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01
Jul
2011

Technology Acceptance: Course and Teaching Surveys Case Study at Sultan Qaboos University

IBIMA Business Review
Course and teaching surveys (CTS) are an integral part of academic life in institutions of higher education. CTS are conducted with the aim of informing the University's commitment to continuous improvement in the delivery of high quality learning experiences for students. They are used also…
30
Jun
2011

Improving the Performance of Wireless Ad-hoc Networks: Accounting for the Behavior of Selfish Nodes

Communications of the IBIMA
Modern Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) with relatively high data rates have become an attractive technology for providing Internet connectivity for mobile users. Ad-hoc networks are a collection of mobile nodes that can be deployed without the need for any centralized management infrastructure. In such…
30
Jun
2011

Enhancing the Satisfaction of Consumers of Tourism Services, a Core Element of the Marketing Polices

IBIMA Business Review
Consumer’s satisfaction is vital for the tourism companies. Leaving aside the fact that it is associated by the marketing specialists with the outcome of the purchasing and consumption processes, with consumers’ loyalty and with company profitability, the satisfaction degree of the tourism services consumers derives…
22
Jun
2011

Is Company Intellectual Capital Linked to Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure? Findings from Indonesia

Communications of the IBIMA
Many researchers have found relationships between a company’s financial performance and either corporate social responsibility (CSR) or intellectual capital. But this exploratory study investigates whether there is a relationship between intellectual capital and its components and corporate social responsibility disclosure. The method uses hypothesis testing…
22
Jun
2011

Strategies to Construct e-Government Services in Compliance with Legal Framework Case Study: Services Dedicated to the Algerian Health Insurance

Journal of e-Government Studies and Best Practices
The provision and the improvement of services by the public administrations is a fundamental issue of e-government in terms of quality, efficiency and transparency. However, citizens and enterprises in Algeria as in other emergent countries suffer from the bad quality, the not accessibility and the…
15
Jun
2011

Is Inward FDI Enhancing or Crowding-out Domestic Innovation Capability in Emerging Markets? Evidence from BRICT Countries

Journal of Financial Studies and Research
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has been considered by many development economists as an important channel for the transfer of technology to emerging markets. However, whether it can promote technological progress for the host country depends on the sector specific and country specific characteristics, especially technological…
15
Jun
2011

A Framework for the Governance of Information Security in Banking System

Journal of Information Assurance & Cybersecurity
As modern banking increasingly relies on the internet and computer technologies to operate their businesses and market interactions, the threats and security breaches are highly increase in recent years. Insider and outsider attacks have caused global businesses lost trillions of Dollars a year.  Therefore, that…
15
Jun
2011

Optimal Pricing of a Duopoly Platform with Two-Sided Congestion Effect

Journal of Research in Industrial Organization
We study, in this paper, the impact of two-sided congestion effect on the pricing policy of a two-sided duopoly platform. Relative to Armstrong (2006), we show that, with congestion effect, (i) competition for submarket share is softened, (ii) the divide-and-conquer pricing strategy is modified insofar…
09
Jun
2011

Experimental Study of the Impact of the Media Context Appreciation on the Attitude of Children towards the Advertising Message

Journal of Marketing Research and Case Studies
Despite the importance of the research studies conducted in the field of marketing and children, reflection on this young market and more particularly on the effects of the media context on the children’s persuasion process is rare. Starting from this observation, the current study is…
07
Jun
2011

Syllabus Management System for Academics Practicing Knowledge Management

Journal of Organizational Knowledge Management
Knowledge management, a very popular term which describes a range of practices used by organizations to identify, create, represent, and distribute knowledge for reuse, awareness and learning across the organization. This paper will discuss a practice used by academics in Centre for Diploma Programme (CDP)…