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Global Business and Management Research: An International Journal
Management Journals • 12 issues, 97 articles
Provides a platform for debate among diverse academic and practitioner communities who address a broad area of business and management issues across the globe.
Articles
Vol. 5, No. 1, January
Traders' Behavior in Financial Markets: Paris Option Market Case
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Introduction The volatility prediction is essential to understand the functioning of financial markets, so that agents are able to develop their strategies. This hypothesis seems somewhat flimsy in the presence of market option. Indeed, some agents...
Performance Management System in a Non-Profit Local Governmental Broadcaster
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Introduction In recent years there has been a dramatic increase in the number of nonprofit organisations brought on by the rapid changes in the environment and the demands of society. These types of organisations are playing an increasingly important...
Professional Advice and Its Possible Effect on Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises' Access to External Debt Finance in Australia
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Introduction Previous research studies (Carey, 2008; Cassar & Holmes, 2003; Lee & McGuiggan, 2008; Shailer, 1999) have investigated the effect of advisory service on a number of SMEs' aspects, such as access to external finance, performance,...
Validating and Enhancing a Strategy Transformation Model Using Case Study
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Introduction Over the last four decades, there have been conflicting views in the literature with regard to the most effective means of creating strategy (e.g., Andrews, 1971; Armstrong, 1982; Brews and Hunt, 1999; Grant, 2003; Mintzberg, 1972;...
Determinants of Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Its Outcomes
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Introduction Today, changes in organizational environments, their resultant innovations, and flexibility are emphasized, which necessarily calls for voluntary behavior from members of an organization. Accordingly, an organization should be capable...
Systemic Stakeholders' Management for Real Estate Development Projects
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Introduction The scholarly attention to the managing of construction projects, over the past years, has been flourishing (Abatecola, Caputo, Mari & Poggesi, 2013). The design and construction of real estate work can affect a variety of interests....
Vol. 4, No. 3-4, July-October
Relationship between Organizational Culture and Strategy Implementation: Typologies and Dimensions
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Introduction Now days, no organization can go on its mission and last in the world of competition without maintaining a strong advantageous culture. The study on the effects of organizational culture was started in 1980s, today is matching itself...
Organizational Learning Capabilities of Nurses in Iran
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Introduction How organizations achieve sustainable competitive advantage, is one of the issues challenging today's competitive world (Dess et al., 2002). Better & faster learning than competitors are the only source of strength and survival...
Cash Flow and Supply Chain Relationship in New Product Quality in Auto Industry
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Introduction The role of information technology in contemporary organizations continues to expand in scope and complexity and has a dramatic effect on business operations. Information systems are widely used in the banking sector, these systems...
Flexible Organization
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1. Introduction Flexible organization is that which understands the essence of change. Key-question for managers and modern firms' entrepreneurs to answer is: "What is happening with the environment and what are we supposed to do to adapt?(Bacanu,...
Cash Flow and Supply Chain Relationship in New Product Quality in Auto Industry
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1. Introduction Highly turbulent and competitive environments amplify the importance of supply chain management, which refers to the increasing intensity of the competition of "supply chain vs. supply chain" not "firm vs. firm". In order to cope...
Managing Diversity in Public Organizations
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Introduction and Methodology of the Article The new century has been marked by a generalized sense that traditional work arrangements are inadequate to address the challenges organizations encounter today. The shifts from an industrial to an information-based...
Vol. 4, No. 2, April
Accounting Income Smoothing, Hedging and Corporate Governance
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Introduction Firms are engaged, since a long time, in accounting manipulation that literature has described in several ways: earnings management, income smoothing, big bath accounting, window dressing and creative accounting (Breton and Stolowy,...
The Quality of Water Drinking and Consumers Preferences: The Tunisia case/La Qualite De L'eau Potable et Les Preferences De Consommateurs: Cas De la Tunisie
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1. INTRODUCTION Les mutations economiques, demographiques et urbaines sont des facteurs qui contribuent, generalement, a une surexploitation, souvent irrationnelle, des ressources naturelles. En effet, une utilisation non equilibree de la ressource...
The Investigation of the Effect of Income Smoothing on the Reported Earnings Quality of Active Collapsed Companies in Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE)
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Introduction On the one hand, managers as providers of the financial statements awarding of the financial positions of the company and having privileged information than the financial statements users (Kordestani and Amirbygi, 2008); on the other...
