Olatunji David Adekoya; Hakeem Adeniyi Ajonbadi; Ibrahim Jimoh
Volume 6, Issue 3 , March 2019, , Pages 253-273
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Ongoing research on the uncertainties surrounding Brexit as a form of regional disintegration is a teeming challenge for many of the industries in the United Kingdom, and as such, various researches are being undergone by experts in different fields to analyse the potential effects both positive and ...
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Ongoing research on the uncertainties surrounding Brexit as a form of regional disintegration is a teeming challenge for many of the industries in the United Kingdom, and as such, various researches are being undergone by experts in different fields to analyse the potential effects both positive and negative on the various industries. This research, therefore, aimed to focus mainly on the effect of regional disintegration on industry performance with emphasis on Brexit. The research considers the financial services and insurance industry in the United Kingdom as a case study. To consider the potential effect of regional disintegration, the research examined a 5-year quarterly data trend analysis spanning from 2014 till 2018 which represents two years before and two years after the pronouncement of the referendum in June 2016. The study further adopted a deductive approach while using both quantitative and qualitative research strategies. The data collection method involved the use of secondary data gotten from government reports and statistical bulletins. The variables were grouped into three categories including the macroeconomic factors (inflation, exchange rate and interest rate), trade performance (imports, exports and industry consumer price index), and demand and supply of labour (employment levels). The data analysis was conducted using a t-test statistic to ascertain if there is any significant difference in the population means of the variables. The findings revealed that the macroeconomic factors have more significant adverse effects on the industry's performance, while there are both positive and negative effects of regional integration on trade performance. Lastly, a no-deal outcome is likely to pose a significant threat to the industry’s demand and supply of labour. In general, the findings of the research allude to the fact that regional disintegration has both positive and negative effects on industry performance. Some recommendations were provided based on a no-deal or deal outcome.
Fereshteh Lotfizadeh; Nasibeh Shamsi
Volume 2, Issue 4 , April 2015, , Pages 254-264
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Moving toward an open and competitive economy requires developing and supporting private sector and establishing small and medium-sized enterprises. This movement requires education, establishing job infrastructure, and knowledge transfer facilities in order to increase small and medium-sized businesses ...
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Moving toward an open and competitive economy requires developing and supporting private sector and establishing small and medium-sized enterprises. This movement requires education, establishing job infrastructure, and knowledge transfer facilities in order to increase small and medium-sized businesses and also to develop entrepreneurship. These enterprises have affected world economy through four channels, i.e. entrepreneurship, innovation and change in technology, dynamism of industry, and eventually, creating job opportunities and increasing income. In the current study, the researcher tries to answer the question that “whether the innovation and marketing abilities, managers’ education, and work experiences have led to an improvement in small and medium-sized enterprises’ performances?” This research is performed using descriptive-survey method. The required information was collected by questionnaire, and descriptive and analytical statistical methods were employed in order to analyze the data by using SPSS. The results of the study indicated that there is a significant and positive relation between the innovation and marketing abilities, managers’ education, work experiences and the performance of small and medium-sized enterprises.
Yenny Rahmawati; L Liswandi
Volume 5, Issue 4 , April 2018, , Pages 260-271
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The objective of this research is to identify the correlation between Information Availability/Content, Ease of Use, Privacy/Security, Graphic Style, Reliability/ Fulfillment towards one dependent variable (Purchase Intention). In this research, data were collected through questionnaire to 120 respondents ...
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The objective of this research is to identify the correlation between Information Availability/Content, Ease of Use, Privacy/Security, Graphic Style, Reliability/ Fulfillment towards one dependent variable (Purchase Intention). In this research, data were collected through questionnaire to 120 respondents using purposive sampling method for people who live in Jakarta. Data analysis technique used in this study is multiple linear regression. The result indicates that Information Availability/Content (X1) has no significant influence towards Purchase Intention by using smartphone in Tokopedia. The variables Ease of Use/Usability (X2), Privacy/Security (X3), Graphic Style (X4), Reliability/ Fulfillment (X5) have positive significant influence to the Purchase Intention. Then, through the F- test, the five dimensions of E-service Quality have simultaneously significant influence toward Purchase Intention. The predictive ability of these five variables towards Purchase Intention in this study is 63.8% while the remaining is affected by other factors that are not included in this research.
