April 2017

Need for development and validation of a new product development (NPD) assessment and improvement tool: A review of literature

Maintaining the good quality of current products or services cannot anymore guarantee companies’ survival in today’s super competitive global market in which the competition gets only tougher and more challenging day in, day out. In fact, firms’ prosperity is highly dependent on the successful and timely introduction of new products and services that go beyond customers’ expectations in many...

Author(s): Morteza Foroutan and Kari Baski-Reeves

April 2017

Towards the growth of domestic credit in Tanzania: Does foreign capital flow really matter?

This study aims to examine the relationship between international capital flows, and domestic credit expansion in Tanzania during the period between 2004 and 2012. The data used in this study is extracted from World Bank database except credit regulation quality index (CRINDEX), which is taken from the Fraser Institute Index of Economic Freedom. The study disintegrated the variable capital flow into debt and equity...

Author(s): Josephat Lotto