The discovery of interrelationship among intellectual Property Rights (IPRs), Nation Branding (NB) and Economic Development (ED) is a recent phenomenon which highlights non-material aspects of a count ... Read More
Studies on Enterprise Resource Planning system (ERP) are many, but few of them dealt with the postimplementation stage. The aim of this paper is to identify the determinants that affect the post imple ... Read More
This paper investigates the effects of cultural diversity on the business communications i.e., knowledge sharing and working relations. Workforce that is sensitive to multicultural aspects of an organ ... Read More
The objective of the paper is to present the theoretical and empirical evidences conceptually regarding the relationships between non-monetary incentives and job satisfaction in influencing job perfor ... Read More
This study investigates the extent to which information professionals and users' readiness attributes are congruent with the digital information environment. The Facebook was used to form a focus grou ... Read More
The main purposes of this study are to investigate the difference in the leisure benefits and behavioral intentions of visitors to Bantou Arts and Cultural Village, and to further investigate the corr ... Read More
Used the algorithm method of computer program, the empirical results show that the dynamic conditional correlation (DCC) and the bivariate asymmetric IGARCH (1, 2) model is appropriate in evaluating t ... Read More
An empirical study is conducted to explore the Innovative Marketing Information System in Tourism industry of Pakistan. The study is very beneficial for Hotels, fast food restaurants, tourist resorts, ... Read More
The main purpose of this research is to determine the preferred leadership style(s) of the different generations of workers in the U.S. A sample population of 328 respondents in all four generations r ... Read More
This research studies the customer shopping behavior and specifically effective tactics in causing customer loyalty. It also examines the customer satisfaction which is one of the influential factors ... Read More
The increasing number of international students studying in advanced countries has focused attention on service quality in higher education. Service quality is a subjective matter and hence its measur ... Read More
Performance improvement is high on the agenda of many companies around the world and with the growing number of improvement models now available care has to be taken to adopt an approach that will yie ... Read More
The concept of organizational sustainability (OS) is deeply linked to the Triple Bottom Line (TBL), which is a hierarchical model that segments the OS into economic, environmental and social pillars. ... Read More
This study aimed to analyze the consumption of street food across various income groups in the Kumasi metropolis. A combination of stratified, simple and systematic random sampling technique was emplo ... Read More
This study is to examine the effects of a firm’s multinational flexibility option on the outcomes of Chapter 11 and durations in the process. For a sample of 403 U.S. companies that filed for bankrupt ... Read More
This study investigated the impact of macroeconomic variables on labor employment in Jordan for the period 1980-2012 by using the fully Modified Ordinary Least Square approach (FMOLS). The economic mo ... Read More
Since World War II, the concept of staffing contingent workers has steadily gained traction. Contingent workers are temporary or part-time workers who are hired on a short-term basis. Currently, conti ... Read More
Creating, increasing, and securing satisfaction, trust and commitment for a brand are central to many corporate strategies because obtaining new customers is costly and customer retention is connected ... Read More
The current study aims to investigate the level of readiness to implement re-engineering in education system of Sistan and Baluchestan province. It is a survey research whose target population is cons ... Read More
This paper assesses the effectiveness of the senior management course offered at the Kenya school of Government (KSG) to middle level management staff as perceived by the participants of the program. ... Read More
This paper seeks to measure the effect of involvement, emotion, exposure and sociodemographic variables on sponsor recall and recognition, at the FIFA 2006 World Cup. Our quantitative investigation ha ... Read More
There have been relatively few studies focusing directly on the way mobile payments are used to enhance the quality of the services of MSEs especially those in rural areas and therefore increasing the ... Read More
The rationale of the present study is to find out the importance of transformational leadership and its impact on organizational commitment with the moderating role of procedural justice and empowerme ... Read More
Islamic banking was introduced in Pakistan in 1970 to meet the religious and economic needs of the people of Pakistan, wider steps have been taken in 1980 by the Banking Companies Ordinance (BCO 1962) ... Read More
Today, organizations use of e-commerce tools for purchasing and sales have developed from e-catalogs and e-mail to e-auctions. This research simulated such a fully automated negotiation system for bus ... Read More
Strategic planning is one of the major strategies for improving secondary school performance in Kenya. However, the implementation of strategic planning has been faced with challenges that need to be ... Read More
Employee performance is a conscious and sensitive observation in every organization. Every where employee performance play a very vital role in the productivity of and organization. Employee performan ... Read More
Evidenced poor performance of the industrial sector, accounts for the low rates of the macro economic development in Nigeria. This is attributed to inefficiency in the management of the technology bas ... Read More
Have Blacks employed legislators who no longer promote the common good, nor the right to their posterity? One hundred forty-seven years after the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment to the United ... Read More
Pak China relation in friendship and trade begins since China’s year of independence 1949. Pakistan is the first country in the world to accept china at UNO forum. China respects the stand and support ... Read More
Corruption has been identified as a complex, endemic, and multi-layered problem that threaten the very existence of Nigeria and various efforts have been made by Nigerian government to curb the menace ... Read More
This paper describes a multivariate simulation metamodeling approach for supporting supply chain management. We use discrete event simulation to examine the links between controllable factors and the ... Read More
