Quality control reviews, programme accreditations and the rating of universities and researchers are new trends in tertiary education. This paper deals with the strategic planning challenges in South African universities that attempt to improve their rating in credible international ranking...

[enterIn both theory and practice, pull and push factors drive migrants out of their own countries of origin. The factors are complex but they are in general categorized as: (a) demand-pull factors, represented by better economic opportunities and jobs in the host (new) country; (b) supply-push...

Examining the ownership structure and the methods of financing of companies provide important insights for the understanding of the type of institutional reforms in a given socio-economic environment. Much of the literature on corporate accountability in developing economies extends the legal...

This paper investigates whether investors in an emerging economy setting value book value of equity, earnings and discretionary accruals differently for firms that have managed earnings relative to those who have not. Discretionary accruals are estimated using the conventional modified John's...

This paper addresses the issues of governance and ownership structure, and extends the agency theory of Jensen and Meckling (1976) to the Ethiopian banking sector. It analyzes the degree of the sector’s fragility, and raises the reform issues of the day. Based on grounded theories and...

This paper examines the relationship between graduate workplace competency standards and teaching effectiveness (competency) evidences used in colleges and universities. The cognitive, emotional and soft skills of students and academics, and teaching performance evaluation systems at two...

Using panel data from 118 firms across a time period of 17 years and a battery of tests, this paper examines two research questions that pertain to the expected gains stemming from corporate information liberalisation through the adoption of international accounting (financial reporting)...

Using panel data from 118 firms across a time period of 17 years and a battery of tests, this paper examines two research questions that pertain to the expected gains stemming from corporate information liberalisation through the adoption of international accounting (financial reporting)...