Pub Date : 2024-04-23DOI: 10.1080/15228916.2024.2344136
A. Nsiah, George Tweneboah
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Pub Date : 2024-04-22DOI: 10.1080/15228916.2024.2344135
Indranarain Ramlall
Despite the existence of an extensive literature on determinants of bank profitability, there exists no paper which comprehensively weaves through this literature. We humbly undertake such a review...
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Pub Date : 2024-04-19DOI: 10.1080/15228916.2024.2344137
Jihad Ait Soussane, Dalal Mansouri, Zahra Mansouri
In this study, we investigate the impact of four religious factors on Moroccan outward FDI in African countries: the religious freedom index, religious tension index, religious similarity, and reli...
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Pub Date : 2024-04-14DOI: 10.1080/15228916.2024.2341353
Samuel Dawa, Henny Romijn, Aziiz Sutrisno
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Pub Date : 2024-04-04DOI: 10.1080/15228916.2024.2337351
Fekadu N. Deresse, Christian S. Otchia
This paper explores the impact of local workers’ communication skills (CS) on the transfer of soft and hard skills, and the effect of CS vis-à-vis practical skills (PS) on earnings, drawing on econ...
{"title":"Communication Skills at the Heart of Earnings and Skills Transfer: Evidence from Apparel Industry in Ethiopia","authors":"Fekadu N. Deresse, Christian S. Otchia","doi":"10.1080/15228916.2024.2337351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15228916.2024.2337351","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the impact of local workers’ communication skills (CS) on the transfer of soft and hard skills, and the effect of CS vis-à-vis practical skills (PS) on earnings, drawing on econ...","PeriodicalId":46981,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Business","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140565038","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 : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.1080/15228916.2024.2337336
Dirk De Clercq, Renato Pereira
If employees lack information about their job responsibilities, do they halt their voluntary work efforts, and if so, why and when? To answer these questions, this study attempts to unpack the rela...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-25DOI: 10.1080/15228916.2024.2333630
Karima Dhaouadi, Dorsaf Fliss
Using the Job Demands-Resources Model as a theoretical framing, the paper aims to investigate the association between job characteristics and burnout of the Tunisian police officers, taking the pot...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-23DOI: 10.1080/15228916.2024.2333620
David Rwehikiza, Goodluck Charles, Lettice Rutashobya
This article explores the role of managerial social ties in the performance of grain-milling firms in Tanzania. Specifically, it explores the composition of managerial social ties, investigates the...
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Pub Date : 2024-02-21DOI: 10.1080/15228916.2024.2321109
Paul Mukucha, Divaries Cosmas Jaravaza, Nomuhle Jaravaza
The advertising industry makes use of models that are chosen primarily for their physical attractiveness. The study was done in Zimbabwe. Since the Zimbabwean society is progressively becoming cosm...
{"title":"Featuring Women on Advertisements: Juxtaposing Afrocentric and Eurocentric Idealization of Body Size in Sub-Saharan Africa","authors":"Paul Mukucha, Divaries Cosmas Jaravaza, Nomuhle Jaravaza","doi":"10.1080/15228916.2024.2321109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15228916.2024.2321109","url":null,"abstract":"The advertising industry makes use of models that are chosen primarily for their physical attractiveness. The study was done in Zimbabwe. Since the Zimbabwean society is progressively becoming cosm...","PeriodicalId":46981,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Business","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139925077","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 : 2024-02-14DOI: 10.1080/15228916.2024.2314970
Gamel O. Wiredu
Innovations in digital platforms have led to strategic innovations of digital services which are exchanged between digital organizations and their customers. There are significant flows, not only o...
{"title":"The Strategic Innovation System: Flows of Innovation from Digital Platforms to Digital Services","authors":"Gamel O. Wiredu","doi":"10.1080/15228916.2024.2314970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15228916.2024.2314970","url":null,"abstract":"Innovations in digital platforms have led to strategic innovations of digital services which are exchanged between digital organizations and their customers. There are significant flows, not only o...","PeriodicalId":46981,"journal":{"name":"Journal of African Business","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139758769","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}