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An Investigation into the Dimensions that Result in Poor Growth in Short-Term Insurance Broking Firms in Zimbabwe: The Case of Perpro Insurance Brokers
No full textThe insurance industry remains an integral part of the wider economy because of the
resource mobilisation role that it plays thus facilitating savings and investment. In recent
years the chronic economic challenges affecting the country have not spared this sector.
Insurance brokers play an intermediary and facilitatory role between insurance
companies and consumers of insurance. Their growth is a good indicator of the good
health or lack of it of the whole insurance industry. It is against this background that this
research was founded. In undertaking this research, there are specific concepts that
underpinned it. Firstly, effort was put on finding out how skills base affect the growth
potential of broking companies particularly at Perpro Insurance Brokers. The research
also looked at the concept of return on investments as this constitutes a significant
revenue source for brokers. In a poorly performing economy like Zimbabwe’s, the
returns from investment have remained subdued and there was need to find out how the
growth of brokers has been affected by the returns on offer. It also looked at the
regulatory environment in so far as it affects the ability of brokers to grow their functions
in the industry. The fourth and final concept was on corporate governance. This subject
has assumed international importance of late and it was important to conceptualise this
study around the issues of corporate governance. The methodology used to acquire
information from relevant sources was qualitative using semi-structured interviews and
an interview guide. Previous studies focussed much on the poor growth dimensions in
insurance companies and not on brokers and they relied on quantitative methodology.
This research has gone further to take a more comprehensive approach by using the
qualitative methodology as it explains how and why the concepts and dimensions cause
the poor growth in the broking fraternity. In terms of conclusions, it came out that good
skills base is an important ingredient in the growth of brokers and in particular at Perpro.
Because of insufficient skills base, the returns on investments have been low. It also
emerged that the regulatory environment has not assisted brokers to achieve the growth
that they can potentially achieve. Lack of implementation of existing regulatory tools was
identified in this research as a dimension of the poor growth in this industry subsector
An investigation into the dimensions that result in poor growth in short-term insurance broking firms in Zimbabwe: The case of Perpro Insurance Brokers
No full textThe insurance industry remains an integral part of the wider economy because of the resource mobilisation role that it plays thus facilitating savings and investment. In recent years the chronic economic challenges affecting the country have not spared this sector. Insurance brokers play an intermediary and facilitatory role between insurance companies and consumers of insurance. Their growth is a good indicator of the good health or lack of it of the whole insurance industry. It is against this background that this research was founded. In undertaking this research, there are specific concepts that underpinned it. Firstly, effort was put on finding out how skills base affect the growth potential of broking companies particularly at Perpro Insurance Brokers. The research also looked at the concept of return on investments as this constitutes a significant revenue source for brokers. In a poorly performing economy like Zimbabwe’s, the returns from investment have remained subdued and there was need to find out how the growth of brokers has been affected by the returns on offer. It also looked at the regulatory environment in so far as it affects the ability of brokers to grow their functions in the industry. The fourth and final concept was on corporate governance. This subject has assumed international importance of late and it was important to conceptualise this study around the issues of corporate governance. The methodology used to acquire information from relevant sources was qualitative using semi-structured interviews and an interview guide. Previous studies focused much on the poor growth dimensions in insurance companies and not on brokers and they relied on quantitative methodology. This research has gone further to take a more comprehensive approach by using the qualitative methodology as it explains how and why the concepts and dimensions cause the poor growth in the broking fraternity. In terms of conclusions, it came out that good skills base is an important ingredient in the growth of brokers and in particular at Perpro. Because of insufficient skills base, the returns on investments have been low. It also emerged that the regulatory environment has not assisted brokers to achieve the growth that they can potentially achieve. Lack of implementation of existing regulatory tools was identified in this research as a dimension of the poor growth in this industry sub sector
An investigation into the dimensions that result in poor growth in short-term insurance broking firms in Zimbabwe: The case of Perpro Insurance Brokers
No full textThe insurance industry remains an integral part of the wider economy because of the resource mobilisation role that it plays thus facilitating savings and investment. In recent years the chronic economic challenges affecting the country have not spared this sector. Insurance brokers play an intermediary and facilitatory role between insurance companies and consumers of insurance. Their growth is a good indicator of the good health or lack of it of the whole insurance industry. It is against this background that this research was founded. In undertaking this research, there are specific concepts that underpinned it. Firstly, effort was put on finding out how skills base affect the growth potential of broking companies particularly at Perpro Insurance Brokers. The research also looked at the concept of return on investments as this constitutes a significant revenue source for brokers. In a poorly performing economy like Zimbabwe’s, the returns from investment have remained subdued and there was need to find out how the growth of brokers has been affected by the returns on offer. It also looked at the regulatory environment in so far as it affects the ability of brokers to grow their functions in the industry. The fourth and final concept was on corporate governance. This subject has assumed international importance of late and it was important to conceptualise this study around the issues of corporate governance. The methodology used to acquire information from relevant sources was qualitative using semi-structured interviews and an interview guide. Previous studies focused much on the poor growth dimensions in insurance companies and not on brokers and they relied on quantitative methodology. This research has gone further to take a more comprehensive approach by using the qualitative methodology as it explains how and why the concepts and dimensions cause the poor growth in the broking fraternity. In terms of conclusions, it came out that good skills base is an important ingredient in the growth of brokers and in particular at Perpro. Because of insufficient skills base, the returns on investments have been low. It also emerged that the regulatory environment has not assisted brokers to achieve the growth that they can potentially achieve. Lack of implementation of existing regulatory tools was identified in this research as a dimension of the poor growth in this industry sub sector
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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