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14
Jan
2016

The Effects of Brand Relationship Quality on the Participation of the Consumer in Boycott

Journal of Marketing Research and Case Studies
Commitment is a pillar of the consumer-brand relationship. It is often presented as the will of a customer to continue the relationship with its brand. Although this relational current is very studied by researchers, there still remains little developed. Thus, the literature did not examine…
14
Jan
2016

Spotlight on Factors Influencing the Absorption Rate of EU Funds in Romania

Journal of Eastern Europe Research in Business and Economics
This paper aims to analyze the factors influencing the absorption of EU funds under cohesion policy, in particular the administrative capacity related factors. Analysis of the absorption rate has a significant importance since it measures the capacity of a state or region to make effective…
04
Jan
2016

Reinventing ERP Life Cycle Model: From Go-Live To Withdrawal

Journal of Enterprise Resource Planning Studies
The aims of this research are to clear the definition of ERP life cycle and to propose a conceptual ERP life cycle model through a new approach. This research adopts literature survey and theoretical inference as major methodology. We conclude that most of researches about…
04
Jan
2016

Evaluating Construction Project Performance: A Case of Construction SMEs in Lagos, Nigeria

Journal of Innovation and Business Best Practice
Performance evaluation is a vital tool for assessing management performance and formulating corporate strategies. The Nigerian construction industry is reported to be very vibrant and one of the largest in Africa. It is made up of 78% indigenous firms and 22% foreign firms. The indigenous…
03
Jan
2016

Salivary Diagnosis: A Single Drop Can Diagnose Many

JMED Research
The oral cavity has a moist environment and a film of fluid, the fluid is saliva which comprises of mixture of secretions from major and minor salivary glands. Saliva provides an easily available, now increasing diagnostic medium for a rapidly, widening range of diseases and…
28
Dec
2015

Toilet Soap Case

The MENA Journal of Business Case Studies
IMayer Brothers is a famous FMCG company that launched in the year 1920 as a merger between a British soap maker and a Dutch margarine producer, to increase efficiency of resources. Having entered the Egyptian market in the year 1991, the company needed to make…
28
Dec
2015

The Conceptual Model of Religious-based Entrepreneurship in Malaysia: A Value-chain Approach

Journal of Entrepreneurship: Research & Practice
At present, the society experiences an emerging wide range of religious functions carried out via the new media such as worshiping, advocating, commodifying, seeking and learning. Religious outreach is now executed conventionally and through the online network of communities. Information technology (IT) and media have…
28
Dec
2015

Empirical Approach for the US Companies in Dual Perspectives: Effective Tax Rates and the Remuneration of CEO

Journal of Financial Studies and Research
We tried a dual perspective to analyse companies from technology sector, listed on NASDAQ stock exchange market and components of Dow Jones in 2007-2013. The approach focused on the effective corporate tax rate but we included elements of corporate goverance such as CEO remuneration. Thus,…
28
Dec
2015

Sitagliptin-Associated Pancreatitis: A Report of 4 Cases

International Journal of Case Reports in Medicine
Objective: Sitagliptin is a new oral glucose-lowering medication that acts via the incretin hormone system. The most common side-effects are headache and pharyngitis. Acute pancreatitis is rarely described in literature. Research design and Methods: We report four cases of pancreatitis that developed in patients after…
28
Dec
2015

Somatostatin Receptor Imaging May Establish the Neuroendocrine Nature of Unclarified Metastases

JMED Research
Traditionally, functional imaging with somatostatin receptor analogues is used in the primary diagnostics, staging, and monitoring of neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) as well as to assess the potential effect of treatment with (radioactive) somatostatin analogues. We report a case in which a woman was diagnosed with…