April 2011
Business Model Generation: A handbook for visionaries, game changers and challengers
April 2011
An overview of HR-line relationship and its future directions
This paper reviews strategic HRM literature that directly or indirectly discusses HR-line relationship. It documents what have so for been done to understand and manage this relationship. Literature has been identified through the relevant keyword search and secondly from going through citations of the most relevant academic papers. HR-line relationship is likely to maintain its importance in future. Various...
April 2011
A readiness model for IT investment in the construction industry
The issues of IT failures have led to wide investigations efforts over the years. Ample evidence discovered that inability to evaluate organisation readiness among the main factor contributes to the failure. Most of the current IT/IS evaluation model focused on the post-implementation which failed to address the readiness of the organisation prior to the implementation. Assessing organisation readiness is...
April 2011
Effect of relationships in supply networks: A long-term analysis in the automotive industry
This work uses cointegration analysis to study the strength of relationships with the partners in supply networks in the Taiwan automotive industry. The purposes of this paper are: (1) to examine how firms form networks and to explore whether firms in supply networks should have long-term relationships; (2) to investigate the strength of relationships with the other partners and illustrate firm behavior in...
April 2011
Development plans and the state of e-tourism: Case study in Novi Sad
The main idea of this paper is the fact that the development of travel and tourism industry is closely connected to the growth and impact of ICT. It is necessary that governments, realizing the economic and social value of tourism, create a necessary infrastructure able to accommodate this development. Authors define the main concepts of e-tourism in the world today, analyzing them in this case study....
April 2011
Understanding the antecedents of affective organizational commitment and turnover intention of academics in Malaysia: The organizational support theory perspectives
This study aims to test the structural model that explains the relationships between career development opportunities, POS, felt obligation, affective organizational commitment and turnover intention of academics working for one of the foreign offshore campuses of Australian universities in Malaysia. This study is driven theoretically by the social exchange theory and the organizational support theory. The...
April 2011
The relationship between job satisfaction of academicians and lifetime satisfaction
In this study, the academic staff’s job satisfaction and life satisfaction levels of differentiation were formed by their own working conditions between the different variables to determine whether or not the academic staff’s working conditions have affected their job satisfaction levels, and in what direction has the effect of life satisfaction been revealed. To measure the relationship between...
April 2011
A cost-effective RFID encoding method for inventory identification
In supply chain management, identifying the contents of an incoming package is a necessary process during inventory control. If each item in the package has its barcode, this job can be done by manually scanning the barcodes of thousands of items in the package. However, it is too impractical for today’s inventory control. The identification should be done automatically and quickly (e.g., within 100...
April 2011
Information technology usage and attitudes towards online resources- Students perspective
Nowadays, the higher education trend is to emerge the traditional and online learning, placing a high concern on the development of Information Technology and deployment of e-learning. The aim of this study was to evaluate the features of information technology usage and to assess the attitudes and preferences towards e-learning courses resources among the students at the public University in Malaysia, which...
April 2011
Instıtutıons and economıc growth: A study in a cross-section of countrıes
The neoclassical prediction, which is that lower income countries tend to grow faster than the high income countries, is often found to be inconsistent with the empirical research results. Researchers argue that neoclassical hypothesis holds merely when countries are similar with respect to structural parameters for preferences, hence institutions, and technology. If this similarity dissolves, no convergence...
April 2011
Postmodernism and consumer culture: Image-production via residential architecture in post-1980s Turkey
Housing production in Turkey is mostly completed by merchant builders, with little or no involvement of architects. Those architects who do function in the housing industry try to satisfy state authorities, private enterprises and the customer, behaving according to these clients’ intentions. This, in turn, succeeds because of the current era of flexible accumulation where a consumer society is ready to...
April 2011
How intellectual capital mediates the relationship between knowledge management processes and organizational performance?
The primary objective of the study is to examine the relationship between knowledge management processes and organizational performance, and to analyze the mediating effects of intellectual capital on the relationship between knowledge management processes and organizational performance. The self-administered questionnaire was distributed to the owner or senior manager of small and medium enterprises...
