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The Effect of Exhibitors' Brand Equity on Visitors' Purchase Decision: Moderating Role of Exhibition's Competitive Intensity
Authors: Hung Chao-Chih , Su Min-Jiun , Zhuang Wen-Long
Published: January 2020

This study explores the effect of exhibitors' brand equity on visitors' purchase intention, purchase postponement, and switching intention in an international industrial fair, as well as examines the moderating effect of competitive intensity on the above relationships. This study surveyed visitors of the famous International Woodworking Machine Fair in Jakarta, Indonesia. Of the 200 surveys distributed, 138 valid questionnaires were returned, representing a response rate of 69.00%. Analytical results show that higher exhibitors' brand equity is associated with visitors' higher purchase intention, more prevalent purchase postponement, and stronger switching intention. Also, in a high competitive intensity environment, the level of visitors' purchase postponement and switching intention of high brand equity products is similar. In a low competitive intensity exhibition, visitors are unlikely to postpone purchase of low brand equity products but are more likely to postpone purchase of high brand equity products. Lastly, in a low competitive intensity environment, visitors are less inclined to switch low brand equity suppliers but more likely to switch high brand equity suppliers. According to the research results, recommendations and limitations of this study are proposed.
Societal Factors and Life Satisfaction: Evidence from Low Income Urban Societies in a Developing Country
Authors: Mafini Chengedzai , Meyer Daniel
Published: January 2020

This paper tested the influence of four societal factors, namely marital status, religion, age and gender on the life satisfaction of low income urban earners in a developing country. A survey was conducted using a sample consisting of 985 individuals drawn from three low income townships in Gauteng Province, South Africa. In order to measure life satisfaction the validated Satisfaction with Life Scale developed by Diener et al. (1985), was utilised. Associations between each societal factor and life satisfaction were tested using multiple regression analysis. Marital status was statistically insignificant (Î²=0.058; P=0.170). All categories of religion were statistically significant, with Christianity (Î²=0.424; P=0.044) exerting the highest influence on life satisfaction. In terms of age, young adults demonstrated higher satisfaction with life than older adults, with young adults (Î²=0.369; P=0.019) exerting the highest influence on life satisfaction than other age categories. Gender was statistically insignificant (Î²=0.059; P=0.307) depicting that life satisfaction is not dependent on gender. The paper closes by drawing conclusions based on the results and suggesting several policy implications for improving the impact of each societal factor on life satisfaction.
Academic Mobility and Immigration Trends in South African Higher Education Institutions
Authors: Maharaj Ashika
Published: January 2020

This paper seeks to offer an insighton the subject of academic mobility into South African Higher Education Institutions (HEIâ€™s). This is done by examining the current academic landscape in South Africavia a comparisonbetween the profile of South African (SA) academics andexpatriate academics. Currently, SA is facing major skills and staffing shortages locally in terms of Science, Engineering and Agriculture. The Departmentof Higher Education and Training as well as SA universities have advocated to run programmes in scarce skills disciplines through the recruitment of expatriate academics. The research reported in this paper adopted a non-experimental research design of ex post facto type, using a correlational approach. The data used are the statistical records of all academics in South African higher education for the 2005/2010/2014 academic years as provided by the Higher Education Management Information Systems (HEMIS) of SA. Descriptive statistics as well as inferential statistics were also used to analyze the data. The results revealed that there were no significant differences in age between SA and expatriate academics nationally over the three years. A comparison of the academic qualifications of SA and expatriate academics over the three years indicates that expatriate academics are more highly qualified than their SA colleagues, as the majority of the former hold a doctoral degree. The majority of expatriate academics are recruited from SADC countries as well as other African countries. Interestingly enough, the next most frequent major supply region of expatriate academics to South Africa is Europe. WITS and UCT were consistently ranked first and second in terms of the number of expatriate academics employed over the three years. Both are among the leading five higher education institutions in South Africa in terms of their research outputs as well as the number of PhDs per member of staff.
Service Quality Failure and Recovery Imperatives: Implications for Airlines Owned by South Africa
Authors: Mantey Nicholas O. , Naidoo Vannie
Published: January 2020

