September 2011
Audit expectation gap: Concept, nature and trace
Audit expectation gap is not a new phenomenon in auditing literature. It somewhat gives bad reputation to external auditors. This paper addresses the nature and different dimensions of audit expectation gap around the world. The author comes to the conclusion that this kind of gap should be reduced by the auditor himself, by improving audit responsibilities, educating various users, and mandating new...
September 2011
The effects of psychological contract breach on various employee level outcomes: The moderating role of Islamic work ethic and adversity quotient
This study seeks to explore the moderating role of Islamic work ethic and adversity quotient over the relationship between psychological contract breach and various employees’ level outcomes (job satisfaction, employees’ commitment and intention to quit). After the extensive overview of scholarly research, we have come up with a conceptual model that perception of psychological contract breach has negative...
September 2011
Managing the state-civil society relations in public policy: Deliberative democracy vis-a-vis civil society movements in Malaysia
This paper is trying to examine the state-civil society relation and also argue from the theory of deliberative democracy in explaining the roles of civil society in Malaysia. Carolyn Hendriks sees deliberative, from two fundamental approaches; there are micro deliberative which concentrates on defining the procedural conditions of a structured deliberative forum and macro deliberative which are more concerned with the...
September 2011
Consumers attribute analysis of economic hotels: An exploratory study
Service sector represents nearly 50% of Brazilian GNP in a sector which hotel industry has had a lot of changes as the entrance of international competitors. The objective of this article is to identify which attributes of low price hotel segment was more valuated causing more consumer´s satisfaction. For this reason an exploratory research using a structured questionnaire with pre selected attributes was...
September 2011
Causal analysis of customer needs in the banking system by applying fuzzy group decision making
Effective customer satisfaction investigation is a very important precondition in the banking system. It is needed to get the knowledge of how to use advanced methods to identify customer preferences, classification and prioritization of banks and how to use the evaluation result to improve their quality services. Iranian Bank also plays a leading role in providing financial facilities in which satisfaction of...
September 2011
The pricing and timing of the option to invest for cash flows with partial information
This paper extends real options theory to consider the situation where the mean appreciation rate of cash flows generated by an irreversible investment project is not observable and governed by an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. The main purpose of this study is to analyze the impact of the uncertainnty of the mean appreciation rate on the pricing and investment timing of the option to invest under incomplete markets with...
September 2011
The impact of advertising appeals and advertising spokespersons on advertising attitudes and purchase intentions
The first purpose of this research was to investigate the impact of advertising appeals and advertising spokespersons on advertising attitudes and purchase intentions. The second purpose was to compare the effectiveness of the influences of different types of advertising appeals and different types of spokespersons on purchase intentions. A 2*2 factorial experiment design method was adopted. The cell phone industry was...
September 2011
Building international entrepreneurship through entrepreneurship capital perspective
Is entrepreneurship capital theory useful for international entrepreneurship research and practice? In this paper, we describe how international entrepreneurship research can benefit from including the concept of entrepreneurship capital at the individual level of analysis. We define entrepreneurship capital as a composite measure of entrepreneurial proclivity, human capital, and social capital of the entrepreneur. We...
September 2011
Using greedy clustering method to solve capacitated location-routing problem
This paper introduces a new heuristic method to solve the location-routing problem (LRP). Facility location problem (FLP) and vehicle routing problem (VRP) are considered simultaneously in the LRP. The problem selects the location of depot(s) to be established among a set of potential sites. On the other hand, the allocation of customers to depot(s), and the distribution routes between the customers and depot(s) are...
September 2011
The influence of the emotional intelligence on self monitoring
Self monitoring is an ability to consciously observe and regulate one’s own behaviour.Incorporating self monitoring in today’s research and practice is beginning to yield a better understanding of how organizational processes are substantially affected by individual issues of how they are seen by others. Especially in service industries, the effect of outcome of interactions of the employees with the clients...
September 2011
Is moral intensity applicable to natural environment issues?
