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30
Nov
2010

Could Legitimacy through Corporate Social Responsibility be an Antecedent for Export Performance Enhancement: an Exploratory Study

Communications of the IBIMA
The search for better legitimacy in an institutional context within social responsible decisions is the main focus of the present work paper. This strategic tradeoff could stimulate stakeholders’ initiatives for ultimate cooperation with companies. The latter could leverage up resources managed by public institutions in…
30
Nov
2010

The Impact of Individual Factors on Knowledge Sharing Quality

Journal of Organizational Knowledge Management
Individual factors have been known of their significant impact on knowledge sharing behaviour in organisation.  It is the aim of this paper to investigate the relationship between individual factors such as awareness, trust and personality and the quality of knowledge sharing in Malaysian public agencies.…
25
Nov
2010

A Model for Characterizing the Salient Directions of Evolution in the Engineering of Web Applications

Communications of the IBIMA
The development and sustenance of Web Applications is viewed from an engineering perspective. The evolution of the developmental environment of Web Applications has been multi-directional. This paper provides a conceptual characterization of these directions, relationships between these directions, and their implications towards academia and industry.…
24
Nov
2010

Supporting e-Government Progress in the United Arab Emirates

Journal of e-Government Studies and Best Practices
This article provides an overview of current international e-Government practices and the role of the national identity management infrastructure program in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in supporting e-Government development. It describes the benefits of e-Government that various governments worldwide have identified, sheds light on…
23
Nov
2010

Managing Wireless Networks in the Healthcare Sector: Emerging Experiences of Cultural Impacts

Journal of e-health Management
The existing body of knowledge has generally supported that organizational culture plays a significant role in shaping group identity, work pattern, communication schemes, and interpersonal relations; all of these cultural elements are important organizational factors that shape workplaces and operational routines. In the context of…
22
Nov
2010

Marketing: Another Way to Establish Environmental Respect

Communications of the IBIMA
In addition to decrees and decisions of government policies forcing companies to lead a process of changing, which is part of sustainable development, promotion and encouragement can be developed based on marketing tools. The difficulty of convincing a company to implement its management with the…
17
Nov
2010

The Effect of the Congruence between Brand Personality and Self-Image on Consumer’s Satisfaction and Loyalty: A Conceptual Framework

IBIMA Business Review
This research belongs to the field of the analysis of the consequences of congruence between brand personality and self-image. The consequences taken into account in this study are consumer’s satisfaction and loyalty. We will present a literature review on the study of impact of the…
16
Nov
2010

Joint Web-Feature (JFEAT): A Novel Web Page Classification Framework

Communications of the IBIMA
With the increasing amount of web pages over the internet, it has been a major concern to obtain information on the internet accurately at a reasonable cost with decent performance. A potential solution is through the classification of web pages into meaningful categories. An effective…
12
Nov
2010

Globally Branded E-Government

Communications of the IBIMA
E-government covers all government measures which use electronic media at the federal, state, and local government levels to provide qualitative improvements in the citizen’s various spheres of life, optimization of business processes within the administration, and improvement of public image within an international competitive environment. …
10
Nov
2010

Mobile Phone Location Tracking by the Combination of GPS, Wi-Fi and Cell Location Technology

Communications of the IBIMA
This research introduced the latest method of tracking and locating of client-based mobile phone which will eliminate the limitation of the build-in GPS phone.  It has been known that GPS usage is limited in buildings and places unreachable by satellite signal.  In order to find…