Abstract: Japonica rice in the domestic market is mainly produced through the contract farming system in northern Thailand. Thai consumers have misunderstood that Thailand cannot cultivate Japonica rice with good quality. This study aimed to analyze the acceptability of Thailand’s Japonica rice from the perspectives of Thai consumers. Its specific objectives were to investigate the consumers’ consumption behaviors for Japanese cuisine and to evaluate consumer preferences of different Japonica rice choices and attitudes towards Japonica rice consumption. Data were collected from 385 respondents in Bangkok using the purposive sampling method. The results indicated that respondents’ consumption behavior of Japanese cuisine in Bangkok was increasing. Analyzing the preference of different Japonica rice choices found that the respondents preferred JR1 (from Japan), JR3 (Thailand) and JR2 (from Vietnam), in descending order. JR2 attributes especially smell and soft sticky texture were like JR3. However, JR3 shared similar qualities to JR1 in terms of smell, flavor and soft sticky texture. JR3 can be a good alternative choice for Japanese restaurant owners and consumers. In addition, the higher market price of JR1 creates a competitive opportunity for JR3 in the domestic market. Moreover, their attitudes towards domestically grown Japonica rice consumption was also positive.

Keywords: consumer acceptability, preference, domestic Japonica rice, behavior.

Title: THAI CONSUMERS ACCEPTABILITY OF JAPONICA RICE FROM NORTHERN THAILAND

Author: Kanokon Seemanon Vijitsri Sanguanwongse

ISSN 2394-7322

International Journal of Novel Research in Marketing Management and Economics

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Abstract: This study deals with the marketing competencies and capabilities of women entrepreneurs who own and manage micro-small- and medium (MSMEs)ventures in traditional and non-traditional lines of activities within the urban settings in Khartoum State, Sudan. Entrepreneurial and marketing competencies are part of the dynamic components that contribute to venture survival and success especially for women-owned/ managed MSEs. This study addresses the perceived knowledge gap in the literature regarding the marketing competencies of women entrepreneurs, using the marketing mix approach and the resource-based theory. It is a qualitative study which follows an interpretive approach and applies grounded theory techniques.  The study is framed within the Marketing Mix approach and the resource-based theory highlighted within a gendered perspective. It examines how women entrepreneurs perceive and apply the marketing function within their MSEs to maintain success within highly competitive, turbulent and unpredictable markets. In such conditions it is essential to understand what marketing competencies do these women entrepreneurs are endowed with and utilize while practicing the marketing function in their entrepreneurial ventures and thrive for high performance and success. 

Keywords: Entrepreneurial competencies, Entrepreneurial marketing, Capabilities, ‘Customer intimacy’, Gender, Marketing competencies, Marketing mix, MSEs, Resource-based theory, Social relations and networks, Urban settings, Women entrepreneurs.

Title: Exploring the Marketing Competencies of Women Entrepreneurs in Micro-Small Enterprises (MSEs) in Khartoum State-Sudan

