Journal of Management and Business Vol. 8 No. 2

Archive of Journal of Management and Business;
Volume 8, Number 2

Fei Gao, Meng Li and Steve Clarke
KNOWLEDGE, MANAGEMENT AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN BUSINESS OPERATIONS
The purpose of this research is to help knowledge managers systematically grasp ‘‘knowledge about management knowledge’’ and get a ‘‘deep and full’’ understanding of the nature, scope and methodologies of knowledge management. Through presenting a [...] Read more

Fuat Oktay
AN EXAMINATION ON THE IMPACT OF INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT STRATEGIES ON CORPORATE BRANDING
Especially after the Second World War, Strategic management approach has emerged as an important tool to keep the organizations ahead in the competitive environment. Strategic planning covers all the process that helps us to identify where the institution want to be in the [...] Read more

Flora Guidry, Andrew J. Leoneand Steve Rock
EARNINGS-BASED BONUS PLANS AND EARNINGS MANAGEMENT BY BUSINESS-UNIT MANAGERS
This study tests the bonus-maximization hypothesis that managers make discretionary accrual decisions to maximize their short-term bonuses. By using the management and financial reporting database of a large conglomerate, we extend previous investigations in two ways [...] Read more

Godday, Raymond Luke
INTERNET MARKETING AND CUSTOMER PATRONAGE OF SELECTED INTERNATIONAL BRAND HOTELS IN RIVERS STATE
The use of internet marketing in business has helped to change the ways and manner in which organizations performs their functions. The paper empirically evaluated the influence of adopting internet marketing in businesses and its customer patronage of international [...] Read more

Ma Ga (Mark) Yang
IMPACT OF LEAN MANUFACTURING AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ON BUSINESS PERFORMANCE: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF MANUFACTURING FIRMS
This paper explores relationships between lean manufacturing practices, environmental management (e.g., environmental management practices and environmental performance) and business performance outcomes (e.g., market and financial performance). The [...] Read more

Anele, Clement A. and Patrick E. Oseyomon
INFLUENCE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP ON ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOUR IN RIVERS STATE NEWSPAPERS CORPORATION,
PORT-HARCOURT
This research work titled Influence of Transformational Leadership on Organizational Citizenship Behaviour (a Study of Rivers State Newspapers Corporation, Port Harcourt) sought to establish the extent to which exhibition of transformational leadership behaviours enhance employee [...] Read more

Michael Bowen, Makarius Morara and Samuel Mureithi
MANAGEMENT OF BUSINESS CHALLENGES AMONG SMALL AND MICRO ENTERPRISES IN NAIROBI-KENYA
Small and Micro Enterprises (SMEs) play an important economic role in many countries. In Kenya, for example the SME sector contributed over 50percent of new jobs created in 2005 but despite their significance, SMEs are faced with the threat of failure with past statistics indicating [...] Read more

Prashanth U. Nyer, Candace E. Ybarra and John B. Broughton
THE ECONOMICS OF RESIDENTIAL SOLAR PANELS: COMPARING TIERED
AND TIME OF USE PLANS
This case study uses data from a Southern California Edison residential customer on a grandfathered tiered rate plan to investigate 1) whether it is economically beneficial for the customer to switch from a tiered-rate plan to a Time-of-Use (TOU) plan, 2) whether going solar now makes [...] Read more

Mohammed T. Nuseir and Ahmad Ghandour
ETHICAL ISSUES IN MODERN BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
The ethical issues in business management have always been co-existing, but their type and quantum have been changed in the present digital world. The globalisation and digitisation of business have not only altered the ethical issues but also their gravity, as evidenced by the widening of problems and complaints. In the 21st [...] Read more

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