Management
Abedin Eftekhari; Gholamreza Jamali; Ali Naghi Mosleh Shirazi
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There have been various approaches to the supply chain such as lean, agile, robustness, sustainability, resilient, and green that each one focuses on supply chain from specific aspect. One of the new approaches to the supply chain is an integration of Lean, Agile, Resilient, and Green (LARG) that benefiting ...
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There have been various approaches to the supply chain such as lean, agile, robustness, sustainability, resilient, and green that each one focuses on supply chain from specific aspect. One of the new approaches to the supply chain is an integration of Lean, Agile, Resilient, and Green (LARG) that benefiting from the advantages of different approaches and avoiding their disadvantages. The present study proposes a model to design and evaluate LARG-based supply chain in Iran automotive industry using the concept of Axiomatic Design (AD) in a Hesitant Fuzzy (HF) environment. The study process consisted of two stages: designing stage and evaluating stage. In the first stage, the Functional Requirements (FR) and chain Design Parameters (DP) identified in the LARG supply chain based on the Delphi technique and literature review. Based on independence axiom, it should be considered that whether the satisfaction of one FR by the related DPs affects the quality of the other FR or not, which is examined based on the design matrix. In the second stage an integration of information axiom, the Best-Worst Method (BWM), and hesitant fuzzy logic was used to evaluate four supply chains in Iran automotive industry. The weight of supply chain criteria, the utility rate of desired supply chain criteria, and the current status for each supply chain criteria identified in this stage. The results indicated that the excellent LARG supply chain was consisted of 13 indicators. The model also revealed that the excellent supply chain was contained less information axiom and complexity.
Masume Faraji; Shahram Begzadeh
Volume 4, Issue 5 , May 2017, , Pages 565-577
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This study aimed to investigates the relationship between organizational commitment and spiritual intelligence with job performance in physical education staff in East Azerbaijan province. This research is descriptive in nature and correlational, and the statistical universe consisted of all staff in ...
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This study aimed to investigates the relationship between organizational commitment and spiritual intelligence with job performance in physical education staff in East Azerbaijan province. This research is descriptive in nature and correlational, and the statistical universe consisted of all staff in Physical Education offices in East Azerbaijan province, of which 175 members were selected as samples by cluster sampling method. The following questionnaires were used to gather information: organizational commitment of (Allen & Meyer, 1990), Spiritual Intelligence (King, 2008) and Patterson's job performance. In the present study the reliability of questionnaires were calculated, organizational commitment, 0/73, spiritual intelligence, 0/80 and job performance, 0/83, respectively. For analysis, the Pearson correlation test was used. The results of the statistical analysis of data show that there is a significant relationship between organizational commitment and spiritual intelligence with job performance of physical education staff. The findings of this study can be emphasized in the areas of theory and practice, to strengthen employees' job performance through the applying of spiritual intelligence and increasing their organizational commitment in the governmental organizations.
Tayyebeh Zarei
Volume 5, Issue 7 , July 2018, , Pages 566-618
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In capital markets, corporate governance mechanisms are used as valuation criteria in dynamic markets to assess corporate value. The mechanisms concentrating on ownership structures, regulatory processes, and auditing try to improve corporate performance and to create value for stakeholders. The present ...
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In capital markets, corporate governance mechanisms are used as valuation criteria in dynamic markets to assess corporate value. The mechanisms concentrating on ownership structures, regulatory processes, and auditing try to improve corporate performance and to create value for stakeholders. The present research studied the effect of institutional ownership as ownership structure mechanism under price-to-earnings ratio on the performance and efficiency of companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange in 92 sample companies over an 8-year period within 2006-2013. Analysis of research hypotheses show that there is no significant difference between abnormal return of companies with small and large institutional ownership, and low-, intermediate-, and high price-to-earnings ratios. Evaluation of research models over three regression models indicates that institutional ownership for companies with low price-to-earnings ratio has no effect on performance through assessed normal return, abnormal return, and net profit. Further, assessing three other regression models demonstrates that institutional ownership in companies with high price-to-earnings ratio also showed no effect on performance through normal return, abnormal return, and assessed net profit.