April 2011
The efficiency of labor input in the tree nut industry: A stochastic frontier production approach study in Butte County, California
The shortage of labor has become an urgent problem for the farming industry for decades. This paper aims to investigate the contribution of labor to agricultural production efficiency in the tree nut industry. A discussion of marginal rate of technical substitution and economies of scale will also be included. The stochastic production frontier model is applied to a survey data collected from tree nut growers...
April 2011
A two-warehouse inventory model under trade credit in the supply chain management
The traditional EOQ (Economic Ordering Quantity) inventory model has three basic assumptions (A), (B) and (C) to be summarized as follows: (A) The retailer must be paid for the items as soon as the items are received; (B) The replenishment rate is infinite; (C) The inventories are stored by a single warehouse with unlimited capacity. Few inventory models with generalizing assumptions (A), (B)...
April 2011
A short range dependence adjusted hurst exponent evaluation for Malaysian and Indonesian financial markets
This study proposed a methodology to measure the Hurst exponent with the adjustment of short-range dependence in the financial markets. The possible short-range dependence is adjusted by heteroscedastic models. Two emerging financial markets have been selected to conduct the adjusted Hurst exponent evaluations for the periods before, during and after the Asian financial crisis. After the...
April 2011
SMEs and entrepreneurs investments' profitability effects within the transition period in the Republic of Serbia
Small and medium business sector is becoming the main focus of economy development strategy in the Republic of Serbia. Since the transition period lasts for almost two decades, it is of high importance for the society to plan deeply investment capacities. While SMEs and entrepreneurship development process is happening, some industry branches become prioritization for the potential investors. The paper...
April 2011
The impact of organizational trust on innovativeness at the Tehran oil refinery company
Innovation and innovativeness have become critical issues in sustaining competitive advantage, especially in large and mature organizations. Firms can not survive without being able continuously to renew and innovate. Despite the lack of researches on the role of trust in organizational innovativeness, many studies support the assumption that high levels of trust have a positive effect on the effectiveness...
April 2011
The impact of school management trainings and principals' attitude on students' learning outcomes
School management trainings play an important role towards school effectiveness. The contemporary education systems place a high value on school management trainings for attaining improved learning outcomes. The purpose of this study is in two folds: firstly, to assess the effects of management trainings on student learning outcomes and secondly, to ascertain the extent to which principals’ attitudes...
April 2011
Employee retention relationship to training and development: A compensation perspective
Employee retention is a critical aspect for every company regarding competitive advantage because human resource is the most critical asset of today’s modern world. Other resources can be arranged effortlessly but to get efficient and retain talented human capital is the most difficult task. Therefore, organizations are now more focused towards employee retention. Organizations use different HR...
April 2011
Study of earnings management and audit quality
This paper applies the pooled cross-sectional distribution approach to testify whether Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) perform earnings management from 1997 to 2003. The study finds that as the SMEs incurred the minor loss, the earnings was manipulated to slight positive earnings for deficit avoidance and failure embarrassment. This leaping zero earnings thresholds of earnings management behavior was not...
April 2011
Effective factors on sustainability of manufacturing processes, overcoming shrinkage in improved processes
Although process owners, theorists and scholars have various viewpoints about effective ways of improvement of processes, they have consensus on two important subjects. First, process improvement activities have an extraordinary effect on increasing efficiency and second, there are barriers against consistency and maintenance of current level of improved processes. In enterprise level, it is easier to talk...
April 2011
Developing a hybrid evaluation process for product acceptability: An empirical study in automobile industry
Product acceptability has become a very important issue as manufacturers have to decide whether product factors influence consumer decision on the purchase. In recent years, the evaluation of product acceptability has been a topic of continuous and extensive research. Unfortunately, manufacturers and designers often misunderstand what consumers really want. Hence, how to evaluate the acceptability of product...
