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Investigating the factors that influence brand choice of hair dye with special reference to Western province in Sri Lanka

In today’s fiercely competitive world, it is very important for the marketers to realize and figure out the aspects that are necessary to deal with the competitors, changing customer tastes and preferences. The strong competition in terms of product similarity and increased number of challenging brands in the market have led the marketers to think about and study the factors that are influential in consumers’ brand choice decisions. Brand choice is a vital factor for the success of any brand. at present globally, hair colorants are a rapidly growing over seven billion industry and also Sri Lankan hair dye category has seen a growth in both volume and unit. This study intends to determine factors which affect the brand choice of hair dye. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches were used. The data of the study was collected from the customers who use hair dye, in western province Sri Lanka. The study uses a judgmental sampling. The findings of the study show that Quality, brand image, product features and price are the key variables that influence the brand choice of hair dye and among those quality is the most important and influential factor in brand choice while promotion has negative impact on brand choice. Further finding reveled “Friends and family” does not have a significant impact on brand choice of hair dye.
Job satisfaction among doctors and nurses: a case study of federal medical centre Yola, Nigeria

Background: The quality of performance in the health sector to a large extent depends on whether health care providers are job satisfied or dissatisfied. The prevalence of dissatisfaction among doctors and nurses has not been given considerable attention in Nigeria though it affects patient satisfaction and is associated with reduced quality of care. This study assessed the level and factors determining job satisfaction among doctors and nurses in a federal tertiary institution. Methods: A descriptive cross sectional study was conducted involving 58 doctors and 182 nurses. Data was collected using a self-administered structured questionnaire designed with a 5 point Lickert scale that determined various levels and factors of job satisfaction that relate to 4 domains: the hospital management, hospital facilities, health care providers and pay and benefits. Scores were added to give an aggregate score for each domain and overall. Independent t-test was used to test for statistical significance in satisfaction levels between doctors and nurses. A p-value of ≤ 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: Overall 57.5% of respondents were satisfied or very satisfied, 18.9% neutral and 23.5% dissatisfied or very dissatisfied with all work domains. Doctors were significantly more satisfied than nurse with the hospital facilities; t=2.007, p= 0.046, while nurses were significantly more satisfied with their pay and benefits; t=-3.20, p =0.002. Conclusion: Most respondent in this study were satisfied with their jobs with minority satisfied with their remuneration. There is therefore a need to address the issue of improved remuneration for doctors and nurses.
Family Responsibilities in Academia: Premiums, Penalties, and Policies

Recommended Citation Manchester, C. (2020). Family Responsibilities in Academia: Premiums, Penalties, and Policies. In E. Kossek & K. -H. Lee (Eds.), Fostering Gender and Work-Life Inclusion for Faculty in Understudied Contexts: An Organizational Science Lens (pp. 122-128). West Lafayette, IN: Purdue e-Pubs. DOI: 10.5703/ 1288284317221. Retrieved from https://docs.lib. purdue.edu/worklifeinclusion/2018/dwlgicg/1
EXAMINING THE FACTORS INFLUENCING ACCESS TO CREDITS AMONG MICRO AND SMALL AGRO BASED ENTERPRISES IN TAMALE METROPOLIS

Access to credits has been noted as a teething problem among Agro based Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs). The study examined the perceptions of Micro Enterprise Operators as well as their access to formal and informal credit schemes in the Tamale Metropolis and Sagnarigu District Assemblies of the Northern region of Ghana. A sample of 155 entrepreneurs was selected through multistage sampling technique. The method of analysis involved descriptive statistics and an estimation of a binary logit model. Majority of the entrepreneurs (58.1 %) had no formal education. the percentages of the entrepreneurs who had received training and those who hadn't were 40.5 and 59.5. Lastly, Credit from non-banking institutions was commoner than those from banking institutions. The interest rates charged were generally perceived to be high, especially that of the formal credit schemes. This negatively affected profits. The net effect is that the credit borrowed did not significantly change their businesses. This was especially so with the formal credits. The factors that positively influenced access to formal credit were as follows: age, marital status, formal education, total earnings of the business, distance to formal credit sources and the number of casual employees. In the case of informal credit, the positive determinants of access were age of entrepreneur, total income earnings, age of the enterprise, distance to the source of informal credit schemes and the number of permanent employees. There is the need to step up formal education in the area as well as business training for the current entrepreneurs. The formal financial institutions may have to revise their interest rates downwards if their loans are to be patronized. Government may also want to step up its efforts at granting soft loans to these young entrepreneurs. II www.udsspace. uds.edu. gh
Implementation Strategies for Change Initiatives

