May 2012
Role of e-commerce in supply chain management to minimize costs
One of the special characteristics of recent decades is focusing supply chains on competitive advantage by most agencies. On the other hand, recent advances in informational technologies (IT) are the other factors of changing business circumstance seriously. In order to find a better competitive advantage and survive in the market with daily increasing changes, all organizations are in need of a dynamic network based...
May 2012
Explaining stock market returns: A review of empirical tests of asset pricing anomalies
Over the last few decades, much debate has arisen regarding the determinants of the factors that help explain the cross-section of equity returns. Four well-known documented anomalies, which represent deviations from the capital asset pricing model, include the size effect, the value effect, the long-term momentum effect and the short-term momentum effect. The purpose of this paper is to review the empirical evidence...
May 2012
The mediatory impact of brand loyalty and brand image on brand equity
This study examines the underlying dimensions of brand equity in the chocolate industry. For this purpose, researchers developed a model to identify which factors are influential in building brand equity. The second purpose was to assess brand loyalty and brand imagesʼ mediating effect between brand attitude, brand personality, brand association with brand equity. The study employed structural equation modeling to...
May 2012
Identifying and ranking of Iran tractor manufacturing company’s export problems and obstacles
The purpose of this study is to identify and rank problems and obstacles thatprevent Iran tractor manufacturing company (ITMCO) of achieving a desired andappropriate export statistics. Towards that...
May 2012
A study on the influence of organizational change on organizational effectiveness of schools: Using investment for cloud computing technologies as a moderator
The purpose of this study is to verify the influence of organizational change on organizational effectiveness of schools using a moderating variable of investment for cloud computing technologies and the study subjects are directors at the second level and above and teachers (lecturers and above) from a Technology University in Taiwan. It adopts convenience sampling to select samples from the population, and applies the...
May 2012
Analysis of China's sports industry investment funds by using the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) method
The purpose of the present study is to analyze the advantages, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of China's sports industry investment funds (SIIFs) as well as the strategic choices so that, competitive advantages can be built to response to the challenges of investment funds in China's SIIFs is facing by using the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis method. Result of the...
May 2012
Determinants of the current account balance in Turkey: Vector auto regression (VAR) approach
The objective of this paper is to examine the theoretical and empirical linkage between current account deficits and a broad set of economic variables in Turkey. In this respect, Vector auto regression (VAR) setup was employed to specify the determinants of the current account in Turkey between 1987 and 2009. The choice of the set of explanatory variables are motivated by existing debates of these various theories about...
May 2012
Entrepreneurs' networks affecting innovation: Firms in Iran and Denmark
This article investigated the impact of the owner-manager’s network on firm's innovation. The main hypotheses of this study were: total network size, the role model and opportunity motivation, all have positive effects on the firm's innovation. Additionally, it was hypothesized that the impact of total network size on innovation is moderated by the role model and opportunity motivation. For testing the...
May 2012
Proposing a clonal selection algorithm for hybrid flow shop
In this paper we propose a clonal selection algorithm (PCSA) to solve a hybrid flow shop scheduling (HFS) problem considering the minimization of the sum of the total earliness and tardiness penalties. In the view of its non-deterministic polynomial-time hard nature, so we propose the clonal selection algorithm to deal with this problem. The performance of our algorithm is tested by numerical experiments on a large...
May 2012
Converting the military strategy principle of simplicity into a successful tool for strategy execution in a geographically dispersed organisation
The research reports a case study conducted to determine whether the application of simplicity as a military principle can assist a geographically dispersed organisation in executing strategy more effectively. An investigation was first conducted into the main reasons why strategy execution is not fully effective in an identified geographical dispersed organisation. A survey and semi-structured interviews were conducted...
May 2012
A descriptive inventory study of recent China marketing research
This paper surveys marketing research related to China. It focuses upon marketing journals whose scope covers marketing in Asia and China. One hundred articles selected from seven journals were reviewed and analyzed. The research discovered that academic articles on China marketing published in the last decade or so not only increased in number but also expanded in scope. Although most researchers were Chinese...
May 2012
Relevance of the balanced scorecard model in Africa: Shareholder-centred or stakeholder-centred?
The balanced scorecard model that was invented by Kaplan and Norton (1992) in the USA was designed for Western countries that operate within a capitalistic system. The capitalist systems focus on maximisation of wealth for the financial capital providers, shareholders. Africa is different in that its socio-cultural framework is socialist, community-based and humanist in nature. Thus, the balanced scorecard model is not...
May 2012
Impact of just-in-time (JIT) inventory system on efficiency, quality and flexibility among manufacturing sector, small and medium enterprise (SMEs) in South Africa
The paper presents the findings of the study that was conducted to investigate the impact of application of Just-In-Time (JIT) inventory management system in the manufacturing sector SMEs. Self-administered questionnaires were distributed to a sample of manufacturing sector SMEs in the food, wood and furniture, metals, non-metals and other industries. The study revealed that the majority of SMEs in the...
May 2012
Verifying the presence of the liquidity premium in the Brazilian market through different time scales
In this paper, we propose a new approach, wavelet analysis for investigating the relationship between liquidity and stock returns in the Brazilian market over different time scales. To that we used daily quotations of the Ibovespa from January, 2002 to April, 2010, totalizing 2049 observations. As proxy of liquidity, we used the measure proposed by Amihud (2002). The descriptive results appointed for a solidification of...
May 2012
Defining the perceptive aspects of leader-member exchange: A grounded investigation in the People’s Republic of China
Although, the increasing research interest on the topic of Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) among organizational researchers, there is a paucity of research on the perceptive aspects of LMX. The authors collected data from 258 supervisor-subordinate dyads in People’s Republic of China and employed an inductive approach to explore the perception of LMX from both superior and subordinate perspectives. We found that LMX...
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