Management Review : An International Journal

INTRODUCTIONThe word philanthropy is rooted in the ancient Greek word 'philanthropia'. Philanthropia is a combination of the words 'philos' for 'loving' and 'anthropos' for 'human being.' In the context of studies on modern philanthropy, its definition...

INTRODUCTIONSince last decades, quality management has been used widely irrespective of size of organization and is consider as the major component of competitiveness and long term success of organization. The successful implementation of TQM in manufacturing...

INTRODUCTIONEmployee retention issue continues to be a main concern for employers in various sectors and industries in Malaysia. According to Arora (2016), organizations now are actively addressing about employee retention. Technology sector companies...

INTRODUCTIONRecent design requirements of a building have become more irregular and bespoke, and sustainable aspects in a building such as high energy performance and low carbon footprints have become one of the major considerations in the construction...

INTRODUCTIONFor an organization to get maximum output and quality work it requires effective workforce but with an effective workforce the organization can only go to a certain distance (Arora, 2016). The use of competencies in reaching the target increases...

INTRODUCTIONHealth is a complex issue and measuring health outcomes require data for many areas that are not directly related to and impacted by health care. Medical intervention and drug management are just part of health care management (Laaksonen,...

INTRODUCTIONIn the recent years, there has been a decreasing tendency in the commercial banks' profitability. On one hand, this is due to the strong competition in the industry and increase in the operating costs. However, it is limited to increase their...

INTRODUCTIONWork engagement is an evolving notion in the area of occupational health psychology (Bakker, Schaufeli, Leiter, & Taris, 2008). The concept was first coined by nearly 25 years ago by Kahn (1990) who conceptualized it as the psychological,...

INTRODUCTIONIn past few years, the Indian economy has witnessed a positive change in growth and development, with which the technological and the traditional methods of doing business also changed. The smart organizations are now focusing towards the...

INTRODUCTIONIt has been a central issue for construction customers to maximise value, lower cost and achieve sustainability in an industry that has been criticised for its inefficiency and lack of productivity. This inefficiency results in delays in...

INTRODUCTIONThe proliferation of strategic alliances has been a new business trend of the global economy over the last two decades. Strategic alliances can help firms to acquire knowledge, market share, new capabilities, and other relevant resources...

(ProQuest: ... denotes formulae omitted.)INTRODUCTIONAbout 94% of the 4 million miles of paved roads in the United States contain asphalt material. The product also covers about 85% of the nation's airport runways and parking areas (EAPA & NAPA,...

INTRODUCTIONAs we know, for several decades in the developed countries innovations have been recognized by the third factor of economic growth that prompted countries and enterprises to start innovative race to be the first in market and open new markets....

INTRODUCTIONThe restructuring of resources (Teece, 2007; Teece et al., 1997) and their continuous development (Helfat & Winter, 2011; Takahashi, 2015) are tools that can help companies in their struggle with the increasingly dynamic environment....

INTRODUCTIONConsidering the growing number of aging owner-mangers of SMBs in Canada, there will be a massive transfer of ownership of businesses in the world in the next years (Bruce & Wong, 2012). In Canada, more than 50% of family businesses will...

INTRODUCTIONThe turn of the century has marked an increasing interest in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) worldwide, as more scholars and corporations are realizing the necessity of connecting business with society. Although a considerable amount...

INTRODUCTIONGovernment of Uzbekistan adopted a number of programs aimed at social and economic development of regions, including development of free industrial and economic zone in Navoi region, Dzhizak and Angren, which define the basic parameters of...

INTRODUCTIONThe healthcare landscape has been rapidly changing in this country with the introduction of the Affordable Healthcare Act in 2014. Pressure on cost cuts and quality improvement put healthcare organizations in a tenuous position. Management...

(ProQuest: ... denotes formulae omitted.)INTRODUCTIONSolving many scientific problems requires to calculate sums, integrals or optimization problems. The Monte Carlo (MC) method is a method of numerical integration frequently used when the numerical...

INTRODUCTIONAccording to a forecast demand on geosynthetics will grow for 5,3 % annually and by 2013 will reach 4,7 billions square meters. The greatest increase in demand is supposed in such countries dynamically developing countries as: China, India...

INTRODUCTIONThe major element in economic activity of any country with market economy is investments. The problem of a choice of the investment decision always is difficult, and the assessment of investment appeal of the territory is the most important...

INTRODUCTIONThe healthcare industry plays a critical role in ensuring a country's continuous development as its function is to provide the healthcare needs to communities and individuals and impacts the life of every person. Moreover, as one of the largest...

INTRODUCTIONIn recent years, health insurance sector has become the fastest growing sector in the non-life insurance industry in India and also emerging as significant business for non-life insurance sector. Increasing awareness of health insurance,...

