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Corporate Governance Practices and Organizational Performance of Myanmar Finance International Limited (Pyae Phyo Wai, 2025)
Full text linkThis study investigates the effect of corporate governance practices on the
organizational performance of Myanmar Finance International Limited (MFIL).
Specifically, it examines the extent to which four key governance practices
Responsibility, Accountability, Transparency, and Integrity affect the performance of
the organization. Primary data were collected using structured questionnaires
distributed to MFIL staff, 51 respondents who are directly involved in corporate
governance-related activities using simple random sampling method. This study used
quantitative method, with data analyzed using descriptive statistics, correlation, and
multiple regression techniques. The findings reveal that all four corporate governance
practices, Responsibility, Accountability, Transparency and Integrity positive effect on
MFIL’s performance. Among these, Integrity is the highest influence on Organizational
Performance, indicating a strong and statistically significant positive effect.
Responsibility is an influence on Organizational Performance, showing a significant
and strong positive effect. Transparency is an influence on Organizational Performance,
suggesting a significant and positive effect. Accountability is also an influence on
Organizational Performance, showing still a significant and strong positive effect.
These results highlight the critical role of strong governance in supporting sustainability
and institutional success. The study recommends reinforcing governance mechanisms,
increasing transparency in operations, and conducting regular governance reviews to
enhance MFIL’s financial stability and social impact
CUSTOMER PERCEPTIONS TOWARDS MOTOR VEHICLES INSURANCE CLAIMS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OF FIRST NATIONAL INSURANCE ( FNI ) (Pyae Phyo Wai, 2019)
Full text linkThis Study aims to explore the customer perceptions towards motor vehicles insurance claims management system of First National Insurance ( FNI ). It examines the customer perceptions in FNI. To meet these objectives, the required data are collected through structure questionnaire towards educated and postgraduate level. The simple random sampling method is applied to select 100 customer of Yangon. This primary and secondary data were collected from the first week of December 2019. The results of the study showed that both educated level and postgraduate level are satisfied. Customer are satisfied both response to claim and towing damage vehicle. Repair handling factors are significant with customer perception. This also showed that most customer perceive services which provides in good condition like before. Therefore, it is suggested that claim management system of First National Insurance (FNI) has systematic procedures and good services factors to the all customer. But, these satisfaction factors may be changed from time to time, employee and owners need to assess the satisfaction factors of the customer on continuous basis in order to be continuous success. FNI should pay more attention to the only towing vehicle and repair handling factors since these factors have the positive relationship with customer satisfaction. In these factors, FNI should focus more on repair handling by taking approval and confirming from
COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PROFITABILITY OF BLACK GRAM PRODUCTION BEFORE AND AFTER INDIA’S IMPORT SUSPENSION IN KYAUKTAGA TOWNSHIP, BAGO REGION
No full textBlack gram is one of the major exportable pulses in Myanmar. It was mainly exported to India and the domestic prices depend on India‟s demand. India published a notification restricting the import of pulses through a strict quota for black gram, green gram, and pigeon pea in August, 2017. This study attempted to compare the profitability of black gram production before and after India‟s import suspension. Total 120 sample farm households were chosen by using a simple random sampling method from six villages in Kyauktaga Township. The study principally aimed to examine changes in cultivated areas, profitability of black gram production and to analyze the determinants on profitability of black gram production before and after India‟s import suspension. Descriptive, cost and return, and regression analyses were employed. The findings indicated that after import suspension, cultivated areas decreased in black gram and increased in green gram significantly in the study area. Accordingly, incomes from black gram as well as crop income were also decreased. Sample farmers mainly relied on crop income, and non-farm and remittance income sources became more important after import suspension. Therefore, it needs to create non-farm employment opportunities to sustain livelihoods of farmers. The effective price of black gram was significantly decreased and benefit-cost ratio before import suspension was about double than after import suspension. Hence, research and development are required for alternative crop substitution. The regression analysis showed that, effective yield of black gram, total material cost, hired labour cost and number of credit sources were significantly influenced on profit of black gram production before and after import suspension. To improve production and reduce cost of production, government should promote farmers to achieve systematic usage of inputs and extension services are required to provide improved agricultural practices. Because credit sources are important for profitability of black gram farmers, access to more credits from different sources should be facilitated. Import suspension in the study area had negative effect on the profit of black gram. Thus, government and related institutions need to find out alternative international markets. To penetrate other international markets, quality and standard of black gram are becoming critical factors for farmers. Finally, trade agreement would be needed to compensate the risk of domestic farmers and traders
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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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