Journal of Academy of Business and Economics articles from January 2005

Journal of Academy of Business and Economics archives from January 2005

A model for strategy and organizational development interventions.
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT What is the appropriate relationship between Strategy and OD? This paper will attempt to address the above issue by first examining the basic concepts of strategy; formulation, implementation, and evaluation. Following this, a...

Market segments based strategic groups: what are they? and some propositions.
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT The concept of strategic groups has been around since Hunt (1972) first coined that term. This concept has been studied in depth in the area of strategic management, but has been barely touched upon in strategic marketing. The...

The human resource management dimensions of corporate social responsibility in Turkey: a survey (1).(Survey)
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT Corporate social responsibility (CSR) means a commitment by a company to manage its roles in a society in a responsible and sustainable manner. Especially since the 1980's, CSR has become an increasingly important part of the...

Brand as a reliability reference point: a test of prospect theory in the used car market.
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT Prospect theory (Kahneman & Tversky, 1979) suggests that consumers are risk seeking for losses (below the reference point) and risk-averse for gains (above the reference point). In this paper we investigate whether consumers...

Identifying hierarchical choice structures: a comparison of methods.
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT Consumers make product choice decisions based on a personal evaluation of the product's attributes. The hierarchical theory posits that a choice is first made on the most important attribute dimension, followed by the next most...

Organizational practices facilitating patent commercialization.
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT This study identifies the organizational practices that are essential for enabling patent commercialization in organizations. An empirical study across 56 organizations is conducted for empirically validating the conceptual model....

Customer satisfaction evaluation (CSE) for knowledge based services from public funded (S&T) R&D organisations.
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), India has undertaken Customer--Supplier (C-S) approach in its eight constituent Chemical Sciences Laboratories to evaluate the customer satisfaction originating from the...

Self-exclusion programs for problem gamblers in Australia.
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT In recent times self-exclusion programs for problem gamblers have experienced a significant increase in patronage in Australia. With the runaway success of these schemes, problems have been encountered in how to deal with the...

The effects of consumer involvement and training on heuristics and biases *.
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT To examine the role of involvement and training in reducing biases and heuristics, an experiment was designed and conducted at a large Northern California University, and 319 out of 360 questionnaires were returned and useful. The...

Competing and complementary explanations of communication media use.
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT This study examines how well an integrative model explains media use, the relationships among the causal elements in the model and the replicability and generalizability of the model on two new communication media, electronic mail...

Causes of knowledge sharing behaviors: motivational/functional approach.(Survey)
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT This study examined individual motives for knowledge sharing behaviors. We collected survey data from full time employees at a company located in North-Atlantic US. We found that employees engaged in knowledge sharing behaviors...

Burnout and absenteeism among nurses in health care management.
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT Nursing is cited as one of the most susceptible professions to burnout. The phenomenon is a combination of symptoms with the potential to damage the individual, other workers, the department in which the burned out nurse works,...

The effects of brand choice on product trial evaluations.
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT Past research suggests that consumers who have greater perceived control over a situation are more likely to evaluate the situation in a favorable manner. In the current study, this theoretical prediction is extended to the domain...

Differences by gender in the moral reasoning, personal values and value types of accounting majors: a study.
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to examine the differences in moral reasoning, personal values and value types of accounting majors based on gender, and the relationship between moral reasoning and personal values or value types. The...

Understanding cyberspace behavior with the critical social theory.
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT This paper presents an application of the Critical Social Theory (CST) in understanding cyberspace behavior. CST can be used as one of qualitative methodologies in IS research. However most prior IS research utilized a very...

Understanding manufacturers' representatives: an analysis of satisfaction and dependence balancing.
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT This paper presents an exploratory study that examines the relationships between characteristics of manufacturers and the satisfaction of manufacturers' representatives. Relationships between the manufacturers' representative's...

Creating management leadership for the future: an integrated model.
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT As businesses approached and entered the new millennium considerable attention was given to identifying the knowledge, skills, abilities and competencies that the manager/leader of the twenty-first century would require...

The role of hedonic and utilitarian products for e-consumer trust.
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT Consumer trust in e-tailers has recently received growing attention within Internet shopping research. Trust has been studied to determine how it is established and maintained. The present study aimed to determine the impact of...

Managerial actions that significantly affect employees' perceptions.
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT Managerial actions have long been recognized as important determents of employee perception and behavior. What specific managerial actions that significantly affect employee perceptions remain debatable. In other words, are their...

Exploratory study to measure the validity of the SELEB scale.(service learning benefit)
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT The SELEB scale (SErvice LEarning Benefit) was developed as a quantitative tool to assess the benefits of service learning. This research examines the ability of the SELEB Scale to discriminate between the effects of class...

Strategic management and policy framework for achieving business excellence--case studies of Indian companies.
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT This paper explains the importance of Strategic Management and Policy Management in the framework of the Japanese Model for Business Excellence, the Deming Prize. It also highlights how the two auto component companies, Sona Koyo...

Internationalization of doctoral programs: is foreign-made better than domestic?
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT The authors conducted a global survey of AACSB accredited doctoral business programs during the spring of 2004. The study compared U.S. programs to their foreign counterparts on a number of faculty, student, and program variables....

A matter of trust: using student designed codes of conduct in face-to-face and virtual group environments.
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT This study looked at 42 face-to-face and 4 virtual groups to determine if student-generated codes of conduct would improve group communication. Codes of conduct are one way to improve the communication process for face-to-face...

The optimal decision on downsizing.
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT Conventional economic reasoning assumes that a firm that is initially at an optimal level of operations at which no change in any parameter would yield a higher profit-per-share, may need to downsize its operations to another...

A fuzzy analysis on perishable-asset in earning management of mainland China airlines.
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT This paper is to study solution perishable-asset problem by fuzzy no-show and overbooking and improve their earnings. The research is using the triangular fuzzy numbers and fuzzy set theory to get the optimal decision. In...