Pub Date : 2020-04-28DOI: 10.17265/1537-1506/2020.04.002
Mwansa Kamukwamba
The Tanzania Zambia Railway stretches 1,860 kilometers from the East African Indian Ocean port of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania to New Kapiri-Mposhi in land locked Zambia. It is defined as a bi-national organization as opposed to either transnational or multinational because it is jointly owned and managed by the Governments of Tanzania and Zambia. Its construction was made possible by Chinese interest-free loan to the two Governments. Few development projects in Africa have been charged with as much political and ideological dynamite as Tanzania Zambia Railway. To the Western powers, angry that the Chinese had entered territory which they considered their own preserve, it was a Red Railway intended to thrust communism into the very heart of Africa. For the white regimes in Southern Africa, grimly attempting to hold back demands for majority rule, it was seen as Africa’s Ho Chi Minh Trail, carrying guerrilla further, armed with Chinese thoughts and weapons to the banks of the Zambezi River. The Chinese regarded the project as a Friendship Route to strengthen the new African states against the forces of imperialism and for Tanzania and Zambia it was a Freedom Railway, which should prove an instrument in increasing their independence. These reactions underpin not only the complexity of the establishment and management of a bi-national organization but also present challenges to the two national trade unions on how best they can represent their members. Industrial relations literature has cited differences in countries’ historical, social, political, economic, and ideological background as the main obstacles in the development of collective bargaining machinery in transnational or multinational organizations. A study in Tanzania Zambia Railway Authority has attempted to develop an integrated bi-national collective bargaining machinery whose collective agreements are likely to be legally enforceable in their respective countries. This paper explores the development of trade unions in both Tanzania and Zambia which can be divided in three phases: first, the construction phase; second, the consolidation phase; and the third and final phase, trade union liberalization and political pluralism which covers the development of a bi national collective bargaining model with its Joint Industrial Council structure and negotiation procedures. The paper compares and contrasts trade union development in the two contracting states and critically examines how each phase has influenced trade union development. It provides a brief historical outline of collective bargaining process and spells out advantages and limitations of bi-national collective bargaining machinery. The paper concludes by observing that one of the main objectives of regional
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Pub Date : 2020-03-28DOI: 10.17265/1537-1506/2020.01.003
A. Mohsin, Hongzhen Lei
Women entrepreneurship is now a rapidly growing socio-economic phenomenon in developing country like Bangladesh. Women entrepreneurs’ development in the SME sector is one of the most important challenge. The research aims to analyze the factors related to the development of women entrepreneurship in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) sector of Bangladesh. The analysis is based on recent theoretical ideas that have been supported by empirical research findings. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used in this research. To analyze the factors we have interviewed 232 women entrepreneurs of SME businesses. The main tool of research was a structured questionnaire. This study illustrates an analytical framework based on institutional theory, which focuses on three kinds of factors: regulative, normative, and cognitive. Regulative factors refer to different rules and regulations of the Government that facilitate women entrepreneurship development of SMEs sector in Bangladesh. Normative and cognitive factors include norms, rules, regulation, and values of society. This study provides suggestions on how to overcome barriers and also many significant policy implications to improve women entrepreneurship in SMEs sector of Bangladesh.
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Pub Date : 2020-03-28DOI: 10.17265/1537-1506/2020.03.002
J. Alam
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an highly infectious respiratory disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus. Most people infected by the COVID-19 virus will experience mild to moderate respiratory illness and recover without requiring special treatment; a portion of infected people may die. Under coronavirous disease pandemic situation, human normal life, movement and business has been disturbed due to lockdown and closing of shopping malls and business centers in the city. Nowadays, e-commerce is a vigorous tool for diminishing streaming business processes, cycle time, organizational costs, stay at home, maintain social distancing, protect from virus, and enlightening associations with both shoppers and business partners. The research investigated the buying behavior of Bangladeshi shoppers under coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic situation in case of online perspective. The research reconnoitered the impact of five aspects: health aspect, price aspect, product aspect, trust aspect, and place aspect on online buying behavior under coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic situation in Bangladesh. Data were collected through a structured questionnaire by online survey method from 155 samples which encompass online shoppers in country. Simple random sampling technique were used. Data were analyzed using factor analysis, reliability analysis, and multiple regression analysis. Findings revealed that four out of five aspects: health aspect, price aspect, product aspect, and place aspect had a positive and significant influence on online buying behavior under coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic situation in the perspective of Bangladesh. The assessment generates responsiveness among online practicing companies, researchers, managers, shoppers, and prospects online buyers. Online functioning businesses could be a successful leading aspects for explaining online buying behavior under coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic situation in the context of Bangladesh.
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Pub Date : 2020-03-28DOI: 10.17265/1537-1506/2020.03.001
Elmekdad Shehab
As the coronavirus pandemic spreads through the continents, it has dramatically disrupted everything in the global economy from stock markets and supply chains to oil and food prices, and in seeking to restrict the spread of COVID -19, governments are shutting down whole commercial sectors which could cause a huge recession in some countries as the United Nations have already warned. All these new circumstances have raised again the fundamental questions about the future of our global economy. Therefore, this paper has tried to make sense of how the post-pandemic global economy would look like by shedding light on Jeremy Rifkin’s theory of the new industrial revolution and the coming disruption in the global market.