Previous research about moral intensity has mostly centered on ethical issues related to people, with relatively less exploration of ethical decisions related to the natural environment. Therefore, this study investigated perceptions toward three aspects of business environmental ethics, including natural ecology definition, business ecological role and business environmental protection; as well as the relationship...
September 2011
The impact of human resource (HR) performance management on project outcome
To ensure successful accomplishment of projects, quality performance of the project team is required to be maintained. The existing literature declares scope, time, cost and quality as quadruple constraints for project’s success while management of human resource (HR) communication, procurement and risk are declared support functions. Literature further acknowledges that HR management functions are dealt with low...
September 2011
Organizational culture and performance: The mediating roles of innovation capacity
This study highlights the service-dominant logic perspective of a firm’s complex capability. The links between the functions of marketing strategies and distinctive capabilities indicate the importance of service management innovation, and emphasize the conceptualization of a service economy to verify the model. The model proposed in this study examines the relationships among market orientation, interaction...
September 2011
Cross-level effects of ethical climate on the relationship between psychological contract breach and ethical decision-making intention
This study explored the relationship between psychological contract breach and ethical decision-making intention. Previous studies analyzed the relation mainly from the Western cultural perspective, thus leaving the Eastern context. In this regard, the present study examined the cross-level moderating effect of ethical climate on variables at the individual level. Forty state-owned and private companies...
September 2011
Capturing Arab gulf market: An analysis of Malaysian exports competitiveness in the market
In recent years, the Arab Gulf Countries in particular Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has been an attractive market destination for the Asian businesses. China, India, Japan and other Asian countries have huge interest in developing close relationships with the six nations. As an emerging economy in the West EasternAsia, the GCC offer huge interest in doing businesses and become a gate for the Middle Eastern markets....
September 2011
Open business models: A case study of System-on-a-Chip (SoC) design foundry in the integrated circuit (IC) industry
In the global IC industry, business models have evolved into design foundry models and manufacturing foundry service models over the past twenty years. The concept of system-on-a-chip (SoC) refers to integrating all components of a computer or other electronic system in a single integrated circuit (IC). Due to the increasing complexities of SoC devices, it is impossible for one IC design house to have the...
September 2011
Port performance: The importance of land transport in a developing economy
This study set out to establish that land transport system in the country of destination, determines the turn-around time, capacity utilisation of port infrastructure, facilities and cargo-handling equipment and general port performance. Of particular interest, is the contribution of road transport infrastructures and system to the magnitude of turn-around time, port performance and general economic growth and...
September 2011
A linear price model for insect-damaged industrial roundwood: A case study in Northeastern Turkey
Wood production has been among the most important objectives in forest resource management for a long time. Therefore, quality and quantity losses, especially caused by bark beetles in growing stock and wood based products, have been a prominent problem. In recent years, Artvin State Forest Enterprise in Northeastern Turkey has been affected by bark beetles, which caused serious destruction in forests. This study aims...
September 2011
Influence of transformational leadership on employees outcomes: Mediating role of empowerment
The purpose of the study is to find the relationship of transformational leadership with organizational commitment and innovativeness, and to know if empowerment mediates the relationship between the transformational leadership, the organizational commitment, and the innovativeness. It was hypothesized that transformational leadership is positively related with organizational commitment, innovativeness, and empowerment....
September 2011
Analyzing the technical efficiency on the effects of foreign portfolio investment in the financing of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Turkey
This paper investigates the contribution of foreign portfolio investment (FPI) to firms’ technical efficiency and total factor productivity by applying two empirical methodologies over a sample of firms. In the study, panel data is from 45 small businesses (small and medium-sized enterprises, SMEs) in Turkey were observed between 2006 and 2010 years. We will analyze the effects of foreign portfolio...
September 2011
Development of personnel internal benchmarking by 360° feedback approach with a case study in AT Pipe Company
The main purpose of this study is to enhance internal benchmarking by the use of 360° feedback approach. Therefore, internal benchmarking has been developed for personnel's performance evaluation. The study has been conducted in AT Pipe Company. Statistical population includes personnel of the sales department and customers and data has been gathered by questionnaire. Descriptive and inferential statistics and...