Implementation Strategies for Change Initiatives by Justin LeGrand Jones MS, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, 2016 BS, Clemson University, 2013 Doctoral Study Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Business Administration Walden University March 2019 Abstract Many change initiatives fail because business leaders often lack the strategies for successful implementation. The inability of business leaders to successfully implement change initiatives can result in missing deadlines, increasing costs, and reduced employee productivity and morale. Grounded by Lewin’s change management model and Kotter’s 8-step change model, the purpose of this multiple case study was to explore strategiesMany change initiatives fail because business leaders often lack the strategies for successful implementation. The inability of business leaders to successfully implement change initiatives can result in missing deadlines, increasing costs, and reduced employee productivity and morale. Grounded by Lewin’s change management model and Kotter’s 8-step change model, the purpose of this multiple case study was to explore strategies aerospace manufacturing managers in the Midwest Region of the United States used to implement successful change initiatives. Data were collected through face-to-face semistructured interviews with 3 aerospace manufacturing managers and a review of company documents. Data were analyzed using methodological triangulation, coding, and thematic analysis to identify patterns and themes. Three main themes emerged from the data analysis: well-defined and measurable goals improved the ability to track and measure the change implementation, teamwork improved employee involvement and collaboration, and communication improved transparency and employee support. The implications for positive social change include the potential to improve aircraft safety by reducing aviation accidents and keeping communities safe from loss of life. Implementation Strategies for Change Initiatives by Justin LeGrand Jones MS, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, 2016 BS, Clemson University, 2013 Doctoral Study Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Business Administration Walden University March 2019 Acknowledgments I would like to thank my entire doctoral committee for their continuous support, guidance, and encouragement throughout this process. To my chair, Dr. Jamiel Vadell, my second committee member, Dr. Theresa Neal, and to my URR, Dr. Doug Keevers, I just want to let you all know that I appreciate everything you all have done to help through this academic journey. I would also like to thank my wife because without her none of this would have been possible.
Acquisition process factors that influence the performance of Australian publicly listed acquirers

This thesis reports a study of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) of publicly listed companies in Australia over the period 1992 to 2001. The focus of the research is the identification of the key factors that define preconditions and pathways of M&As and affect the post-acquisition performance of the combined entity. The theoretical framework used portrays the M&A process as a means of achieving shareholder objectives and managerial personal objectives. The M&A phases (pre-deal, selection of the target, method of payment and post-acquisition management) were placed in an agency context. The theoretical framework also considers the interactions between phases and their moderated influence on performance. Propositions were developed to predict direct and moderated relationships between the various factors identified in the process phases and post-acquisition performance, measured as accounting and market returns, adjusted for prior performance and post-acquisition industry performance and combined size. The propositions were tested using a sequence of univariate and multiple regressions and contingency analyses. The results of the regression analyses showed that adjusted long-term postacquisition performance is influenced by board size, the timing of the acquisition in relation to the merger wave, industry relatedness between acquirer and target, relative size and method of payment. The size of the board of directors was found to have a nonlinear relationship with post-acquisition adjusted returns on assets but no significant relationship with the adjusted market returns. The timing of the acquisition in relation to the merger wave had a negative relationship only with the post-acquisition market returns. Unrelated acquisitions performed worse than related acquisitions in terms of adjusted returns on assets. Relative size and the percentage of cash used to pay for the acquisition presented positive relationships with performance regardless of which performance measure was used.
The Effect of Director’s Experience on Target Firm’s Industry in Acquisitions

This paper provides new evidence on the impact of acquiring company’s directors’ characteristics in mergers and acquisitions. M&A literature has studied ages the effects of different firm-, boardand deal-attributes. However, acquisition literature has more recently been raising interest towards corporate governance’s effects. More precisely, the interest has been in personal-specific features, such as experience. My study implies that boards with industry experience on target firm receive lower acquisition announcement returns in non-diversifying transactions. This finding is new to the existing acquisitionand corporate governance related literature.
Risk Sharing Through Capital Gains

We estimate channels of international risk sharing between European Monetary Union (EMU), European Union, and other OECD countries 1992-2007. We focus on risk sharing through savings, factor income flows, and capital gains. Risk sharing through factor income and capital gains was close to zero before 1999 but has increased since then. Risk sharing from capital gains, at about 6 percent, is higher than risk sharing from factor income flows for European Union countries and OECD countries. Risk sharing from factor income flows is higher for Euro zone countries, at 14 percent, reflecting increased international asset and liability holdings in the Euro area.
Bank Funding and Risk Taking

In this paper we use a novel approach to address issues of endogeneity in estimating a causal effect of leverage on risk taking by banks. Using data on local bank office deposits and local unemployment we construct an instrument to use in a regression of leverage on a measure of risk taking constructed from new issuance of loans. The results confirm that banks increase their risk taking after an exogenous increase in leverage.
Can reforming the pre-university public educational sector in Egypt through privatization influence its quality?

