Umar Abbas Ibrahim

Nile University of Nigeria · Business Administration

Behavioural finance theory posited that the actions of individual investors have demonstrated that people appear to respond to and perceive the same information differently, generating psychological biases that are defined as Behavioural Factors. It is against this backdrop that this study empirically examines the effect of behavioural factors on i...

The hospitality industry in Nigeria is going through a process of transition due to the pandemic effect of the coronavirus (Covid-19). A new policy has been given by the government as a result of coronavirus, which required certain structural changes that demand employees to be more proactive and flexible to maintain efficiency in operations. Thus,...

Mortgage banks, due to the critical services they render by facilitating the provision of shelter, which is one of the basic needs of man, can benefit from focusing and concentrating on Customer Relationship Management as regards competitive advantage and corporate performance. However, the dynamic and competitive business environment in Nigerian m...

Faulty board configurations associated with risk management practices are alleged to be the primary sources of most corporate failures. Therefore, experts have suggested that firms should adopt holistic risk management practices. This study investigates the interactive effect of board characteristics with risk management activities on the performan...

The study examined the effect of financial reforms on the performance of quoted manufacturing firms in Nigeria. The study used an expo-facto research design. The study population comprises 44 manufacturing companies quoted at [1], which include Agriculture, Conglomerates, Consumer goods, Healthcare / Pharmaceuticals, Industrial goods, and Natural R...

Since the introduction of information communication technology and the widespread use of the internet, the banking business has undergone considerable changes. Information and communication technology (ICT) is at the heart of Nigeria's current worldwide shift curve in the electronic banking system. In light of this, this study looked into the influ...

With the advancement in the global economy, corporate risk management has been more impactfully implemented by firms and equally become a topic of scholarly studies. However, most of these studies are from different contexts. The purpose of this study is to assess the relationship between enterprise risk management (ERM) structure and the financial...

This paper conducted a systematic review of succession planning (SP) articles published over the last decade. The Systematic Quantitative Assessment Technique was used to identify 174 SP articles. The review covered five key issues: 1) Time distribution, 2) Geographic distribution, 3) Article type, 4) Data collection methods, and 5) Themes explore...

In the process of evaluating new investments what becomes really important is not the risk attached to the expected returns of the prospective new investment or project. However, what is relevant is the extent to which the additional risk return attached to the particular investment relates to the portfolio overall risk. This condition leads to the...

This paper conducted a systematic review of organizational ethics (OE) articles published over the last two decades, 2000-2020. This paper utilized the Systematic Quantitative Assessment Technique to identify 58 OE articles published by six of the most popular academic publishers in the world: Emerald, Elsevier, Sage, Springer, Taylor and Francis,...

This paper conducted a systematic review of organizational ethics (OE) articles published over the last two decades, 2000-2020. This paper utilized the Systematic Quantitative Assessment Technique to identify 58 OE articles published by six of the most popular academic publishers in the world:Emerald, Elsevier, Sage, Springer, Taylor and Francis, a...

Job stress affects and influence the mental, physical and well-being of an entrepreneur. The objectives of this study were to examined the relationship between work-family conflict, role overload and business environment on the commitment of microentrepreneurs in Abuja. The study adopted a cross-sectional research design, data were obtained via onl...

The article examines the Impact of Customer Satisfaction on the Business Performance of SMEs in Nigeria. The relationship between customer satisfaction and business performance is an important relationship for the development and growth of any nation's economy. The survey design method was applying for the study with its population being drawn from...

Background: The telecommunication industry in Nigeria is currently characterized by fast-paced competition as a result of rapid technological changes, high product/services innovation, fast customer-switching due to taste among others. Consequently, change management experts now place emphasize the need for future-driven organizations to be always...

The study examined the effect of ownership structure on the financial performance of Nigerian listed oil and gas companies for the period of 2009-2019. The specific objectives of this study are to: Determine the impact of managerial ownership on the return on equity of Nigeria's publicly traded oil and gas companies. Analyze the effect of instituti...

The study assessed the impact of organizational culture on the performance of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Abuja. The questionnaire used was created based on Cameron and Quinn’s Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument (OCAI) in identifying different types of organizational culture. Using a cross-sectional survey research design, the...

This article assessed the impact of change management on employee performance with evidence from Nile University of Nigeria. This study made use of a descriptive survey research design. Burke Litwin model of organizational change was adopted for this study because the model explains the linkages between variables and individual and organizational p...

This study examined the long-run effect of financial leverage on firm value with evidence from a sample of 62 firms quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, over the five-year period between 2014-2018. The level of financial leverage as measured by the Debt-Equity ratio while firm value was represented by Tobin's Q Market-Book Value Ratio. The study...

This study examines the effect of working capital management on the financial performance of Non-financial companies quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange over the period 2014-2018 while using a panel research design. This work is unique because it considers a sample of 71 companies drawn from all the 10 non-financial sectors of the NSE. Unlike mos...

