item: #1 of 191 id: emaj-10 author: Taner, Mehmet Tolga; Sezen, Bülent; Alpkan, Lutfihak; Aren, Selim title: RECOMPUTATION OF UNDP’S HDI RANKINGS BY DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS date: 2011 words: 5311 flesch: 55 summary: 98,41% 0,977 0,974 0,908 30 18 Italy 0,951 98,71% 0,954 0,965 0,935 27 19 Liechtenstein 0,951 100,00% 1,000 0,949 0,903 1 20 New Zealand 0,950 % 0,930 0,947 0,928 35 28 Andorra 0,934 100,00% 1,000 0,877 0,925 1 29 Slovenia 0,929 97,58% 0,933 0,969 0,886 34 30 Brunei 0,920 100,00% 1,000 0,891 0,867 1 31 Kuwait 0,916 100,00% 1,000 0,872 0,875 1 32 Cyprus 0,914 95,12% 0,920 0,910 0,910 47 33 Qatar 0,910 100,00% 1,000 0,888 0,841 1 34 Portugal 0,909 94,49% 0,906 0,929 0,893 52 35 United Arab Emirates 0,903 100,00% 1,000 0,838 0,872 1 36 Czech Republic 0,903 keywords: analysis; countries; data; development; group; hdi; human; journal; undp cache: emaj-10.pdf plain text: emaj-10.txt item: #2 of 191 id: emaj-101 author: Adebiyi, Sulaimon Olanrewaju; Oyatoye, Emmanuel Olateju; Amole, Bilqis Bolanle title: Improved Customer Churn and Retention Decision Management Using Operations Research Approach date: 2017 words: 7634 flesch: 44 summary: Horizontal bar chart for total weight of customers` retention alternatives From the total weight bar chart of all the retention alternatives (figure 4.2), respondents preferred call clarity most with probability value of pr = 0.1919, out of the seventeen alternatives crucial to determining customer retention of network. Toward a hybrid data mining model for customer retention, Knowledge Based System, 20,703-718. keywords: ahp; alternatives; churn; customer; customer churn; data; decision; industry; journal; markov; network; research; retention; service; study; subscribers cache: emaj-101.pdf plain text: emaj-101.txt item: #3 of 191 id: emaj-102 author: Meric, Gulser; Haksever, Cengiz; Procaccino, J. Drew; Meric, Ilhan title: A Comparison of the Financial Characteristics of NAFTA and Latin American Manufacturing Firms date: 2017 words: 5249 flesch: 52 summary: This result implies that NAFTA firms have a higher inventory level that makes the mean current ratio of NAFTA manufacturing firms to be significantly higher than that for Latin American manufacturing firms (i.e., the higher liquidity level of NAFTA manufacturing firms, as measured by the current ratio, is mainly due to NAFTA manufacturing firms carrying higher inventory levels compared with Latin American manufacturing firms). Our findings indicate that NAFTA manufacturing firms have less liquidity risk, but more financial risk, compared with Latin American manufacturing firms. keywords: characteristics; firms; latin; manufacturing; manufacturing firms; meric; nafta; total; u.s cache: emaj-102.pdf plain text: emaj-102.txt item: #4 of 191 id: emaj-105 author: Alipour, Hamidreza; Gholamipour, Leila title: Development of Trade Communication of Iran with Selected Countries date: 2017 words: 2993 flesch: 48 summary: Karimi, Hossein, 2006, globalization, economic integration and trade potential: investigation of gravity model in Iran trade analysis, Journal of Modern Economics and Business, No.5, p 118. Ismail (2008) investigated Malaysian trade model with its 80 trading partners so that 20 countries are OIC members. keywords: countries; gravity; iran; model; potential; trade; volume cache: emaj-105.pdf plain text: emaj-105.txt item: #5 of 191 id: emaj-106 author: Sayım, Ferhat title: The Role of Participation Banking as Alternative Financing Channels to Substitute for Deposit Banks and its Growth in the Turkish Finance Market - Period: 2007-2015 date: 2017 words: 3913 flesch: 58 summary: Participation banks are, on the one hand, expected to benefit from the experiences of deposit banks. Participation banks increased their total assets by 394% owing to deposit banks which increased their total assets by 189. keywords: banking; banks; deposit; participation; risk; turkey cache: emaj-106.pdf plain text: emaj-106.txt item: #6 of 191 id: emaj-11 author: Altindag, Erkut; Zehir, Cemal; Acar, A.Zafer title: LEARNING, ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION ORIENTATIONS IN TURKISH FAMILY-OWNED FIRMS date: 2011 words: 5543 flesch: 43 summary: Family firms differ on a range of dimensions and it is possible that different types of family firms show different patterns in terms of all orientations. Family firms often have concentrated ownership and / or voting rights that might enhance performance (Miller et.al., 2007). keywords: business; entrepreneurship; family; family firms; firms; innovation; journal; learning; management; orientations; performance cache: emaj-11.pdf plain text: emaj-11.txt item: #7 of 191 id: emaj-110 author: Çoban Kayacı, Ayşe title: A New Path for Management Education in an Emerging Country date: 2017 words: 3780 flesch: 46 summary: Lack of critical thinking and ethical values have become first hand problems of management education both globally and nationally. This study focuses on the evolution of management education and its historical problems in the light of global perspectives. keywords: business; education; field; journal; management; schools; students; style; turkey cache: emaj-110.pdf plain text: emaj-110.txt item: #8 of 191 id: emaj-111 author: Orynbassarova, Dilara title: Entrepreneurial University Perspective: Tracking Labor Force Capacity to Support Industrialization Processes in the Emerging Markets, Evidence from Kazakhstan Data date: 2017 words: 3930 flesch: 28 summary: While many papers published about the importance of industrialization activities in Kazakhstan, few have focused on examining the current capacity of labor market to meet the industry demand. inzhenerov-i-vrachej-plody- nepravilnogo-planirovaniya.html> Dossayev, E., 2014, “Labor market and macroeconomic environment move Kazakhstan up in WEF Global Competitiveness Report”, viewed 12 January, 2015, Emfunds, 2014, “What are Emerging Markets?” viewed 14 January, 2015 EPMG – Energy Project Management Group, 2014, viewed 14 January, 2015 http://www.epmg.kz/en/PEC/Process.ht ml Investing Answers online Dictionary, (2001), “Emerging Market Economy”, viewed 10 January, 2015, http://www.investinganswers.com/fina ncial-dictionary/world- markets/emerging-market-economy- 1518 Kasanda P., (2005), “Rostow’s Modernization Theory of Development” viewed 10 January, 2015, Kozahkhmetova, A.,2013, Material from Republican Science conference, “Analiz sostoianiya zaniatosti i bezrabotitsy v Kazahstane”, Ch 1, P2:329:331. keywords: country; demand; economic; engineers; industrialization; january; kazakhstan; labor; market; technical; university cache: emaj-111.pdf plain text: emaj-111.txt item: #9 of 191 id: emaj-114 author: Gümüş, Niyazi title: Usage of Social Media in City Marketing: A Research on 30 Metropolitan Municipalities in Turkey date: 2017 words: 4821 flesch: 38 summary: In accordance with this purpose, official social media accounts of 30 metropolitan municipalities are investigated between the dates of 01/09/2016 and 30/09/2016, then their shares in social media channels are investigated in the context of city marketing. Social media channels having billions of users today have added a new meaning to the concept of communication. keywords: cities; city; contents; followers; marketing; media; metropolitan; municipalities; sharing; table cache: emaj-114.pdf plain text: emaj-114.txt item: #10 of 191 id: emaj-117 author: Kızıl, Cevdet title: Book Review of “The Real Warren Buffett - Managing Capital, Leading People” date: 2017 words: 3138 flesch: 58 summary: Practical lessons of Warren Buffett are also included in “The Real Warren Buffett – Managing Capital, Leading People” and how he became the second richest man in United States are mentioned. Keywords: Warren Buffett, Managing Capital, Leading People, James O’Louglin, Book Review, Finance New articles in this journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License. keywords: book; buffett; capital; o’louglin; people; warren cache: emaj-117.pdf plain text: emaj-117.txt item: #11 of 191 id: emaj-12 author: Shyle, Irma title: GLOBAL CRISIS AND ITS EFFECTS IN THE DEVELOPED AND EMERGENT COUNTRIES - “THE BOTTOM OF THE PYRAMID” AS AN INNOVATION RESOURCE date: 2011 words: 6760 flesch: 55 summary: Intellectual excitement is in developed markets; it is very hard to recruit managers for BOP markets We cannot assign our best people to work on market development in BOP markets 1. Serving BOP markets is not just about lower prices. keywords: bop; bop markets; countries; crisis; effects; growth; innovation; markets; new; pyramid; resource; world cache: emaj-12.pdf plain text: emaj-12.txt item: #12 of 191 id: emaj-120 author: Bono Milan, Pedro Luiz Albertin; Eid Jr., William title: Investment Portfolios in an Emerging Economy: What Drives Portfolio’s Diversification? date: 2017 words: 6443 flesch: 42 summary: However, investor portfolios remain under- diversified. New studies can contribute significantly to understand the purpose of this study, and we recommend a replication of the study with the inclusion of a larger number of investor portfolios. keywords: assets; decisions; diversification; finance; investment; investors; portfolio; resources; theory cache: emaj-120.pdf plain text: emaj-120.txt item: #13 of 191 id: emaj-122 author: Çiçek, Mesut; Eren-Erdoğmuş, İrem; Daştan, İkram title: What Makes Consumers Recall Banner Ads in Mobile Applications date: 2017 words: 4165 flesch: 51 summary: The orientation of applications may affect the effectiveness of mobile banner ads since the holding position of the mobile phones and the dimensions of the banners are different for landscape and portrait orientations. In addition, mobile banner ads are recalled more when the ads are located at the top (H5: Supported) of the screen and in landscape applications (H6: Supported). keywords: ads; advertising; app; application; attitude; banner; brand; journal; mobile; recall cache: emaj-122.pdf plain text: emaj-122.txt item: #14 of 191 id: emaj-123 author: Aslan, Tunay; Baral, Gökhan; Mucedidi, Cüneyt title: Target Costing Using Fuzzy Logic date: 2017 words: 3499 flesch: 57 summary: It is only possible for businesses to achieve profitability that is targeted under uncertain conditions through the use of fuzzy logic method by approximately