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17
Sep
2013

Information Technology Governance: Applying the Theory of Planned Behaviour

Journal of Organizational Management Studies
The importance of IT governance has received increasing attention in the recent years. Extensive literature addresses top management and organisational issues of IT governance. However, recent findings suggest that people issues in IT governance equally deserve attention. Guided by the Theory of Planned Behaviour, this…
12
Sep
2013

The Components of an Innovation System: A Conceptual Innovation System Framework

Journal of Innovation and Business Best Practice
Innovation forms the basis of economic growth and development. The “innovation system” concept started receiving more attention in literature since the 1980s, but very few studies have attempted to explain the functioning of such a system. Therefore, the need arose to develop a model for…
11
Sep
2013

Issues Connected to the Trade of Flowers in Romania

Journal of Eastern Europe Research in Business and Economics
The paper has been intended to analyze trade of flowers in Romania. The study was focused on dynamics of the supplier countries for importations and destination countries for exportations. In order to design a framework for the international trade there have been assessed several indicators.…
06
Sep
2013

Accessibility Evaluation of Dubai e-Government Websites: Findings and Implications

Journal of e-Government Studies and Best Practices
As governments continue to provide businesses and citizens with new value-added e-services, citizens with disabilities are still being deprived from taking full advantage of these services. In this paper, we investigate the extent to which accessibility is taken into account in the design of Dubai…
03
Sep
2013

Turning The Coin: A Competition Model to Evaluate Mergers

Journal of Research in Industrial Organization
Some mergers are so complex that antitrust authorities and courts are probably very tempted to decide by flipping a coin. In this paper I try to reconcile the economic approach to the evaluation of mergers with the one employed in other sciences to study the…
02
Sep
2013

Do Small Firms Possess Innovative Behavior? Evidence from Malaysia

Journal of Innovation Management in Small and Medium Enterprises
The aim of this article is to describe patterns of innovative behaviors among small firms in Malaysia.  The significant of this study lies in its attempt to differentiate innovation practices by small firms from the general innovation prescriptions which dominated by large firms.The underlying theoretical…
02
Sep
2013

Service Quality of a Public University in Saudi Arabia

Journal of e-Learning and Higher Education
This study investigated the discrepancy between students’ service expectations and their perceptions of the service performance in a college of business in one of the public universities in Saudi Arabia. Using the SERVQUAL instrument, this study collected data from 166 students. To test the dimensionality…
31
Aug
2013

The Influence of Materialistic and Ethical Values on the Purchase Intention of Counterfeit Luxury Goods: The Case of Malaysian Undergraduates

Journal of Marketing Research and Case Studies
This study aims to measure Malaysian undergraduate students’ ethical and materialistic values, and their relationships with the purchase intention of non-deceptive luxury counterfeit goods. 200 questionnaires were distributed physically and via online. Items were adapted from the Muncy-Vitell, Spears-Singh, and Belks scales to measure ethics,…
30
Aug
2013

Intraosseous Lymphoma Presenting as a Fracture of the Femoral Neck

International Journal of Case Reports in Medicine
Intraosseous lymphomas are uncommon bone malignancy, and most of them present with bone pain. Herein, we describe a case of 64-year-old male who suffered from a painful swelling over his hip after a motor vehicle accident initially, and radiography showed femoral neck fracture. He received…
30
Aug
2013

Failure of Fiber Reinforced Composite Archwires

Journal of Research and Practice in Dentistry
The Objective of this article is to investigate the mechanical properties and surface morphology of fiber-reinforced composite (FRC) wires. FRC (Optis) wire and a NiTi 0.016 in diameter were evaluated with a 3-point bending test on a universal testing machine at temperatures of 23±1oC and…