Nguyen Kim Quoc Trung
Volume 3, Issue 4 , April 2016, , Pages 261-271
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Accounting faculty of universities in Vietnam currently takes an important role in the training of human resources for the fields of accounting, auditing and taxation. All professors and lecturers who are teaching in those faculties have participated in editing and changing the accounting curricular ...
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Accounting faculty of universities in Vietnam currently takes an important role in the training of human resources for the fields of accounting, auditing and taxation. All professors and lecturers who are teaching in those faculties have participated in editing and changing the accounting curricular in order to meet the needs of the market labor and requirements of new internationally professional standards. The integration of professional ethics into the curriculum has raised the concern of many universities not only in Vietnam but also in the world. This paper will present how to integrate professional ethics into the curricula in teaching and learning by Faculty of Accounting and Auditing of Banking University of HCMC. The results of the study will highlight some recommendations for improving the contents of courses used for the teaching and learning accounting effectively. The research is presented in this paper as follows: a short literature review and then the methodology of interviewing the professors in accounting fields who have the best experiences in education of accounting. Also, students who are studying accounting course will be interviewed. In addition to, content Analysis research methods and a case study approach are used to investigate the whether it is necessary for teaching and learning of Professional Ethics in accounting at Banking University of HCMC. The paper aims to answer the following questions: (i) Should ethics be taught in accounting classes at universities? (ii) How professional ethics has been taught and learned: as a separate course or integration into different accounting and auditing courses?.
Eghbal Hosseini; Isa Nakhai Kamalabadi
Volume 1, Issue 4 , November 2014, , Pages 264-283
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In the recent years, the multi-level programming problems specially the bi-level and tri-level programming problems (TLPP) are interested by many researchers and these problems, particularly TLPP, are known as an appropriate tool to solve the real problems in several areas of optimization such as economic, ...
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In the recent years, the multi-level programming problems specially the bi-level and tri-level programming problems (TLPP) are interested by many researchers and these problems, particularly TLPP, are known as an appropriate tool to solve the real problems in several areas of optimization such as economic, traffic, finance, management, transportation, computer science and so on. Also, it has been proven that the general bi-level and TLPP are NP-hard problems. The literature shows it has been proposed a few attempts for solving using TLPP. In this paper, we attempt to propose a new function for smoothing the tri-level programming problem after using Karush-Kuhn-Tucker condition, also we develop two effective approaches, one based on Genetic algorithm, which it is an approximate approach, and the other based on the hybrid algorithm by combining the proposed method based on penalty function and the line search algorithm for solving the linear TLPP. In both of these approaches, by using the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker condition the TLPP is converted to a non-smooth single problem, and then it is smoothed by proposed functions. Finally, the smoothed problem is solved using both of the proposed approaches. The presented approaches achieve an efficient and feasible solution in an appropriate time which has been evaluated by comparing to references and test problems.
Helaluddin Ahmed; Md. Azim
Volume 2, Issue 4 , April 2015, , Pages 265-276
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This study has been done with the aim to identify whether there is any earnings management in the financial information of the cement industry in Bangladesh. Data have been composed from the annual reports of listed cement companies in Bangladesh covering the period of five years from 2009 to 2013. ...
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This study has been done with the aim to identify whether there is any earnings management in the financial information of the cement industry in Bangladesh. Data have been composed from the annual reports of listed cement companies in Bangladesh covering the period of five years from 2009 to 2013. A comparative time series analysis has been done along with the help of Beniesh Model. The study reveals that some companies involved with the earnings manipulation because there are signs of highly volatile revenue and operating profit. Since the scope of this study is to find out whether there any earnings management exists, an enormous scope for further researches are possible in this area to find out the factors influencing to earnings manipulation in the cement industry in Bangladesh.
Azizollah Moradi
Volume 7, Issue 5 , May 2020, , Pages 267-277
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The main objective of our study was to test the relationship between intellectual capital and financial performance with social responsibility. To end, we investigate the relationship between intellectual capital and its components and social responsibility through financial variables. Population consisted ...