This article reports on a study that examined service quality and recovery among South African airlines. Service quality is pivotal in the airline industry as service failures could negatively affect operations. The authors created the acronym â€œAOSAâ€ which stands for â€œairlines owned by South Africaâ€ for the purposes of anonymity and confidentiality in order to protect the airlinesâ€™ identity. A quantitative research approach was used with a cross-sectional analysis (sample survey) conducted with passengers of South African-owned airlines. The questionnaire was designed using a Likert scale tool, adapted to the SERVQUAL model. A non-probability convenient sampling method was used to collect primary data from 684 passengers at O.R.Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg and King Shaka International Airport in Durban. The key findings were that: (1) significant statistical gaps exist between passengersâ€™ expectations and perceptions of AOSAâ€™s service quality and that unsatisfactory service quality is antecedent to service failure. (2) Unsatisfactory service quality is tantamount to service failure in the provision of services by AOSA. (3) A significant positive correlation exists between service quality and the dimensional variables of tangibility, reliability, responsiveness, assurance, and empathy of AOSA. In conclusion, AOSA service quality is unsatisfactory, and management should take steps to empower and train staff in service recovery techniques in other to avoid service failures.
Long-Term Relationship between Inflation and Public Sector Deficit in the Turkish Economy and its Macroeconomic Implications (1975-2014)
Authors: GÃ¶kÃ§e Atilla , Ãakmak Umut
Published: January 2020

The process of deterioration in the fundamentals, in particular those related to inflation and the public sector deficits, that had started in the 1980's have accelerated in the 1990's. Meanwhile two way causative relations seem to have appeared between the fluctuations of some fundamentals. In this context, this paper examines the long term relationship between inflation and the public sector deficit and provides an analysis of the macro dynamics that derive from this relationship. Following a summary of the theoretical literature on the relationship between inflation and the public sector deficit, the behavior of these two variables in the 1975-2014 periods are delineated and an analysis of their relationship to some selected macro-variables is presented. The most important result of this article is that high and chronic inflation rates are one of the responsible of deterioration which appeared on the main economic variables particularly in the public sector balance. Similarly, in the 2000â€™s, on the basis of positive developments in the public balance lies in falling inflation rates quickly and permanently.
Effects of Student's Grade to Teacher's Teaching: a Case Study in an Indigenous Classroom
Authors: Sianturi Murni , Lin Huei-Hsuan
Published: January 2020

Abstract: The perspective of teaching in rural area led this study to investigate non-indigenous teacher's teachings in an indigenous classroom of one of rural elementary schools in Hualien, Taiwan. The teacher's views on indigenous students' grade and how it related to the teacherâ€™s teaching were explored also. This study was a case study. Data was collected and analyzed by applying qualitative method. It implemented classroom ethnography approach. It revealed that although the teacher had demonstrated a great deal of passion in teaching indigenous students, involvement the students in some indoor and outdoor activities, and using various media to get studentsâ€™ attention, but he was concerned about his studentsâ€™ low academic achievement. In Hualien, there are annual provincial examinations on the subjects of Chinese, Mathematics and English in May, which all the elementary students are required to take. To improve the student academic performance he used some classroom time to practice drills rather than spending time on exploratory activities. When indigenous students' underperformance in standardized tests are considered as reflecting poor quality of teaching, preparing students for the sit-in tests will continue to be a part of classroom teaching. This study suggests that teachers have to understand the educational context in which teaching and learning take place. Knowing this would provide teachers a more meaningful teaching and learning.

Keywords: Teaching, grade, non-indigenous teacher, indigenous students, rural elementary school
Cultural Change for Aspiration Adaptation: Role of NGOâ€™s in Rural Bangladesh
Authors: Reza Abu Hena
Published: January 2020

The cultural values in a society affects aspiration window and aspiration adaptation of people belong to that society. The socially transmitted behavioural pattern, the culture, plays important role towards socio-economic changes in the households and country. The changes in culture may be autonomous of exogenously affected. The social organisations like NGOs may act as external agents of changes in culture of a society to initiate aspiration adaptation among the poor. This paper evaluates ability of NGOs to change traditional values to employment, education, healthcare, and women empowerment. Analysing data from a household field survey in rural area of Bangladesh it has been observed that NGOs have ability to change traditional cultural values slowly and partially. The NGOs are successful to reduce poverty and to change approach to healthcare of traditional society. They could not show enough success in raising educational level. NGOs achieved some successes in women empowerment by motivating educated women to work more in earned activities, and by reducing deprivation of women in healthcare. In general, the paper observed that NGOs are able to change culture of a society that may enhance capability of people and may ensure socio-economic development of households in rural areas of Bangladesh to some extent. Hence, NGOs are agents of cultural change in society to create new aspiration windows and aspiration adaptation.
An Overview of Organizational Climate in Bhakra Beas Management Board
Authors: Kumar Suresh
Published: January 2020

The present investigation is an attempt to understand the organizational climate perceptions of employees and to compare and contrast the perceptions regarding organizational climate in bhakra Beas management board. The study was conducted on 360 respondents belonging to the four different units in the organization. It was generally observed that there is no much difference in perceptions of employees regarding organizational climate. The description survey research design was considered suitable. The primary data was collected by employing an adopted questionnaire method. The respondents opinion towards perceptions has been found unequally distributed. The means difference in perceptions group also found significant.
College Academic Stress: Differences along Gender Lines
Authors: Calaguas Glenn M.
Published: January 2020

