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Impact of Job Rotation on Organizational Performance

Austin O. Oparanma & Lawrence I. Nwaeke · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2015

This paper attempts to examine the effects of job rotation and employees’ performances in business organizations. It was mainly concerned with assessing, evaluating, and ascertaining the overall impact of job rotation on productivity, improvement of skills, talents, and correctio...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJEMT/2015/12051

Perception on Organisational Attractiveness: An African Sample

Paul Okon Udofot, Emem Bassey Inyang & Anietie Peter Akpan · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2015

A major concern of entrepreneurs worldwide is how to identify and engage the services of workers that would stay for a reasonable period of time with minimal personnel turnover consequences on the organization. Understanding the worker’s initial attraction to the organization pro...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJEMT/2015/16537

Do Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) Really Increase Vietnam’s Foreign Trade and Inward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)?

Hoang Chi Cuong, Tran Thi Nhu Trang & Dong Thi Nga · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2015

Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), the first stage of economic integration, can have possible impacts on member countries through foreign direct investment (FDI) and foreign trade. In this study, we attempt to evaluate the impacts of FTAs that Vietnam has engaged successfully recently...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJEMT/2015/16253

Determinants of Competitive Advantage in the Textile and Apparel Industry in Tanzania: The Application of Porter’s Diamond Model

John Mboya & Khatibu Kazungu · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2015

This study explores the magnitude of the key attributes underlying competitive advantages in the textile and apparel industry in Tanzania by using Porter’s Diamond Model (PDM). The sampling design used in this study is non-probability and data were collected from 204 respondents...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJEMT/2015/16208

Big Events and the Structural Changes of Foreign Trade in Guangdong Province of China

Qishui Chi & Yue Mao · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2015

Foreign trade in Guangdong province of China plays an important role in the country and even the whole world. There are two kinds of big events which may impact Guangdong’s imports and exports, one is universal events such as the outbreak of financial crisis in 2008, the other is...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJEMT/2015/16562

The Clients of Specialized Organic Retailers in Italy

Fabio Maria Santucci & Francesco Diotallevi · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2015

Aims: The organic share of the Italian food market is still small, probably below 2%, but is growing steadily, with a progressive expansion of different typologies of points of sale. The Italian consumers of organic products have been studied by many authors, from different point...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJEMT/2015/16425

The Impact of Globalisation on the Growth of Nigerian Economy from 1960-2010: Error Correction Model Analysis

I. M. Shuaib, Ekeria O. Augustine & Ogedengbe A. Frank · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2015

The paper empirically examined the impact of globalization on the growth of Nigerian economy using times-series data from 1960 to 2010. The paper utilized secondary data and various econometrics and/or statistical packages analytical (View 7.2) method were explored to examine the...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJEMT/2015/14698

Location of a Competitor and the Regional Innovation Activity of Industrial Systems in Transition Country–Poland’s Case Study

Arkadiusz Swiadek · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2015

Aims: Spatial proximity with competitive enterprises is a factor influencing the acceleration of the technological progress in industrial systems in the most developed countries, but is it like that also in Poland? The main objective of the conducted studies was the identificatio...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJEMT/2015/14355

An Empırıcal Investigation of the Contributıon of Agriculture, Petroleum and Development of Human Capital to the Economıc Growth in Nıgeria, 1970-2012

Charles Uche Ugwuanyi & Matthew Abula · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2015

An empirical investigation of the contribution of agriculture, petroleum, human capital to the economic growth in Nigeria were carried out in this paper by employing cointegration test, Granger causality test and ordinary least square techniques, using the data of annual time ser...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJEMT/2015/14856

The Impact of International Remittances on the Nigerian Economy

Joseph Chukwudi Odionye & Okwudili Beede Emerole · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2015

The study investigated the impact of international remittances on the Nigerian economy. The recent global surge in remittance flows and the twin consequences of migration and remittances on economic development have become contemporary topical issues. Thus the need to obtain evid...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJEMT/2015/13290

The Significance of International Financial Reporting Standards to Emerging Economy of Nigeria

Jones Osasuyi Orumwense · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2015

This paper explores the relevance of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) to emerging economies in general and Nigeria in particular. The research uses evidence from interviews conducted with senior officers from two Big Four accountancy firms in Nigeria and prior s...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJEMT/2015/13198

Impairment Analysis of Non-current Assets under DCF Based-test in the Jordanian Industrial Shareholding Companies

Mohammad Ebrahim Nawaiseh · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2015

Aims: To examine the significance differences between discounted operating cash flow associated with non-current assets and the impairment loss for 2005 compared to 2006, 2006 compared to 2007, 2007 compared to 2008.Moreover,estimating value in use through future cash flows attri...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJEMT/2015/12880