Author: Widad Ali A/Rahman

ISSN 2394-7322

International Journal of Novel Research in Marketing Management and Economics

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Abstract:The study aimed to determine the enhancement on Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRRM) operations of the schools in the 2^nd Congressional District of Sorsogon for the years 2016-2019. It used the descriptive-survey method since a questionnaire was devised in gathering the primary data as reflected in the problem. The respondents were the 30DRRM coordinators of the public elementary schools in the 2^nd Congressional District of Sorsogon which were purposively chosen.  The statistical tools utilized were frequency and ranking.
The study revealed that the activities conducted by the school before the disaster were the conduct regular earthquake and fire drills in rank 1 that were cited by 28 out of 30 respondents which is followed by the conduct of disaster preparedness orientation with the pupils is favored by 18 respondents that is rank 2. Similarly, 15 respondents mentioned that they meet with PTCA and other stakeholders to discuss the preparedness of the school in rank 3 then 13 respondents prepare the DRRM plan which is rank 4. Also, the integration of the disaster preparedness in the lesson was revealed by 10 respondents in rank 5.
During the disaster, the activities were the provision of advisory and announcements about the disaster and suspending classes as per DepEd guidelines were stated by 20 respondents which are tied in ranks 1 and 2. Then, the implementation of the DRRM plan was cited by 16 respondents in rank 3 while the tracking of all the school personnel and learners and coordination with LGU and barangay officials were revealed by 13 respondents that are tied in ranks 4 and 5.
The activities of the school after the disaster were the conduct of inventory of the damages came out as the most commonly done activities as cited by 24 respondents in rank 1. Then, the preparation and submission of reports of damages to the Division Office was mentioned by 18 respondents in rank 2. Meanwhile, the inspection and assessment of the condition of the infrastructures were revealed by 16 respondents that are tied in ranks 3 and 4. Also, 13 respondents said that the coordination with the government agencies for immediate assistance was stated by 13 respondents which is in rank 5.
Moreover, the top three lessons learned of the school after the disaster as revealed by the respondents were the conducts to capability building activities for increasing the knowledge and skills to cope with the impact of disasters with frequency of 23, preparedness of schools in time of disasters with frequency of 13, implementing properly the continuous and sustained conduct of disaster risk assessment with frequency of 11.
Further, the five most commonly enhancements of DRRM operations in school are periodic conduct of trainings and simulation exercises in the school with frequency of 28, regular conduct of DRRM capability building activities for school personnel and learners with frequency of 25, and the school become the relief distribution and evacuation center of the nearby communities with frequency of 23. Then, the regular conduct of hazard mapping and vulnerability assessments in the school with frequency of 19 and the development of psychosocial programs to ensure physical and mental wellness of disaster victims with frequency of 15.
Keywords:Enhancement, Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRRM), Operation, Hazard mapping, Vulnerability Assessments, Schools in the 2^nd Congressional District of Sorsogon, Philippines.

Abstract:The study aimed to document the Management Committee (MANCOM) directions and accomplishment of schools in the 2nd congressional district of Sorsogon for the school year 2018-2017 to school year 2019-2020. It used the documentary analysis of the Management Committee (MANCOM) meetings for the past three years. The documents analyzed were the 20 minutes of meetings, accomplishment reports submitted by the school heads, quarterly and annual reports from the Division Office. The other documents which were relevant to the MANCOM directives were also utilized in the study. The unstructured interview with concerned officials were likewise conducted to verify the results of the analysis.
This study revealed that during the MANCOM meetings for the last three school years, the agreement made was more on the physical development such as construction of new school building and classrooms, refurbishment, and rehabilitation of existing infrastructures. The accomplishments of the schools were instructional competence, efficient utilization of MOOE, student’s participation to contest, construction of additional classrooms, and implementation of various programs and projects. The most critical problems encountered by the schools are delayed release of SBFD fund, student’s nutritional status, land titling, and weak internet connectivity. The initiatives conducted by the school heads to accomplish the MANCOM directives are implementation of SBFP, organization of child protection policy, securing of land titles, and improving the literacy rate.
Furthermore, it was recommended that the Division Office may continuously hold the Management Committee (MANCOM) meetings with the school heads in order to improve the delivery of school services and processes. The school heads are enjoined to sustain the accomplishments for the school year by conducting a constant monitoring, evaluation, and review. They may prioritize the solution of the critical problems identified such as delayed release of budget, securing of land titling, and internet connectivity.  Also, the school heads are encouraged to take the lead in translating the MANCOM directives into accomplishments in their respective schools. The Action Plan may be submitted to the Division Office for possible adoption, if found feasible, may be implemented by the school officials. Further studies on the MANCOM
Meetings and Directives may be conducted to validate the findings of this study. Also, the inclusion of other variables not covered in the current study. the Division Office may continuously hold the Management Committee (MANCOM) meetings with the school heads in order to improve the delivery of school processes. The school heads are enjoined to sustain the accomplishments for the school year by conducting a constant monitoring and review. The school heads may prioritize the solution of the critical problems identified in accomplishing the MANCOM directives. The school heads are encouraged to take initiative that all MANCOM directives be accomplished in their respective schools. The Action Plan may be submitted to the Division Office for possible adoption, if found feasible, may be implemented by the school officials. Further studies on the MANCOM Meetings and Directives may be conducted to validate the findings of this study. Also, the inclusion of other variables not covered in the current study.
Keywords:Management Committee (MANCOM), Further studies, current study, school officials.
Title:MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE (MANCOM) DIRECTIONS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF SCHOOLS IN THE 2nd CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF SORSOGON
Author:CHRISTY R. MAGCAYAN, DR. NOEL G. BENAVIDES
ISSN 2394-7322
International Journal of Novel Research in Marketing Management and Economics
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Abstract:This paper is a conversation on the administration challenges that directors are face so as to accomplish hierarchical objectives. The forward piece of this paper is a conversation about the more extensive Environmental Factors that influence the advancement of an Organization today. Factors, for example, economy, political and sociological are been examined assessing an organization's methodology. At the last section there is a conversation about the HRM division and how significant it is for an organization, considered as a chain between the association and its representatives. Leadership is an essential idea in present day control. The supervisor has the responsibility to revise, at times, the standards and regulations that practice to the management protecting for the steering of folks of the organization, while he sees that positive ideas and rules is basically out of date. Therefore, the supervisor should break up the responsibilities efficaciously many of the group of workers. The right department of labour is the maximum essential piece accomplishing strategic dreams.  However, a business enterprise’s method ought to analyse a few external surroundings conditions which can be very critical. Notwithstanding the CEOs the maximum critical component in a agency is the HRM. For any goal or challenge HRM is responsibly to discover the ideal human resource offering also the employees with protection making the great for them that allows you to do their high-quality at the same time as operating.  The current, highly competitive and globalised surroundings requires a great deal extra activation of enterprise than in the beyond for his or her survival and, predominant, for their development. This activation calls for a thoughts-set exchange, extroversion, management, modern forms of management, flexibility, velocity of choice-making and harnessing the creativity and dynamism of the human element. Business growth calls for firstly the existence or locating a leading personality. The inspirational leader he will form with the senior a vision for the enterprise. Based on the agreed imaginative and prescient of the leadership group will proceed in shaping the company's medium-time period goal and to broaden the precise strategy for achieving this aim.
Keywords: organization, HRM, environmental factors, vision-mission, strategy, employees, targets.

