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International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics
Int. j. manag. account. econ.
2015
2
9
Performance Appraisal of Iranian Municipalities by DEA Method
Adel
Azar
Ahmad
Nozari
Efficiency is one of economic concepts, which its enhancement has always been at the focus of politics and economy practitioners in order to improve standard of living, prosperity, peace, and human security; so that all economic schools and communities relatively emphasize this notion and suggest proper political advices to increase efficiency of various factors. Nowadays, regarding the qualitative and quantitative development of cities, the role of municipalities in urban management increasingly highlighted; thus, measuring the efficiency of municipalities is necessary for planning and better performance of municipalities. The present research tried to measure the performance of municipalities exceeding one hundred people through using DEA method and constant return to output-based scale (CCR-O) and variable return to output-based scale (BCC-O) in 2010; regarding municipalities’ relatively stable revenues, permanent revenues, semi-stable and totally unstable revenues as two inputs; and costs of urban and administrative services, as well as urban construction (including 1. Improved urban traffic; 2. Improved urban environment; and 3. Establishing entertainment and income-generating facilities) as five outputs. Obtained results indicate that 16 of 44 understudy municipalities i.e. 36.36% and 17 municipalities (38.64%) are efficient in CCR and BCC methods, respectively. The mean efficiency of the first method is 86.97% and 27.87% for the second method. Moreover, once municipalities totally ranked and an efficient virtual model introduced for inefficient municipalities, the main cause of inefficiency assigned to their extreme deviation from sufficient municipalities in costs of building cultural and sport places, which requires the highest attention at change average of 240%.
Performance Evaluation
Efficiency
municipality
Data envelopment analysis (DEA)
urban costs
urban revenues
2015
09
01
945
966
https://www.ijmae.com/article_117520_d7b17ec96a21c8b9d8fcaf8b935c01ec.pdf
International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics
Int. j. manag. account. econ.
2015
2
9
An Investigation into Decision Styles of Mobile Phone Customers
Mohammad
Nasimi
Somaye
Amiri
Samira
Pali
Samaneh
Nasimi
Customers relate to various markets with distinct decision making styles. Such styles may be somewhat time independent. The present study was conducted to take a thorough look at Sproles & Kendall’s model of decision making styles among mobile phone customers, with a focus on store location, recommendations and criticism by others, and power of parents. To this end, it was attempted to develop a data collection instrument through the latest changes in the questionnaire for decision making model of purchase as well as experts’ and consumers’ comments and judgments. After the conduction of a random sampling, 385 questionnaires were handed out to mobile phone users out of which 369 were usable. In order to analyze the data and test the hypotheses, structural equations modeling was utilized. The results indicated that habitual and store location styles were the most important ones.
Sproles and Kendall’s model
store location
recommendations and criticism by others
power of parents
2015
09
01
967
976
https://www.ijmae.com/article_117521_7849d8ecc98ee7497d9b3c456f2fa868.pdf
International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics
Int. j. manag. account. econ.
2015
2
9
Performance Evaluation of Aircraft Maintenance Department Using Integration Fuzzy AHP and BSC Approach in Iran
Narjes
Jamali
Mohammad
Feylizadeh
In a competitive environment changes rapidly occur therefore managers of organizations facing some challenges such as identifying important factors affecting organizational optimum usage of available resources. Thus, organizational performance evaluation is a crucial task to do and sensitive process in any industry. The objective of this study is to construct an approach based on the balanced scorecard (BSC) and fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) for evaluating the aircraft maintenance department in Iran. The BSC concept is applied to define the hierarchy with four major perspectives (i.e. financial, customer, internal business process, and learning and growth), and performance indicators are selected for each perspective. A Fuzzy AHP (FAHP) approach is then proposed in order to tolerate vagueness and ambiguity of information. A FAHP information system is finally constructed to facilitate the solving process. The results provide guidance to the aircraft maintenance department in Iran regarding strategies for improving department performance. The results show that financial indicator (0.305) and learning and growth indicator (0.255) have higher impacts on the objective. The constructed information system is suggested to be a good tool for solving other multiple-criteria decision-making problems.
Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP)
balanced scorecard (BSC)
Performance Evaluation
aircraft maintenance evaluation
2015
09
01
977
993
https://www.ijmae.com/article_117522_08ad8eb2eaf406ba99111026087a40c0.pdf
International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics
Int. j. manag. account. econ.
2015
2
9
The Economic Significance of Agriculture for Sustainable Development in Nigeria
Olasunkanmi
Owolabi-Merus
Bashir
Bello
This study empirically investigates the agriculture-economic growth nexus in Nigeria. An economic growth model for Nigeria is specified and estimated through the use of Ordinary Least Squares as well as Johansen Cointegration and Vector Error Correction Model on annual data spanning from 1980 to 2012. The empirical result suggests that Agriculture is positively associated with economic growth in Nigeria. Results from this study also indicates that increasing the population of agriculture labour force will impact positively on economic growth. However, Infrastructure and human capital are found to be the key determinants of Nigeria‘s economic growth in the period under review. This study suggests that Nigeria policymakers should develop strategies that are geared towards infrastructure and human capital development in order to maximize the potential of the agricultural sector.
Agriculture
infrastructure
Human capital
Economic Growth
Nigeria
2015
09
01
994
1004
https://www.ijmae.com/article_117523_d5db85d918fdfb5a7087306d11d41df5.pdf
International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics
Int. j. manag. account. econ.
2015
2
9
Assessing the Evaluation Models of Business Intelligence Maturity and Presenting an Optimized Model
Ruhollah
Tavallaei
Sajjad
Shokohyar
Seyedeh
Moosavi
Zahra
Sarfi
The main purpose of this study is to present a new Business Intelligence Maturity Model according to the prior models and their available components to review the level of Business Intelligence maturity in organizations. The business maturity helps all organizations to get safe and effective operations without extra troubles and, executive expenses and trial & error through reporting and data analyzing. Today we can strongly claim that applying the business intelligence solution in an organization makes it more powerful and discriminates it from the others by the increase in competitiveness. This solution causes organizations to use competitive advantages and pioneer through available information. This is a practical research in which we use a survey descriptive method and matter. The result of the study is to create a new model in order to study the level of business intelligence maturity in the banking industry which has maturity levels including initial, immature, controlled, managed and mature, and effective infrastructures on BI system which contains technology, organizational culture, and rules.
Information System
Business Intelligence
Maturity model
Infrastructures
2015
09
01
1005
1019
https://www.ijmae.com/article_117524_1c9712196c8429974dabd092c6a503fa.pdf
International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics
Int. j. manag. account. econ.
2015
2
9
Antecedents of Positive Word of Mouth and its Effects on Attitude toward Product
Morteza
Soltani
Morteza
Khavari
Regarding to interpersonal and informal nature of word of mouth, this advertising practice always is considered as a reliable communication source and a potential power playing a critical role in customers’ decision making process. According to the prominence of word of mouth in the customers’ decision making process, the present research tried to study some features of listener (background knowledge, purchase involvement) and some features of the speaker or the source (expertise, experience, evidences, and reliability) that cause listener to apply it encountering word of mouth by proposing a model. This is an applied study in term of goal and a descriptive-correlation study in term of methodology. Research statistical population included students of one of Tehran major government universities. Data collected using questionnaire and analyzed by structural equations model using Smart pls2 software. Research results showed that four features of listener are directly related to applying word of mouth by listener. Further, the two factors of purchase involvement and listener background knowledge only moderate the relationship among experience, reliability and the evidences presented by source by using word of mouth.
Word of mouth
purchase involvement
Background knowledge
source expertise
source experience
2015
09
01
1020
1036
https://www.ijmae.com/article_117525_05f2dbd1bd042ec72c5477cb64e52998.pdf
International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics
Int. j. manag. account. econ.