April 2011
The in-depth discussion on the promotional activities of reference price indication after the domino effects of consumers’ perceived value
The correlation of customer satisfaction, purchase intention, purchase decision, and brand establishment are recently in-depth discussed in the most of previous studies and further, few studies specifically emphasize on the research of the effects of individual differences of cognition on reference price. This study takes tolerance of ambiguity as moderator variable aiming to examine the impact of different...
April 2011
Has low-paid advantage of Chinese factory disappeared after the explosion of labor revolution?
This research employs the Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) and the Fuzzy Theory (FT) with the Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methodology to evaluate four hierarchical relations for the purpose of initiating an innovative strategy that addresses the domino effect of the labor revolution currently transpiring in the hypercompetitive Chinese manufacturing industry. First, the most contributed conclusion...
April 2011
Hype matters applicant attraction: Study on type of publicity and recruitment advertising
This research studies the effects of publicity and recruitment advertising on applicant attraction. With manipulating publicity and recruitment advertisements design, participants with between-group designs were randomly assigned to groups. This study used a fictitious company and designed publicity and recruitment advertisements to understand which recruitment advertisement could improve applicants’...
April 2011
Study on risk perceptions of international tourists in India
Anxiety of becoming a criminal victim not only influences the willingness to visit, but also harms the development of local tourism industry. In order to understand the psychological reaction to fears of crime from tourists and discuss the relevant factors, this study examined survey data of 156 international tourists during their visit to India in January 2010. It is discovered that harassment, fraud and larceny...
April 2011
A fuzzy conjoint analysis approach for evaluating credit card services: A case study of Iranian bank
Nowadays, the objective of all organizations is to achieve higher market share by recognizing the customer requirements and try to offer the products or services according to these requirements. Financial and credit institutes like banks try to follow these objectives as well. Conjoint analysis (CA) method is one of the statistical methods which widely used in the marketing problems like prediction of...
April 2011
Do supervisory mechanisms or market discipline relate to bank capital requirements and risk-taking adjustment? International evidence
This study proposed a modified method to investigate whether capital regulations have an effect on bank risk-taking, or whether their effects are channeled through supervisory mechanisms and market discipline. This study used data from 1,702 banks of 42 countries over the period 2000 to 2007 to verify the capital buffer theory (Marcus, 1984; Milne and Whalley, 2001). It was found that the empirical results...
April 2011
The impacts of unexpected changes in exchange rate on firms’ value: Evidence from a small open economy
This study examined the exposure of firms to exchange rate fluctuations by both employing the Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity Model (GARCH) and the Classical Linear Regression Model (CLRM). To uncover the sensitivity of our results in the presence of the financial crisis, the sample period was classified into two sub-periods in which included pre- and post- Asian financial crisis....
April 2011
Corporate sustainability disclosure practices of selected banks: A trend analysis approach
Sustainability is a global concern at the present time. It urges corporate bodies to get involved in sustainability disclosure activities. Many companies in the developed countries disclose social and environmental issues, but developing countries are lagging behind in such disclosure. Recent studies showed that banking companies in Bangladesh disclosed more social and environmental information compared with...
April 2011
Testing the dimensionality of Consumer Ethnocentrism Scale (CETSCALE) among a young Malaysian consumer market segment
The purpose of this paper is to test the dimensionality of the Consumer Ethnocentrism Scale (CETSCALE). This present research assessed a two dimensionality, namely uni-dimensional and two-dimension measure, of CETSCALE in order to determine which one is better in explaining consumers’ perceptions towards domestic brands in the Malaysian context. The findings show support for the 2 component model that was proposed...
April 2011
An evaluation of thermal hotel websites and the use/non-use of the internet as a marketing tool by thermal hotels in Turkey
Although a number of studies regarding internet sites relating to the tourism industry and Turkey’s thermal sources have been conducted worldwide, none have been found that deal specifically with thermal hotels and their usage of Internet as a marketing tool. The purpose of this study was to evaluate thermal hotels websites and determine the use or non use of the Internet as a marketing tool by thermal...