This study examined the perception of academic stress among college students in a state college in the Philippines highlighting gender differences. In order to achieve the purpose of the study, an indigenous survey instrument was developed. A total of 1,210 college students chosen through systematic random sampling responded to the survey instrument. To determine gender differences among the respondents, independent samples t-test was used via SPSS version 15.0. Statistical analyses showed that male and female respondents differed significantly in their perceptions of subject, teacher, schedule, classroom, and expectation-related stressors but did not significantly differ in their perceptions of enrolment and admission, classmate, and financial- related stressors. Generally, no significant difference was found between male and female respondents in their perception of academic stressors, however using the mean scores as basis, female respondents scored higher compared to male respondents.
A Study Examining the Effects of Oil Export in Iran
Authors: Mehdi Safdari
Published: January 2020

The effect of increasing oil incomes on oil exporter countries is the main issues of political economy. Generally and especially about Iran can be recognized this effect in the government spending method, economic structure and behavior of government within the country. Since oil incomes arenâ€™t result of the performance of economic activities, consequently increasing does not show the real economic prosperity. The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between oil exports and economic growth in Iran. The data were collected from 1961-2006 and were analyzed using Cointegration, Error Correction Model, and VEC Granger causality/Wald Exogeniety model. The result of the analyses showed that there was significant relationship between oil incomes and economic growth. It showed that increasing in oil price rate lead to increasing in the government costs consequently it affect on the exchange rate and lead to increasing in real exchange rate. Therefore oil incomes are regarded as an important factor in Iran's economic growth.
Self Help Group and Poverty Eradication in India: A Case Study
Authors: Roy Piyal Basu
Published: January 2020

Poverty and hunger are the two foremost concerns of all the developing and underdeveloped nations and in order to eradicate the menace of those, Govt. of India planned to develop and implement strategies to tackle issues resulting from extremity of poverty and its consequent hunger based on UNâ€™s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Self Help Group (SHG), being one of those strategies brought about a reduction in poverty and hunger after linking rural banks. This endeavor has positively mobilized the rural economy by decreasing poverty hurdles of socio-economically deprived section of the society. This paper highlights here the importance of such groups in the district of Birbhum in the state of West Bengal, India and seeks to spread this innovative programme at each and every corner of the underdeveloped and developing countries with utmost care considering it as exclusive strategy of poverty eradication.
Analysis of Food Security Situation in Warri, Nigeria
Authors: Omojimite Ben U.
Published: January 2020

This study attempts to investigate whether there could be food insecurity incidence in an â€˜â€™oil cityâ€™â€™ of Warri, Nigeria. The paper also examines the determinants of food insecurity among the households studied. The socio-economic characteristics of 260 households were collected by means of a structured questionnaire. A food insecurity index was constructed and was used to assess household food insecurity incidence. The results obtained were analysed by means of tables and percentages and found that on the average the incidence of food insecurity is high in the study area, implying that the benefits of oil and gas activities in Warri do not actually benefit all in the communities studied Also, a logit model was specified and tested to determine the factors that affect food insecurity in the study area. The results of the two approaches used in this study reveal that the age of household heads, sex of household heads, the type of occupation of household heads and dependency ratio all exacerbate food insecurity in the study area. The level of educational attainment of household heads, the nature of occupation of household heads and income of house heads tend to reduce the probability of households being food insecure. The study recommends food aid and food subsidy to the vulnerable in the area. It also recommends expanded educational facilities to enable inhabitants attain higher levels of education.
Infrastructure and Regional Disparity A Case Of North Eastern Region of India
Authors: Singha Komol
Published: January 2020

The importance of physical infrastructure in economic development, trade, employment and in reducing disparity within the country/region has been acknowledged by many scholars. With the help of Composite Development Index of infrastructure, the present study explored that the volume of infrastructure is more important than the level of inter and intra-state disparity. Indiaâ€™s North Eastern Region, identified as most backward region in the country, requires more physical infrastructure, especially the road and communication. Further noticed the relative variations of different indicators were same for almost all states. Those indicators having high coefficient of variation (CV) values are high for almost all the states and vice versa.
Pollution, Energy Consumption and Economic Growth: evidence from India, China and Brazil
Authors: Mehrara Mohsen
Published: January 2020