2015
2
9
Mobility – The Revolutionary Change to Customer’s Shopping Experience in Retailing
Ehren
Tseng
Rashad
Yazdanifard
In recent years, mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets have been taking over our lives’ as a consumer. Mobile devices had become a necessity to us as a whole. From this aspect, market retailers seized the opportunity to triumph over e-retailing by introducing mobile technology to retail store known as m-retailing. Mobility is one of the key contributing factor in providing the finest marketing tool to create the best customer shopping experience in retail store. The report seeks to understand the impact of mobility in retail towards customer’s shopping experience.
Mobility
Mobile Retailing
Marketing
Management
2015
09
01
1037
1047
https://www.ijmae.com/article_117526_b8f808b812dc84d3a04f855a4a31603c.pdf
International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics
Int. j. manag. account. econ.
2015
2
9
The Review of Physical Store Factors That Influence Impulsive Buying Behavior
Tan
Sun
Rashad
Yazdanifard
The purpose of this paper is to study the factors that may influence impulsive buying behavior. A good store environment will encourage customers to patronize the store and this can be achieved through effective marketing activities, well-trained salespeople, and promotional activities high in emotional influence value. As a result, customers are more likely to purchase unplanned products due to the attritional value from the marketing activities.
Physical store
buying intention
impulsive buying
store environment
store layout
salesperson
2015
09
01
1048
1054
https://www.ijmae.com/article_117709_8b446cdc7e39b70992898237bc525d81.pdf
International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics
Int. j. manag. account. econ.
2015
2
9
The Review of Content Marketing as a New Trend in Marketing Practices
Angel
Kee
Rashad
Yazdanifard
Content marketing evolves to be a powerful marketing tactic in the digital, fast moving, information driven world. It is not a new strategy but more and more enterprises begin to engage in content marketing gradually. So what are the reasons of the rise of content marketing in today’s society? This paper discusses about the use of content marketing in businesses and how it brings benefits to the companies. The conclusion summarizes six strategies companies use during the implementation of content marketing in their businesses.
Content Marketing
Implementation
Benefits
Information
2015
09
01
1055
1064
https://www.ijmae.com/article_117711_dc42b2a79c476474739e72266238c6ba.pdf
International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics
Int. j. manag. account. econ.
2015
2
9
Managing Organizational Change and Resistance from an Individualist vs. Collectivist Perspective
Ng
Teng
Rashad
Yazdanifard
The current research paper looked into the concept of organizational individualism and collectivism and its effect on managing change. This paper focused on the factors underlying the concepts of individualism and collectivism that influence change to take place or be resistant to it altogether. Our capacity and capability to change is very important in any organization because change is what helps us to survive. Culture is one of the landmarks to adaptability. Since change happens at different levels in the organizations, the benefits and drawbacks from individualism and collectivism are explained. Moreover, a discussion on the application of these two strong cultural views in particular organizations is made to show if research depicts well on the cultural factors that influence organizational change.
Organizational individualism
organizational collectivism
factors influencing change
organizational change
culture
2015
09
01
1065
1074
https://www.ijmae.com/article_117713_c45f4675f6453c9bcb88091368afd91f.pdf
International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics
Int. j. manag. account. econ.
2015
2
9
The Comparison between NGO Marketing and Conventional Marketing Practices from SWOT Analysis, Marketing Mix, and Performance Evaluation Perspectives
Fong
Yee
Rashad
Yazdanifard
The study aims to let those who have altruistic impulses to know deeper about how marketing strategy can actually be applied on non-governmental organizations (NGOs). As there are misunderstandings that marketing is only available to corporates, some of the NGOs have lost their opportunities to raise more funds and as a result help more people in need. For this purpose, the paper includes the study on how marketing strategies are being used by NGOs. Besides, the study of conventional marketing is also being written on paper in order to clear up the misunderstandings. This paper uses some of the organization’s examples to help provide discussion. Throughout the study, the formulae to formulate, implement and evaluate is the same. However, the ways to formulate make the differences as the purposes of NGOs and corporates are different. As a conclusion, this study will cause NGOs to realize the importance of marketing towards their mission and also their way to sustainability.