Ahmad Alashmawy; Rashad Yazdanifard
Volume 6, Issue 7 , July 2019, , Pages 569-581
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In the digital age recruitment marketing emerged as a consequence of the competitive and complex nature of the labor market. This article highlights the role of marketing in modern recruitment and talent acquisition activities. It reviews as well, the literature of marketing and recruitment to track ...
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In the digital age recruitment marketing emerged as a consequence of the competitive and complex nature of the labor market. This article highlights the role of marketing in modern recruitment and talent acquisition activities. It reviews as well, the literature of marketing and recruitment to track the philosophy of modern recruitment marketing. This review goes deeper into the theory and practices of employer branding as a tool to attract and engage new hires. This paper also critically discusses the relations and interactions between the components of the modern recruitment process.
Narges Mohseni Dehkalani; Asghar Asadi; Hamid Reza Kordlouie
Volume 2, Issue 6 , June 2015, , Pages 571-583
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In economically developed countries, numerous studies have been conducted on the effect of institutional ownership on firm performance. Because of the importance of this research subject, we plan to examine the institutional ownership in Bombay Stock Exchange in terms of the current performance during ...
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In economically developed countries, numerous studies have been conducted on the effect of institutional ownership on firm performance. Because of the importance of this research subject, we plan to examine the institutional ownership in Bombay Stock Exchange in terms of the current performance during 2009 to 2013. Based on the examined variables, the data panel regression in software Eviews was used. The results showed that institutional ownership has no significant relationship with current performance of Bombay Stock Exchange Companies.
Choi Sang Long; Lim Zhi Yong; Tan Wee Chuen
Volume 3, Issue 10 , October 2016, , Pages 572-598
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This research was conducted to address leadership styles and affective organizational commitment and what types of leadership styles that contribute the most to affective organizational commitment within SMEs in Johor retail sector commitment. Quantitative was used for conducting this research and the ...
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This research was conducted to address leadership styles and affective organizational commitment and what types of leadership styles that contribute the most to affective organizational commitment within SMEs in Johor retail sector commitment. Quantitative was used for conducting this research and the questionnaire was distributed to the person in charge in order to distribute to his colleagues. The prepared questionnaire which covered dimensions of transformational leadership style and transactional leadership style, and affective organizational commitment was adapted from Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire and other research. Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) was used for analysing data. Pearson Correlation Analysis will be used to measure the relationship in linear correlation between two numerical data variables, Regression and Multiple Regression analysis was used to test single or multiple independent variables and one dependent variable. Inspirational motivation has a significant and strong positive relationship with affective organizational commitment. The finding showed that leadership styles have a very strong relationship with affective organizational commitment. By further dividing into two different leadership styles, the transformational leadership style has a significant and strong positive relationship with affective organizational commitment while the transactional leadership style has a significant and weak positive relationship with affective organizational commitment. Even both leadership styles have contributed to the affective organizational commitment, the transformational leadership style contributes the most to the affective organizational commitment followed by transactional leadership style.
Abbas Sharifipour; Ali Hosseinzadeh; Majid Hassanzadeh Torbati; Ali Nakhchian
Volume 4, Issue 5 , May 2017, , Pages 578-595
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Over the past two decades, developed countries were shadowed by moving toward service-based economics, which is recently affecting developing countries. Due to such transformation, scientific parties became interested in and managers tried to increasingly recognize effective factors of quality of service ...
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Over the past two decades, developed countries were shadowed by moving toward service-based economics, which is recently affecting developing countries. Due to such transformation, scientific parties became interested in and managers tried to increasingly recognize effective factors of quality of service (QoS) and customer satisfaction. The present study made efforts to cover each model weaknesses using strengths of the other through integrating the two well–known models of Kano & Servqual. The survey was conducted at Customs of Mashhad Airport trying to identify customer satisfaction effective factors. 120 questionnaires were randomly distributed among the customs’ clients. The effect of SERVQUAL model dimensions on client satisfaction was identified t=using five research hypotheses; next, each dimension was classified in one of the three requirement categories of KANO model; then, the relationship between factors of quality of service model with the requirements was examined. Research result revealed that more than 50% of changes in dependent variable (satisfaction) are explained by quality of service model components and 75% of changes in customer satisfaction were predicted by functional and motivational requirements. Moreover, There was seen a significant relationship between quality of service model components and Kano functional and motivational requirements. Finally, some suggestions are recommended to improve the organization quality of services and to advice for future research.
