Journal of Business and Administrative Studies

Organizational risk management practices in time of crisis: an exploratory case study of Ethiopian Airlines in the corona virus pandemic

2024-04-24T09:50:45+00:00

The purpose of this investigative case study research was to scrutinize the approaches of organizational risk management strategies applied by the Ethiopian Airlines throughout the global COVID-19 pandemic. It aimed at assessing and documenting risk management methodologies, best practices and lessons learned by the Airlines to survive the damaging impact the health crisis. The researcher limited the participants to six senior and middle level staff who are responsible to handle the Airlines risk management operations and the project management departments. The Situational Crisis Communication Theory (SCCT) and the Team Leadership Model (TLM) were the conceptual frameworks used as the basis for this study. Data triangulation was used to support the review and analysis of data gathered from various sources. Data analysis methods in conjunction with the NVivo software were used to support the identification of core themes. Situation Awareness and Decision Making, Leadership Presence Strategy, Strategic Internal Communication and Transparent Public Communication were the themes identified. A fundamental finding from the study revealed that Ethiopian Airlines’ Strategic Business Plan calls for the establishment of “multi-business units” as a key principle. This is seen in how the company has diversified its operations into tourism, hospitality and Aviation trainings in addition to the original passenger and cargo services it offers as an airline.

Economic benefits of African free trade areas: Empirical evidence from live animal and products trade in the COMESA region

2024-04-24T10:38:29+00:00

This study was conducted to assess the impact of live animal and animal products international trade on economic growth and to describe the association between membership to Free Trade Area of COMESA and live animal and products trade in member nations. A secondary panel data from 11 COMESA member states of which two are non-FTA members was used to model the economic growth impact of livestock production, live animal export and animal products import and export, data ranging between 1991 and 2018. FGLS was deployed to correct data problems and model the impact of independent variables on GDP, with overall R2=0.8389. Among the explanatory variables livestock production, live animal import, animal product import and export were significant at 99% confidence interval. Correlation results showed that there is positive correlation between FTA membership and economic growth as well as live animal and products trade. It was concluded that livestock commodities trade has positive impact on economic growth and the FTA membership improves trade in livestock commodities in COMESA region. Further research is recommended on the export destinations and commodities to fill the knowledge gap in livestock intra-regional and non PTA trade.

Application of forensic accounting and auditing techniques for fraud detection and prevention: The case of the Ethiopian public sector audit

2024-04-24T10:52:23+00:00

The purpose of this paper was to empirically analyze the application and effect of forensic accounting and auditing techniques on fraud detection and prevention in the Ethiopian public sector audit. This study was based on non-experimental descriptive/survey design of collecting and analyzing data which were then analyzed through SPSS version 24. The study revealed that forensic accounting and auditing techniques are less commonly used in the Ethiopian public sector audit. This is specifically as a result of the huge knowledge gap that exists among the public sector auditors. On the basis of the empirical result, the paper concluded that the adoption of forensic accounting and auditing techniques would help detect, investigate and prevent public sector fraud in Ethiopia.

Employee’s dynamic capabilities and organizational performance: A review on the mediating role of innovation and entrepreneurial Orientation

2024-04-24T11:05:42+00:00

The purpose of this systematical literature review is to address the linkage between dynamic capability and organizational performance through the mediating effect of innovation and entrepreneurial orientations. With this regards, the systematic review has tried to address the relationship that exist between and among different variables like dynamic capability (independent Variable) and organizational performance (dependent Variable), dynamic capability and organizational performance through innovation (mediator variable 1) and through entrepreneurial orientation (mediator variable 2). To address the stated objectives and to test the stated hypothesis, the researcher has tried to screen 1000 well known articles and identified 200 which have direct relationship with the concept. However, due to their limitations related to addressing the dependent and independent variables with the mediators, the study has focused only on 50 selected articles. The reviewed articles doesn’t indicate that both innovation and entrepreneurial orientation can serve as a mediator between the two dependent and independent variables. The findings of the selected articles has indicated that there is a positive relationship between employee’s dynamic capability and organizational performance. In addition, the result has indicated that innovation and entrepreneurial orientation alone can mediate the relationship between the two variables (employee’s dynamic capability and organizational performance). By considering the existing results, this systematic literature review has developed a model by indicating the mediating effect of innovation and entrepreneurial orientations. Therefore, future researchers can conduct a study to measure the mediating effect of innovation and entrepreneurial orientation together in the relationship between employee’s dynamic capability and organizational performance.