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22
Dec
2011

Achieving Competitive Advantage (CA) through Information Infrastructure Capability (IIC): An Empirical Justification

Communications of the IBIMA
The goals of most of the organisations are achieving their sustainable competitive advantage (CA) challenges. One of the organizational initiatives is to invest appropriate information infrastructures. However, organisations may face difficulties to select effective information infrastructures in their respective situations to achieve CA from elusive…
22
Dec
2011

Organisational Culture, Leadership Styles and Employee’s Affective Commitment to Change: A Case of Yemen Public Sector

Journal of Organizational Management Studies
The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of leadership style on the affective commitment to change, moderated by the organisational culture. The research adopts both qualitative and quantitative approaches through a survey with 371 employees of public organisations in Yemen, as well…
22
Dec
2011

Analysis of the level of Emotional Intelligence among Executives in the Small and Medium Sized Enterprises

Journal of Human Resources Management Research
The purpose of this research is to study the level of emotional intelligence among executives in small and medium sized enterprises particularly from the manufacturing sector. SMEs have problems in attracting and retaining their employees. For the purpose of the study, the GENOS Emotional Intelligence…
21
Dec
2011

Innovation and Knowledge Creation in Greece: An Analysis Based on Patent Data

Journal of Innovation and Business Best Practice
The debate on the factors which contribute to economic development is always timely. In our contemporary economic environment, innovation and knowledge creation play a very important role. Both are primary sources of economic growth and industrial change. Both, also, could face the future economic challenges…
20
Dec
2011

A Fuzzy Sets Model for Companies Behaviour of Absorption Minimum Wage Shocks: An Analysis of Inflationary Risks

Journal of Economics Studies and Research
The minimum wage appears to be a new challenge for emerging labor market from Romania. Is this a real problem or only a theoretical shadow of some unclear model of market economy? The authors tried to bring to light the real effects of minimum wage…
14
Dec
2011

Call Centers Performance An Application of Structuration Theory

Communications of the IBIMA
The academic field of individual performance is concerned with a large range of multifaceted questions regarding the prediction of individual performance, the assessment issue, or the enhancement and the keeping of a performance value. Current debates have emerged in call centers context. Based on structuration…
14
Dec
2011

Identity Theft Awareness among City Dwellers in Malaysia

Journal of Information Assurance & Cybersecurity
The Information Era brings with it a new breed of cyber criminals; the identity thieves. Worldwide, identity thieves are able to assume another person’s identity to commit fraud or other crimes with the help of digital information technology. In Malaysia, identity theft cases are on…
09
Dec
2011

The Moderators of Post Purchase Regret

Journal of Marketing Research and Case Studies
The objective of this research consists in exploring the factors influencing the regret experience. To answer this objective, two techniques of data collection were used: the in-depth interviews and the focus groups. The results of this research that allowed deduction of the factors involved in order to…
06
Dec
2011

IT Professionals Awareness: Green IT International Comparison Study

Communications of the IBIMA
Global warming and other environmental issues such as energy and resource constraint are becoming the world's major concerns and need to be solved. Information Technology (IT) is perceived as an enabler to resolve those problems and bring greater efficiency. This concept is known as Green…
02
Dec
2011

A Five-Layered Business Intelligence Architecture

Communications of the IBIMA
Many organizations today have adopted business intelligence (BI) as a catalyst to meet specific business needs and to improve organizational effectiveness. Although BI has become more robust and pervasive, some organizations are still unable to maximize the return on their BI investments.One contributing reason is…