https://techfarmjournal.org/ajmbf/index.php/ojs/issue/feed AJMBF : American Journal of Management and Business Finance 2022-06-09T09:51:29-07:00 Open Journal Systems <p>A goal of the Journal is to publish papers with novel results in agriculture and food processing within the Journal topics. All papers are published in the English Language. The issues of the Journal are published monthly. The Editorial Board consists of more than 50 recognized worldwide scientists. The areas covered by this journal are listed on the scope page.</p> <p>This journal accepts the following contributions: articles based on original research, reviews, special reports, opinion and analysis, current topics, letters. 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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.</p> 2022-06-09T00:00:00-07:00 Copyright (c) 2022 AJMBF : American Journal of Management and Business Finance https://techfarmjournal.org/ajmbf/index.php/ojs/article/view/3 Economic Growth Implications Of Offshoring Among Fdi’s In Ghana: An Additive Fuzzy Integrals Approach 2022-06-03T11:40:53-07:00 Stephany Abokzele Adongo aabokzele@uds.edu.gh <p><span id="page759R_mcid10" class="markedContent"><span dir="ltr" style="left: 120px; top: 440px; font-size: 20px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.998188);" role="presentation">In the past firms mostly focused on the cost aspect of offshore or reshore, giving less emphasis on</span><br role="presentation"><span dir="ltr" style="left: 120px; top: 462.8px; font-size: 20px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.03212);" role="presentation">the other determinants of offshore or reshore decisions. Using non-additive fuzzy integrals, we</span><br role="presentation"><span dir="ltr" style="left: 120px; top: 485.7px; font-size: 20px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.10004);" role="presentation">model and rank a collection of multi-factor criteria for offshore or reshore decision. Four</span><br role="presentation"><span dir="ltr" style="left: 120px; top: 508.5px; font-size: 20px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.994523);" role="presentation">component factors classified as resource base, transaction cost, firm size and external factors were</span><br role="presentation"><span dir="ltr" style="left: 120px; top: 531.3px; font-size: 20px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.996108);" role="presentation">analyzed and ranked. We observed that among these variables tested firm's resource base emerged</span><br role="presentation"><span dir="ltr" style="left: 120px; top: 554.2px; font-size: 20px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.03585);" role="presentation">as the highest decision criterion for in offshore or reshore decision over transaction costs. This</span><br role="presentation"><span dir="ltr" style="left: 120px; top: 577px; font-size: 20px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.987473);" role="presentation">implies that a firm's resources (FR), proxied by resource availability, innovative competence, share</span><br role="presentation"><span dir="ltr" style="left: 120px; top: 599.8px; font-size: 20px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.0437);" role="presentation">risk/expertise and market penetration were more dominant that cost elements such as supplier</span><br role="presentation"><span dir="ltr" style="left: 120px; top: 622.7px; font-size: 20px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.998239);" role="presentation">competition, reshoreer experience, volume uncertainty, production cost advantage and technology</span><br role="presentation"><span dir="ltr" style="left: 120px; top: 645.5px; font-size: 20px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.01508);" role="presentation">uncertainty.</span></span></p> 2022-06-03T00:00:00-07:00 Copyright (c) 2022 AJMBF : American Journal of Management and Business Finance https://techfarmjournal.org/ajmbf/index.php/ojs/article/view/1 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 Stephany Abokzele Adongo adongostephany@gmail.com <p><span id="page1067R_mcid12" class="markedContent"><span dir="ltr" style="left: 107.3px; top: 578.575px; font-size: 18.3px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.05742);" role="presentation">This study employs a Generalized Method of Moment (GMM) estimator to examine the relationship</span><br role="presentation"><span dir="ltr" style="left: 108.197px; top: 601.981px; font-size: 18.3px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.0009);" role="presentation">between foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth for using a global sample of 112 countries.</span><br role="presentation"><span dir="ltr" style="left: 108.197px; top: 625.478px; font-size: 18.3px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00051);" role="presentation">The sample of countries for the study was divided into three categories: less developed countries, medium</span><br role="presentation"><span dir="ltr" style="left: 108.197px; top: 648.884px; font-size: 18.3px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.988433);" role="presentation">developed countries and more developed countries. Effects on productivity growth, capital and labor inputs</span><br role="presentation"><span dir="ltr" style="left: 108.197px; top: 672.381px; font-size: 18.3px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00687);" role="presentation">as well as innovation activities are distinguished. Furthermore, less and more developed countries as well</span><br role="presentation"><span dir="ltr" style="left: 108.197px; top: 695.787px; font-size: 18.3px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.08615);" role="presentation">as the time periods 1973-1994 and 1995-2015are studied separately. Effects of FDI on production</span><br role="presentation"><span dir="ltr" style="left: 108.197px; top: 719.284px; font-size: 18.3px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.04596);" role="presentation">capacities are found for more developed countries in the first time period, while effects on innovation</span><br role="presentation"><span dir="ltr" style="left: 108.197px; top: 742.689px; font-size: 18.3px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00036);" role="presentation">activities are found for the medium developed countries in the latter time period. Effects in less developed</span><br role="presentation"><span dir="ltr" style="left: 108.197px; top: 766.187px; font-size: 18.3px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00175);" role="presentation">countries are rather negative.