April 2012
Management influence on the export performance of firms: A review of the empirical literature 1989 – 2009
Growing of international trade and sales activity in the global market has caused increasing attention to the determinants of the export performance of firms. However, despite numerous published works on determinants of a firm’s export performance, the literatures are characterized by the lack of consensus among researchers as to what constitutes managerial factors. As a result, the reviews of articles published...
April 2012
A review of literature on contingency theory in managerial accounting
This paper reviewed the literature on the contingency theory in management accounting research in a chronological order. Based on this literature review, contingency theory was summarized as an approach to the study of organizational behavior in which explanations are given as to how contingent factors influence the design and function of organizations. Commonly, contingency theory studies postulate that organizational...
April 2012
Third generation (3G) mobile service acceptance: Evidence from Malaysia
This paper aims to examine the factors affecting subscribers’ intention towards using third generation (3G) mobile service. Cross sectional data were collected from 100 respondents through a survey. Data were then analyzed by means of multiple regression analysis. The findings verified the research hypotheses, and confirmed that perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use and attitude are jointly responsible in...
April 2012
Bio-fuels? – Across financial tsunami of 2008
The relation between prices of crude oil and grain futures was explored in this research to identify the argument about production of bio-fuels and skyrocketing grains prices. Chow breakpoint test and Quandt-Andrews unknown breakpoint test were used to examine whether the financial tsunami of 2008 resulted in any structural changes. July 15, 2008 was the breakpoint and the duration was divided into two parts. Paired...
April 2012
Mediating role of perceived organizational politics in relating job characteristics to morale
Organizational politics has been perceived to be an integral part of every work organization. Moreover, the perceptions of employees about the organizational politics are considered to have a significant influence on the morale of employees. However, the nature and degree of this influence may differ from job to job and individual to individual. Thus, the present study tries to investigate the mediating role of...
April 2012
Is entrepreneurial education available for graduates?
The aim of this study is to investigate if entrepreneurial courses can enhance the entrepreneurial intention of students, by a survey conducted on students of 34 universities department with marketing- and logistics-management-related programs in Taiwan. Of the questionnaires recovered from 22 universities of science and technology, 847 copies are valid. The results show that entrepreneurial courses and entrepreneurial...
April 2012
Effect of physical attractiveness and customer perceived service quality in the cosmetology industry
Many literatures studied the effects of attractiveness of advertising stars or models to consumers. However, few studied attractiveness of hair stylists. Attractiveness is common in marketing researches, along with genders and ages. Businesses can provide customized service to particular customers according to the information. This study aims to discover effects of stylist attractiveness to perceived service quality of...
April 2012
Study of the relationship between intellectual capital management and organizational innovation in the banks
Today, intellectual capital in terms of its nature and its growing importance in innovation is regarded as a competitive advantage and as an indicator of organization economic performance and as a sign of growth and development of a country. Therefore, the goal of this study is to explore the relationship between intellectual capital management and organizational innovation in the branches of Melli Bank in Iran in 2010...
April 2012
Construction project success analysis from stakeholders' theory perspective
The purpose of this study is to investigate to what extent stakeholders’ project performance correlate to project success. To collect the empirical data, a particular questionnaire was designed and distributed among owners, consultant and contractor companies who are number 1 in performing oil, gas and petrochemical projects in Iran. The results of the research show that consultants play the most important role...
April 2012
Chaotic analysis of the foreign exchange rates during 2008 to 2009 recession
We investigated chaotic property of foreign exchange rates (ForExRate) of several countries in which daily data where considered for twelve countries (Das and Das, 2007), mostly over the period January 1971 to December 2005. Everyone is aware of the acute recession into which the world economy entered since around July 2008. To investigate what effect this has on ForExRate of different countries, here we concentrated on...
April 2012
Evaluation of domestic partner relationships and environmental uncertainty on degree of localization and performance of enterprises: The case of Iranian small and medium enterprises
With the development of organizations and their expansion, and connection to free business global market, the role of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) will appear in space of global competition day to day. Now, these organizations must increase the power of self competition with appropriate visions to gain the ability of competition in the world competitive markets. This research studies the impact of both domestic...
April 2012
Impact of Chinese foreign direct investment in Africa on Sino-Africa bilateral trade
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of Chinese direct investment in Africa on Sino-Africa bilateral trade. To achieve this objective we used two approaches. First we utilized a panel data to analyze the impact of Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) on its own exports to Africa, and secondly, a time series data to investigate the effect on its imports from Africa. Our analysis shows that Chinese...
April 2012
Performance measurement model and academic staff: A survey at selected Universities in South Africa and abroad
This study explores academic staff’s perception of performance measurement at selected universities in the USA, UK, Australia, Nigeria and universities in South Africa. The primary objective of this article is “to develop a conceptual model which can be applied to South African universities in developing educational policy” based on empirical evidence. It explores the scholarship of...
April 2012
Brazilian airport infrastructure: Analysis using the Monte Carlo simulation and multiple regressions
The airport infrastructure is a polemic and controversial theme with innumerous opportunities to be explored. The study between the GDP, demands growth and costs is a Brazilian national interest. Studies about the airport infrastructure have been conducted worldly, as well as qualitative and quantitative methods. After a literature review it is possible to determinate an inexistence texts correlation airport...
April 2012
The yes, no decision is easy now: Is human capital accounting challenge for accountants
Human resource accounting (HRA) is an old concept in corporate and academic research while new in economics. This study explores new dimension for valuation of human capital asset (HCA), through parallel comparison with international financial reporting standards (IFRS). During the study, few weaknesses were identified in conventional accounting standards. Based on these finding, new model for valuation of HCA was...