This paper examines the relationships between the energy consumption, GDP growth and emission, using Panel Smooth Transition Regression (PSTR) model for BRIC countries over the period 1960 â€“2006. Our results reveal that environmental quality in these countries has increasingly suffered from high energy consumption. Moreover, rapid economic growth and international trade in energy intensive goods have progressively increased energy consumption. This suggests that excessively high economic growth is a curse for environmental quality and energy conservation policies to reduce unnecessary wastage of energy should be kicked off for energy-dependent BRIC countries.
Corporate Brand Image and Customer Satisfaction on Loyalty: An Empirical Study of Starbucks Coffee in Taiwan
Authors: Tu Yu-Te , . Hsiao-Chien Chang
Published: January 2020

Corporate image has been assessed as an important antecedent of customer satisfaction and loyalty. Corporate brand is vital because positive corporate brands help companies achieving higher performance, such as sales. Marketing exists to deliver more value to satisfy customers as well as build a long-term and mutually profitability relationship with customers. If a firmâ€™s products or services do not satisfy or meet the customerâ€™s needs and wants, all the strategies are insufficient. With loyal customers, companies can have higher market share and reduce the operating cost. An improvement of 5 percent in customer retention leads to an increase of 25 percent to 75 percent in profit. It costs more than five times as much to obtain a new customer than to keep an existing one. This initial study was from relevant literature, then set up research structure and hypotheses. Survey was employed, and respondents were from the customers of Starbucks Coffee in Taipei area. There were 199 usable questionnaires to analyze descriptive statistics, reliability, validity, and SEM model. The research found that corporate brand image significantly affects customer satisfaction and customer loyalty, and customer satisfaction has strong impact on customer loyalty for the sample. Therefore, firms have to specifically focus on these factors in order to build a long-term and mutually profitability relationship with a customer and create loyalty as competitive advantages in the market.
Negotiation Style Comparisons by Gender among Greater China
Authors: Tu Yu-Te
Published: January 2020

As the economics within Greater China become more internally linked together, it becomes increasingly important to understand the nuances of each culture encompassed by this term. There is very little comparing the negotiation styles of Chinese who live in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Mainland China among themselves. To fill the gap, the present research focuses on negotiations style comparison by gender among Chinese in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Mainland China. The population was chosen from public companies listed under the stock markets. Data was collected using an online survey technique. SPSS was used to conduct data analyses, and a variety of statistical measures were used, including descriptive statistics and MANOVA, and coefficient alphas was reported for modified instruments in order to address reliability and validity of the instrument. The study found that only the factual negotiation style showed a significant relationship with gender among the three regions. The researcher suggests that the negotiators still need to be trained in body language, strategies, temper control, international manners, and customs. A better knowledge of negotiation should be helpful in understanding business and in realizing which negotiation styles are most appropriate for a particular country. The appropriate negotiation skills can bring more competitive advantages and benefits.
Nakhon Phanom, The Third Mekong Friendship Bridge and the ASEAN Economic Community
Authors: Srito Pornsakol Na
Published: January 2020

This paper reports on research conducted in Nakhon Phanom Province in Northeastern Thailand among business-owners and other individuals about prospective and actual changes in economic and social conditions resulting from the opening of the Third Mekong Friendship Bridge and the ASEAN Economic Community, due to be launched in 2015. Qualitative research conducted with 35 key informants revealed that there had been few changes cause so far and little intention to change any more than necessary. Most respondents were waiting for the state to take a lead in information provision and in facilitating the ability to make changes. It is found that the Bridge has had some impact upon land prices and the labor market but that these changes remain limited because of the comparatively low level of usage of the Bridge.
The Effects of Occupational Stress on Quality of Life and Associated Factors among Hospital Nurses in Iran
Authors: Jafari Samira , . Azizollah Batebi , . Mostafa Hosseini , . Mitra Ebrahimpoor , . Fatemeh Shojaei,  Maryam Vaezi
Published: January 2020

Nurses deal with many crises at work. It is obvious that being exposed to stress for long, results in severe physical and mental complications and affects individual is welfare. This study was aimed at determining the quality of life (QOL) of nurses and whether there is any relation between occupational stress and QOL. This analytical-descriptive cross sectional study was carried out in University hospitals of Zanjan, Iran. 241 nurses were sampled using proportional to size stratified method. The data were collected by means of Iranian version of the Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) and a questionnaire on demographic information and work factors. Occupational stress was measured by Toft Gray and Andersonâ€™s tool. The questionnaires were filled by nurses themselves and the data were analyzed by Spearmanâ€™s Correlation test, Kruskal-Wallis and one-way ANOVA and Enter-method Regression with SPSS 16.0 software. The results showed a high level of occupational stress among nurses, which adversely affected their quality of life. According to the results QOL of male and female nurses differ with men having a higher QOL and less occupational stress. 2 work factors, satisfaction and others positive attitude towards nursing, affected all dimensions of QOL and occupational stress. There was no significant correlation between QOL or occupational stress and factors like position, shift, ward, experience, time off, overtime hours, interest in desertion and education. According to harmful effects of occupational stress on nurses, cognitive-behavioral interventions, learning coping strategies are proposed.
An Empirical Study of Association between Working Capital Management and Performance: Evidence from Tehran Stock Exchange
Authors: Ahmadpour Ahmad , . Keramatollah Heydari Rostami
Published: January 2020