Jabir Bin Abdullah; Rokibul Hasan Sakib; Dewan Azmal Hossain; Ishtiak Ahmed Sakib
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Generally two types of banking system exist in Bangladesh: conventional banking system and Islamic banking system. The conventional banking system consists of interest based banking system. On the other hand Islamic banking system is free of interest. As a result their profitability also differs. The ...
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Generally two types of banking system exist in Bangladesh: conventional banking system and Islamic banking system. The conventional banking system consists of interest based banking system. On the other hand Islamic banking system is free of interest. As a result their profitability also differs. The purpose of this study is to compare the profitability of conventional banking system with that of Islamic banking system. Total 270 bank-years are considered as sample from the 30 listed banks of DSE of which 23 are conventional and 7 are Islamic banks during the period of 2010 to 2018 (3rd quarter for 2018). The result of this study is that conventional banks are more profitable than Islamic banks. Conventional banks’ Return on Assets (ROA) and Profit Expense Ratio (PER) is significantly higher than those of Islamic banks but there is no significant difference in Return on Equity (ROE). Moreover it is also found that for conventional banks Total Equity to Total Assets (TETA) and Deposit to Total Assets (DTA) significantly affect ROA but for Islamic banks only Total Equity to Total Assets (TETA) affects ROA significantly. For conventional banks Deposit to Total Assets (DTA) affects ROE significantly and for Islamic banks Total Equity to Total Assets (TETA) and Debt Equity Ratio (DER) affects ROE significantly. This result may help these two sectors to know their position so that they can improve their present conditions. Besides, the regulatory authority will find it easier to incorporate new rules and regulations for those banking system. Further research can be done using the data of other countries where Islamic banking system exists.
Lian Kok Fei
Volume 6, Issue 8 , August 2019, , Pages 582-598
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This research demonstrated the impact of human resource management bundles on employee performance, both direct and mediated by human capital and organizational commitment. The ability-enhancing, motivation-enhancing and empowerment-enhancing HRM bundles have significant direct impacts on employee ...
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This research demonstrated the impact of human resource management bundles on employee performance, both direct and mediated by human capital and organizational commitment. The ability-enhancing, motivation-enhancing and empowerment-enhancing HRM bundles have significant direct impacts on employee performance and organizational commitment. However, only the motivation-enhancing HRM bundle has a significant direct impact on human capital. There are also significant impacts from human capital to employee performance, organizational commitment to human capital, organizational capital to social capital and social capital to human capital. Finally, human capital has a significant relationship with employee performance. Most of the hypothesized mediated effects were also found, except that their effects were smaller than those of the direct effects. Implications of the research findings and proposals for future research are discussed.
Joel Wong Xie Zhe; Rashad Yazdanifard
Volume 2, Issue 6 , June 2015, , Pages 584-594
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Leadership and corporate culture are highly influential to each other in the corporate world. Effective leadership has developed organizations into new heights such as increased productivity, better quality workforce, higher profitability and so on. In relation to an effective leadership, neuroscience ...
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Leadership and corporate culture are highly influential to each other in the corporate world. Effective leadership has developed organizations into new heights such as increased productivity, better quality workforce, higher profitability and so on. In relation to an effective leadership, neuroscience is an effective tool for leaders to manage their organization through the discovery of the human brain and how neurochemicals in the human body drives human behavior. The procurement of such knowledge could aid leaders to cultivate a healthy corporate culture. This paper mainly talks about how neurochemicals in the human body helps leaders to cultivate a healthy corporate culture.
Accounting
Abdullah Al Masud
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In an aim to assess financial reporting quality and its determining factors, this empirical research examined a randomly selected sample from food and allied sector of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), Bangladesh. As a rapidly growing industry of Bangladesh, the food and allied sector of DSE grabs a significant ...
