July 2009

Comparing transformational leadership in successful and unsuccessful companies

  In this article, while it is attempted to describe the problem and its importance, transformational leadership is studied by considering leadership theories. Issues such as the definition of transformational leadership and its aspects are compared on the basis of the ideas of various connoisseurs and then it (transformational leadership) is examined in successful and unsuccessful companies. According to the...

Author(s):   Gholamreza Jandaghi, Hasan Zarei Matin and Ali Farjami        

July 2009

Designing a competent organizational culture model for customer oriented companies

  Today, the results of researches indicate that the most effective factor in enhanced performance of organizations is culture. The tendency to customer is a form of organizational culture which leads organizations toward responsive to customers, devising customer-oriented strategies need an adoptive and responsive organizational culture against changes. Hence, the structure and organizational culture of high...

Author(s):   Hasan  Zarei  Matin, Gholamreza  Jandaghi, Hossein  Khanifar and Faezeh  Heydari        

July 2009

An overview to accounting applications on agricultural activities in Turkey within historical progress

  The goal of this study is to analyze the accounting applications on agricultural activities of 1923 - 2007 in Turkey within historical progress. Although Turkey was an agrarian state in the past, the agriculture didn’t develop in the private sector. The reason for this is that the agricultural activities were conducted as small family enterprises. Furthermore, the relatively big agricultural...

Author(s):   Mevlüt Karakaya      

July 2009

Are university students psychologically ready for entrepreneurship? A Botswana study

  This paper seeks to draw attention to the need for psychological maturity before young people can begin their own business and succeed as entrepreneurs. A study with 349 undergraduate students at the University of Botswana investigated students’ career aspirations and their career-related self-concept. Only eight students considered entrepreneurship as a career option but many students mentioned careers...

Author(s):   Ilse E. Plattner, Mmakgosi Lechaena, Wame Mmolawa and Bagele Mzingwane        

July 2009

Sources of stress and the coping mechanism for Malaysian entrepreneurs

  The purpose of this paper is to present the findings on the stress factors and the coping mechanism of the Malaysian entrepreneur’s. Data were collected via a questionnaire distributed amongst the entrepreneurs over the Klang Valley, Malaysia.  A total of 118 out of 300 entrepreneurs completed questionnaires, which represented all business sectors with varieties demographic background. The results...

Author(s):   Syed Zamberi Ahmad and Farah Akmar Anor Salim        

July 2009

Gamers’ perceptions of the service quality in the gaming areas of selected casinos in South Africa

  Research was done on gamers’ perceptions of the service quality in the gaming areas of selected casinos in South Africa. 2 casinos with 700 and more slot machines and 2 casinos with fewer than 700 slot machines were used in this research project to obtain a summary of the target population. 440 gamers at the 4 selected casinos were interviewed, with the help of trained fieldworkers. A structured...

Author(s):   Elizma Wannenburg, Tonie Drotsky and Johan de Jager