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Sustainable Development: Assessing the Role of Corporate and Private Sector Organizations in Southwest, Nigeria: A Case Study
Get PDFThis study critically examined the role of corporate and private sector entities in fostering sustainable development in Southwest Nigeria, with a particular focus on empowering local communities. Utilising a mixed-methods approach—comprising descriptive and inferential statistics, including One-Way ANOVA, alongside semi-structured interviews—the research drew on 355 valid responses from 400 distributed questionnaires (88.8% response rate) spanning diverse professional sectors. Findings revealed a significant disconnect between corporate initiatives and the actual developmental needs of local communities. While previous scholars have emphasised the importance of partnerships and corporate social responsibility, this study advances practical, actionable recommendations. These include the institutionalisation of community-based co-design frameworks where corporations co-create development projects with local stakeholders from inception to implementation. Additionally, the study recommends the establishment of Local Development Accountability Councils (LDACs) comprising corporate representatives, community leaders, and civil society actors to ensure transparency, continuous dialogue, and contextualised impact measurement. Businesses should integrate sustainability into their core operational strategies through mandatory Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) compliance reporting at regional levels. Moreover, the government should incentivise private sector involvement via tax reliefs, competitive grants, and access to land or infrastructure for community-oriented projects. The study provides a novel metrics toolkit for measuring corporate-community impact tailored to the socio-economic realities of the region. Overall, the research offers deeper insights for policymakers, corporate leaders, development practitioners, and researchers seeking to align profit-driven goals with inclusive and sustainable growth in the Southwest, Nigeria
INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL AND FINANCIAL OUTCOMES OF LISTED OIL AND GAS FIRMS IN NIGERIA
Get PDFThis research investigates the connection between various components of intellectual capital namely human, structural, and physical capital and the financial performance of Nigerian oil and gas firms listed on the Nigerian Exchange. The study\u27s population consisted of eight oil and gas companies listed as of December 31, 2023. An ex-post facto research approach was employed, with a selection process that narrowed the sample to five companies through filtration sampling. This was done to ensure the inclusion of firms with complete data from their annual reports and financial statements spanning a decade (2014-2023). Data analysis was conducted using a robust random-effects regression model in STATA 13.0. The findings indicate that physical and human capital do not have a statistically significant influence on return on assets (with P-values of 0.958 and 0.682, respectively). Conversely, structural capital shows a positive and significant effect on return on assets among the sampled companies (P-value = 0.001). The study concludes that investing in physical and human capital may not necessarily translate into improved financial outcomes, whereas enhancing structural capital is likely to have a beneficial impact. Based on these results, it is advised that industry operators should carefully evaluate and strategically invest in their intellectual capital components human, structural, and physical before making financial commitments
FIRMS\u27 CHARACTERISTICS AND SHARE PRICES OF LISTED OIL AND GAS FIRMS IN NIGERIA
Get PDFThis research explored how various firm attributes affect the share prices of publicly traded oil and gas companies in Nigeria. The study employed an ex-post facto research design. The population comprised eight oil and gas firms listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange as of December 31, 2023, with a sample of five companies selected through purposive sampling. Data were gathered from annual financial reports and the Nigerian Stock Exchange Fact Book. Utilizing regression analysis, the results indicated that firm growth (p = 0.006), profitability (p = 0.000), and asset tangibility (p = 0.051) all have a positive impact on share prices. The regression model accounted for 52.8% of the variance in share prices (R² = 0.528). Hypothesis testing rejected the null hypotheses for firm growth and profitability, suggesting they are significant predictors, while asset tangibility was marginally significant at the 5% level. Overall, the findings demonstrate that firm growth and profitability are primary factors influencing share valuation, with asset tangibility also contributing, albeit to a lesser extent. The study concludes that firm-specific characteristics play a crucial role in shaping the market valuation of oil and gas companies in Nigeria, providing meaningful insights for investors, regulators, and industry stakeholders
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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