The Behavioral Approach and the Rationality of Economic Decisions: Application to Banks Managers
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Introduction In traditional economic theory, perfectly rational agents make logical and justified decisions on perfect markets. Nevertheless, everyday life of investors, executives, managers and general economic agents is not the one of a "homoeconomicus"...
Investigating Effect of Entrepreneur's Personal Attributes and Cognitive Heuristics on the Quality of Entrepreneurial Strategic Decision Making
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Introduction Entrepreneurial strategic decision making (ESDM) is a goal-directed cognitive process of high task decision which involves a high degree of complexity and uncertainty (Curseu et al., 2010). According to Vermeulen and Curseu (2010),...
An Empirical Model for Product Launches in Industrial Market and Exit under Market Improbability
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Introduction The role product development in Industrial market as per Booz, Allen and Hamilton (1980), are for repositioning of market segment, cost reduction, adding advantage to the customers in terms of high performance, safety, and easy availability....
Entrepreneurial University Conceptualization: Case of Developing Countries
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Introduction After years of neglect, higher education in developing countries draws the attention of many scholars. These countries commenced following the footsteps of universities in developed countries. Over the last decade, slow movements were...
Effect of the Financial Security Law on Real and Accrual-Based Earnings Management: An Empirical Evidence Form Tunisia
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Introduction Earnings management is a much studied research topic in financial accounting. Empirical studies have documented various approaches in detecting earnings management behavior. For manipulation of earnings, managers have a variety of choices...
Integrated Management as a Background of Modern Environmental Policy
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Introduction Ukrainian environmental policy was formed on the bases of law "Mainstream of Governmental Policy of Ukraine on use and conservation of natural resources, and environmental safety" that was adopted in 1998 and became the main document...
Vol. 3, No. 3-4, July-October
Portfolio Choice in Emergent Markets: Between the Rational and the Behavioral Theories
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Introduction Modern portfolio theory is indeed modern, dating back to the late 1950s and early 1960s (Statman, 2005). It derives of an idealistic design: investors are rational (Miller and Modigliani, 1961), markets are efficient (Fama, 1965), Expected...
Internet Boost the Economic Growth of Mainland China? Discovering Knowledge from Our World Wide Web
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Introduction Internet generate a revolution in the economic geography in the 21st century, modern neighborhoods are not connected with streams and roads but with wires and microwave. Nowadays, more than a quarter of the world's planet (1.8 billion...
An Empirical Study on Identification of Critical Success Factors in Project Based Organizations
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Introduction Project Management is becoming major organizational commotion performed within organizations. More and more organizations are depending on project management to achieve operational excellence and achieve business growth. Achieving success...
Relationship between Capital Structure and Firms Performance: A Case of Textile Sector in Pakistan
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Introduction The capital structure of a business is the mix of types of debt and equity the company has on its balance sheet. The capital or ownership of a business can be evaluated by knowing how much of the ownership is in debt and how much in...
Students' Unethical Behaviour: Insights from an African Country
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Introduction With the development of internet, easier access to electronic resources has been provided. While this provides scholars with a great tool in conducting a research through enabling access to literature in the shortest possible time,...
Effect of Intrinsic Motivation on Consumer Brand Evaluation: The Influence of Motive, Involvement, and Need for Cognition
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Research Background The competition in motorcycle industry is very high, according to the amount of new comer in the industry. Competition was not in price only, because the manufacturer offer their product in the same price relatively. In the marketing...
Greek Financial Crisis
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Introduction The end of II World War and, particularly, the end of civil war found Greece economically ruined. It had no capital, infrastructure and machinery. Its agricultural sector generated less than half the prewar level. There was hyperinflation...
Restructuring as an Effective Change Management Tool in Nigerian Commercial Banks
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Introduction As an integral part of the Nigerian economy, the banking sector's success or failure can make or mar the global economic competitive strength of any nation. Countries experiences in restructuring are diverse but there is a commonality...
Using Principles of Logistics in Corporate Education
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Logistics is considered as theoretical and practical area in post-industrial economy. Information and knowledge have become dominating resources in current economy. Therefore competitiveness of company depends on effective corporate educational system....
Employee/labour Welfare Measures in Singareni Collieries Company Limited
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Introduction DEFINITION OF WELFARE The term welfare is derived from the French phrase "welfare" which means to Fare well. The chambers dictionary defines the term welfare "as a state characterized by happiness, well being or prosperity". Well-doing...
