Published Papers
A metamorphic perspective for growth of landlocked developing countries
A landlocked country is generally disadvantaged in its goal of development. Higher costs of transportation for international movements are fairly higher both for imports and exports, putting international trade if tangible goods on the back foot. The article delves into these factors, analyzing the determinants of Porters home diamond model and its variants. Finally the author depart from the concepts of the home diamond model and propose an important role of the Government policies in enhancing competitive advantage of the landlocked nation from a perspective of a multiple diamond model to address the question “ If there are inorganic ways to achieve higher prosperity rates for Landlocked developing countries?” The author believes that Governments of such Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDC) miss out on an opportunity to transform to create an intellectual landscape and this perspective can be used to mitigate the selective factor disadvantage of ‘landlockedness’ in such nations. To make a comparative study, the author takes into consideration the determinants of Porter's Home's diamond model, the double diamond model of Rugman, and the multiple diamond model of Cartwright, Role of Multinational Enterprises by Dunning, and others and proposes a new paradigm understanding by synthesizing the multiple diamond model into what is a metamorphic perspective a nation can adopt. The author hopes this perspective shall give a platform for future research to add value.
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Perception of impact of internship programs amongst University students in Zambia
The pace of change of technology in replacing human intervention to execute mechanical actions and actions, has in recent years been augmented to manage and manipulate even decision making and humanly difficult large data analytics through artificial intelligence and machine learning abilities. The need for human interventions for mundane activities seems to be reducing as ever. This has resulted in a gap in terms of employability at the lower hierarchies of industry and institutions. Added to these woes, there appears to be a gap in alignment between various actors including Universities, industry and government that primarily affect youth development of a developing nation. This has in turn influenced a negative influence for university graduates to seamlessly enter into jobs. To skill such youth who are in their tertiary studies, an internship program seems to be one of viable options. While an internship program is mandatory in most university curriculum for students to graduate, the purposefulness with which such programs are executed needs to be studied. The major beneficiary being the student, it is therefore critical to understand the perception of the university students who have done an internship program in an Industry or Institution. This article probes into understanding the perceptions of University students on an internship program.
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https://pmworldjournal.com/article/perception-of-impact-of-internship-programs
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