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24
May
2012

Consumers’ Education Level Impact on the Perception of the Search Experience Credence Products — Empirical Evidence

Journal of Internet and e-business Studies
The Search Experience Credence product classification model has been one of the most prominent categorization mechanisms in the product classification literature.  Product categorization plays a major role in a company’s marketing strategy. This paper presents the results of a survey conducted on consumers’ perceptions of…
22
May
2012

Technology and Organizational Evolution: An Institutionalisation Perspective

Journal of Innovation and Business Best Practice
In contemporary business organizations, technology provides the foundation around which organizations evolve and mature. It not only aids organizations in enabling strategic business objectives through automation of operations, but with their information processing and decision support capabilities, these technologies also aid in business planning and…
18
May
2012

Bank Efficiency Evaluation: Evidence from a Panel of Romanian Banks

Journal of Eastern Europe Research in Business and Economics
The focus of our research is on the Romanian banking sector, analysing if, over the period 2002 to 2009, foreign banks have been more efficient than their domestic peers, as foreign banks can benefit from the experience and superior know-how of their parent banks and…
18
May
2012

Elements of Relational Contract in the Delivery of Public Infrastructure in Malaysia

IBIMA Business Review
The involvement of private concessionaire in the delivery of public infrastructure worldwide is apparent in reducing the budgetary burden on the government’s part specifically due to the major downturn in the global economy. Their involvement varies from concessionaire, privatization to partnerships. Looking at the most…
17
May
2012

Effects of Industry Type on ICT Adoption among Malaysian SMEs

Journal of Supply Chain and Customer Relationship Management
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has been widely regarded as an enabler to boost the competitive level of SMEs in the business arena. Notwithstanding the many efforts undertaken by governments to promote ICT adoption among SMEs across different types of industries, many of them failed…
17
May
2012

A Roadmap towards Service-Oriented Enterprise

Journal of Organizational Management Studies
In the current economic context, enterprises are struggling to obtain competitive advantages on the market, by exploiting the opportunities offered by information technology. The research in this paper aims to encourage the use of modern approaches in order to increase enterprise agility, through the transition…
16
May
2012

Behavioral Intention towards the Use of 3G Technology

Communications of the IBIMA
Nowadays, 3G technologies provide people with higher wireless bandwidth, audio and video services, as well as mobile internet access all in one mobile environment. The information technology industry needs to understand why people prefer this technology, which variables and opportunities convinced them to use it.…
16
May
2012

Bankruptcy Prediction Model for Listed Companies in Romania

Journal of Eastern Europe Research in Business and Economics
Z-score model is one of the most frequently used model for early financial failure warning and considers various financial ratios selected as prediction variables.The purpose of this paper is to use multivariant discriminant analysis (MDA) to substantiate a score function effective in bankruptcy risk prediction…
10
May
2012

Accounting Reporting in Banks: The Case in Egypt and the UAE Before and after the Financial Crisis

Journal of Accounting and Auditing: Research & Practice
Banks in many countries including those in Egypt and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) suffered losses —at various degrees- as a result of the world financial crisis (started in 2006 by the US credit crisis). This stimulated the researcher to raise a question: Could accounting…
09
May
2012

Technology Transfer and International Integration of Developing Countries: An Empirical Investigation of Tunisian’s Case

Journal of African Research in Business & Technology
The objective of this paper is to elucidate empirically the relationship between technology transfer, productivity growth and integration of the Tunisian economy emphasizing the issued technology on the one hand and the absorptive capacity of Tunisia, on the other. Indeed, technology transfer is far from…