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26
Aug
2009

Ain’t no Sunshine when the Boom is Gone: Questioning the Roots of Current Global Financial Crisis

Communications of the IBIMA
In autumn 2008 the unrivalled stars of Wall Street and international financial markets have been struggling to understand why the boom was gone, after enjoying years of bright sunshine in financial markets. In this short note, we put forth a new line of political-economy reasoning…
25
Aug
2009

Trust: Facilitator of Knowledge-sharing Culture

Communications of the IBIMA
The culture of trust in the workplace has been shown to have a strong and robust influence that act as an important force behind the sharing of knowledge. In this study, using literature review, we had clearly identified trust as one of the key facilitator…
24
Aug
2009

The Management And Exchange of Knowledge AndInnovation in Environments of Collaborating Small and Medium Sized Enterprises

Communications of the IBIMA
The importance of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) is today far beyond any discussion in countries all over the world - in European countries as well as in Asia and in USA, in Africa as well as in Latin America. To meet market demands…
23
Aug
2009

Proposal of a Framework to Assess International Aid Projects Implementation Readnesss: Important Factors to Consider During the Analysis

Communications of the IBIMA
Project management is used as the main tool for administering aid in developing nations. Unfortunately, the success rate of development aid projects is relatively low. Several explanations have been given for these failures. Clarke (1999) emphasizes the necessity of using instruments and techniques to increase…
21
Aug
2009

Innovative Start-ups & Technology Transfer challenges in the context of Business Internationalization

Communications of the IBIMA
The paper work emphasizes the real contribution of innovative start-ups and technology transfer at the business/economy level and the importance of this process for the internationalization phenomenon. Also it is very important here the creation of a link between educational systems (universities spin-off) and economy…
19
Aug
2009

Future Prospects of Small Scale Industrial Sector Of Punjab: An Empirical Assessment

Communications of the IBIMA
Present study seeks the generation of forecasts of number of units, employment, capital formation and production of small scale industrial sector of Punjab for ensuing decade till 2019-20.Forecasts have been generated for the lead time of thirteen years by using Auto Regressive Integrated Moving Average…
18
Aug
2009

Copyright Protection in Cyberspace: A critical study with reference to Electronic Copyright Management Systems (ECMS)

Communications of the IBIMA
In this paper the author has tried to exhibit that the copyright protection of computer programmes which has though reached to the maturity stage but many question are yet to be answered .Thus a general overview of copyright protects ,followed by examination of the infringing…
15
Aug
2009

A Theoretical Framework for Knowledge Management Process: Towards Improving Knowledge Performance

Communications of the IBIMA
Evidently, there is a strong competition among organizations and rapid changes in business surroundings. Therefore, the organizations start thinking of developing their performance and processes. In this regard, Knowledge Management (KM) processes have turned out nowadays to become an organization strategic resource to the extent…
12
Aug
2009

Designing Usable Localised Websites: Differences between Western and Arab Cultures

IBIMA Business Review
This paper presents a case study from a western country (UK) and an Arab country (Oman) to extract the views of Web designers in both countries regarding web usability. The purpose is to determine the most important issues that should be considered when designing for…
12
Aug
2009

Organizational Innovative Capabilities: An Empirical Study of Malaysian Firms

Journal of Innovation and Business Best Practice
The role and importance of organizational innovativeness or innovative capability, in attaining competitive advantage has been widely discussed. Most research examines innovation activities and their associations with organizational characteristics or investigates certain perspectives of innovative capability, such as product innovation. Much less attention, however, has…