scholarly journals An Empirical Investigation of Cultural Factors and Consumption Patterns Correlates in the South-South Geopolitical Zone of Nigeria

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hart O. Awa ◽  
Sylva E. Kalu ◽  
Nsobiari F. Awara
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Consumption Patterns ◽  
The South

scholarly journals Probing strategy-project alignment: The case of the South African Social Security Agency

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerrit Van Der Waldt
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Strategic Management ◽  
South African ◽  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
The South ◽  
Project Failures ◽  
Organisation Management ◽  
Social Security Agency

Public institutions, such as the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) increasingly function in multi-project environments to translate strategies successfully into service-delivery initiatives. However, this ‘projectification’ often causes projects to be designed and executed haphazardly. This can lead to budget and schedule overruns, and the general wastage of an organisation’s resources. Project failures often occur where organisations do not ensure that specific projects are aligned with their core strategies. The purpose of this article is to combine the theories and principles of organisation, management, strategic management, and project management in an effort to pinpoint core determinants that can help establish the extent to which an organisation manages the alignment of its strategic projects. In the present study, the author applied the principles of interdisciplinarity, systems thinking, and organisational integration. The combined core determinants that were uncovered were then used in an empirical investigation of SASSA. The purpose of this investigation is to identify particular challenges the organisation faces in aligning their strategies and projects successfully. Thereafter, a number of recommendations follow to address these challenges.

scholarly journals An empirical investigation into the correlation between rand currency indices and changing gold prices

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 172-183
Author(s):  
F.Y. Jordaan ◽  
J.H. Van Rooyen
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Gold Price ◽  
The South ◽  
Price Changes ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Research Period ◽  
South African Rand

This study sets out to investigate the relationship between two South African Rand currency indices, ZARX and RAIN, in relation to the gold prices. The ZARX is computed with the formula used to determine the USD currency index (USDX) with the latter being developed by the JSE. Albeit sets of variables have been investigated to determine if any long term relationships exist using the theory of co-integration. The findings suggest that there is no co-integrating relationship between the South African Rand currency indices and the gold price changes over the research period.

scholarly journals Household Fluid Milk Expenditure Patterns in the South and United States

1983 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chung L. Huang ◽  
Robert Raunikar
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Food Consumption ◽  
Food Prices ◽  
Consumption Patterns ◽  
The South ◽  
Expenditure Patterns ◽  
Household Food ◽  
Food Expenditure ◽  
Demographic Shifts ◽  
Fluid Milk

In recent years, significant changes have taken place in the food consumption patterns of American consumers. Evidence indicates that the ongoing changes in U.S. household food expenditure patterns occurred in response not only to sudden increases in food prices in the early 1970s and the recent salient inflationary period (Buse and Fleischner; Salathe), but also to demographic shifts, tastes, and preferences (LeBovit).

Reviewing Before Reading? An Empirical Investigation of Book-Consumption Patterns and Their Effects on Reviews and Sales

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heeseung Andrew Lee ◽  
Angela Aerry Choi ◽  
Tianshu Sun ◽  
Wonseok Oh
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Online Reviews ◽  
Consumption Patterns ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Peer Evaluations ◽  
No Consumption ◽  
Consumption Index

Prior research on online reviews has taken for granted that consumers submit reviews only after they have fully consumed purchased products or services. Contrastingly, this study uncovered the hidden truth that many book consumers post assessments before, during, and after consumption. Interestingly, many provide numerical review ratings, even with no consumption at all. We also found that review comments formed after incomplete product engagement adversely affect subsequent sales. Consequently, online evaluations crafted on the basis of fragmentary encounters can become a new source of challenges to managers and policymakers who are responsible for preserving the accuracy and informativeness of product critiques. Digital platforms may leverage our findings to improve their design of review systems and policies in ways that enhance the trustworthiness of peer evaluations and correct potential inaccuracies from inadequately informed assessments. For example, managers can revise their review “sorting” structure so that consumers can flexibly reposition text-based reviews in accordance with a consumption index. Managers can likewise take advantage of these study’s insights to effectively re-establish review-posting policies and schemes that encourage consumers to submit reviews after a sufficient amount of products have been consumed.

scholarly journals A CGE Simulation Of A Flat Tax As A Possibility For Tax Reform In South Africa

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 1693
Author(s):  
Lumengo Bonga-Bonga ◽  
Martin Perold
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Tax Reform ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
The South ◽  
Flat Tax ◽  
Cge Modelling ◽  
Tax Systems ◽  
Widespread Interest

During recent years, there has been widespread interest in South Africa for the so-called flat tax systems that appear to have been implemented successfully in Eastern Europe. This paper applied a CGE modelling technique to compare the performance of the South African economy in case alternative tax systems, namely the progressive and the flat tax systems, are applied. The counterfactual situation whose effects are tested in this paper is a 10% decrease in the VAT rate consistent with some popular call for the reduction of the degree of the regressiveness of VAT. The key performances of the South African economy are assessed in terms of economic growth, the welfare of households, equity and employment. On the basis of this empirical investigation the flat tax has a slight edge over the current progressive system.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
pp. 235-242
Author(s):  
Lisa Lindquist Dorr
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Cuban Revolution ◽  
Consumption Patterns ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
The South ◽  
American Power ◽  
The North ◽  
Economic Ties ◽  
Power And Influence

Despite Prohibition's failure to end alcohol consumption, it fostered numerous important changes. Federal law enforcement efforts became more visible in the South, and even extended beyond the nation's borders. The strategies developed during Prohibition to counter the smuggling of liquor shaped efforts to prevent narcotics smuggling and immigrant smuggling through the end of the century. The liquor traffic established economic ties between enterprising southerners and partners both to the north and across the sea, while new consumption patterns tied the South to modern trends of leisure and consumption across the country. Prohibition began the rise of Havana as a tourist mecca that continued, with the help of the mob, until the Cuban Revolution. Prohibition helped make the South more modern, while it also expanded the scope of American power and influence at home and abroad.

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