Curbing the unemployment problem in Nigeria through entrepreneurial development
November 2013
This study is on curbing the Unemployment problem in Nigeria through entrepreneurial development. The study is motivated by the fact that unemployment problem like corrupt practices in Nigeria is a hydra headed problem and thus require the collective effort of all. The study made use of primary data sourced from 220 respondents in Kogi State through administering of questionnaire. Their responses were tested using...
7Ps in corporate hospitals – Administrators’ perspective
November 2013
The prime objective of the paper is to study 7Ps - Product, Price, Place, Promotion, People, Physical Evidence and Process - in selected corporate hospitals in India which is very pivotal in strengthening the effectiveness of a hospital. It is needless to say how important service sector is in the national economy. In India, more than 50% of the GDP is now accounted for by the service sector. Though this sector has...
The dimensions of relationship value between suppliers and customers based on complex products and systems
November 2013
The dimensions of relationship value are different from different industry. There are no studies in Complex Products and Systems (CoPS) yet. It is more important to study relationship value for buyers and sellers in CoPS. This paper investigates the dimensions of the relationship value between suppliers and customers in the context of CoPS. Theoretically, the relationship value based on CoPS includes three aspects:...
The degree of competition in Iranian banking industry: Panzar-Rosse approach
November 2013
The Iranian banking sector has undergone huge and substantial reform in the last decade;¬ privatization¬, establishment of private banks and development of modern technologies (IT). Based on a sample of 19 banks, This paper investigates the competitive condition of the Iranian banking industry over the period 2005-2010 using the H-statistic proposed by Panzar and Rosse.. The properties of this non-structural...
The relationship between conscientiousness, extraversion and leadership effectiveness among local government managers in Eastern Cape, South Africa
November 2013
For the last 18 years, an insignificant development has been achieved in creating one organisational culture of the Eastern Cape local government that can promote an effective and efficient spending of the annual provincial budgetary allocation of more than fifty-six billion rands ($56,964,320,000). The development and fall of the local government administration is centred on the abilities and values of leaders present....
Demand for money in Pakistan
November 2013
This study is an empirical investigation of the relationship between M2, gross domestic product, inflation rate and interest rate. The study used secondary data obtained from Pakistan IMFs (World Development Indicators) over the period 1976-2012. Reliability and viability of the data is checked through various sources like IFS and World Bank. For estimation ADF (augmented dickey fuller) unit root test, Johansen’s...
The effects of ISO 9000 quality management system implementation in small and medium-sized textile enterprises: Turkey experience
November 2013
This study aimed to determine the effective factors, difficulties encountered, attainable levels of the objectives in the process of certification in small and medium-sized enterprises with the ISO 9000 Quality Management Systems (QMS) certificate in Turkey Textile Sector. The study was carried out by reaching the managers that managed certification process in companies. The data collected via questionnaires were...
Empirical research on impact of industrial services brand on customers’ relationship quality perception
November 2013
Industrial services brand will play a critical role in establishing high-quality customer relationships. Based on this, this study aims to empirically explore the influence of industrial services brand on customers’ perceptions toward the two parties’ relationships. The study develops a conceptual framework firstly for industrial services brand which includes expertise, corporate reputation, corporate...
The role of trust and ease of use in the development of Internet banking
November 2013
Chinese customers adopted online banking service over fourteen years. But low customer satisfaction is still a problem of internet banking development in China. This study investigates how trust and ease of use influence internet banking customer satisfaction in China. Authors developed a theoretical model based on literature review. We analyzed the data using structured equation modeling (SEM) to evaluate the strength...
Multi product and service organization structure for managerial transformation process
November 2013
The examples given in this work have clear implications for practitioners to improve managerial transformation process as far as possible via strategic structure management. The final results showed that managerial transformation process quantity in compliance with determined criteria of evaluation suggested model for each organization is different. The other implication of the research is that multi product and service...
A preliminary investigation of factors influencing consumer adoption of online transactions in Malaysia
November 2013
Information technology is fundamentally changing business transaction worldwide. The advent of internet transaction offers business firms a new frontier of opportunities and challenges. An understanding of how demographic characteristics and socialfactors influence the adoption of online transaction can allow firms to create solutions and plans to attract consumers to their services, thus enabling them to gain a greater...
Lead Lag Relationship and Price Discovery in Turkish Stock Exchange and Futures Markets
November 2013
In perfectly efficient financial markets, new information should be impounded simultaneously into the cash and futures markets. Real world institutional factors, however, often create an emprical lead-lag relationship between alternative securities price changes. Current futures prices in one futures market would lead the change of current spot prices. Price discovery can be defined as lead-lag relationship and...
