This document examines the relationship between corporate entrepreneurship and dynamic capabilities in selected pharmaceutical firms in Nigeria. A survey was administered to 420 employees across pharmaceutical firms to assess levels of innovative prowess, proactiveness, and risk-taking (measures of corporate entrepreneurship) and their effects on the firms' ability to learn, reconfigure resources, coordinate resources, and integrate resources (measures of dynamic capabilities). Statistical analysis found a strong positive relationship between corporate entrepreneurship and dynamic capabilities. Specifically, higher levels of employee innovative prowess, proactiveness, and risk-taking were correlated with stronger dynamic capabilities in the firms to adapt to changing market conditions. The study concludes that corporate entrepreneurship stimulates the development of dynamic capabilities that allow firms to
The aim of this study was to examine the effect of financial distress, rewards and company performance using return on assets (ROA), managerial ownership, ownership concentration, directors' composition and leverage on directors' remuneration with company size, leverage and company age as control variables. The study population comprised manufacturing companies in the food and beverage sector listed on the ASEAN state stock exchange. The study used a purposive sampling method. The sample number consisted of 68 manufacturing companies. The data used are secondary data obtained from ASEAN state stock exchanges. Data analysis used multiple linear regression. The results indicate that ROA, managerial ownership, ownership concentration, firm size and leverage have a significant effect on directors' remuneration, while financial distress, reward, company age and state have no significant effect on directors' remuneration. The implications of study mean that boards of directors can conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the directors' remuneration system by establishing a team that has the authority to provide input and formulation of a remuneration system that meets the principle of fairness.
External Business Environment and Performance of Microfinance Institutions: E...AkashSharma618775
This study examined the intensity of competition in the microfinance industry and its relationship
performance of MFIs in Nigeria. From a sample of 121 MFIs in Nigeria, data was collected via a structured
questionnaire. Data collected was analyzed via Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM
3.0) using the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS v22) and, findings suggest that MFIs were faced with
intense competition in the form of high cost and difficulty of entry, high operational cost and too many players in
the industry regardless of the type of product and services they offer or lending policies they embrace. The result
further reveal that the intensity of competition has significant negative influence on the amount of loans disbursed
and the amount disbursed to women. The study therefore recommends MFI managers to develop operational
mechanisms for cost and risk reduction to survive and excel.
The aim of this study was to examine the effect of financial distress, rewards and company performance using return on assets (ROA), managerial ownership, ownership concentration, directors' composition and leverage on directors' remuneration with company size, leverage and company age as control variables. The study population comprised manufacturing companies in the food and beverage sector listed on the ASEAN state stock exchange. The study used a purposive sampling method. The sample number consisted of 68 manufacturing companies. The data used are secondary data obtained from ASEAN state stock exchanges. Data analysis used multiple linear regression. The results indicate that ROA, managerial ownership, ownership concentration, firm size and leverage have a significant effect on directors' remuneration, while financial distress, reward, company age and state have no significant effect on directors' remuneration. The implications of study mean that boards of directors can conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the directors' remuneration system by establishing a team that has the authority to provide input and formulation of a remuneration system that meets the principle of fairness.
External Business Environment and Performance of Microfinance Institutions: E...AkashSharma618775
This study examined the intensity of competition in the microfinance industry and its relationship
performance of MFIs in Nigeria. From a sample of 121 MFIs in Nigeria, data was collected via a structured
questionnaire. Data collected was analyzed via Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM
3.0) using the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS v22) and, findings suggest that MFIs were faced with
intense competition in the form of high cost and difficulty of entry, high operational cost and too many players in
the industry regardless of the type of product and services they offer or lending policies they embrace. The result
further reveal that the intensity of competition has significant negative influence on the amount of loans disbursed
and the amount disbursed to women. The study therefore recommends MFI managers to develop operational
mechanisms for cost and risk reduction to survive and excel.
This paper is a conversation on the administration challenges that directors are face so as to accomplish
hierarchical objectives. The forward piece of this paper is a conversation about the more extensive Environmental
Factors that influence the advancement of an Organization today. Factors, for example, economy, political and
sociological are been examined assessing an organization's methodology. At the last section there is a conversation
about the HRM division and how significant it is for an organization, considered as a chain between the association
and its representatives. Leadership is an essential idea in present day control. The supervisor has the responsibility
to revise, at times, the standards and regulations that practice to the management protecting for the steering of
folks of the organization, while he sees that positive ideas and rules is basically out of date. Therefore, the
supervisor should break up the responsibilities efficaciously many of the group of workers. The right department
of labour is the maximum essential piece accomplishing strategic dreams. However, a business enterprise’s
method ought to analyse a few external surroundings conditions which can be very critical. Notwithstanding the
CEOs the maximum critical component in a agency is the HRM. For any goal or challenge HRM is responsibly to
discover the ideal human resource offering also the employees with protection making the great for them that
allows you to do their high-quality at the same time as operating. The current, highly competitive and globalised
surroundings requires a great deal extra activation of enterprise than in the beyond for his or her survival and,
predominant, for their development. This activation calls for a thoughts-set exchange, extroversion, management,
modern forms of management, flexibility, velocity of choice-making and harnessing the creativity and dynamism
of the human element. Business growth calls for firstly the existence or locating a leading personality. The
inspirational leader he will form with the senior a vision for the enterprise. Based on the agreed imaginative and
prescient of the leadership group will proceed in shaping the company's medium-time period goal and to broaden
the precise strategy for achieving this aim.
An empirical review on ethical business conduct among small and medium Malay ...AkashSharma618775
In the contemporary world of business, ethical conduct stood to be amongst very important practices that
businessmen are required to incorporate when conducting businesses. Yet, the challenges of globalization, trade
liberalization and profitability of businesses in the uncertain business environment are critically encourage
businessmen to engage in ethical conducts. To investigate this subject matter, the study employed Malay
businessmen at small and medium scale and analyse their participation in implementing ethical business conduct.
The study used four main dimensions of ethical business conducts namely personal values, managing social
responsibility, ways of conducting business and interaction with others in business setting. Moreover the study
categorized the target respondents on race basis thus the Bumiputera (Malaysians indegenious) composed of 50%
and non-Bumiputera thus Chinese and Indians at the rates in the distribution of 32% and 18% respectively.
Generally, businessmen at SMEs scale are aware of ethical business conduct and are implementing such matters;
yet, there are continuation of unethical conducts regardless of understanding of its importance to among the
businessmen in SMEs.
STRATEGIC HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND SUSTAINABLE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE: TH...pitaloka .
Researches on strategic human resource management have given major attention to the issues related to HR management
(managing people) on corporate level as a whole and integrated, than solely focuses on individual practice of HRM which is independent from other strategies of firm. This is because in order to achieve sustainable superior performance and competitive advantage, integration and confortabillitty between selected strategy and human resource policy are required to execute the strategy itself.
Inside-out approach supported by Resource Based View theory is not completely able to displace the outside-in approach in the process of HRM strategy formulation and implementation. This is caused by the fact that each of the approaches has its own advantages and disadvantages over others. The problem is how to make the role and function of strategic HRM able to directly answer all of challenges and create real solutions and add real value on the creation (value creation) so that firm wins the competition. Therefore, the role and functions of HRM must be aimed onto how to create and manage the core competencies to keep it dynamic and flexible (dynamic capabilities) to motivate the emergence of sustainable creativity and innovation which are integrated into every activity, practice, and strategy of HRM (HR Strategy) so that firm is able to adapt, integrate, arrange, and readjust its resources with the environmental changes as necessary.
Effects of ownership structure, capital structure, profitability and company...inventionjournals
International Journal of Business and Management Invention (IJBMI) is an international journal intended for professionals and researchers in all fields of Business and Management. IJBMI publishes research articles and reviews within the whole field Business and Management, new teaching methods, assessment, validation and the impact of new technologies and it will continue to provide information on the latest trends and developments in this ever-expanding subject. The publications of papers are selected through double peer reviewed to ensure originality, relevance, and readability. The articles published in our journal can be accessed online.
Impact of ISO9001 Certification on the Beverage Company's Performance: A case...AkashSharma618775
This study tries to shade light on the effect of ISO9001 on Performance of Brewery companies in
Ethiopia. It empirically analyzes the impact of ISO9001 on the performance of brewery company's proxied by
profit of companies during the sample period of 2002-2015.The sample consists three brewery companies namely:
BGI-Ethiopia, Metha-Abo and Dashen brewery companies. The methodology is based on the Fixed effect model
estimator proposed for dynamic panel data, which is strong in the presence of endogenous covariates, allowing for
individual companies fixed effects, heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation. Based on findings, out of the four
independent variables average revenue and dummy of ISO9001 are positive and significant effect on companies
profit i.e an increase (decrease) in average revenue of companies results in a 5.517 percent increase (decrease) in
the company's profit. The result indicates that ISO9001 certification does have a strong significant positive impact
on brewery companies performance. As the result revealed a company's profit increases by 1.052% due to
ISO9001 certification. The other two explanatory variables average cost and natural logarithm of total sale become
statistically insignificant. In sum, the result of the study indicates that Having ISO9001 certification improves the
profitability of the brewery companies. This finding seems to agree with the study done by T. Dejene (2011) on five
brewery companies in Ethiopia and other scholars like D.S. Sharma(2005),M. Pinar(2001) and J. Singles et
al.(2000)
An Investigation of the Effect of Challenges Encounters Female Entrepreneuria...AkashSharma618775
The participation of females in entrepreneurial activities is such a satisfying ideal that has proven to
convey positive contribution towards economic process. To ascertain this; the subject matter has presented herein.
Such presentation has been done by giving detailed analysis of the effects of challenges encounters female
entrepreneurial taking Malaysia, which is one of the transformed economies as the country of context. There is a
promising growth in entrepreneurial activities in the recent years in Malaysia; yet, this growth has seen to have
many male entrepreneurs leaving females with minimal rate of participation. There are challenges identified,
evaluated and analyzed to be the very reasons that leads to this scenario. The study employed three challenges
called economic, resource and cultural extracted from Isa et al., (2018); the challenges which are henceforth
implemented as independent variables (IVs) of the study. The study has found the significant correlation between
each of these IVs (EoC) and its subject matter; that’s female entrepreneurial (FE) in Malaysia the DV with the
significant levels of 0.026 and 0.012 respectively. The extent of effects was regretted to be 62% within the inverse
correlation of 0.89 to mean that the increase of EoC results to the decrease of FE and the decrease of EoC leads to
the increase of FE. The statistical analytics were measured using SPSS and data were secondarily reviewed from
the study of Hossain et al., (2018). For further researches; an expansion to reach other stakeholders like police
makers and officers of financial institutions has been recommended because, this study has been established on the
mere perspectives and opinions of entrepreneurs and not other stakeholders of entreprenerial activities.
