1st Edition
Business, Industry, and Trade in the Tropics
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List of Contributors
Chapter 1: Business-financing options’ effects on micro-enterprise performance in the tropics: The case of Kisumu County, Kenya
Rael A. Onyango, Emiel L. Eijdenberg, Enno Masurel and Nelson Obange
Chapter 2: Profiling the Tropical Entrepreneur
Emiel L. Eijdenberg and Taha Chaiechi
Chapter 3: Does institutional quality matter for the nexus between environmental quality and economic growth? A tropics perspective
Huiping Zhang, Pengji Wang, and Jacob Wood
Chapter 4: A bottom of pyramid perspective on quality education in the tropics
Yenee Kim, Malobi Mukherjee, and Reetika Gupta
Chapter 5: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): A tropical region perspective
Pengji Wang, Huiping Zhang, and Jacob Wood
Chapter 6: An assessment of trade facilitation impacts on China’s outward foreign direct investment to ASEAN countries
Jie Wu, Jacob Wood, and Haejin Jang
Chapter 7: The linkage between international financial integration and income inequality: New evidence on threshold effects
Sook-Rei Tan and Wai-Mun Chia
Chapter 8: COVID-19: Its impact on trade and development in the ASEAN region
Jacob Wood, Haejin Jang, and Benedict Atkinson
Chapter 9: Trade network and global value chains
Akhmad Bayhaqi
Chapter 10: Big data applications in accounting: implications for the tropics
Vahid Biglari and Zahra Pourabedin
Chapter 11: Financial literacy among Ethiopian high school teenagers
Yohannes Workeaferahu Elifneh
Chapter 12: Exploring the literature for understanding of multisensory experiences in heritage boutique hotels
Zahra Pourabedin and Josephine Pryce
Chapter 13: The influence of technology acceptance model aspects on adoption of database marketing technology by tour operators in Tanzania
Omary Swallehe
Chapter 14: Analysis of challenges in developing and implementing forest policies in Tanzania
Omary Swallehe
Chapter 15: Tourism in the tropics: emerging themes and keyword analysis
K Thirumaran, Gohar Feroz Khan, and Jacob Wood
Index
Biography
Jacob Wood is an Associate Professor of Business at James Cook University (JCU), Singapore.
Taha Chaiechi is an Associate Professor of Economics in the College of Business, Law, and Governance at James Cook University (JCU), Cairns, Australia.
K Thirumaran is the Academic Head for JCUS Business School, James Cook University (JCU), Singapore.
