Volume 10 Issue 2 (Apr 2016)
Browse the selected issue in a cleaner research-focused reading flow, with article discovery, quick archive movement, and direct access to the full issue PDF.
Leadership Style and Retail Store Performance-A Case Study of Discount Retail Chain
This research attempts to understand the leadership styles of store managers in a discount retail chain and how leadership style impacts store performance. Store managers of a Fortune 1000 retailer based in the Midwest of the United States of America took part in the study. The…
Strategic innovation capability and firm sustainability: Evidence from auto parts businesses in Thailand
Innovation capability has been recognized as one of the key capabilities which influence organizational success and survival. The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship among strategic innovation capability’s dimensions, its antecedents and conse…
Dimensions of point of purchase factors in impulsive buying of women's skincare cosmetics in India
Impulsive buying is a much talked and researched subject particularly in view of the immense business that it generates all over the world. The point of purchase factors in brick and mortar stores play a crucial role in determining the buying behavior. Impulsive buying behavior,…
Environmental risk management in loan activity in Polish banks
In the banking sector worldwide more and more financial institutions show interest in credit servicing of ecological investment. That is why banks, step by step, enlarge their loan offer, raise its attractiveness according to conditions, availability and rate of interest, as wel…
Effect of transformational leadership on strategic human resource management and firm success of Toyota's dealer in Thailand
This study investigates effect of transformational leadership on strategic human resource management and firm success of Toyota’s dealer in Thailand. Following to the existing literature, transformational leadership is an origin of strategic human resource management that…
Economic globalization: role of inward and outward FDI with economic growth - evidence from Malaysia
When a nation that links itself to the global market, this means that the nation would embark itself in the path towards globalization. Global markets offer greater opportunity for domestic firms to tap into larger markets around the world. This translates the possibility of hav…
The Research of Motivation for Word-of-Mouth: Based on the Self-Determination Theory
To understand the generation of WOM motivation, this research studies the relationship between three innate psychological needs (e.g. autonomy, competence, and relatedness) and word-of-mouth motivation based on Self-Determination Theory. How the expertise of the sender, the rela…
The Heckscher-Ohlin versus Linder's Theory: evidence from Malaysian exports
This paper analyzes the export destinations of Malaysia and top six trading partners (an average from 1995 (2012) using gravity model and pooled ordinary least square (OLS) analysis. As suggested by the pioneer of gravity model (Tinbergen, 1962), the vibrancy of trading activiti…
Impulse Buying: What Instills This Desire to Indulge? Internal Motivating Factors of Impulse Buying: A Qualitative Study in the Indian Context
Purpose -This study explores various internal motivating factors of impulse buying phenomenon in Indian context. This study is aimed at obtaining consumer insights, so as to provide an inclusive conceptualization of this marketing phenomenon. Design/methodology/approach -Data fo…
The global financial crisis and US housing policy
In the post-war period, the standard of living in the US has increased significantly, and more than two-thirds of families have achieved the American Dream of homeownership. The recent sub-prime mortgage and financial crisis resulted from a perfect storm of bad housing policy, r…
Performance evaluation of mutual funds in Oman: An investor's perspective
Mutual Funds as one of the investment options have not been very popular particularly in the Middle East counties in spite of huge investment potential. Investors in the region have long been skeptical of the safety and returns of the investment options as the awareness about in…
Public devices entrepreneurship and employment in the industry in Algeria
The company is the basic unit of wealth creation, employment and innovation. Encouraging its creation is to implement the conditions for its development and especially its sustainability. In Algeria, the liberalization of the economy and trade, the agreements with IMF, the free…
A parametric survival analysis of fundamental factors and sentiment index towards future stock returns: a new chapter of global financial crisis 2007
The traditional financial theory was purposely invented to analyze the investment performance with the belief that the rational act of an investor could lead to decision making. Most of the theories developed came up with an assumption that the market is perfectly efficient. How…