Archive | Volume II, Issue no. 1
Posted on 15 February 2012. Tags: Government, Group forecasting, Incentives, Policy Implementation, Structured Analogies, Subsidies
Governments often use budget so as to provide incentives for citizens to adopt new policies, especially when these are promoting eco-friendly technologies e.g. to subsidise the price of a hybrid-car. The public money spent on each policy, is considered to be value-for–money only if many citizens do adopt the proposed policy. This is also known […]
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Posted on 15 February 2012. Tags: artifacts, behavior, Culture of organization, shared values, subcultures, subculture’s alignment, the commitment with the values, values, vision
The culture of the organization can be a strategic tool for the success of organization, because it influences how the organization conduct its business and helps regulate, control and model of the behavior in each subculture of the organization. Often, the subcultures are viewed by management as the representing tolerated deviations that do not disrupt […]
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Posted on 15 February 2012. Tags: hotel, management, satisfaction, Services, strategies
The objective of a hospitality business is to provide guests with a place where they feel welcome and appreciated, and where they can relax and have an enjoyable experience. Service is what an establishment does to and for its guests to achieve this objective. Service is not about smiling and servility. It is a strategy […]
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Posted on 15 February 2012. Tags: Cost inefficiency, Postsecondary, Religion, Stochastic cost frontier
The focus of this paper is on the efficiency of producing and managing religion based knowledge in postsecondary institutions. Panel data is used to estimate a stochastic cost frontier and associated inefficiencies for a panel of 222 U.S. bible colleges, theological seminaries, and other faith based higher education institutions over the 2005-09 academic years. Results […]
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Posted in Knowledge Management, Volume II, Issue no. 1
Posted on 15 February 2012. Tags: brand positioning, marketing, marketing mix, positioning instrument
In order to acquire an effective competitive advantage on the market, the product/ brand must be understood by the prospects in a certain way. The outcome of positioning is the depiction of a clear image in the prospect’s mind of what the product can offer or mean. A clear position in the prospect’s mind should […]
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Posted on 15 February 2012. Tags: education, labour market, personnel, qualification
Socio-economic changes that followed the 1990 and demographic evolutions have decisively influenced the evolution and structure of labour force in Central Region, as well as the needs for qualification. From this perspective, the present study aimed to capture the opinion of employers in Centre Region with regard to the need for personnel in the following […]
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Posted on 15 February 2012. Tags: Central Banks, econophysics, GDP, money, thermodynamics principles
The term “Econophysics” was used for the first time by Eugene Stanley (physicist) in 1995 and represents the name of a rather new research domain that tries to apply the modeling standards in statistical physics to the more complicated world of economics and finance. This approach seems to be kind of appropriate and that because […]
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Posted on 15 February 2012. Tags: Development of critical perspectives, government debt, public debt dynamics
The economic crisis has wiped out years of economic and social progress and highlighted the structural weaknesses of Europe’s economy. The European Commission and European Council have evaluated the PNR and the implementing national reports and will adopt the final recommendations on fiscal and financial policies, and structural reforms, following that Member States will consider […]
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Posted on 15 February 2012. Tags: auditors’ perception, corporate governance, external audit practices, external auditors, integrated framework of good practices, Romanian auditors
The main objective of this study is to develop an investigation based on an empirical survey over the auditors’ perceptions about the external audit good practices that should be applied or at least recommended in the context of corporate governance. This present study also aims to detect the current applicability of the proposed external audit […]
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Posted on 15 February 2012. Tags: development, innovation, intellectual property, patent progress, Research
Worldwide, every year, cultural, scientific and technical dimensions increases its value as a result of spiritual and creative members of society. Since surplus value and prosperity is a consequence of the act of creation, protection of creators and their creations to be one of the main factors that we must take into consideration and those […]
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Posted on 15 February 2012. Tags: Central and Eastern European countries, export competitiveness, FDIs, investment policy
After 1990, the Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries lowered the barriers to FDIs. Of course, many other developments were taking place at the same time: increasing openness to trade, privatization of previously government-owned production, and many other changes as these countries moved in various degrees from socialist to market economies and democratic governments. They […]
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Posted on 15 February 2012. Tags: credit risks, exchange rate, financial crisis, instability, macroeconomic factors, national currency
My research paper aims at analyzing the relationship which exists between macroeconomic situation and the indicators that measure the quality of the credits in the Albanian bank system for the period 2002-2010. The results of the research work have proved the raised hypothesis that the instability of the national currency, in relation to Euro and […]
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Posted on 15 February 2012. Tags: Costumer-based brand equity, Mobile market, Structural equation model, Word of mouth
This paper investigates the impact of Word of Mouth (WOM) on Consumer Based Brand Equity (CBBE) creation. WOM characteristics such as, volume, valence, and source quality are studied to find how intensely they each affect brand awareness, perceived quality, and brand association. This investigation has been conducted in Tehran-Iran, on the cell-phone market. The methodology […]
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Posted on 15 February 2012. Tags: knowledge assets, knowledge assets dynamics, project environment
Knowledge, as the main source of competitive advantage in today’s knowledge-based society, is often a fuzzy concept, with no direct referent in the real world. In order to conceptualize it people use the metaphor of knowledge assets, assets that can be managed, evaluated, invested in, and that became the main source of value creation within […]
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Posted on 15 February 2012. Tags: active programs, employment, employment policies, unemployment
High variation of unemployment level in Albania for more than a decade shows that unemployment still remains a problem to solve. Given the conditions, the focus of employment policies is on increasing employment opportunities, in order to make unemployed people active in the labor market. This is the reason of applying many employment programs and […]
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Posted on 15 February 2012. Tags: Albanian tourism, environment, national property
The issue of tourism is increasingly taking place in media debates during the recent years, due to the increased number of the visitors, our brothers from Kosovo and tourists from all over the world. Actually it is created the full concept that the tourism development should be seen as a goal to increase its influence […]
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Posted on 15 February 2012. Tags: Innovation Auditing, Innovation Capability, Innovation Management, Innovation Strategy, Small and Medium Size Enterprises (SME)
Innovation management has recently received much attention from research, industry and state support. However, much of the research has focused on large enterprises with much available financial wealth and required planning infrastructure, in order to be effective at managing innovation. This paper aims to understand the factors that affect the innovation management process within Turkish […]
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