Present study is aimed at determining the effects of working capital management on the performance of firms. In this research, we have selected a sample of 112 Iranian firms listed on Tehran Stock Exchange for a period of 10 years from 2000â€“2009, we have studied the effect of different variables of working capital management including the Average collection period, Inventory turnover in days, Average payment period and Cash conversion cycle on the financial performance of Iranian firms. Debt ratio, Current ratio, size of the firm (measured in terms of natural logarithm of sales), financial assets to total assets ratio and Stock Exchange Index have been used as control variables, Correlation, and regression analysis (Pooled least square and general least square with cross section weight models) are used for analysis. The results show that there is a strong negative relationship between variables of the working capital management and profitability of the firm.
Person-Centered Therapy and Personal Growth
Authors: Narknisorn Boontarika
Published: January 2020

Person-centered therapy enhances humansâ€™ personal growth toward self-actualization and deepens quality personal relationship. This article aims to (1) explain the concepts of person-centered therapy and (2) link its contribution to humansâ€™ personal growth and healthy relationship. Personcentered therapy believes in humanâ€™s positive qualities as being trustworthy and owning â€˜inner resourcesâ€™ to pursue â€˜self-actualization and health.â€™ The therapeutic goals are to assist clients to be true to themselves and acquire their full potentials. Person-centered therapy emphasizes the qualities of the therapist and therapeutic relationship as the most powerful components to help clients grow. The therapist needs to maintain positive attitudes, to believe in clientâ€™s potentials and motivation to become actualized, to accept oneâ€™s and othersâ€™ uniqueness and needs and to be trustworthy, warm, open and kind. Person-centered therapy reflects that pain and obstacles in life are necessary and can stimulate humans to grow. Person-centered therapy helps the therapist; clients and humans pursue self-actualization and possess better humansâ€™ qualities, which can contribute to world peace as Rogers hoped.
Malaysian Film Projects Network Mobilization
Authors: Wahab Azrin , . Noraini Abu Talib
Published: January 2020

Film project is a temporary organization that uses outsourcing to acquire it resources. This study aims to investigate how Malaysian film productions mobilize its network in pre-production stage. The objectives are to find out the main components in pre-production and factors that create network between the production and components. In Sweden it is found out that the factors creating network in film pre-production stage are Attractive Script, Established Network, Mentor, and Proficiency. 10 random Malaysian film producers are selected for qualitative interviews. It is found out that the factors creating network in Malaysian film pre-production are Strategic Script, Proficiency, Established network, and Internet. It is suggested that further research is carried out to develop a Strategic Script to penetrate Indonesian film market.
A Bootstrap Approach to Evaluating the Power of the Houckâ€™s Test for Asymmetry
Authors: Acquah Henry de-Graft
Published: January 2020

The power of the conventional Houckâ€™s model of asymmetry is examined via parametric bootstrap simulation. The results of the bootstrap simulations indicate that the Houckâ€™s model has low power in rejecting the null of symmetric adjustment. The power of the test depends on the bootstrap sample size, level of asymmetry and the amount of noise in the data generating process used in an application. With a small bootstrap sample and large noise level, the Houckâ€™s model display low power in rejecting the null hypothesis of symmetry.
Push and Pull Factors behind Female Labor-force Participation Decision, a Study of Kerala and West Bengal: two States of India
Authors: Choudhury Sayantani Roy
Published: January 2020

This paper wants to show whether the decision of female labor force participation depends on economic factors or social factors. Female labor force participation is an outcome of both the factors. It can be possible that, economic and social factors play two different kinds of role. This paper tries to identify those push and pull factors and examine the significance of those factors in the decision regarding female labor force participation in two states of India, Kerala and West Bengal. Whether the factors are macroeconomic like SDP, literacy rate and urbanization, which can 'pull' FLPR up, or, the factors are micro economic, personal, poverty, and insecurity, which can 'push' the FLPR. By using binary logistic regression method, it is found in the paper that the micro level personal factors have more powerful influence on FLPR. The paper suggests that if we want to judge women's development through the FLPR, first we search for the factors behind that high FLPR. If the underline factors are 'push factors', the formula for GDI calculation should also be altered.
Does Population Density have Any Effect On Entrepreneurial Rates? Evidence From US Counties
Authors: Karahan Hatice
Published: January 2020