This study aimed to identify the extent to which Jordan Ahli Bank applied the concept of strategic management. In order to achieve the objectives of the study, the researchers maintained, developed an ... Read More
The core objective of the study is to check the effect of market uncertainty (market dynamism and market complexity) and strategic feedback systems on emergent marketing strategies (7ps) & performance ... Read More
The major objective of this study is to test if the sport sponsorship can influence investors’ behavior. The paper analyzes the effect of the final of African Nations Championship Handball games annou ... Read More
The Agri-Development Board of Davao City (ADB-DC) is an organization that is primarily concerned with the competitiveness of agriculture sector towards the end of achieving food security. The ADB-DC s ... Read More
Star Rated hotels have an above average responsibility to offer the highest international standards, but the non-star classified hotels manage their own service strategies in a very competitive market ... Read More
The present study covers all non-financial companies listed in Karachi Stock Exchange over the period 1998-2009 to explore the significant determinants of stock returns. Market premium, size, uncertai ... Read More
Previous studies have shown that performance ratings are intentionally modified by the appraisers having different motives especially political and the politics in performance appraisal have different ... Read More
This study examined the effects of capital structure of banks on the performance of commercial banks in Nigeria, (1970 -2010). The choice of the period, 1970 – 2010 is meant to capture the important c ... Read More
In this research, data on 186 batik SMEs were analyzed on their organizational resources in term of design activities. The objective is to examine if the design activities of high performance batik SM ... Read More
The primary aim of this study is to examine the factors that influence Sacco members in Kenya to seek financial products from other financial service providers. The study investigated the factors that ... Read More
The hotel industry contributes significantly to Ghana’s development. However, they face the challenge of meeting and exceeding their customers’ expectations through high quality service delivery in or ... Read More
Audit expectation gap is a phenomenon that presently attracts the attention of researchers all over the world. The basic problem is in the area of how the public perceives the role of the auditor, whi ... Read More
The paper explores private firms’ internationalization development path and latest tendency in Zhejiang province by centering on firms’ internationalization motives, modes, foreign entry location choi ... Read More
For operating in a globalizing world provides services sectors differentiated from each other, although a large number of managers who are decision-makers, where an enterprise of any one of the basic ... Read More
The decline in the quality of accounting information in the special market environment of China is a common objective phenomenon. But because of the lack of the empirical data analysis, the traditiona ... Read More
As the knowledge based economy grows exponentially, the knowledge assets become invaluable to the organizations. Effective use of knowledge has been crucial to the organization’s survival and success ... Read More
The micro finance policy, regulatory and supervisory framework released by Central bank of Nigeria (CBN 2005) has put the accountants, managers and players in the microfinance sector in Nigeria on gea ... Read More
This paper uses cross country regression analysis to look at the relationship between peace and per capita income, and, to see, after adjusting for per capita income, whether democracy and globalizati ... Read More
This study attempts to identify the level of job satisfaction of employees in Bangladesh and to test whether job satisfaction level differs among employees in terms of their gender and marital status. ... Read More
This study is conducted to determine consumers’ interaction expectations, behaviors and differences between them in social media. By this way important information is provided for the sake of understa ... Read More
In corporate finance literature for market reaction to dividend announcements reports mixed result, some of studies support the positive response of market as result of dividend announcement where as ... Read More
Apologize The United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution 64/136 on December 21, 2009 declaring year 2012 as the International Year of Cooperatives. This is to showcase the contribution and im ... Read More
The study admits that the small scale enterprises (SSEs) subsector offers more overwhelming attraction to the female gender due to the limited or negatively biased employment opportunities offered to ... Read More
Strata living bring people of diverse interests, different cultures, values, ages and backgrounds under one roof. With that background, it is usual to have differences and disputes. While many would g ... Read More
The purpose of this research is to measure the performance of the employees who work in the service facilities. With a survey, 500 qualified observations from the universe of 20 000 was conducted. Sta ... Read More
Aiming at discussing the correlations among Leisure Involvement, Leisure Benefits, Quality of Life, and Job Satisfaction of Chiayi City, Taiwan, participating in Creating Sports Island Plan of Executi ... Read More
This study attempts to determine the relation of social capital with the development of organizational trust and job attachment among the nurses of the non-governmental medical-treatment service cente ... Read More
Existing research on co-branding focused only on co-branding effects on new products and brand attitude at the beginning point of cooperation, without further study on changes occurring after cooperat ... Read More
Futures markets play an important role in the price discovery and forward pricing of agricultural commodities. The analysis of this study has mainly focused on the empirical test of the effect of prod ... Read More
This study has examined the impact of inflation on GDP and unemployment rate in Pakistan. It was a longitudinal study for the period in 2000-2010. The data has been taken from secondary sources. The s ... Read More
Internet banking or e-banking systems are one of best examples of innovative technologies that have a great potential to create a win-win scenario for both customers and businesses. However, such pote ... Read More
This study is assumed to investigate how job satisfaction and work morale affect the work performance of the Ph.D’s. The respondents involved in this study are Ph.D faculty members of different public ... Read More