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In an aim to assess financial reporting quality and its determining factors, this empirical research examined a randomly selected sample from food and allied sector of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), Bangladesh. As a rapidly growing industry of Bangladesh, the food and allied sector of DSE grabs a significant portion of market capitalization and attentions from security analysts. To make valuable decisions in relevant domains, the financial reporting quality of this sector matters for policymakers, investors and regulators and for corporate managers also. In this research, the financial reporting quality (FRQ) has been measured using the popular model developed by Dechow, Sloan and Sweeney, also known as Modified Jones Model (1995). A documentary analysis of the available audited financial statements and annual reports of randomly selected sample companies for six consecutive years (2015 to 2020) has been used as the primary data sources. Popular statistical tools like correlation studies, regression analyses etc. have been applied to find the statistical significance of the explanatory variables of this research. Fourteen factors have been examined for their effects on the quality of financial reports using a classical linear regression model. This research finds firm size, firm age, foreign ownership and leverage positively significantly determine financial reporting quality while the growth and board independence negatively significantly influential. The findings recommend managers to emphasize their attention on the significant factors to improve their financial reporting quality. Security analysts shall evaluate firms’ value based on the factors found significant in determining the quality of financial reports.
Lee Zhao Jian; Rashad Yazdanifard
Volume 2, Issue 6 , June 2015, , Pages 595-608
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Present paper attempts to examine the effectiveness of modern trend advertising methods in reaching certain outcome. In order to provide evidence for the effectiveness of modern trend advertisement methods, a number of past research studies has been used. The authors will focus on examining and comparing ...
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Present paper attempts to examine the effectiveness of modern trend advertising methods in reaching certain outcome. In order to provide evidence for the effectiveness of modern trend advertisement methods, a number of past research studies has been used. The authors will focus on examining and comparing five major modern trend advertising methods, which include internet ads, mobile app ads, video ads, stealth ads and outdoor digital ads. This paper mainly contributes to the marketers and advertisers. It not only allows the marketers or advertisers to recognize the incorrect ways of advertising, but also the characteristics of the modern trend ad methods. At the same time, it can greatly enhance the effectiveness of advertising. Moreover, the objective is introduced with the support of past findings. Also, major studies are used to support the effectiveness of every main modern trend ad method. At the end, the paper is discussed and concluded with the inferences made based on past research. Lastly, the authors look forward for future research to examine the question and resolve the seemingly ineffective ad methods.
Hassan Zalaghi; Nasim Rezaei
Volume 4, Issue 6 , June 2017, , Pages 596-610
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The difference of cost of equity in different life cycles of firms from growth to decline can help the firms to provide finance and understand the effect of life cycle in costs of financial provision with the important consequences in strategic planning of firms. This research investigates the stages ...
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The difference of cost of equity in different life cycles of firms from growth to decline can help the firms to provide finance and understand the effect of life cycle in costs of financial provision with the important consequences in strategic planning of firms. This research investigates the stages of life cycle of firms and costs of equity with data from 113 firms of The Firms Listed in Tehran Stock Exchange from 2003 to 2014. Testing the hypotheses, multiple regressions was used based on the combined data. The results showed that the cost of equity in the stages of decline increases and in growth and mature stage decreases than that in shake out stage. The findings of this research are consistent with life cycle theory of firms.
Azizollah Moradi
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The main objective of this study was to consider the impacting factors on pricing decisions in industrial markets. Research method was of experimental type and data was gathered using semi-structured interview. Population consists of all accountants in Industrial companies in Tehran Province, who 65 ...
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The main objective of this study was to consider the impacting factors on pricing decisions in industrial markets. Research method was of experimental type and data was gathered using semi-structured interview. Population consists of all accountants in Industrial companies in Tehran Province, who 65 expert accountants on related field were selected as sample size through randomly sampling method and were interviewed by researchers. To gather data, the researchers, firstly, send an email to firm and researcher was allowed to interview with the accountants of the firms. Then, they go the firms and the interviews were administrated. Validity and reliability of interview questions were obtained using proposed method of Guba (Holloway& Wheeler, 2013), in such a way that researchers refer to participants and provide them the selected factors and variables and after that they confirmed them and provided their satisfaction, its validity and reliability were confirmed. Results showed that 23 sub-main factors are identified in which 6 sub-main factors belong to internal factors, 8 sub-main factors belong to external factors and price sensitivity has 9 sub-main factors. In addition to, 16 primary codes belong to internal factors, 22 primary codes refer to external factors and 12 primary codes belong to price sensitivity. Totally, 3 main factors impacting on pricing decision in industrial markets, 23 sub-main factors impact on pricing decisions in industrial markets and 50 primary codes are identified that impact on pricing decision in industrial markets based on accountant perspectives.
