Journal of Academy of Business and Economics articles from April 2003

Journal of Academy of Business and Economics archives from April 2003

Introduction.(Editorial)
April 1, 2003... It is my great pleasure to present to you the new issue of the Journal of Academy of Business and Economics, Volume II, Number 2, 2003. In this issue of the journal (JABE), we have published 21 high quality research articles in management and...

Corporations' innovativeness in recruiting in tight labor market.
April 1, 2003... ABSTRACT Currently, corporations are recruiting in a tighter labor market than ever before due to the many changes and forces taking place such as increased use of technology, the retirement of the baby boomers, the aging population, the...

International pharmaceutical firms' market entry modes decisions into China: a comparison between Early-Entrants and Late-Entrants.
April 1, 2003... ABSTRACT Based on an eclectic mode/developed by combining Root (1994), and Mockler and Dologite's (1997) conventional entry mode theory and Kumar and Subramaniam's (1997) contingency entry mode theory, this paper aims to investigate the...

Role of the state as a salient stakeholder in a transition economy: the case of Egypt.
April 1, 2003... ABSTRACT Egypt, a developing country, is still going through a transition process from a socialist to a free market economy. With the declining role of centralized control, an institutional void was created. The various business...

An exploratory study of ethical philosophies among graduate and undergraduate business students.
April 1, 2003... ABSTRACT The growing cascade of unethical business practices led us to examine whether business students prescribe to specific ethical philosophies, and how those ethical philosophies affect their view of general morality, business ethics,...

The contingent effects of industry conditions on relationship between structural complexity and strategic change.
April 1, 2003... ABSTRACT In research on strategic change authors have given little attention to interactive effects of industry conditions and structural complexity on implementation of strategic change. In this paper we examine the independent and...

Developing measures to assess the extent of sustainable competitive advantage provided by business process reengineering.
April 1, 2003... ABSTRACT The study proposes a set of measures that assess the extent of competitive advantage provided by BPR. Naturally measures have to be both reliable (must not vary unreasonably because of irrelevant factors) and valid (should measure...

Spinning off low cost carriers--when it does make sense?
April 1, 2003... ABSTRACT In the last 10 years, a number of major and flag-bearer air carriers have been spinning off low fare alternative airlines from their main operation to compete with low fare rivals. This paper examines the incentives and possible...

Business strategies in a transition economy: the case of Egypt.
April 1, 2003... ABSTRACT Egypt, a country in transition from a socialist to a free market economy suffers from underdeveloped institutions, inept bureaucracy, limited and uncertain resources and inadequate organizational capabilities. Business...

The impact of industry characteristics on vertical integration strategies.
April 1, 2003... ABSTRACT The purpose of the paper is to examine the impact of industry characteristics on vertical integration strategies. The empirical test was based on a framework that included two vertical integration strategies (levels of vertical...

Leadership styles and emotional competencies: an exploratory study.
April 1, 2003... ABSTRACT This paper is a summary of the results of an empirical study done on 295 managers in the last two years. The hypothesis of this study is to test whether the leadership style of a manager is a function of the emotional competencies...

Workplace rights and responsibilities differences between conceptions of Romanian and Chinese employees.
April 1, 2003... ABSTRACT The current study first identifies the essences of employees' conceptions and rights in two countries China and Romania that have different cultures but have been exposed to a semi-market economy control system. We also attempt to...

Factors affecting the effectiveness of FDI venture operations in China: a comparison between Early-Entrants and Late-Entrants.(foreign direct investment)
April 1, 2003... ABSTRACT This paper aims to examine the factors affecting the effectiveness of international pharmaceutical firms' foreign direct investment (FDI) venture operations in the Chinese pharmaceutical industry during the period of 1980-1998. It...

MNC characteristics and global learning.(multinational corporation)
April 1, 2003... ABSTRACT This study attempted to identify firm characteristics related to global learning. The results of this study suggest that cultural proximity, ownership percentage, similarity of processes used and products produced, and competitive...

Coverage of international issues: curriculum assessment from a student perception prospective.
April 1, 2003... ABSTRACT The study assesses international curriculum in the College of Business at Middle Tennessee State University based on student perception. The results of a survey conducted before and after the international competencies exam...

An exploratory look at the network structures of minority business owners: a comparative analysis across gender lines.
April 1, 2003... ABSTRACT The current study analyzes the network structures of minority business owners by providing a comparative analysis of male versus female minority business owners. The paper is thus significant in three basic respects. First, it...

An institutional retrospective on South African and American health sectors.
April 1, 2003... ABSTRACT Economists have rediscovered how social institutions shape the structure and performance of economic activity. Institutional economics is especially useful in understanding the complex health sectors of the world. This paper...

Institutional environment, transaction costs, and the theory of interfirm guanxi.
April 1, 2003... ABSTRACT Taking a new institutionalist and transaction costs approach, we argue that in such special institutional environments as China, where transactions are highly uncertain, opportunism is widespread, property rights-based contract...

A management information system to evaluate black infant health care.
April 1, 2003... ABSTRACT Health Agencies are increasingly faced with the need to develop data systems capable of both generating reports for funding and assisting providers with managing patient care (U.S. Government, 1990). Therefore, these health care...

A psychological model of entrepreneurial behavior.
April 1, 2003... ABSTRACT Entrepreneurship is a multidimensional process. A review of the literature provides some support to look at a multidimensional perspective when analyzing entrepreneurs. There are two distinct schools of researchers in the field of...

A modified Functionality Performance Evaluation Model for evaluating the performance of China based hotel websites.
April 1, 2003... ABSTRACT As China becomes a member of WTO, her hotel industry will speed up its openness to the world. A natural outcome of such openness will enable the wide use of the Internet and World Wide Web in the industry. On the basis of the...

Post-crisis management: a study of corporate restructuring in Asia.
April 1, 2003... ABSTRACT In this article, the literature was reviewed on the sources of Asian corporate crises and the major approaches for corporate recovery and turnaround. Second, we elaborate the role of lack of prior frameworks appropriate to the...