Transactional and Transformational leadership styles have attracted the interest of many researchers in recent time. While some believe that they are the same, others believe they are different. This ... Read More
The paper investigates the dynamic linkages between exchange rate volatility and stock returns volatility of Pakistan, India and China for the period of 2007 to 2012 by employing daily data. GARCH mod ... Read More
Electronic banking services have become an important practice among commercial banks in Nigeria. The introduction of E- banking services has improved banking efficiency in rendering services to custom ... Read More
This study extends research on the business group’s network cohesion, diversification strategy, and group’s family presence in the inner circle by examining the relationship between group cohesion and ... Read More
Corporate Social Responsibility as a Recruitment Strategy by OrganisationsThe success of any organisation largely depends on the quality and quantity of human resources it possesses. Also, what often ... Read More
The aim of this paper is to study, firstly, the key factors in the evaluation of informative websites that affect e-trust and explore then the role of personality traits in perception thereof. An expl ... Read More
The broad objective of the study is to ascertain if accounting information contributes to stock volatility in the Nigerian Capital Market. Specifically, the study examines if Book value per share, Div ... Read More
This study sought to investigate effective communication constraints faced by staff in public universities. The study location wasin Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (MMUST), Kenya. ... Read More
This paper investigates the interactive effect of employee job engagement on the direct relation of organizational investment in social capital (OISC) and employee job performance. A lot of researcher ... Read More
Seniors’ leisure is an important social issue. Audience members at a seniors’ community chorus concert were surveyed to identify the factors which determine audience satisfaction and repurchase intent ... Read More
This paper explores the efficacy of liquidity management and banking performance in Nigeria. It is aimed at examining empirically the effect of efficient liquidity management on banking performance in ... Read More
Over the last years, both students and practitioners recognized that organizational and societal survival and development depend upon effective, sustainable interactions and relationships with the nat ... Read More
The study examines the relative contributions of stock market volatility on economic growth in Nigeria for the periods of 1980 to 2010 using Exponential Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heterosk ... Read More
The main purpose of this study is to predict the impact of cultural values and life styles on impulse buying behavior of Pakistani customers. Survey methodology was used to collect the data by adoptin ... Read More
The paper shows the importance and effect of preferential treatment by salespersons & customerssalespersons relationship & trust for store loyalty. Providing preferential treatment and building trust ... Read More
African societies and cultural practices over these years had commanded global attention as it concern health conditions of the people. The paper looks at some of these practices (positive and negativ ... Read More
This research study aims to estimate the impact of market orientation and brand orientation on strengthening brand performance. The study tests whether elements of market orientation like customer ori ... Read More
Aim of the study: The relationship between organizational culture and performance has been study and a clear link between them has been identified by certain researcher’s research. The main aim of res ... Read More
The main objective of this article is to determine the effects of the perception of export stimuli on export performance. The empirical part was applied to a sample of 120 companies belonging to the t ... Read More
Study delves into the complex behavior of women yet not significant participation in Techno-Economy posing questions to either the investment on women tech-education is worth it or, there is some nee ... Read More
JIT production system identifies the hidden problems in the value chain and reduces the production waste of the system while increasing the throughout (Sales-Raw Material Cost). Even though the JIT sy ... Read More
This paper examines the association between corporate governance mechanisms of IPO firms and the likelihood of becoming involuntarily delisted from the French market. Based on a sample of 139 French I ... Read More
The purpose of this research is to present an exploratory insight into the current users and non-users of credit cards. The aim is to identify the different factors that cause low adoption and usage r ... Read More
This paper has examined the economic role of women entrepreneurs in poverty reduction in Kenya. A case study was carried out among women entrepreneurs at the Maasai market within Nairobi City’s Centra ... Read More
The aim of this paper was to investigate the job commitment of the doctors is affects the quality of their personal and professional lives or not. Stress was taken as moderator. For this purpose the d ... Read More
This study investigates the effects of dividend policy on market value. Empirically the research data is collected from 45 firms in the Tehran Security Exchange (TSE) during 2006-2011. Multiple regres ... Read More
Employees in any organization are primarily motivated when their efforts are appreciated in shape of reward. The research was focused to study the impact of reward on motivation of employees. Rewards ... Read More
The aim of this study is to explore the quality, strength and significance of the relationship between three type of justice (Procedural, Distributive and Interactional) job satisfaction and work perf ... Read More
Using panel data for the period 2001-2006 for the Textile, Fuel and Energy and Chemical sectors from KSE a Fixed Effect model was applied in the study. It has selected six independent variables, which ... Read More
Determinants of bank performance can be split between those that are internal and those that are external. Internal determinants are also sometimes called microeconomic determinants or inherent perfor ... Read More
Consumer happiness is the important area of research for marketers as happy consumer is the satisfied consumer of a company which generates significant revenue for the company. This research is conduc ... Read More
In today’s business world with rapid change and global expansion, the trends are also changing. Companies are shifting from product centered approach to customer oriented approach. Therefore the prior ... Read More
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