AJMBF : American Journal of Management and Business Finance

Strategic Pillars In Offshoring And Reshoring Decision Among Fdi’s In Ghana: A Position Paper

2022-06-03T11:37:43-07:00

Reshore or offshore decision is one of the input techniques for management practice. Due to global
outsourcing, reshore or offshore decision has become popular and frequent. Continuous increase
in the normal of manufacturing and service industries across the globe has made numerous number
of suppliers offering products and services for a less price. This has improved the global product
and service markets by giving the consumer the ultimate advantage. The decision involves various
departments in the production process (Moschuris, 2008; Laios & Moschuris, 2004).

Performance Appraisal System For Salesmen In An Automobile Company

2022-06-09T09:51:29-07:00

Concerning how manufacturing organisations conduct their PM review practices. Theoretical frameworks have emerged lately, dictating how organisations should act. However, an empirical gap exists regarding how they actually do act. This paper contributes to the knowledge in the field of PMM by narrowing that gap. Secondly, the paper suggests that the PMS life-cycle phase ought to be perceived as three-phased rather than four phased, this in order to ensure that the theoretical knowledge within the field of PMM reflects how PM are managed and changed in practice. Thirdly, it provides some guidance for the future research agenda for managing change in PM.

Economic Growth Implications Of Offshoring Among Fdi’s In Ghana: An Additive Fuzzy Integrals Approach

2022-06-03T11:40:53-07:00

In the past firms mostly focused on the cost aspect of offshore or reshore, giving less emphasis on
the other determinants of offshore or reshore decisions. Using non-additive fuzzy integrals, we
model and rank a collection of multi-factor criteria for offshore or reshore decision. Four
component factors classified as resource base, transaction cost, firm size and external factors were
analyzed and ranked. We observed that among these variables tested firm's resource base emerged
as the highest decision criterion for in offshore or reshore decision over transaction costs. This
implies that a firm's resources (FR), proxied by resource availability, innovative competence, share
risk/expertise and market penetration were more dominant that cost elements such as supplier
competition, reshoreer experience, volume uncertainty, production cost advantage and technology
uncertainty.

A Panel Cointegration Analysis of the Effect of Foreign Direct Investment on Economic Growth: A Generalized Method of Moment (GMM) Estimation approach.

2022-02-20T22:21:26-08:00

This study employs a Generalized Method of Moment (GMM) estimator to examine the relationship
between foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth for using a global sample of 112 countries.
The sample of countries for the study was divided into three categories: less developed countries, medium
developed countries and more developed countries. Effects on productivity growth, capital and labor inputs
as well as innovation activities are distinguished. Furthermore, less and more developed countries as well
as the time periods 1973-1994 and 1995-2015are studied separately. Effects of FDI on production
capacities are found for more developed countries in the first time period, while effects on innovation
activities are found for the medium developed countries in the latter time period. Effects in less developed
countries are rather negative.

Facilitating Effective Performance Management Via Computerized Accounting Systems: A case study of Sam Energy Company (SEC)

2025-04-12T00:47:57-07:00

Purpose: This study aims at examining the factors that facilitate effective performance management (EPM) via a computerized accounting system (CAS). This study researches how critical factors of Computerized Accounting Systems (CAS) (technology) such as the provision of quality information, data protection, data integrity, data accuracy, data collection, data storage, and data processing coupled with an effective performance management system has transformed business companies to achieve competitive advantage to meet targeted performance with the consistent increase in the volume of business transactions and the current trend of stern competition.

Design/methodology/approach: Data was collected from respondents from the SEC in Ghana using self-administered questionnaire. The focus was to understand the current situation of workers to confirm the management problems that existed, and then recommend solutions to the problem.

Findings: The results showed that there is a relationship between them and that a computerized accounting system (CAS) is a collection of connected components that operate together to gather, store, and disseminate data for planning, control, coordination, analysis, and decision-making. Management's ability to use CAS to undertake a performance management evaluation helps identify the strengths and weaknesses of employees to improve the performance of their businesses. The adoption of an EPM strategy would facilitate growth and competitive edge via CAS and thus, the dissertation proposed a recommendation for the company to adopt and implement. The recommendation of CAS and EPM to other companies to adopt and implement is justifiable for improving growth and business success.

Research limitations/implications: The study would contribute to the existing relevant literature on CAS and effective performance management systems, as well as suggest a method for implementing an effective performance management system.

Practical implications: The research findings will assist SMEs in appreciating the importance of Computer Accounting systems (CAS) in the day-to-day operations of their organizations.

Originality/value: This is the original research work of the researchers and specifically explores the correlating between CAS and EPM adoption interpreting raw data. Proper references are provided to acknowledge the work of other researchers used in the study.

A Neural Network Analysis Of The Performance Of Foreign Direct Investments (Fdis) Listed On The Ghana Stock Exchange

2022-06-03T11:43:39-07:00

Globalization has liberalized international trade, expanded FDI and led to financial flows cross
the border. It has resulted in increasing competition in international trade and it is widely
accepted that the development of new technology for communication and information transfer an
enhanced international policy to reduce market barriers has accentuated the rate of FDI flow
across countries. The idea behind the paper is to do evaluation of the performance of listed FDI
stocks in Ghana based on its flexibility and responsiveness utilizing FANNC, after which the
results is compared with those from BPN based model. The test results indicate that the FANNC
require significantly lesser time to evaluate the performance of the FDI stocks than the BPN
approach. It also returned the minimum root mean square error.