January 2010
Doing business with impudence: A focus on women entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia
This study attempts to investigate the courage it takes for women to do business in Saudi Arabia. A total number of 350 participants were allowed as a sample. Drop-off, pick-up and On-line survey methods were used to receive maximum response rate. The descriptive statistics, the T-test and the ANOVA test were utilized to examine the business motivational factors. The results reveal that self-achievement is...
January 2010
New development of organizational commitment: A critical review (1960 - 2009)
This paper reviews the characteristics of main approaches to Organizational Commitment from the beginning of conception of Commitment in Becker (1960) till today, provides an overview of different eras and domains. Then discuss some new development of Organizational Commitment in commitment tendency or combined influence to organizational outcomes. This paper will argue some of thinking and ideas...
January 2010
The impact of industrial knowledge management and environmental strategy on corporate performance of iso-14000 companies in Taiwan: The application of structural equation modeling
The aim of this study is to investigate the relationships between environmental strategy, the environmental knowledge circulation process, and corporate performance by the investigation and data sampling of companies approved for International Organization for Standardization 14000 certification in Taiwan prior to December 2007. Data were collected via questionnaires and structural equation modeling was employed to...
January 2010
Triplex-network design for research of supply chain reliability
The purpose of this paper was to explore a research design, which can integrate knowledge in multi-discipline into triplex-network architecture, for the development of systematic Supply Chain Reliability (SCR) theory. Through analysis of the emergence of triplex-network in supply chains, triplex-network-based evaluation model of SCR was proposed and a numerical example was provided. The dynamic interactions...
January 2010
Effective factors on economic development in East Azerbaijan, Iran
The current paper aims at presenting a pattern for the development of East Azerbaijan province, Iran, in a frame on national and regional developmental policies, which requires the formation of two basic processes: (a) To access and employ a mechanism which ultimately limits unnecessary consumption expenditures in the province and leads the surplus of economic output toward physical and human investment...
January 2010
The study of knowledge transfer and green management performance in green supply chain management
The information communication and knowledge exchange based on environmental friendly requirements among manufacturers is the critical success factor of green supply chain management (GSCM). The firms of IT industry in Taiwan with green supply chain implementation was used as the research objects to further explore constructs of knowledge transfer and the relationships between knowledge transfer...
January 2010
From self interest to public interest: Promoting higher levels of business ethics
While there has been widescale acknowledgement of the importance of business ethics, it is evident that many businesses still conduct themselves unethically. This paper adapts Lawrence Kohlberg’s study on moral development to provide insight into the different levels of impact that self interest and public interest may have on promoting higher levels of business ethics. By drawing on Kohlberg’s...
January 2010
Enhancing an ethical culture through purpose -directed leadership for improved public service delivery: A case for South Africa
The fundamental purpose of government departments is to provide services to satisfy public needs. Public leaders have to take on organisational roles to decide how to best achieve the organisation’s purpose of meeting human needs and enhancing human life. An ethical culture underpinning purpose-driven leadership is viewed as an effective approach that will promote the broader interests of society in...
January 2010
Store brand proneness and maximal customer satisfaction in grocery stores
To identify the factors whose perception has the greatest influence on customer satisfaction, the authors analyse a database of 422 Spanish consumers who purchase from different types of self-service grocery stores in a representative Spanish city. The findings reveal that among consumers who exhibit a low propensity to buy store brands, perceptions of the quality image, as well as perceptions of service and...
January 2010
World trade organization pseudo-paradigm as a necessity for change: A qualitative study
Paradigm, the major motive engine of globalization in the present century in its modern sense has been the development of communications and the blast of information. Through a historical etymology we realize that the main generator of globalization process has been the scientific and cultural movement of renaissance and enlightenment times and In the present paper using the qualitative study approach, a...
January 2010
Analysis of debt-paying ability for a shipping industry in Taiwan
The debt financing market is an integral part of the global financial system. A company partially financed by debt faces bankruptcy danger. Although financial statement analysis covers more ratio approaches to viewing a firm’s liquidity, leverage, asset activity, profitability and performance, it cannot integrate a diverse ratio to analyze firm’s debt-paying ability. This paper employs data...
January 2010
Application of adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system in measurement of supply chain agility: Real case study of a manufacturing company
In this paper we have developed an approach based on Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) for measurement of agility in Supply Chain. An Agile Supply Chain (ASC) is frequently considered as a dominant competitive advantage. As complexity and vagueness of agility in global markets must be considered as one of the essential characteristics of an ASC system, we efficiently applied ANFIS in order to...
January 2010
An investigation of conflict resolution in educational organizations
The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of Conflict Resolution Education (Peer Mediation) in schools on the behaviours of students. The study utilized semi-experimental design. The sample of this study consists of 203 eight grade secondary school students in one Primary Education School in Bolu province in Turkey. Voluntary students were chosen according to sociometric technique and given 30 hours...
January 2010
Understanding school culture via analyzing organizational stories
Schools have different cultures specific to themselves. School culture represents dominant values, norms, assumptions, beliefs, stories, ceremonies and symbols shared by the members of a school. The objective in interpreting school culture is to understand the stories and symbols created by the members of this culture. Organizational story is a tool to analyze school culture. This article aims to highlight...
January 2010
The study of impacts and cognition for the attitude and intentions towards the Penghu casino industry development
The topic of opening offshore tourist casinos has been controversial throughout Taiwan. Supporters usually use Las Vegas in the U.S. as an example, demonstrating that Las Vegas, by opening tourist casinos, has brought prosperity and money to a deserted location like Nevada. Taiwan has wanted to open tourist casinos for some time, especially in the Penghu offshore island area, to rid themselves of the low...
January 2010
Corporate social responsibility strategies, dynamic capability and organizational performance: Cases of top Taiwan-selected benchmark enterprises
With an increasing trend of attention devoted to the corporate social responsibility (CSR) in businesses all over the world, this paper discusses the types of CSR strategies from both value perspective and strategic orientation. We also incorporate dynamic capabilities perspective to explain the effects of CSR strategies on organizational performance. Case studies from Taiwan further support theory framework...
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