Effects of Human Resource Management Practices on Financial Performance of Se...iosrjce
Human resources are the source of achieving competitive advantage because of its capability to
convert the other resources (money, machine, methods and material) in to output (product/service). The
competitor can imitate other resources like technology and capital but the human resource are unique. People
are one of the most important factors providing flexibility and adaptability to organizations. People (managers),
not the firm, are the adaptive mechanism in determining how the firm will respond to the competitive
environment. This study was guided by resource based theory. The study applied descriptive research design. In
this design, the researcher does not manipulate the variables under study but instead, examines the variables in
their existing condition. The study targeted middle level managers in selected agricultural firms in the sugar
industry. In total the sample size will comprise of 134 respondents. The main research instruments that were
used in this study were questionnaires. Data analysis involved both descriptive and inferential statistics using
SPSS (Statistical Packages for Social Sciences) Computer package. Qualitative data was analyzed thematically.
Correlation was used to analyze the degree of relationship between the variables in the study. The coefficient of
correlation (r), determine the degree (strength) of relationship and its value is between -1 and 1. Regression was
used to obtain an equation which describes the dependent variable in terms of the independent variable based
on the regression model, (regression is used to determine the type of relationship). Further, factor analysis was
undertaken in order to obtain a detailed perceptual and attitudinal aspects of the data. Data was presented in
the form of frequency distribution tables, graphs and pie charts that will facilitate description and explanation
of the study findings. The findings showed the correlation between Human Resource Management practices and
financial performance of selected agricultural firms in the sugar industry.
International Journal of Business and Management Invention (IJBMI)inventionjournals
International Journal of Business and Management Invention (IJBMI) is an international journal intended for professionals and researchers in all fields of Business and Management. IJBMI publishes research articles and reviews within the whole field Business and Management, new teaching methods, assessment, validation and the impact of new technologies and it will continue to provide information on the latest trends and developments in this ever-expanding subject. The publications of papers are selected through double peer reviewed to ensure originality, relevance, and readability. The articles published in our journal can be accessed online.
Talent Retention and Employees’ Resilience of Telecommunication Companies in ...Premier Publishers
This study investigated the relationship between talent retention and employee resilience of telecommunication companies in Rivers State, Nigeria. Talent retention was conceptualized the independent variable while interpersonal competence, adaptability, and pro-activeness were used as measures of the dependent variable. The study adopted the cross-sectional survey in its investigation of the variables. The primary source of data was generated through a self- administered questionnaire. A sample of one hundred and nine (109) respondents were drawn from a population of one hundred and thirty-four (134) respondents, using the Taro Yamane’s formula for sample size determination. The research instrument was validated through the supervisor’s vetting and approval while the reliability of the instrument was achieved by the use of the Cronbach Alpha coefficient with all the items scoring above 0.70. Data generated were analyzed and presented using both descriptive and inferential statistical techniques. The hypotheses were tested using the Spearman’s Rank Order Correlation Statistics. The tests were carried out at a 95% confidence interval and a 0.05 level of significance. Empirical findings revealed that talent retention positively and significantly influences employee resilience of telecommunication companies in Rivers State, Nigeria. The result of the findings further revealed that talent retention of telecommunication companies in Rivers State, Nigeria gave rise to interpersonal competence, adaptability, and pro-activeness. The study recommends that management of telecommunication companies should do their best to retain employees who have been a positive impact on the companies and use it to motivate other employees working within the designated department in the company.
My life as a social radio presenter rick oshea rte @ Radio 2.0 2015ACTUONDA
My life as a social radio presenter for RTÉ
Rick O’Shea (animateur RTÉ, Irlande)
V rencontres Radio 2.0 - Mardi 13 octobre 2015
'La radio 2.0 et vous ? Raconte-moi une histoire'
www.rr20.fr
50 intervenants / 10 keynotes / 4 tables rondes / 7 workshops / 4 études exclusives
Grands Prix Radio 2.0 / La Radio des Rencontres
- Organisateurs : Nicolas Moulard / Actuonda, Xavier Filliol / Editions de l'Octet, Sacem Université, INA
- Partenaires Platinum : Mediametrie
- Partenaires Grand Prix : Scam, Multivote
- Partenaires Gold : Spotify, Deezer, Hyperworld, Musicovery, Targetspot, Triton Digital
- Partenaires Média : CBNews, La Lettre Pro de la Radio, RadioPub, Media +, Edition Multimedia, Satellinet, French Web, La Correspondance de la Publicité
- La Radio des Rencontres : Broadcast Associés, Radioline, Glowbl
NPR Digital Media : lessons learned in creating and delivering a digital list...ACTUONDA
Keynote : Lessons learned in creating and delivering a digital listening experience
Zach Brand (NPR Digital Media, USA)
V rencontres Radio 2.0 - Mardi 13 octobre 2015
'La radio 2.0 et vous ? Raconte-moi une histoire'
www.rr20.fr
50 intervenants / 10 keynotes / 4 tables rondes / 7 workshops / 4 études exclusives
Grands Prix Radio 2.0 / La Radio des Rencontres
- Organisateurs : Nicolas Moulard / Actuonda, Xavier Filliol / Editions de l'Octet, Sacem Université, INA
- Partenaires Platinum : Mediametrie
- Partenaires Grand Prix : Scam, Multivote
- Partenaires Gold : Spotify, Deezer, Hyperworld, Musicovery, Targetspot, Triton Digital
- Partenaires Média : CBNews, La Lettre Pro de la Radio, RadioPub, Media +, Edition Multimedia, Satellinet, French Web, La Correspondance de la Publicité
- La Radio des Rencontres : Broadcast Associés, Radioline, Glowbl
Spotify strives for team autonomy and independence. This means that no team should be blocked by others and they should be able to move as fast as they can. The autonomy has is a challenge for managing a centralised and coordinated experimentation infrastructure and analysis. This a talk about how we approach experimentation alignment in a fast moving company.
Part of my guest lecture on Data Driven Business Models at Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship. I spoke about how Data is core to the Spotify business and it drives Spotify forward.
La radio est maintenant interactive - Workshop Sync @ Radio 2.0 2017ACTUONDA
La radio est maintenant interactive !
Démonstration d’une nouvelle solution technique, synchronisée par le son, qui permet d’enrichir la radio et la publicité en live, en streamé… sur mobile et PC. Démonstration d’une nouvelle solution technique qui rend la radio live et streamé interactive sur mobile et PC. La synchronisation par le son, sans modification du signal, permet maintenant d’enrichir les contenus radio, de réaliser des votes, sondages et les nouveaux revenus de la publicité mobile-Radio.
Animé par Laurant Weill, CEO et Maxime Joly, Directeur Commercial de la Régie SYNC
VI Rencontres Radio 2.0 ' Audio Digital Reboot'
Lundi 30 janvier 2017 / Grande Halle de la Villette / Salon de la Radio
45 intervenants : 7 Keynotes / 4 Tables Rondes / 4 Etudes exclusives / 7 Workshops
www.rr20.fr
Partenaires Gold : Deezer, Spotify, RCS, Blitzr, Sync, Coyote, ACPM, Sacem, Kantar Media
Partenaires Communication : Mediamétrie, Scam, INA, Hyperworld
Partenaires Media : La Lettre Pro, Radiopub, CBNews, Mind, Influencia, Frenchweb, Satellifax, Media+, Longeur D'ondes, RadioWorld
Co-Organisateurs : Les Editions de l'Octet, Actuonda
This paper is a conversation on the administration challenges that directors are face so as to accomplish
hierarchical objectives. The forward piece of this paper is a conversation about the more extensive Environmental
Factors that influence the advancement of an Organization today. Factors, for example, economy, political and
sociological are been examined assessing an organization's methodology. At the last section there is a conversation
about the HRM division and how significant it is for an organization, considered as a chain between the association
and its representatives. Leadership is an essential idea in present day control. The supervisor has the responsibility
to revise, at times, the standards and regulations that practice to the management protecting for the steering of
folks of the organization, while he sees that positive ideas and rules is basically out of date. Therefore, the
supervisor should break up the responsibilities efficaciously many of the group of workers. The right department
of labour is the maximum essential piece accomplishing strategic dreams. However, a business enterprise’s
method ought to analyse a few external surroundings conditions which can be very critical. Notwithstanding the
CEOs the maximum critical component in a agency is the HRM. For any goal or challenge HRM is responsibly to
discover the ideal human resource offering also the employees with protection making the great for them that
allows you to do their high-quality at the same time as operating. The current, highly competitive and globalised
surroundings requires a great deal extra activation of enterprise than in the beyond for his or her survival and,
predominant, for their development. This activation calls for a thoughts-set exchange, extroversion, management,
modern forms of management, flexibility, velocity of choice-making and harnessing the creativity and dynamism
of the human element. Business growth calls for firstly the existence or locating a leading personality. The
inspirational leader he will form with the senior a vision for the enterprise. Based on the agreed imaginative and
prescient of the leadership group will proceed in shaping the company's medium-time period goal and to broaden
the precise strategy for achieving this aim.
An empirical review on ethical business conduct among small and medium Malay ...AkashSharma618775
In the contemporary world of business, ethical conduct stood to be amongst very important practices that
businessmen are required to incorporate when conducting businesses. Yet, the challenges of globalization, trade
liberalization and profitability of businesses in the uncertain business environment are critically encourage
businessmen to engage in ethical conducts. To investigate this subject matter, the study employed Malay
businessmen at small and medium scale and analyse their participation in implementing ethical business conduct.
The study used four main dimensions of ethical business conducts namely personal values, managing social
responsibility, ways of conducting business and interaction with others in business setting. Moreover the study
categorized the target respondents on race basis thus the Bumiputera (Malaysians indegenious) composed of 50%
and non-Bumiputera thus Chinese and Indians at the rates in the distribution of 32% and 18% respectively.
Generally, businessmen at SMEs scale are aware of ethical business conduct and are implementing such matters;
yet, there are continuation of unethical conducts regardless of understanding of its importance to among the
businessmen in SMEs.
STRATEGIC HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND SUSTAINABLE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE: TH...pitaloka .
Researches on strategic human resource management have given major attention to the issues related to HR management
(managing people) on corporate level as a whole and integrated, than solely focuses on individual practice of HRM which is independent from other strategies of firm. This is because in order to achieve sustainable superior performance and competitive advantage, integration and confortabillitty between selected strategy and human resource policy are required to execute the strategy itself.
Inside-out approach supported by Resource Based View theory is not completely able to displace the outside-in approach in the process of HRM strategy formulation and implementation. This is caused by the fact that each of the approaches has its own advantages and disadvantages over others. The problem is how to make the role and function of strategic HRM able to directly answer all of challenges and create real solutions and add real value on the creation (value creation) so that firm wins the competition. Therefore, the role and functions of HRM must be aimed onto how to create and manage the core competencies to keep it dynamic and flexible (dynamic capabilities) to motivate the emergence of sustainable creativity and innovation which are integrated into every activity, practice, and strategy of HRM (HR Strategy) so that firm is able to adapt, integrate, arrange, and readjust its resources with the environmental changes as necessary.
