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American Journal of Industrial and Business Management (AJIBM) is an international journal dedicated to publishing high quality, original papers, and research developments in theories and applications in all areas of industrial and business management. AJIBM covers the following topics:
Federico de Andreis, Massimiliano Carioni
Power is the ability to make things happen according to one’s perspective by getting someone else to do something. In organizations, there are various sources of power. However, the primary source of power is the legitimate power, which means the power assign…
Emeka E. Ene, Gabriel O. Abba, Gideon F. Fatokun
The concept of financial inclusion has continued to gain global acceptance since it was identified as one of the key drivers of inclusive economic growth and development. Financial inclusion is one of the objectives of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s cashless p…
Xin Li, Rundong Zhang, Jin Wang
This study explores the causal relationship between China’s financial stress and economic policy uncertainty. Considering structural changes in two series, we find that long-run nexus using full-sample data are unstable, suggesting that causality tests cannot…
Raimondo Ingrassia
When the economy of a country starts to expand or collapse in wealth, it is reflected in the labor market with an impact on employment and personnel recruitment processes. The aim of this article is to investigate the rela-tionship between personnel recruitme…
Hussein Slim, Sylvie Nadeau
Modern sociotechnical systems exhibit dynamic and complex behavior, which can be difficult to anticipate, model and evaluate. The perpetually evolving nature and the emergent properties of such systems require a continuous re-evaluation of adopted safety and…
Nguyen Van Nguyen
Vietnam has opened its doors to innovation for the past 32 years and has affirmed that the Communist Party and government’s reform methodologies have brought with them countless achievements. The economy has been opened up and at the same time it has welcomed…
Qian Yang, Cheng Li
User innovation community is an important source for enterprises to obtain originality and relevant product information. In user innovation communities, users are the creators and participators of content and also the providers of wisdom. Classifying the type…
Degbe Sewodo Augustin, Dassanou Latre Akossiwa, Degbe Nana Esther
This paper aims to determine an optimum location for dry port development in Togo. The dry port location decision problem is formulated using Analytic Network Process which consists of multi-criteria evaluation techniques through a pairwise comparison and a s…
Nkechi Cordelia Ojiagu, Hope Ngozi Nzewi
The study explored the relationship between physical security and survival of small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) in Southeast, Nigeria. The objectives of the study are to determine the nature of relationships that exist between fire outbreak and entrep…
Patrick S. Ohikhena, Williams Akerejola, P. O. Emenike
The study was to investigate how the unbridled commitment of the electricity distribution companies in Nigeria to profit affects their spirituality in consumer value creation; while also establishing the extent to which the distribution companies have affecte…
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American Journal of Industrial and Business Management (AJIBM) is an international journal dedicated to publishing high quality, original papers, and research developments in theories and applications in all areas of industrial and business management. AJIBM covers the following topics: All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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