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Enhancing Malaysian Entrepreneurship Development through Information Technology: A Conceptual Framework

Esuh Ossai-Igwe Lucky, PhD.

Despite the Malaysian government effort directed towards creating and developing effective and successful entrepreneurship particularly through various IT policies, it is observed that many Malaysia entrepreneurial firms and small businesses are yet to fully utilize the benefits offered by IT in enhancing the business activities. Few entrepreneurs have sufficient knowledge in applying IT tools in their businesses. As a result, this paper examines how Malaysian entrepreneurship development could be enhanced through IT.

Organization and Management Theory in Public vs. Private Organizations

Wasim I Al-Habil is an assistant professor working at the College of Commerce in the Islamic University of Gaza. His research focuses on public administration in the Middle East and Palestine.

Some people argue that organization and management theory can be used to understand public organizations in essentially the same way as private organizations. Others argue that organizing and managing in the public sector is fundamentally different from the private sector—therefore there is, or there needs to be, something distinctive about public organization/management theory. This is a theoretical qualitative research describing the similarities and differences between the two types of organizations based on the development of the public administration literature.

Alternative Banking Channels and Customers’ Satisfaction: An Empirical Study of Public and Private Sector Banks

Vijay M. Kumbhar , M. A. SET, NET, GDC&A, DIT and M. Phil (Economics) and recently, he has submitted PhD Thesis in Alternative Banking and Its Impact on Customers Satisfaction to Shivaji University, Kolhapur

The present empirical study focuses on identifying key factors that have influences customers satisfaction in alternative banking service provided by public and private sector banks. For the purpose of the present study primary data were collected using likert scale based questionnaire. Result of this study shows that, there was significant relationship between age, education and profession of the bank customers and customers‘ satisfaction in alternative banking. There was significant relationship between service quality, band perception and perceived value with overall customer satisfaction in alternative banking.

Informal Microfinance And Primary Health Care In Ekiti Lga, Kwara State, Nigeria

Ijaiya, M.A., Ijaiya, G.T., Bello, R.A., Mukaila A. Ijaiya, Abdulkadir, R.I., Lawal, W.A., Salam, M.O.

Microfinance provides a promising platform to expand health access and coverage for rural poor that are mostly farmers and urban poor who are in the informal sector of the economy through organized groups. Health in rural area is accessed through primary health and community care which is the most visible and commonly used part of the health system. Using a multi regression analysis, this study examines the impact of informal microfinance on primary healthcare. The study shows that there is positive relationship between informal microfinance and primary healthcare.

The execution of mergers and acquisitions as a strategy for Mexican companies within the growth achievement in major world rankings

José G. Vargas-Hernández, Ph.D., Profesor Investigador miembro del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores and Mohammad Reza Noruzi, EMBA, PhD Candidate Public Administration, Policy Making in Public Sector.

Mergers and Acquisitions, M & As has become a trend for the growth of Mexican companies. Although the diverse, all companies seeking the ultimate goal of growth of the firm. Through the job description in the three largest companies in Mexico and the results we achieved demonstrate the profitability of this kind of strategic alliances and detected elements which may be useful for growing companies that are selecting the appropriate strategy to their resources and goals.

Islamic vs. conventional microfinance: A comparative theoretical analysis

Hossin Meisami, PH.D., Davood Manzur, Assistance professor and Mehdi Roayaee, Student of Islamic Studies & Economics

Reducing poverty and improving income distribution are among the most important economic goals of Islam and subsequently Islamic economics. On the other hand, Islam has highly emphasized the importance of components of human capital like education and health (Hamdani, 2006, p.6). However, a quick glance at the current situation of the Muslim countries shows something different. In fact, there is a big gap between Islamic teachings about income inequality and poverty, and the present condition of Islamic countries.