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The main objective of our study was to test the relationship between intellectual capital and financial performance with social responsibility. To end, we investigate the relationship between intellectual capital and its components and social responsibility through financial variables. Population consisted of companies at Tehran Stock Exchange in which social responsibility was tested based on content analysis of annual reports of companies in 2019. Results show that intellectual capital does not significantly relate to corporate social responsibility. However, capital employed efficiency, one of its components, significantly impacted on the social responsibility, while the others including human and structural capitals efficiencies had no significant impact on. The findings of this study could suggest that companies listed at Tehran Stock Exchange could use of intellectual capital and improve their social responsibilities.
Shahram Begzadeh; Mehdi Nedaei
Volume 4, Issue 3 , March 2017, , Pages 270-281
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Empowering employees of an organization to achieve pre-determined objectives of the organization is of crucial factors of the success of any organization. Employee empowerment is the most important effort of servant mangers to increase organizational trust, innovation, decentralization, and removing ...
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Empowering employees of an organization to achieve pre-determined objectives of the organization is of crucial factors of the success of any organization. Employee empowerment is the most important effort of servant mangers to increase organizational trust, innovation, decentralization, and removing bureaucracy in organizations. Thus, the present study is conducted with the aim of "examining the relationship between servant leadership with organizational trust and employee empowerment in Social Security Organization of Ardabil," which is applied in terms of purpose, in terms of method, it is quantitative, and terms of execution, it is a field study. Study population consisted of employees of Social Security Organization of Ardabil (SSOA) totaled 257 people, of whom the sample was estimated as 155 using Cochran's formula. The sampling method was stratified random sampling. The results obtained using Pearson correlation test show that there is a significant relationship between servant leadership with organizational trust and organizational empowerment of employees of Social Security Organization of Ardabil. Moreover, there is a significant relationship between serving of leader, humility of leader, trustworthiness and kindness leader with organizational trust and empowering employees in the Social Security Organization of Ardabil.
Mahla Sarmadipour
Volume 5, Issue 4 , April 2018, , Pages 272-281
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When the provision of resources for universities financing as a plan was discussed, reducing the supportive role of government is the first issue that arises in the mind. Despite this misconception, the global reality show in which different systems, trying to earn money from new resources did not lead ...
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When the provision of resources for universities financing as a plan was discussed, reducing the supportive role of government is the first issue that arises in the mind. Despite this misconception, the global reality show in which different systems, trying to earn money from new resources did not lead to reduce government involvement in this sector. There are several reasons to justify government's continued and basic support of higher education, however, they do not justify sole reliance on government resources, but they confirm the necessity of government's continued support. Therefore, many ways can be determined that the government through which specified public resources among those who have the training service and educational service providers. Each of these methods has various effects on the behavior of family and educational institutions. In fact, the effectiveness provides a possibility for governments to manage the educational system through financial mechanism.
Majid Parvizi
Volume 3, Issue 4 , April 2016, , Pages 272-282
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Cooperatives as an organization are a system for moving and coordinating various efforts between members to gain common targets. Accordingly, planning and developing mechanisms for member's participation is among the subjects studying which can help to improve the role and position of cooperatives and ...
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Cooperatives as an organization are a system for moving and coordinating various efforts between members to gain common targets. Accordingly, planning and developing mechanisms for member's participation is among the subjects studying which can help to improve the role and position of cooperatives and its members’ benefits. Considering this necessity, the aim of this research is to investigate the factors affecting members’ participation in the cooperatives of the city of Bushehr and providing solutions in this case. The method of this research is the survey. The analysis of the results has been done in two levels: descriptive and inferential. The results of the research showed that inter-organizational factors including financial performance and managers’ ability, and also extra-organizational factors such as members’ inclination to do group work, social confidence, foresight, the government’s support and the laws and regulations have been effective in the rate of members’ participation in the cooperatives in the city of Bushehr. Furthermore, if these factors are improved, the rate of the members’ participation will also increase.
Shivneil Kumar Raj
Volume 6, Issue 3 , March 2019, , Pages 274-285
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Tax is a major source of revenue for many governments around the world. Fiji has adopted the world wide tax regime whereby tax residents of Fiji are to declare their worldwide income and pay tax in Fiji. Fiji is seen to have a comprehensive tax system. The paper analysed two main revenue generating tax ...