estimating the target costs. It is only possible for businesses to achieve profitability that is targeted under uncertain conditions through the use of fuzzy logic method by approximately estimating the target costs. keywords: businesses; costing; costs; logic; method; profitability; target cache: emaj-123.pdf plain text: emaj-123.txt item: #15 of 191 id: emaj-124 author: Onurlubaş, Ebru title: A Research on the Determination of Consumer Perceptions Related to Guerrilla Marketing Methods: Sample of Izmir Province date: 2017 words: 6293 flesch: 54 summary: In order to determine the consumer perception about guerrilla marketing methods, a survey was applied to 384 people living in İzmir. Women find guerrilla marketing method more extraordinary than men and think that communication is better in this marketing technique. keywords: businesses; communication; consumer; dimensions; factor; gerilla; guerrilla; guerrilla marketing; kruskal; marketing; methods; pazarlama; scpgmm; sub; wallis cache: emaj-124.pdf plain text: emaj-124.txt item: #16 of 191 id: emaj-126 author: Seifoddini, Jalal; Roodposhti, Fraydoon Rahnamay; Kamali, Elahe title: Gold-Stock Market Relationship: Emerging Markets versus Developed Markets date: 2017 words: 5103 flesch: 58 summary: This is because the working hours of Iran stock market are from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., whereas the official trading hours of Iran gold market start from 11:30 a.m., and if the stock market drops, investors will have the opportunity to turn to the gold market in the same day as a safe haven. Table 4, presents the results of implementing the model: Table 4: Investigating the Existence of Different Regimes in the Relationship between the Daily Returns of the U.S. and Iran's Stock Markets and Gold Threshold type: Bai-Perron tests of L+1 vs. L sequentially determined thresholds According to the results presented in Table 4, the relationship between gold market and stock market daily returns in Iran is not regime-specific and these two do not have a meaningful relationship. keywords: gold; iran; market; regimes; relationship; stock; stock market; u.s cache: emaj-126.pdf plain text: emaj-126.txt item: #17 of 191 id: emaj-127 author: Selvi Hanişoğlu, Gülay; Azer, Özlem Arzu title: The Impact of Housing Loans on Economic Growth in Turkey: Times Series Analysis for 2010-2015 Period date: 2017 words: 3722 flesch: 56 summary: Housing sector has strong links with other economic sectors and also affect other sectors with the multiplier effect such as financial sector, construction sector, furniture sector, paint industry and retail industry. Housing construction sector is considered a prime source of employment generation and offers job opportunities to skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled workers. keywords: construction; figures; growth; housing; industry; loans; sector; turkey cache: emaj-127.pdf plain text: emaj-127.txt item: #18 of 191 id: emaj-129 author: Adalı, Semanur; Kızıl, Cevdet title: A Research on the Responsibility of Accounting Professionals to Determine and Prevent Accounting Errors and Frauds: Edirne Sample date: 2017 words: 7373 flesch: 52 summary: The proposed multivariate model has a satisfactory performance in correctly identifying the firms that commit accounting fraud. Early detection of accounting frauds helps government authorities in maintaining the stability of financial markets. keywords: 100,0; accounting; accounting professionals; errors; fraud; frequency; journal; percent; professionals; research; results; study; table cache: emaj-129.pdf plain text: emaj-129.txt item: #19 of 191 id: emaj-13 author: Azadi, Siamak title: STRATEGIES FOR COMPETETIVE ADVANTAGE IN ELECTRONIC COMMERCE date: 2011 words: 6694 flesch: 53 summary: Intellectual excitement is in developed markets; it is very hard to recruit managers for BOP markets We cannot assign our best people to work on market development in BOP markets 1. Serving BOP markets is not just about lower prices. keywords: bop; business; countries; crisis; growth; innovation; journal; markets; new; poverty; pyramid; resource; world cache: emaj-13.pdf plain text: emaj-13.txt item: #20 of 191 id: emaj-131 author: Editors, Emerging Markets Journal title: Correction to: Adebiyi, Sulaimon Olanrewaju, Oyatoye, Emmanuel Olateju, Amole, Bilqis Bolanle “Improved Customer Churn and Retention Decision Management Using Operations Research Approach” Emering Markets Journal 6 (2): 12-21. 10.5195/emaj.2016.101 date: 2017 words: 475 flesch: 49 summary: Osogbo, Osun State. Nigeria” was changed to “Department of Business Administration, University of Lagos” and “Akoka, Lagos. 10.5195/emaj.2016.101 Cevdet Kızıl Istanbul Medeniyet University cevdet.kizil@medeniyet.edu.tr http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/emaj.2016.101 Abstract University affiliations for first author (Adebiyi, Sulaimon Olanrewaju) and third author (Amole, Bilqis Bolanle) were changed. keywords: figure; table cache: emaj-131.pdf plain text: emaj-131.txt item: #21 of 191 id: emaj-132 author: Editors, Emerging Markets Journal title: Correction to: Orynbassarova, Dilara “Entrepreneurial University Perspective: Tracking Labor Force Capacity to Support Industrialization Processes in the Emerging Markets, Evidence from Kazakhstan Data” Emering Markets Journal 6 (2): 5-11. 10.5195/emaj.2016.111 date: 2017 words: 202 flesch: 6 summary: However, author asked for his affiliation to be changed as “Nazarbayev University, Graduate School of Education, Astana, Kazakhstan” after publication. Erratum Cover Page: Author’s affiliation of “Independent Researcher, Kazakhstan” was changed to “Nazarbayev University, Graduate School of Education, Astana, Kazakhstan” Full Text Original Article http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/emaj.2016.111 This journal is published by the University Library System of the University of Pittsburgh as part of its D-Scribe Digital Publishing Program, and is cosponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Press. keywords: university cache: emaj-132.pdf plain text: emaj-132.txt item: #22 of 191 id: emaj-136 author: Yılmaz, Erdal; Aslan, Tunay title: Evaluation of Performance of Tourism Industry Companies listed in Istanbul Stock Exchange (BIST) by TOPSIS Methodology date: 2018 words: 6375 flesch: 55 summary: In this study, the financial performances of tourism enterprises operating in Istanbul Stock Exchange for 2013-2016 are compared with TOPSIS method. In the analysis, various financial ratios were calculated on the basis of the financial statements of seven tourism companies traded in the BIST between 2013-2016 and the financial performances of the companies were compared by evaluating these ratios by TOPSIS method. keywords: bist; companies; decision; dergisi; evaluation; ideal; matrix; method; performance; ratios; stock; study; table; topsis; topsis method; tourism cache: emaj-136.pdf plain text: emaj-136.txt item: #23 of 191 id: emaj-141 author: Moser, Marisa; Oliveira, Mauri Aparecido de; Bueno, Ricardo Luiz Pereira title: Comparison between Brazil and the 30 Most Innovative Countries in the World date: 2018 words: 8134 flesch: 43 summary: The Role of Stem in Technological Innovation Another factor that can affect the development of technological innovation is education, more properly science and technology education. Technology transfer, technological innovation and development. keywords: brazil; countries; development; economic; education; index; innovation; oecd; online; r&d; ranking; science; technology; variables; world cache: emaj-141.pdf plain text: emaj-141.txt item: #24 of 191 id: emaj-143 author: Zarzycka, Ewelina; Dobroszek, Justyna; Almasan, Alina; Circa, Cristina title: Comparative Studies of the Use of Management Accounting Information date: 2018 words: 4820 flesch: 37 summary: Worldwide, the number of comparative studies of management accounting is significant; yet, there are no studies of the use of management accounting information by managers. Combining institutional theory and comparative studies can be also helpful for understanding country-specific styles and aims of management accounting information, as well as links between incentive structures and different institutional conditions (see Endenich et al., 2011). keywords: accounting information; information; management accounting; managers; poland; use cache: emaj-143.pdf plain text: emaj-143.txt item: #25 of 191 id: emaj-144 author: Oladimeji, Moruff Sanjo; Abosede, Adebiyi Julius; Eze, Benneth Uchenna title: Innovation and Internationalization of Nigeria Deposit Money Banks date: 2018 words: 5303 flesch: 37 summary: The theory is highly relevant to bank internationalization, since the banking sector is a highly regulated sector. A structured questionnaire was administered to a purposively selected sample of seven hundred and sixty five (765) staff of five international banks; from the population of one thousand six hundred and fifteen (1615) staff of strategy and international operation departments of the ten Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) licensed international banks. keywords: banks; business; firms; innovation; internationalization; journal; markets; nigeria; process; service; study cache: emaj-144.pdf plain text: emaj-144.txt item: #26 of 191 id: emaj-146 author: Eze, Benneth Uchenna title: Corporate Entrepreneurship and Manufacturing Firms’ Performance date: 2018 words: 3932 flesch: 35 summary: Abstract The study evaluates the effect of corporate entrepreneurship (measured by innovation, proactiveness, risk-taking, strategic renewal and corporate venturing) on the non-financial performance of manufacturing firms in Nigeria (measured by market share and employees satisfaction). It is recommended that manufacturing firms should employ CE elements towards the enhancement of their non-financial performance. keywords: entrepreneurship; firms; innovation; manufacturing; nigeria; performance; risk; taking; venturing cache: emaj-146.pdf plain text: emaj-146.txt item: #27 of 191 id: emaj-147 author: Eze, Benneth Uchenna; Abdul, Adekunle; Nwaba, Emmanuel Kanayo; Adebayo, Azeez title: Organizational Culture and Intrapreneurship Growth in Nigeria: Evidence from Selected Manufacturing Firms date: 2018 words: 3240 flesch: 30 summary: Apriori Expectation All the measures of organizational culture are expected to exhibit positive relationship with intrapreneurship growth; hence there will be a positive relationship between organizational culture elements and intrapreneurship growth in the above model. Abstract The study examines the effect of organizational culture (measured by organizational norms and organizational shared values) on intrapreneurship growth in manufacturing sector of the Nigerian economy. keywords: culture; growth; intrapreneurship; journal; nigeria; organization; study; values cache: emaj-147.pdf plain text: emaj-147.txt item: #28 of 191 id: emaj-148 author: Eckardt, Olga title: Company Maturity Matrix date: 2018 words: 2279 flesch: 51 summary: Conclusion and Discussions A general framework of possible influences between cumulative company experience and anti- fragility has been presented, in order to better understand a life cycle of company and apply this as a tool to standard managerial practices. This article changes analysing and developing of maturity models from “Descriptive, prescriptive, and comparative” to “Basic, Descriptive, Prescriptive” for the purpose of use. keywords: company; experience; matrix; maturity; model cache: emaj-148.pdf plain text: emaj-148.txt item: #29 of 191 id: emaj-149 author: Fischerová, Martina; Půbalová, Kateřina title: Different Approaches in Recruiting Young Professionals date: 2018 words: 4968 flesch: 56 summary: Keywords: Young Professionals, Generation Y, CEMS MIM, Life Values, Recruitment New articles in this journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License. As the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of Economics, Prague is focusing on education of this type of professions, this study aims at expected differences in life values among students from different study programmes. keywords: cems; generation; life; management; mim; students; values; work cache: emaj-149.pdf plain text: emaj-149.txt item: #30 of 191 id: emaj-15 author: Akdogan, M.Sukru; Ozgener, Sevki; Kaplan, Metin; Coskun, Aysen title: THE EFFECTS OF CONSUMER ETHNOCENTRISM AND CONSUMER ANIMOSITY ON THE RE-PURCHASE INTENT: THE MODERATING ROLE OF CONSUMER LOYALTY date: 2012 words: 5238 flesch: 43 summary: The majority of consumer animosity studies have examined the attitudes of the members of one nation towards the products of another nation (Rose et al., 2009: 330). Thus, both consumer ethnocentrism and consumer animosity have become important constructs in marketing. keywords: animosity; consumer; consumer animosity; consumer ethnocentrism; customer; ethnocentrism; intent; loyalty; repurchase cache: emaj-15.pdf plain text: emaj-15.txt item: #31 of 191 id: emaj-150 author: Uçar, Mustafa; Kızıl, Cevdet; Oğuz, Oğuzhan title: Problems of Accounting Professionals Residing in Istanbul and the Suggested Solutions date: 2018 words: 5146 flesch: 40 summary: Abstract Some problems of accounting professionals in Turkey were solved with the introduction of Law on Public Accountants, Certified Public Accountants and Sworn-in Certified Public Accountants in 1989. The first one was to identify the problems faced by accounting professionals living in Istanbul, Turkey and the second one was to come up with solutions for these problems. keywords: accountants; accounting; accounting professionals; education; kızıl; muhasebe; problems; professionals; public; research; turkey cache: emaj-150.pdf plain text: emaj-150.txt item: #32 of 191 id: emaj-152 author: Zehir, Cemal; Balak, Dilek title: Market Dynamism and Firm Performance Relation: The Mediating Effects of Positive Environment Conditions and Firm Innovativeness date: 2018 words: 5272 flesch: 36 summary: We measured firm performance in two dimensions: market performance and operational performance. In our study, we expected to find out significant relationship through dependent variables (operational performance and market performance) and independent variable as market dynamism. keywords: conditions; dynamism; environment; firm; innovation; innovativeness; market; performance cache: emaj-152.pdf plain text: emaj-152.txt item: #33 of 191 id: emaj-153 author: Joshi, Prem Lal; Marthandan, Govindan title: The Hype of Big Data Analytics and Auditors date: 2019 words: 3106 flesch: 51 summary: This viewpoint paper takes into account the procedures underlying on big data and its analytics in driving the evolution of business and identifies some of the unresolved issues and concerns on auditors, especially in the context of cognitive tasks. The paper continues to focus on the current spate of discussions on big data and auditing profession. keywords: accounting; analytics; auditing; auditors; data; information; journal; volume cache: emaj-153.pdf plain text: emaj-153.txt item: #34 of 191 id: emaj-154 author: Nair, Girish K; Choudhary, Nidhi title: Sustainability in the Hospitality Industry: A Social Factor Dimension date: 2019 words: 8057 flesch: 45 summary: The research shows in fact a reciprocal relationship between the income of domestic population and hospitality industry sustainability, according to which, if the local population is having a higher level of income, then there is ample scope for the hospitality industry to grow and as the hospitality industry grows, it will increase the income of local population. This research is an attempt to provide the empirical evidence for the influence of exogenous variables of social sustainability which include: education, life expectancy, income, television (TV) index, newspaper index, and personal computer (PC) index on sustainable growth of hospitality industry in Qatar. keywords: country; development; hospitality industry; income; index; influence; journal; life; managers; qatar; research; residents; social; study; sustainability; tourism cache: emaj-154.pdf plain text: emaj-154.txt item: #35 of 191 id: emaj-155 author: P, Golrida Karyawati; Subroto, Bambang; T, Sutrisno; Saraswati, Erwin title: The Complexity of Relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Financial Performance date: 2019 words: 5194 flesch: 41 summary: Country characteristics determine the tendency of CSR practices, which finally influence the strength of CSR relationship with financial performance. Analyzing CSR relationship with financial perfomance should include institutional characteristics, which influence CSR practices. keywords: business; company; countries; csr; journal; management; performance; practices; relationship; responsibility cache: emaj-155.pdf plain text: emaj-155.txt item: #36 of 191 id: emaj-156 author: Özşahin, Mehtap; Yürür, Senay; Coşkun, Erman title: A Field Research to Identify Psychological Factors Influencing the Debt Repayment Behavior in Turkey date: 2019 words: 5511 flesch: 38 summary: This research aims to exploratively search relevant psychological determinants for debt repayment behavior. Thus, this research, examines effects of personality characteristics and attitude on debt repayment behavior in the context of Turkish culture, and is expected to fill a gap and to contribute to both national and international literatures. keywords: behavior; characteristics; credit; debt; factors; journal; payers; personality; repayment; research cache: emaj-156.pdf plain text: emaj-156.txt item: #37 of 191 id: emaj-158 author: Onurlubaş, Ebru title: The Mediating Role of Environmental Attitude on the Impact of Environmental Concern on Green Product Purchasing Intention date: 2019 words: 9602 flesch: 47 summary: Green or environmental friendly products are the ones which do not pollute the nature, don’t consume natural resources, that are re-cyclable and protectable (Turhan et al. 2015). If the green product concept should be explained with the 4S formula in literature, we should state that these are environmental friendly products, which are able to (satisfy) the demands and needs of consumers, reflect (sustainability) for the continuity of resources, have (social acceptibility) in global context for not harming the environment and livings, and focus on (safety) in terms of consumer health (Erbaslar, 2007). keywords: analysis; attitude; concern; consumers; environmental; factor; green; impact; intention; journal; mediating; product; product purchasing; purchase; purchasing; purchasing intention; research; role; scale cache: emaj-158.pdf plain text: emaj-158.txt item: #38 of 191 id: emaj-16 author: Halici, Ali; Aktaş, Ramazan; Kasimoglu, Murat; Gruber, Ahu Genis title: HUMAN CAPITAL HETEROGENEITY AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY ABOUT INTERNATIONAL HOTEL CHAINS IN TURKEY date: 2012 words: 3190 flesch: 38 summary: The study shows that hotels are neither aware of Human Capital Heterogeneity benefits nor know how to manage the process. BYARS, Lloyd L. & L. W. RUE, 2000, Human Resource Management, McGraw-Hill, 6th Edition, USA. 7. CARPENTER, Mason A., 2002 keywords: blau; capital; diversity; heterogeneity; journal; level; management; workforce cache: emaj-16.pdf plain text: emaj-16.txt item: #39 of 191 id: emaj-160 author: Karyawati P, Golrida; Muliani, Mira; Joshi, Prem Lal title: Re-examining Firm Size and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Visibility Approach date: 2019 words: 10253 flesch: 43 summary: Ekowati (2014) found that the news coverage measured by dummy variable whether the firms publish CSR news or not, has positive relationship towards CSR participation. ROA also has influence to determine company CSR (Chih, 2010). keywords: analyst; business; companies; company; countries; coverage; csr; csr participation; firm; journal; media; news; news coverage; participation; relationship; research; responsibility; size; study; visibility cache: emaj-160.pdf plain text: emaj-160.txt item: #40 of 191 id: emaj-161 author: Raco, Jozef; Ohoitimur, Johanis; Sobon, Kosmas title: Spirituality: The Power of Entrepreneurship date: 2019 words: 7065 flesch: 49 summary: Meaning and Definition of Spirituality The meaning of spirituality is developing and expanding. Spirituality and Healthy Business As mentioned above, spirituality provides significant contribution to business institutions and employees as well. keywords: business; entrepreneurship; ethics; human; journal; life; management; meaning; new; people; spirituality; values cache: emaj-161.pdf plain text: emaj-161.txt item: #41 of 191 id: emaj-162 author: Boloupremo, Tarila; Ogege, Samson title: Mergers, Acquisitions and Financial Performance: A Study of Selected Financial Institutions date: 2019 words: 7666 flesch: 49 summary: Other studies analyzed the reasons for bank mergers and general effects, to wit, Pillof and Santomero (1998) hold that the dominating reasons for bank mergers include; improving the bidder bank’s value through increased revenue or cost savings, efficiency gains, market power and increased economies of scale and scope. Further, in a study conducted by Umoren and Olokoyo (2007) on 13 Nigerian banks to examine the impact of consolidation on performance and consider whether there exists a considerable improvement in liquidity, profitability and solvency, they found that on average, bank mergers resulted in improved performance. keywords: acquisition; asset; banking; banks; capital; impact; journal; mergers; performance; period; post; pre; ratio; study cache: emaj-162.pdf plain text: emaj-162.txt item: #42 of 191 id: emaj-163 author: Eze, Benneth Uchenna; Adelekan, Saidi Adedeji; Nwaba, Emmanuel Kanayo title: Business Process Reengineering and the Performance of Insurance Firms in Nigeria date: 2019 words: 3462 flesch: 37 summary: It is therefore concluded that, business process reengineering components are important drivers of insurance firms’ performance. According to Klun and Trkman (2018), business processes are simply a set of activities that transform a set of inputs into a set of outputs (goods or services) for another person or process using people and equipments. keywords: business; firms; insurance; nigeria; performance; process; reengineering; technology cache: emaj-163.pdf plain text: emaj-163.txt item: #43 of 191 id: emaj-164 author: Dağ, Mehmet; Aktuğ, Semih Serkant; Alı, Zavar Salah Ali title: Evaluation of Relationship between Oil Revenues and Government Budget in Iraq: 2006-2016 Period date: 2019 words: 4031 flesch: 56 summary: Oil production in Iraq did not stabilize at a certain level. Oil production in all countries of the world is affected by other factors. keywords: budget; country; economy; energy; iraq; oil; production; revenues cache: emaj-164.pdf plain text: emaj-164.txt item: #44 of 191 id: emaj-167 author: Chakiso, Cherinet Boke title: Factors affecting Attitudes towards Adoption of Mobile Banking: Users and Non-Users Perspectives date: 2019 words: 6966 flesch: 50 summary: Chawla and Joshi (2017) corroborated that perceived lifestyle compatibility is one of the most important predictors of attitude and intention of mobile banking adoption. Consumer adoption of mobile banking services: An empirical examination of factors according to adoption stages. keywords: adoption; attitude; banking; factors; journal; mobile; nonusers; risk; study; technology; trust; users cache: emaj-167.pdf plain text: emaj-167.txt item: #45 of 191 id: emaj-169 author: Oladimeji, Moruff Sanjo; Eze, Benneth Uchenna; Akanni, Kazeem Adeyinka title: Structure and Strategies of Multinational Enterprises in Nigeria date: 2019 words: 4262 flesch: 34 summary: Abstract This study sought to examine the effect of organization structure on organization strategy. The findings revealed that, organization structure positively and significantly affects strategy implementation (F stat 107.52* 0.000) and that organization structure account for 53% (Adjusted R2= 0.5312) variat ion in organization strategy. keywords: division; division structure; enterprises; mnes; nigeria; organization; product; strategy; structure cache: emaj-169.pdf plain text: emaj-169.txt item: #46 of 191 id: emaj-17 author: Caron, Michelle I.; Ficici, Aysun; Richter, Christopher L. title: THE INFLUENCE OF CORRUPTION ON CORPORATE GOVERNANCE STANDARDS: SHARED CHARACTERISTICS OF RAPIDLY DEVELOPING ECONOMIES date: 2012 words: 8883 flesch: 44 summary: This study delves deeper through careful examination regarding the level of compliance with corporate governance standards and the pervasive effects of corruption on the governance processes of firms with specific regard to rapidly developing economies as well as offering comparisons and similarities of shared characteristics among these countries. Consequently, the purpose of this paper is to determine whether corruption will be lower in RDEs that have higher levels of compliance to corporate governance standards. keywords: bank; characteristics; compliance; corruption; countries; country; economies; governance; governance standards; journal; markets; standards; transparency; world cache: emaj-17.pdf plain text: emaj-17.txt item: #47 of 191 id: emaj-172 author: Korkpoe, Carl Hope; Howard, Nathaniel title: Volatility Model Choice for Sub-Saharan Frontier Equity Markets - A Markov Regime Switching Bayesian Approach date: 2019 words: 7223 flesch: 58 summary: In the emerging markets, the first attempt at characterising the volatility of market returns with regime switching models was by Assoe (1998). Charfeddine and Ajmi (2013) used regime switching to capture long memory effects on market returns on the Tunisia Stock Exchange. keywords: data; equity; frontier; garch; journal; markets; markov; models; regime; returns; risk; stock; switching; volatility cache: emaj-172.pdf plain text: emaj-172.txt item: #48 of 191 id: emaj-173 author: Ceyhan, Ayben title: The Impact of Perception Related Social Media Marketing Applications on Consumers’ Brand Loyalty and Purchase Intention date: 2019 words: 10820 flesch: 50 summary: However, they have limited information on consumer perception regarding their marketing applications on brand pages in social media networks and to what extent this perception affects users' brand loyalty and purchase intention. The results of the study carried out on 404 consumers following the Facebook pages of brands demonstrated that the co-creation value, social value, usage intensity, and perceived brand strength affected customer engagement with brand pages. keywords: applications; brand; brand image; brand loyalty; consumers; effect; instagram; marketing; media; media marketing; page; perception; purchase intention; study; value cache: emaj-173.pdf plain text: emaj-173.txt item: #49 of 191 id: emaj-175 author: Boğa, Semra title: Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment: A Panel Data Analysis for Sub-Saharan African Countries date: 2019 words: 6414 flesch: 48 summary: In the following section, the theoretical and conceptual framework of FDI determinants will be explained. Abstract The aim of this study is to investigate the determinants of FDI inflows in Sub-Saharan African countries. keywords: africa; countries; data; determinants; economic; fdi; gdp; inflows; investment; sub; test; trade cache: emaj-175.pdf plain text: emaj-175.txt item: #50 of 191 id: emaj-176 author: PL, Beena title: Book Review of “India’s Recent Inward Foreign Direct Investment: An Assessment” date: 2019 words: 2020 flesch: 46 summary: The trends, composition and quality of FDI inflows in India after the initiation of ‘Make in India’ (MII) policy are critically analysed. Chapter IV highlights the complexity of the reported data on FDI inflows in terms of duplicate reporting, non-reporting and delayed reporting. keywords: chapter; fdi; india; inflows; policy cache: emaj-176.pdf plain text: emaj-176.txt item: #51 of 191 id: emaj-178 author: Sayım, Ferhat title: Information Level Representation of Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) Managers about Securities date: 2019 words: 5747 flesch: 66 summary: 33,3 % 55,6 % 11,1 % 100,0 % % within Annual Turnover 45,0 % 68,2 % 37,5 % 54,0 % 2 Count 2 5 3 10 % within (Bond Types, Repo ....) 20,0 % 50,0 % 30,0 % 100,0 % % within Annual Turnover 10,0 % 22,7 % 37,5 % 20,0 % Total Count 20 22 8 50 % within (Bond Types, Repo ....) keywords: 100,0; business; count; knowledge; level; securities; study; turnover; year cache: emaj-178.pdf plain text: emaj-178.txt item: #52 of 191 id: emaj-18 author: Ficici, Aysun; Aybar, C. Bulent title: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND FIRM VALUE IN EMERGING MARKETS AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF ADR ISSUING EMERGING MARKET FIRMS date: 2012 words: 6857 flesch: 52 summary: Microsoft Word - 18-263-1-CE.doc Volume 2 (2012) | ISSN 2158-8708 (online) | DOI 10.5195/emaj.2012.18 | http://emaj.pitt.edu CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND FIRM VALUE IN EMERGING MARKETS AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF ADR ISSUING EMERGING MARKET FIRMS Aysun Ficici Southern New Hampshire University | e-mail: a.ficici@snhu.edu C. Bulent Aybar Southern New Hampshire University Abstract This study explores the value implications of good corporate governance for a sample of 54 ADR issuing emerging market firms (EMFs) from 9 countries primarily located in the regions of Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America and the and employs recently constructed company composite corporate governance metric along with some alternative corporate governance measures associated with the origin of the issuing firm. The primary focus is on the impact of corporate governance structures on firm performance as to whether adherence to standards creates market value for ADR issuing EMFs. keywords: adr; cgi; corruption; country; firm; governance; market; market value; structure; value cache: emaj-18.pdf plain text: emaj-18.txt item: #53 of 191 id: emaj-180 author: Arslan, Mehmet Lütfi; Kızıl, Cevdet title: Measuring Intellectual Capital of Turkish Banks Listed on Borsa Istanbul Banking Index (BIST XBANK) with the Market Value / Book Value Method and Value Added Intellectual Coefficient (VAIC) Model date: 2019 words: 11792 flesch: 43 summary: Transformative leadership model perception, firm performance and intellectual capital performances of 134 white collar workers operating in 11 banks in Aydın city center (Turkey) had been measured with surveys and the gathered findings had been evaluated with SPSS 2.1 statistics program. Thus, another critical finding of our research emphasizes that, intellectual capital performance (VAIC) positevely affects financial performance (ROA) and VAIC (intellectual capital power) is a significant predictor of bank financial performance. keywords: assets; bank; banking; bist; borsa; capital; capital