Analysis of the effects of Islamic Azad University of Khomeini Shahr on economical affairs of local women
November 2013
Promoting education, economical, cultural level of society is a basic function of education institutions and universities. In this way, Islamic Azad University in addition to state universities plays a main role in two last decades. In this research, consequences of establishing Islamic Azad University of Khomeini Shahr on economical affairs of women in Khomeini Shahr have been investigated. Research method is a...
A conceptual framework for concurrent implementation of ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) and KM (Knowledge Management): A fuzzy TOPSIS method
November 2013
Both Knowledge Management (KM) and Enterprise Recourse Planning (ERP) play crucial roles in organizations. There has been an increasing demand to implement both systems concurrently. The key characteristics of ERP and KM are quite different in their orientation; however, ERP systems focus primarily on managing physical assets while KM systems focus on leveraging innovation and utilizing knowledge assets. Because both...
Cost, revenue and profit efficiency in supply chain
November 2013
A supply chain is a set of suppliers, manufactures and distributors, which are linked together. The first chain is a supplier and the last one is customers. What is the most important in supply chain are high- quality products by the least cost and the most benefit. In this regard, each input and output and intermediate have unit price and unit cost information. The cost-minimization and the profit-maximization are a...
Perceived Egypt's destination image by Chinese university students
November 2013
Destination image is commonly accepted as an important aspect in successful tourism management and destination marketing. It is crucially important to recognize the tourists’ perceived images since it affects the individual’s subjective perception and consequent behavior and destination choice. A destination can realize its full tourism potential only once it has a favorable image. This importance has led to...
Perceptions of Forest Concession Staff Members on the Impacts of Forest Certification in Peninsular Malaysia
November 2013
This study determines the impacts of forest certification towards social, economy and environment criteria from the perceptions of staff members from three forest concessionaire companies. A lot of changes have been made to ensure the companies’ operations are compliant with the principle and criteria of forest certification when it was introduced to the companies. Since the staff members are involved in every...
Dividend Policy, Cash Flow, and Investment in Tehran Stock Exchange
October 2013
The study aims to know the relationship between dividend policy, cash flow and investment of firms. For this, 100 firms from stock Tehran exchange during 2002-2008 were investigated. In this research the year 2006 is the base year of dividend policy identification. The firms were divided into three kinds: Dividend increase, dividend decrease and no dividend change. The results of Wilcoxon test...
Evolution of national-international trade in the period before the economic and financial crisis for selected economies
October 2013
The world economy has evolved in recent years amid some obvious inequalities and disparities nationally manifested on different levels, including the participation in international trade. This study took into account the two ways of approach, namely: evaluation and analysis of existing differences between the countries participating in global trade, on the one hand and development of a...
Comparative study of the social effects of 5 and 6 days work on individuals
October 2013
The main agenda behind this study is to know about the impact of work life on social life that is, to make comparison between two categories of people working 5 and 6 days a week. The impact will be seen on both males and females. It is the general observation and has also been proved that the person who works for 5 days a week is more relaxed and congenial to social life than one who works for...
Regression Equation Fitted to Knowledge Management and Organizational Effectiveness in the Selected Sport Organizations of Iran
October 2013
This study aims at regression equations fitted to knowledge management and organizational effectiveness in the selected sport organizations of Iran knowledge management processes to determine the impact on organizational effectiveness. Method of this research is descriptive – surveying and for the analysis was used of Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, and then multi-variants regression, Pearson and...
Strategies of National Petrochemical Company of Iran
October 2013
In strategic planning goals, policies and strategies of the organization are determined considering aspirations, mission and the underlying values along with the determination of internal strong and weak points of the organization and threats and opportunities arising from environmental factors. The researches consider some advantages for strategic thinking and deep commitment toward strategic management process,...
Analytic network process (ANP) approach for selecting strategies influencing the productivity of knowledge women workers
October 2013
It is commonly recognized that knowledge is the only source of core competence in the knowledge-based companies, but productivity rate of the knowledge women worker is always low. This study seeks to identify factors influencing productivity. In addition, it presents strategies that influence knowledge women workers’ productivity. Strategies were selected using the ANP approach. It is hoped that this paper will...
Intellectual capital and technological advances in knowledge society: How are these concepts related?
October 2013
The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between technological advances and intellectual capital improvement. Researches show that technological advances and intellectual capital have a strong relationship but this relationship has not been examined systematically. This paper reviews the important theoretical work in both streams of research, highlighting the fundamental similarities and differences....
Exploring dynamic capabilities of executives for core strategy
October 2013
Whether a solar product maker is able to achieve sustainable and competitive effectiveness depends on the dynamic capabilities of its executives. This study used various methods to establish the dynamic capabilities and components of executives in resource-based view. The survey research was adopted to find out essential dynamic capabilities with 481 valid questionnaires retrieved at a 73.10% response rate. Thirty...
