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06
Sep
2012

The Required Competencies of Para-Professionals in Library Services of Sarawak State Libraries

IBIMA Business Review
Para-professionals in the library services are library associates, library technicians, or library assistants who assist the professional librarians in library-related task. Mining the literature unveiled that studies investigating the required competencies on para-professional are still very limited. To address this gap, this paper reports a…
06
Sep
2012

Effectiveness of Environmental Policies Adopted by the Tunisian Industrial Company

Journal of Organizational Management Studies
The environment changes with the development of human activity, which directly threatens human life because of the effects accompanying the development of polluting industries. In response to stakeholder pressures, many companies have taken several actions to reduce the negative impacts of their activities on the…
01
Sep
2012

On-line HRD: A Leadership Decision Making Case Study

Journal of Human Resources Management Research
This case study was conducted to determine what factors are important to decision making that led leaders in a national nongovernmental organization (NGO)to select a technology-enhanced distance education solution for staff and volunteer training. The Bates ACTIONS technology choice model (2000) and the curriculum-centred strategic…
01
Sep
2012

The Use of an Idea Bank in Developing Business Operations

Communications of the IBIMA
The objective of this study is to develop an operating model for the purpose of utilising an idea bank in the development of business operations. The study was carried out as a constructive interview survey. The study examines the development proposal activity in a company…
31
Aug
2012

Funding Alternatives for More Effective European Economies

Communications of the IBIMA
The consolidation and increase in the efficiency of economies is today a priority objective, both at the world level and especially at a European level. But meeting it depends, however, on the nature, size and direction of the influences generated by a whole set of…
30
Aug
2012

The Triple Bottom Line Effect on Emerging Market Companies: A Test of Corporate Social Responsibility and Firm Value Relationship

Journal of Southeast Asian Research
Over the last twenty years, after corporations have historically focused their reporting systems on the provision of financial information needed by managers and shareholders to assess risks and calculate returns, the global awareness of the need to assess the full spectrum of corporate value has…
30
Aug
2012

The Customer Experience in the Era of Electronic Service Offering

Journal of Marketing Research and Case Studies
This paper analyzes how the customer experience could be impacted by the integration of electronic supply service, as a complementary channel of distribution. Far from trivial, the induced changes generate a restructuring of the contents of the service experience whose impact on perceived quality and…
28
Aug
2012

Resources Management and Rent Theory in Mining Industry

Communications of the IBIMA
The recent famous financial frauds have demonstrated that in many cases the auditor was either responsible for or an accomplice in their manifestation. Thus, the auditor plays an important role in ensuring a true and fair view regarding the financial position and performance of the…
24
Aug
2012

Do Customer Dissatisfaction and Variety Seeking Really Affect the Product Brand Switching? A Lesson from the Biggest Southeast Asia Mobile Telecommunication Market

Journal of Marketing Research and Case Studies
As the 21st century world would be a cellular age going by the phenomenal increase in cell phones worldwide, the Southeast Asia's market is experiencing a tremendous growth of mobile penetrations in the context of a region for developing countries with large population concentration. The…
23
Aug
2012

European Union: New Risks from the Actual Globalization

Journal of EU Research in Business
This paper analyzes and explains different challenges the European Union (EU) is currently facing. It also analyzes the main impact that globalization has when trying to resolve these challenges. The EU has identified several challenges that their understanding need to be resolved and settled during the…