INTRODUCTIONThe World insurance markets are described having various key economic indicators like annual premiums, the relative importance of life and non life products, insurance concentration, and insurance density. World insurance premiums represent...

INTRODUCTIONPrimorski Region benefits from access to an enormous and diverse set of aquatic biological resources, which largely unexplored, underexploited and understudied. Meanwhile, marine ecosystems provide a unique environment with an enormous potential...

INTRODUCTIONShortly after the global financial crisis in 2009, the world economy was deteriorating on a global scale. Nevertheless, since 2010, it has recovered gradually. However, this recovery process varied distinctly according to the countries and...

INTRODUCTIONMany countries understand the enormous advantages brought about by the accelerated development and proliferation of information and communication technologies (ICT). It would be rather naive to suggest that the Internet and ICT technologies...

INTRODUCTIONFast-growing economies of developing countries, particularly in Asia, increases demand for soybeans. Soybeans are used for a variety of purposes, such as soy meal for feeding livestock, cooking oil, and biodiesel production. Because East...

INTRODUCTIONStudies reveal that competition has affected business risk and return. Eugen F., and French, Kenneth R., (2004) also indicated in the three factor model that "value" and "size" are significant components which can affect stock returns. They...

INTRODUCTIONResearch on corporate accounting policy has been the subject of interest from researchers for many years. Lev (1992) argues that a technical change to the presentation of financial statements is to disseminate information voluntarily. The...

INTRODUCTIONCorporate governance is often regarded as a weak link in Asia's company performance and economic development since the Asian financial crisis of 1997. Ownership structure is the basis of corporate governance and it is a primary determinant...

ABSTRACTThis paper is a practitioner's view of impact of different parameters like Centralization, Offshoring, Productivity Improvement, Quality and other process improvement on Return on Investment calculation for a CTO (Centralized testing Organization)....

ABSTRACTThis qualitative study is to examine the process of organizational change into new entrepreneurship such as corporate spin-offs or intrapreneurship. In the study, the organizational change process is divided into two phases; Change initiation...

ABSTRACTThis research work aims at exploring factors like servicecape, trust and customers' preference and the relationship with customer satisfaction and loyalty relationship with customer customer satisfaction and loyalty in the restaurant industry....

ABSTRACTThis paper evaluates the impacts of external financing on market risk for the listed firms in the Viet nam tourism industry, esp. during and after the financial crisis 2007-2009. First of al, by using quantitative and analytical methods to estimate...

ABSTRACTThis paper investigates the feasible paths before and during port disruptions on the West Coast of the United States using discrete-event simulation. A discrete-event simulation application experiments with different regulations, disruptions,...

ABSTRACTThis paper presents findings of an online questionnaire survey on the perceived importance of chartist/technical and fundamental analysis and the diferent strategic factors in the stock price forecasting by stock brokers of Bombay Stock Exchange,...

ABSTRACTInnovation is the key to success for any organization and distinguishes a firm from its competitors. Definitions of innovation vary by industries, as industrial features require distinctive innovation capabilities. This paper describes the bio-...

ABSTRACTIn the article is considered the history of creation of a banking system of independent Uzbekistan, a way of its formation and a problem which the banking system faced. Besides it is told about successes, which were reached by a financial system...

ABSTRACTWe did our research work for sustainability status of Mongolian financial section on the basis of interconnection between financial soundness indicator and financial section corporate governance index. In financial soundness indicator, 40 items...

ABSTRACTThis study examines the effects of trading activities on the maturity structure of the volatility in the KOSPI200 futures market. It involves estimation of a variant of the E-GARCH(1,1) model of futures returns. The empirical results suggest...

ABSTRACTIn the past decades, most studies on emotional labor have used the traditional framework developed by Hochschild, relating to deep acting and surface acting. Recently, the Bolton.s fourfold typology has attempted to broaden this perspective by...

ABSTRACTThe research aims at finding the relationship between the variables of the quality of service measure on external client (the patient) satisfaction which are quality of health service, the quality of health care, the quality of the services and...

ABSTRACTThe article considers the problem of organization's resource flows distribution among its stakeholders. The distribution is aimed on increase of operations and development sustainability of the organization. In order to compare different alternatives...

ABSTRACTThis article analyzes the outcome of social policy shareholder resolutions. It does so by focusing on many types of resolution withdrawals sponsored by various types of filers. The paper shows that some characteristics of the resolutions themselves...

ABSTRACTThis research is a replicative study involving Strategic Alliances, Innovation, collaboration and Biotechnology from a firm level setting with application of evaluation tools like Balanced Scorecard. A conceptual model is referred to in here...

ABSTRACTThis study empirically analyzed what consulting model has tendency to choose between fact-based model and process-based model and also analyzed which factors management consultants in Korea prefer when choosing consulting models. We concluded...