This study investigates the role of microfinance services on women's entrepreneurship development in Assosa town. The study employed both descriptive and explanatory designs and a quantitative research approach. The study targeted 352 women clients of Assosa Woreda Microfinance Institution, and...

Microfinance institution services are emerging as a potent tool for poverty eradication and aim to decrease poverty and empower women. However, fewer women than men manage and run businesses in many parts of the world. Therefore, this study investigates the role of microfinance services on...

This study investigates the role of mobile money innovations in the incidence of income inequality on poverty and severity of poverty in 42 sub-Saharan African countries over the period 1980 to 2019. Mobile money innovations are understood as the mobile used to send money and the mobile used to...

The study examines how mobile money innovations transform unemployed women to self-employed women. The empirical evidence is based on interactive quantile regressions focusing on data in 44 countries from sub-Saharan Africa for the period 2004 to 2018. The hypothesis that mobile money...

In order to show the consistency of agency theory as a theory to explain the influence of the Audit Committee and the Board of Directors on Sustainability, this study will explore the role of moderating actions of the Audit Committee and the Board of Directors on Sustainability. The firms that...

Purpose At present, for any product, smooth marketing has become a major challenge due to the novel market challenges as well as sudden and extended changes. Thus, the concerns for the marketers are essential to consider the choice of buyers and also to satisfy them. The purpose of this...

The current study aimed at exploring the role of organizational culture in supporting better AIS outcomes from perspective of financial and accounting managers within SMEs in Jordan during the fiscal year 2021-2022. Independent variables of study (organizational culture) included (Involvement,...

CEOs' perceptions of the environment and the information processing shortcuts (or heuristics) they use to develop these perceptions are important to organizations. We study whether organizational structure, an important channel and filter for the flow of information in organizations, affects...

Frequent climate shocks require farmers in developing countries to increase their resilience. Although index insurance is often discussed as a promising climate adaptation strategy, take-up rates are still low. This study primarily explores the role of peer behavior as peer imitation in the...

We explore how personality traits are related to household borrowing behavior. Using survey data representative for the Netherlands, we consider the Big Five personality traits (openness, conscientiousness, agreeableness, extraversion and neuroticism), as well as the belief that one is master of...