Inspired from the theory of division of labor, I test the hypothesis that self-employment rate declines with a greater density of the population. The motivation is the existence of a huge variation of population densities and a considerable difference in self-employment rates across US states and counties. Results show that a negative and statistically significant impact of population density is present. Hence, people who are located in less crowded areas are more likely to be self-employed. Considering the relatively low availability of good-matching jobs in smaller places, self-employment can be explained as a failure of the size of the market place.
Sexual Exposure and Awareness of Emergency Contraceptive Pills among Never Married Adolescent Girls in India
Authors: Narzary Pralip Kumar
Published: January 2020

In India pre-marital sex although is taboo, interplay of multitude of factors exposes adolescent girls to pre-marital sex leading to unwanted pregnancy and further intricacies. Awareness of emergency contraceptive pills (ECP) can shield girls against such predicaments and associated social stigmas. Hence, this paper assesses the sexual exposure and awareness of ECP among the never married adolescent girls in India by taking the National Family Health Survey 2005-06 (NFHS-3) data. Out of the total sample, 15,320 adolescent girls of the age group 15-19 years, who are never married and de jure residents are retained for this study. Levels are found out through percentage distribution; associations are assessed through cross tabulation and logistic regression is applied to find out the determinants. It is found that in India, about 0.6 percent of never married adolescent girls have already experienced sex, out of whom 22.4 percent were active during four weeks prior to the survey. Multi-variate result shows that with the increase in age, probability of having pre-marital sex also increases, whereas with the improvement in household wealth index, probability goes down. Overall merely 4.9 percent of adolescent girls are aware of ECP. Age, education, religion and exposure to sexual intercourse exert significant effect on the awareness of ECP. Older, better educated, richer and sexually experienced girls are more likely to be aware of ECP, whereas rural and Muslim girls are less likely to be aware of ECP.
Whistle-blown into nothingness: The Boeing Story
Authors: Iwu Chux Gervase
Published: January 2020

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Cassava Smallholdersâ€™ Participation in Contract Farming in Nakhon Ratchasrima Province, Thailand
Authors: Tongchure Siros
Published: January 2020

The most important raw materials for bio-ethanol in Thailand are cassava, sugar cane and molasses. However, cassava has been promoted as a feed stock for ethanol due to the minimal inputs for planting, high productivity and all-year planting and harvesting. The most important factor influencing ethanol using cassava production is the price of cassava feedstock. Contract farming could decrease production costs, increase efficiency in markets, provide lower interest rates, decrease risk management and create symmetric information for cassava smallholders. The scope of this study includes cassava cultivation and factors influencing contract participation using logit analysis. Results from a survey consisting of 130 non-contractors and 127 contractors showed there was a verbal communication between farmers and agricultural cooperatives and written contractual agreement between agricultural cooperatives and processors. In addition, contract participation is significantly influenced by gender of household head, education of household members, number of agricultural groups, input costs, machinery costs, incomes and credit access.
The Relationships between Work Values and Work-Related Attitude: The Role of Social Support as Moderator
Authors: Mat Nor Aâ€™tikah
Published: January 2020

In organizational context, work values play an important role to enhance work attitudes and performance. Previous study stated that there are two types of prominent work values in organization, which are intrinsic and extrinsic values. Both of these work values will influence work attitude, such as job satisfaction and job involvement. Numerous of the prior literatures indicated that there is a positive correlation between work values and the work-related attitude among employees in organization. Thus, this paper aims to provide a review on the relationship between work values and work attitudes in order to get better understanding on the effects of work values in organization. Furthermore, this paper also proposes the potential role of social support as moderator in the relationship between work values and work attitude. This paper contributes to the knowledge in terms of the implication of work values in organization based on the literature review perspective. This paper also discusses the recommendation for future study in this field.
Integrated Approach to Workplace Diversity through Human Resource Management
Authors: Babalola Sunday Samson
Published: January 2020

Todayâ€™s organisations are facing challenges of equity control, market size, and workplace diversity despite increase in profitability due to globalisation and technological advancements. This called for efficient utilization of human resource management (HRM) as its focus is on people management with the strategic proactive approach to workplace diversity. The paper calls for improve role of HRM and organisational management in creating conducive work environment, accurate and expansion of selection criteria for workplace diversity that include stable attributes such as emotional intelligence and dispositional factors such as task and people oriented and being culturally flexible. It conclude by advocating for HRM integrative approach to diversity as it synthesizes the literature and proposes key areas needed to management diversity.
The Critical Exposure of Lesothoâ€™s Labor Law Effectiveness: Industrial Relationsâ€™ Calamity of Textile Industry Workers in Lesotho
Authors: M. Moses M.
Published: January 2020