April 2011
Risks of project financing of infrastructure projects in Serbia
In the last fifteen years, governments worldwide adopted project financing as a driving power for conducting and improving infrastructure financing. Project financing is generally used in new, autonomous, complex infrastructure projects accompanied by a huge level of risk and high asymmetry among available information. The primary advantage of the project financing concept lies in the manner in which the...
April 2011
Understanding consumer’s internet purchase intention in Malaysia
This study aims to explore the antecedents relating to the extent of both the attitude and the purchasing intention of online shopping. It examined the factors influencing consumers’ attitude toward online shopping and shopping intention from the Malaysian perspectives. From an e-commerce perspective, the understanding of the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA), Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), and...
April 2011
The effect of knowledge management practices on organizational performance: A conceptual study
As organizations increasingly become aware of knowledge as a key strategic asset, they are being forced to revise their strategy on how to effectively utilize that asset to not only achieve competitive advantage but maintain it as well. Previous researches have provided many reasons for failure to implement knowledge management properly. No serious attempt has been made to integrate...
April 2011
Evaluating the customer perceptions on in-flight service quality
In the competitive aviation market as a result of the emergence of charter airlines have had to reconsider their in-flight services approach to service provision. Specifically, the in-flight comfort offered based on the service quality perception. However, in-flight service quality is always vague and hard to express in exact number. Therefore, this study applies fuzzy-grey method based to deal with the...
April 2011
Aviation ground crews: Occupational stresses and work performance
Aviation ground crews play a very important role in air transportation. Not only does their work pressure affect individual health and organizational efficiency, but aviation safety. The aim of this study is to explore the relationship between various sources of occupational stress and work performance. In this study, the connection among a variety of occupational stress, coping strategies and work...
April 2011
A spiral process model of technological innovation in a developing country: The case of Samsung
This article presents a spiral process model of indigenous technological innovation capabilities (ITICs) that shows how firms in a developing country initiate, imitate, improve and make innovative technologies. Any technological innovation passes through four stages: (1) technological innovation (TI), (2) transfer of technology (imitation), (3) adaptive technological innovation (improvement), and finally (4)...
April 2011
Systematic process analysis in industrial business management: A practitioner tool kit
The increasing labor cost had eroded the benefit of the manufacturing industry gradually. To revise the business process and to formulate a strategy in order to survival became an important lesson. Since the Supply Chain Council developed the supply chain operations reference (SCOR) model, it was widely applied by many enterprises to describe its relationship within upstream and downstream companies. The...
April 2011
Factors influencing technology acceptance decisions
This study proposes a causal model for investigating teacher acceptance of technology. We received 258 effective replies from teachers at public and private universities in Taiwan. A questionnaire survey was utilized to test the proposed model. The LISREL was applied to test the proposed hypotheses. The result shows that computer self-efficacy has a strongly positive effect on perceived ease of use and...
April 2011
Evaluation of job satisfaction and organisational citizenship behaviour: Case study of selected organisations in Zimbabwe
The purpose of this paper was to evaluate job satisfaction and Organisational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB) amongst selected organisations in Zimbabwe. The research was aimed at achieving the following objectives: determine job satisfaction levels of employees in the selected organisations; determine the extent to which employees in these organisations engaged in OCB; analyse the...
April 2011
How does perceived risks complement switching costs in e-commerce?
Customer acquisition and retention are two phases of an e-commerce life cycle. Switching costs and perceived risks affect both, but in different ways. This study examines these two well known, often contradicting variables in an integrated frame work and asks: Can perceived risks complement switching costs to give rises to new customer loyalty strategies for e-commerce enterprises? That is, do these two...
April 2011
Study on the effects of transformational leadership by managers and organizational justice consciousness on organizational citizenship behaviour of high-tech electronics industry in Taiwan
The high-tech electronics industry can make an important contribution to the enhancement of Taiwan’s technological standards and international competitive advantage. Under the pressures of business production performance and operations, it cannot ignore an important task for managers in Taiwan’s high-tech electronics industry that they should adopt appropriate leadership patterns, fair mechanism...
