November 2010
A study on entrepreneurial orientation and resource acquisition: The effects of social capital
Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) has emerged as an important construct within the strategic management and entrepreneurship literatures over the past two decades. Empirical studies on the determinants of firm’s resource acquisition have shown a fairly consistent positive relationship between the EO of the firm’s senior management and firm’s resource acquisition capability. Studies aimed at...
November 2010
Role of Extra Sensory Perception (ESP) in managerial decision making
November 2010
An integrated approach of Kano’s model and Importance-Performance Analysis in identifying key success factors
This study proposes perceived ‘Importance-Performance Analysis’ by simultaneously integrating ‘importance-performance analysis’ and Kano’s model in identifying key success factors. Kano’s model, which provides a two-dimensional view of quality, is a very useful tool to identify which customer requirements of a particular product or service might be more than the...
November 2010
Framework to identify and manage risks in Web 2.0 applications
Web 2.0 applications are continuously moving into the corporate mainstream. Each new development brings its own threats or new ways to deliver old attacks. In order to mitigate these security risks, internal controls should be implemented at different levels. In order to identify the risks, a proper control framework of generally accepted control techniques and practices are needed as a benchmark. Because,...
November 2010
Learning styles of teacher candidates: A sample of Firat University
November 2010
A contribution to software service improvement based on LSP method
With new technologies and various software solutions readily available for utilization in business environment, the main driver for achieving the competitive business advantage is becoming the quality of service. The quality of service expectations is very often managed by established service level agreement (SLA). Behind SLA, there is a real software, infrastructure, organization, culture, and people that...
November 2010
Comparative analysis of sensitivity coefficient using traditional beta of CAPM and downside beta of D-CAPM in automobile manufacturing companies
November 2010
Biometrics and identity management for homeland security applications in Saudi Arabia
Identity is the collection of all characteristics related to an entity, be it a person, enterprise or an object. Identities allow entities to be distinguished from each other. This is what makes an identity a key component in several administrative, social and economic transactions. Identity management is important for government, communication, commerce and just about any significant societal activity....
November 2010
Outsourcing decision processes: A case study of a Malaysian firm
There is a growth trend towards the outsourcing of accounting activities. The drivers of outsourcing emanate from organisational initiatives, improvement focus, financial and cost objectives or growth objectives. Despite the increasing practical significance of this phenomenon, the academic literature is limited to a handfull of studies concerned with the delegation of accounting functions. There are...
November 2010
The impact of information specificity in recruitment advertisements on the application pursuit process in Pakistan
November 2010
An evaluation of leading indicators of currency crises
This study tries to construct leading indicators for currency crisis using probit model, logit model and binary quantile regression. The empirical results show that the Inflation rate, Stock price index, Import growth rate, export/GDP, direct investment abroad, GDP growth rate, terms of trade changes, financial derivatives and domestic credit/GDP have significant effects on the occurrence of currency crisis....
November 2010
The choices of capital structure
This study intends to examine the choices of capital structure from Taiwanese electronic firms. Empirical results here provide the evidence that Taiwanese electronic firms follow the different financing behaviour depending on the level of profitability. This study adopts two separated processes: First, we adopt Panel Unit Root Tests and find that under the different profitability the firms have different...
November 2010
Organizational climate as a predictor of innovative work behavior
The present study intends to examine the predicting role of organizational climate (Competing Values Model) in Innovative Work Behavior (IWB). Additionally, the study examines the effect of organizational size on IWB. The study was carried out on a purposively selected sample of 320 managers from Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) organizations countrywide. The instruments used for the study included IWB,...
November 2010
The impact of color traits on corporate branding
Aristotle, a famous Greek philosopher, indicated that all perceptions are triggered by witness. Consumers have a first impression of sight memory for products within 0.67 seconds. The first impression dominates 67% of the purchasing process, which comes from colors. This research considers using colors to manifest corporate brand image and charm and believes that inappropriate usage of colors may confuse the...
November 2010
The direction of the financial sector’s involvement in overcoming crisis: A case study of Romania
In the present economic circumstances of economical-financial crisis on a world-wide level, for the Romanian economy, the financial sector, being a key factor, have a great importance for supporting economic growth. The aim of this paper is to analyse the finance-growth relation in Romania, using quarterly data and applying statistical methods for a period of nine years. As such, we measure the qualitative...
November 2010
Evaluating the efficiency of intellectual capital management for Taiwan IC design industry
Management of intellectual capital has been the source of competitive advantages in the new economy. The study employed Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to analyzed 62 publicly listed IC design firms in Taiwan. The DEA models using different performance indices were analyzed and their relationships were further explored with PCA. The empirical results revealed that 30 out...
November 2010
Rising productivity of the fixed mobile convergence trend in the telecommunications industry
This study explores the productivity variation in the telecommunications industry by adopting the slack-based measure in the current period and the SBM-based Malmquist in the cross-periods spanning from 2006 to 2009. The observed global leading 51 telcos (telecommunications companies) are top ranking on the Forbes Global 2000, and divided into three groups of mobile-only, fixed-only, and fixed-mobile...
November 2010
Strategic training practices, effective organizational commitment, and turnover intention: The mediating role of psychological contract
This paper aims at determining the relationships among psychological contracts, affective organizational commitment, and three dimensions of personal needs assessment in strategic training (that is, motivation to learn, perceived support, and training attitudes). The study sample comprised 301 employees from universities of medical sciences in Iran. Multiple and simple linear regression and path analysis were...
November 2010
Do developing countries need Education laws to manage its system or are ethics and a market-driven approach sufficient?
The Education sector is one of the fundamental industries as described by the recent concept of “state business,” which is also the most critical player in making other sectors of a state functional. The criteria of Education governance and legislations as well as their schemata have evolved out of historical social practices. The interpretation of social events is guided and constrained by the...
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