Journal of Academy of Business and Economics articles from February 2007

Journal of Academy of Business and Economics archives from February 2007

Exploring perception of technology usefulness as a mediator between ICT support and knowledge sharing.(information and communication technologies)
February 1, 2007... ABSTRACT It is widely recognized that the effectiveness with which knowledge is managed in today's organizations will be the determining factor for their performance and even existence. An important aspect of managing organizational...

Project auditing: a tool for compliance, governance, empowerment, and improvement.
February 1, 2007... ABSTRACT More than 20% of the global economic activity takes place as projects. This percentage tends to be higher in emerging and transition economies and in some it approaches 40%. Effective management and governance of projects is...

The prevalence and business merit of ethical dilemmas of competitive intelligence.(Survey)
February 1, 2007... ABSTRACT The authors surveyed predominately mid-level managers regarding a series of scenarios which pose potentially unethical situations about competitive intelligence. Respondents were asked to rate the scenario in terms of its ethics...

Inter-firm innovation teams: structures for relational learning.
February 1, 2007... ABSTRACT Learning in innovation alliances is fostered by inter-firm NPD teams. Still, to encourage innovation, those teams have to be carefully designed to fulfil their demanding tasks of learning across the boundaries of the firms....

Is managing the intra-entrepreneurial teams' conflicts a source of creativity?
February 1, 2007... ABSTRACT In this paper, we wonder about the impact of demographic diversity of an entrepreneurial team on its creative capacity. The demographic diversity of a team represents a source of intra-group conflict. This conflict is double: the...

Price dispersion for frequently purchased consumer packaged goods: an empirical examination of the cola market.
February 1, 2007... ABSTRACT An understanding of price dispersion may help firms make better pricing decisions and increase their competitiveness and profitability. This research empirically examines price dispersion for the carbonated cola (a typical...

A proposed empirical model of how affective online experience can affect consumer location purchase decision.
February 1, 2007... ABSTRACT This phase 1 proposal develops a model of affective online experience (AOE) and proposes tests via two studies. Study 1 develops a multi-item measure of affective online experience and distinguishes it from positive cognitive...

An AMOS analysis of factors that affect KMS maintenance.
February 1, 2007... ABSTRACT The phenomenon that is described in this paper is concerned with knowledge maintenance in a KMS. Once a knowledge piece is planted in a KMS, the knowledge piece gains the aura of authority as if it were a code of conduct which the...

Do government subsized programs effect perceived product quality and brand equity?
February 1, 2007... ABSTRACT The United States government has many subsidized programs designed to benefit its citizens, i.e., social security, Medicaid, and Medicare. What is the affect of government-subsidized programs on brand equity? Do these programs...

Advertisement and sales: a contemporary cointegration analysis.
February 1, 2007... ABSTRACT In many studies advertisement expenses are considered as a mean to increase sales. For the purpose of investigating the direct effect of advertisement spending on sales, researchers have developed various linear regression models,...

The knowledge creation and organizational values: comparing more innovative and less innovative organizations.
February 1, 2007... ABSTRACT As the values are transnational beliefs, hierarchically organized, capable of orienting the individual actions, becoming, then, goals both to the individuals, to the organizations, institutions and societies, and they influence...

The influence of a four-factor goal orientation model on motivational processes and performance.
February 1, 2007... ABSTRACT The influence of a four-factor goal orientation model on self-regulatory processes was examined in a 14 week longitudinal field study. 104 participants received detailed, written feedback after each of seven biweekly exams....

Allocation of U.S. coast guard boats utilizing integer programming.
February 1, 2007... ABSTRACT This paper considers an application of integer linear programming for optima/allocation of small boats among the stations of the U.S. Coast Guard Pacific Area. The main objective of the developed model was to provide the best...

Bringing strategic planning and management back together: a learning and evolutionary perspective.
February 1, 2007... ABSTRACT This article builds an evolutionary foundation for the process of strategic planning and management. We argue that economic evolution based on competition, innovation, and tradition in enterprises is structurally comparable to...

A theory of docile society: the role of altruism in human behavior.
February 1, 2007... ABSTRACT Herbert A. Simon is widely known for his studies on rationality, artificial intelligence and for his pioneering approach to organizational studies. In one of his latest works, he presented a theory of human interaction, focused on...

Forecast process structure as a key driver for determining collaboration requirements.
February 1, 2007... ABSTRACT Although CPFR has emerged as the principal model for supply chain collaboration, lately a number of CPFR implementations have faced problems. Several of those studies indicate that forecasting related factors are largely...

Does simultaneity matter? the relationship between economic growth, income inequality, corruption, and political instability.
February 1, 2007... ABSTRACT A simultaneous equations model is developed which endogenously determines economic growth, income inequality, corruption, and political instability while using initial GDP, average schooling, investment share of GDP, population...

An empirical study of television viewer demographics and advertising strategies: case of Proctor and Gamble Canada.
February 1, 2007... ABSTRACT This research project investigated the demographics of television viewers during different periods of a weekday to better aid the Marketing department of Proctor and Gamble in deciding the airing intensity of product commercials....

Minimizing weighted flow time of a cyclic schedule with reentrant jobs.
February 1, 2007... ABSTRACT We study the computationally-hard, re-entrant flow, cyclic scheduling problem. We present a new problem formulation to minimize job flow time (work-in-process), given a target cycle length (throughput). We describe an effective...

Determining reorder point in the presence of stochastic lead time and Box-Jenkins time series demand.(Report)
February 1, 2007... ABSTRACT This paper discusses the determination of reorder point and safety stock when the period demands are not independent, but exhibits a serially correlated demand process which can be represented as an autoregressive-moving...

Private label strategy and customer loyalty.
February 1, 2007... ABSTRACT Recently, the retailer as a store brand is one of the most important trends in retailing in order to increase their relative market power and their share of the total channel profit pie. Past studies have focused narrowly on...