scholarly journals An analysis of household cooking fuel choice: a case of Bauchi State, Nigeria

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abubakar Hamid Danlami ◽  
Shri Dewi Applanaidu ◽  
Rabiul Islam
Keyword(s):  
Home Ownership ◽  
Multinomial Logit Model ◽  
Cluster Sampling ◽  
Time Dimension ◽  
Household Energy ◽  
Cooking Fuel ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Energy Choice

Purpose The primary purpose of this study is to assess the factors that influence households’ choice of cooking fuel in Bauchi State, Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach In total, 750 samples were selected using multistage area cluster sampling, of which 539 responses were analysed. Multinomial logit model was used to estimate the factors that determine a household’s main cooking fuel choice in Bauchi State, Nigeria. Findings The result has shown that income, location, price of firewood, hours of electricity supply and home ownership are among the factors that have a significant impact on influencing the type of cooking fuel to be adopted by households. Research limitations/implications The study cannot offer any explanation about the influence of time dimension on the pattern of household cooking fuel choice in the study area. Practical implications Implementation of policies to increase the income of households, ensuring the availability of clean cooking fuel source and the increase in the price of firewood will encourage households to switch from using firewood to using cleaner fuel sources such as kerosene, electricity and gas. Originality/value This study has contributed to the existing literature on household energy choice by conducting a micro-level analysis of households’ cooking fuel choice in Bauchi State where a similar study has not been conducted. The study developed approximately 13 hypotheses (out of which two were found to be irrelevant) and added one new variable to test the impact of the neighbourhood’s source of cooking fuel on households’ cooking fuel choice.

The role of transformational leadership style, organizational structure and job characteristics in developing psychological empowerment among banking professionals

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Imran Ahmad Shahzad ◽  
Muhammad Farrukh ◽  
Nazar OmerAbdallah Ahmed ◽  
Li Lin ◽  
Nagina Kanwal
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Psychological Empowerment ◽  
Organization Structure ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Job Characteristics ◽  
Cluster Sampling ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Bank Managers ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the antecedents of psychological empowerment among bank managers in Beijing, China. Specifically, it aims at investigating the impact of transformational leadership, organization structure and job characteristics on psychological empowerment among banking professionals. Design/methodology/approach Questionnaires were distributed to bank managers in Beijing which were randomly selected through the cluster sampling technique. PLS-SEM was used for analysis to testify the hypotheses. Findings Statistical results showed; transformational leadership, organization structure and job characteristics were directly and positively related to psychological empowerment. Originality/value The proposed model is essential in providing guideline for the development of employees. These recommendations can be adopted by the organizational trainers and human resource personnel for the betterment of their organization.

scholarly journals Household energy choice for domestic cooking: distribution and factors influencing cooking fuel preference in Ouagadougou

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (15) ◽  
pp. 18902-18910
Author(s):  
Adama Sana ◽  
Benoit Kafando ◽  
Michèle Dramaix ◽  
Nicolas Meda ◽  
Catherine Bouland
Keyword(s):  
Household Energy ◽  
Cooking Fuel ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Fuel Preference ◽  
Energy Choice

Linking apple farmers to markets

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wanglin Ma ◽  
Awudu Abdulai
Keyword(s):  
Multinomial Logit Model ◽  
Switching Regression ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Net Returns ◽  
Matching Technique ◽  
Apple Production ◽  
Marketing Contracts ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Selection Correction ◽  
Correction Terms

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the determinants of marketing contract choices including written contracts, oral contracts and no contracts, as well as to examine the impact of marketing contracts on net returns from apple production in China. Design/methodology/approach – A two-stage selection correction approach (Bourguignon, Fournier, and Gurgand (BFG)) for the multinomial logit model is employed to estimate the impact of marketing contracts on net returns from apple production. On the basis of the BFG estimation, the authors also use an endogenous switching regression model and a propensity score matching technique to estimate the causal effects of marketing contract choices on net returns from apple production. Findings – The results reveal significant selectivity correction terms in the choices of both written contracts and no contracts and insignificant selectivity correction terms in the choice of oral contract, indicating that accounting for selection bias is a prerequisite for unbiased and consistent estimation. The findings also indicate written contracts increase apple farmers’ net returns, while oral contracts exert the opposite effect. Originality/value – To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is the first to examine the impact of marketing contract choices on net returns from apple production, accounting for selectivity effects.