Effects of ownership structure, capital structure, profitability and company...inventionjournals
International Journal of Business and Management Invention (IJBMI) is an international journal intended for professionals and researchers in all fields of Business and Management. IJBMI publishes research articles and reviews within the whole field Business and Management, new teaching methods, assessment, validation and the impact of new technologies and it will continue to provide information on the latest trends and developments in this ever-expanding subject. The publications of papers are selected through double peer reviewed to ensure originality, relevance, and readability. The articles published in our journal can be accessed online.
Impact of ISO9001 Certification on the Beverage Company's Performance: A case...AkashSharma618775
This study tries to shade light on the effect of ISO9001 on Performance of Brewery companies in
Ethiopia. It empirically analyzes the impact of ISO9001 on the performance of brewery company's proxied by
profit of companies during the sample period of 2002-2015.The sample consists three brewery companies namely:
BGI-Ethiopia, Metha-Abo and Dashen brewery companies. The methodology is based on the Fixed effect model
estimator proposed for dynamic panel data, which is strong in the presence of endogenous covariates, allowing for
individual companies fixed effects, heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation. Based on findings, out of the four
independent variables average revenue and dummy of ISO9001 are positive and significant effect on companies
profit i.e an increase (decrease) in average revenue of companies results in a 5.517 percent increase (decrease) in
the company's profit. The result indicates that ISO9001 certification does have a strong significant positive impact
on brewery companies performance. As the result revealed a company's profit increases by 1.052% due to
ISO9001 certification. The other two explanatory variables average cost and natural logarithm of total sale become
statistically insignificant. In sum, the result of the study indicates that Having ISO9001 certification improves the
profitability of the brewery companies. This finding seems to agree with the study done by T. Dejene (2011) on five
brewery companies in Ethiopia and other scholars like D.S. Sharma(2005),M. Pinar(2001) and J. Singles et
al.(2000)
An Investigation of the Effect of Challenges Encounters Female Entrepreneuria...AkashSharma618775
The participation of females in entrepreneurial activities is such a satisfying ideal that has proven to
convey positive contribution towards economic process. To ascertain this; the subject matter has presented herein.
Such presentation has been done by giving detailed analysis of the effects of challenges encounters female
entrepreneurial taking Malaysia, which is one of the transformed economies as the country of context. There is a
promising growth in entrepreneurial activities in the recent years in Malaysia; yet, this growth has seen to have
many male entrepreneurs leaving females with minimal rate of participation. There are challenges identified,
evaluated and analyzed to be the very reasons that leads to this scenario. The study employed three challenges
called economic, resource and cultural extracted from Isa et al., (2018); the challenges which are henceforth
implemented as independent variables (IVs) of the study. The study has found the significant correlation between
each of these IVs (EoC) and its subject matter; that’s female entrepreneurial (FE) in Malaysia the DV with the
significant levels of 0.026 and 0.012 respectively. The extent of effects was regretted to be 62% within the inverse
correlation of 0.89 to mean that the increase of EoC results to the decrease of FE and the decrease of EoC leads to
the increase of FE. The statistical analytics were measured using SPSS and data were secondarily reviewed from
the study of Hossain et al., (2018). For further researches; an expansion to reach other stakeholders like police
makers and officers of financial institutions has been recommended because, this study has been established on the
mere perspectives and opinions of entrepreneurs and not other stakeholders of entreprenerial activities.
Effects of Human Resource Management Practices on Financial Performance of Se...iosrjce
Human resources are the source of achieving competitive advantage because of its capability to
convert the other resources (money, machine, methods and material) in to output (product/service). The
competitor can imitate other resources like technology and capital but the human resource are unique. People
are one of the most important factors providing flexibility and adaptability to organizations. People (managers),
not the firm, are the adaptive mechanism in determining how the firm will respond to the competitive
environment. This study was guided by resource based theory. The study applied descriptive research design. In
this design, the researcher does not manipulate the variables under study but instead, examines the variables in
their existing condition. The study targeted middle level managers in selected agricultural firms in the sugar
industry. In total the sample size will comprise of 134 respondents. The main research instruments that were
used in this study were questionnaires. Data analysis involved both descriptive and inferential statistics using
SPSS (Statistical Packages for Social Sciences) Computer package. Qualitative data was analyzed thematically.
Correlation was used to analyze the degree of relationship between the variables in the study. The coefficient of
correlation (r), determine the degree (strength) of relationship and its value is between -1 and 1. Regression was
used to obtain an equation which describes the dependent variable in terms of the independent variable based
on the regression model, (regression is used to determine the type of relationship). Further, factor analysis was
undertaken in order to obtain a detailed perceptual and attitudinal aspects of the data. Data was presented in
the form of frequency distribution tables, graphs and pie charts that will facilitate description and explanation
of the study findings. The findings showed the correlation between Human Resource Management practices and
financial performance of selected agricultural firms in the sugar industry.
International Journal of Business and Management Invention (IJBMI)inventionjournals
International Journal of Business and Management Invention (IJBMI) is an international journal intended for professionals and researchers in all fields of Business and Management. IJBMI publishes research articles and reviews within the whole field Business and Management, new teaching methods, assessment, validation and the impact of new technologies and it will continue to provide information on the latest trends and developments in this ever-expanding subject. The publications of papers are selected through double peer reviewed to ensure originality, relevance, and readability. The articles published in our journal can be accessed online.
Talent Retention and Employees’ Resilience of Telecommunication Companies in ...Premier Publishers
This study investigated the relationship between talent retention and employee resilience of telecommunication companies in Rivers State, Nigeria. Talent retention was conceptualized the independent variable while interpersonal competence, adaptability, and pro-activeness were used as measures of the dependent variable. The study adopted the cross-sectional survey in its investigation of the variables. The primary source of data was generated through a self- administered questionnaire. A sample of one hundred and nine (109) respondents were drawn from a population of one hundred and thirty-four (134) respondents, using the Taro Yamane’s formula for sample size determination. The research instrument was validated through the supervisor’s vetting and approval while the reliability of the instrument was achieved by the use of the Cronbach Alpha coefficient with all the items scoring above 0.70. Data generated were analyzed and presented using both descriptive and inferential statistical techniques. The hypotheses were tested using the Spearman’s Rank Order Correlation Statistics. The tests were carried out at a 95% confidence interval and a 0.05 level of significance. Empirical findings revealed that talent retention positively and significantly influences employee resilience of telecommunication companies in Rivers State, Nigeria. The result of the findings further revealed that talent retention of telecommunication companies in Rivers State, Nigeria gave rise to interpersonal competence, adaptability, and pro-activeness. The study recommends that management of telecommunication companies should do their best to retain employees who have been a positive impact on the companies and use it to motivate other employees working within the designated department in the company.
My life as a social radio presenter rick oshea rte @ Radio 2.0 2015ACTUONDA
My life as a social radio presenter for RTÉ
Rick O’Shea (animateur RTÉ, Irlande)
V rencontres Radio 2.0 - Mardi 13 octobre 2015
'La radio 2.0 et vous ? Raconte-moi une histoire'
www.rr20.fr
50 intervenants / 10 keynotes / 4 tables rondes / 7 workshops / 4 études exclusives
Grands Prix Radio 2.0 / La Radio des Rencontres
- Organisateurs : Nicolas Moulard / Actuonda, Xavier Filliol / Editions de l'Octet, Sacem Université, INA
- Partenaires Platinum : Mediametrie
- Partenaires Grand Prix : Scam, Multivote
- Partenaires Gold : Spotify, Deezer, Hyperworld, Musicovery, Targetspot, Triton Digital
- Partenaires Média : CBNews, La Lettre Pro de la Radio, RadioPub, Media +, Edition Multimedia, Satellinet, French Web, La Correspondance de la Publicité
- La Radio des Rencontres : Broadcast Associés, Radioline, Glowbl
NPR Digital Media : lessons learned in creating and delivering a digital list...ACTUONDA
Keynote : Lessons learned in creating and delivering a digital listening experience
Zach Brand (NPR Digital Media, USA)
V rencontres Radio 2.0 - Mardi 13 octobre 2015
'La radio 2.0 et vous ? Raconte-moi une histoire'
www.rr20.fr
50 intervenants / 10 keynotes / 4 tables rondes / 7 workshops / 4 études exclusives
Grands Prix Radio 2.0 / La Radio des Rencontres
- Organisateurs : Nicolas Moulard / Actuonda, Xavier Filliol / Editions de l'Octet, Sacem Université, INA
- Partenaires Platinum : Mediametrie
- Partenaires Grand Prix : Scam, Multivote
- Partenaires Gold : Spotify, Deezer, Hyperworld, Musicovery, Targetspot, Triton Digital
- Partenaires Média : CBNews, La Lettre Pro de la Radio, RadioPub, Media +, Edition Multimedia, Satellinet, French Web, La Correspondance de la Publicité
- La Radio des Rencontres : Broadcast Associés, Radioline, Glowbl
Spotify strives for team autonomy and independence. This means that no team should be blocked by others and they should be able to move as fast as they can. The autonomy has is a challenge for managing a centralised and coordinated experimentation infrastructure and analysis. This a talk about how we approach experimentation alignment in a fast moving company.
Part of my guest lecture on Data Driven Business Models at Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship. I spoke about how Data is core to the Spotify business and it drives Spotify forward.
La radio est maintenant interactive - Workshop Sync @ Radio 2.0 2017ACTUONDA
La radio est maintenant interactive !
Démonstration d’une nouvelle solution technique, synchronisée par le son, qui permet d’enrichir la radio et la publicité en live, en streamé… sur mobile et PC. Démonstration d’une nouvelle solution technique qui rend la radio live et streamé interactive sur mobile et PC. La synchronisation par le son, sans modification du signal, permet maintenant d’enrichir les contenus radio, de réaliser des votes, sondages et les nouveaux revenus de la publicité mobile-Radio.