Analysis of Attributes for Changing Health Plans: An Employer Based Medical Scheme Case Study
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Introduction Purchasers of private health plans in South Africa belong to two types of health insurance vehicles. The open scheme that freely admit everyone and the restricted schemes, which are employer based schemes (Willie, 2011). There are significant...
Vol. 3, No. 2, April
Analyzing the Potential Market for Hybrid Cars: A Survey of Car Dealers in Mauritius
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Introduction Nowadays the world depends heavily on transportation media and due to environmental changes that include among others global warming, the transport sector has had to be modified to keep up with the demand. The demand for today's vehicle...
Management Control: A Process That Creates Organizational Meaning
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Introduction A point of departure frequently used in various attempts to define management control is that it concerns individuals within organizations. Anthony (1988) claims that costs cannot be controlled directly; instead, emphasis should be...
A Validation of the End-User Computing Satisfaction (EUCS) towards Computerised Accounting System (CAS)
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Introduction Accounting Information System Accounting is the service function that seeks to provide the users with quantitative information. On the other hand, AIS (Accounting Information System) is an information system that is designed to make...
How to Deal with Imprecise Weights in Multiple Criteria Decision Making
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Introduction The great number and variety of applications of multi-criteria decision making (MCDM)--including project prioritization, location and policy analysis, and managerial performance evaluation--has arisen in tandem with critical developments...
Analysis of ERP Usage with Technology Acceptance Model
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Introduction The environment of business changes so rapidly. Companies face of increasing competition, expanding markets, and rising customer expectations. This puts pressure on companies to lower costs, expand product choice, provide better customer...
The Investigation of Relation between Market Ratios and Market Price per Share of Accepted Companies in Tehran Stock Exchange
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Introduction One of the instruments used for measuring financial success of companies is analysis of financial ratios particularly market ratios of companies. In fact, these ratios reveal important realities dealing with operation and financial...
Defining and Measuring Entrepreneurial Universities: A Study in Iranian Context Using Importance-Performance Analysis and TOPSIS Technique
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Introduction Entrepreneurial university, as the third generation of universities, plays a significant role in the knowledge economy. In recent years, a variety of beneficiaries of this phenomenon tried to elaborate the concept, some by delineating...
The Relationships among Stakeholders in the Organization of Men's Professional Tennis Events
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Promoters of Professional Tennis Circuits Men's professional tennis is characterized by the high number of events that make up the annual calendar and by the unique organizational models of tournaments. The current organizational structure of...
Vol. 3, No. 1, January
Evaluation of Users Information Security Practices at King Saud University Hospitals
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Introduction The growing dependence on information technology (IT) by healthcare organizations has made information security a permanent challenge facing these organizations (Knapp 2007). Almost all internet-connected organizations that use information...
Best Practice through Benchmarking in Egyptian Organizations: An Empirical Analysis
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Introduction In today's highly competitive, rapidly changing global economy organisations have been focused to consider and implement a wider variety of innovative management philosophies and techniques. One such technique is benchmarking which...
Organization Development Interventions for Prospectors: A Theoretical Framework and Its Empirical Validation
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Introduction Strategic orientation is an organizational response to the environment. Miles and Snow (1978) proposed the prospector-defender typology for firms operating in dynamic and stable environments respectively. For a prospector, maintaining...
Developing an Integrated Information System to Enhance Employee Performance
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Introduction Global financial crisis followed by increase in interest rates during 2008 resulted in widespread trash of investors' confidence. Chain of events after the collapse of Lehman Brothers is still fresh in the minds of investors. Non Banking...
Toward a Systematic Framework for an Entrepreneurial University: A Study in Iranian Context with an IPOO Model
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Introduction Today, universities are playing a significant role in the modern and knowledge-based economy. Their brilliant and critical role in innovation becomes more and more proverbial, especially in the triple helix (Etzkowitz, 2003 a). Public...
Strategies for SMEs after Global Recession
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Introduction The impact of the sub- prime crisis along with a slowdown in mortgages has led to a significant lowering of growth estimates in USA. Since the United States dominates the global economy, this had led to slowing down of economies of...
Six Sigma in Manufacturing Sector in India
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Introduction Six Sigma as a business strategy has been well recognized for operational and business excellence. This powerful business management strategy has been exploited by many world class organizations such as General Electric, Motorola, Honeywell,...