scholarly journals Consumers’ wine preferences in a changing scenario

2018 ◽  
Vol 120 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Escobar ◽  
Zein Kallas ◽  
José M. Gil
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Discrete Choice ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Multinomial Logit Model ◽  
Discrete Choice Experiments ◽  
Choice Modelling ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Socioeconomic Changes ◽  
Discrete Choice Modelling ◽  
The Impact

Purpose Important socioeconomic changes have been undergone due to the international economic crisis. In Catalonia (Spain), political changes towards independentism also occurred within the same period. The purpose of this paper is to explore the consumers’ wine preferences in Catalonia in two different scenarios. In particular, the authors have focussed the interest in those preferences regarding the regional origin of the wine. Design/methodology/approach Data were elicited from two identical discrete choice experiments performed in two times: before (2008) and during the economic crisis (2010) in Catalonia, Spain. Findings The results imply that the external common circumstances may have had a homogenising influence in consumer choices by decreasing the level of randomness of consumers’ selection. Consumers’ preferences for a Catalan origin were enhanced during the crisis, while price became the most important attribute. Research limitations/implications Ideally, the participants involved in both experiments would have been the same. Unfortunately, this was not possible to maintain and it is one of the limitations of this study. The authors are also aware that other non-controlled variables may have also played a role and the conclusions that are driven should be taken carefully. Originality/value This paper contributes to the literature of the discrete choice modelling using the recently developed Generalized Multinomial Logit Model. To the knowledge this is the first application in the literature of wine preferences to measure the impact of the contextual changes (economic and political) in Catalonia (Spain).

Enhancing instructional outcomes with a serious gamified system: a qualitative investigation of student perceptions

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hussein Haruna ◽  
Asad Abbas ◽  
Zamzami Zainuddin ◽  
Xiao Hu ◽  
Robin R. Mellecker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Attitude Change ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Cluster Sampling ◽  
School Students ◽  
Serious Gaming ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Resource Poor ◽  
The Impact

Purpose This paper aims to evaluate the students’ perception of their learning experiences concerning serious gaming and gamification instructions and determines whether they were motivated enough and engaged during the educative process in a resource-poor context. Moreover, the study evaluated the impact of interactive instructional environment outcomes in terms of students’ perceptions of the learning catalysed by gamified systems, particularly in enhancing attitude change coupled with knowledge acquisition. Design/methodology/approach This study used a qualitative research design technique to collect the data. A total of 108 first year secondary school students participated in a sexual health literacy course that lasted for a five-week learning period. Using a cluster-sampling technique, three classes were randomly assigned to serious gaming, gamification and teacher-centred instructions. Individual face-to-face interviews were used to assess students’ perceives required satisfaction with three instructions. Data were audio-recorded, and coding analysis was used using NVivo software facilitated qualitative data analysis. Findings The results show that serious gaming and gamification instructions trumped the traditional teacher-centred instruction method. While intervention students were all positive about the serious gaming and gamification instructions, non-intervention students were negative about conservative teacher-centered learning whose limited interactivity also undermined learning relative to the two innovative interventions. Research limitations/implications As a justification to limit face-to-face classes, this study may be useful during an emergency phenomenon, including the current situation of amid COVID-19. The implementation of serious gaming and gamification as remotely instructional options could be among the measures to protect educational communities through reducing close-proximity, and eventually, control contamination and the spread of viruses. Originality/value The application of serious gaming and game elements should not be conceptualised as universal but context-specific. This study shows that particularism is essential to optimise the results in terms of coming up with a specific design based on the scope of evaluation for positive results and develop an intervention that will work, especially in the resource-poor context of the developing world.

The determinants of self-employment entry of Palestinian youth

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rabeh Morrar ◽  
Mohamed Amara ◽  
Hélène Syed Zwick
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Young Women ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Curvilinear Relationship ◽  
Young Workers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The Impact