Quality dimension evaluation of a public health network in South Region of Sao Paulo City, in Brazil
October 2013
This research aimed to evaluate the quality of health services provided by public network, in the south region of Sao Paulo city in Brazil, by the perspective of patients’ satisfaction. The field research involved 80 high-risk pregnant women because they used all kinds of health units that make up the Brazilian Unified Health Services System in this region. The research model was adapted to cover the last five...
Shared Leadership and Team Effectiveness: Moderating Effects of Task Interdependence
October 2013
This study investigates the relationship and effect between the attitude about shared leadership and team effectiveness with two dimensions of task interdependence such as Received Task Interdependence (RTID) and Initiated Task Interdependence (ITID) tested for the potential moderating effects on the relationship. Research hypotheses were developed and tested using regression analysis. To test the hypotheses, we...
Profitability of the informal cross-border trade: A case study of four selected borders of Botswana
October 2013
In this study, the views of 520 informal cross border traders, obtained using systematic sampling and snow ball techniques from four selected border posts in Botswana, were used to show how profitable ICBT is. The results of the analysis show that the monthly profit generated by ICB traders is over ten times the minimum wage of workers in Botswana and gross profit margin from this trade is 54.99%. Whereas about two...
An empirical investigation of tax buoyancy in Kenya
October 2013
Revenue mobilization is an important goal of tax reform. Thus, tax buoyancy constitutes an essential ingredient for tax policy formulation. This paper utilized a time series approach to estimate tax buoyancy for Kenya for the period 1999/2000 to 2010/2011. Tax buoyancies were computed for income, import, excise, Value Added Tax (VAT) and total taxes. Specifically, the paper examined the buoyancies of tax revenues to...
Organization ethical business operations: Does it make a difference?
October 2013
Making wider the concept that ethical activities in business operations conducted by the organization can excel the organization performance is the core concept of this research study. Sample of different organization predicts that ethical practices of enterprises were vital for their expansion. Organizations that promote the culture of ethics in its operation enjoy its everlasting fruits. Key words:...
An assessment of multi-channel retailing among retailers in Cape Town, South Africa
October 2013
Multi-channel retailing appears to hold potential benefits for retailers of all kind, but the awareness and access to available retail channels have not been obvious to all. This paper investigated the potential of multiple channel use among different retailers in Cape Town, in reaching potential customers and doing business with existing customers. In this regard, we presented and deployed a 12-channel typology...
Entrepreneurial characteristics among university students: Implications for entrepreneurship education and training in Pakistan
October 2013
Purpose-This study aims to explore the entrepreneurship profile of the Pakistan university students (Peshawar region) and evaluates their entrepreneurial inclination by making comparison with non-entrepreneurially inclined students. In this study the entrepreneurial profile of the students is constituted by six traits namely need for achievement, innovativeness, locus of control, risk taking propensity, tolerance for...
Applying 6-sigma methodology to reduce burglary on campus
October 2013
This study aims to contribute to a better understanding of burglary on campus. A DMAIC model of six sigma was done to decrease burglary rate on campus. The model systematically defines five stages of definition, measurement, analysis, and control as the step of execution. And through measurement, we quantify stolen equipment. Improvement strategy is further proposed via the result acquired from tool analysis. The...
Music piracy behaviors of university students in view of consumption value
October 2013
This research mainly aimed to explore the opinions of university students to music piracy. The research is operated by means of questionnaire surveys to gather data with 211 valid replies received. As research results indicated, quality value is significantly infeuenced on economical value. Quality value, social values and epistemic value will directly affect to download attitude. Key words: music...
Impact of Gender Diversity on Spiritual Leadership and Follower’s Need for Spiritual Survival/Well-being
October 2013
Gender diversity in organizations plays a very important role and greatly influences the leaders and followers behavior. The success of the organizations depends very much on its human resource team. The Leaders and followers play major role in any organizations. Due to this reason, the effect of gender related to leadership spirituality and follower’s need for spiritual survival is taking a much...
Enterprise related factors influencing entrepreneurial orientation: Evidence from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan
October 2013
This purpose of this study is to examine the association and influence of enterprise related factors on entrepreneurial orientation. Primary data were collected through self administered questionnaire with backup interview from two hundreds and nineteen randomly selected samples. Questionnaire was distributed among members registered with different (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Hazara and D.I.Khan) chambers...
Stressors Exploiting Teacher’s Satisfaction and Professional Commitment the key to reduce Job Burnout
October 2013
This study empirically investigates various stressors leading job stress that effect teachers in higher educational system of Pakistan. 166 higher educational faculty members of 17 public and private universities listed under federal region with Higher Education Commission of Pakistan have given their responses. Four determinants which are role conflict, role ambiguity, home-work interface and...