performance; istanbul; journal; market; performance; ranks; roa; roe; vaic; value cache: emaj-180.pdf plain text: emaj-180.txt item: #54 of 191 id: emaj-181 author: Koçoğlu, İpek; Erat, Serhat; İmamoğlu, Salih Zeki title: Emancipating Identity: The Differential Effect of Organizational Identification on Commitment and Performance date: 2020 words: 6806 flesch: 40 summary: Abstract Research on organizational identity (OI) and organizational identification (OID) has long considered the two concepts as inseparable. Keywords: Organizational Identity, Organizational Identification, Organizational Commitment, Individual Performance, Social Identity Theory New articles in this journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License. keywords: commitment; identification; identity; individual; job; journal; oid; organization; performance cache: emaj-181.pdf plain text: emaj-181.txt item: #55 of 191 id: emaj-182 author: İnce, Hüseyin; İmamoğlu, Salih Zeki; Türkcan, Hülya; Akca, Gülsüm title: Antecedents and Consequences of Trust in Public Sector Websites and Social Media date: 2020 words: 6121 flesch: 54 summary: Alsaghier, Ford, Nguyen & Hexel, 2011), perceived usefulness (e.g. Colesca, 2009; Chatzoglou et al., 2015) and facilitating conditions (e.g. AlAwadhi & Morris, 2008) affect the citizen usage of government online services such as websites, social media accounts and e-government services as well as trust in them. Tolbert, and Mossberger (2006) and Welch et al. (2004) found that trust in e-government affects trust in government. keywords: citizen; government; information; media; online; public; sector; sector websites; trust; websites cache: emaj-182.pdf plain text: emaj-182.txt item: #56 of 191 id: emaj-183 author: Kartal, Mustafa Tevfik title: Defining Influential Factors of Capital Adequacy Ratio: An Examination upon Turkish Banking Sector (2006/Q1-2019/Q1) date: 2020 words: 6018 flesch: 61 summary: Volume 7 No 2 (2018) | ISSN 2158-8708 (online) | DOI 10.5195/emaj.2018.134 | http://emaj.pitt.edu Defining Influential Factors of Capital Adequacy Ratio: An Examination upon Turkish Banking Sector (2006/Q1-2019/Q1) Mustafa Tevfik Kartal Borsa Istanbul, Turkey | mustafatevfikkartal@gmail.com No 2 (2019) | ISSN 2158-8708 (online) | DOI 10.5195/emaj.2019.183 | http://emaj.pitt.edu Defining Influential Factors of Capital Adequacy Ratio: An Examination upon Turkish Banking Sector (2006/Q1-2019/Q1) keywords: banking; banks; basis; capital; car; journal; max(0; ratio; total; variables cache: emaj-183.pdf plain text: emaj-183.txt item: #57 of 191 id: emaj-185 author: Wu, Yi-Chia; Minor, Michael S. title: The Brand Relationship of Cult-Like Following: Developing Scales of Measurement in Apple and Catholic Devotees date: 2020 words: 7623 flesch: 57 summary: It is reasonable to expect that the Apple scale would generate similar constructs in the statement, “Apple is a religion,” if Apple devotees evaluated Apple and Catholicism in a similar way. Perhaps Apple is parallel to the way religion reaches its believers and Apple devotees find this alternative to be close enough to fulfil the need to belong, but this study indicates that it does not necessarily have the impact on their minds in the same way a religion does. VI. keywords: apple; brand; catholic; cult; devotees; dimensions; factors; items; journal; religion; research; scale; study cache: emaj-185.pdf plain text: emaj-185.txt item: #58 of 191 id: emaj-186 author: Sayım, Ferhat; Serdar, Nurdan title: The Perception of Teachers about Financial Markets and Instruments Information date: 2020 words: 4173 flesch: 56 summary: The teachers' professional group should be addressed separately in terms of targets such as increasing the level of knowledge about financial concepts and instruments in society, increasing financial literacy levels, creating conscious consumer masses that can better interpret economic plane and events. In this study, teachers' familiarity with financial concepts is explained. keywords: average; concepts; credit; interest; knowledge; level; markets; teachers cache: emaj-186.pdf plain text: emaj-186.txt item: #59 of 191 id: emaj-188 author: Oladimeji, Moruff Sanjo; Amida, Olasunkanmi Akeem; Essien, Ekong Akpan title: Business Innovation and Competitive Advantage in Nigerian Manufacturing Sector date: 2020 words: 3909 flesch: 41 summary: Research Hypotheses Ho1: There is no significant effect of business innovation on the cost of the product Ho2: Business innovation does not have a significant effect on the sales of the product Ho3: Business innovation has a significant effect on the sales of the product, and the study also revealed that, business innovation has a significant effect on the quality of the product. keywords: advantage; business; business innovation; effect; firm; innovation; product; quality cache: emaj-188.pdf plain text: emaj-188.txt item: #60 of 191 id: emaj-19 author: Golpek, Filiz title: THE PRICE OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND INDIVIDUAL DEMAND date: 2012 words: 4094 flesch: 55 summary: Higher education with investment purposes is influenced by these three factors and higher education is demanded more and more by individuals on the expectation that they will gain high profits In theory, it is accepted that the basic factors identifying the demand for higher education are in harmony with empirical research results in several countries including Turkey. The supply of higher education is mostly secured in accordance with the public demand as well as the resources available. keywords: benefits; demand; education; individual; investment; price; rate; return cache: emaj-19.pdf plain text: emaj-19.txt item: #61 of 191 id: emaj-190 author: Karakoç, Bahadır title: Foreign Capital, Real Sector Financing and Excessive Leverage in Turkey: What Went Wrong? date: 2020 words: 7197 flesch: 52 summary: Figure 3 shows non-financial firms’ foreign currency denominated assets and liabilities (bank loans, debt securities and trade credits), presenting the severity of exchange rate exposure. To achieve the stated objectives, the effect of monetary policy and FC inflow is investigated using corporate data collected by the Turkish Central Bank (CBRT). keywords: borrowing; capital; credit; currency; debt; effect; financing; firms; leverage; policy cache: emaj-190.pdf plain text: emaj-190.txt item: #62 of 191 id: emaj-191 author: Heidari Gandoman, Shaho; Nouri, Shahla title: The Impact of Currency Shocks on Sanandaj Municipality Revenues in Iran date: 2020 words: 4388 flesch: 45 summary: It could be concluded that, Sanandaj municipality revenues do not follow the currency rate fluctuations. For this reason, in this study first we will try to determine whether exchange shocks have had any impacts on Sanandaj municipality revenues or not. keywords: currency; exchange; income; municipality; rate; revenue; sanandaj; shocks; variables cache: emaj-191.pdf plain text: emaj-191.txt item: #63 of 191 id: emaj-192 author: Campos, Alyce Cardoso; Rezende, Daniel Carvalho de; Prado, José Willer do; Nascimento, Thaísa Barcellos Pinheiro do; Marques, Humberto Rodrigues; Grutzmann, André title: Consumption at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Current State of Research and Suggestions for Future Study date: 2020 words: 7701 flesch: 45 summary: The term, bottom of the pyramid (BoP), was coined to refer to people with low purchasing power. Hasan, M. R. et al. (2017), Visual cues and innovation adoption among bottom of the pyramid consumers, Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal, vol. 20 keywords: articles; consumption; et al; journal; marketing; prahalad; pyramid; research; studies; study; vol cache: emaj-192.pdf plain text: emaj-192.txt item: #64 of 191 id: emaj-193 author: Obeng, George title: Funding Entrepreneurship and Innovation with Debt Capital: The Relevance of Capital Structure date: 2020 words: 8318 flesch: 31 summary: It is targeting potential investors through a survey to seek clarification on their understanding and knowledge on capital structure as to its threat to business and investment failure. Investors understand capital structure and engage funds at proportions as dictated by necessity and their utilities as against strict adherence to theory. keywords: business; capital; capital structure; debt; decision; entrepreneurship; equity; firm; funding; innovation; investment; investors; knowledge; risk; understanding cache: emaj-193.pdf plain text: emaj-193.txt item: #65 of 191 id: emaj-194 author: Wickramaratne, Widana Pathiranage Richard title: Sustainability in Career Development: The Impact of Career Development Culture and Career Support of Senior Management on Career Satisfaction date: 2021 words: 6004 flesch: 40 summary: Thus, this study contributes to the existing literature by exploring how environmental aspects such as career development culture and senior managers support for career development impact career satisfaction. This study validated two new questionnaires: career development culture and career support of senior management. keywords: career; career development; career satisfaction; career support; culture; development culture; employees; journal; management; organization; satisfaction; study; support cache: emaj-194.pdf plain text: emaj-194.txt item: #66 of 191 id: emaj-195 author: Ogege, Samson; Boloupremo, Tarila title: The Influence of Oil Price Uncertainty on Economic Activities in Nigeria date: 2021 words: 4440 flesch: 48 summary: Abstract This paper seeks to appraise the uncertainty of oil price influence on the activities of Nigerian economy with regard to human development in Nigeria. The focal point of this study is to appraise the uncertainty of oil price influence on the activities of Nigerian economy with regard to human development in Nigeria. keywords: development; economy; influence; nigeria; oil; oil price; study; uncertainty; variables cache: emaj-195.pdf plain text: emaj-195.txt item: #67 of 191 id: emaj-196 author: Ogege, Samson title: The Influence of Dividend Payments on Share Price in Manufacturing Firms Quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange date: 2021 words: 3992 flesch: 49 summary: The effects of dividend policy on share prices: Empirical evidence from the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange. By