Volume 07 Issue 2 (Apr 2013)
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The New Global Trade Order and Retail Trade & Marketing
The WTO new international trade order, (1995) built over a period of five decades through meticulous and extended negotiations, based on the principle of extended equal global trade opportunities, appears to have bread a new retail trade and marketing order. Itâ€&trad…
The impact of leadership behaviour and organisational culture on job satisfaction and its relationship among organisational commitment and turnover intentions. A case study on an Egyptian company
The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship among leadership behaviour, organisational culture, job satisfaction, organisational commitment and turnover intentions through a case analysis on one of the biggest Egyptian company. A structured questionnaire was develop…
A closer inspection of the impact of perceived risk on purchase intention of premium private label brands: The effect of age, gender, income and racial group
Private label brands are undoubtedly risingly in prominence and becoming serious competitors to national brands in the retail sector. This study examiners the effect of key demographics (namely age, gender, income and racial group) on the relationship between perceived risk and…
The Antecedents of online customer satisfaction and customer loyalty
The purpose of this study is to know the mediation role of customer satisfaction in the causal relationship between 9 antecedents of customer satisfaction and customer loyalty in the Indonesian online store context. Based on the model from Liu et al. (2008), the antecedents of o…
The evolution of foreign direct investment in multi brand retail: challenges faced by the Indian retail sector
Foreign direct investment in multi brand retail in India got the approval of the Loksabha, (Parliament of India) on December 5, 2012 and in the Rajyasabha (upper house of the Indian Parliament) on December 7,2012,with the opposition motion seeking against FDI immediate withdrawa…
Entrepreneurial competencies, psychological capital, working capital management and perceived market share. A case study of small and medium enterprises in Dar-Es Salaam, Tanzania
The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between entrepreneurial competencies, Psychological capital, Working capital management and perceived market share. This study was focused on Dar es Salaam region. It attempts to explore the relationship between entreprene…
Risk Management Practices in the Saudi Business Organizations: A Case Study of the City of Jeddah
This paper discuss business continuity planning (BCP) in City of Jeddah with emphasis on risk sources, causes, and mitigation measures to prevent or reduce monetary losses and improve business competency. During the last two years the city witnessed two floods which caused large…
R&D market in Poland
The potential of the Polish research and development (R&D) sector is substantial, mainly due to highly-developed specialist personnel. It is expected than in several years there will be an increased interest in opening R&D centres, similar to the ones which happened in t…
Opinion-leading role of politically aware consumers
In political system, voters belong to diverse nature of communities. These communities have their own particular set of voting behaviors that emerged out from an ongoing social-interaction process. Similarly, their voting intentions are the outcome of their participation in soci…
Managing Ethical Issues: How ISCT Can Help to Fight Corruption and Child Work - A Comparative Study
In this comparative study will be shown that especially the ethical problem of bribery and child-labor in German and Indian business relations could be very complex. Especially when a contractor is not directly involved into the production process of his Indian business partner…