The Competing Determinants of Divestiture and Strategic Alliance Transactions in Creating Value: Evidence from an Emerging Market

Ari Warokka, Resident Faculty of Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business (OYA GSB). Patricia Ajeng Pebrikasari, Unit Manager, Indonesian People Bank (Bank Rakyat Indonesia), Purwodadi

Prior researches reveal that divestiture and alliance transactions have been viewed as strategic-oriented transactions to increase company`s value. The objective of this study is to test the implication of divestiture and alliance transactions announcements. Particularly, this study explores the implication of the competing determinants, i.e. type of divestiture and alliance transactions characteristic, the strategic focus, company‘s capital structure, and ownership.

Quality And Cost Of Healthcare: An Indian Prespective An Assessment Of Direct Cost Of Quality Across Hospitals In India

Dr Utkarsh Shah, Asst. Professor, Healthcare Management , Welingkar Institute of Management Studies , Research Study Supported by Pinnacle Healthcare Consultants, Mumbai

With recent advances in healthcare, quality has become a pertinent issue. As the demand for healthcare is rapidly rising with increasing population base and increasing levels of affordability, so is the demand for quality healthcare services. Superior quality of medical care is often associated with higher costs of hospitalization. This paper attempts to explore the relationship between quality of medical care services and the cost of hospitalization across hospitals in India.

Compensation-satisfaction correlation at workplace: A study on BPOs at Orissa

Prof. Dibyendu Choudhury , Associate Professor, Marketing, Regional College of Management and Dr. Sasmita Mishra , Assistant Professor, KIIT School of Management, KIIT University

Indian BPOs have been in news for certain contradictory issues. While this industry is able to create more employment on the other hand is facing the problem of attrition. Although these issues have been addressed from different perspective, more and more researches are required to understand the employment trends and employee expectation and satisfaction, may be in the local level. An online survey was conducted at Orissa to address compensation issue in different BPOs. 106 respondents selected on the basis of snowball sampling fully completed the survey.

Exploring the Relationship Quality among Organizational Innovation, Member‘s Job Involvement and Individual Creativity

Gou-Fong Liaw, Associate Professor, Department of Textile & Clothing, Zong-Wei Zhu and Shih-Ming Ou

This research is based on member’s viewpoint to explore their attitudes towards the organizational innovation, hoping to clarify a vague relationship among innovation, organization and members; to explore the effect from the relationship quality among members, colleagues and management on member’s job involvement and creativity performance; and to know in depth the innovation’s effect on the organization for making up the unexplored in the existing literature. Through this research, leader’s innovation is explored in two parts.

Developing Child Friendly Environment In Early Childhood Education Classrooms In Pakistan

Khush Funer Murtaza, Professional Development Centre North, Institute for Educational Development ,Aga Khan University ,Pakistan

Among all levels of education, Early Childhood Education and Development (ECEd) is considered to be the most critical level for social (relationship to others), emotional (self-image and security), cognitive (thinking and reasoning) and physical development of children. Therefore, the teachers of early years need to play a significant role in the teaching and learning process through providing a friendly environment in their schools.

Engineering Functions for Bangladesh Socio-Economic Development Aspects

Md Mamunur Rashid, Management Counsellor

The All branches of Engineers have in its roll more than 25000 engineers from 0.1 million engineers from 142.319 million people of Bangladesh with about 30% in the category of Fellows, 60% Members and the rest as Associate Members at the Institution of Engineers of Bangladesh for the commitment to develop better world. All Engineers in Bangladesh are acted with science; mathematics and management function for socio economic development aspects in Bangladesh.

How Prior Academic Exposure Affect Students Performance In Undergraduate Accounting Course In Tanzania

Dr. Nelson Jagero Senior Lecturer, School of Post Graduate Studies, Kampala International University and Noah J. Masasi

The researcher conducted this study at the Open University of Tanzania, an Open Distance Learning (ODL) university. Using descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation coefficient and regression analysis. Sampling procedures were used during data collection from a population of 1200 students; a sample of 122 students was drawn. On the prior academic exposure and work experience, the study shows that work experience in accounting before starting the degree course and average grade obtained in the last Main test are significantly associated with the overall students. performance.