NGO marketing
conventional marketing practices
2015
09
01
1075
1087
https://www.ijmae.com/article_117715_a3fdb6a2ab8740d8afebb58ce7612c69.pdf
International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics
Int. j. manag. account. econ.
2015
2
9
Globalization of Retailing and Related Cross Cultural Issues
Teoh
Shulyn
Rashad
Yazdanifard
Globalization has become progressively prominent in the early 21st century as many U.S-based companies look to grow by expanding their marketplace in other countries. Due to the saturated domestic market, many retailers have chosen to work outside of their home country because globalization has given them the access to the new customers and new capital useful in global marketing. International retailers will face many challenges when they work outside their home country, such as, cultural differences, business negotiation patterns, rules and regulations and many more. This report includes other major factors that affect the international retailing.
Globalization of retailing
Cultural Differences
strategies to success in international retailing
business negotiations
2015
09
01
1088
1109
https://www.ijmae.com/article_117717_8cfbdcdaa6c687cac54f0ba0ebd6f03e.pdf
International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics
Int. j. manag. account. econ.
2015
2
9
Opportunities and Challenges in the World of Retailing and the Importance of Adaption to the New Markets
Wong
Yeng
Rashad
Yazdanifard
Global retailing is a sizzling topic nowadays as retailing has evolved into a global, high-tech industry that plays an important role in the global economy. This leads to a trend of the retailing activities practiced by many of retailers to look for expansion in new locations around the world in order to gain more profit and bigger market share. This paper will be discussing the global retailers and their global franchise opportunities as well as the diverse offer and technology for global expansion. On the other hand, the challenges faced by global retailers in international expansion are also discussed in this paper. Lastly, it is important for global retailers to recognize on how to get the globalization right in order to be a successful global retailer.
Global retailing
global retailers
global franchise
technology for global expansion
diverse offer
challenges of global retailers
globalization right
2015
09
01
1110
1121
https://www.ijmae.com/article_117718_433e302949e9412f7b0673e526aac1a2.pdf
International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics
Int. j. manag. account. econ.
2015
2
9
The Review of Shared Value in Contemporary CSR Run by Two Successful Companies to Sustain the Business in Recent Years
Wong
Jean
Rashad
Yazdanifard
The purpose of this paper is to validate the interdependency between a business and society. It explains the importance of carrying out strategic CSR of shared value rather than just plain practicing philanthropy. In other words, companies need to integrate social responsibility into their core business in order to succeed not only by profit but also changing the world to be better. Besides that, this research also puts two companies into discussion on how they take CSR strategy to a different level that maximizes profit whilst having a strong standing position in the market.
Contemporary CSR
shared value
successful companies
Sustainability
2015
09
01
1122
1129
https://www.ijmae.com/article_117719_bb74160c52980a3f3accad40a79e1f3b.pdf
International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics
Int. j. manag. account. econ.
2015
2
9
The General Review of How Different Leadership Styles Cause the Transformational Change Efforts to Be Successful
Teoh
Nging
Rashad
Yazdanifard
Organizational change refers to the transformation of an organization from its current state to its desired future state. Organizational change helps to maintain a competitive position as well as the companies’ sustainability in a competitive market. There are different kinds of leadership styles that have strong relationships with the growth of change. This research reviews the different leadership styles, including commanding, supportive, inspirational, logical, transformational, transactional and servant. Different leadership styles take up different kinds of roles and use different actions when implementing organizational change. In conclusion, this research concludes that different changing processes require different leadership styles.
leadership
culture
Motivating
organizational change
2015
09
01
1130
1140
https://www.ijmae.com/article_117720_b9555f984891084e8e676a39acbbc6e4.pdf