This research investigated the possibility of privatizing pre-university or basic education in Egypt. The pre-university education consists of three levels: primary education (six years), preparatory education (three years) and high school education (three years). The researcher employed the qualitative approach using semi-structured face-to-face interviews to collect answers to the research questions. The main findings of the research suggest that there are a huge demand on private schools in Egypt specially schools that teach English-based curriculum. Privatization in education could be one of the effective solutions to raise the quality of education, expand educational services and reduce the financial burden on the government. Recommendation suggests a gradual implementation to privatization of preuniversity education in Egypt using the school vouchers system with taking in consideration concerns of teachers, schools managements, parents, students, and private sector.
PENGARUH STRATEGI BISNIS DAN KARAKTERISTIK PERUSAHAAN TERHADAP PENGHINDARAN PAJAK

This study aimed to examine the effect of business strategy and corporate characteristics on tax avoidance. The theory used in this research is agency theory. The sample that used in this research are manufacturing company during 2012-2016, based on purposive sampling method was obtained 12 companies. Variable business strategy use 2 strategies by companies is defender and prospector measured using variable dummy. Corporate characteristics used in this study is the profitability measured by the ratio of ROA, leverage, and size. The dependent variable using CETR proxy. The data in this research was processed using SPSS with multiple linear regression method. The results of this research shows that the profitability and size have a significant influence to the tax avoidance. Based on the test results, obtained a significance value of 0,010 and 0,037. Business strategies and leverage do not have influence to the tax avoidance. Keywords : business strategy, corporate characteristics, leverage, profitability, size, and tax avoidance.
Are Swedish housing markets duration dependent

Sweden’s rapidly growing housing sector, and the long-last boom it’s experienced even in a global financial crisis, has been the topic for several recent studies. In this thesis, we examine house price data from 279 Swedish municipalities during the years 1981-2016 to test for duration dependence. We include municipality-specific growth in real income and population, and a national level real mortgage rate. To test for duration dependence, we use a linear probability model as our benchmark regression, and expand on this using a logit specification. The estimations on the contraction phases are inconsistent, and we can therefore not conclude that contraction phases exhibit duration dependence. The estimations on expansion phases indicate that duration dependence is present.
An Investigation of Pooled Purchasing as a Source of Value Creation in Diversifying Acquisitions

We take a broad product-market approach to examine whether pooled purchasing is a source of value creation in diversifying acquisitions. We find that our proxies for the merging firms’ change in purchasing concentration are positively related to the combined wealth effect of merging firms, positively related to the change in the gross profit margin of merging firms, negatively related to the wealth effects of main common supplier-industry firms and acquirer-industry rival firms, and unrelated to the wealth effects of main common customer-industry firms. We document a postacquisition decrease in output prices with no concomitant decrease in revenues for the main common supplier industry. We also document a decrease in output prices and an increase in revenues for the acquirer’s industry. Our firm- and industry-level evidence suggests that the benefits of pooled purchasing in diversifying acquisitions come from an efficiency-increasing volume-discount channel rather than anticompetitive channels.
Immune responses to hepatitis B vaccination in hospital staff.

: Hepatitis B vaccine (H. B. Vax), has been available for staff in the Portsmouth District Hospitals since 1983. Results from anti-HBs monitoring of recipients indicated high percentages of suboptimal responders and vaccine failures after three injections into the gluteal muscle. A single revaccination into the deltoid muscle boosted antibody status in suboptimal responders and should effect a more durable immunity in this situation.
The use of ultrasonography in the diagnosis of gastrointestinal disease in dogs.

