Volume 04 Issue 3 (Nov 2016)
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The impact of operational closure and reflection on juncture systems
Business organisations can be seen as social systems encompassing multiple scales. The more functionally differentiated a system landscape becomes the higher the need to coordinate different processes between these systems is. This helps to develop sound business strategies supp…
Informal economy in emerging economies: not a substitute but a complement!
Contrary to the conventional belief of diminishing presence of informal entities in a more globalized world, there has been an upsurge in the size of the informal economy in the recent decades. The article summarizes the factors behind the existence and persistence of such econo…
An enhanced artificial neural network for stock price predications
Predicting stock price of a particular stock is a difficult non-linear problem. Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is a tool to solve this kind of problem and has received much attentions in the field of financial modeling in recent years. This paper proposes an enhanced ANN for pr…
Promoting gender equality in access to microcredit through flexible lending approaches of female targeting MFIs: Evidence from Duterimbere MFI of Rwanda
Access to loans is one of the most important areas of focus by many development practitioners for reducing the existing gender gap in access to productive resources. Microfinance Institutions which target females as key clients were promoted for their lending approaches which av…
How does procurement capability maturity affect e-Procurement adoption and leverage purchasing in supply chain
This study refers to the research model of Batenburg (2008) which defined procurement functions to six maturity dimensions; strategy, processes, control, organization, information, e-Technology as the starting point and indicates twenty-two items to support capability maturity m…
The economic role cultural and creative industry in Europe in the years of crisis 2008-2012
Currently is the main factor driving the world economy is the creation of new values through the products and services innovations in the area of technology. Yet the modern market poses a new challenge. This new challenge is Creativity which is the cornerstone of economic s…
The impact of the joining of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for World Trade Organization (WTO) on local marketing of national products
Saudi Arabia is one of the wealthiest nations per capita in the world, as well as an economic power through the possession of a large share of global oil resources. This study has been carried out to identify the benefits, which are likely to be enjoyed by Saudi Arabia after its…
Impact of economic development on quality of life and human happiness: a study on urban socio economic classes of suburban Mumbai
This paper emphasizes that for a nation to revitalize in terms of development, not only does it need to evaluate in terms of GDP growth rate, but also has to consider the Quality of Life of its citizen and their human happiness. There is a strong correlation between macro-econom…