investigating about two hundred and twenty-eight quoted companies in the Amman Stock Exchange, Muhannad et al. (2018) obtained the data spanning from 2010 to 2016 to ascertain the influence of dividend policy on the fluctuation of stock price of the study sample. keywords: companies; dividend; firms; manufacturing; price; share cache: emaj-196.pdf plain text: emaj-196.txt item: #68 of 191 id: emaj-2 author: Camgoz Akdag, Hatice title: Introducing ISO 9000 to the Kazakhstan Banking Industry:A Case Study date: 2011 words: 4038 flesch: 54 summary: I always incorporate quality factors in my product/service design CS1 (0.731) On the other hand the second highest loading was given to the component related with the management process quality and states that they always incorporate quality factors in their product/service design. keywords: analysis; factor; iso; management; practices; quality; score cache: emaj-2.pdf plain text: emaj-2.txt item: #69 of 191 id: emaj-20 author: Gundogdu, Mehmet Cagrı title: RE-THINKING ENTREPRENEURSHIP, INTRAPRENEURSHIP, AND INNOVATION: A MULTI-CONCEPT PERSPECTIVE date: 2012 words: 4678 flesch: 42 summary: Taking the famous saying “Either change or die [43]!” into consideration; like the organizations which manage to reverse the danger of entropy to negative entropy; existing traditional entrepreneurs also should turn out as innopreneurs not to face the danger of being isolated outside the system. Like the organizations being exposed to entropy; traditional entrepreneurs are facing the danger of being pushed to the outside of the system. keywords: business; concept; economy; entrepreneurship; innopreneur; innovation; management; new; organization; perspective cache: emaj-20.pdf plain text: emaj-20.txt item: #70 of 191 id: emaj-201 author: Hacıimamoğlu, Tunahan; Sandalcılar, Ali Rıza title: The Effect of Renewable Energy Consumption on Economic Stability: Panel Data Analysis on Selected Countries date: 2020 words: 8034 flesch: 51 summary: Abstract This study aims to investigate the effect of renewable energy consumption on economic stability. According to panel coefficient estimators, the effect of renewable energy consumption on economic stability is positive and statistically meaningful in Germany, Denmark, Italy, Switzerland, and Sweden, which are developed countries, and also in Egypt, Turkey, Taiwan, Pakistan, and Indonesia, which are developing countries. keywords: consumption; countries; economic; energy; energy consumption; index; model; panel; relationship; results; stability; test cache: emaj-201.pdf plain text: emaj-201.txt item: #71 of 191 id: emaj-202 author: Adelekan, Saidi Adedeji; Erigbe, Patience title: Organizational Leadership Styles and Employees’ Performance in Nigerian Deposit Money Banks date: 2021 words: 4178 flesch: 41 summary: The coefficient of determination (R2) suggested that 21% variation in employees’ performance is explained by transformational leadership style, while the F-statistics suggest that the model is reliable for decision and policy making. The findings revealed that transformational leadership and servant leadership styles have positive and significant combined effect on deposit money banks employees’ performance (F-stat= 58.02 *0.000). keywords: banks; deposit; employees; leadership; money; performance; servant; styles cache: emaj-202.pdf plain text: emaj-202.txt item: #72 of 191 id: emaj-203 author: Nazir, Muhammad Arsalan; Roomi, Muhammad Azam title: Barriers to Adopting Electronic Commerce for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Emerging Economies date: 2021 words: 10969 flesch: 38 summary: However, it has been given little attention in emerging economies, and therefore e-commerce adoption has been particularly difficult for Small and Medium- sized Enterprises (SMEs). Although these statistics can be extrapolated to a corresponding rise in e-commerce adoption in emerging economies, many local issues still present barriers for these emerging economies in their pursuit of economic and business prosperity through e-commerce (Molla and Heeks, 2007). keywords: adoption; barriers; business; commerce; commerce adoption; development; economies; ict; internet; journal; online; owner; smes; study; technology; use; vol cache: emaj-203.pdf plain text: emaj-203.txt item: #73 of 191 id: emaj-204 author: Agboola, Oluyemisi; Aremu, Muideen Olawale; Eze, Benneth Uchenna; Wahab, Nurudeen Opeyem title: Effect of Training and Career Development on Bank Employees’ Performance: Evidence from Selected Banks in Nigeria date: 2021 words: 4628 flesch: 44 summary: Among these factors, training plays a major role to enhance employee performance as well as organizations productivity. Findings and Discussion This section presents, analyzes and interprets the data collected on the effect of training and career development on employee performance of banks. keywords: banks; capital; career; career development; development; effect; employees; performance; training cache: emaj-204.pdf plain text: emaj-204.txt item: #74 of 191 id: emaj-205 author: Marti, Luisa; Puertas, Rosa title: Emerging Countries as the Main Destinations for European Value-Added Exports date: 2021 words: 7316 flesch: 53 summary: The total sample of European countries has then been divided into two groups according to the relative importance of their value-added trade destinations. It uses many products and materials from European countries, most notable of which is Germany, with 15.42% of its exports destined for the Asian giant. keywords: countries; country; economic; european; exports; gdp; group; logistics; lpi; trade; usa; value cache: emaj-205.pdf plain text: emaj-205.txt item: #75 of 191 id: emaj-207 author: Nair, Girish Karunakaran title: Hosting Major International Sports Events in a Country: A Socioeconomic Impact date: 2021 words: 5488 flesch: 49 summary: The weakest response was observed on the item “A sense of belongingness to the country will improve through sponsoring sports event” (Mean = 3.2; SD = 1.2). Sponsoring sports events would improve the total amount of goods produced, which is a positive impact on the macroeconomic aspects of the country. keywords: aspects; country; event; impact; percent; respondents; sponsoring; sports; sports event; study; tourism cache: emaj-207.pdf plain text: emaj-207.txt item: #76 of 191 id: emaj-208 author: Joshi, Prem Lal title: Determinants Affecting Internal Audit Effectiveness date: 2021 words: 5086 flesch: 43 summary: Internal audit can be a valuable resource for the AC, because disclosures suggest a possible under- emphasis of internal audit. The increase in internal audit effectiveness is contributed by the participation of AC in the internal audit tasks. keywords: analytics; audit; auditing; data; effectiveness; journal; research; risk cache: emaj-208.pdf plain text: emaj-208.txt item: #77 of 191 id: emaj-21 author: Rezaei, Morad; Salehi, Sajjad; Shafiei, Masomeh; Sabet, Somaye title: SERVANT LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZATIONAL TRUST: THE MEDIATING EFFECT OF THE LEADER TRUST AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION date: 2012 words: 3794 flesch: 41 summary: morad923@yahoo.com Abstract The purpose of this paper aims to clarify the relationship between servant leadership and organizational trust, and tries to demonstrate the mediator role of leader trust and organizational communication in this relationship. Previous studies have also focused on the positive impact of servant leadership in organizational trust and in this article the results show that there is a significant relationship between servant leadership, organizational trust, leader trust and organizational communication. keywords: communication; journal; leadership; relationship; servant; trust cache: emaj-21.pdf plain text: emaj-21.txt item: #78 of 191 id: emaj-210 author: Akman, Vedat; Acar, Berkan; Kızıl, Cevdet title: Auditing Techniques to Avoid Cost Accounting Frauds date: 2020 words: 5497 flesch: 50 summary: The aim of this study is to investigate the most effective auditing techniques to avoid cost accounting frauds. In this study, we focused on auditing techniques towards cost accounting frauds. keywords: accounting; auditing; company; cost; errors; fraud; information; kızıl; research; scandals; study; techniques cache: emaj-210.pdf plain text: emaj-210.txt item: #79 of 191 id: emaj-211 author: Shil, Nikhil Chandra; Hoque, Mahfuzul; Akter, Mahmuda title: Factors Influencing the Choice of Sophisticated Management Accounting Practices - Exploratory Evidence from An Emerging Market date: 2021 words: 8108 flesch: 36 summary: Libby and Waterhouse (1996) also found a positive relationship between intensity of competition and the design and use of management accounting systems. Libby, T. and Waterhouse, J. H. (1996), ‘Predicting change in management accounting systems’, Journal of Management Accounting Research, Vol. 8, No. 1, 137-150. keywords: accounting; cost; costing; firms; information; level; management; management accounting; practices; product; sophistication; study; system; vol cache: emaj-211.pdf plain text: emaj-211.txt item: #80 of 191 id: emaj-214 author: Wickramaratne, Widana Pathiranage Richard title: Role of Career Oriented Perceived Organizational Support in Determining Subjective Career Success of Supervisory Level Managers in Manufacturing Firms date: 2021 words: 5550 flesch: 38 summary: Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine whether career oriented perceived organizational support is related to the subjective career success of employees. Overall, policy makers can learn from the study that they should build reciprocal obligations in employees by considering employee career goals in making career decisions and by regularly informing employees of all available career development opportunities within the organization so that the employees will have reasons to believe that the organization cares about their career needs. keywords: career; career success; employees; journal; management; organization; satisfaction; study; support cache: emaj-214.pdf plain text: emaj-214.txt item: #81 of 191 id: emaj-216 author: Thomas, Olajide Olubayo; Okunbanjo, Olajide Idowu title: Hybrid Entrepreneurship as a Tool for Poverty Reduction in Nigeria: A Review of Literature with Qualitative Research