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Tax is a major source of revenue for many governments around the world. Fiji has adopted the world wide tax regime whereby tax residents of Fiji are to declare their worldwide income and pay tax in Fiji. Fiji is seen to have a comprehensive tax system. The paper analysed two main revenue generating tax laws of Fiji, the 2015 Fiji Income Tax Act and the Value Added Tax Act of 1999. Through international cooperation and use of multilateral instruments, Fiji has internalised some of the Base Erosion Profit Shifting (BEPS) action points which is a global tax agenda.
Vineet Chouhan; Nader Naghshbandi
Volume 2, Issue 4 , April 2015, , Pages 277-292
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Human Resource (HR) is most crucial, very important and sensitive factor used as an input for production. This factor was overlooked earlier for accounting purposes due to the availability of excess and unorganised manpower and relatively low cost. But after liberalization of Indian economy (in 1991) ...
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Human Resource (HR) is most crucial, very important and sensitive factor used as an input for production. This factor was overlooked earlier for accounting purposes due to the availability of excess and unorganised manpower and relatively low cost. But after liberalization of Indian economy (in 1991) the importance of human resources were recognised. Although a little interest has been shown by professional accountancy bodies, like ICAI, ICSI and ICMAI on Human Resource Accounting (HRA) in Indian the importance is now given on HRA by public sector undertakings that have made pioneering attempts by disclosing Human Resource Values in their published annual reports. Similarly the other private companies are also disclosing the HR values in their financial statements. This paper seeks to present brief description of Concepts of HRA, analyse the disclosure in 5 major companies in India. The study also analyses the difference between the HRV, and to establish the relationship between Profitability and HRV with other predictor values like Net worth, Sales and EPS. By using ANOVA, Tukey post Hoc Test and multiple regression it was found that HRV and Sales are the predictor of Profitability in selected companies in India.
Shadi Al-Khasawneh; Wan Anisah Endut; Nik Mohd Norfadzilah Nik Mohd Rashid
Volume 7, Issue 5 , May 2020, , Pages 278-300
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This research examined relationship between modern management accounting techniques and industrial companies listed in Amman Stock Exchange (ASE). The questionnaire was used to collect data from 46 companies operating in industrial activities, a total of 152 questionnaires were distributed to employees ...
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This research examined relationship between modern management accounting techniques and industrial companies listed in Amman Stock Exchange (ASE). The questionnaire was used to collect data from 46 companies operating in industrial activities, a total of 152 questionnaires were distributed to employees in the financial business units (FBUs) in the companies, data of 116 questionnaires were used in the analysis process through Smart- PLS software. The results showed that reveals that MMATs had a strongly positive and significant effect on OP.
Olusogo Olamide Ogunleye; Oluwarotimi Ayokunnu Owolabi; Muazu Mubarak
Volume 5, Issue 5 , May 2018, , Pages 282-299
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This research explores the effect of population growth on the economic growth of Nigeria over the period of 1981 to 2015. Data on GDP and exchange rate were obtained from Central Bank of Nigeria Statistical bulletin, while data on Population growth rate, fertility rate, and crude death rate, were obtained ...
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This research explores the effect of population growth on the economic growth of Nigeria over the period of 1981 to 2015. Data on GDP and exchange rate were obtained from Central Bank of Nigeria Statistical bulletin, while data on Population growth rate, fertility rate, and crude death rate, were obtained from the World Bank World Development indicators. Ordinary least squares regression was used to analyze data in this study. The findings of the study reveals that population growth has a positive and significant effect on economic growth of Nigeria, while fertility was negative and significant for economic growth in Nigeria. Exchange rate and crude death rate are however insignificant for economic growth of Nigeria. The study recommends amongst other recommendations that the Nigeria government should ensure that Nigeria’s rising population are channeled into areas of the economy where they may more fully utilized in bringing about high rates of economic growth for the country. In addition, the Nigeria government should increase access to affordable health care services so as to reduce death rates in order for Nigeria to achieve increased economic growth.
Kelechi Enyinna Ugwu; Halida E. Osisioma
Volume 4, Issue 3 , March 2017, , Pages 282-310
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This study investigates the extent of the relationship between Talent Management and Performance of Selected Commercial Banks in Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria. The survey research design was adopted and primary data was collected through a questionnaire. The target population of the study includes the members ...
