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Linking supervisor incivility with job embeddedness and cynicism: The mediating role of employee self-efficacy

Alola, Uju Violet; Asongu, Simplice; Alola, Andrew Adewale - 2019

Applying the conservation of resources theory and the self-efficacy theory, this study investigates the relationship between supervisor incivility, self-efficacy, cynicism and the job embeddedness of employees in the hotel industry. The role of self-efficacy, as an important variable that...

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The Role of ICT in Reducing Information Asymmetry for Financial Access

Asongu, Simplice; Moulin, Bertrand - 2016

This study assesses the role of ICT in complementing private credit bureaus (PCB) and public credit registries (PCR) in … marginal effects from interactions between ICT and PCR (PCB) are consistently positive (negative); (ii) net effects from … financial deposits. Overall, the complementarity between information offices and ICT in boosting financial access is still very …

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Reducing Information Asymmetry with ICT: A critical review of loan price and quantity effects in Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Roux, Sara Le - 2016

This study investigates loan price and quantity effects of information sharing offices with ICT, in a panel of 162 … Moments and Instrumental Quantile Regressions. Our findings broadly show that ICT with public credit registries decrease the … price of loans and increase the quantity of loans. While the net effects from the interaction of ICT with private credit …

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Enhancing ICT for Inclusive Human Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Roux, Sara Le - 2016

This study assesses if increasing information and communication technology (ICT) enhances inclusive human development … designed to boost ICT (mobile phone, internet, telephone) penetration will increase inclusive development in the post-2015 … sustainable development agenda. The degree of positive responsiveness of inclusive development to ICT varies across fundamental …

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Is information diffusion a threat to market power for financial access? Insights from the African banking industry

Asongu, Simplice; Batuo, Enowbi; Nwachukwu, Jacinta; … - 2016

This study assesses how information diffusion dampens the adverse effect of market power on the price and quantity of loans provided by a panel of 162 banks from 39 African countries for the period 2001-2011. The empirical evidence is based on three endogenity-robust estimation techniques,...

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Not all that Glitters is Gold: ICT and Inclusive Human Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016

This paper examines the short and long term effects of information and communication technology (ICT) on inclusive … human development in a panel of 49 Sub-Saharan African countries for the period 2000-2012. ICT is measured in terms of …

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Investigating the relevance of mobile technology adoption on inclusive growth in West Africa

Ejemeyovwi, Jeremiah O.; Osabuohien, Evans - 2018

This paper empirically investigates the role of mobile technology adoption on inclusive growth in 15 West African countries with a view to ascertaining if the positive role of mobile technology adoption on human development as established in other regions holds in West Africa. It used data from...

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The mobile phone as an argument for good governance in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Le Roux, Sara; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C.; … - 2018

Purpose- This study presents theoretical and empirical arguments for the role of mobile telephony in promoting good governance in 47 sub-Saharan African countries for the period 2000-2012. Design/methodology/approach- The empirical inquiry uses an endogeneity-robust GMM approach with forward...

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Crime and social media

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C.; Orim, … - 2019

Purpose- The study complements the scant macroeconomic literature on the development outcomes of social media by examining the relationship between Facebook penetration and violent crime levels in a cross-section of 148 countries for the year 2012. Design/methodology/approach- The empirical...

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Knowledge-driven economic growth: The case of Sub-Saharan Africa

Oluwatobi, Stephen; Olurinola, Isaiah Oluranti; Alege, … - 2018

The experience of South Korea, India, China and Singapore reveals that developing economies can fasttrack development, leapfrog the stages of development and catch up with advanced economies by putting knowledge capital as the driver of development. If the knowledge economy is therefore a n...

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