Animé par Laurant Weill, CEO et Maxime Joly, Directeur Commercial de la Régie SYNC
VI Rencontres Radio 2.0 ' Audio Digital Reboot'
Lundi 30 janvier 2017 / Grande Halle de la Villette / Salon de la Radio
45 intervenants : 7 Keynotes / 4 Tables Rondes / 4 Etudes exclusives / 7 Workshops
www.rr20.fr
Partenaires Gold : Deezer, Spotify, RCS, Blitzr, Sync, Coyote, ACPM, Sacem, Kantar Media
Partenaires Communication : Mediamétrie, Scam, INA, Hyperworld
Partenaires Media : La Lettre Pro, Radiopub, CBNews, Mind, Influencia, Frenchweb, Satellifax, Media+, Longeur D'ondes, RadioWorld
Co-Organisateurs : Les Editions de l'Octet, Actuonda
Richard Lenormand DG Radio/TV Lagardere Active Radio 2.0 2017ACTUONDA
Keynote de Richard Lenormand DG Radio/TV Lagardère Active
VI Rencontres Radio 2.0 ' Audio Digital Reboot'
Lundi 30 janvier 2017 / Grande Halle de la Villette / Salon de la Radio
45 intervenants : 7 Keynotes / 4 Tables Rondes / 4 Etudes exclusives / 7 Workshops
www.rr20.fr
Vidéo correspondante : https://youtu.be/vf5NdKWSync
Partenaires Gold : Deezer, Spotify, RCS, Blitzr, Sync, Coyote, ACPM, Sacem, Kantar Media
Partenaires Communication : Mediamétrie, Scam, INA, Hyperworld
Partenaires Media : La Lettre Pro, Radiopub, CBNews, Mind, Influencia, Frenchweb, Satellifax, Media+, Longeur D'ondes, RadioWorld
Co-Organisateurs : Les Editions de l'Octet, Actuonda
Reinventing radio and music for digital audience at BBC by Marc Friend @ Radi...ACTUONDA
Reinventing Radio and Music for digital audience at BBC
Keynote Mark Friend / BBC
Vidéo correspondante : https://youtu.be/TiuA_7w79TQ
VI Rencontres Radio 2.0 ' Audio Digital Reboot'
Lundi 30 janvier 2017 / Grande Halle de la Villette / Salon de la Radio-European Radio Show
45 intervenants : 7 Keynotes / 4 Tables Rondes / 4 Etudes exclusives / 7 Workshops
www.rr20.fr
Partenaires Gold : Deezer, Spotify, RCS, Blitzr, Sync, Coyote, ACPM, Sacem, Kantar Media
Partenaires Communication : Mediamétrie, Scam, INA, Hyperworld
Partenaires Media : La Lettre Pro, Radiopub, CBNews, Mind, Influencia, Frenchweb, Satellifax, Media+, Longeur D'ondes, RadioWorld
Co-Organisateurs : Les Editions de l'Octet, Actuonda
Coyote trafic : une solution traffic pour les médias @ Radio 2.0 2017ACTUONDA
Coyote trafic : une solution traffic pour les médias
VI Rencontres Radio 2.0 ' Audio Digital Reboot'
Lundi 30 janvier 2017 / Grande Halle de la Villette / Salon de la Radio-European Radio Show
45 intervenants : 7 Keynotes / 4 Tables Rondes / 4 Etudes exclusives / 7 Workshops
www.rr20.fr
Partenaires Gold : Deezer, Spotify, RCS, Blitzr, Sync, Coyote, ACPM, Sacem, Kantar Media
Partenaires Communication : Mediamétrie, Scam, INA, Hyperworld
Partenaires Media : La Lettre Pro, Radiopub, CBNews, Mind, Influencia, Frenchweb, Satellifax, Media+, Longeur D'ondes, RadioWorld
Co-Organisateurs : Les Editions de l'Octet, Actuonda
Sugarcane Company’s performance has remained to be one of the challenging facts in the growing companies in Kenya today. The delays in harvesting operations are attributed to uncoordinated and unpredictable harvesting and transport schedules; and inefficiencies in mill operations. Therefore, the main aim of the study is to determine the influence of Sustainability Management Systems CSR on firm performance of selected sugarcane companies in Kenya. The study is guided by Corporate Social Performance Theory. This study used ex- post facto research design. Ex- post facto research design determines and reports the way things are. The target population was 528 employees. This study therefore sampled 228 respondents. Purposive sampling technique was used to select 10 managers, 24 supervisors, 38 accountants and 156 clerks from the 7 sugarcane companies because they have specific information concerning the effects of corporate social responsibility practice on firm performance of selected sugarcane companies in Kenya. Pilot study was done in order to test for validity and reliability of the research tools. The pilot study was done in Trans-Mara Sugar Company found in rift Valley region of Kenya. For inferential statistics, correlation and multiple regression was used for comparative analysis between frequencies of corporate social responsibility practice on firm performance. The study findings indicated that sustainability management systems have an effect on firm performance. The government will use this study in establishing policies that would ensure improvement in firm performance of sugarcane processing firms among other firms in Kenya. The study recommends that the companies should encourage sustainability management systems since sustainable management systems is an important mechanism for improving corporate sustainability performance. It can generate business value through measurement and management of sustainability risks and opportunities. The study recommends further researchers to study on corporate social responsibility strategy and financial performance of firms in Kenya which the study didn’t cover.
Entrepreneurial Management A Literature Reviewijtsrd
Entrepreneurial management is a mode of management that is proactive, opportunity driven, and action oriented. Entrepreneurial management style is evidenced by the firm’s strategic decisions and operating management philosophies. There is a significant difference between entrepreneurial management and traditional management. Entrepreneurial firms are those where upper management possesses an entrepreneurial management style. A style, which originates from the firms’ strategic decisions and operating management philosophies. Entrepreneurial managerial behaviour promotes a culture of creativity and risk taking, creates flat informal structures, and promotes strategy so as to take advantage of the opportunities that are identified. Traditional managerial behaviour on the other hand emphasizes planning, control, monitoring, evaluation, and formalized organizational structures. The purpose of this paper is to conceptually examine entrepreneurial management as an emerging construct in management. Adim, Chidiebere Victor | Mezeh, Akpobolokami Andy "Entrepreneurial Management: A Literature Review" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-6 | Issue-3 , April 2022, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd49607.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/management/other/49607/entrepreneurial-management-a-literature-review/adim-chidiebere-victor
The Relationship between Entrepreneurial Orientation and Employee Engagement:...AI Publications
This research examined the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and employee engagement, using a sample of 372 employees from small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Syria. Our study aimed to provide an empirical understanding of the intricacies that interplay between the entrepreneurial orientation of firms and the level of employee engagement. The results indicate a positive correlation between these two factors. The insights provided by this study may be valuable for business owners, policymakers, and researchers alike.
The Role of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategy in Achievin.docxoreo10
The Role of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategy in Achieving Sustainable Competitive Advantage
Innovative and entrepreneurial organizations develop a strategy that can effectively lead to the commercialization of the new and novel products or services in the marketplace with a sustainable competitive advantage. Strategic management and entrepreneurship are dynamic processes that are intended to enhance organizational performance (Kuratko & Audretsch, 2009).
Strategic management focuses on how competitive positioning can create advantages for organizations that, in turn, enhance performance (Porter, 1980, 1996) and achieve sustained competitive advantage. Strategic planning requires top management to focus beyond the current external environment and envisage the organization’s market position in the short, medium, and long term. It necessitates the ability to evaluate the resources and core competencies in terms of how they can be utilized to create new sources of value.
Innovation and entrepreneurship are the key to successfully developing competitive advantages. The challenge is to develop innovation and entrepreneurship as a core competence of the organization. In a global competitive economy, the most successful strategies are those that are integrated with innovative and entrepreneurial activities that offer superior value and create wealth. Strategy and strategic management define the direction of the organization and how well it is achieved. Management needs to develop a strategy that focuses on the best ways for the organization to create and sustain a competitive advantage while simultaneously identifying and developing new opportunities. Innovation and entrepreneurship are focused on searching for new opportunities that will create value for the organization, customers, and stakeholders. Strategy is focused on sustaining competitive advantage and achieving above-average returns. Simultaneously embracing entrepreneurial philosophies, an entrepreneurial climate, and entrepreneurial strategic behaviors increases the likelihood an organization will identify and use its unique capabilities as a pathway to increasing its performance (Ireland, Covin, & Kuratko, 2009). Therefore, the integration of innovation and entrepreneurship for opportunity identification and development and a strategy for sustaining competitive advantage are necessary for value and wealth creation. Organizations that can develop competitive advantages today, while using innovation and entrepreneurship to cultivate tomorrow’s advantages, increase the chance of survival and growth in the long term.
Integration of Innovation and Entrepreneurship With Strategy
The integration of innovation and entrepreneurship with strategy can be defined as a vision directed strategic analysis with a core focus on innovative and entrepreneurial behaviors that continuously develop the organization through the identification and development of innovative and entrepreneurial opportuni ...
An Exploratory Study of Factors Influencing Corporate Sustainability on busin...AkashSharma618775
This study evaluates the effect of corporate sustainability on business performance of manufacturing
industries in USA, from 2012 to 2015. These Manufacturing industries are listed in Corporate Social
Responsibility Hub (CSRHub), Morning Star and Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). All data used in this report
were extracted from 37 manufacturing companies’ Sustainability, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and
annual reports. These companies are of diverse sectors such as Automobile, Health care, consumer goods, food,
beverages and technology. Quantitative method of research is used in this study; this also includes the use of
explanatory and descriptive research design. The main issues to be discussed in this study are Donation, Incident
rate reduction and Water Recycled as the independent variables, while Revenue is the dependent variable. Data
analysis was carried out using the regression analysis, descriptive statistics and correlation. E-views software
generated the data for further analysis. The findings imply that donation has a positive insignificance effect on
revenue, reduced incident rate reduction had positive significance effect on revenue and water recycling has
negative insignificant effect on revenue. In the future researches, larger samples of companies form diverse sectors
and subsectors should be studied to broaden the research on company performance especially the non-financial
aspect.
An Exploratory Study of Factors Influencing Corporate Sustainability on busin...AkashSharma618775
This study evaluates the effect of corporate sustainability on business performance of manufacturing
industries in USA, from 2012 to 2015. These Manufacturing industries are listed in Corporate Social
Responsibility Hub (CSRHub), Morning Star and Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). All data used in this report
were extracted from 37 manufacturing companies’ Sustainability, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and
annual reports. These companies are of diverse sectors such as Automobile, Health care, consumer goods, food,
beverages and technology. Quantitative method of research is used in this study; this also includes the use of
explanatory and descriptive research design. The main issues to be discussed in this study are Donation, Incident
rate reduction and Water Recycled as the independent variables, while Revenue is the dependent variable. Data
analysis was carried out using the regression analysis, descriptive statistics and correlation. E-views software
generated the data for further analysis. The findings imply that donation has a positive insignificance effect on
revenue, reduced incident rate reduction had positive significance effect on revenue and water recycling has
negative insignificant effect on revenue. In the future researches, larger samples of companies form diverse sectors
and subsectors should be studied to broaden the research on company performance especially the non-financial
aspect.
