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This study aimed at extending the literature of the effect of performance appraisal on productivity and employees by connecting the employees’ perception on fair performance appraisal and organizational justice-considered practices to job satisfaction and work performance. Prior studies did not explore much this relation due…

This paper analyzes the incentive problems of the disclosure of a so-called valuation allowance of deferred taxes. Since the disclosure of a relatively high valuation allowance indicates a negative profit development, misguided incentives of a progressive capitalization of deferred taxes from loss carryforwards would have…

Frequent accounting frauds, research and development cost cuts, agency problem — these factors tend to lead to short-term gains, while providing eroded long-term performance to equity investors. The present study looks into the conflict between the short-term and long-term return to understand which factors can…

Quality in its contemporary incarnation is commonly referred to as organizational excellence, enterprise excellence, business excellence, or performance excellence. While technology may serve as a key enabler of enterprise excellence, enterprise excellence itself is in large enabled by the human dimension both in terms of…

The limited selectivity of therapeutic agents for tumor cells and their inability to act on poorly vascularized areas of tumors, remain among the primary limitations to cancer therapy. Several studies reported that Salmonella typhimurium VNP20009 (VNP) preferentially targets hypoxic/anoxic cores of solid tumors. Here the…

Although OLAP technology seemed to be mature enough so that little real or disruptive changes encountered in the last decade. Still the emergence and the wide spreading of some technologies like Web Services, Cloud Computing and Big Data we believe that will have the potential…

In the last 20 years, the use of IT by organizations has increased and ITG discipline is today a major concern. ITG has been recognized as a CIO top-10 issue for more than five years and has risen in priority between 2007 and 2009. Best…

Para-professionals in the library services are library associates, library technicians, or library assistants who assist the professional librarians in library-related task. Mining the literature unveiled that studies investigating the required competencies on para-professional are still very limited. To address this gap, this paper reports a…

The environment changes with the development of human activity, which directly threatens human life because of the effects accompanying the development of polluting industries. In response to stakeholder pressures, many companies have taken several actions to reduce the negative impacts of their activities on the…

This case study was conducted to determine what factors are important to decision making that led leaders in a national nongovernmental organization (NGO)to select a technology-enhanced distance education solution for staff and volunteer training. The Bates ACTIONS technology choice model (2000) and the curriculum-centred strategic…