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31
Jan
2012

Awareness: A Study of Knowledge Management Adoption amongst Iranian SMEs

Journal of Organizational Knowledge Management
Nowadays, companies that are unaware of knowledge management (KM) and its concepts are considered illiterate in business context. In order to thrive in this turbulent market, a company must be familiar with all concepts pertaining to its intellectual assets, i.e. KM, KM strategy, KM processes,…
19
Jan
2012

Personality Traits: Business versus Technical Graduates

Communications of the IBIMA
Effective interactions depend largely on personality traits, which is a consistent and long-lasting tendency in behavior. In psychology, five major trait factors (Big Five personality traits) have been generally used to assess personality of people. The study highlights the practicality of importance-performance analysis as a…
16
Jan
2012

Content is King: Malaysian Industry Experts’ Point of View on Local Content for Mobile Phones

Journal of Mobile Technologies, Knowledge and Society
Content is the most prominent aspect of the medium for communication. The trends of the content nowadays, especially in Malaysia, have shown the lack of local content in, for example, television, radio, films, the Internet and, in more recent years, mobile phones. In order to…
13
Jan
2012

Estimating the Romanian Economic Sentiment Indicator Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques

Journal of Eastern Europe Research in Business and Economics
The subject of the present paper represents the result of a research that uses artificial intelligence, through the artificial neural networks, in order to simulate the Romanian Economic Sentiment Indicator (ESI-mentioned by The Economist and provided by the European Commission — Economic and Financial Affairs…
09
Jan
2012

Virtual Collaboration: The Skills Needed to Collaborate in a Virtual Environment

Journal of Internet Social Networking and Virtual Communities
With support from the scholarly literature, the author of this paper argues that to succeed in virtual collaborative teams (VCTs) individuals need to have relationship building skills, which include the ability to establish trust, familiarity, a positive environment/context, and embracing diversity, as well as communication…
03
Jan
2012

Goldratt’s Theory Applied to the Problems Associated with the Mode of Transportation, Storage and Sale of Fresh Fruits & Vegetables in Nigeria

Journal of African Research in Business & Technology
Current practices used in the cultivation, harvesting, handling, transportation of fresh fruits and vegetables in Nigeria have resulted in vast losses especially due to the seasonality and perishability of these produce, with the resulting situation being that there are times when there are excess produce,…
02
Jan
2012

A Review of E-Financial Reporting Research

Journal of Internet and e-business Studies
Internet is a very exciting medium to look into especially with regards to presentation, disclosure and financial reporting. The Internet also has become one of users’ most frequently used sources of information. Consistent with the innovation of the Internet as a cheap but powerful communication…
31
Dec
2011

Business Intelligence Model for Sustainability of the Malaysian Rural Telecenters

Journal of Southeast Asian Research
The objective of this paper is to galvanize research on rural telecenters sustainability.  The research explores the sustainability of the Malaysian rural telecenters with the support of business intelligence (BI).  It is posited that BI methods and tools could play vital role in assisting telecenters…
31
Dec
2011

Knowledge Management to Promote Occupational Safety and Health at the Malaysian Manufacturing Workplace: Reposed in Occupational Safety and Health Committees?

Journal of Organizational Knowledge Management
Occupational safety and health committees (OSHCs) have been mandated in Malaysian workplaces regardless of type by section 30 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994 (OSHA 1994).  Workplaces with 40 or more employees must establish OSHCs.  They are a form of employee involvement in…
30
Dec
2011

IT Politics in the Domain of Knowledge Workers: A Chronological Analysis of Learning Management Systems

IBIMA Business Review
Markus’s study of IT politics has been influential for the IT implementation literature since the 1980s. However, mistakes of the top-down implementation approach could still be easily found in many organizations. Derived from Markus’s notion of interaction theory and Drucker’s work on knowledge workers, this…