Aims: This paper was designed to identify the differences and similarities between business travelers using low-cost carriers (LCCs) and full-service carriers (FSCs) in the GCC region. Research on the characteristics of business travelers, who are seen as an important market segm...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/10836
Aims: The purpose of this research paper is to explore the most critical unanticipated challenges facing business people in the UAE and to explore ideas and strategies to overcome these problems. Study Design: Semi-structured interview. Place and Duration: UAE business organizati...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/10135
Our paper synopsizes our empirical research over the past twenty years on the components of success across the organization. While many articles detailing multi-dimensional models of success have been published, few of these articles have studied success across all structural lev...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/9574
The study was carried out to establish the perception of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) by short-term insurance companies in Zimbabwe’s second capital city, Bulawayo. The Zimbabwean insurance companies have not adopted ERM despite the benefits that this holistic approach to ris...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/10242
This paper examines the impact of risk management on economic development in developing countries. Based on data from the World Bank, we use a sample of seventy-eight developing economies and find that selected risk indicators do have an effect on economic development in these co...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/10378
This study compares export performance for seven agricultural commodities prior to, during and after initiation of the Agricultural Diversification project (1991-1999) in Ghana. This is to help identify the impact of the initiative on Ghana’s agricultural exports and to ascertain...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/10715
Annual GDP growth rate in the period of 2000 – 2006 averaged to 7.5% and the inflation was approximately 5%. In the period of 2007-2012, Vietnam’s macroeconomic policy shifted to the aggregated demand management policy. This research used the Keynes – Leontief relation to estimat...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/10160
This study analysed peasant farmers’ access to agricultural credit in Benue State, Nigeria. Data were collected from 130 randomly sampled peasant farmers in Benue State using a structured questionnaire. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were used to analyse data c...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/3883
Aims: Knowledge and skills needed to be possessed and used by marketing practitioners in order to improve marketing management and firm performance are identified in this paper. Study Design: The data from a survey, where marketing managers, academics and senior students in Slove...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/10300
Aims: The purpose of the study is to make a case for the development of middle-range models for use in developing markets by modifying the Elton and Gruber (1976) model to come up with semi-optimized index-tracking models with desirable tracking and excess return features. Study...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/8687