Abstract:This study determined the administrative behavior and personal traits of the School Heads of Bulan Districts. The respondents in this study were the forty (40) elementary school heads. A simple random sampling was used in this study. The survey questionnaire and documentary analysis were the main instrument in gathering the necessary data supplemented with an observation and an unstructured interview. To determine the relationship between the administrative behaviors of the school heads to their personal traits, chi-square test of homogeneity was applied in this study. Appropriate statistical tools such as frequency count, percentage, weighted mean and ranking were employed for the analysis and interpretation of the gathered data. The study established that; there is no significant relationship between the administrative behavior of the school heads and their personal traits. The study recommends that; school heads should be given ample opportunities to assess their personal traits and administrative behavior so that they may align the said aspects to effective leadership.
Keywords:School heads, Administrative Behavior, Personal Traits, effective leadership, Bulan Districts.

Abstract:The study looked at four off-dock terminals at Tema port using Data Envelopment Analysis to determine and analyze the efficiency changes using panel data from 2015-2018. The DEA model has commonly been used in the port sector. DEA window analysis is used to determine the efficiency of ports and to observe the possibility of changes in the port efficiency over time. labour, forklifts, reach stackers, trucks, and the terminal storage area were employed as input variables and container throughput as an output variable. Inclusion A.P Moller Terminal showed the highest efficiency result event its labour variable was less efficient compared to other selected terminals understudy. On the other hand, Tema Container terminal found to be the least efficient port obtaining the lowest average efficiency rating over the period under study. Findings from this study showed that some terminals had excess equipment as well as excess labour. And for these terminals to maintain constant and improving efficiency, there would need to cut down some labour and also lease out unused equipment.
Keywords:Data Envelopment Analysis, Efficiency, Off-dock Container Terminals, (DEA), Performance, Windows Analysis

Abstract:This study tries to shade light on the effect of ISO9001 on Performance of Brewery companies in Ethiopia. It empirically analyzes the impact of ISO9001 on the performance of brewery company's proxied by profit of companies during the sample period of 2002-2015.The sample consists three brewery companies namely: BGI-Ethiopia, Metha-Abo and Dashen brewery companies. The methodology is based on the Fixed effect model estimator  proposed for dynamic panel data, which is strong in the presence of endogenous covariates, allowing for individual companies fixed effects, heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation. Based on findings, out of the four independent variables average revenue and dummy of ISO9001 are positive and significant effect on companies profit i.e an increase (decrease) in average revenue of companies results in a 5.517 percent increase (decrease) in the company's profit. The result indicates that ISO9001 certification does have a strong significant positive impact on brewery companies performance. As the result revealed a company's profit increases by 1.052% due to ISO9001 certification. The other two explanatory variables average cost and natural logarithm of total sale become statistically  insignificant. In sum, the result of the study indicates that Having ISO9001 certification improves the profitability of the brewery companies. This finding seems to agree with the study done by T. Dejene (2011) on five brewery companies in Ethiopia and other scholars like D.S. Sharma(2005),M. Pinar(2001) and J. Singles et al.(2000).
Keywords:Brewery, ISO9001, Impact, performance, random-effect, fixed-effect model.

