March 2013
Why should governments of developing countries invest in R&D and innovation?
The rationales for public investment in R&D and innovation have evolved over time from an initial emphasis on market failures amongst neoclassical economists towards a broader view based on a systemic characterization of innovation amongst evolutionary economists. More recently, a renewed emphasis has been placed on the critical role of innovation to address social challenges and overcome development...
March 2013
Addressing health related challenges faced by the business process outsourcing (BPO) employees by stress
Business process outsourcing (BPO) is one of the fastest growing segments of the Information Technology Enabled Services (ITES) industry. BPO is a strategy which promotes in a unique way either by putting-in new technology or applying existing technology to improve a process. India in the recent years has shown huge developments in the areas of communication, power and software developments.Despite this, the...
March 2013
The influence of public facilities and environmental quality on residential satisfaction in Taiwan: Differences in neighborhood environment
With reference to the residential survey data provided by the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting, and Statistics of the Executive Yuan, this study investigates the influence of public facilities and environmental quality on residential satisfaction in the Greater Taipei area. First, in-house environment, convenience, sports and leisure, security, environmental quality and house defects...
March 2013
Technological innovation implementation: A proposed model on organizational learning capability with moderating effect of knowledge complexity
The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between organizational learning capability, knowledge complexity and their impact on technological innovation implementation success. The rapidly rising rate of technological change in manufacturing process presents a lot of challenges and opportunities for organizations. Research has fairly established that technological innovation implementation is...
March 2013
Management of occupational safety by motivating employees to work safely
Occupational safety is one of the central and most important factors of work behavior, and it is not only important for efficiency, workers’ productivity and their behavior in general, but also for workers’ safety. As recent studies have shown, occupational safety motivation more or less indirectly affects and contributes to overall satisfaction and psycho-physical health of workers. The topic of...
March 2013
Re-branding of Zimbabwe to enhance sustainable tourism development: Panacea or Villain
The main purpose of this study was to explore the concept of “re-branding a destination” as a key element to enhance sustainable tourism development. The study sought to measure the destination’s attributes that determine sustainable tourism development vis-a-vis the perceived tourists’ image. The study concludes that the concept of re-branding a destination is vital in destination...
March 2013
Authentic service-based leadership explored for the agile service economy
Effective leaders are good servants and the context of this study is service-leadership, in-the-field leadership, servant-stewardship, service quality and service-based leadership frameworks. This paper reports a qualitative (mixed method) exploratory study of service-leadership for the high demands of agile service delivery in the modern service industry-based economy. The study is a pre-study for further...
March 2013
The challenges of innovations in Brazilian accounting: A study applied to the public sector
This study presented the challenges of the new approach, registration design and measurement and accounting control of the property of the public sector using the Brazilian Accounting Standards. These were applied to the public sector (NBCASP) 16.9 (2008), arising from the innovations of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). The sample consisted of two institutions of public administration, one...
March 2013
Gender differences in buyer-seller negotiations: Misrepresentation of information
We investigated the relationship between misrepresentation of information and gender in buyer-seller face-to-face negotiations. 170 middle and lower level managers participated in the research. There are two studies in this research: Study 1: female vs. male at the bargaining table; Study 2: male versus male and male versus female negotiators at the bargaining table. The negotiation simulation,...
March 2013
Recurrent atmospheric discharges from port operations: A problem of environmental management in the port of Santos, Brazil
The objective of this research is to investigate the dimension of the problem of recurrent atmospheric emissions from the naval activity in the port of Santos, considering the future movements of ships and trucks and the consequences of the probable expansion of the port. In combination with an emission factor that states the mass of an emitted pollutant related to either the work produced by ships’...
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