academic journals

AJBM 4 August 2011


  • Public works programmes as a tool to address unemployment and skills shortages among the youth in South Africa

    Wellington Didibhuku Thwala

  • Knowledge management performance measurement: A review

    Chuen Tse Kuah and Kuan Yew Wong*

  • The elements of organizational culture which influence the maintenance of ISO 9001: A theoretical framework

    Siti Arni Basir1*, John Davies2 and Allison Rudder2

  • Modeling an increase in recreation specialization investments as a strategy to grow a tourism destination

    Shih-Ming Ou* and Ching Chang

  • National development and student politics in Bangladesh

    Gazi Mahabubul Alam1*, Talukder Golam Rabby2, Thian Lok Boon4, Issa Khan3 and Kazi Enamul Hoque4, 

  • The moderating role of composites of cultural values in predicting adolescents’ influence on family purchase decisions: A study of Asian cases

    Che-Jen Su

  • Globalisation and the challenges of unemployment, income inequality and poverty in Africa

    Wilfred I. Ukpere

  • Assessment of university students’ financial management skills and educational needs

    Leila Falahati*, Laily Paim, Maimunah Ismail, Sharifah Azizah Haron and Jariah Masud

  • The uncertain probabilistic weighted average and its application in the theory of expertons

    José M. Merigó

  • An evaluation of the investors overreaction to the past financial function criteria: Iranian evidence

    Mehdi Moradi1, Mahdi Salehi2* and Afshin Hasanzadehnamaghi3

  • Developing an optimal operation model with two competing models for retailers to explore customers shopping preferences

    Chen, Ching-Liang

  • A supply chain model with defective items and disposal cost in a just-in-time (JIT) environment

    Tien-Yu Lin

  • The effects of equities on organizational performance in Chinese professional baseball league

    Wen-Jhan Jane

  • Sustainable economic development: A perspective from ICT loops in developing nations

    Kevin Lock-Teng Low1*, Chee Seong Lim1 and Ananda Samudhram2

  • Customer relationship management in small-medium enterprises: The case of science and technology parks of Iran

    Alireza Fazlzadeh1*, Mostafa Moshiri Tabrizi1 and Kazem Mahboobi2

  • A study of the effect of information technology on internal auditing: Some Iranian evidence

    Mahdi Salehi* and Reza Husini

  • The relationships between achievement focused motivation and critical thinking

    Çetin Semerci

  • Reinvestigating the relationship between exchange rate uncertainty and private investment in Iran: An application of bounds test approach to level relationship

    Hassan Heidari* and S. Mahnaz Hashemi Pourvaladi

  • The effect of website quality on consumer emotional states and repurchases intention

    Hsuan-Yu  Hsu1 and Hung Tai Tsou2*

  • Selection criteria of recruitment for information systems employees: Using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method

    Wei-Hung Hsiao1*, Tsung-Sheng Chang1, Ming-Shang Huang2 and Yi-Chia Chen3

  • Assessment system based on fuzzy scoring in European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) business excellence model

    Javad Dodangeh1*, Rosnah Md. Yusuff1 and Javad Jassbi2

  • An empirical evidence of factors in equity selection process in Malaysia

    Tun-Pin Chong1* and Ming-Ming Lai2

  • Decision framing and critical success factors of new product development

    Amir Emami*and Kambeiz Talebi

  • Is laughter, as the best medicine, the remedy for crisis’ pain? Use of humor in marketing communications

    Nilgün Gürkaynak*, Ela Burcu Uçel and Mert Günerergin

  • Who is she? The Turkish Cypriot female entrepreneur

    Serife Zihni Eyupoglu* and Tulen Saner

  • Developing activities of learning organizations in primary schools

    Niyazi Can

  • Relationships among budgeting control system, budgetary perceptions, and performance: A study of public hospitals

    Cheng-Tsung Lu

  • Employment equity issues in the Cape Town advertising industry: A black economic empowerment perspective

    Rodney G. Duffett

  • The significance of research and development (R&D) and innovation to high-tech industry from the total quality management (TQM) perspective

    Hung-Yi Wu1, Pih-Shuw Chen1* and Chun-Ling Chuang2

  • Elucidating leisure constraints and experience, satisfaction and revisiting willingness among tourists to Dong-Shi Fisherman’s Wharf in Taiwan

    Chin-Tsai Kuo1*, Yin-Hua Hung2, Yung-Hsiang Hou2 and Feng-Hsiang Chang3

  • The effects of employee empowerment on achievement motivation and the contextual performance of employees