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This study investigates the extent of the relationship between Talent Management and Performance of Selected Commercial Banks in Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria. The survey research design was adopted and primary data was collected through a questionnaire. The target population of the study includes the members of staff of Access Bank and Fidelity Bank Plc, Owerri, Nigeria, with staff strength of 100 and 83 respectively, giving a total population size of one hundred and eighty (183). Also, the research hypothesis was tested using Multiple Regression with the aid of SPSS package. The result of hypothesis which stated that, there is no significant relationship between Talent Management (employee personal attributes) and Organization Performance (competitiveness) was rejected at 5% level of significance. The result therefore established that, there is a significant relationship between Talent Management and Organizational Performance. This study recommends that organizations should assist employees in the process of Talent Development programmes by adopting a work-based learning programme and technique as the best and the most effective in improving employee incompetency and performance. Again, Organization should create opportunities for manpower training so as to give every employee equal opportunity for career growth and development.
Kazuhiro Ohnishi
Volume 3, Issue 5 , May 2016, , Pages 283-295
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This paper examines a three-stage game model in which a joint-stock private firm and a state-owned public firm can sequentially offer lifetime employment before competing in quantities. The game runs as follows. First, the joint-stock private firm decides whether to offer lifetime employment. Second, ...
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This paper examines a three-stage game model in which a joint-stock private firm and a state-owned public firm can sequentially offer lifetime employment before competing in quantities. The game runs as follows. First, the joint-stock private firm decides whether to offer lifetime employment. Second, the state-owned public firm decides whether to offer lifetime employment. Third, both firms choose their outputs simultaneously and independently. The paper demonstrates that there is an equilibrium solution where only the joint-stock private firm offers lifetime employment.
Mohammad Reza Meigounpoory; Elahe Saffari
Volume 1, Issue 4 , November 2014, , Pages 284-294
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Existence of new service development process is very important for competitiveness, growth and survival of service organizations especially banking system. Customer involvement has been advocated as a potentially powerful tool for developing successful new services, while only very few NSD models try ...
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Existence of new service development process is very important for competitiveness, growth and survival of service organizations especially banking system. Customer involvement has been advocated as a potentially powerful tool for developing successful new services, while only very few NSD models try to explain how to integrate customers in NSD processes. The purpose of this paper is "identifying of the effective factors of customer involvement in launch stage of new service development in banking systems”. The research was conducted as a qualitative methodology and used in-depth interviews with academic experts and managers of banking systems until theoretical saturation state achieved. The gathered data was analysed using axial and open coding methods. The research results show that customer involvement in launch stage of new service development includes totally 13 effective factors of customer involvement that were identified in five axial factors. The results can be used for improvement of customer involvement in the launch stage of NSD process in financial organization.
Ebrahim Rahimi; Amin Pourzakeri; Najibeh Abbasi Rostami; Faranak Safari Shad
Volume 6, Issue 3 , March 2019, , Pages 286-296
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This research investigates the effect of empowerment on human and social capital. The research method is descriptive, analytical and correlational. The statistical population consists of all employees of petrochemical industry of Markazi Province. Sample size equals to 250 employees. Data collection ...
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This research investigates the effect of empowerment on human and social capital. The research method is descriptive, analytical and correlational. The statistical population consists of all employees of petrochemical industry of Markazi Province. Sample size equals to 250 employees. Data collection tool is standard questionnaire which its validity was confirmed by content and construct validity and its reliability was calculated by Cronbach’ Alpha. Collected data was analyzed by LISREL software. After the analysis, all research hypotheses accepted.
Halimeh Rahmani; Hosein Jabari
Volume 2, Issue 4 , April 2015, , Pages 293-311
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The objective of accounting is to provide useful information for the users of financial reporting. The information is considered useful if it possess qualitative characteristics. In this regard, it is very important to examine the relationship between qualitative characteristics and usefulness of information. ...