Impact of Earnings Management on Capital Structure of Non-Financial Companies Listed on (KSE) Pakistan
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Introduction In the current decade "Earnings Management" has become a researchable topic due to collapse of many firms. It has been defined by many researchers in several different ways but Schipper (1989) defined as "... a purposeful intervention...
The Effect of Attitude toward Advertisement on Yemeni Female Consumers' Attitude toward Brand and Purchase Intention
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Introduction In trying to understand what triggers consumer's behavior, the role of attitude has been explored by many researchers on which its importance has already been acknowledged. Today, research on attitude has been expanded to include attitude...
Vol. 2, No. 4, October
Twitter: A Viable Marketing Tool for SMEs?
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Introduction 2009 was the year when 800million monthly visitors thought "life wasn't worth living unless it was documented on Facebook and Twitter" (Clark, 2009, p.6; The Economist, 2010). Easy-to-use technologies and sensible privacy control settings...
Physiological Emotions and Entrepreneurial Decisions
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Introduction In order to create a new venture the opportunity has to be discovered and the entrepreneur has to make a choice whether to exploit it or not (Shane and Venkatraman, 2000). While entrepreneurial processes begin with intent to start a...
The Malaysian Consumer and the Environment: Purchase Behavior
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Introduction The issue of eco-consciousness among customers is said to be a major concern for marketers. Although many environmentally friendly products with green attributes have been introduced in the markets, consumers have not changed their...
ISO 9000 Implementation in Indian Manufacturing Organizations
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Introduction The world has witnessed the growth of quality management systems standards such as ISO 9000 where by the end of year 2005, 776608 number of certifications awarded by 161 countries worldwide (ISO survey 2005) and emergence of Total Quality...
Labor Productivity of Greek Manufacturing Industries
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Introduction There is a variety of productivity measures. The choice between them relies on the purpose of productivity measurement and, in many cases, on the availability of data. Generally, productivity estimates can be classified as single factor...
Understanding and Interpreting the Relationship between Human and Corporate Identity: An Empirical Study
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Introduction In the 1950's the thought of an analogy between company image and human personality was born. Early proponents such as Newman (1953) who wrote "There is nothing strange in the idea of a social institution which has individuality separate...
Consumerism and Hyperconsumerism in the Romanian Society
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Introduction A long period of time consumption has been ignored and excluded as a subject of study or interest: "the history of consumption has no history, no community of scholars, no tradition of scholarship" (McCracken, 1987, p. 139), but nowadays...
Vol. 2, No. 2-3, April-July
The Evolution of Capital Productivity in Greek Manufacturing
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Introduction Measures of productivity growth establish major indicators for the analysis of economic growth. There is a variety of different approaches to productivity measurement and their calculation and interpretation demands careful consideration,...
Role of Organisation Structure in Facilitating Marketing
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Introduction Organisation structure refers to the pattern of relationships among the various components or parts of an organisation. As these positions are held by the various persons of an organisation, organisation structure signifies the relationship...
Factors Affecting Firms' Performance: The Case of Greece
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Introduction In the era of globalization, competition has become fiercer than ever. Reduced trade barriers, spread of technology and lower costs for communication and transportation have sharpened international competition. The economic changes...
Market Volatility & Proactive Risk Management Practices for Mutual Fund
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Introduction Global financial markets have been bestowing additional complexities with deregulation of legal constraints that expect mutual fund AMCs to be updated with anticipated changes and realign themselves with the new market conditions. Growth...
Framework for Implementing Flexible Automation in Indian Industries
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Introduction Over the last twenty years, powerful developments globally as well as within the country had a considerable impact on Indian manufacturing sector. First is the substantial reduction in trade barriers across the globe and in India, particularly...
Critical Environmental Indicators Used to Assess Environmental Performance of Business
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Introduction During the last decade, there has been an increasingly intensive interest in assessing, measuring and documenting the environmental performance of industry. Pressure is increasing on companies to report on the environmental impact of...
Augmented Reality: A Sustainable Marketing Tool?
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Introduction Entering into a toy shop and being able to see the contents of a box 'assembled' on a screen in real-time only by pointing the box to a webcam and even interacting with the 3D representation by moving the packaging is surely an unforgettable...
Investors Preference on Financial Services
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Introduction Economic development of a nation is depends on the performance of the financial process and capital formulation of the nation. Efficient financial system will automatically formulate required capital for investment. The non banking...