Purpose This paper aims to study the impact of micro-level socio-economic, demographic and geographical factors on the likelihood of self-employment entry of young adults in Palestine and filling a gap in the analysis of determinants of self-employment for young adults in Palestine. Design/methodology/approach The research design is based on a multinomial logistic (MNL) model and on the testing of seven hypotheses deriving from the review of the theoretical and empirical literature, using a micro-level longitudinal data set from the Palestinian Labour Force Surveys (PLFS) between 2009 and 2016. In the analysis, the dependent variable (employment status) is a discrete variable that takes four unordered and independent outcomes: wage employee, self-employed, employer and unpaid family member. Findings This study has strong evidence that the likelihood of self-employment increases with age. However, results are inconsistent with the well-known curvilinear relationship between age and self-employment. Regarding the role of gender, results show that young men are more likely to become self-employed than young women. Results indicate that there is a significant and negative impact of an increasing level of education on self-employment entry for both youth and the whole population. On the opposite, training after graduation increases the likelihood of self-employment entry for youth with high education level. Besides, this paper finds that young workers living in urban areas have more likelihood to enter self-employment than those in rural areas and young workers in Gaza have more likelihood to enter self-employment than their counterparts in West Bank. Practical implications First, in both West Bank and Gaza, young women are less inclined to actively engage in self-employment, which confirms structural inequalities between men and women. Therefore, this study calls for social protection programmes and for national programmes that would promote and develop women’s self-employment. Second, because this paper finds that youth self-employment is more an opportunity-driven phenomenon than a necessity-driven one, this study calls for programmes that provide youth with small business grants and training on entrepreneurship and business models. Originality/value Insights are valuable as both government institutions and universities and entrepreneurial startups can benefit from knowing which factors contribute to the self-employment likelihood of youth in Palestine and use the policy recommendations to develop capacity-building programmes to provide the youth and women with skills and competencies which enable them to turn to self-employment.

scholarly journals The direct and indirect effect of cash transfers: the case of Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (5) ◽  
pp. 793-807
Author(s):  
Arief Anshory Yusuf
Keyword(s):  
National Economy ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Computable General Equilibrium ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Cash Transfers ◽  
Cge Model ◽  
Time Dimension ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Poverty And Inequality ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of unconditional cash transfers in Indonesia on poverty and inequality while, unlike much of the previous literature on the welfare impact of such transfers, acknowledging that they will have both a direct effect and an economy-wide effect on the national economy. Design/methodology/approach The methodology used is a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model of the Indonesian economy. The unique feature of this model, which is very relevant in this study, is the disaggregation of households by expenditure classes; this allows for precise estimation of the distributional impact and poverty incidence. Findings The results suggest that, despite a large reduction in poverty, particularly in rural areas, such transfers reduce the Indonesian GDP, especially if domestically financed through increasing the value added tax of all commodities. However, the GDP reduction can be reduced by approximately half when cash transfers are financed by reducing the distortionary fuel subsidy. Moreover, cash transfers financed by reducing the fuel subsidy also reduce inequality by much more than otherwise. Various extents of the distribution of the transfers are compared, from giving them to the poorest 10 percent to distributing them equally to all households. The benefit of the transfers, in terms of reduced poverty and inequality, is found to be smaller when the author extends the beneficiaries toward the non-poor, although the economy-wide cost, in terms of the reduced GDP, is smaller. Research limitations/implications The CGE model used in this model is a comparative-static model that does not explicitly model the time dimension, i.e. how the impact of the transfers evolves over time. This is important if we want to know the timing of the transfers and how and when they are translated into impacts. Practical implications To reduce the contractionary effect of cash transfers program, government/policy makers should carefully look for appropriate financing such as from removing subsidy with pre-existing distortions like fuel subsidies. Social implications Government needs to carefully design cash transfers to minimize the negative indirect (economy-wide) implication for the national economy and to make sure that the transfers reach the targeted beneficiaries. Originality/value Few previous studies have acknowledged the indirect economy-wide effect in analyzing the impact of cash transfers. To the author’s knowledge, this has never been done before for Indonesia. Unlike previous studies, this paper is unique as it contains sensitivity analysis on how transfers can be mistargeted and reach the non-poor and looks at the implications not only for poverty and inequality but also for the rest of the economy.

Corporate social responsibility perceptions and employee engagement: role of psychological meaningfulness, safety and availability

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 631-647 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richa Chaudhary
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Employee Engagement ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Psychological Meaningfulness ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The primary research question addressed through this paper is whether and how corporate social responsibility (CSR) can create business value for organizations as measured through employee attitudes and behaviours. Specifically, this study aims to examine the impact of CSR on employee engagement through its influence on psychological meaningfulness, safety and availability. Design/methodology/approach In total, 187 business professionals working for a wide variety of organizations in India constituted the study sample. Regression analysis was used to test the proposed hypotheses. Findings CSR positively predicted employee engagement. Psychological conditions of meaningfulness, safety and availability fully mediated the relationship of CSR with employee engagement. Practical implications The study establishes CSR as an important talent management tool in the hands of management to cultivate an engaged workforce. The results provide corporate managers with the necessary evidence to justify their investment in CSR initiatives. Originality/value The study by establishing CSR as a determinant of employee engagement addresses the need for micro-level CSR research, and, hence, bridges the macro-micro gap in the CSR literature. In addition, the application of micro-level theories helped to establish the psychological processes defining CSR and employee engagement relationship. In doing so, the study empirically tests Khan’s theory of engagement and the underlying mechanisms of engagement.

