Adeyemi A. Adekoya

Globalisation and the Nigerian banking industry: efficiency and legitimacy considerations in the adoption of electronic banking (e-banking) services

This paper contributes to the ongoing debate about how local events interact with global pressures in contemporary times. The paper adopts an interpretive approach to study e-banking services in Nigerian banks. We integrate ideas and concepts from both institutional theory and strategic management to study the reformation of the Nigerian banking system. Strategic management suggests that organisational actions are largely influenced by economic and efficiency reasons while institutional theory argues that organisational actions are motivated by legitimacy considerations where organisations compulsively conform to some widely-held beliefs and expectations of the appropriate ways of doing things within the organisation and its environment.

Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) as Agents of Change for the Development of Minority Businesses.

This article attempts to make a wake-up call to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to respond to the plight of minority business owners while also fulfilling their role of educating students. Although the state of minority businesses was much better than what the public is made to believe, however, these businesses continue to face challenges. Aside from the traditional problem of limited capital resources many challenges have ensued from the economic, social, and political changes in our society today. As long as the current political and economic climates persist, leading to a negative impact on the economies of minority population, institutions of higher learning, particularly HBCUs, have a unique opportunity to be the catalyst of change in the development and promotion of minority businesses.

Exploring a Distance Education Partnership Between Historically Black Colleges and Universitiesand African Universities

This article proposes the formation of time-honored cooperative and educational partnerships between historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the United States and universities in Africa using state-of-the art technology. Emerging electronic communication implements and the availability of information driven by the various campus networks should be key resources to support these collaborative efforts. The potential benefits of the information superhighway for the African continent and participating HBCUs can be immense. An advanced information infrastructure will enable the future African labor force to compete and win in the global economy, generating competitive and gainful employment opportunities for the African people as well as economic development and growth for the continent. Moreover, such a joint venture will, in many ways, provide African Americans with additional opportunities to connect to their roots.

Quality service: estimating software reliability for global system for mobile communications (GSM) Funtone

In this paper, we examined the reliability of Funtone software and its impact on quality service to the user. As Global System for Mobile (GSM) software is relatively new in the market and the level of awareness of its quality service is low; the need for quality assessment of these services cannot be overemphasised. We have estimated the distribution of time interval between failures variable to follow a Poisson process with the parameter, λ. The intervals between failures follow an exponential distribution and from this, we estimated the reliability of the software indirectly the quality service of Funtone. Furthermore, we carried out a Monte Carlo simulation; the result is in total agreement with what has been predicted by Poisson and exponential distributions.