The study aimed to explore the effect of female entrepreneurial experience on startups in Nigeria. The data were acquired from the female entrepreneurs and a self-administered questionnaire was used as a collection of data. Linear regression was used to test the proposed hypotheses using the latest version of SPSS. The entrepreneurial success can o...

Background: The relationship between capital regulation and stability of deposit money banks (widely known as commercial banks) in Nigeria has become topical among scholars and practitioners given the incessant instability rocking the nation's banking system amid the continuous upward regulation of bank's capital. Thus, this study assessed the effe...

This study aimed at assessing the effect of strategic planning on performance of construction projects in Nigeria. A quantitative research approach was adopted where the primary data was obtained through Internet mediated questionnaires targeting 100 personnel's of construction companies in Abuja, Nigeria. The findings of the study show that despit...

Nigeria is one of the largest oil producing countries in the world, its revenue is largely dependent on crude oil sales. The country vulnerability to crude oil price fluctuations is a phenomenon that has been a reoccurring event Thus; this study aims to examine the impact of Global crude oil prices on Nigeria gross domestic product (GDP) and the ec...

Background: The study examines the effect of executive compensation and incentives on corporate earnings of selected listed manufacturing firms in Nigeria. The proxy variables base-pay, executives' bonuses and stock-based payments were used to determine the effect of the independent variable executive compensation and incentives on the dependent va...

University employees are professionals with main aim of transforming, developing, diffusing and disseminating science, technology, and arts; skills, abilities and capabilities through teaching, research, public, and community service. The job performance of employees seems to depend on change management strategies used in the university system. The...

The objective of this study is to examine the effect of bank lending on the growth of selected small and medium scale businesses in Nigeria. There are two basic research designs in social sciences, qualitative and quantitative orientation. However, the literature suggests a growing interest in a mixed approach (triangulation) following on from the...

This research investigates the effect of the price of crude oil on foreign direct investment inflows to a country like Nigeria that produces the oil. We used secondary data on oil price and foreign direct investment inflows generated over a period of ten years from January 2010 to December 2019. The price per barrel of the Brent crude oil-Nigeria's...

This research project was aimed to investigate the impact of reward package on employee's performance in Nigerian Banks. In the globalised environment, it is of important to ensure a rewarded/motivated workforce because employees are the only asset that appreciates in value over time, thereby directly contributing to organisational performances. Em...

The study described and explained forensic accounting and the incidence of fraud detection in Nigeria. The objectives of this study were to identify personal skills requirements and, assess the types of investigative techniques used in forensic accounting. A literature review was conducted to set up the conceptual and theoretical framework for the...

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between three sustainable corporate governance mechanisms (board independence, board size and gender diversity) and one organizational growth measures (return on asset-ROA) of quoted health care companies in Nigeria. Specifically, this study examines whether board independence, board size and...

Entrepreneurship has emerged as promising new solutions to solve societal problems. This study seeks is to analyses how entrepreneurial orientation i.e. proactiveness, competitive aggressiveness autonomy, innovation, and risk-taking influence firms' performance in Abuja. To fulfil this purpose, survey research design and a theoretical framework wer...

Purpose: The study examines the effect of capital market operations on economic growth with emphasis in Nigeria. The market capitalization, value of stock traded and All-Share-Index were used as proxy of the developments of the Nigerian capital market, while real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was used as the proxy for economic growth. Design/Methodo...

This study examined the effect of financial leverage on firm value with evidence from a sample of selected companies quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. The study adopts a panel data analysis using secondary data obtained from the financial statements of the selected companies over the period 2014-2018. The sample of 18 firms studied was selecte...

The study aimed to determine how outsourcing core functions influence performance in relation to cost reduction, risk reduction, quality improvement and organizational efficiency of selected companies in the Nigeria telecommunications sector. Descriptive research design was adopted for the study, and census survey was used in determining the popula...

This study investigates the impact of outsourcing on the financial performance of commercial banks in Nigeria over the period 2013-2018, while adopting a panel research design. The sample of the study covers the commercial banks with international authorization in Nigeria. These eight commercial banks represent the tier one banks. This set of comme...

This article determined the effect that strategic management has on the development of entrepreneurial competence in Nigeria. It also examined the influence of strategic management on competitive advantage, development and advancement of entrepreneurial competencies in Organizations. This study made use of survey research design. The population con...

The construction industry, which plays an important role with great potentials of economic and national development, is now faced with consistent failure and abandonment of construction projects in Nigeria. This study investigates the underlying factors that lead to projects failure and the influence they have in the construction industry while uti...

This study sought to examine the influence of performance appraisal management on employee productivity. The main objective of this study was to examine the ways in which performance appraisal has impacted employee's performance, to know if Management by Objectives method of performance appraisal enhanced employee productivity in North South Power...

This research examines the impact of the Nigerian capital market on the growth of banking sector using a 20-year period from 1998-2017. Time series econometric method of correlation matrix and multiple regression analysis was employed for the analysis. The study measures the relationship between capital market developments and growth of banking sec...

