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Author(s):
Editor in Chief.
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British Journal of Management and Marketing Studies, Volume 1 Issue 1, Full Issue
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British Journal of Management and Marketing Studies, Volume 1 Issue 1, Full Issue
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Author(s):
Oyewole Dadah, Oni Folashade Elizabeth.
Page No : 1-12
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Evaluation of Correlation Between Motivation and Business Ownership
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The task of entrepreneurship in the economic growth and development of developed economies like The United States, Britain, Japan, Canada and others challenges most developing economies including Nigeria to re-examined their developmental concept and plan and see enterprises development as very vital to their ever-increasing economic problems. As a result, womenfolk’s entrepreneurs have been seen as important variable in entrepreneurial development of the nation. However, more important is the understanding of the relationship between the factors that motivate women into entrepreneurship and their choice of business ownership. This paper is therefore focused on examining this phenomenon. Data for analysis was obtained from the women lists compiled by the Business Directory, and other associations of Nigerian Women in business within Ilorin and metropolis. Model of correlation coefficient was used to analyze the data from the primary source through the instrument of questionnaires. The findings of the survey showed that there is a significant relationship between entrepreneurial motivation and women choice of business ownership. Recommendations for policy making were offered based on these findings.
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Author(s):
Odunayo O. Akintokunbo (PhD).
Page No : 13-23
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Assessing the Connubial of Conflict Management Strategies and Organizational Effectiveness from the Paradigm of Social Exchange Theory
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The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of Conflict Management Strategies on Organizational Effectiveness of selected international oil producing companies in Nigeria. The study adopted the survey-cross sectional approach with a sample size of 300 Oil producing companies chosen based Onkrejcie and Morgan model. Copies of the survey imstrument were distributed to the senior managers of the 300 companies that form the sample size. 226, representing 81% of the research instrument was retrieved which was finally used to analyze data received for the purpose of testing hypotheses. The hypotheses were tested using Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient with the aid of SPSS version 20. The result of the tested hypotheses shows a significant relationship between the two variables. The study concludes that there is a strong positive relationship between conflict management strategies and organizational effectiveness in the oil producing companies in Nigeria. Therefore, we recommend that it is critically important for managers at every level in the oil producing companies to be trained and retrained in conflict management strategies in order to improve productivity and effectiveness.
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Author(s):
Koutou N’Guessan Claude.
Page No : 24-39
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Information and Communication Technologies for School Management in Côte d’Ivoire
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Côte d’Ivoire devotes a significant part of its budget to the construction of many educational infrastructures. However, these schools that are traditionally run need current ICTs for their efficient management. This paper highlights the impact of ICT in the school’s management in Côte d'Ivoire, precisely in Abidjan, Grand Bassam, Bonoua and Bingerville. The results of the survey carried out in urban and semi-urban areas show that 90% of establishments have an Internet connection. It has more or less a place among institutions in Abidjan and those of the interior in terms of use of management software. Nevertheless, less than 50% of managers are trained in the use of ICT. In addition, only 37% of functional email addresses.
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Author(s):
Moseri Nduka, Akinola Abisola Titilayo.
Page No : 40-48
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The Effect of Dividend Payment on Share Price of Listed Oil and Gas Firms in Nigeria
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The issue of dividend payment has a long history and some dividend theories are prominent in finance literatures. This study investigates the impact of dividend policy on share price of listed companies in the stock exchange market of the Nigeria economy from 2013 to 2017 on a panel data analysis. Given the crucial impact of the oil and gas sector in Nigeria, it becomes expedient to critically analyze the impact of dividend per share and other variables proxy for dividend that are likely to affect share prices in the oil and gas sector in Nigeria. The study adopted a simple statistical methodology. Some underlining theory of dividend policy in line with the efficient market hypothesis was adopted to practically test the efficacy of the model and if the research hypothesis result corroborates with other studies. Due to the numbers of firms operating in the oil and gas sector in Nigeria, the study uses the Yamane’s formula to derive the appropriate sample size while the Kolmogorov test was used to test for normality under the OLS assumption. The variables in the model are statistically significant and the coefficient of determination is very high, indicating that the total variation in the dependent variable are explained by the independent variables in the model. Therefore, the study found out that dividend per share (DPS) affect share price (SP) in the oil and gas sector in Nigeria.
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Author(s):
Omona-a Hamilton Horsfall (Ph.D), Prof. Leo U. Ukpong, Mrs. Uduak E. Joseph (Ph.D).
Page No : 49-69
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Comparative Study of Logistics Outsourcing and In-House Services on Customer Satisfaction Among Nigerian Manufacturing Companies
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This study compared logistics outsourcing and in-house logistics services as they affect customer satisfaction in terms of speed of service delivery, service flexibility, service dependability and service effectiveness. This study adopted survey design with questionnaire responses from 800 customers of the ten (10) outsourcing and ten (10) non-outsourcing manufacturing companies in Nigeria. A convenience sampling technique was applied and data collected were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The independent samples t-test was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The result showed that the average mean (m =13.96) scores value of the customers of outsourcing companies is greater than the average mean (m = 11.63) scores value of the customers from in-house services companies. Also, found that the mean (M =12.72) scores value of the outsourcing companies’ customers is greater than the average mean (m =10.74) scores value of the customers from in house services companies’ customers. The result also showed that the mean (m = 13.96) score value of the in-house services companies’ customers is higher than the mean (m = 13.72) scores value of the outsourcing companies’ customers. Based on the findings, it was recommended that manufacturing companies in Nigeria both outsourcing and in-house services should focus more on the core business activities they have advantages and can do better than its competitors. Then, outsource non-core business activities to other firms who can do it better than themselves.
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Author(s):
Mohammed Ndaliman Abubakar, Fatima Larai Alkali.
Page No : 70-77
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Assessing Customer’s Perception of Network Failure on Automated Teller Machine (ATM) Technologies
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Network failure is inevitable in every service organization. Though, network failure could affect customer satisfaction and re-patronage intentions negatively, it could also provide opportunities for service firms to prove their responsive ability (network recovery efforts), which in turn can surprise, and satisfy customers more than ever. Thus, this study assesses customers’ perceived rate of network failure on automated teller machines in Minna, metropolis. The study is basically a survey research and relied on consumer’s perceptions within Minna and its environs as the population of the study. The questionnaire instrument was used to generate data from 200 consumers (being the sample size), and the data was subsequently analyzed using descriptive statistics. The study finds that there is perceived high network failure rate among the Automated Teller Machines (ATM) in Minna. The study also finds that most of the banks network recovery management is has been good and satisfactory. The study, therefore, recommends that banks should purchase high quality technologies that will aid faster and rapidly response to customer complaints resulting from network failure to minimize customer’s frustrations assessing ATMs.
