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Volume 13 Number 4 Year 2014

19 articles in this issue 

Chengedzai Mafini, Manilall Dhurup

The determinants of how and why people shop has been a topical matter to many people for many years. This had a stimulus effect on the development and proliferation of a diversity of consumer typologies. The purpose of this study was to develop a typology... see more

 

Joel Hinaunye Eita

This paper analyses the causal relationship between interest rate and stock market return in Namibia for the period 1996 to 2012. The analysis was done through cointegrated vector autoregression methods. The analysis reveals that there is a negative relat... see more

 

Theuns G. Pelser

The ability to innovate and exploit innovations globally in a rapid and efficient manner is a significant source of competitive advantage. However, the management of innovation is made difficult by the complexity, unpredictability, and pace of turbulence ... see more

 

Johannes A. Wiid, Michael C. Cant, Corinne E. Nell

The purpose of this study was to determine South African students perceptions and uses of social media networking systems. The study further determined whether students are making use of social media networking systems, the purpose of making use of social... see more

 

Roshni Narendran

The purpose of the study is to delineate the impact of national and industry-specific government interventions and the influence of political parties in power. The study employs an interrupted time series design from the annual national coir export data (... see more

 

Prakash Singh

In any organization, there are definite signs of the fear of failure, which impacts negatively on the organizations culture and consequently inhibits the employees outputs. Managing human resources becomes a challenge in any organization because of the em... see more

 

Luis San Vicente Portes, Vidya Atal

The Economist magazine has been publishing the Big Mac Index using it as a rule of thumb to determine the over- or under-valuation of international currencies based on the theory of Purchasing Power Parity since 1986. According to the theory, using the Bi... see more

 

Orose Leelakulthanit

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors affecting the intention to buy LED lamps on the part of adult Bangkokians that are the purchase decision-makers and are aware of LED lamps. A multiple regression model was employed to investigate the... see more

 

Humoud Almutairi

This study analyzes and compares the competitive advantage of taxation for six members of the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC): Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. The GCC countries enjoy one of the least demanding tax... see more

 

Louis Martinette, Alice Obenchain-Leeson, Gladys Gomez, Jessica Webb

This study examines the influence of learning orientation on business performance (achievement of sales and profit objectives) in the context of pure service, specifically that of public accounting services firms. The conceptual framework used in this res... see more

 

Pedro M. Nogueira Reis, Marion Gomes Augusto

Company valuation models attempt to estimate the value of a company in two stages: (1) comprising of a period of explicit analysis and (2) based on unlimited production period of cash flows obtained through a mathematical approach of perpetuity, which is ... see more

 

Neetu Kaushik, Raja Nag, Kamal P. Upadhyaya

This paper studies the effect of oil price change on the real exchange rate between the Indian rupee and the U.S. dollar. For that, a model is developed which is based on a monetary model of exchange rate which incorporates the real GDP, real money balanc... see more

 

David Bote, Stephen Mago, Costa Hofisi

This study breaks new ground by looking at an innovative financial approach of livestock banking vis-vis rural finance. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the validity and feasibility of cattle banking as an alternative innovative financing strategy... see more

 

Suren Pillay, Pieter Buys

Sustainability reporting in South Africa has emerged strongly in the last decade with evidence suggesting that corporate social responsibility assurance prevalence is growing among the top 100 publicly-listed companies. Multinational motor vehicle manufac... see more

 

C. van Wyk, A. M. Pelser

Discipline is an important aspect of the life of any school. Learning and teaching can only take place effectively in a disciplined environment. In South Africa, discipline policies might not have been effectively implemented due to inadequate sources, la... see more

 

Xiaofeng Zhao

This paper examines the unusual and puzzling stock price performance of USEC Inc. during July 2013. The stock price surged as much as ten times during merely sixteen trading days without apparent value-changing information being released. Four possible re... see more

 

Mohamed Imam Salem

Business incubators are perceived to be a mainstay of economic development programs. They create value by combining the entrepreneurial drive of a startup with resources generally available to new ventures. Among the primary objectives of business incubat... see more

 

Clifford Kendrick Hlatywayo, Tawanda Zingwe, Tatenda Shaleen Mhlanga, Bukhosi Dumoluhle Mpofu

Women exposure to quality education and equity legislation has accelerated their participation in the workplace. The study investigated the relationship between emotional stability, stress, and work-family conflict among female bank employees in the borde... see more

 

Francois van Dyk, Gary van Vuuren, Andre Heymans

The Sharpe ratio is widely used as a performance evaluation measure for traditional (i.e., long only) investment funds as well as less-conventional funds such as hedge funds. Based on mean-variance theory, the Sharpe ratio only considers the first two mom... see more