Leadership Qualities and Sustainable Competitive Advantage: AnalyzingSmall an...IJAEMSJORNAL
This article seeks to investigate the connection between leadership qualities and sustainable competitive advantage. The research was conducted at small and medium-sized businesses in Erbil. This study assessed the influence of leadership qualities (behaviour-focused strategies, natural reward strategies, and constructive thought patterns) on small and medium-sized firms' sustainable competitive advantage. The researchers employed basic regression analysis to determine the impact of each independent variable on small and medium-sized businesses' sustained competitive advantage in the Erbil City of Kurdistan. There were a total of 280 questionnaires sent, but only 228 individuals accurately filled them out. The findings suggested that behaviour-focused strategies as a leadership quality on sustainable competitive advantage had the largest effect, while constructive thinking
Environmental Dynamism and Corporate Vitality of Fast Moving Consumer Goods C...YogeshIJTSRD
Firms need to cope with dynamically evolving environments. Global crises, competitive pressure, changing customer demands, or new technological developments frequently shake established markets. The firm’s ability to sense opportunities and threats, to make decisions on appropriate responses, and to reconfigure the firm’s resource and capability is critical to its vitality and survival. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between environmental dynamism and corporate vitality of Fast Moving Consumer Goods Companies FMCG in Rivers State, Nigeria. The study adopted a cross sectional survey research design. The population of this study was nine 9 fast moving consumer goods companies in Rivers State. Since the unit of analysis was at organizational level, only strategic managers were included. Five managers each were used for each company giving a total of 45 respondents. Primary data was collected using a 5 point Likert scaled questionnaire. The reliability of the instrument was achieved by the use of the Cronbach Alpha coefficient with all the items scoring above 0.70. The hypotheses were tested using the Spearman’s Rank Order Correlation Coefficient with the aid of Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 23.0. The tests were carried out at a 95 confidence interval and a 0.05 level of significance. Results from analysis of data revealed that there is a strong positive environmental dynamism and corporate vitality of FMCGC in Rivers State, Nigeria. The study recommends that managers of Fast Moving Consumer Goods Companies should form and support work environments that inspire employees toward continuous learning and open search behaviours in order to exploit innovation opportunities. Gabriel, J. M. O | George, B M | Adim, C. V "Environmental Dynamism and Corporate Vitality of Fast Moving Consumer Goods Companies in Rivers State, Nigeria" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-3 , April 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd39926.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/management/other/39926/environmental-dynamism-and-corporate-vitality-of-fast-moving-consumer-goods-companies-in-rivers-state-nigeria/gabriel-j-m-o
The Influence of Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility on...inventionjournals
International Journal of Business and Management Invention (IJBMI) is an international journal intended for professionals and researchers in all fields of Business and Management. IJBMI publishes research articles and reviews within the whole field Business and Management, new teaching methods, assessment, validation and the impact of new technologies and it will continue to provide information on the latest trends and developments in this ever-expanding subject. The publications of papers are selected through double peer reviewed to ensure originality, relevance, and readability. The articles published in our journal can be accessed online.
Submission Deadline: 30th September 2022
Acceptance Notification: Within Three Days’ time period
Online Publication: Within 24 Hrs. time Period
Expected Date of Dispatch of Printed Journal: 5th October 2022
MODELING AND ANALYSIS OF SURFACE ROUGHNESS AND WHITE LATER THICKNESS IN WIRE-...IAEME Publication
White layer thickness (WLT) formed and surface roughness in wire electric discharge turning (WEDT) of tungsten carbide composite has been made to model through response surface methodology (RSM). A Taguchi’s standard Design of experiments involving five input variables with three levels has been employed to establish a mathematical model between input parameters and responses. Percentage of cobalt content, spindle speed, Pulse on-time, wire feed and pulse off-time were changed during the experimental tests based on the Taguchi’s orthogonal array L27 (3^13). Analysis of variance (ANOVA) revealed that the mathematical models obtained can adequately describe performance within the parameters of the factors considered. There was a good agreement between the experimental and predicted values in this study.
A STUDY ON THE REASONS FOR TRANSGENDER TO BECOME ENTREPRENEURSIAEME Publication
The study explores the reasons for a transgender to become entrepreneurs. In this study transgender entrepreneur was taken as independent variable and reasons to become as dependent variable. Data were collected through a structured questionnaire containing a five point Likert Scale. The study examined the data of 30 transgender entrepreneurs in Salem Municipal Corporation of Tamil Nadu State, India. Simple Random sampling technique was used. Garrett Ranking Technique (Percentile Position, Mean Scores) was used as the analysis for the present study to identify the top 13 stimulus factors for establishment of trans entrepreneurial venture. Economic advancement of a nation is governed upon the upshot of a resolute entrepreneurial doings. The conception of entrepreneurship has stretched and materialized to the socially deflated uncharted sections of transgender community. Presently transgenders have smashed their stereotypes and are making recent headlines of achievements in various fields of our Indian society. The trans-community is gradually being observed in a new light and has been trying to achieve prospective growth in entrepreneurship. The findings of the research revealed that the optimistic changes are taking place to change affirmative societal outlook of the transgender for entrepreneurial ventureship. It also laid emphasis on other transgenders to renovate their traditional living. The paper also highlights that legislators, supervisory body should endorse an impartial canons and reforms in Tamil Nadu Transgender Welfare Board Association.
BROAD UNEXPOSED SKILLS OF TRANSGENDER ENTREPRENEURSIAEME Publication
Since ages gender difference is always a debatable theme whether caused by nature, evolution or environment. The birth of a transgender is dreadful not only for the child but also for their parents. The pain of living in the wrong physique and treated as second class victimized citizen is outrageous and fully harboured with vicious baseless negative scruples. For so long, social exclusion had perpetuated inequality and deprivation experiencing ingrained malign stigma and besieged victims of crime or violence across their life spans. They are pushed into the murky way of life with a source of eternal disgust, bereft sexual potency and perennial fear. Although they are highly visible but very little is known about them. The common public needs to comprehend the ravaged arrogance on these insensitive souls and assist in integrating them into the mainstream by offering equal opportunity, treat with humanity and respect their dignity. Entrepreneurship in the current age is endorsing the gender fairness movement. Unstable careers and economic inadequacy had inclined one of the gender variant people called Transgender to become entrepreneurs. These tiny budding entrepreneurs resulted in economic transition by means of employment, free from the clutches of stereotype jobs, raised standard of living and handful of financial empowerment. Besides all these inhibitions, they were able to witness a platform for skill set development that ignited them to enter into entrepreneurial domain. This paper epitomizes skill sets involved in trans-entrepreneurs of Thoothukudi Municipal Corporation of Tamil Nadu State and is a groundbreaking determination to sightsee various skills incorporated and the impact on entrepreneurship.
DETERMINANTS AFFECTING THE USER'S INTENTION TO USE MOBILE BANKING APPLICATIONSIAEME Publication
The banking and financial services industries are experiencing increased technology penetration. Among them, the banking industry has made technological advancements to better serve the general populace. The economy focused on transforming the banking sector's system into a cashless, paperless, and faceless one. The researcher wants to evaluate the user's intention for utilising a mobile banking application. The study also examines the variables affecting the user's behaviour intention when selecting specific applications for financial transactions. The researcher employed a well-structured questionnaire and a descriptive study methodology to gather the respondents' primary data utilising the snowball sampling technique. The study includes variables like performance expectations, effort expectations, social impact, enabling circumstances, and perceived risk. Each of the aforementioned variables has a major impact on how users utilise mobile banking applications. The outcome will assist the service provider in comprehending the user's history with mobile banking applications.
ANALYSE THE USER PREDILECTION ON GPAY AND PHONEPE FOR DIGITAL TRANSACTIONSIAEME Publication
Technology upgradation in banking sector took the economy to view that payment mode towards online transactions using mobile applications. This system enabled connectivity between banks, Merchant and user in a convenient mode. there are various applications used for online transactions such as Google pay, Paytm, freecharge, mobikiwi, oxygen, phonepe and so on and it also includes mobile banking applications. The study aimed at evaluating the predilection of the user in adopting digital transaction. The study is descriptive in nature. The researcher used random sample techniques to collect the data. The findings reveal that mobile applications differ with the quality of service rendered by Gpay and Phonepe. The researcher suggest the Phonepe application should focus on implementing the application should be user friendly interface and Gpay on motivating the users to feel the importance of request for money and modes of payments in the application.
VOICE BASED ATM FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED USING ARDUINOIAEME Publication
The prototype of a voice-based ATM for visually impaired using Arduino is to help people who are blind. This uses RFID cards which contain users fingerprint encrypted on it and interacts with the users through voice commands. ATM operates when sensor detects the presence of one person in the cabin. After scanning the RFID card, it will ask to select the mode like –normal or blind. User can select the respective mode through voice input, if blind mode is selected the balance check or cash withdraw can be done through voice input. Normal mode procedure is same as the existing ATM.
IMPACT OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE ON HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AMONG...IAEME Publication
There is increasing acceptability of emotional intelligence as a major factor in personality assessment and effective human resource management. Emotional intelligence as the ability to build capacity, empathize, co-operate, motivate and develop others cannot be divorced from both effective performance and human resource management systems. The human person is crucial in defining organizational leadership and fortunes in terms of challenges and opportunities and walking across both multinational and bilateral relationships. The growing complexity of the business world requires a great deal of self-confidence, integrity, communication, conflict and diversity management to keep the global enterprise within the paths of productivity and sustainability. Using the exploratory research design and 255 participants the result of this original study indicates strong positive correlation between emotional intelligence and effective human resource management. The paper offers suggestions on further studies between emotional intelligence and human capital development and recommends for conflict management as an integral part of effective human resource management.
VISUALISING AGING PARENTS & THEIR CLOSE CARERS LIFE JOURNEY IN AGING ECONOMYIAEME Publication
Our life journey, in general, is closely defined by the way we understand the meaning of why we coexist and deal with its challenges. As we develop the "inspiration economy", we could say that nearly all of the challenges we have faced are opportunities that help us to discover the rest of our journey. In this note paper, we explore how being faced with the opportunity of being a close carer for an aging parent with dementia brought intangible discoveries that changed our insight of the meaning of the rest of our life journey.
A STUDY ON THE IMPACT OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PERFO...IAEME Publication
The main objective of this study is to analyze the impact of aspects of Organizational Culture on the Effectiveness of the Performance Management System (PMS) in the Health Care Organization at Thanjavur. Organizational Culture and PMS play a crucial role in present-day organizations in achieving their objectives. PMS needs employees’ cooperation to achieve its intended objectives. Employees' cooperation depends upon the organization’s culture. The present study uses exploratory research to examine the relationship between the Organization's culture and the Effectiveness of the Performance Management System. The study uses a Structured Questionnaire to collect the primary data. For this study, Thirty-six non-clinical employees were selected from twelve randomly selected Health Care organizations at Thanjavur. Thirty-two fully completed questionnaires were received.