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The objective of accounting is to provide useful information for the users of financial reporting. The information is considered useful if it possess qualitative characteristics. In this regard, it is very important to examine the relationship between qualitative characteristics and usefulness of information. However, a literature review doesn’t contribute much to judge about the relationship between qualitative characteristics and the usefulness of financial reporting. This study aims to investigate the effects of qualitative characteristics on the usefulness of financial reporting. In this study, we have used structural equations model (SEM) to analyze the data. The PLS, LISREL and SPSS software were used to test the model, research validity and research reliability, respectively. The information of the study sample consisting of 185 firms was analyzed during the period 2000 to 2013. Except for understandability, all other qualitative characteristics had an impact on usefulness. Conservatism also had negative effect on usefulness. Based on the findings, it is recommended to omit conservatism from qualitative characteristics. Besides, considering that relevance has a greater impact on the usefulness than reliability, so it can be concluded that the users of financial statements are looking for relevant information in their decision making process and information reliability is a matter of secondary importance.
Hiwa Farughi; Seiran Alaniazar; Seyed Hamed Mousavipour
Volume 1, Issue 4 , November 2014, , Pages 295-310
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Nowadays organizations encounter serious challenges such as drastically changes in business environments, increasing competitions, as well as expanding markets and different needs of customers, it seems that having a deep conception of the current processes of organizations and enhance them ...
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Nowadays organizations encounter serious challenges such as drastically changes in business environments, increasing competitions, as well as expanding markets and different needs of customers, it seems that having a deep conception of the current processes of organizations and enhance them is a must for both service and production companies to survive in such competitive and complex environment. One of the modern approaches for improving organizational processes is business process reengineering. In this study, the current condition of Industrial Estates Company of Kurdistan (IECK) has been studied and the key processes of IECK concerning the industrial units have been determined. Then, the problems related to implementation of these processes have been identified through the comments of experts of the organization and industrial units which are settled in Industrial Estates, in addition to investigating the operation of these processes. Afterwards, those processes which have invoked the most dissatisfaction in customers or industry holders have been evaluated through business process reengineering (BPR) methodology; subsequently, some improvement methods have been proposed to remove, modify, review, and change these processes.
Levana Setya Violani; L Liswandi
Volume 3, Issue 5 , May 2016, , Pages 296-305
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Financial crisis previously happened in the West makes many Asian countries, including Indonesia, hit by its ripple effect. Indonesia, especially, sees its stock markets suffer and currency values face a downward trend which is resulting on the growth of Indonesia GDP per capita also suffers from the ...
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Financial crisis previously happened in the West makes many Asian countries, including Indonesia, hit by its ripple effect. Indonesia, especially, sees its stock markets suffer and currency values face a downward trend which is resulting on the growth of Indonesia GDP per capita also suffers from the effect. Despite the economic downturn, Indonesia internet using has increased and e-commerce business of product and service offerings have evolved significantly in recent years. This research is to study this phenomenon by using consumers decision-making styles model with its dimensions: quality-conscious consumer (X1), brand-conscious consumer (X2), recreational consumer (X3), price-conscious consumer (X4), and habitual consumer (X5) towards Purchasing Behavior (Y) as the variables with A total of 100 of people who live in Jakarta and ever purchased through online store were chosen as the respondents for this study. The researcher is using multiple regressions as statistical method and coefficient of determination (R2). Based on the result, quality-conscious consumer (X1), price-conscious consumer (X4), and habitual consumer (X5) are found to have partial significant influence towards purchasing behavior of online shopping. Research also found that quality-conscious consumer, brand-conscious consumer, recreational consumer, price-conscious consumer, and habitual consumer have simultaneously significant influence towards purchasing behavior (Y).
Novia Zahrah; Azelin Aziz; Siti Norasyikin Abdul Hamid
Volume 6, Issue 4 , April 2019, , Pages 297-312
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The aim of this study is to investigate the moderating role of religious spirituality on the relationship between workload and work engagement among nurses in Malaysia Public Hospitals. A quantitative correlational research and questionnaire method is applied in this study. Sample sizes of 364 that consist ...
