https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/197 2026-04-23T18:19:07Z https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/6659 Title: Determinants of Doctors’ Prescribing Behaviour for Pharmaceutical Drugs: Empirical Evidence from the Medical Sector in Zimbabwe Authors: Maibvisira Gabriel; Tavia Matikiti; Tendai Chikweche; Emmanuel Mutambara Abstract: The purpose of our study is to interrogate the determinants of doctors’ prescribing behaviour in developing countries using Zimbabwean medical sector as the testing ground. Posivitism research paradigm and a cross section research design were adopted. The sampling frame was 656 medical practitioners out of which a sample size of 100 was used. Structured questionnaires were used as data collection tools. Ddescriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze data. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was conducted and specifically Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) was used to test the hypotheses. The study’s key findings indicated a significant positive relationship between doctors’ prescribing behaviour and medical representatives’ information and marketing activities. The results also showed a positive influence of the doctor’s specialisation on his/her prescribing behaviour. 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z Maibvisira Gabriel Tavia Matikiti Tendai Chikweche Emmanuel Mutambara https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/6575 Title: Decent work and innovative work behaviour: the mediating roles of organisational learning and work engagement Authors: Sanhokwe Hamfrey Abstract: The idea that innovations enable organisations to enjoy adaptive, competitive, and generative advantages has seen many low and middle-income countries (LMICs) add innovation policy to their national frameworks. However, most LMICs continue to experience economic stagnation and low productivity growth despite promulgating pro-innovation policies. Management and scholarly research on innovation remains marginal and highly fragmented in LMICs, amid calls for further theoretical and practical examinations of what could foster and sustain innovative work behaviour in such settings. Without adequately understanding innovative work behaviour, including the mechanisms and pathways to influence it, efforts to sustainably generate new sources of value remain constrained. Effectively unpacking what influences and sustains this complex behaviour demands an interrogation of the theories and paradigms that link individuals, organisational contexts, and processes. Hinged primarily on the social exchange theory and the resource-based view, the study developed and tested a conditional mediation model explaining the activation of innovative work behaviour with a focus on the central role of decent work. The study simultaneously examined multiple mediators to tease apart the relative effects of competing theoretical explanations on innovative work behaviour to inform theory and practice. A time lagged study design informed data collection from two probability samples (n1 = 151 and n2 = 102) situated in a multinational manufacturing firm. Employees self-reported using previously validated measures of decent work, work engagement, organisational learning, and innovative behaviour. The study used bifactor and multi-group confirmatory factor analyses to assess the quality of the four measurement models. Covariance-based structural equation modelling was used to test the mediation model. The study modelled the general factors for the decent work scale, Utrecht work engagement scale, and the innovative behaviour inventory; however, the organisational learning capability exhibited multidimensionality. All the four measures were invariant. Decent work had significant, positive relationships with organisational learning and work engagement. Organisational learning and work engagement were positively and significantly associated with innovative work behaviour. Work engagement and organisational learning mediated the effect of decent work on innovative work behaviour. The findings show that decent work facilitates organisational learning and fosters work engagement. Organisational learning and work engagement bolster innovative work behaviour. Furthermore, decent work promotes innovative work behaviour through enhancing organisational learning and work engagement. The results provide complementary insights into how decent work may transform into innovative work behavior. Leadership teams seeking to effectively harness the innovative capabilities resident in their organisations should develop and nurture enterprise-wide, healthy workplaces anchored on the tenets of decent work. The modelled capabilities are learnable, and hence developable. Theoretical and managerial implications and study limitations are discussed. 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z Sanhokwe Hamfrey https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/6550 Title: The determinants of capital structure in Zimbabwe during the multicurrency regime Authors: Mutenheri Enard; Mnangagwa Chipo Abstract: Recent research has focused on the influence of institutional environment on capital structure decisions of firms, therefore this study examined capital structure choices of Zimbabwean listed firms during the multicurrency regime. Using a balanced panel of 43 companies listed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange, this study first examined whether the debt ratios of these firms significantly changed over the period 2010-2013. The results from the one-way repeated measures ANOVA show that the mean debt ratio did not significantly change over the four years. The second objective was to determine factors influencing capital structure choices of these firms under a multicurrency regime and the results show that profitability, tangibility and firm size were significant factors but had different signs from those previously reported under different regimes. Therefore, the current study provides evidence to suggest that the determinants of capital structure may change in response to the institutional environment. 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Mutenheri Enard Mnangagwa Chipo https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/5477 Title: Inside Zimbabwe's Roadside Currency Trade: The ‘World Bank’ of Bulawayo Authors: Showers Mawowa; Alois Matongo Abstract: The 2000s represent a period of unprecedented political and economic turmoil in Zimbabwe's history. This article constitutes an attempt to unpack one aspect of this crisis period: roadside currency trade. Beyond its political dimensions, the Zimbabwe crisis has been accompanied by a highly informal regime of accumulation. While there is a way in which this informality conflates with contemporary analyses of informality, the highly politicised and securitised nature of Zimbabwe's informality exhibits a state–power–accumulation–society complex that poses analytical challenges for more common conceptions of informality. It is argued here that roadside currency trade not only provided a survival enclave for Zimbabwe's urban poor but contributed to the sustenance and reproduction of a schizophrenic, militarised, dictatorial state in the midst of a historically unprecedented crisis. A network of roadside currency trade in the Central Business District (CBD) of Zimbabwe's second-biggest city of Bulawayo, cynically referred to by locals as the ‘World Bank’, is used to provide a glimpse into Zimbabwe's political economy of crisis. An investigation into the ‘World Bank’ shows that, although often ostracised by policy makers, roadside currency trade drew in its wake participants from a wider spectrum of Zimbabwe's society than one would contemplate at face value. At the same time, the study also reveals that cross-border trade was the single most important factor in buttressing this trade, at least in this studied part of the country, and not foreign currency remittances from the diaspora as is commonly assumed. Description: Abstract 2010-06-23T00:00:00Z Showers Mawowa Alois Matongo