and Content Analysis date: 2021 words: 6072 flesch: 48 summary: The need for hybrid entrepreneurship is critical as well. This paper conducts a review of literature on hybrid entrepreneurship as a tool for poverty reduction. keywords: analysis; business; capture; data; employment; entrepreneurship; hybrid; journal; nigeria; poverty; reduction; research; study; theory cache: emaj-216.pdf plain text: emaj-216.txt item: #82 of 191 id: emaj-217 author: Gamage, Anuruddha; Wickramaratne, Widana Pathiranage Richard title: Quality of Life and Quality of Work Life as Determinants of Employee Productivity: Self-reports of Tea Harvesters in Sri Lanka date: 2021 words: 7064 flesch: 41 summary: Sri Lanka tea plantations: Crisis and restructure, Business Times, The Sunday Times, January 15, 2017. It has been identified from previous research that, different human resource management approaches aiming at uplifting the workers’ social status and activities related to increase the social well-being of workers, contributed positively in increasing worker productivity levels of tea plantation workers from the present levels (Dishanka and Ikemoto, 2014; Savarimuthu and Rachael, 2017; Gamage and Wickramaratne, 2018; Gamage and Wickramaratne, 2019). keywords: human; industry; knowledge; lanka; life; management; plantation; practices; productivity; quality; sri; tea; work; worker cache: emaj-217.pdf plain text: emaj-217.txt item: #83 of 191 id: emaj-219 author: Genç, Elif Güneren; Erdem, Başak title: The Analysis of the Relationship between Key Audit Matters (KAM) and Firm Characteristics: The Case of Turkey date: 2021 words: 4048 flesch: 54 summary: Key audit matters (KAMs) are explained under four headings: i) determining KAMs, ii) communicating KAMs, iii) communication with those charged with governance, iv) documentation. Although IAASB (2015, A59) and PCAOB (2017,37) proposed that at least one KAM should be reported, regulators warn that ‘‘Lengthy lists of key audit matters may be contrary to the notion of such matters being those of most significance in the audit’’ keywords: audit; auditor; companies; journal; kam; kams; matters; number; relationship; reports cache: emaj-219.pdf plain text: emaj-219.txt item: #84 of 191 id: emaj-221 author: Hacini, Ishaq; Boulenfad, Abir; Dahou, Khadra title: The Impact of Liquidity Risk Management on the Financial Performance of Saudi Arabian Banks date: 2021 words: 6776 flesch: 55 summary: The impact of bank liquidity risk management on banking financial performance An applied study in a sample of private banks. Model Specification Return on equity (ROE) was selected as the main proxy for bank financial performance. keywords: assets; banks; cash; effect; journal; liquidity; liquidity risk; management; performance; ratio; risk; vol cache: emaj-221.pdf plain text: emaj-221.txt item: #85 of 191 id: emaj-222 author: Ceyhan, Ayben; Yozgat, Uğur title: Does Brand Love Last Forever? : A Study on Turkey’s Lovemarks date: 2021 words: 7813 flesch: 57 summary: This study analyzes the components of brand love and sustainable brand love based on the assumption that interpersonal relationships can change over time. The aim of this study is to identify how brand love is created and to distinguish the components of sustainable brand love. keywords: brand; brand love; consumer; customer; journal; literature; love; marketing; relationship; service; study; turkey cache: emaj-222.pdf plain text: emaj-222.txt item: #86 of 191 id: emaj-223 author: Öztürk, Latif; Varlık, Nimet title: Examination of Consumption Expenditure Distribution among NUTS-2 Regions in 2007-2018 with GINI Coefficient date: 2021 words: 4799 flesch: 48 summary: Distribution of expenditure categories based on Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics-23 , ii) Population data obtained from the population statistics from ADNKS (Address Based Population Registration) system of TURKSTAT.4 Among other expenditure categories, the course of Gini coefficients of d-) keywords: categories; category; coefficient; consumption; distribution; expenditure; gini; income; inequality; regions; years cache: emaj-223.pdf plain text: emaj-223.txt item: #87 of 191 id: emaj-226 author: Demirel, Zehra; Çubukçu, Ceren title: Measurement of Employees on Human Resources with Fuzzy Logic date: 2021 words: 3530 flesch: 48 summary: Institutions give great importance to human resources management because hiring the right employee for the job will increase productivity within the organization. Human resources management is a system that serves the interests and benefits of managers in organizations, and is designed to increase the performance of employees to the best level. keywords: degree; logic; mamdani; matlab; output; performance; resources; system cache: emaj-226.pdf plain text: emaj-226.txt item: #88 of 191 id: emaj-228 author: Sabuncu, İbrahim; Edeş, Berivan; Sıtkıbütün, Doruk; Girgin, İlayda; Zehir, Kadir title: Creating Brand Image Profile by Social Media Analysis date: 2021 words: 5592 flesch: 57 summary: As a result, it is thought that social media analysis can be a complementary method that can be used with traditional methods in creating a brand image profile. However, is it possible to use social media analysis to obtain the brand's characteristics that affect the customer, create a brand image profile according to these attributes and develop marketing strategies based on this information? keywords: analysis; attributes; brand; brand image; data; image; iphone; media; profile; results; study cache: emaj-228.pdf plain text: emaj-228.txt item: #89 of 191 id: emaj-229 author: Kayım, Furkan; Yılmaz, Atınç title: Financial Instrument Forecast with Artificial Intelligence date: 2021 words: 4790 flesch: 53 summary: As a matter of fact, financial instrument estimation using artificial intelligence is the most up-to-date financial instrument estimation method. There are also similar studies where financial instrument estimation is made using artificial intelligence. keywords: algorithms; classification; data; estimation; exchange; financial; instrument; lstm; results; rnn; time; try; usd cache: emaj-229.pdf plain text: emaj-229.txt item: #90 of 191 id: emaj-23 author: Sonmezer, Sitki; Akman, Vedat title: DETERMINANTS OF GROWTH IN FRANCHISING CONTRACTS IN EMERGING MARKETS; EVIDENCES FROM TURKEY date: 2012 words: 3838 flesch: 50 summary: There are various types of contracts including joint ventures, venture capital, consortiums and franchising contracts. Our models explain the change in the number of franchise contracts with R2’s varying between .6577 and .7549. keywords: contracts; contractual; determinants; franchise; franchising; journal; markets; turkey cache: emaj-23.pdf plain text: emaj-23.txt item: #91 of 191 id: emaj-230 author: Pungulescu, Crina title: Country-Level Size Effects in International Asset Pricing date: 2021 words: 8399 flesch: 49 summary: Markets size effects remain statistically and economically significant in the presence of various control factors and account for up to 1% per year in terms of expected returns in emerging countries. Market size effects may be important for the strategic choices of international investors, that would make an initial selection of countries rather than of individual stocks. keywords: capital; controls; countries; effects; market; market size; returns; risk; segmentation; size; size effects; 𝑆𝑖𝑧 � cache: emaj-230.pdf plain text: emaj-230.txt item: #92 of 191 id: emaj-231 author: Joshi, Prem Lal; Deshmukh, Ashutosh; Azibi, Jamel title: The Effects of Internal Audit, Audit Committee and Firm Characteristics on Audit Fees in a Multi-Country and Industry Setting date: 2021 words: 7505 flesch: 52 summary: jamel.az1@gmail.com Abstract This paper examines the association between audit fees and attributes of internal audit (IA), audit committee (AC), as measured by independence and financial expertise, as well as characteristics of the firm. The determinants of audit fees have been extensively investigated in the prior literature, but the results are conflicting. keywords: accounting; audit committee; audit fees; auditor; firm; journal; relationship; research; results; size; studies cache: emaj-231.pdf plain text: emaj-231.txt item: #93 of 191 id: emaj-232 author: Kızıl, Cevdet; Muzır, Erol; Yılmaz, Vildan title: Auditing Techniques to Minimize Accounting Related Fraud and Errors: A Qualitative Analysis with the Interview Method date: 2021 words: 6654 flesch: 52 summary: This study provides information about the audit techniques that can minimize accounting related frauds and errors in businesses. According to the results of research, companies use a number of tools to prevent accounting related frauds and errors. keywords: accounting; assets; auditing; auditors; business; controls; errors; fraud; journal; kızıl; muhasebe; research; turkey cache: emaj-232.pdf plain text: emaj-232.txt item: #94 of 191 id: emaj-237 author: Shodiya, Olayinka Abideen title: Knowledge Management and Competitive Advantage of Listed Consumer Goods Manufacturing Companies in Nigeria date: 2021 words: 8056 flesch: 46 summary: Abstract The study investigated the effect of knowledge management on the competitive advantage of Nigerian consumer goods businesses. The study concluded that knowledge management played an important role in enhancing competitive advantage when adequately managed. keywords: advantage; companies; consumer; consumer goods; effect; goods; information; journal; knowledge; knowledge management; management; nigeria; study cache: emaj-237.pdf plain text: emaj-237.txt item: #95 of 191 id: emaj-238 author: Osei, Francis; Opata, Christian Narh; Kankam-Kwarteng, Collins; Ofori, Daniel title: Cultural and Attitudinal Tenets of Ghanaians on Insurance Service: An Empirical Study date: 2022 words: 8931 flesch: 49 summary: Finally, in the context of emerging countries, the empirical study looked into how attitudes, cultural trends, awareness, and perception may all play a part in deciding insurance purchase intentions. Abstract This study compared the cultural and attitudinal tenets of Ghanaians towards insurance service in the Kumasi Metropolis of Ghana. keywords: attitude; awareness; behavior; consumer; ghana; insurance; intention; journal; perception; purchase; purchase intention; research; service; study; trends