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Pub Date : 2020-03-28DOI: 10.17265/1537-1506/2020.03.003
Meher Neger, B. Uddin
The aim of the study was to investigate the factors affecting consumers’ internet shopping behavior during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Bangladesh. The study measured the influence of product factor, price factor, time saving factor, payment factor, security factor, administrative factor, and psychological factor on consumers’ internet shopping behavior during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. The research collected data from May 10, 2020 to June 10, 2020 in personal interview by online survey method through a structured questionnaire with five-point Likert scales from 230 Bangladeshi online consumers. Non-probability sampling method was used. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics analysis, reliability analysis, and multiple regression analysis. Results exhibited that all factors except price factor and security factor had a momentous and positive association with consumers’ internet shopping behavior during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Bangladesh. It has implications for e-marketing practicing firms regarding the real strategy of online shopping for Bangladeshi consumers during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Bangladesh. down. The is now the lively enlargement of shopping. The research examines the factors influencing consumers’ internet shopping behavior during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in the South Asian country like Bangladesh. The present study evaluates the impact of seven factors: product factor, price factor, time saving factor, payment factor, security factor, administrative factor and psychological factor on consumers’ internet shopping behavior during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Results of the study demonstrate that product factor, time saving factor, payment factor, administrative factor and psychological factor have a vigorous and positive association with consumers’ internet shopping behavior during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in the context of Bangladesh.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-28DOI: 10.17265/1537-1506/2020.01.001
Silvana Secinaro, V. Brescia, Daniel Iannaci, Federico Chmet
Leasing is confirmed among the preferred forms of financing by SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises), even if its use grows both among large companies and private individuals. The stipulated in Europe increased in 2017 by 8.3% over the previous year. From 1 January 2019 the new accounting standard IFRS 16 is in force, which concerns the accounting of leasing contracts. The new methods of accounting for leasing contracts in the financial statements drawn up based on international accounting standards come into force. In fact, as from 1 January 2019, the IAS adopters are required to apply the new IFRS 16 standard, introduced in place of IAS 17, with the aim of standardizing the methods for recognizing leasing contracts in the financial statements. Scientifically, the most important researches concerning leasing have dealt with the topic focusing on accounting harmonization, accounting for leasing, capitalization of leasing and tax. Through the theoretical analysis and the simulation of our case study we want to answer a question: How the change in the accounting of leases is reflected in the financial statements?
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Pub Date : 2020-01-28DOI: 10.17265/1537-1506/2020.01.002
Athanasios D. Karampouzis, Dimitrios Ginoglou
This paper is a step-by-step attempt in applying two different valuation methodologies on privately held firms in Greece. Initially the two methodologies—free cash flows to equity and the price-to-sales multiple (P2S)—are being explained. These two models are further developed under the Greek accounting standards (especially the first model, being a more fundamental approach), in order to be applied afterwards more correctly to Greek firms’ data, leading to adjusted forms. The application of these two models comes right next upon privately held food & drinks firms’ financial statements, collected for each year (2013 up to 2015). The final step consists of the analysis and discussion of the results with the help of descriptive statistics (frequencies), as well as the pearson statistic, as a simple correlation tool.
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Pub Date : 2019-12-28DOI: 10.17265/1537-1506/2019.04.001
M. Omar, P. Mason
Supply chain management (SCM) and its associated activities continue to evolve as new communication technologies and cooperative efforts emerge to facilitate system-wide process integration; the context within which supply chains (SCs) operate, the technologies, and performance enhancement mechanisms have all changed. Thus, linear-based SCs are increasingly being challenged as firms look towards a more networked approach to maximize performance amid growing market dynamics. This paper, however, recognizing inherent similarities between social structure of Social Internet of Things (SIoT) principles and what we term supply community networks (SCN) from literature, seeks to cross-pollinate the two in a way capable of dealing with these market dynamics. Our contribution is, therefore, a new ‘setting’ of social relationships between supply community agents (SCA) within SCN mirroring interactions played out in the physical world; SCAs autonomously sense each other, exchange information and interact within SCN mimicking the behavior of humans. Also, it identifies the bounds of flow, i.e. all possible dimensions within a SCN which need to be understood to support relationship management. Therefore, communications are improved, sharpening SCAs synchronization in a way responsive to customer needs.
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Pub Date : 2019-12-28DOI: 10.17265/1537-1506/2019.04.002
A. Zhou
During the past 40 years following the reform and opening-up policy of 1978, China’s social structure has seen great changes, which include the birth and rapid development of the Chinese middle class as a derivative and consequence of modernization. They are the main source of consumption in contemporary China and display unique characteristics in their consumption practices. Consumption is not only a daily practice, but also a means of demonstrating and forming identity. In this media era, media play an important role in people’s consumption practices and identity formation. In this study, semi-structured interviews were carried out with members of the Chinese middle class to study the relationship between consumption, identity, and media through their oral accounts. Moreover, problems, including the characteristics of middle-class consumption practices and how they use consumption to form identity, were analyzed. This study not only complements studies on the sociology of consumption of the Chinese middle class, but also is of great practical significance for deepening our understanding of the behavioral and ideological characteristics of the Chinese middle class.
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Pub Date : 2019-12-28DOI: 10.17265/1537-1506/2019.04.003
MaanAlkhateeb
Exporting is of great interest for SMEs in Jordan from both microeconomic and macroeconomic perspective. The objective of this study was to identify to what extent specific internal factors contribute to export success of SMEs in Jordan. This study hypothesized that export performance of SMEs is directly affected by three groups of internal factors. These include firm characteristics, managerial characteristics, and marketing strategy. A multiple case approach is used to conduct this research and a structured interview is developed to collect the data directly from the participants. A pattern matching approach was used to test the hypotheses. The results show that export performance is positively affected by firm characteristics, managerial characteristics, and marketing strategy. Additionally, the demographic characteristics of managers and adaptation of distribution channels are unlikely to have an influence on export performance. This was unexpected, because of the plenty of empirical evidences in the literature that support the impact of these variables on export success.
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