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16
Aug
2012

The Link between Export Performance and Export Development: Does Managements’ Motivation Play a Role?

Journal of Organizational Management Studies
Exporting is the most common and widely used mode to enter into business at an international level. Export performance is crucial to identify the performance level of the organizations. This measure determines whether the organization is performing well. However, export development is also critical since…
15
Aug
2012

Management of Post-Purchase Regret

Journal of Supply Chain and Customer Relationship Management
The purpose of this article consists in exploring the regulation strategies of post purchase regret in the consumer. A qualitative approach was used via in-depth interviews, and focus groups were conducted. The results obtained allowed us to show that the consumer is often motivated to regulate…
15
Aug
2012

Cause and Impact of Dispute and Delay the Closing of Final Account in Malaysia Construction Industry

Journal of Southeast Asian Research
Construction industry is realizing the plans and specifications for the physical structure. The project is success when it is completed to meet customer needs without any issues and problems in terms of time, quality and budget allocation. The budget allocation is important especially to get…
15
Aug
2012

Random Walk Theory and the Romanian Capital Market A New Perspective

Journal of Financial Studies and Research
Forecasting rates of return, thus the attempt to predict the behavior of financial assets, with an increased degree of accuracy, represents one of the most outstanding challenges for the academic and investment area. The main purpose of the paper is to analyze past fluctuations of…
15
Aug
2012

The Effect of Technology, Human and Social Networks in Serviceable Cross-Culture Business to-Consumer (B2C) Websites

Journal of Internet and e-business Studies
Business to-Consumer (B2C) e-commerce becomes more composite with the emerging growth of web services. Online Buyer expectations are often not taken into consideration in global and local B2C websites. Serviceability has made its approach into the e-commerce mainstream and emphases on how the web developers…
14
Aug
2012

Measuring ‘Sustainable’ Innovation in Greece: A Patent Based Analysis

Journal of Innovation and Business Best Practice
This paper is the first attempt to measure ‘sustainable’ innovation in Greece. ‘Sustainable’ innovation is a critical dimension of sustainable development and a process where sustainability considerations, such as environmental, social, financial, are integrated into the generation of new ideas, leading to new R&D and…
06
Aug
2012

A Process View on Product Management in Software Engineering Companies

Journal of Software and Systems Development
Software development is considered as a knowledge-intensive set of activities. Therefore, several business concepts are usually used to support it. Product management is not an exception. However, qualitative and quantitative characteristics of its application are influenced by the size of an organization, since small and…
02
Aug
2012

The Determinants of Information Asymmetry between Managers and Investors: A Study on Panel Data

IBIMA Business Review
Thanks to the study of 124 firms listed on the SBF 250 index, the researchers were able to identify the determinants of information asymmetry between firms' managers and investors, using panel data over the period ranging from 1999 to 2008. The results of the random…
01
Aug
2012

An Association Rule-Based Recommendation Engine for an Online Dating Site

Communications of the IBIMA
Being a popular social network type, online dating sites provide a platform for people to find partners for establishing a relationship. In this study, a recommendation engine for one of the prominent online dating sites of Turkey is developed. It works as a support system…
01
Aug
2012

Adoption Level of Sustainable Construction Practices: A Study on Malaysia’s Construction Stakeholders

Journal of Southeast Asian Research
Purpose - For this research, the concept of sustainability had been divided into two different perspectives which include the financial sustainability performance (economics aspect) and non financialsustainability performance (environment and social aspect).Design/methodology/approach — A survey method was employed due to the reason that  it is…