</span></span></p> 2022-02-20T00:00:00-08:00 Copyright (c) 2022 American Journal of Management and Business Finance https://techfarmjournal.org/ajmbf/index.php/ojs/article/view/4 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 Stephany Abokzele Adongo aabokzele@uds.edu.gh <p><span id="page744R_mcid16" class="markedContent"><span dir="ltr" style="left: 120px; top: 618.9px; font-size: 20px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.02732);" role="presentation">Globalization has liberalized international trade, expanded FDI and led to financial flows cross</span><br role="presentation"><span dir="ltr" style="left: 120px; top: 645.4px; font-size: 20px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.09775);" role="presentation">the border. It has resulted in increasing competition in international trade and it is widely</span><br role="presentation"><span dir="ltr" style="left: 120px; top: 671.8px; font-size: 20px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00305);" role="presentation">accepted that the development of new technology for communication and information transfer an</span><br role="presentation"><span dir="ltr" style="left: 120px; top: 698.3px; font-size: 20px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.05665);" role="presentation">enhanced international policy to reduce market barriers has accentuated the rate of FDI flow</span><br role="presentation"><span dir="ltr" style="left: 120px; top: 724.7px; font-size: 20px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00874);" role="presentation">across countries.</span></span><span id="page744R_mcid17" class="markedContent"> <span dir="ltr" style="left: 260.6px; top: 724.7px; font-size: 20px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.02423);" role="presentation">The idea behind the paper is to do evaluation of the performance of listed FDI</span><br role="presentation"><span dir="ltr" style="left: 120px; top: 751.2px; font-size: 20px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.04994);" role="presentation">stocks in Ghana based on its flexibility and responsiveness utilizing FANNC, after which the</span><br role="presentation"><span dir="ltr" style="left: 120px; top: 777.6px; font-size: 20px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.01205);" role="presentation">results is compared with those from BPN based model. The test results indicate that the FANNC</span><br role="presentation"><span dir="ltr" style="left: 120px; top: 804.1px; font-size: 20px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.0591);" role="presentation">require significantly lesser time to evaluate the performance of the FDI stocks than the BPN</span><br role="presentation"><span dir="ltr" style="left: 120px; top: 830.5px; font-size: 20px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00204);" role="presentation">approach. It also returned the minimum root mean square error.</span></span></p> 2022-06-03T00:00:00-07:00 Copyright (c) 2022 AJMBF : American Journal of Management and Business Finance https://techfarmjournal.org/ajmbf/index.php/ojs/article/view/2 Strategic Pillars In Offshoring And Reshoring Decision Among Fdi’s In Ghana: A Position Paper 2022-06-03T11:37:43-07:00 Stephany Abokzele Adongo aabokzele@uds.edu.gh <p><span id="page168R_mcid9" class="markedContent"><span dir="ltr" style="left: 120px; top: 443.5px; font-size: 20px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.986005);" role="presentation">Reshore or offshore decision is one of the input techniques for management practice. Due to global</span><br role="presentation"><span dir="ltr" style="left: 120px; top: 477.8px; font-size: 20px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.01358);" role="presentation">outsourcing, reshore or offshore decision has become popular and frequent. Continuous increase</span><br role="presentation"><span dir="ltr" style="left: 120px; top: 512.1px; font-size: 20px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.986737);" role="presentation">in the normal of manufacturing and service industries across the globe has made numerous number</span><br role="presentation"><span dir="ltr" style="left: 120px; top: 546.5px; font-size: 20px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.01286);" role="presentation">of suppliers offering products and services for a less price. This has improved the global product</span><br role="presentation"><span dir="ltr" style="left: 120px; top: 580.8px; font-size: 20px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.992373);" role="presentation">and service markets by giving the consumer the ultimate advantage. The decision involves various</span><br role="presentation"><span dir="ltr" style="left: 120px; top: 615.1px; font-size: 20px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.999865);" role="presentation">departments in the production process (Moschuris, 2008; Laios &amp; Moschuris, 2004).</span></span></p> 2022-06-03T00:00:00-07:00 Copyright (c) 2022 AJMBF : American Journal of Management and Business Finance