Living in 21st century in itself reminds all of us the necessity of police and its administration. As more and more we are entering into the modern society and culture, the more we require the services of the so called ‘Khaki Worthy’ men i.e., the police personnel. Whether we talk of Indian police or the other nation’s police, they all have the same recognition as they have in India. But as already mentioned, their services and requirements are different after the like 26th November, 2008 incidents, where they without saving their own lives has sacrificed themselves without any hitch and without caring about their respective family members and wards. In other words, they are like our heroes and mentors who can guide us from the darkness of fear, militancy, corruption and other dark sides of life and so on. Now the question arises, if Gandhi would have been alive today, what would have been his reaction/opinion to the police and its functioning? Would he have some thing different in his mind now what he had been in his mind before the partition or would he be going to start some Satyagraha in the form of some improvement in the functioning of the police administration? Really these questions or rather night mares can come to any one’s mind, when there is too much confusion is prevailing in our minds, when there is too much corruption in the society and when the polices working is also in the questioning because of one or the other case throughout the India. It is matter of great concern that we have to thing over our administration and our practical approach because the police personals are also like us, they are part and parcel of our society and among one of us, so why we all are pin pointing towards them.
A STUDY ON TALENT MANAGEMENT AND ITS IMPACT ON EMPLOYEE RETENTION IN SELECTED...IAEME Publication
The goal of this study was to see how talent management affected employee retention in the selected IT organizations in Chennai. The fundamental issue was the difficulty to attract, hire, and retain talented personnel who perform well and the gap between supply and demand of talent acquisition and retaining them within the firms. The study's main goals were to determine the impact of talent management on employee retention in IT companies in Chennai, investigate talent management strategies that IT companies could use to improve talent acquisition, performance management, career planning and formulate retention strategies that the IT firms could use. The respondents were given a structured close-ended questionnaire with the 5 Point Likert Scale as part of the study's quantitative research design. The target population consisted of 289 IT professionals. The questionnaires were distributed and collected by the researcher directly. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to collect and analyse the questionnaire responses. Hypotheses that were formulated for the various areas of the study were tested using a variety of statistical tests. The key findings of the study suggested that talent management had an impact on employee retention. The studies also found that there is a clear link between the implementation of talent management and retention measures. Management should provide enough training and development for employees, clarify job responsibilities, provide adequate remuneration packages, and recognise employees for exceptional performance.
ATTRITION IN THE IT INDUSTRY DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC: LINKING EMOTIONAL INTE...IAEME Publication
Globally, Millions of dollars were spent by the organizations for employing skilled Information Technology (IT) professionals. It is costly to replace unskilled employees with IT professionals possessing technical skills and competencies that aid in interconnecting the business processes. The organization’s employment tactics were forced to alter by globalization along with technological innovations as they consistently diminish to remain lean, outsource to concentrate on core competencies along with restructuring/reallocate personnel to gather efficiency. As other jobs, organizations or professions have become reasonably more appropriate in a shifting employment landscape, the above alterations trigger both involuntary as well as voluntary turnover. The employee view on jobs is also afflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic along with the employee-driven labour market. So, having effective strategies is necessary to tackle the withdrawal rate of employees. By associating Emotional Intelligence (EI) along with Talent Management (TM) in the IT industry, the rise in attrition rate was analyzed in this study. Only 303 respondents were collected out of 350 participants to whom questionnaires were distributed. From the employees of IT organizations located in Bangalore (India), the data were congregated. A simple random sampling methodology was employed to congregate data as of the respondents. Generating the hypothesis along with testing is eventuated. The effect of EI and TM along with regression analysis between TM and EI was analyzed. The outcomes indicated that employee and Organizational Performance (OP) were elevated by effective EI along with TM.
INFLUENCE OF TALENT MANAGEMENT PRACTICES ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE A STUD...IAEME Publication
By implementing talent management strategy, organizations would have the option to retain their skilled professionals while additionally working on their overall performance. It is the course of appropriately utilizing the ideal individuals, setting them up for future top positions, exploring and dealing with their performance, and holding them back from leaving the organization. It is employee performance that determines the success of every organization. The firm quickly obtains an upper hand over its rivals in the event that its employees having particular skills that cannot be duplicated by the competitors. Thus, firms are centred on creating successful talent management practices and processes to deal with the unique human resources. Firms are additionally endeavouring to keep their top/key staff since on the off chance that they leave; the whole store of information leaves the firm's hands. The study's objective was to determine the impact of talent management on organizational performance among the selected IT organizations in Chennai. The study recommends that talent management limitedly affects performance. On the off chance that this talent is appropriately management and implemented properly, organizations might benefit as much as possible from their maintained assets to support development and productivity, both monetarily and non-monetarily.
A STUDY OF VARIOUS TYPES OF LOANS OF SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR BANKS...IAEME Publication
Banking regulations act of India, 1949 defines banking as “acceptance of deposits for the purpose of lending or investment from the public, repayment on demand or otherwise and withdrawable through cheques, drafts order or otherwise”, the major participants of the Indian financial system are commercial banks, the financial institution encompassing term lending institutions. Investments institutions, specialized financial institution and the state level development banks, non banking financial companies (NBFC) and other market intermediaries such has the stock brokers and money lenders are among the oldest of the certain variants of NBFC and the oldest market participants. The asset quality of banks is one of the most important indicators of their financial health. The Indian banking sector has been facing severe problems of increasing Non- Performing Assets (NPAs). The NPAs growth directly and indirectly affects the quality of assets and profitability of banks. It also shows the efficiency of banks credit risk management and the recovery effectiveness. NPA do not generate any income, whereas, the bank is required to make provisions for such as assets that why is a double edge weapon. This paper outlines the concept of quality of bank loans of different types like Housing, Agriculture and MSME loans in state Haryana of selected public and private sector banks. This study is highlighting problems associated with the role of commercial bank in financing Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SME). The overall objective of the research was to assess the effect of the financing provisions existing for the setting up and operations of MSMEs in the country and to generate recommendations for more robust financing mechanisms for successful operation of the MSMEs, in turn understanding the impact of MSME loans on financial institutions due to NPA. There are many research conducted on the topic of Non- Performing Assets (NPA) Management, concerning particular bank, comparative study of public and private banks etc. In this paper the researcher is considering the aggregate data of selected public sector and private sector banks and attempts to compare the NPA of Housing, Agriculture and MSME loans in state Haryana of public and private sector banks. The tools used in the study are average and Anova test and variance. The findings reveal that NPA is common problem for both public and private sector banks and is associated with all types of loans either that is housing loans, agriculture loans and loans to SMES. NPAs of both public and private sector banks show the increasing trend. In 2010-11 GNPA of public and private sector were at same level it was 2% but after 2010-11 it increased in many fold and at present there is GNPA in some more than 15%. It shows the dark area of Indian banking sector.
EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF MECHANICAL AND TRIBOLOGICAL RELATION OF NYLON/BaSO4 POL...IAEME Publication
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Manufacturing industries have witnessed an outburst in productivity. For productivity improvement manufacturing industries are taking various initiatives by using lean tools and techniques. However, in different manufacturing industries, frugal approach is applied in product design and services as a tool for improvement. Frugal approach contributed to prove less is more and seems indirectly contributing to improve productivity. Hence, there is need to understand status of frugal approach application in manufacturing industries. All manufacturing industries are trying hard and putting continuous efforts for competitive existence. For productivity improvements, manufacturing industries are coming up with different effective and efficient solutions in manufacturing processes and operations. To overcome current challenges, manufacturing industries have started using frugal approach in product design and services. For this study, methodology adopted with both primary and secondary sources of data. For primary source interview and observation technique is used and for secondary source review has done based on available literatures in website, printed magazines, manual etc. An attempt has made for understanding application of frugal approach with the study of manufacturing industry project. Manufacturing industry selected for this project study is Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd. This paper will help researcher to find the connections between the two concepts productivity improvement and frugal approach. This paper will help to understand significance of frugal approach for productivity improvement in manufacturing industry. This will also help to understand current scenario of frugal approach in manufacturing industry. In manufacturing industries various process are involved to deliver the final product. In the process of converting input in to output through manufacturing process productivity plays very critical role. Hence this study will help to evolve status of frugal approach in productivity improvement programme. The notion of frugal can be viewed as an approach towards productivity improvement in manufacturing industries.
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Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
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June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
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• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
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Aldag (2005) forms the basis of firm’s outstanding performance and growth as they
are the product of effective strategic management. Hence, managers should focus on
building sustainable competitive advantage by implementing unique value and
creative strategies based on the combination of internal organizational resources and
capabilities stimulated by corporate entrepreneurship (CE). While acknowledging the
resource based view (RBV) concept of Barney (1991) that a firm is a collection of
unique resources and capabilities that provide basis for its strategy and returns; the
idea that the firm must strategize to innovate and build competitive advantage is no
longer new. What is worrisome is how the managers will achieve such intent, bearing
the nature of the volatile environment they operate. These therefore call for the
nurturing of effective corporate entrepreneurship within the firm processes to
stimulate employees innovative, proactive and risk taking behaviours geared towards
ensuring proper opportunity identification and exploitation that may result to strategic
renewal. Sharma and Chrisman (1999) viewed corporate entrepreneurship (CE) as the
process by which an individual or a group of individuals in association with an
existing organisation, creates a new organisation or adds to the renewal or innovation
of an existing organisation. Similar view by Burgelman (1983) observed that CE
allows the revitalisation and improvement of corporate performance, and it allows for
the transformation of organisation through a process of strategic renewal, based on the
acquisition of new capabilities (Guth and Ginsberg 1990). This suggests that strategy
must be dynamic, innovative and proactive to accommodate anticipated change that
characterizes a turbulent environment.
The persistent increase in environmental turbulence necessitates the role of
dynamic capabilities (DC). Johnson, Scholes and Whittington (2008) viewed dynamic
capabilities as an organisation’s ability to renew and recreate its strategic capabilities
to meet the needs of the changing environment. Supporting this view, Pavlou (2004)
observed that dynamic capabilities are firm’s ability to reconfigure resources and
renew functional competence that addresses the changing environment. This suggests
that the development of DC is inevitable for firm’s sustenance given a volatile
environment. The renewal and reconfiguration of firm’s resources do not occur by
chance, but are predicated on the innovative, proactive and risk taking behaviour of
firms that constitute corporate entrepreneurship (CE). McDougall and Oviatt (2000)
viewed CE as the combination of innovative, proactive and risk taking behaviour
intended to create value in organisations. Related view by Johnson (1998) perceived
CE as opportunity seeking with determination. Studies by Schaltegger and Wagner
(2010) posit CE as the catalyst that brings together people, money and ideas to
establish value creating networks. Wiklund (1999) also noted that CE linked invention
with market success. The trend in these views confirm the fact that today’s firm must
not only strategize on existing resources and capabilities, but must also strive to
develop dynamic capabilities that can accommodate change, innovate and facilitate
the development of new organization capabilities, through corporate entrepreneurship.
The study therefore posits that innovative, proactive and risk taking attitudes of
employees that constitutes CE, stimulates the development of DC (learning,
reconfiguration, coordination and integration) that is purposefully geared towards
sustaining firms’ competitive position in the turbulent environment.
