Business Management and Strategy

AbstractThe study have proposed Adaptive Port Planning (APP) to be implemented in Casablanca Port according to regulate manner operation with a framework, an approach that bridges the gaps in the traditional practices of port planning by incorporating...

AbstractTrade in leather and leather products has progressively increased at the global arena. This growth has had much impact in the developing world mostly as the leather sector moved to Asia and projected to translate to Africa. Thus, the need to...

AbstractThe main objective of this study is to measure the effect of some variables to the return on investment in industrial companies in Aqaba city. It has been found that were three determinants of a positive impact on return on investment they are...

AbstractAn offset obligation is a countertrade which must be accepted in order to win the contract for a superior procurement project. This type of countertrade takes mainly place by government to government and commercial sales in the aerospace and...

AbstractMarket competition is no longer limited to provide functional attributes of the product itself but has been associated with a brand that can create a special image for its users, especially in the service industry.The purpose of this study is...

AbstractIn today's complex and dynamic environment, survival and competitiveness of companies are based on their capacity to continuously create and use new knowledge. In this perspective, this paper focuses on the enabling factors that boost Knowledge...

AbstractThe tremendous growth of the strategic management field has not mitigated the problem of lack of consistency in terminology. To make things even worse, general-purpose catalogs, such as ABI and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) have developed...

AbstractThe purpose of this study was to develop a mediation model in which high-performance human resource practices affect corporate entrepreneurship through perceived organizational support. In accordance with this purpose, firstly, the interrelationships...

AbstractThe theories and models underpinning strategic decision-making (SDM) are somewhat eclectic that demand multidisciplinary approach and appears non-differential from decision-making (DM) theories. This paper is a first attempt that puts the discipline...

AbstractsThe study has tested by correlation coefficient index a firm's comparison according to their performance on innovation, and the measure has taken the online sources network. The study has 365 firms observation including five special industries...

AbstractThe study aims to scrutinize the competitiveness and sustainability of the hotel industry in Pampanga, Philippines. Its primary objectives include 1) assessing the competitive intensity and attractiveness of the hotel industry; 2) analyzing the...

AbstractStimulated by the requisition to linked necessary purchases abroad with the largest possible return of investment let for years the so-called offset businesses grow. These requests for offset-obligations occurs mainly in the area of arms imports...

AbstractInnovation has attracted attention of researches in last 20 years, while networks and clusters are relatively new research subjects. In our paper we made an attempt to find the relationship between network centrality indexes and innovation performance....

AbstractPurpose of this research was to explore how a brand-equity could be leveraged in establishing the customer equity in the online environment. Existing research has not yet explored how the tangibilization affects various branding and e-branding...

AbstractThe purpose of this study was to determine the effect of marketing capabilities and distribution strategy the performance of MSP intermediary organizations. The mobile service providers sector is a major contributor to the country's economic...

AbstractWe examined the causal effect of external quality cues on brand image of cigarettes, in the absence of any internal cue, among Iranian adults. The experimental research employed a 3*2*2 factorial design with three levels of graphic quality, two...

AbstractThis paper reports the findings of an exploratory study conducted among a sample of 313 customers at a major mall in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa to determine consumers' perceptions of private label brands versus manufacturer...

AbstractMarket orientation has emerged as a significant antecedent of organizational performance and is presumed to contribute to the long term success of a firm. While all firms are strongly influenced by their external environmental, small and medium...

AbstractThe purpose of this study is to identify the characteristics and elements of the work environment for the five-star hotels in the Al Aqaba city. It also aims to identify the average job turnover and its causes in five-star hotels in the Al Aqaba...

AbstractThe present paper studies the BP crisis management of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster which occurred on April 20th, 2010. The authors content-analysed a large amount of secondary data from various sources, used the three-phase crisis management...

AbstractIntroduction of supplying the following aspects of food safety related risks is an urgent need in the shrimp business development in Indonesia. this is in accordance with the Marine and Fisheries Decree number 29 of 2003 and Council Directive...

AbstractOver the years, brand-building arguments have focused on process models; that is, brand-building and formation processes developed from historical and cultural foundations of the brand visionaries. They are then translated to the vision statements...

AbstractIn spite of the abilities of earned value management technique (EVM) in evaluating the projects' cost and time performance, it is not able to estimate the projects' future performance. In fact, the earned value management estimates the project...

AbstractThe purpose of this study is to identify the impact of management information systems of human resources on the training needs in Al-Balqa Applied University and to get out practical recommendations to solve them. It also aims to show the possibility...

AbstractThe purpose of this study is to examine the viability of different strategic types operating in the same industry. The specific industry examined was the general insurance industry in Australia. The Miles & Snow (1978) strategic typology...

AbstractThe purpose of this research was to examine the strategies adopted by the word of mouth (WOM) dyad in seeker-initiated context. To examine this process, in-depth interviews were conducted with 14 dyads. The result indicated that the WOM sender...

AbstractNowadays, the pressure of competition from multi-national companies had increased and among them is the automotive industry. It is the impact when the level of competition is intensifying as the manufactured vehicles shifts from being national...

AbstractIn this document, the process of business management in the biggest telecom operator in Macedonia, was considered, taking in mind two periods of company's evolution: the period before and the period after its privatization. The world of business...

AbstractTotal Quality Management is a management theory that managers and companies talk about but know very little to implement. This paper takes a strong look at the history of Total Quality Management (TQM) from its origins to current successes in...

AbstractInformation and communication technology (ICT) plays very crucial role to enhance sales, expand business, reduce operating cost, reduce operating procedure, improve product or company image and easy access for product information in today's competitive...

AbstractWith technological superiority and globalization, critical changes in the world have lead to uncertainty and ambiguity towards the future. By understanding these dynamics, creative leaders position themselves to lead organizations toward a more...

AbstractThis article aims to present the main results of an empirical study done in Morocco and attempts to highlight:- What explains the variety of practices in management control?- And what is the impact of adopting these practices of management control...

AbstractEmployees are faced with unpredictable retirement life, and therefore dream of guaranteed income inflow during retirement. Acquisition of shares and buildings for commercial purposes seems to be the easy antidote to this challenge, until the...

AbstractThis paper addresses how entrepreneurial teams and governance influence the choice of a risky growth strategy-hypercompetitive strategy-adopted by privately-owned Chinese startups. Two specific entrepreneurial teams are analyzed: the nested entrepreneurial...

AbstractThis study explores the influence of Novatel's leadership style on the development of the firm's business model. The purpose of this research is to explain the role of this leadership type in the process of creating a business model that both...

AbstractKaizen Event (KE) has been growing in popularity since the mid 1990s, to date, there has difficult to find empirical research on the determinants of KE effectiveness. KE are an increasingly common organizational improvement mechanism aimed at...

AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to identify the factors that effects employee motivation and examining the relationship between organizational effectiveness and employee motivation.A model was designed based on the literature, linking factors of...

AbstractThis paper presents an integrated fuzzy approach for selecting a marketing strategy. In the integrated approach, fuzzy concepts are used for decision-makers' subjective judgments to reflect the vague nature of the selection process. Fuzzy AHP...

AbstractBecause of the recent recession, interest into the factors that determine sustainable organisational success has increased. Managers all over the world are trying out various improvement concepts, seeing mixed results. One likely reason for this...