April 2012
Production planning modeling: A fuzzy multi objective fractional programming approach
Production planning is one of the most important issues of managers in industry. Production managers face up with several goals that sometimes conflict with each other. Operations research techniques with considering the constraints, optimize organizational goals. Objectives of all these techniques are raising productivity in the organization. In this paper, the researchers present a multi-objective linear fractional...
April 2012
Work values, work attitude and job performance of green energy industry employees in Taiwan
This research aimed to explore the relations among work values, work attitude (including job involvement and organizational commitment) and job performance, and explore how the director’s leadership may be a moderator between the work values and work attitude of green industry employees in Taiwan. Data was collected through convenience sampling. The samples in this study were employees and directors in the green...
April 2012
Sustainability of NGO-type microfinance service provider in Shaanxi, China: Peer with Grameen Bank, Bangladesh
This paper examined the sustainability of nongovernmental organisation (NGO)-type microfinance service providers (MSPs) in Shaanxi province, China in comparison with Grameen Bank (GB), Bangladesh. Despite geographical restrictions, the selected MSPs successfully expanded their services to isolated mountainous regions where formal financial institutions were not in existence earlier. Overall business performance of the...
April 2012
An empirical study of business activities and negotiation styles between Taiwan and mainland China
Due to political issues in the past 60 years, the differences between Mainland China and Taiwan are only not in geographic location, but also in physical and psychological factors. The purpose of the study was to discuss whether these cultural differences influence the business negotiating behavior between Mainland China and Taiwan. Research questionnaires were given out to businessmen in both Taiwan and Mainland China....
April 2012
Business Narrative Modelling Language (BNML) representations: A storyline view and a plot view of how interoperability is an antecedent of innovation at IP BRICK
The relationship between interoperability and innovation is very hard to prove and more empirical studies seem to be needed to this end. We performed an in-depth case study at an innovative Portuguese software firm which has achieved steady growth, international brand recognition and consistent annual profits, despite the much publicized economic crisis in Portugal. IP BRICK is interesting as it differs from the...
April 2012
International trade and productivity of China’s soybean commodity: Trade policy simulations by GTAP
This study explores China’s soybean trade and production since soybean is an important commodity in China’s consumption market. It uses data envelopment analysis (DEA) to measure the productivity of China’s soybean, and then based on the DEA results it applies Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) to simulate China’s soybean import change concerning both potential productivity change and the...
April 2012
Managing bank employee stress in a South African bank
This study was conducted within the retail credit evaluation and assessment (RCEA) units at one of the big four banks in South Africa. The objective of this study was to determine the overall stress levels of employees working within this environment based on demographics, length of service and qualification levels. A total of 77 respondents were targeted of which 40 respondents completed the questionnaire. Respondents...
April 2012
Corporate governance and earnings management and the relationship between economic value added and created shareholder value
In this study, economic value added and created shareholder value were calculated based on accounting figures and their difference was determined. Then, the reason of this difference has been analyzed using earnings management and corporate governance structure. Earnings management was calculated utilizing discretionary accrual accounting based on adjusted Jones model between 2004 and 2010; executive director ratio,...
April 2012
The entrepreneurial mindset profile of South African small medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) in the Cape Metropole
According to the South African National Small Business Act No. 102 of 1996, small medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) are classified as separate and distinct business entities, together with its branches or subsidiaries with the main intention of uplifting the national economy. McGrath and MacMillan (2000) averred that an entrepreneurial mindset, which comprises of elements such as the passionate seeking of lucrative...
April 2012
Perceived leadership style and employee participation in a manufacturing company in the democratic republic of Congo
This study examined the relationship between the perceived leadership style (measured by the leader behavior descriptive questionnaire) and employee participation (measured by the employee participation survey), and looked at how individuals differ with respect to these variables in terms of demographical factors such as gender, age, educational level and functional department. A cross-sectional survey was conducted...
April 2012
Local content and struggling suppliers: A network analysis of Nigerian oil and gas industry
The study investigates how local content can be enhanced in the oil and gas industry in a developing country like Nigeria. The empirical base was 18 in-depth interviews of professionals directly or indirectly related to the Nigerian oil and gas industry. The interviews revealed barriers for indigenous companies in accessing the industry. These were related to three major capabilities; capital, competence and delivery...
April 2012
An assessment of the productivity of the Nigerian shipping industry using Saari productivity model
This study focal point is the productivity of the Nigerian shipping industry with attention placed on selected twenty-two shipping firms (based on market share) that operate within the country as well as the main seaport in Lagos: the Apapa Port Complex. Data on productive inputs and outputs were collected via the administration of questionnaires to the selected shipping companies over two periods within a single year....
April 2012
Employee strategic recognition focusing model and simulation
Strategic recognition is one of the objectives of enterprises strategic management and employees focusing recognition on new strategy is the key stage in the strategic transformation. Based on the analysis of the characteristics and formulation rules of strategically transformed organizations, we constructed the employee strategic recognition focusing model and simulated with some dimensions. According to the...
April 2012
Determinants of airline choice-making: The Nigerian perspective
This study is on choice decision-making of the Nigerian domestic air transport industry. It is aimed at determining the factors that influences air travellers’ choice of airlines to fly within Nigeria. In doing this, data was collected from air travellers using questionnaires following Likert scale of ranking. This enabled us to obtain the socio-economic characteristics and the airline attributes that helped...
April 2012
Developing petri net model and meta-heuristic algorithms for cyclic scheduling in 2-machine robotic cells
In this paper, the cyclic scheduling problems in 2-machine robotic cells have been studied. We investigated the timed Petri network graph for modeling the part sequencing and the optimal robot moves sequence in robotic manufacturing cells. The robotic manufacturing cell considered in this study has two identical machines and one single gripper robot. Also, we have assumed that the manufacturing cell is capable of...
Advertisement
Advertisement