Vertical Decomposition Approach for Two Stage Capacitated Warehouse Location Problems
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Introduction In any organization, one of the most important strategic decisions is to locate facilities viz. factories, plants or warehouses. While locating a facility, the most prioritized criterion is a good service level. However, achievement...
A New Lagrangian Relaxation Based Approach to Solve Capacitated Lot-Sizing Problem with Backlogging
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Introduction Capacitated lot-sizing problem (CLSP) has been one of the favorite ideas to study for researcher in last five decades, as it is evident from the recent review work of (Quadt and Kuhn, 2008). Right from one the most basic models of lotsizing,...
Vol. 2, No. 1, January
Online vs. Offline Movie Rental: A Comparative Study of Carbon Footprints
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Introduction The increasingly cogent evidence that the environmental sustainability of our planet is rapidly deteriorating due to human actions has made the concept of Sustainability a key focus of humankind. Nonetheless, in order to assess the...
Organizational Justice and Organizational Citizenship Behavior in Higher Education Institution
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Introduction In highly competitive environment, the organization effectiveness is a crucial factor for the organization's sustainability and profitability. Therefore, achieving the organizational effectiveness is the responsibility of each individual...
The Use of Operations Management Procedures in Order to Increase Organizations Competitiveness under the Conditions of Growing Pressures of Globalization
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Introduction The use of operations management procedures in the current very competitive environment and under the conditions of growing pressures of business environment globalization is one of indivisible instruments for the success of the organization....
Corporate Social Responsibility Practices in India: A Study of Top 500 Companies
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Introduction The broad rationale for a new set of ethics for corporate decision making, which clearly constructs and upholds a organization's social responsibility, arises from the fact that a business enterprise derives several benefits from society,...
Quality Management Standards (QMS) Implementation in Egypt: ISO 9000 Perspectives
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Introduction The globalization of the marketplace together with the expansion of international trade, and the rapid improvement in high quality products and services has brought about high level of market pressure across the world. In order to become...
Impact of Size, Industry Structure and Strategy on Marketing Challenges of Globalization
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Introduction One of the most compelling reasons to examine the attitude of firms to the marketing challenges of globalization relates to the diversity of firm's size, industry environments and strategy. Since organizations vary in terms of size,...
The Preliminary Study of Management Accounting Practices (MAPs) in Small Business
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Introduction The role of managerial accounting is very different now than it was a decade ago. This process is known as identifying, measuring, analyzing, interpreting, and communicating information in achievement of organization's purpose and goals....
The Cost/variety Issues of Forecast-Based Form Postponement
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Introduction A number of new variety & customization drivers has nowadays been changing the traditional objective of individualizing goods and services, i.e. to attain increased revenue by the ability to charge premium prices derived from the...
Working Capital Management for Sustainable Cooperatives
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Introduction Ethiopia (Horn of Africa) is predominantly an agricultural country with the vast majority of its population directly involved in the production of crops and livestock. The agricultural sector accounts for nearly 46.7 percent of the...
Lean Manufacturing for Sustainable Development
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Introduction Business is conducted in a global economy these days, putting tremendous pressure on manufacturers to adopt advanced manufacturing practices to achieve sustainable competitive advantage for the sustainable development of the organization....
Vol. 1, No. 3-4, July-October
Heterogeneity of the Maghreb: The Results of Optimized Monetary Rules
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Introduction The launch of the euro has fueled doubts concerning the constitution of an optimal European monetary zone. Indeed, the differences in legal, institutional and cultural frameworks ... as well as the diversity of the productive and financial...
CSR and Public Bank Bhd. (Malaysia)
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1.1 Introduction Corporate Social Responsibility is defined as "Open and Transparent business practices that are based on ethical values and respect for the community, employees, the environment, shareholders and other stakeholders" (Public Bank)....
Internet and Interactive Websites: Cornerstones of Competitive Advantage in the Virtual Economy
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Introduction This paper aims to endorse the viability of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and explore the benefits/opportunities provided by a fully interactive website, integrated with a Customer Relationship Management system and...
Key Issues for the Implementation of Lean Manufacturing System
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1. Introduction Global competitiveness is not a term, which is discussed by the researchers at conferences and seminars. It is a reality, which is observed in our day to day life. Between 1950s and 1990s, Indian Industrial development policy was...
Tourists' Expectations and Perceptions on the Service Quality in Malaysian Tourism Industry
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Introduction In a developing country such as Malaysia, tourism is seen as a major contributor to a nation's income and wealth. Tremendous growth in the tourism sector has made the industry the second most important economic sector in Malaysia's...