Sapana Sharma; Sanju Karol
Volume 6, Issue 8 , August 2019, , Pages 599-615
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In present era, to preserve a security and sovereignty of the country, it is necessary to spend a significant amount of national income on defense sector. This study instigates the increasing demand of defense expenditure and also to study the growth performance of India’s with special focus on ...
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In present era, to preserve a security and sovereignty of the country, it is necessary to spend a significant amount of national income on defense sector. This study instigates the increasing demand of defense expenditure and also to study the growth performance of India’s with special focus on the efficacy of defense expenditure on economic growth. This study adopts an Autoregressive Distributed Lag and Toda-Yamamoto granger non-causality model during the period 1961 to 2017. Overall, the results suggest that India is affected both internally and externally issues and also verifies that defense expenditure and economic growth are positively and significantly affect to each other in both period short run and long run. It advocates that increment in defense expenditure by 1% in current period will help to boost economic growth by 1.15 per cent in the long run. For to the directional relationship the Toda-Yamamoto Granger causality outcomes suggest that causality running form DE to GDP which means shows the unidirectional relationship. Accordingly, this designates that defense sector has a crucial efficacy in the development of Indian economies.
Emmanuel Okokondem Okon; Onoja Daniel Abel
Volume 3, Issue 10 , October 2016, , Pages 599-608
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The study employed multiple regression analysis model specified based on hypothesized functional relationship between telecommunication infrastructure development and economic growth of Nigeria during post deregulation period. The model for the study was estimated using the Ordinary Least Square (OLS) ...
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The study employed multiple regression analysis model specified based on hypothesized functional relationship between telecommunication infrastructure development and economic growth of Nigeria during post deregulation period. The model for the study was estimated using the Ordinary Least Square (OLS) technique, and further evaluation was executed using chi-square to investigate the views of respondents on whether GSM has increased market access and reducing distribution cost in carrying out daily economic activities in Nigeria. The outcomes showed that telecommunication has influenced the country’s economy by increasing market access and reducing distribution cost. Therefore, to enhance economic growth in Nigeria, government should issue more licenses to GSM operators in order to allow for healthy competition among the GSM operators. On the other hand, operators should consider the strategy of co-location and infrastructure sharing for further improvement and reduction in cost of running telecommunication business in Nigeria.
Qaisar Iqbal
Volume 3, Issue 10 , October 2016, , Pages 609-622
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This study examined the influence of perception of organizational politics on negligent behavior of employees in banking sector. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between perception of organizational politics and negligent behavior and investigate interaction effect of transformational ...
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This study examined the influence of perception of organizational politics on negligent behavior of employees in banking sector. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between perception of organizational politics and negligent behavior and investigate interaction effect of transformational leadership. A questionnaire was designed to collect data from two hundred subjects who were employees of a large commercial bank posted in twin cities Rawalpindi and Islamabad.it was concluded that there is significant relationship between perception of organizational politics and negligent behavior of employees. Transformational leadership has been observed as moderating the association of perception of organizational politics and neglect. Based on the data analysis, it is recommended that employees should strive to understand and tackle strategically political activities in their organizations to improvise their satisfaction and avoid conflict.
Hamid Sadeghi Rad; Mojtaba Ghorabi; Mahdi Rafiee; Vahid Sadeghi Rad
Volume 2, Issue 6 , June 2015, , Pages 609-619
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Management information systems (MIS) considerably changed business processes. According to this, Electronic customer relationship management (ECRM) emerged in conjunction with evolution of traditional customer relationship management in e-business contexts. In an analogy, Electronic customer relationship ...
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Management information systems (MIS) considerably changed business processes. According to this, Electronic customer relationship management (ECRM) emerged in conjunction with evolution of traditional customer relationship management in e-business contexts. In an analogy, Electronic customer relationship management is similar to a double-edged sword i.e. it provides some opportunities for the system performers, on one side; and challenges the firms, on the other side. In this paper we are seeking for marketing opportunities such as better communication and interactions with customers as well as created choices regarding any customer data storage that ECRM offered as a potential source to benefit from firms’ competitive advantages. On the other hand, it studies the challenges including on-line channel management as well as integrating data and issues related to information technology architecture firms encounter in implementing ECRM.
