Arthur Mapanga
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Factors impeding the use of banking services in rural Southern African states
Banks and Bank Systems Volume 12, 2017 Issue #3 pp. 228-236
Views: 1204 Downloads: 395 TO CITE АНОТАЦІЯThe paper presents factors why people are reluctant to bank money in rural Southern African countries. Six countries namely Botswana, Namibia, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe were used in the study. A focus group of 10 people from each of the stated Southern African countries was composed and used to obtain perceptions, views, reactions, attitudes, experiences among others on why people are reluctant to bank their money. People are unwilling to bank their money in rural Southern Africa and the reasons behind this seem to be many. If no correctional measures are put in place, rural Southern Africa will continue to be unbanked for the next five decades.
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Barriers to effective value chain management in developing countries: new insights from the cotton industrial value chain
Arthur Mapanga , Collins Ogutu Miruka , Nehemiah Mavetera doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/ppm.16(1).2018.03Problems and Perspectives in Management Volume 16, 2018 Issue #1 pp. 22-35
Views: 2532 Downloads: 849 TO CITE АНОТАЦІЯA rigorous and extensive application of the value chain management (VCM) has become the vogue in modern day business practices and processes. However, due to the complex and multidimensional nature of value chains, achieving efficient and effective value chain management in real value chains remains a major conundrum for practitioners. Many unknown barriers continue to impede effective and efficient value chain management in developing countries’ industrial value chains. The purpose of this study was to find out the common barriers to effective value chain management in a developing country’s industrial value chains using evidence from the cotton industry in Zimbabwe. The analysis was based on survey data sets obtained from 157 purposively sampled experts from the cotton industry value chain in Zimbabwe. Exploratory factor analysis was used to find the barriers to effective value chain management. The results revealed both architectural and governance barriers to effective value chain management. The findings also presented major policy implications for industrial value chains in the developing countries and also indicated areas for further robust research founded on a broader data set from other developing countries’ industrial chains as a way of validating the findings of this study.
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