This article provides insights on tribulations of Lesotho textile industry workers and effectiveness-extent of national labor law in shielding labor rights. It is a qualitative and quantitative research premised on textile industrial areas of Thetsane and Railway Station area in Maseru city, Labor offices and workers/trade unions. It illuminates the prescriptions of the Labor Law in Lesotho pertaining to the textile industries and inquires whether such Labor Law is not nominally applied in protecting textile factory workersâ€™ rights. It examines workersâ€™ organizational capacity and bargaining, role of workersâ€™ trade unions in addressing workersâ€™ concerns and maintenance of labor law. Elucidation embraces efficacy of legal resolutions procedure followed whenever there are disputes between workers and management, reported by either the individual workers or workersâ€™ trade unions/TUs. Outlook of the workers to examine their content concerning services rendered to them by labor offices forms part of this researched debated in-depth interviews. Dictates of the Law towards lowly esteemed workers and the extent to which their rights as workers in Lesotho are protected by the government mold chief innards. Findings reflect on benefits ought to be derived from this industrial sector but which are inconspicuous, thereby ensuing in destitution of workers whose majority are women with significant dependency ratios. Labor downsizing, layoffs, unfair dismissals, salary cuts and/or delayed labor earnings, toiling beyond normal working hours, chronic lung diseases from inhaled harmful chemicals, labor devalourization, vulnerability and others constitute quandary of Lesotho textile industry workers. The research question is, then, how far does the law work for them through pro-active and reactive (remedial) strategies for their emancipation, protection and recompense/welfare?
Discovering Environmental Attitude and Lifestyle Segmentation of Green Consumers: a Conceptual Model for Research
Authors: Dansirichaisawat Ratchaneekorn
Published: January 2020

The primary purpose of this research is to reviews the literature on green consumers segments with different profiles. It utilizes two constructsâ€“environmental attitude and lifestyle- in the context of electric appliances products in Thailand. This research employs an empirical study by means of the questionnaire survey method to verify the hypotheses. Data will be collected by random sampling from working aged male and female customers who purchased electric appliances. The data will be analyzed using factor analysis, cluster analysis, discriminant and ANOVA. The usefulness of this research was identifying groups of similar customers and potential customers; to prioritize the groups to address; to understand their behavior; and to respond with appropriate marketing strategies.
Approach of Electronic Government to Closing the Gap between Public and Citizens
Authors: Rugchatjaroen Krish
Published: January 2020

Electronic government uses ICT to improve public activities, bringing also greater organizational efficiency and effectiveness. The aim of this research is to study electronic government in Thailand to move towards success. The questionnaire obtained information on the current status of electronic government in Thailand which intendeds to investigate factors relating to information technology by interviewing state employees in National Electronics and Computer Technology Center: NECTEC. The results reveal 6 conclusion based upon the following area of study; 1) Investment: budget allocations for the integration of ICT in the public sector by considering the national strategic plan and the ASEAN community strategies, to increase the competitiveness and investigate in infrastructure and logistics. 2) Officialsâ€™ knowledge and understanding: involving the full cooperation from government agencies workshops on the development of information systems for public sector officials to allow implementation of the projects to restructure more efficiently the form of electronic government. 3) Citizensâ€™ understanding: which investigated the public sectors acceptance of public participation and people-centered government services? There are wide gaps between those used in municipal and non-municipal area. 4) Networking: the form of networking through a collaborative network of TOT and CAT in the core layer, which makes the network redundancy and high availability. 5) Promoting: using website to promote activities and disseminate knowledge about technology in electronics and computer project or training. and 6) Policies: the manner the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, allocates resources in their expansion of telecommunications infrastructure and communication channels and the way they encourage full access to ICT that will lead to close the gap.
Determinants of Income Differences of Farmers in Turkey: A Discriminate Analytical Approach
Authors: KADI Filiz , . Fatma Eban ARIKAN
Published: January 2020

This study aims to investigate the key factors of income of farmers for Turkey. Primary data is collected from the interviews of 300 farmers from five different regions of Turkey in 2014. Empirical study reveals positive effects of state size, estate ownership, education levels of farmers, and number of tractor on farmersâ€™ income. This paper specifically focuses on the contribution of land distribution policies of Turkey to enhance farmersâ€™ income.
The Role of Poverty and Household Economic Conditions to the Treatment of Malaria in Zamfara State North West Nigeria
Authors: Maigemu Ahmad Yahaya
Published: January 2020