Esmaeel Amini; Mohammad Dalmanpoor; Fatemeh Aghajanloo
Volume 4, Issue 6 , June 2017, , Pages 611-628
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Since financial service provider organizations, especially banks work in an environment with indistinct products, quality of their services is the first competitive tool. This research aimed at examining the impact of total quality management on profitability of Mehr-Egtesad Bank and Saderat Bank. For ...
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Since financial service provider organizations, especially banks work in an environment with indistinct products, quality of their services is the first competitive tool. This research aimed at examining the impact of total quality management on profitability of Mehr-Egtesad Bank and Saderat Bank. For doing so, six hypotheses were tested. The research statistical population consisted of 135 individuals. The research sample size was 100 individuals chosen via Cochran formula (limited population). The data were collected by a standard questionnaire including 27 items with six scales. The questionnaires were distributed among 100 managers and employees of the mentioned banks. The research main variables factors were identified by exploratory factor analysis and then the hypotheses were evaluated by Lisrel software using structural equations modeling. The results showed a positive impact of total quality management in Mehr-Egtesad Bank and Saderat Bank confirmed by previous research results.
Moslem Tahmasbi; Hesam Rahmani; Mohammad Zamani Bakhtiarvand
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In this study, the effect of audit quality on the market value of cash holdings was investigated. The company’s auditor expertise and tenure were considered as measures of audit quality. The regression model developed by Faulkender and Wang (2006) was applied to estimate the market value of cash ...
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In this study, the effect of audit quality on the market value of cash holdings was investigated. The company’s auditor expertise and tenure were considered as measures of audit quality. The regression model developed by Faulkender and Wang (2006) was applied to estimate the market value of cash holdings.Target sample includes 175 listed companies in the Tehran Stock Exchange during 2008-2014 (1387-1393Iranian calendars). In this study, it was supposed that audit quality affects the market value of cash holdings. The hypotheses were examined using panel data and a multivariate regression model of generalized least squares. The results indicated that the company’s auditor expertise affects the market value of cash holdings (the positive and significant relationship statistically). However, tenure does not affect the market value of cash holdings.
Ishtiak Ahmed Sakib
Volume 6, Issue 8 , August 2019, , Pages 616-631
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This study is conducted to detect earnings manipulation practices in selected textile companies of Bangladesh. It investigates whether the textile companies of Bangladesh are engaged in earnings manipulation of not. For testing this hypothesis, Beneish M-Score is being used collecting data of 13 textile ...
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This study is conducted to detect earnings manipulation practices in selected textile companies of Bangladesh. It investigates whether the textile companies of Bangladesh are engaged in earnings manipulation of not. For testing this hypothesis, Beneish M-Score is being used collecting data of 13 textile companies from financial year 2012-2018. This study indicates a great number of earnings manipulation practices conducted in textile industries. This paper, based on Beneish M-Score, finds evidences regarding manipulation of earnings through disproportionate rise in receivables, cost deferral, less cash behind reported income, etc. by listed companies. This paper finds that the textile companies are manipulating earnings. While this model can be easily used to detect earnings manipulations using annual reports provided by listed companies, further investigations are needed to identify the reasons behind distortions in reported numbers are actually earnings manipulation or any other organizational origin. Being a cost effective tool in detecting frauds through manipulating earnings, this model can be a great tool for auditors and other respective regulatory authorities.
Mitashree Tripathy
Volume 5, Issue 7 , July 2018, , Pages 619-632
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Studies reveal that around millions of people across the world have become chronic to stress and are suffering from various psychological and physical problems. Some consequences of prolonged stress can even subdue life. Stress can emerge due to various reasons concerned with our everyday life. However, ...