Relationship between Reputable Agencies and Corporate Performance of Banking Firms in Asian Emerging Markets
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1. Introduction Corporate governance has received wide attention from the financial community ever since the Asian financial crisis in 1997 and was further enhanced by corporation scandals such as Enron, WorldCom, and Royal Ahold. Recent subprime...
Integration of Supply Chain Management with Internet and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems: Case Study
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Introduction With today's emphasize on cutting costs, reduced inventories, streamlining expenses, lowering operating cost and gaining strategic advantages many companies are looking to develop their bottom lines with more effective and successful...
Is Media Planning the Driver or the End-Product of Promotional Strategy?
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Introduction "How empty is theory in the presence of fact" (Mark Twain, 1835-1910). The world is such a complex network of circumstances that people have continuously been developing models and theories in their effort to make some sense of why...
Physiological Understanding of Human Emotions for Effective Management
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Introduction Emotion is a positive or negative mental state that combines physiological input with cognitive appraisal (Thagard). Although not traditionally considered an aspect of cognitive science, it has recently been attributed to be effective...
A Study on the Impact of Culture, Economic, History and Legal Systems Which Affect the Provisions of Fittings by Residential Developers in Boston, Hong Kong and Nanjing
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Introduction It is common to find a whole block of buildings with standardized fittings provided by the developers in Hong Kong and China. The term "One country Two Systems" is one of the best descriptions in the provisions of internal fittings....
Vol. 1, No. 2, April
Organizational Factors for Exploration and Exploitation: A Conceptual Review
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Introduction Researchers classify innovation as two separate set of activities viz. exploration and exploitation. Benner & Tushman (2002) and Jansen (2005) differentiate between 'exploitative Innovations' which involve 'improvements in existing...
How to Calculate the Costs of Idle Capacity in the Manufacturing Industry
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Introduction Issues relating to the costs of unused capacity have gained in importance in recent years. This is due to further fluctuating changes in customer demands, in combination with the seasonal nature of products and rising costs in fixed...
A Discussion on HPWS Perception and Employee Behavior
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Introduction High performance work systems (HPWS), has its roots to HR practices closely related with the Japanese production systems, most significantly the lean system of Toyota, documented extensively in the book titled "the machine that changed...
HR Practice Scenario in Indian KPOs
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Introduction The trajectory of growth of outsourcing as a strategy and a significant management tool over the last decade has been noteworthy notwithstanding the momentary hit due to the global economic meltdown. What began from manufacturing outsourcing...
Implement Strategic 360 Degree Appraisal for a University
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Introduction This paper looks at how universities can implement a 360 degree appraisal system into their annual performance review for academics and administrative staff and with some modifications the process can be extended to include multinational...
Cost Management Changes in the Economic Resort of Czech and Slovak Republic
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Introduction Economy in the Czech Republic but also in all middle Europe countries went in last 20 years through stormy development and we were witnesses of dramatic changes, which had an influence of European and also worldwide entrepreneurial...
Vol. 1, No. 1, January
Strategic HRM Practices: Perspectives of Malaysian and Japanese Owned Companies in Malaysia
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Introduction The impact of globalization and highly competitive markets has undoubtedly caused the HRM to take on a more strategic role in the organization and management of human resources (Lundy, 1994). Accordingly, the new positioning of HRM...
Six Sigma Practices in the Banking Sector in Qatar
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Introduction Since its introduction in the quality management world as a powerful quality management tool, six sigma has gained an increasing interest among many different manufacturing organizations where the benefits and improvements from its...
Strategy: A Pedagogy for Efficient, Accountable and Socially Responsive Higher Education
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Introduction The ancient history of knowledge driven economy takes us back to thousands years to the past. The "first wave" of hunting, gathering started to transform societies through agricultural revolution 8000 years ago. The "second wave" started...
Determining Critical Success Factors of International Expansion in African Telephony Industry
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Introduction The telecommunications sector has become the economic engine as well as an enabler of social, educational and medical progress worldwide. Mobile phones are spreading ubiquitously across the planet (Kalba, 2008). There were 3.3 billion...
Education Service Delivery and Students' Satisfaction: A Study of Private Colleges in Malaysia
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Introduction Education is one of the most important industries and playing a vital role in national development. In relation to the importance of education, Brunat (2006) has studied on the relationship between education and economic growth. Based...
