Current Issue : July - September Volume : 2015 Issue Number : 3 Articles : 4 Articles
Scholars claim physical surroundings as concrete manifest of space organisation. Its arrangement delineates spatial relationship of social activities� network within housing units. Yet, housing challenges in Nigerian cities portray minimal sensitivity to socio-physical attributes impacting public housing adjustments. Focusing on users� adjustments experience and emphasising on socio-physical environmental impact, public housing dwellers were examined to ascertain the socio-physical impact on housing adjustments initiatives. A survey with 276 households conducted in ten public housings in northern states of Nigeria, evaluated users� experience on socio-physical model of housing adjustment. Features of Building attributes; Neighbourhood influence; Technology; Plot size and Quality of urban living standards were explored using questionnaire forms and analysed by SEM. The result shows significant influence of socio-physical constituents on homeowners housing adjustment decisions. This implies the need to review design policies and developers culture responsive design innovative initiatives harmonising the emic and etic paradigms based on user desires....
Why an individual prefer to become an entrepreneur and what factor motivated his intentions for becoming an entrepreneur is considered important question in entrepreneurship research. Entrepreneurial education is considered an important variable which effect on entrepreneurial intentions. However, empirical research results on entrepreneurial education and entrepreneurial intention yielded mixed results. To investigate further this question from developing countries perspective, this paper looks at the role of entrepreneurial education in developing the entrepreneurial intentions for becoming entrepreneur. The sample for this study composed of final year business students from Pakistan. The result of this study supports the entrepreneurial intentions model based on the theory of planned behavior. The results further suggested significant influence of entrepreneurial education on entrepreneurial intentions of the students. Moreover, this study results also showed that theoretical knowledge of entrepreneurship (know-what) and knowledge of social network development (know-who) component are vital for imparting entrepreneurial education....
This paper uses field survey data to assess the mechanism through which microfinance can\nreduce poverty among rural households in the Upper East Region of Ghana. Data was\ncollected from 500 women engaged in agro processing of whom 250 were beneficiaries of\nmicrofinance. The results from the Ordinary Least Square estimation reveal that an increase\nin technical efficiency of microfinance beneficiary has a positive impact on poverty reduction.\nIn this regard, microfinance institutions are edged to incorporate training and business\nadvisory services as part of their service delivery so as to make their clients more technically\nefficient....
This study aims to investigate the extent of ethics education for the undergraduate degree in\naccounting at public and private Jordanian Universities. A thematic content analysis\nmethodology is conducted to interpret the collected Forty-Four syllabi for four courses\noffered in the universities which represent the sample of the study. These courses are\nAuditing, Islamic Accounting, Accounting Theory and International Financial Reporting\nStandards (IFRS) that given in the year 2013.\nThe results of the study show significant existence of ethics coverage into the undergraduate\naccounting curriculum specially in ââ?¬Å?auditingââ?¬Â course as a module of the study across\nJordanian Universities. The study recommends Business Faculties in Jordan to encourage\nextracurricular activities orientations for further support of ethics integration through\ndesigning the accounting curriculum in professional way to prepare students to their future\ncareer....
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