Ogechukwu Charles Ugbam

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Senior lecturer/Researcher at University of Nigeria

Purpose This study examines the nexus of bond market development and economic growth from 2015 to 2022. Design/methodology/approach The system-generalized method of moments (GMM) is employed on economic growth, government market capitalization, corporate market capitalization, bond yield, interest rate spread, trade openness and investment level....

Purpose This study looks at whether credit unions, a type of microfinance, increase or decrease poverty in Cameroon from 2004 Q1 to 2021 Q4. Method/design The fully modified ordinary least square, dynamic ordinary least square, and conical co‐integration is applied. Findings The findings reveal a long‐term association between credit union measure...

This article aims to study the relationship between remittances and economic growth in African emerging economies from 1990 to 2021. The study centers on the optimistic, pessimistic, and the dual‐gap theories. The autoregressive distributed lag and cointegration techniques are applied. The findings indicate that remittances have a nonsignificantly...

This study examined how conflict management strategies influence the organizational performance of Peace Mass Transit Ltd. The survey research method was adopted for the study. Data were collected using a questionnaire. The population of the study comprises the purposively selected 255 staff of Peace Mass Transit Ltd, Enugu state. The hypotheses we...

This paper employs the panel nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag model to investigate the asymmetric effects of environmental taxes on CO2 emissions embodied in domestic final demand (CDFD) in 23 developing economies. The results indicate that a reduction in environmental tax has a more adverse effect on CDFD than an increase in tax, implying...

The study examines the effect of public relations planning on human resources management performance in the Independent National Electoral Commission in Nigeria. Data were collected through a mailed survey-designed questionnaire to the senior and junior staff. The staff were stratified and randomly selected from a sampling frame of employees. Multi...

The study aims at examining the impact of workplace conflict on employee productivity in the healthcare industry. Workplace conflict is a dysfunctional stressor that undermines the endeavours, and performances of any workplace (Adewole & Adebola, 2010). While it adopted the descriptive survey design for the investigation, the participants were 4541...

Organizational learning refers to the sum total of individual and collective learning through training programs, experience, experimentation and work interactions within the organization. Thus, sustainable competitive advantage is the ability to offer superior customer value on an enduring or consistent basis, a situation in which competitors are u...

This study investigated the effect of Lean Theory on performance in the Nigerian manufacturing organizations with these specific objectives, to: establish the nature of the relationship between leanness and organizational efficiency in the Nigerian manufacturing organisations, ascertain the extent lean supply chain integration can affect competitiv...

This paper attempts to ascertain the impact of participative management on workflows, its influence on sales output and how well the concept is practised by consumer goods companies in Nigeria. Study adopted the survey design; questionnaires were used to collect necessary data from sales personnel across 10 states in South-Ssouth and South East Nig...

This work assesses the state of human capital development in Nigeria with a view to determining the extent to which it can support the Nigerian manufacturing sector in achieving the objectives established for it by the countries policy document, vision 202020. It relied on existing (secondary) data to achieve its objectives. Such data were presente...

This study looked at business process reengineering and the performance of commercial banks in north central Nigeria. The need for this study arises from the dearth of empirical work on this subject matter especially as covering the north central zone of Nigeria. A sample size of 501 was drawn from a population of 17977 in 12 selected commercial ba...

Corporate mergers and acquisition has become a highly popular strategy in recent years. Thus, much attention has been focused on its outcomes. It has served as a substitute for innovation, a greater means of diversification. The banking sector is often referred to as an engine growth of the economy. The intermediation role which the sector plays in...

This paper investigates the impact of corporate board diversity on the financial performance of Nigerian quoted firms using a panel data of 122 quoted Nigerian firms. The aspects of board diversity studied comprise board nationality, board gender and board ethnicity. The Fixed Effect Generalised Least Square Regression is used to examine the impact...

This study investigated the impact of working capital policies of Nigerian firms on profitability for the period, 2004-2008. Adopting the aggressive investment working capital policies and aggressive financing policies as independent variables and return on assets as dependent variable and controlling for size and leverage, the study revealed that...

Small and medium scale enterprises all over the world are now looked upon as the engine room of the economy. Governments especially in developing countries are becoming aware of the importance of this sector in the growth of their economies, hence attention are been given to this sector especially in the provision of funds, reduction of legal and b...

One of the main policy objectives for the establishment of microfinance banks in Nigeria was to assist small and medium scale enterprises in Nigeria in raising their productive capacity and level of employment generation, thus alleviating poverty and enhancing human capital development. It is against this background that this study empirically exam...