Abstract:The aim of this research was to select an optimal location for a Dry Port to increase responsiveness and efficiency to meet customer demand. The method used to acquire information was qualitative where reference was made from publications and websites. This research revealed that transport cost in delivery to landlocked countries (Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger) from Tema port is high. With this and other related circumstances urged the search for an optimal location of Dry Port for COSCO shipping line to satisfy their customers.
The Center of Gravity and Analytic Hierarchy Process models were used together with forecasting model and time series regression analysis. This gave a thorough guide in the selection of the optimal location.
Keywords:Dry Port, Center of Gravity, AHP.

Abstract:The main aim of this research is to explore the effect of trade liberalization on economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa by analyzing certain macro-economic indicators using Ordinary Least Squares approach to estimate regression equations. Many developing countries have substantially liberalized their trade regime over the past three decades, either unilaterally or as part of multilateral initiatives. Nevertheless, trade barriers remain high in many developing countries. One of the concerns that attributes to the reluctance of many of these countries to liberalize their trade regime is the possible worsening of the trade balance.
This research paper is meant to give a recommendation on which macro-economic indicators sub-Saharan African countries should pay particular attention to, implementing the necessary policies to ensure its effectiveness thereby ensuring a step-up in those aspects of the economy in order to promote development. It considers 46 different countries with different economic policies in sub-Saharan Africa for a 14-year period. Most papers considering sub-Saharan African region consider a selected few countries based on certain economic reasons of their choice, and those who consider most countries in the region have different macroeconomic indicators they employ for their modeling. This paper considers if not all, almost all sub-Saharan African countries regardless of their economic status.
Keywords:Trade Liberalization, Economic Growth, Sub-Saharan Africa.

Abstract:In the contemporary world of business, ethical conduct stood to be amongst very important practices that businessmen are required to incorporate when conducting businesses. Yet, the challenges of globalization, trade liberalization and profitability of businesses in the uncertain business environment are critically encourage businessmen to engage in ethical conducts. To investigate this subject matter, the study employed Malay businessmen at small and medium scale and analyse their participation in implementing ethical business conduct. The study used four main dimensions of ethical business conducts namely personal values, managing social responsibility, ways of conducting business and interaction with others in business setting. Moreover the study categorized the target respondents on race basis thus the Bumiputera (Malaysians indegenious) composed of 50% and non-Bumiputera thus Chinese and Indians at the rates in the distribution of 32% and 18% respectively. Generally, businessmen at SMEs scale are aware of ethical business conduct and are implementing such matters; yet, there are continuation of unethical conducts regardless of understanding of its importance to among the businessmen in SMEs.
Keywords:Business ethics, small and medium enterprises, Malay businessmen and conduct of ethical practices. 

Abstract:This study evaluates the effect of corporate sustainability on business performance of manufacturing industries in USA, from 2012 to 2015. These Manufacturing industries are listed in Corporate Social Responsibility Hub (CSRHub), Morning Star and Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). All data used in this report were extracted from 37 manufacturing companies’ Sustainability, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and annual reports. These companies are of diverse sectors such as Automobile, Health care, consumer goods, food, beverages and technology. Quantitative method of research is used in this study; this also includes the use of explanatory and descriptive research design. The main issues to be discussed in this study are Donation, Incident rate reduction and Water Recycled as the independent variables, while Revenue is the dependent variable. Data analysis was carried out using the regression analysis, descriptive statistics and correlation. E-views software generated the data for further analysis. The findings imply that donation has a positive insignificance effect on revenue, reduced incident rate reduction had positive significance effect on revenue and water recycling has negative insignificant effect on revenue. In the future researches, larger samples of companies form diverse sectors and subsectors should be studied to broaden the research on company performance especially the non-financial aspect.
Keywords:Corporate Sustainability, Company Performance, Revenue, Corporate Social Responsibility, Donation, Incident Rate Reduction, and Water Recycled.