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17
Apr
2012

Towards Effective Development of Web-based Business Applications

Journal of Internet and e-business Studies
The Internet and the Web continue to evolve at a rapid pace where the Internet as the medium for the Web to provide and share information to global users without boundaries. This has caused the information systems change from standalone desktops to networked systems in…
13
Apr
2012

Antecedents to Consumer Ethnocentrism: A Fuzzy Logic-Based Analysis Study

Journal of Administrative Sciences and Technology
This study empirically examines a segment of consumers within the Jordanian society who express high ethnocentric tendencies towards domestic products using fuzzy logic technique. MATLAB® ANFIS has been employed to model the relationships between three inputs (conservatism, dogmatism and world-mindedness) and one output (consumer ethnocentrism). The…
12
Apr
2012

Internationalizing Higher Education: The Effect of Country-of-Origin on the Evaluation of Service Quality

Communications of the IBIMA
As the higher education industry in Asia is prospering, attracting students internationally is becoming more competitive for countries in the region, particularly in Malaysia. The establishment of foreign universities in Malaysia has contributed to healthy competition in the higher education sector as these foreign universities…
12
Apr
2012

The Fraud Auditing: Empirical Study Concerning the Identification of the Financial Dimensions of Fraud

Journal of Accounting and Auditing: Research & Practice
The last two decades, marked by financial instability, economic crises, the bankruptcy of worldwide renowned companies, stock exchange speculations, financial scandals and lack of trust in capital markets, have lead to an economic downfall and have brought back into light the analysis of the responsible…
12
Apr
2012

Driving the Initiative of Service-Oriented Architecture Implementation

Journal of Software and Systems Development
Over the years, many organisations have invested heavily in information systems, changing the way they do business for improvement. Today however, aligning business and information systems is not easily achieved due to rapidly changing business environment. The ability of an organisation to change and change…
11
Apr
2012

Modeling Student Concern for Professional Online Image

Journal of Internet Social Networking and Virtual Communities
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors that influence a student’s concern for presenting a professional online image.  Drawing on existing research, the paper develops a model of professional online image concern which is then validated through a survey-based field study. The…
09
Apr
2012

Innovation’s Role in Nowadays Society and the Ways to Generate Competitive Intelligence and Accountability: Case of Romania

Journal of Innovation and Business Best Practice
Nowadays society is governed, on a constant basis, with ambiguous and uncertain economic trends and insecurity. Our research paper takes into account the solutions proposed by innovation in a society in which the dream of competitive intelligence and accountability seem sometimes to fail.The key issue…
07
Apr
2012

The Link between Corporate Social Responsibility and Financial Performance: The Case of the Tunisian Companies

Journal of Organizational Knowledge Management
This research examines the effects of Corporate Social Responsibility on the financial performance. The corporate social responsibility is measured by an investigation which is addressed to a 30 companies. Thus the financial performance is measured using two accounting variables: return in assets (ROA) and return…
04
Apr
2012

Nurturing Intrapreneurship to Enhance Job Performance: The Role of Pro-Intrapreneurship Organizational Architecture

Journal of Innovation Management in Small and Medium Enterprises
Following the needs to ingrain intrapreneurial spirit among Malaysian workforce, as highlighted in the National Economic Advisory 2010, the aim of this study is to identify the organizational architecture that can be designed to foster such behaviour which could subsequently lead to better job performance.…
04
Apr
2012

Game Engines Selection Framework for High-Fidelity Serious Applications

International Journal of Interactive worlds
Serious games represent the state-of-the-art in the convergence of electronic gaming technologies with instructional design principles and pedagogies. Despite the value of high-fidelity content in engaging learners and providing realistic training environments, building games which deliver high levels of visual and functional realism is a…