Intelligence Service Marketing: Myth or Reality

Feride Bahar ISIN, PhD, Instructor and Metehan TOLON, PhD, Assistant Professor

Intelligence and security issues have become increasingly important today due to a multiplication of dimensions and unpredictability of threats. A nontraditional area of deployment for marketing science is national intelligence. Intelligence services are using marketing concepts in order to adapt to the ever changing conditions and gain advantage over other intelligence services. However there is some confusion in adapting marketing elements such as product, price and competition to intelligence. Another problem is how to make the inherent secrecy of intelligence compatible with such marketing actions as launching product(s), informing and persuading users.

Study of economical social factors on women perspectives relating to the role of advertisement on decreasing family consumption in Esfahan

Dr. Mohammad Reza Iravani, Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, Islamic Azad ,

The aim of present search is Study of economical social factors on women perspectives in Esfahan relating to the role of advertisement on decreasing family consumption. Research method is survey one and statistical population are including all households in Esfahan. Sampling has been done by random method among women of above centers and their numbers are 284 women as a sample device of gathering info is questionnaire whose validity has been reported by professor study and omission vague questions ( content validity) for estimating its reliability by Cronbach coefficient and it is 86%.

Characteristics of Strategic Business of Business & Industrial Organizations

Dr. Nasser Fegh-hi Farahmand

There are no distinct business management systems in use at organizations, and nor should there be anything of the sort, as the aim is that Strategic Business (SB) is an Integrated part of business. Indeed, business management system is also in general e.g. in the recognized business standards understood as a concept for systematic approach or mental system but not as a distinct, physical system. An exploration of the ways in which the characteristics of the Business & Industrial Organizations (BIO) influence whether or not those organizations engage in Strategic Business Planning.

Market Research On Factors Affecting Customer Adoption Of Internet Banking

Mr. Ankit Shah (GOLD MEDALIST) MBA (MKTG), MBA (IT), PGDAC,PGDMM,PGDIM,SCJP

The aim of this research study is to investigate the factors influencing the adoption of IB in Vadodara, Gujarat, Western India. The Paper provides a detailed understanding of how and why specific factors affect the consumer decision. Survey/Interview data from 300 local respondents was used to accomplish this objective. The empirical findings revealed that adoption of IB is dependent on five key factors. This research study would also help to suggest that how banks would be better able to manage consumer experiences by adopting IB services.

Innovation in Social Networking Media and their impact on the Buying Behavior of Gennext Consumers in India: A new face of Viral Marketing

Amrita Pani,Lecturer-Marketing, Biju Pattanaik Institute of IT & Management (BIITM) ,Bhubaneswar. Mahesh Sharma, Lecturer-Marketing, Biju Pattanaik Institute of IT & Management (BIITM)

Innovation in social networking media has revolutionized the world in 21st Century; it has been found that social networking sites such as Myspace, Orkut & Facebook are being widely used to influence Gennext consumers in India apparently increasing their susceptibility to viral marketing. Indian youths have realized changes in their brand choices, shopping behavior and lifestyle pattern resulting from their virtual socialization through social media. The main purpose of this study was to examine the pervasiveness of Buzz marketing Practices through social networking sites.

Rural Marketing Support to the Self Help Group in Orissa

Pravash R. Mohapatra, Associate Professor USBM (United School of Business Management), Chandaka Industrial Estate, Patia Bhubaneswar (Orissa).

The output of SGSY (to create micro level entrepreneur, after forming a SHG) have slowed down and then it was changed into NRLM. Is it solving the problem of putting people above the BPL? Is the Govt. machinery doing enough to market the product of the SHGs? Is the failure of this is the key reason of the failure of a scheme. In this article it is examined that how good the organization (ORMAS along with DSMS) is serving the BPL population of Orissa. Khurda district, home to the capital city of Orissa is taken as an example.

