Economics and business topic list of research papers
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Memorable Customer Experience: Examining the Effects of Customers Experience on Memories and Loyalty in Malaysian Resort Hotels
Abstract The objective of this study is to examine the influence of four facets of customer experience on their memories and loyalty. A convenient sampling technique was used to select the sample. A total of 600 questionnaires were distributed at...
2014 / Faizan Ali, Kashif Hussain, Neethiahnanthan Ari Ragavan -
A comparison of the home-care and healthcare service use and costs of older Australians randomised to receive a restorative or a conventional home-care service2014 / Gill Lewin, Janine Allan, Candice Patterson, Matthew Knuiman, Duncan Boldy, et al.
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What Drives Consumers to Interact with Brands through Social Media? A Motivation Scale Development Study
Abstract Online platforms and social networks directly influence the consumer-brand relationship. Consumption behaviours evolve in this connective world as a vital part of individuals’ self-concept whereas social identities come into prominence...
2014 / Ebru Enginkaya, Hakan Yılmaz -
On the stability of equilibrium for a reformulated foreign trade model of three countries2014 / Ioannis K. Dassios, Grigoris Kalogeropoulos
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Modeling of monthly rainfall and runoff of Urmia lake basin using “feed-forward neural network” and “time series analysis” model
Abstract Urmia lake basin located in northwestern Iran is the second largest saline lake in the world. Due to many reasons i.e. climate changes, several dam constructions, building a bridge across the Lake, extra agricultural consumption and...
2014 / Jamileh Farajzadeh, Ahmad Fakheri Fard, Saeed Lotfi -
Service Level Agreement of Information and Communication Technologies in Portuguese Hospitals
Abstract The health sector is characterized by constant change with social and economic impacts that should be considered in decision making of business relating to this sector. For this reason, and due to the existence of strong competition...
2014 / Joana Lourenço, Cátia Santos-Pereira, Rui Rijo, Ricardo Cruz-Correia -
Industrial determinants of anti-dumping in Brazil – Protection, competition and performance: An analysis with binary dependent variable and panel data
Abstract This article investigates how sectorial characteristics determine the probability of industries receiving an anti-dumping (AD) duty, delving into the economic literature on the political economy of protection, market competition and trade...
2014 / Glauco Avelino Sampaio Oliveira -
Taking Computer Science and Programming into Schools: The Glyndŵr/BCS Turing Project
Abstract 2012 and 2013 have been challenging years for Computer Science (CS) education in the UK. After decades of national neglect, there has been a sudden impetus to reintroduce CS into the 11-16 age school curriculums. Immediate obstacles include ...
2014 / Vic Grout, Nigel Houlden -
Understanding the cost of capital of logistics service providers: an empirical investigation of multiple contingency variables2014 / Kerstin Lampe, Erik Hofmann
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Computing electricity spot price prediction intervals using quantile regression and forecast averaging2014 / Jakub Nowotarski, Rafał Weron
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Value Stream Mapping Demonstration on Real Case Study
Abstract The aim of this article is a practical demonstration of Value Stream Mapping method (VSM) for visualization and rationalization of processes and its use in the context of a real enterprise. Own philosophy of a method lies in a view of the...
2015 / Tomas Rohac, Martin Januska -
A Group Decision-Making Methodology with Incomplete Individual Beliefs Applied to e-Democracy2014 / Alfonso Mateos, Antonio Jiménez-Martín, Sixto Ríos-Insua
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Macroeconomic information, structural change, and the prediction of fiscal aggregates
Abstract Previous research on the prediction of fiscal aggregates has shown evidence that simple autoregressive models often provide better forecasts of fiscal variables than multivariate specifications. We argue that the multivariate models...
2015 / Andrea Carriero, Haroon Mumtaz, Angeliki Theophilopoulou -
A Proposed Tool for Managing Intellectual Capital in Small and Medium Size Enterprises
Abstract In the actual stage of Knowledge Era, enterprises need to gain and maintain their competitive advantage and one of the feasible ways is through their intellectual capital management. This approach supposes a great effort from the middle and ...
2014 / Luminita-Maria Gogan, Frank Rennung, Gabriela Fistis, Anca Draghici -
The Impacts of Intellectual Capital, Innovation and Organizational Strategy on Firm Performance
Abstract The concept of intellectual capital was popularized by Tom Stewart in 1991 when Fortune Magazine published his article “Brainpower: How intellectual capital is becoming Americas’ most valuable asset”. It can be described as the difference...
2014 / Adnan Kalkan, Özlem Çetinkaya Bozkurt, Mutlu Arman -
Higher Education and Training as Crucial Pillars in Creating the Competitiveness of Nation
Abstract The article tries to accent that one of the fundamental challenges and tasks of the contemporary national economies in an effort to create and maintain competitiveness is to develop and upgrade the human capital through a qualitative...
2014 / Jovanka Damoska Sekuloska -
The Mediating Effect of Stakeholder Influence Capacity on the Relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Financial Performance
Abstract Corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate financial performance (CFP) has been examined extensively in the literature. Majority of the studies suggested a positive relationship and few others found neutral, negative and/or...
2015 / Yusuf Ibrahim Karaye, Zuaini Ishak, Noriah Che-Adam -
The Risk of Earnings Quality Impairment
Abstract This paper reviews prior studies that provide an understanding of earnings quality concepts. It presents various definitions of earnings quality and discusses proxies used in empirical literature to measure earnings quality. Prior studies...
2014 / Khairul Anuar Kamarudin, Wan Adibah Wan Ismail -
Information Technology Application in ESP Education
Abstract With the global growth of information technologies, students in universities and/or colleges have been preparing themselves for employment as competitive workforce in future. In this paper, the author presents a study in which some...
2012 / Xiaohui Li -
Using a geographic information system to enhance patient access to point-of-care diagnostics in a limited-resource setting2016 / William J. Ferguson, Karen Kemp, Gerald Kost