The importance of gastrointestinal disorders arise from the fact that they are one of the most common cause of presentation to clinicians. Thus, formulating a clear diagnosis is a ”must do” in determining disease, using ultrasound technology with great value in that it can detect inner lesions, thus observing the location of the gastrointestinal pathological processes. Investigations were conducted on 36 dogs of different breeds and ages, of whom 12 cases representing 33.33% showed only gastric disorders, 9 subjects representing 25% only intestinal disease and the remaining 15 cases, representing 41.77% showed associated gastric and intestinal disorders. Ultrasound-diagnosed disease were represented by gastritis (24 cases), pyloric hypertrophy (three patients), enteritis (22 cases) and intussusception (two cases).
Chinese farmers’ cooperatives and smallholder farmers

The general objective of this research is to obtain a better understanding of the characteristics and the development path of Chinese cooperatives and the effect of cooperatives on Chinese smallholder farmers. This objective is realized by identifying and assessing economic and non-economic factors affecting Chinese farmers’ choice of participating in cooperatives, evaluating the impact of cooperatives on farmers’ choice of production behaviour and marketing channels, and discussing the possibility for cooperatives to sustainably develop. The objective is achieved by answering four specific research questions from Chapter 2 to Chapter 5. Both qualitative and quantitative research methods have been used to answer these questions. In Chapter 2, a comparative literature research is conducted to answer the 1st research question. Chapters 3 to 5 are based on field survey data collected among apple farmer households and apple farmer cooperatives and employ endogenous switching probit models, ndogenous treatment regression models and structural equation models, respectively. The main conclusions are as follows. (1) Chinese cooperatives distinguish themselves from their counterparts in Western Europe mainly from six key aspects ranging from the initiation to the government’s role played in the cooperative development. (2) Cooperative membership has a significantly positive effect on the choice of wholesalers as marketing channels, along with a negative effect on choosing small dealers and an insignificant effect on choosing cooperatives as a marketing outlet. (3) Cooperative membership has a significantly positive effect on yields, but no significant effect on profits per unit area. (4) Both trust and social pressure are positively associated with affective commitment, continuance commitment and normative commitment in a direct way. Furthermore, trust positively influences affective member commitment indirectly via the partial mediator of member participation. The results and conclusions from this study provide insights into ways in which the government can enhance its support for cooperatives to help smallholder farmers cope with the challenges of China’s modern food markets.
Seed for change : the making and implementation of seed policies in Ethiopia

In Ethiopia, new policy actors and arenas have emerged as a result of major changes that took place in the political and economic system in the early 1990s: the separation of state powers between the legislature and the executive, and the decision to move towards a market-oriented economic system. These are important bases that define the policy making processes. However, the mere separation of power and emergence of new actors do not necessarily guarantee effectiveness of the established system, and thus need analysis. Focusing on the four years of discussions on developing seed law, this chapter analyse show the emergence of new actors and new policy arenas has influenced the process and outcome of policy making in the Ethiopian seed sector. Furthermore, it sheds a new light on policy making processes in Ethiopia, considering policy making as a process involving multiple actors, arenas and interactions between policy actors. The analysis reveals that the new policy arenas provided opportunities for actors to place their preferred policy options on the agenda, and get them incorporated into the draft seed law. However, mainly because of a blurred separation of power between the executive and the legislature, decision making ultimately remained firmly in the hands of the executive. 6 This chapter is based on an article published in Public Policy and Administration Research, 6(2), as: Mohammed Hassena, Otto Hospes and Bram De Jonge (2016), ‘Reconstructing policy decision-making in the Ethiopian seed sector: actors and arenas influencing policy making process’. Chapter 2: Reconstructing policy decision-making 16 C h a p te r 2 2.
The consumer of food products in organic markets of central Mexico

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the characteristics of consumers of organic food, based on their motivations. Design/methodology/approach A questionnaire based on the Food Choice Questionnaire was applied to a 656 consumers. A multivariate factor analysis and cluster analysis was performed to the data. Findings Seven factors were identified: ecological concern; nutritional content; availability of natural products; sensory aspects; certifications, health and confidence; and economic aspects. Resulting clusters were named as: conscious and interested in certification; conscious with no interest in certification; opportunist in transition; unconscious opportunist. There are signs of different consumers. The consumers of these products are characterised by an interaction between hedonic and ethical motivations, where the most important motivation is environmental concern and the least important are the economic aspects. Research limitations/implications The reduced number of alternative markets in Mexico limits the amplitude of the research. Practical implications The work herein reported is pioneer and contributes to reduce the lack of studies on the motivations and characteristics of consumers of organic foods in Mexico. Findings may set a path for new research in other cultural contexts; as well as for more specific work in Mexico as of consumers of industrialised organic products. Social implications Characterising consumers of organic foods will enable the development of these markets. Originality/value Social studies of eating habits have taken place in European countries; and several works have been developed in other areas of the world to determine the way in which consumers build their preferences and food choice patterns. In Mexico, specifically in organic foods, studies have focussed in agrarian economics, but the analysis of motivations for choice has not been addressed. Therefore, it is important to research this issue given the relevance for consumers.