scholarly journals Institutional work and infrastructure public–private partnerships (PPPs): the roles of religious symbolic work and power in implementing PPP projects

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 1077-1112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mhamed Biygautane ◽  
Stewart Clegg ◽  
Khalid Al-Yahya
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Theory ◽  
System Integration ◽  
Project Delivery ◽  
Institutional Work ◽  
Organizational Fields ◽  
Repair Work ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Practical Implications

PurposeExisting public–private partnership (PPP) literature that explicitly adopts neo-institutional theory, tends to elucidate the impact of isomorphic pressures and organizational fields and structuration on PPP projects. This paper advances this literature by presenting the institutional work and micro-level dynamics through which actors initiate and implement a new form of project delivery. The authors show how actors enact responses to institutional structuration in the expansion and transformation of an airport from a public entity into a PPP in Saudi Arabia.Design/methodology/approachThe authors use a single case study design that offers an empirically rich and thick description of events such as the dynamic processes, practices and types of institutional work carried out by actors and organizations to deliver the project under investigation.FindingsReligious symbolic work as social integration triggered system integration work, which expanded the power capabilities of individual actors leading the project. Repair work then followed to alleviate the negative effects of disempowering the agency of actors negatively affected by the PPP model and to streamline the project implementation process.Practical implicationsThis research offers several practical implications. For PPPs to operate successfully in contexts similar to the Gulf region, policymakers should provide strong political support and be willing to bear a considerable risk of losses or minimal outcomes during the early phases of experimentation with PPPs. Also, policymakers should not only focus their attention on technical requirements of PPPs but also associate new meanings with the normative and cultural-cognitive elements that are integral to the success of PPP implementation. In order to design strategies for change that are designed to fit the unique cultural and sociopolitical settings of each country, policymakers should empower capable individual actors and provide them with resources and access to power, which will enable them to enforce changes that diverge from institutionalized practices.Social implicationsThis research connected the PPP literature with theoretical frameworks drawn from neo-institutional theory and power. It would be valuable for further research, however, to connect ideas from the PPP literature with other disciplines such as psychology and social entrepreneurship. PPP research examines a recent phenomenon that can potentially be combined with non-traditional streams of research in analyzing projects. Expanding the realm of PPP research beyond traditional theoretical boundaries could potentially yield exciting insights into how the overall institutional and psychological environments surrounding projects affect their initiation and implementation.Originality/valueThe paper contributes new insights regarding the roles of religious symbolic work, allied with social and system integration of power relations in implementing PPP projects. It suggests a theoretical shift from structures and organizational fields – macro- and meso-levels of analysis – to individuals – micro-level – as triggers of new forms of project delivery that break with the status quo.

What can we learn from experience? An impact analysis of experience on households' preferences for microfinance

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-239
Author(s):  
Zhao Ding ◽  
Awudu Abdulai ◽  
Yuansheng Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Latent Variable ◽  
Impact Analysis ◽  
Rural Households ◽  
Bayesian Updating ◽  
Multinomial Logit Model ◽  
Microfinance Institutions ◽  
Random Utility Theory ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Impact

PurposeThis article examines the impact of experience on rural households' preferences for microfinance attributes, using household data from Sichuan province in China.Design/methodology/approachWe use the Bayesian updating method to account for the learning process involved in acquiring experience on microfinance. We then use the generalized multinomial logit model that accounts for both preference and scale heterogeneity to estimate the choice probabilities and impact of experience on preferences and willingness-to-pay (WTP) for microfinance.FindingsThe empirical findings show that experience with microfinance products or lending institutions helps households in their selections of microfinance institutions. In particular, experience with financial institutions increase the scale parameter and help respondents to feel assured about their choices, while experience with individual lenders have no such effects. The results also indicate that the willingness-to-pay estimates vary across experiences, with WTP for installment credit displaying the biggest change and the Bayesian updating making the changes even much larger.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the research gap by taking experience as a latent variable that influences personal specific tastes and as an integral part of total utility of rural households in their decision-making processes. We develop a conceptual framework that is based on McFadden's random utility theory and Bayesian inference.

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