from 8 branches. Based on Bank Service Quality (BSQ) scale, variables were selected and analysed with the help of descriptive statistics and ranking analysis of identified parameters was utilized with the help of the Garret ranking technique. The study found that the loan facility and ATM facility along with service variety are found as the major product-related factors; timely services with trustworthy behaviour of the employees and the quality of services along with procedural simplicity and convenience is the most important service-related factors for evolving an effective CRM practice. The employee perceptions on the personal relationship of the bank officials with their customers’ staples in selecting the banks and retaining the customers.","PeriodicalId":37165,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Business and Economic Research","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73473436","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 formulation of policies on renewable energy is susceptible to conflicts of interest, which may paralyze the efficiency of the policies in driving sustainable development. A meta-analysis study was adopted to comprehensively explore the interplay between public interests and stakeholders' perceptions in the energy sector. Twenty-three studies will be selected following rigorous inclusion and exclusion criteria. The extracted data were also analyzed using HOMA and MARA. The study elucidated that the public is sensitive to procedural justice, distribution justice, placement, and trust. Conversely, stakeholders are devoted to ensuring energy autonomy and embracing renewable energy as a solution to the climatic issues associated with fossil fuels. If the interests of the two parties are harmonized, feasible policies that will be deemed acceptable by the public will be formulated.
{"title":"The Disjoint Between Stakeholders' and Voters' Positions on the Political Economy of Energy Policy","authors":"Heshan Sameera Kankanam Pathiranage","doi":"10.5296/ber.v12i4.20350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5296/ber.v12i4.20350","url":null,"abstract":"The formulation of policies on renewable energy is susceptible to conflicts of interest, which may paralyze the efficiency of the policies in driving sustainable development. A meta-analysis study was adopted to comprehensively explore the interplay between public interests and stakeholders' perceptions in the energy sector. Twenty-three studies will be selected following rigorous inclusion and exclusion criteria. The extracted data were also analyzed using HOMA and MARA. The study elucidated that the public is sensitive to procedural justice, distribution justice, placement, and trust. Conversely, stakeholders are devoted to ensuring energy autonomy and embracing renewable energy as a solution to the climatic issues associated with fossil fuels. If the interests of the two parties are harmonized, feasible policies that will be deemed acceptable by the public will be formulated.","PeriodicalId":37165,"journal":{"name":"African Journal of Business and Economic Research","volume":"96 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85230439","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 : 2022-12-06DOI: 10.31920/1750-4562/2022/v17n4a13
Ndivhuho Tshikovhi, T. Dobbelstein, S. Moyo
One of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic was on shopping behaviour patterns due to lockdown restrictions and social distancing requirements. In this study, South African and German millennials (those born between 1980 and 2002) are analyzed to determine their buying behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic in the year 2020. We demonstrate the choices of purchases amongst millennials between the two countries, that is, South Africa as an emerging and Germany as an advanced economy. This study shows how consumers' choice was influenced by the pandemic before, during, and after the first lockdown. Making use of an online survey (meaning accessing millennials with internet access in both countries), it was found from a data set of 949 millennials in Germany and 676 millennials in South Africa that millennial’s shopping behaviour varied for specific product categories before, during and after the lockdown. As a result, this study concluded by providing recommendations for retailers, policymakers and researchers taking into account a pandemic scenario.
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