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12
Apr
2012

Internationalizing Higher Education: The Effect of Country-of-Origin on the Evaluation of Service Quality

Communications of the IBIMA
As the higher education industry in Asia is prospering, attracting students internationally is becoming more competitive for countries in the region, particularly in Malaysia. The establishment of foreign universities in Malaysia has contributed to healthy competition in the higher education sector as these foreign universities…
12
Apr
2012

The Fraud Auditing: Empirical Study Concerning the Identification of the Financial Dimensions of Fraud

Journal of Accounting and Auditing: Research & Practice
The last two decades, marked by financial instability, economic crises, the bankruptcy of worldwide renowned companies, stock exchange speculations, financial scandals and lack of trust in capital markets, have lead to an economic downfall and have brought back into light the analysis of the responsible…
12
Apr
2012

Driving the Initiative of Service-Oriented Architecture Implementation

Journal of Software and Systems Development
Over the years, many organisations have invested heavily in information systems, changing the way they do business for improvement. Today however, aligning business and information systems is not easily achieved due to rapidly changing business environment. The ability of an organisation to change and change…
11
Apr
2012

Modeling Student Concern for Professional Online Image

Journal of Internet Social Networking and Virtual Communities
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors that influence a student’s concern for presenting a professional online image.  Drawing on existing research, the paper develops a model of professional online image concern which is then validated through a survey-based field study. The…
09
Apr
2012

Innovation’s Role in Nowadays Society and the Ways to Generate Competitive Intelligence and Accountability: Case of Romania

Journal of Innovation and Business Best Practice
Nowadays society is governed, on a constant basis, with ambiguous and uncertain economic trends and insecurity. Our research paper takes into account the solutions proposed by innovation in a society in which the dream of competitive intelligence and accountability seem sometimes to fail.The key issue…
07
Apr
2012

The Link between Corporate Social Responsibility and Financial Performance: The Case of the Tunisian Companies

Journal of Organizational Knowledge Management
This research examines the effects of Corporate Social Responsibility on the financial performance. The corporate social responsibility is measured by an investigation which is addressed to a 30 companies. Thus the financial performance is measured using two accounting variables: return in assets (ROA) and return…
04
Apr
2012

Nurturing Intrapreneurship to Enhance Job Performance: The Role of Pro-Intrapreneurship Organizational Architecture

Journal of Innovation Management in Small and Medium Enterprises
Following the needs to ingrain intrapreneurial spirit among Malaysian workforce, as highlighted in the National Economic Advisory 2010, the aim of this study is to identify the organizational architecture that can be designed to foster such behaviour which could subsequently lead to better job performance.…
04
Apr
2012

Game Engines Selection Framework for High-Fidelity Serious Applications

International Journal of Interactive worlds
Serious games represent the state-of-the-art in the convergence of electronic gaming technologies with instructional design principles and pedagogies. Despite the value of high-fidelity content in engaging learners and providing realistic training environments, building games which deliver high levels of visual and functional realism is a…
01
Apr
2012

Review and Comparison of Performance Measurement Systems

Journal of Organizational Management Studies
The main aim of this paper is to analyse, compare and summarize the strong and weak points of the most widely cited performance measurement systems on the basis of literature review. Specifically, the literature review was conducted with the goal to searching papers and case…
01
Apr
2012

Relevance of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in a Hospital Performance Management Model

Journal of Eastern Europe Research in Business and Economics
The present article brings to attention part of the results obtained after a thorough research which has aimed to create and validate a model for the hospital performance management. In this article, the researchers focus on a specific stage of the research, namely: testing the…