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The aim of this study is to investigate the moderating role of religious spirituality on the relationship between workload and work engagement among nurses in Malaysia Public Hospitals. A quantitative correlational research and questionnaire method is applied in this study. Sample sizes of 364 that consist of Staff Nurses were selected through multistage sampling. SPSS and Smart-PLS were utilized as the analytical tools of this study. The assessment of the inner model (measurement model) and the assessment of the outer model (structural model) were conducted to test the hypothesis. The result shows that it supports the relationship between workload and work engagement. But it shows that religious spirituality has no moderating effects on the relationship between workload and work engagement. Future studies might have significant result relating to moderating role of religious spirituality in mitigating the effect of workload on work engagement. By understanding the relationship among the constructs in this study, healthcare institutions could improve work engagement level of nurses in spite of the high workload. The management also could coordinates and provides nurses a training relating to religious spirituality to facilitate nurses to be more resilient in dealing with job complexity of nursing tasks and high job demands, which in turn it will enhances the nurses’ work engagement level.
Magaji Abba; Naziru Suleiman; Lawan Yahaya
Volume 5, Issue 5 , May 2018, , Pages 300-318
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The paper examined the effect of environmental management reputation on financial performance of the Nigerian companies. This was informed by the need to explore the strategic importance of the EMS_ISO certification and clear the doubt about its contribution to the Nigerian companies’ profitability. ...
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The paper examined the effect of environmental management reputation on financial performance of the Nigerian companies. This was informed by the need to explore the strategic importance of the EMS_ISO certification and clear the doubt about its contribution to the Nigerian companies’ profitability. It was posit that environmental reputation brings about brand loyalty and incentives. This ultimately increases profitability and subsequently the financial performance of the companies. Data was collected from 11 Nigerian companies operation in environment sensitive industries for a period of 5 years. The regression analysis shows the reputation has a significant positive effect on the companies’ financial performance. That is achievement of environmental reputation through certification contributes to profitability. This finding contributes to the Natural Resource Based theory by supporting the strategic use of environmental reputation to achieve financial performance. Though, caution should be exercised in the use of this finding. This is because of the companies’ characteristics and contextual issues related to level of economic development of Nigeria. It is recommended for further study that to investigate other forms of performance such as operational and social performance. Also improvement in the method can be made with the use of path analysis (SEM) instead of only robust regression.
Didip Diandra; Ahmad Azmy
Volume 7, Issue 5 , May 2020, , Pages 301-306
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Entrepreneurship is a natural phenomenon in business. It is part of business life. It shows that business is healthy when there are entrepreneurial skills and managements are adopted for changing and learning. Thus, it will be beneficial for any business organization to understand the definition of entrepreneurship, ...
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Entrepreneurship is a natural phenomenon in business. It is part of business life. It shows that business is healthy when there are entrepreneurial skills and managements are adopted for changing and learning. Thus, it will be beneficial for any business organization to understand the definition of entrepreneurship, sources and types of entrepreneurship, and be able to manage entrepreneurship. This is qualitative research based on literature review to define entrepreneurship, define the sources and types of entrepreneurship, and to provide practical guidelines on how to manage entrepreneurship. It is found that several definition of entrepreneurship based on sources and types of entrepreneurship such as entrepreneurial skills, innovations, and managements. Previous researches classified entrepreneurship into different terms such as technology, and process of entrepreneurship. Some practical guidelines were also provided, but entrepreneurial skill is a major point.
Saif ul Amin; Yasir Kamal
Volume 3, Issue 5 , May 2016, , Pages 306-318
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This paper examines the impact of nature born leader qualities on project team performance. This research also studies the influence of demographic factors (age, and gender) on the impacts of a nature born leader qualities intention in projects perspective. A quantitative technique was adopted in this ...
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This paper examines the impact of nature born leader qualities on project team performance. This research also studies the influence of demographic factors (age, and gender) on the impacts of a nature born leader qualities intention in projects perspective. A quantitative technique was adopted in this research. Data were collected through questionnaire survey from Pakistani project. Questionnaire form covered all variables and collected data analyzed through SPSS. Regression Analysis and Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed-rank tests were applied to test the hypothesis and make inference from the collected data. Statistical analysis revealed the impact of natural born leader qualities on both subjective and objective performance of project teams. Finding also supported the proposed hypotheses about influences of demographic variables. The findings address a number of weaknesses in literature by providing statistical evidence of the influence demographic characteristics. The findings can thus help theoretically; and practically to project manager by understanding the conflict resolution of different age and gender of their followers. This research also benefit for the research scholar engaged in pursuing literature on leadership behavior, project management and performance.
