IOSR-JBM   Volume-23 ~ Issue-3 ~ March 2021

Abstract: The desire to achieve business continuity is a goal many family business owners seek to achieve. Family businesses have made greater contributions to economic growth and development of Nigeria. However, family businesses in Nigeria have being experiencing hard times evidence by persistent decline in the family business survival, performance, growth, and sales growth. Family business owners are facing many obstacles that limit their long-term continuity and development attributed to the lack of succession planning strategy such as management style, organisational structure, management transition process and organisational culture. This study investigated the effect of management......

Keywords: Family business continuity, Management style, Managerial transition process, Organisational culture, Organisational structure

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Abstract: The study investigated the causes of construction industry skilled labor shortage and training programs in Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria. It identified and examined the skilled labor shortage in selected trades, factors responsible for the skilled labor shortage, and factors affecting apprenticeship enrolment in the various training programs in Benin City. Data were sourced through the administration of 180 structured questionnaires on construction professionals, craftsmen, and trainee providers. The information elicited from the returned 146 questionnaires (81% return rate) were analyzed using percentages, frequency, mean score, and relative severity index. Findings revealed a shortage of skilled labor in the study area (85.7% of craftsmen, 60.8% of professionals) especially among tillers and POP plasterers. This was due majorly to diminishing craftsperson training program (Manager's RSI=0.796, Craftsmen RSI=0.756), the desire of workmen to make quick money (Manager's RSI........

Keywords: Assessment, Construction, Programmes, Skilled Labor, Shortage, Training

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Abstract: Shopping is an important travel activity and contributes to boost the economy. Shopping opportunities are regarded as the major attraction causing tourists to travel. This research explored tourists' shopping behavior with relation to their demographic characteristics and trip characteristics . The results indicate that age, gender, income and trip characteristics are significant factors influencing tourists' shopping expenditure and their purchased items. The study about tourist shopping behavior can afford Taipei101 retailers some practical information. Therefore, they can provide better tourism marketing, product development and consumer service in the future.

Keywords: souvenirs, tourists' shopping behavior

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Abstract: The trend of various marketing strategies has seen a shift when it comes to target audience. It has been observed that various marketers have realized that men are not the only important element that drives the total consumer base. Different products have different demand which addresses a variety of needs and wants. So, the marketing efforts are the most effective when it is directly targeted to the end user through the use of appropriate channels of communication.
In today's world, not only men but women and children also play a major role in the process of decision making related to households, apparels, entertainment choices, food preferences, etc. Understanding the changing norms of society, marketers are moving in the same......

Key words: Women, Children, Rational, Emotional, Sentiments, Consumer Goods

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Abstract: This study aims to examine the effect of corporate social performance, earing management, independent institutional ownership on the cost of debt. The population in this study is the consumer goods industry on the BEI. The data collection technique used purposive sampling and obtained a sample of 30 consumer goods industry companies listed on the BEI. The research results conclude that corporate social performance hasn't a significant effect on costs, earning management has a significant effect on debt costs, the independent board of commissioners has a significant effect on costs, institutional ownership hasn't effect on the cost of debt.

Keywords： Corporate Social Responbility, Earning Management, The Independent Board of Commisioners, Institutional Ownership and Cost of Debt.

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Abstract: The purpose of the study was to assess the implementation of Balanced Scorecard (BSC) in Ethiopian Financial sector, the case of Ethiopian Insurance Corporation (EIC) and Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) and thereby to see the adequacy of the procedure followed to implement BSC, BSC implementation success and identify the major challenges encountered during the implementation. To attain these objectives, the study employed Descriptive research design. Accordingly, survey questionnaire and interview questions were administered to a sample of 351 respondents, 322 of them were properly filled and returned. The questionnaires were analysed using frequency distribution, mean scores and mode with the help of Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS). The major findings of this study indicate the designing phase was done properly in terms of BSC assessment, Strategic plan......

Keywords：Balanced Scorecard, success, challenges

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Abstract: Background: Women entrepreneurship has been defined as participation of the women in organizing and managing an enterprise. The stereotypes and conservative mindset have been major barriers for the women entrepreneurs not only in personal life but also from the society. Meanwhile, proposed to investigate how training and development, legal constraints, financial constraints, and family related interface influence the women entrepreneurship in Malaysia. However, previous studies have not focused on cultural constraints and economic restriction; thus, these two factors have been included in following study and sample size has also been extended.......

Keywords： Women entrepreneurship in Malaysia, cultural constraints and economic restrictions.

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