    Hasan Tutar1, Mehmet Altinoz2* and Demet Cakiroglu 2

  • A stabilization analysis of the introduction of Taiwan 50 Index Futures and Taiwan Top 50 Tracker Fund on the underlying spot market Dar-Hsin Chen1, Ssu-Min Lai1*, and Li-Chih Lin2

    Dar-Hsin Chen1, Ssu-Min Lai1*, and Li-Chih Lin2

  • Corporate social performance, financial performance and market value behavior: An information asymmetry perspective

    Kashif Hamid1*, Rana Shahid Imdad Akash2, Muhammad Asghar2 and Sajjad Ahmad2

  • Individual entrepreneurship capacity and small and medium enterprises (SME) performance: A human and organizational capital approach

    João Leitão1 and Mário Franco2*

  • Reporting practices of Malaysian public universities: The extent of accountability disclosure

    Suhaiza Ismail* and Nur Barizah Abu Bakar

  • An expanded Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) model based on AR and causality of multi-nation stock market volatility for TAIEX forecasting

    Liang-Ying Wei

  • Quality awards and excellence models in Africa: An empirical analysis of structure and positioning

    María del Mar Alonso-Almeida

  • The effect of corporate brand dominance, involvement and corporate associations on attitudes toward new product development

    Hsin Hsin Chang1 and Hamid Rizal2*

  • Prime and sub-prime factors of employee’ voluntary turnover in boom phase of industry: Empirical evidence from banking sector of Pakistan

    Ahsan Raza Jaffari*, Jabran Aziz, Zile Hussain, Nazish Akhtar and

    Kashif Ur-Rehman

  • The relationships between person-organization fit, psychological climate adjustment, personality traits, and innovative climate: Evidence from Taiwanese high-tech expatriate managers in Asian countries

    Feng-Hui Lee1* and Wann-Yih Wu2

  • Exploring relationship drivers’ toward loyalty card programs

    Che Aniza Binti Che Wel*, Sallehuddin Mohd Nor and Azhar Hj. Ahmad

  • An evaluation of the present status of the certificate in school business management

    Visvanathan Naicker*, Theodore Combrinck and Abdullah Bayat

  • Why firms do not adopt SaaS

    Chih-Wei Chen*, Yih-Chearng Shiue and Pei-Yu Shih

  • How to classify the types of inter-organizational relationships in manufacturing firms

    Jong-Min Choe

  • Comparison of customer relationship management systems perceptions among container shipping companies in Vietnam and Taiwan

    Yi-Chih Yang* and Hoang Hai Nguyen

  • Capital structure and financing decision -evidence from the four Asian Tigers and Japan

    Kuang-Hua Hsu1* and Ching-Yu Hsu2

  • Service quality, customer satisfaction in technology-based universities

    Amran Rasli1, Ibrahim Danjuma2, 3*, Lim Kim Yew4 and

    Muhammad Jawad Igbal5

  • Optimized classification approach to modeling an expert system for selecting stock portfolio

    Kuang Yu Huang

  • The impact of globalisation on higher education: Achieving a balance between local and global needs and realities

    Marius Meyer1, Melanie Bushney2 and Wilfred I. Ukpere1*

  • Role of agricultural extension and education on rural women’s trends toward micro-credits programs

    Mohammad Abedi1, Mohammad Sadegh Allahyari2* and Sharareh Khodamoradi3

  • A fuzzy-based decision model application on strategic management

    Aras Keropyan* and Ana Maria Gil-Lafuente

  • An structural equation modeling (SEM) evaluation of the statistical adequacy of the strategic management model

    Kee-Luen Wong1, Thiam-Yong Kuek1* and Seng-Fook Ong2

  • The taxonomy of knowledge management strategies in manufacturing firms: Use of target costing and IT infrastructure

    Jong-Min Choe

  • Maintaining satisfactory performance of expatriates: The effects of culture and conflict management style

    Lung-Tan Lu

  • Impact of organizational innovation on success of cost management techniques in value creation: Evidence from manufacturing sector of Pakistan

    Qaisar Ali Malik*, Iqbal Saif M., Nadeem Safwan and Amir Gulzar

  • The impact of female university students’ acceptance towards agriculture contract farming on Malaysian economy

    Bahaman Abu Samah*, Jeffrey Lawrence D’Silva, Hayrol Azril Mohamed Shaffril and Jegak Uli

  • The relationship between people-related total quality management (TQM) practices, job satisfaction and turnover intention: A literature review and proposed conceptual model

    Jing-Wen Yue, Keng-Boon Ooi* and Choong Chee Keong

  • Resource-based determinants of performance in the Tanzanian commercial banking subsector

    Ligang Liu1, Vedastus Timothy2* and Yang Gao2

  • Financial leverage and systematic risk

    Kheder Alaghi