Malaria in Nigeria and Africa remains most important health problem. It remains a vital public health fear of our time. This paper seeks to focus on the role of poverty and economic factor to the treatment of malaria among peoples of Zamfara state in North West Nigeria. Poverty and economic factors are obviously connected to health threat, as well as the threat for malaria. It is now well recognized all over the world that malaria cases of morbidity and death rates are honestly linked with poverty and economic status of the society. Qualitative research was used for this to interview participant of the research in order to seek their perception and experiences about malaria and economic problems. Semi-structure interview was used as instrument for this study. Interview was conducted with 10 respondents that participated in the study. Finding of this study shows that poverty and economic situation and the peopleâ€™s background not only play a critical role to the contribution of malaria but as sole reasons dictating the prevalence of the disease within the community
The Analysis of Working Capital Financing Sources (A Study on Large Red Chili Farmers in Sempu District, Banyuwangi Regency)
Authors: Fadah Isti
Published: January 2020

Large red chili farming is a farming that has an important role in Indonesian economic development. The appropriate selection of working capital financing sources will be able to maximize the business profit for farmers. Therefore, it is important to carry out an effort in order to increase the profit and to minimize the risk of loss. The purpose of this article is to find out the working capital financing sources of large red chili farmers based on their perspectives. The type of research applied is descriptive qualitative. The selection of the informants is conducted by using purposive snowball method. The data analysis method consists of four steps: data collection, data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion. The study concludes that most of large red chili farmers in Sempu use a mixed working capital financing sources. They combine self-financed working capital with working capital obtained from middlemen. Meanwhile, the alternative sources are obtained from cooperatives and other non-formal funding sources.
Governance and Tax Revenue in Asean Countries
Authors: Syadullah Makmun
Published: January 2020

Tax revenue is influenced by many factors. Existing studies reveal that political stability, level of corruption, quality of the policy, income per capita, share of agriculture to the GDP, and market openness are some of the factors influencing tax revenue. This study aims to analyze the influence of governance by using some indicators, such as political stability, government effectiveness, quality of regulation, law enforcement accountability and control on corruption in tax area through empirical analysis of ASEAN countries. Descriptive analysis and causality methods are employed in this study. causality method is used to determine the relationship between observed variables using panel regression. The results of the study indicate that the controlon corruption, voice and accountability and political stability variables have significant negative effects on the tax ratio, while rule of law and quality of regulatory variables have positive impact on the tax ratio.
Policy Evaluation Analysis on Empowerment of Village Development Program in Ayapo Village, East Sentani District, Jayapura Regency
Authors: Tebay Vince , Marlissa Elsyan R
Published: January 2020

This research analyzes the policy evaluation and measure the successful of such a program. It also prevents irregularity on implementation of government program. By evaluating the program of village empowerment, we are able to determine the success performance rate of that program, whether in province, district, and village. When the evaluation of village empowerment goes well, it will be a correction for next year. So, for the next budgeting year focus on the village empowerment program that increase society participation in development village. It can be concluded that the research aspect on effectively, equalization, determination as the indicator of variable (X) proved that development by Ayapoâ€™s society do not maximal. Since, the society participation has not yet been seen on the most of empowerment programs. Then, there are improvements and increasing on variable (Y) which consist of development health facilities, quality of education, and income. Because, there are physical construction and the society in Ayapo village directly feel the positive impacts.
Study of Community Participation in the Process of Villages Infrastructure Development on Program PNPM Mandiri in Jayapura Regency
Authors: De Quelyoe Flora Yvonne , Marlissa Elsyan Reinette , Ratang Sarlota
Published: January 2020

Community participation in each process of public policy making is an important issue as the mirror of principle of democracy in a country. It would be very precise when participation of community later became one of the principles that should be implemented by the government in an effort to realize good governance. The importance of participation and form of participation given a supporting factor for the success of the government program. The aim of Road Infrastructure development program is to increase local community welfare so they are able to access a wide range economy, social and politic activities. For example, in economic activity, the local producer can easily carry and sell their product to the local market when compared to the previous moment when road was damaged, especially during the rainy seasons. Therefore it is necessary participation of community to engage in solving the road infrastructure problem in their respective villages and districts. This research is located in Jayapura Regency, and using explanatory research with qualitative approach. The Techniques of data collection on this study is using questionnaire, distributed to 80 respondents. The result of this research shows that community participation community in the planning, implementation and evaluation is very good. Community participation on implementation phase of National Program of Community Empowerment (PNPM Mandiri) is really determined by the level community involvement in the planning stages. The important reasons related to community participation are: a) the engagement of community, either directly or indirectly, are able to create feel of belongings to all public asset that has been built with high cost. b) Through community participation, they know about the limitation of government resources (funds, manpower). c) Involvement of local society in those development stages could be a control tools to supervise all development financing in the level of village, district, and regency as well.