Latest articles

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…
22
Aug
2012

Pre-Crisis Fiscal Pattern in Romania and Its Effects on Crisis Alleviation Measures

IBIMA Business Review
The fiscal policy of a country must meet its specific development requirements. In Romania, however, public authorities’ vision was often constrained by the pressing needs specific to transition. Against this particular background, the concern for ensuring public finances sustainability has been, in some cases, overcome…
22
Aug
2012

Case of Green Land International School Community-Based Work in Imbaba, Egypt: A Success Story of Corporate Social Responsibility

The MENA Journal of Business Case Studies
Greenland International School is an International Baccalaureate (IB) school started by an Egyptian elite group of young parents in 1994. The school first started with a few kindergarten classes in a small rented villa in Cairo's high-class district of Mohandessin. As time passed, the small villa…
22
Aug
2012

Factors Influencing Audit Technology Acceptance by Audit Firms: A New I-TOE Adoption Framework

Journal of Accounting and Auditing: Research & Practice
Many businesses are now moving to e-business and implementing computerized accounting information systems. This phenomenon has given impact to audit profession in performing IT audit, financial reports audit and tracing electronic source documents. Computer-Assisted-Auditing Techniques and Tools (CAATTs) are audit technologies that allow IT audit…
22
Aug
2012

Econometric Estimation of a Gravity Model for the External Trade of Romania

Journal of Eastern Europe Research in Business and Economics
The gravity model is frequently used to analyse bilateral trade statistics. In the paper we will identify, exclusively for Romania, the significant factors of influence on bilateral trade flows. As factors, we will consider the clasical gravity variables and some suplimentary dummy variables. Also, we…
21
Aug
2012

Comparison of Old and New Methodology in Human Development and Poverty Indexes: A Case of the Least Developed Countries

Journal of Economics Studies and Research
The most common indicators for measuring the countries´ economic level are the macroeconomic aggregates such as the per capita Gross National Product or Gross National Income. Though they reflect the creation of added value, their drawback is that they do not include aspects such as…