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Studies reveal that around millions of people across the world have become chronic to stress and are suffering from various psychological and physical problems. Some consequences of prolonged stress can even subdue life. Stress can emerge due to various reasons concerned with our everyday life. However, not all stresses are negative and hampering. Stress in a more constructive form can sometimes act as a positive source to trigger passion towards work, reduce dysfunctions, promote talent and abilities and ignite inspirations. Today countless professionals come across stress of various forms surfaced through diverse reasons. High amount of pressure to meet deadlines, work overload, less sleep, the urge to stay ahead of competition are the basic reasons to name a few. The fact that stress can coil both personal and professional life is not untrue. Rather, there is a growing concern for stress today in every aspect of life. The focus of the current study is on soft skills and its approach towards numerous work place problems and their solutions, mainly stress. However, the paper also deals and determines the root causes of its origin. It also emphasizes on the various techniques that determine to overcome stress mainly at workplace hence promoting wellbeing and emotional freedom.
Anung Prasetyo Nugroho; Karunia Setyowati Suroto
Volume 2, Issue 7 , July 2015, , Pages 620-630
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One of the marketing activities undertaken by PT Nestle Indonesia to communicate Bear Brand milk in the market is by Words of Mouth marketing. However, Bear Brand Milk is only superior in several regions in Indonesia. The purpose of this study were to analyze the influence of reputation, influence ...
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One of the marketing activities undertaken by PT Nestle Indonesia to communicate Bear Brand milk in the market is by Words of Mouth marketing. However, Bear Brand Milk is only superior in several regions in Indonesia. The purpose of this study were to analyze the influence of reputation, influence of advertisement attractiveness, and community effect to customer value of Bear Brand Milk in Malang, and to analyze the influence of customer value of positive words of mouth on consumers of Bear Brand Milk in City Malang. The primary data were obtained from questionnaires spread to Bear Brand Milk consumers in Malang. The sampling technique used was accidental sampling. The analysis technique used in this study was Structural Equation Model which was operated by AMOS program 16. The variables measured were reputation, advertisement attractiveness, community effect, customer value, and word-of-mouth. Results of the study showed that reputation is an important first element in implementing customer value. The reputation effect of positive words of mouth begins with how reputation can give dominant strategic effects on increasing customer value. The advertisement attractiveness was the second variable affecting the realization of positive words of mouth. Community effect is the third important element in implementing positive words of mouth. In order to create positive words of mouth, improvement of customer value can be realized through reputation, advertisement attractiveness, and community effects.
Narjes Jamali; Mehdi Mardaneh Khameneh
Volume 3, Issue 10 , October 2016, , Pages 623-634
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Today performance evaluation is known as an inevitable part of management knowledge; in such a way that it can help an organization to consume sources and facilities in an optimum way and also achieve its goals and strategies. In this paper for evaluating the performance of aircraft maintenance unit ...
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Today performance evaluation is known as an inevitable part of management knowledge; in such a way that it can help an organization to consume sources and facilities in an optimum way and also achieve its goals and strategies. In this paper for evaluating the performance of aircraft maintenance unit in Iran, Balanced Scorecard (BSC), a strategic management method for performance measurement using a set of financial and non-financial performance metrics, and Fuzzy Multiple Criteria Decision Making (FMCDM) has been used. 26 criteria for performance evaluation in four BSC perspectives by help of maintenance unit’s experts have been specified. The criteria’s weights via Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) method by using Fuzzy Preference Programming (FPP) approach determined and finally fuzzy VIKOR method has been used to measure the performance of three aircraft maintenance units. Results of research shows that FAHP-FVKIOR evaluation method by BSC can be a useful tool for optimum measuring of performance.
Farrukh Shahzad; Muhammad Rizwan Nazir; Waqas Amin
Volume 4, Issue 6 , June 2017, , Pages 629-639
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Taking the 2011-2015 public listed financial and non-financial firms in Pakistan as the sample of the study, this paper scrutinizes the sway of ownership structure on capital structure. The multivariate regression analysis technique is used because the dependent variable is influenced by the more than ...
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Taking the 2011-2015 public listed financial and non-financial firms in Pakistan as the sample of the study, this paper scrutinizes the sway of ownership structure on capital structure. The multivariate regression analysis technique is used because the dependent variable is influenced by the more than one independent variable. The final results reveal that capital structure decision is positively associated with the board of director size and non-executive director’s percentage while it is negatively related with the percentage managerial shareholding.