This study examined the effect of electronic marketing on customer satisfaction of selected airline services in Nigeria. The research design for the study is the survey design because the study involved interacting directly with a cross section of respondents who shared similar characteristics. The population of the study are the 18 domestic airlin...

The study examined the nexus between motivational measure and employee job commitment withinthefinancial sectors, a case study of First bank of Nigeria plc. We utilized qualitative research method in generating and analyzinginformationfor the study. The qualitative data were analyzed using content analyses based on the purposive sampling technique...

Debt management strategy encompass much more than debts and how they were accumulated. Government debt management is the method of putting in place and effecting a strategy for transparently managing the government's debt with the main objective of meeting the government's financing needs; the costs and risks involved and any other debt management...

Organizational ethics is an emerging field in human resources, which focused on the study and practice of the ethical behavior of employees within an organization. The main purpose of this research work is to empirically investigate the influence of organizational ethics on the service delivery level of employees in the National Assembly in Nigeria...

Purpose – to research the effect of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) on the corporate financial performance (CFP) of quoted banks in Nigeria. Design/Method/Research approach. Using data of corporate social responsibility expenditure as a proxy for CSR and the trio of return on assets (ROA), return on equity (ROE), and bank earnings per sh...

The study explored entrepreneurial development as a viable option for employment generation of students in Nile University of Nigeria. The level of entrepreneurship education and training exposes students to more entrepreneurial knowledge and skill acquisition which in turn enhances entrepreneurial intentions and hence employment creation through s...

Materials management is a problem when there is shortage, delay in supply, damage and wastages. This research is all about how materials are managed during construction, its impact in the project success of Construction Companies, how successful a project can be when there is effective use of the materials. A literature review on materials manageme...

Financial inclusion has become a policy issue and a veritable tool for poverty reduction and the economic growth. This study aims to investigate how so far financial inclusion has benefited the banking sector and its challenges in Nigeria. Data for the study were collected mainly from secondary sources; such as Statistical Bulletins of the Central...

Nigerians have been employing works of numerous project managers with different leadership styles that have led to either the success or failure of projects. The purpose of this study is to examine various leadership styles shown by the numerous project managers using a number of variables as a deciding factor to the success or failure of the proje...

This study investigated the extent to which technology-banking culture impacts on customer satisfaction with age cum generational differentials as moderating factor. A Likert-type survey was administered, via convenience sampling, to customers of Zenith Bank, First Bank, Fidelity Bank, Guarantee Trust Bank and Access Bank at the corporate headquart...

Accounting information is known as the language of business as it is fundamental for record keeping, detailing and assessing events of economic values and exchanges that influence business endeavors. It forms all reports of a business money related execution from finance, cost, capital use and different commitments to deal income and proprietors' v...

Accounting information is known as the language of business as it is fundamental for record keeping, detailing and assessing events of economic values and exchanges that influence business endeavors. It forms all reports of a business money related execution from finance, cost, capital use and different commitments to deal income and proprietors' v...

Abstract: Financial control function has become an issue of paramount concern for every firm that strives to achieve profitability, growth and survival in a dynamic business environment. This is because a quality financial control system is essentially a hallmark for efficiency and effectiveness in operations which snowball to superior performances...

Infrastructure had been known as the key constraint to developing economy. Hence, this research analysed the cost of power outages to the business sector of the Nigerian economy using both a survey technique. One strong outcome of this research is that the poor state of electricity supply in Nigeria has imposed significant costs on the business sec...

This study examined the relationship between total quality management practices on project management. Total quality management has now become an important aspect of management due to increased competition among companies and quality issues associated with company operations; the survival of a business mainly depends upon the quality associated wit...

The study aims to examine the nexus between equity ownership structure-cum managerial, institutional and blockholder and profitability performance, of food and beverage firms in Nigeria. The methodology was based on an ex-post factor research design using secondary panel data approach with different regression estimators. A sample size of fifteen f...

This paper aimed to throw more light on the effects and concept of talent management as one of the recent systems that brought to Human Resources Management and its numerous activities especially in the new era. Additionally, it comes not only to survey the motives behind approving such concept in organizations and companies and the impact on its e...

This study borders on enhancing financial service sector employees’ productivity using communication as an effective too, with focus on First Bank of Nigeria (FBN) PLC. The choice of the case study was informed by its size, being the country’s largest bank and financial establishment in terms of capitalization. Given the degree of bounded communica...

The study sought to investigate the effect of behavioral factors, including prospects on investment performance in Nigerian capital market using a cross sectional survey design was employed. A sample size of 160 staff was drawn from a population of 225 staff of active stock brokerage firms in Abuja. Data were collected by way of administered questi...

The post-economic reform programme in the 1990s ushered in a new business environment as well as challenges associated with effective corporate governance, especially for financial institutions such as banks. Analysis of governance occurrences based on several reports indicated that existing codes and government regulations failed to resolve signif...