September 2011
An analysis of training needs of evaluation professionals of agricultural and extension programs in Iran
This study aimed to understand the competences needed by agricultural and extension evaluation experts in Iran. Using a descriptive and correlational research design, a valid and reliable self-completion questionnaire was utilized for data collection from a sample of 132 out of 170 managers and professional staff involved in agricultural and extension evaluation programs. The professionals mostly preferred to...
September 2011
Designing a model for explanation of internet banking acceptance rate
The present article tries to utilize structural equations model to explain internet banking acceptance rate. So accordingly, three factors including innovation characteristics of electronic banking system, individual characteristics of bank customers and market facilitating conditions have been used based on different theories proposed. Measurement of the variables by the use of questionnaires based on the comments of...
September 2011
Job motivation and organizational commitment among the health professionals: A questionnaire survey
The objective of this study is to investigate the level of organizational commitment and motivation as well as the relationship between health staff’s organizational commitment and motivation within state hospitals. Using the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), the relationships between the organizational commitment and motivation were examined. Data for this study were obtained through...
September 2011
Different ways of synergistic effects of human resource management (HRM) practices on organizational performance: A method of 2+2 =5
Synergy is a main characteristic of human resource management (HRM) system. It highlights the hidden characteristics of HRM system. This research paper has empirically tested that internally consistent and complementary HR practices/components in the HR system are more able to predict and enhance the organizational performance than the sum of individual practice. The data was collected from the sample of 109 firm...
September 2011
Structural equation modeling analysis of effects of leadership styles and organizational culture on effectiveness in sport organizations
This study examines the effects of leadership styles and organizational culture on organizational effectiveness in Iranian sport organizations. 341 sport experts in the Physical Education Organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran and various sport Federations voluntarily filled out the Denison organizational culture survey (DOCS), multifactor leadership and organizational effectiveness questionnaires. Results of...
September 2011
A study of supply chain replenishment system of theory of constraints for thin film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) plants
The thin film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) including three fundamental process stages: array process, cell process and module process is generally called liquid crystal panel by consumers. Each process stage existing the variable manufacturing flow-process and characteristic of capacity results in acquiring individual objective in each plant,...
September 2011
The retrenchment effect on job performance with mediating effect of work life balance
The purpose of this research is to find out the surviving employees during a period of economic recession in 2009/2010 and jobs cut down in Pakistan. Present research paper finds out the relationship between employees who survived retrenchment/lay off during economic recession and job performance with mediating role of work load, work to family conflict and stress (work life balance). The main focus in this paper is...
September 2011
Effects of utilitarian and hedonic atmospheric dimensions on consumer responses in an online shopping environment
As in physical environments, one of the most important research topics is related to the effects of the characteristics of these new interactive virtual environments on different dimensions of human behaviour. This is particularly relevant in the case of consumer shopping behaviour on the internet. In this line, research on webmosphere, and specifically, the impact of utilitarian and hedonic atmospheric dimensions...
September 2011
The analysis of the basic dynamics of entrepreneurship in creating competitive advantages: The case of organized industrial zone in Turkey
In this study, the effect of entrepreneurship on firm performance, firm performance and growth regardless of sectoral differences from a macro perspective were analyzed in the light of the data gathered from 3034 firms operating in organized industry zones in Turkey. According to the results of the correlation analysis, positively significant relationships between firm performance and dimensions of entrepreneurship,...
September 2011
Cost-benefit analysis in selected air trips using a non parametric method
The Brazilian airlines industry went through great changes since its deregulation at the beginning of this century. The appearance of Gol Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes, the first low-cost, low-fare, mass Internet ticket vendor airline in Latin America made passenger competition fiercer. The country’s airline crisis, with its delayed and cancelled flights, the duopoly created by Gol’s purchase of Varig,...
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