Research on diversity, conflicts and performance in creative team management
October 2013
As the global competition is increasingly intense, composition for team members tends to be more diverse. Besides, conflicts among team members are increasing gradually. So, team performance is greatly affected. This paper investigated 47 creative management teams according to 220 questionnaires. It studied the effect on team performance from diverse team compositions. Then, it took conflicts inside...
The Impact of Information and Communication Technology on Employment of Selected OIC Countries
October 2013
This paper investigates the extent to which ICT-related job creating activities is improving the employment situation of the people in developing economies. The paper focuses on the effects of information and communication technology (ICT) on the employment level of selected Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) countries and describes the different potential forms of influence that ICT can take...
International negotiations with Brazil: An essay about culture factor
October 2013
With the aim to present some salient aspects of the Brazilian culture and how they may affect the processes of international negotiations, the paper addressed the different approaches that point out the specific qualities and patterns of Brazilian negotiator. Based on the international negotiations principles and the role of culture, the study presents some of the most discussed theoretical frameworks that investigate...
Growth pattern, reforms and operational innovations in Indian banking
October 2013
Banks play very dynamic role in economic development of a country by identifying profitable activities, exerting corporate governance and extending credit to corporate world. Initially, Government of India has nationalized the banks to meet the diversified development needs of the country. But with the initiation of liberalization, privatization and globalization process, the Indians banks have undergone rigorous...
United States of America FDI and trade as complementory or subsittute for Pakistan
October 2013
The aim of study is the empirical investigation that FDI and trade is complemented or substitute for Pakistan. We also analyzed the country characteristics like the lack of capital and comparative advantage and abundance of labor. The effect of FDI on trade has been observed by dividing the FDI in industry and manufacturing sectors. We will use the secondary data for the variables selected of host country Pakistan...
Performance analysis model of productive local arrangements by the relationship between conditions and territorial indicators
October 2013
The main source of competitiveness are the elements of trust and cooperation between companies, obtained through close relations of economic, social, and community nature. Therefore, this type of territorial manifestation is determined not only by the characteristics of the physical environment, but also by cultural, social and historical characteristics present in a geographically defined area. However, there are few...
Predicting corporate distress in the Nigerian stock market: Neural network versus multiple discriminant analysis
October 2013
The objective of the paper is to assess the quality of neural networks in predicting distress as against discriminant analysis and its applications in enhancing managers’ decision. Forty four firms listed on the Nigerian Stock Market between 1987 and 2006 are used for the study. The performance of neural network is then compared with the more familiar discriminant analysis statistical technique, and the...
Determinants of credit rationing to the private sector in Ghana
October 2013
This study is designed to investigate the rationing behavior of some Commercial banks in Ghana, by looking at the effect of chosen variables on the amount of loan realized even in the era of interest rate liberalization. A single equation model involving a categorical random dependent variable, being the amount of loan realized and security value, interest rate, the value of assets, the value of collateral security, net...
Financial management practices and business performance of small and medium enterprises in western Uganda
October 2013
Small and medium Enterprises are seen as a driving force for the promotion of an economy. The purpose of the study was to establish the relationship between financial management practices and business performance of SMEs in western Uganda with a view to establishing a coherent model directed at improving business performance and it was hypothesized that financial management practices positively influences Business...
Group loans repayment problems of women borrowers
October 2013
Economic growth and development is a dream without having well focused and effective strategies to eradicate poverty through extending credits to women. The mobilization of funds comes directly from the participant’s savings and therefore the use of funds is under group scrutiny. This paper aims to examine the repayment problems of women borrowers of microfinance. A sample of 100 respondents comprising 20...
A study of filial piety practice in Malaysia: Relationship between financial well-being and filial piety
October 2013
The study examined children’s filial responsibilities as contributing to retirement financial planning. There was a 53.9% return rate from 750 survey questionnaires. Seven hypotheses were analysed using hierarchical regression/ordinary regression/stepwise regression analyses. The results revealed that, from children’s perspective, the more they were in contact with parents, the more support they would give...
Product market competition, controlling shareholders’ tendency, and cash dividends policy: Empirical analysis based on Chinese listed companies
October 2013
Based on unbalanced panel dates of 4060 companies listed from 2003 - 2007 in Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Markets, this paper empirically studies the degree of product market competition, the relationship between cash dividends distribution tendency and cash dividends policy. Results show that controlling shareholders have significant motivation to distribute cash dividends, and this kind of incentive is not...
Study on the foreign investment preferential policy formulated by host country
October 2013
The author makes use of the modern economic theories and methods to construct a theoretical framework for game analysis that centers on the creation and distribution of return on transnational corporations’ investment; thereby interprets the formulation and implementation of host country’s foreign investment policy and reinforces the existing theories and, on the other hand, analyzes the investment behavior...
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