Background Community pharmacy has been a lucrative area of practice for pharmacists in Jos, Nigeria, until about the turn of the millennium where a decline in viability of the business has been observed. Objective This study assessed the entrepreneurial skills of community pharmacists, the business performance of community pharmacies and the impact of their entrepreneurial skills on business ...

Marketers have been rushing to increase their social media marketing expenditures. However, the state of empirical research, business intelligence and analytics into the business value of social media marketing engagements have still lagged behind. Prior research about the impact of social media user-generated content on aggregate sales has overlooked the qualitative aspects. Moreover, due to t...

This paper examines how 12 “major depreciations” between 1997 and 2000 affected different measures of firm performance in a sample of over 13,500 companies from around the world. Results suggest that in the year after depreciations, firms have significantly higher growth in market capitalization, but significantly lower growth in net income (when measured in local currency). Firms with greater ...

This paper examines how 12 “major depreciations” between 1997 and 2000 affected different measures of firm performance in a sample of over 13,500 companies from around the world. Results suggest that in the year after depreciations, firms have significantly higher growth in market capitalization, but significantly lower growth in net income (when measured in local currency). Firms with a higher...

Pull factors provide a measure of retail trade capture. Pull factors for total and twelve subcategories of retail sales for all West Virginia Counties are analyzed based on 1997 Census of Retail Trade data. A method for estimating missing data points and the use of Rand-McNally trade regions both facilitate estimation of the pull factors. Results indicate that hypothesizes concerning pull facto...

Recent federal legislation, H.R. 25 and S. 25, calls for a national retail sales tax. This tax is intended to replace the existing federal individual and corporate income taxes, the payroll tax which is used to fund the Social Security trust fund, and the estate and gift tax. One of the goals of the national sales tax is to reduce the compliance burden associated with the existing federal incom...

Recent federal legislation, H.R. 25 and S. 25, calls for a national retail sales tax. This tax is intended to replace the existing federal individual and corporate income taxes, the payroll tax which is used to fund the Social Security trust fund, and the estate and gift tax. One of the goals of the national sales tax is to reduce the compliance burden associated with the existing federal incom...

This paper investigates the use of data warehouse and business intelligence capabilities to integrate with customers in the supply chain and improve insights into customer sales. By making that same data warehouse sales information available to customers, this paper explores how the data warehouse can provide additional value to those customers, eliminating asymmetries of information in the sup...