April 2011
Searching for internal and external factors that determine working capital management for manufacturing firms in Pakistan
This paper searches for important endogenous and exogenous factors that have an influence on working capital management of manufacturing firms in Pakistan. The topic has been examined by researchers around the world and needs to be inquired for firms in Pakistan. Following Shulman and Cox (1985), working capital management of a manufacturing business firm is measured by net liquidity balance and working...
April 2011
Assessment on intellectual capital management for Taiwanese pharmaceutical industry: Using GRA and MPI
In the new economy era, knowledge has already become the most vital enabler connection with a high technology enterprise. Intellectual capital is the core of knowledge management. Managing intellectual capital effectively can greatly enhance the competitive advantages of enterprises. The former studies about intellectual capital concentrated on its content and the stock measurement. This study focused on how...
April 2011
The impact of board composition on corporate financial and social responsibility performance: Evidence from public-listed companies in Turkey
In an attempt to explain the relationships between principles of good governance, marketing practices and financial performances of companies in Turkey, the authors examined the inter-relationships between board composition characteristics, corporate social responsibility practices and financial performance in this study. The population of this study is Turkish firms that are listed in the Istanbul Stock...
April 2011
Functional correlations between the efficiency indicators of investments
In the methodology for evaluating the validity of investments (without portfolio investments), recommended by the World Bank, three methods are usually used: payback period, net present value and internal rate of return. Functional correlation can be set up between these indicators and this paper presents an interdependence research, based on the five projects form of different industrial...
April 2011
The impact of macroeconomic indicators on stock exchange performance in Kazakhstan
This paper aims to investigate the causal relationship between macroeconomic indicators and Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) index. The results indicate the existence of cointegrations between these series implying violation of market efficiency hypothesis. The results of the study are in compliance not only with theory but also with the issues in practice. Using the bound testing approach, within the...
April 2011
Corporate international activities and cash holdings
This research extends previous studies of cash holdings and presents the first empirical evidence on the relationship between cash holdings and internationalization. Using U.S. firms as sample, our findings reveal that Multinational Corporations (MNCs) have more cash holdings than Domestic Corporations (DCs), and that internationalization is a determinant of cash holdings. Furthermore, there is an...
April 2011
A consumer analysis of service provision offered by a university to its resident students in South Africa
The accommodation services sector has emerged as one of the highly demanded service industries in South Africa. The objectives of the study were: To investigate empirically if resident students (customers) are satisfied with the services (accommodation) provided by the University. Secondly, to investigate empirically the perception of resident students (customers) on the use of relationship marketing by the...
April 2011
Company performance in Malaysia after the 1997 economic crisis: Using Economic Value Added (EVA) as a predictor
Malaysia was hit by an economic crisis in 1997, and the entire Southeast Asia was also gripped by an economic crisis of formidable proportions. At first, it was limited to Thailand's financial sector, but it quickly grew to engulf Malaysia, Indonesia and South Korea as well. This study evaluated the post-economic crisis period and whether or not EVA, as a measurement tool, had a relationship with...
April 2011
The application of FMEA in the oil industry in Iran: The case of four litre oil canning process of Sepahan Oil Company
Failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) is an effective technique for preventing the potential problems and actions needed in eradicating the cause of error in oil industries. On the other hand, oil producing companies play a critical role in the oil industry in Iran as a developing country, out of which Sepahan Oil Company has a significant contribution. The aim of this research is to show how FMEA could...
April 2011
Impact of corporate social responsibility on customer satisfaction in banking service
The past three decades have witnessed the emergence of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as a field of study and a framework for the role of business corporations and financial institutions in society. After the Tsunami in 2004 people were need financial assistance to recover from the loss of tsunami and revamping their life. Only source they perceive is availing loans from banking sector and other...
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