Trade Relations and Trade Openness amongst the ECOWAS Member Nations
The study recommends that apart from the new wave of increased interest in regional integration and removal of trade barriers, there is need for a major shift ECOWAS member nations must play down on the continued dominance of primary production, export and low value addition.
Education for Creativity: Motivation and Learning
The paper describes motivation as persistence that is shown by teachers and learners in the learning environment towards achieving a learning goal. In both the teaching and business context a distinction can be made between intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation.
The Impact of Trade Competition on Managerial Incentives and Productivity
In this paper shown how tougher competition, generated by large market size or trade, induces stronger incentives to reduce marginal cost for the more-productive firms while the opposite holds for the less-productive firms; this further affects the selection of heterogeneous producers into the domestic and foreign markets.
Revisiting Sproles and Kendall’s Consumer Styles Inventory (CSI) in the 21st Century: A Case of Australian Consumers Decision-Making Styles in the Context of High and Low-Involvement Purchases
The findings of this research will expand the scientific literature on the relationship between product involvement and CDMS. Knowing that Australians are ‘rational’ and ‘quality conscious’ buyers, managers can employ CDMS to analyse consumers’ needs and develop segmented marketing messages and strategies.
Internet of Things in Enhancing Competitive Capabilities: An Exploratory Study
The study aims to determine the role of the Internet of things in achieving the competitive capabilities and priorities of transportation companies and highlighting the importance of the Internet of things because the transport activity is considered as one of the important logistical activities that have a large share in the cost of products.
A Critical Review of Organizing Knowledge Management for Innovation
This study critically reviews the literature that demonstrates the relevance of knowledge management process and business intelligence, as well as the challenges arising when it comes to organizing for innovation in today’s business organizations.