A Study On The Strategies Of Unorganized Retailers With Reference To Consumer Durables

Dr. Kanagaluru Sai Kumar, Professor in Management

The study has been designed to analyze the strategies that are responsible for influencing the perceptions of unorganized retailers with respect to consumer durables. A sample of 100 retailers at different locations has been selected and studied with reference to various strategies. Factor analysis technique has been applied for the analysis of perceptions of the sample retailers. The results of factor analysis show that product strategies is the most important factor followed by price, distribution and promotion strategies. The study also focused on whether the importance given to different factors vary across location of retailers.

The evolution of the regional investment climate in Romania

Popescu, Raluca, PhD Candidate from The Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania

The paper aims at identifying the development regions in Romania (corresponding to NUTS III classification), which have similar patterns regarding the investment environment and how these similarities evolved from 2006 to 2008, one year before and one year after becoming a member of the European Union, respectively. Using a cluster analysis technique, we found that the regional disparities increased. In 2008, the areas that contained agglomerations of foreign direct investments attracted even more foreign capital than in 2006.

The Undergraduate Common Professional Component (CPC): Origins and Process

Jeremy Cripps, FCA, CPA, PhD, Professor of Accounting,Christine Clark and Olin. O Oedekoven

Since 1988 US international program accreditors have added a CPC (Common Professional Component) requirement to ensure that business programs recognize the interdisciplinary nature of business when “the process of answering a question, solving a problem, or addressing a topic is too broad or complex to be dealt with adequately by a single (academic) discipline.” CPC, for accreditation purposes, recognizes the weakness of academic business research and embraces the interdisciplinary nature of business by requiring accredited programs to document their multi-dimensional approach to CPC.

Investigation The Leadership Style Of Sport Managers

Özhan BAVLI, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University Physical Education and Sport Department, Yasemin KEMERÝZ and Can ÖZGÝDER

The purpose of this study was to investigate the types of leadership of sport managers. Totally 49 managers who work in different sport organization in Çanakkale participated in to the study voluntary. Leadership Opinion Questionnaire which was developed by Edwin A. Fleishman (1960) and which was adapted to Turkish Balci A. (1997) used to collect data. The data were analyzed using SPSS statistics program, leadership types shown in the form of mean ± standard deviation, Pearson Correlation analysis was used to investigate te relation with age, working year, and monthly income.

Challenges Facing Management Of Free Primary Education In Kenya: A Case Of Nyamira County - Kenya

DR. JOHN OURU NYAEGAH (PhD), LECTURER: UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI

Educations for All and the Millennium Development Goals have given many countries an incentive to attain Universal Primary Education through accelerated and selected strategies. A few countries in Africa have implemented it before Kenya with mixed cases of success, problems and challenges. Since its introduction in Kenya in 2003, it has been faced with different challenges especially on the management of funds and the general management problems arising from the increased enrolment in schools.

Service Loyalty Measuring Index For Banking Services: A Comperative Study Of Private And Public Banks

Dr. Rupali Pramanik, Assistant Professor, G.L.Bajaj Institute of Technology and Management.Dr. Shakti Prakash and Dr. Gyan Prakash

The concept of service loyalty has received much attention from both academics and practioners in different areas of business. In the competitive market, service loyalty is the key factor of success and developing a sustainable competitive advantage. The service sector is dominating the world economy. Almost all the developed as well as developing countries are emerging as Service Economies. Service has become critical source of wealth of nation. Indian economy is also enjoying honeymoon with the increase in income and employment.

India’s New Tourism Potentiality: Management & Technical Education for the Developing World (A Developmental Perspective Study)

Dr. Biswajit Das, Professor – Marketing, KIIT School of Management,Dr. S. P. Rath, Chef T. S. R. C. Murthy and Prof. Subhasis Mandal

The concept of "Global Village" doesn't look like a clarion call of the time, rather turning as the reality of the global economy. Export and import are no more the closed economy control. International trade has replaced the traditional industry and has improved the national per-capita income. Tourism has emerged as one of the major foreign exchange earner for India; still India has to go miles away to catch-up with the neighbor China. Measuring the difference it seems somewhat impossible but two major avenues can provide the pace, one is religion tourism of Buddhism and the second is the simple- Education Tourism.