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2. LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1. Entrepreneurial behaviour
Entrepreneurial behaviour is any newly fashioned set of actions through which
companies seek to exploit entrepreneurial opportunities rivals have not noticed or
exploited. Entrepreneurial opportunities are external environmental conditions
suggesting the viability of introducing and selling new products, services, raw
materials and organizing methods at prices exceeded their production costs (Casson,
1982; Shane and Venkataraman, 2000). In complex environments, entrepreneurial
opportunities often surface unexpectedly; because these opportunities are short-lived
and subject to capture or appropriation by rivals, a firm must move quickly to pursue a
desired opportunity once it has been identified (Eisenhardt and Sull, 2001). Three key
dimensions – innovativeness (the seeking of creative solutions to problems or needs),
risk-taking (the willingness to commit significant levels of resources to pursue
entrepreneurial opportunities with a reasonable chance of failure), and proactiveness
(doing what is necessary to bring pursuit of an entrepreneurial opportunity to
completion) – underlie entrepreneurial behaviour (Covin and Slevin, 1991; Lumpkin
and Dess, 1996; Morris and Kuratko, 2002). Entrepreneurial behaviour is the conduit
through which entrepreneurship is practiced in companies of all types. Increasingly,
organizations are committing to the position that entrepreneurial behaviour is essential
if they are to first survive and then achieve competitive success in a world that is
being driven by accelerating change (Barringer and Bluedorn, 1999; Ireland et al.,
2001; Lyon, Lumpkin and Dess, 2000). In essence, entrepreneurship is concerned
with discovering and exploiting value creating entrepreneurial opportunities (Shane
and Venkataraman, 2000). The behavioural component “...includes the set of
activities required to move a concept or idea through the key stages in the
entrepreneurial process to implementation” (Morris and Kuratko, 2002).
Entrepreneurship’s willingness component “refers to the willingness of an individual
or organization to embrace new opportunities and take responsibility for effecting
creative change” (Morris and Kuratko, 2002). Lumpkin and Dess (1996) call this
attitude or willingness entrepreneurial orientation. Entrepreneurial behaviour,
displayed within the context of an existing organization, is linked to corporate
entrepreneurship and is differentiated from its relationship with independent
entrepreneurship (Sharma and Chrisman, 1999. In the instance of corporate
entrepreneurship, the process of entrepreneurial actions encompasses a set of
organization-wide activities rather than any single one (Vozikis et al., 1999).
2.2. Dynamic Capability - a routine within processes
The concept of dynamic capabilities was introduced by Teece and Pisano, (1994).
Zollo and winter, (2002) found that dynamic capabilities result from complicated
organizational and strategic routines through which the managers reconfigure and
renew a firm’s resource base to generate economically value-creating strategies. This
implies that dynamic capabilities can be perceived as the routines that guide and
facilitate the development of firm’s (organizational) capabilities. Eisenhardt and
Martin (2000) extended the definition to include the ability of firms to initiate change.
Dynamic capabilities are not simply processes, but embedded in processes; processes
are often explicit or codifiable structuring and combination of resources and can be
transferred more easily within firm or across firms. More recently, Helfat et al. (2007)
defined dynamic capabilities as “the capacity of an organization to purposefully
create, extend or modify its resource base. Winter (2003) observed that dynamic
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capabilities enable firm to react to changing market conditions by developing and
renewing its organizational capabilities thereby achieving and sustaining a
competitive advantage. This suggests that the development of dynamic capabilities is
inevitable for firm’s sustenance given a volatile environment. The renewal and
reconfiguration of firm’s resources do not occur by chance, but are predicated on the
innovative, proactive and risk taking behaviour of firms that constitute corporate
entrepreneurship (CE). The study seeks to examine relationship between corporate
entrepreneurship and dynamic capabilities in selected registered Pharmaceutical firms
in Nigeria.
This was premised on the belief that an understanding of the nature and
influences of CE on DC by managers and policy makers, will aid in shaping their
strategic choices and as such offer a road map for the sustenance of the firm
competitive position. Hence the identification and understanding of the influences of
CE on DC would give managers and organizations the instrument to rationally
improve their chances of success and durably sustain their competitive advantage.
Dynamic capabilities (DC) emerged as a component of resource based view in an
attempt at explaining the competitive advantage in a rapidly changing environment.
They are referred to as the capacity of an organisation to purposefully create, extend
or modify its resource base (Helfat et al, .2007). Similar view by Winter (2003)
opined that dynamic capabilities are capabilities that operate to extend, modify or
create ordinary capabilities, they are essential capacities for coping with market needs
(Teece et al., 1997). Related view by Zollo and Winter (2002) described dynamic
capability as the learned and stable pattern of collective activity through which the
organisation systematically generates and modifies its routines in pursuit of improved
effectiveness. The word capacity referred to the firm’s ability to perform a task in a
satisfactory manner to achieve congruence with the changing environment. However
the corporate entrepreneurship (CE) should premise the alteration or modification of a
firm resource base. The perception is based on the innovative, proactive and risk
taking qualities of corporate entrepreneurship exhibited in the identification and
exploitation of opportunities that necessitated resource modification or alteration.
Thus CE could trigger successful DC in firms since the aim is to identify and exploit
opportunities for new growth platforms through entrepreneurship leading to resource
modification if need be. Moreover the present day characteristics of the turbulent
business environment which reflect innovative product development, shorter
technology life cycle and speed of market entry are anchored on entrepreneurial
prowess of firms. Thus the influence of CE on the DC purposefully deployed by firm
gives the firm a sense of direction towards the identification and exploitation of
opportunities which may be the game changer for the firm in the industry.
Corporate Entrepreneurship (CE) is the process by which individuals or groups
inside organisations pursue opportunities without regard to the resources they
currently control (Stevenson, Roberts, and Grousbeck, 1999). CE encompasses three
types of phenomena (Sharma and Chrisman, 1999) these are innovativeness, pro-
activeness and risk seeking. This process leads to the birth of new businesses and to
the transformation of companies through a renewal of their key ideas (Guth and
Ginsberg, 1990). These by implication suggest entrepreneurial behaviour are reflected
in the innovative and risk taking attitude of employees in the firms.
The motive for corporate entrepreneurship lies in the urge to identify sources of
existing and emerging opportunities (Ramachandran, 2003) leading to strategic
renewal that may result to significant changes in an organisation’s business or
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corporate level strategy for successful exploitation and growth. These changes alter
pre-existing relationships within the organisation or between the organisation and its
external environment and in most cases involve some sort of innovation.
It is therefore pertinent to examine the relationship between CE and DC since the
sustenance of firm’s competitive advantage in a turbulent environment requires CE
and DC that seeks the renewal, reconfiguration and development of organisation
capabilities having been complemented by corporate entrepreneurship. This is
premised on the fact that CE allows the revitalisation and improvement of corporate
performance (kanter, 1984; Pinchot 1985; Rule and Irwin,1988) and it is the process
by which individual or group of individual identify and exploit opportunities through
the innovative, proactive and risk taking skills that constitute entrepreneurship
(Sapienza et al, 2004 ). Similar view by Chung and Gibbons (1997) affirmed CE as a
process that transforms individual ideas in to collective actions. Acknowledging this
view, Phan et al, (2009) concurred that CE embodies renewal activities that enhances
corporations’ ability to compete and take risk which may and may not involve the
addition of new businesses to corporation. While noting that major aim of renewing
and reconfiguring (DC) existing resources and capabilities is to achieve congruence
with opportunities both within and outside the business environment, CE seeks to
identify and exploit opportunities using the innovative, proactive and risk taking skills
of individual or group of people as such CE actions should precede DC actions and
strategy to give guidance and minimize risk in an uncertain environment
Hence to generate an economically value-creating strategy, opportunity
identification and recognition must precede resource reconfiguration and renewal in
the course of exploiting such opportunities to achieve strategic fit between the
organisation’s resources and opportunity identified. This will help reduce the risk of
failure and enhance the innovativeness of firms.
The following hypotheses were formulated for the study:
Corporate entrepreneurship has no significant effect on the dynamic
capabilities developed by the Nigeria Pharmaceutical firms.
Employee’s innovative prowess has no relationship with the reconfiguration
of the firm’s resources.
Employee’s innovative prowess does not relate with the coordination of the
firm’s resources.
Employee’s innovative prowess has no relationship with the integration of
the firm’s resources
Employee’s innovative prowess does not relate with the learning culture of
the pharmaceutical firms.
Pro-activeness of employee’s has no significant relationship with the
learning culture of firms.
Pro-activeness of employee’s has no significant relationship with the
reconfiguration of the firms resources.
Pro-activeness of employee’s has no significant relationship with the
coordinating prowess of the firms resources.
Pro-activeness of employee’s has no significant relationship with the
integrating skills of the pharmaceutical firms;
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Employee’s risk taking culture has no significant relationship with the
reconfiguration of the firms resources.
Employee’s risk taking culture has no significant relationship with the co-
ordination of the firms resources.
Employee’s risk taking culture has no significant relationship with the
integration of the firms resources.
Employee’s risk taking culture has no significant relationship with the
learning prowess of the pharmaceutical firms.
3. METHODOLOGY
Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) test was performed with Corporate
Entrepreneurship (CE) as a higher order latent construct, consisting of the three first
order indicators (Innovativeness, Pro-activeness Risk-taking). The first order loadings
ranged from 0.64 to 0.88 with t-values greater than 1.96 and significant at p < 0.001.
The second order loadings ranged from 0.70 to 0.84 at a t-value >1.96 and significant
at p< 0.001. The outcome affirmed the higher order construct explicitly represent the
causal constructs that impact the first order factors. The measurement model fit index
accounted for chi-square ( ) of 80.7771; df 41, p= 0.000, ; GFI = 0.932;
CFI= 0.902. The result indicates an adequate fit.
Beyond the examination of the loadings for each indicator, composite reliability of
every construct in the model was also assessed. The reliability scores for the first
order construct ranged from 0.74 to 0.84, providing a direct assessment of the
construct reliabilities. The overall composite reliability score for the second order
construct corporate entrepreneurship is 0.94 all exceeding the 0.70 rule of thumb,
indicating a good overall reliability of the model. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA)
test was also performed on dynamic capability (DC) as a higher order latent
construct, consisting of the four first order indicators (Learning, Integration,
Coordination, Reconfiguration). The first order loadings ranged from 0.58 to 0.86
with t-values >1.96 and significant at p < 0.001. The second order loadings ranged
from 0.64 to 0.81 at a t-value >1.96 and significant at p< 0.001. The outcome
affirmed the higher order construct explicitly represent the causal constructs that
impact the first order factors.
The measurement model fit index accounted for chi-square = 92.751; df =48;
/df = 1.9323; p= 0.000; CFI =0.962; GFI= 0.971. The result indicates an adequate
fit. The result showed that each item loaded significantly on its respective first order
factor and subsequently the higher order construct without cross-loading to any other
first order factor of the same construct. Following the examination of the loadings for
each indicator in the DC construct and first order loading construct, composite
reliability of every construct in the model was also assessed. The reliability scores for
the first order construct ranged from 0.78 to 0.85, providing a direct assessment of the
construct reliabilities. The overall composite reliability score for the second order
construct dynamic capability is 0.92, all exceeding the 0.70 rule of thumb, indicating
a good overall reliability of the model.
4. ANALYSIS OF THE STRUCTURAL PATH
Following the examination and validation of the measurement model in a CFA
analysis, the structural relationship to examine the overall relative model fit and the
structural parameter estimate with one headed arrow on a path diagram was estimated.
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The fit of the structural model was assessed using the absolute fit, parsimony fit and
incremental fit indices. The fit resulted to a measures of chi-square ( ) of 88, df =37,
p=0.000, , CFI = 0.914, GFI = 0.943. The chi square statistics is significant
and other relevant indices indicate a good overall fit (Tippins and Sohi, 2003).
The hypotheses specified for the study were tested.
Hypothesis Parameter
H1: CE DC 0.68
H2: INV RC 0.57
H3 INV CD 0.53
H4: INV LE 0.59
H5 : INV INT 0.63
H6: PR LE 0.50
H7: PR RC 0.55
H8: PR CD 0.54
H9: PR INT 0.56
H1O: RK RC 0.61
H11: RK CD 0.31
H12: RK INT 0.42
H13: RK LE 0.12
The loading of CE to DC was significant (0.68, t=7.416, p=0.001). The results
pinpoint the significant effect of corporate entrepreneurship on dynamic capability
developed by the pharmaceutical firms. This affirmed employee’s pro-activeness and
innovativeness in terms of their willingness to adapt quickly to new ways of doing
things and seeking unusual solutions to challenges that necessitated the need to
reconfigure existing resources, integrate new resources and coordinate them in to
productive capacity ahead of competitors to capture the market opportunities,
especially when such opportunities has propensity for high risk with high returns.
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This by implication suggests corporate entrepreneurship influences the dynamic
capabilities in the pharmaceutical firms.
The result also examines the influence of employee’s innovative prowess on the
reconfiguration of resources embarked upon by the pharmaceutical firms as expressed
in hypothesis 2. The innovative prowess of employee’s was noted to have a
significant influence on the reconfiguration of the firm’s resources. This was evidence
from the positive correlation of 0.57 exhibited by the innovative prowess of the
employees on reconfiguration of the firm’s resources. The outcome of the result was
based on the zeal by top managers that saw them placed strong emphasis on research
and development and technological leadership. This initiated and boosted the
innovative culture displayed by employees to think and behave in novel ways, leading
to seeking changes to the existing configuration in a timely and appropriate manner to
achieve operational competence to match the changing environment. This innovative
actions enables the firms to effectively and efficiently maximises the emerging
opportunities ahead of competitors.
The influence of the employees’ innovativeness on the co-ordinating skills of the
firms was also noted to have a correlation of 0.53. This suggest that employees
readiness to adapt to new ways of doing things while being encouraged by
management who assigned task to commensurate with the relevant knowledge and
skills of the employees promotes effective co-ordination resources and capabilities.
The result is the effective management of dependencies among task, resources and
work which ensures output in one unit is available and useful to other units when
needed.
Innovativeness of employees was also observed to have significant impact at
promoting learning culture in the firms. The correlation of 0.59 attested to this.
Attempt at trying to achieve new ways of doing things seeking unusual solutions
endeared the employees to seek access to expert and knowledgeable co-workers for
proper brainstorming and quality decision making. The senior knowledgeable mentors
were equally motivated by the willingness of the employees to think and behave in
original ways as such learning was seen by all as a key commodity to guarantee
organisational survival since the motive is to enhance a culture of knowledge sharing
leading to the sustainability of the firms’ competitive position.
The innovative attitude of employees was also noted to have a strong positive
correlation of 0.63 with the integration skills of the firms. This was evidenced from
the fact that employees willingness to have seeking new ways of doing things led to a
shared awareness among employees and a thorough understanding of their group task.
Their collective decision to be innovative stimulated actions that are interrelated and
geared towards managing rapidly changing conditions. Individuals are then
forthcoming in contributing their input to the group.
Employee’s pro-activeness was equally found to have 0.50 positive correlations
with the pharmaceutical firms learning culture. This affirmed the fact that top
managers tendencies to be ahead of competitors in introducing novel ideas initiated
and catalyst the learning culture that was identified as a key commodity to guarantee
organisation survival. Their pro-activeness was perceived in their desire to promptly
access expert, knowledgeable co-workers and senior knowledgeable mentors in their
firms. Their pro-activeness was confirmed in the management ability to promptly
equip their firms with facilities and a culture that enhances knowledge sharing. Hence
pro-activeness was found to have stimulated a virile leaning culture in the
pharmaceutical firms.
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Pro–activeness of employees was also noted to have a 0.55 relationship with the
reconfiguration of the pharmaceutical firms’ resources. This was based on the fact
that initiated actions by the employees are promptly implemented especially when it
requires the reconfiguration of resources to come up with new productive assets. The
top management desire to be ahead of others at introducing novel ideas promptly led
to an efficient and effective resource reconfiguration to address and capture shifting
market opportunities. The zeal to be the first at introducing new product, services,
administrative techniques and technology stimulated the reconfiguration of resources
in timely, appropriate and efficient manner whenever the need arises. This actions
most times have been the game changer required to sustain the firms’ competitive
positions.
Also observed was the relationship between the employee’s pro-activeness and
the co-ordination of the firm’s resources and capabilities. A relationship of 0.54 was
exhibited. This was perceived to be the result of the firms’ capabilities that ensures
dependencies among task, work and resources fit together very well. While ensuring
that pharmaceutical firms are the first at introducing new product, services and
administrative skills, assigned task are done to commensurate relevant knowledge and
skills of employees. These affirmed the fact that employees are posted to units based
on their core areas of competence and this practice brings out the best pro-activeness
in the employees.
The relationship between the employees’ pro-activeness and the integrating skills
of the firms was observed to have a correlation of 0.56. This was based on the
perception that top managers actions initiated ahead of competitors were supported by
employees with shared awareness and understanding of the motive. The employee’s
group task allows for synchronisation of their works with the works of others to
manage rapidly changing conditions.
The risk taking by employees in the pharmaceutical firms was found to have
significant (0.61) positive relationship on the reconfiguration of the firms resources
and capabilities. This was evidence from the fact that decision making on the need to
reconfigure existing resources to capture the emerging opportunities is not only
capital intensive but also strategic because of the competitive position of the firms
which must be sustained. The pharmaceutical firm’s response to exploring risky and
unknown alternatives leading to the renewal of existing resources and capabilities
attested to the determination of the firms to maximise its profit and sustain its
competitive position through huge investment in the reconfiguration of firm’s
resources. The act of reconfiguring existing resources and capabilities is risky and
requires caution bearing in mind that failure may spell doom for firms.
Risk taking by employees was also observed to have a weak correlation (0.31)
with the coordination of the firm’s resources and capabilities. This conceivably was
because the organisation willingness to commit resources to risky project is taken
with great caution by effective management of dependencies among task, resources
and works, as such the level of risk is minimize through proper monitoring of the
implementation process. Also noted is the fact that assigned task are matched to the
relevant knowledge and skills of the employees and this has minimise the risk of
failure because expertise and employees core areas of competence are given priority
and this has placed the duties of the firms in safe and capable hands.
Also observed is the weak relationship (0.42) between the risk-taking by
employees and the integration of works and contributions of individuals or group to
the organisation. This is based on the assumption that despite the firm’s strong
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propensity for high risk project and the shared awareness and understanding displayed
by group in the firms. Group task and actions are screened and implemented with
caution at every stage. The firm’s commitment of resources to identified opportunities
by an individual or group is also done carefully following a thorough screening and
evaluation because of the rapidly changing business environment and shorter product
lifecycle.
The risk-taking by employees to learn and acquire knowledge is small. This is the
result of 0.12 relationship exhibited. This by implication means that employees in the
firms do not attached meaningful risk to learning and seeking knowledge to advance
the firms competitive position. They were also encouraged by the firm’s facilities and
a culture that enhances knowledge sharing and this gives no room to any fear or risk
to learn especially when access to expert, knowledgeable co-workers and senior
knowledgeable mentor is guaranteed. This confirmed the fact that employee’s ability
to learn is at low risk, making learning a key commodity for organisation survival.
Figure 1 Measurement Theory Model (CFA) For Corporate Entrepreneurship
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Figure 2 Measurement Theory Model (CFA) Dynamic capability
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5. CONCLUSION
Following the findings and discussion, the following under listed conclusion were
derived:
Corporate entrepreneurship has significant effect on the dynamic capabilities
developed by the pharmaceutical firms.
The innovative prowess of employees significantly encouraged the reconfiguration of
the firm’s resources thereby maximizing the emerging opportunities ahead of
competitors.
Employees’ innovativeness boosted the coordinating skills of the pharmaceutical
firms.
Employees’ innovativeness positively stimulated the learning culture in the
pharmaceutical firms.
The innovative attitudes of employees acted as catalyst that enables individual
employees to have a shared awareness among their groups.
The pro-activeness of employees encourages easy access to learn from expert,
knowledgeable coworkers, and senior knowledgeable mentors.
Employee’s pro-activeness ensures and secures the timely, efficient and effective
reconfiguration of the firms’ resources and capabilities to match the changing
environment.
The pro-activeness of employees helps identify the employee’s skills and core area of
competence that task to be assigned on expertise for easy discharge of duties.
5.2. Recommendation
Based on the findings and conclusion of the study the following recommendations
were made:
Contemporary managers should pay attention to corporate entrepreneurship effect on
the dynamic capabilities of firms based on its significance on the sustainability of
firm’s competitive positions in a turbulent environment.
Organization should promote innovative culture in their employees to safe guard the
reconfiguration of the firm’s resources for easy maximization of emerging
opportunities ahead of competitors.
Stimulating Employee’s innovativeness is imperative by top management based on its
positive influence on firms coordinating skills, learning culture and shared awareness
among groups and individuals.
The cordial relationship between senior knowledgeable mentor and the other
employees should be sustained through consistent improvement in the learning
environment. This will promote brainstorming among employees, gives them a sense
of belonging, build learning culture that ginger innovativeness and pro-activeness
among employees.
The firms should further improve on the machinery put in place to screen activities
and ideas relating to new opportunity identification and exploration since there might
be reasons to reconfigure the firm’s resources in the process. Decision such as these
comes with high risk and huge commitment of resources and requires caution.
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