cache: emaj-238.pdf plain text: emaj-238.txt item: #96 of 191 id: emaj-241 author: Karadag, Hande; Balcı İzgi, Berna title: Real-Estate Entrepreneurship from Baumol's Productive and Unproductive Typology: A Contestable Markets Approach date: 2022 words: 4896 flesch: 36 summary: From Baumol (2010)’s productive and unproductive entrepreneurship perspective, one detrimental factor hindering innovative entrepreneurship, particularly in emerging market economies can be discussed as “real- estate entrepreneurship”. Real estate entrepreneurship is a special form of venturing (Linnemann, 2007). keywords: baumol; development; economic; economies; economy; entrepreneurship; estate; growth; innovative; markets; new cache: emaj-241.pdf plain text: emaj-241.txt item: #97 of 191 id: emaj-242 author: Dönmez, Nurten; Özkan, Turgut title: Effects of Changes in Financial Ratios of Companies on the Performance of Stock Prices in the Exchange Market: The Automotive Sector date: 2022 words: 8683 flesch: 49 summary: tozkan@dogus.edu.tr Abstract By examining the relationship between financial ratios of companies and stock prices, this study investigates whether changes in the financial ratios of companies affect stock prices. In future studies on the effects of financial ratios on stock prices, different sectors can be analyzed to determine which particular sectors and ratios have correlations with stock prices. keywords: cent; companies; countries; data; exchanges; period; prices; ratio; series; significance; stock; stock prices; test; unit; 𝐻0 hypothesis cache: emaj-242.pdf plain text: emaj-242.txt item: #98 of 191 id: emaj-245 author: Nair, Girish Karunakaran title: Dynamics of Locus of Control, Financial Knowledge, Financial Behaviour and Financial Position: An Empirical Study date: 2022 words: 5699 flesch: 50 summary: This research tests the hypothesis that the locus of control, income, financial knowledge, financial behaviour and financial position of the citizens are causally related. The evidence collected from randomly chosen 204 respondents supported five out of seven hypotheses which indicated that internal locus of control, financial knowledge, financial behaviour and financial position were causally related. keywords: behaviour; control; et al; influence; knowledge; locus; position; research cache: emaj-245.pdf plain text: emaj-245.txt item: #99 of 191 id: emaj-25 author: Azadi, Siamak; Rahimzadeh, Elham title: Developing Marketing Strategy for Electronic Business by Using McCarthy's Four Marketing Mix Model and Porter’s Five Competitive Forces date: 2012 words: 3548 flesch: 48 summary: Due to this element in the development of e-commerce marketing strategy will determine the business focus is on what product or products communities .In fact, the element type, and how much product diversity (homogeneous or heterogeneous) strategies and establishes priorities in this regard. And variables used in the model to identify and prioritize and execute marketing strategies in the field of e-commerce is essential. keywords: business; commerce; forces; marketing; mix; porter; strategies cache: emaj-25.pdf plain text: emaj-25.txt item: #100 of 191 id: emaj-251 author: Singh, Sanjeev; More, Rahul title: Mobile Phone Companies Increasing Market Share through Innovations, R&D Spending and Patents date: 2022 words: 4960 flesch: 49 summary: This paper explores the innovation journey of mobile phone companies. Nevertheless, mobile companies deal with continuous technological change, and product innovation is astonishing. keywords: apple; blackberry; companies; innovation; journal; market; market share; mobile; patents; phone; r&d; share; spending cache: emaj-251.pdf plain text: emaj-251.txt item: #101 of 191 id: emaj-253 author: Gamage, Anuruddha; Wickramaratne, Widana Pathiranage Richard title: Sustainable Human Resource Management (HRM) Practices for Boosting the Worker Productivity in Tea Plantations in Sri Lanka: Validation of a New HRM Model date: 2022 words: 8037 flesch: 45 summary: It further explains the impact of Quality of Work Life and Quality Life practices for enhancing worker productivity and the significant mediator role of quality of work-life and quality of life practices in the relationship between sustainable human resource management practices and worker productivity. This study was based on the quantitative method to examine the proposed hypotheses, test the model fit's validity and reliability and determine the mediator effect on the relationship between sustainable HRM practices and worker productivity. keywords: care practices; hrm; human; knowledge; knowledge management; life; life practices; management practices; model; practices; productivity; quality; tea; worker; worker productivity cache: emaj-253.pdf plain text: emaj-253.txt item: #102 of 191 id: emaj-255 author: Uhunmwangho, Monday title: The Effect of Regulations on Stock Market Risk (Volatility) in Nigeria date: 2022 words: 5212 flesch: 50 summary: It means that this indicator can curtail stock market volatility, as a rise in this regulatory instrument depresses stock market risk. Zare, Azahi and Habitullah (2013) examined the effect of monetary policy surrogate by the interest rate on stock market volatility in developing countries, using pool mean regression covering 1991M1 to 2011M12. keywords: bank; effect; market; nigeria; regulations; risk; stock; stock market; study; volatility cache: emaj-255.pdf plain text: emaj-255.txt item: #103 of 191 id: emaj-256 author: Sanrı, Özlem title: Evaluation of Gender Equality Criteria Related to Social Sustainability in Ports date: 2022 words: 4619 flesch: 54 summary: Table 1: Gender Equality Criterias Criteria Description Criteria Code C1- Recruitment policy Recruiting both genders RP C2-Work-life balance efforts Keeping balance in terms of work-life (flexibility) W-LBE C3- Gender equality teams A group that tracks gender equality GET C4- Internal and external policies A strategy to deal more equality IEP C5-Communication Campaigns and networks COM Source: Barreiro-Gen et. The fifth goal which is gender equality is transformed as follows: (1) Gender-neutral recruitment and compensation policies. keywords: criteria; equality; gender; method; port; sustainability; swara; table; women; world cache: emaj-256.pdf plain text: emaj-256.txt item: #104 of 191 id: emaj-257 author: Yılmaz, Hülya; İlhan, Bülent title: Determinants of Stock Market Indices: An Analysis of Emerging Markets of Brazil, Mexico, Russia, and Turkey date: 2022 words: 9812 flesch: 59 summary: Therefore, it is included in the study to investigate its relationship with stock market indexes. For this reason, oil prices are also included in the study as an independent variable to analyze its effect on stock market indices. keywords: analysis; bond; cds; countries; effect; gold; markets; model; oil; panels; prices; relationship; returns; stock; stock market; term; turkey; variables cache: emaj-257.pdf plain text: emaj-257.txt item: #105 of 191 id: emaj-258 author: Toraman, Yavuz title: User Acceptance of Metaverse: Insights from Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and Planned Behavior Theory (PBT) date: 2022 words: 5964 flesch: 55 summary: In this research, the factors affecting the acceptance of metaverse technology, which is one of the most important innovations encountered in the last period, were examined. In this context, metaverse technology was analyzed with structural equation modeling (SEM) within the scope of PBT and TAM. keywords: acceptance; analysis; behavior; intention; metaverse; model; pbt; people; research; tam; technology; use cache: emaj-258.pdf plain text: emaj-258.txt item: #106 of 191 id: emaj-26 author: Kaya, Sarp; Alpkan, Lütfihak title: Problems and Solution Proposals for SMEs in Turkey date: 2012 words: 8663 flesch: 54 summary: The purpose of this article is to examine the problems that SMEs in Turkey face with in the stage where the managerial and finance requirements have been provided and how to solve these problems within their own organizations by minimum support and to provide solutions towards business owners in the micro scale. The general quantitative specifications of SMEs could be defined as follows: independent management, the person who takes risk are entrepreneur, the competition power in the current markets, the marketing power in the active market, close cooperation between business owner and staff, cost of business and composition of the expenditures of business owner, low profile of experting level. keywords: activities; business; business owners; capital; credit; fact; markets; problems; smes; solution; staff; turkey cache: emaj-26.pdf plain text: emaj-26.txt item: #107 of 191 id: emaj-260 author: Kankam-Kwarteng, Collins; Amofah, Ofosu; Osei, Francis; Osman, Barbara title: Customer Based Performance of the Hotel Industry: Analysis of Service Package and Brand Innovations date: 2022 words: 7109 flesch: 36 summary: Notwithstanding its significance, brand innovations and their relationship with customer based performances is a major problem confronting the hospitality industry globally (Ottenbacher and Gnoth, 2005). Effects of Service Package on Customer based Performance According to literature, the total service experience obtained through the service package has an effect on customer based performance (Edvardsson et al., 2005). keywords: brand; brand innovation; customer; effect; hotel; hotel industry; industry; innovation; journal; performance; profit performance; service; service package; study cache: emaj-260.pdf plain text: emaj-260.txt item: #108 of 191 id: emaj-264 author: Fakunmoju, Segun Kamoru; Jinadu, Babatunde; Akindele, Alexander A. title: Effect of Interest Rate Spread and Bank Specific Factors on Survival of Tier-One and Tier-Two Deposit Money Banks in Nigeria date: 2022 words: 5298 flesch: 51 summary: The effect of bank capital buffer on bank risk and net interest margin: Evidence from the US. Bank capital buffer and portfolio risk: The influence of business cycle and revenue diversification. keywords: adequacy; bank; capital; efficiency; interest; management; quality; ratio; size; spread; survival cache: emaj-264.pdf plain text: emaj-264.txt item: #109 of 191 id: emaj-265 author: Kankam-Kwarteng, Collins; Osei, Francis; Donkor, George Nana Agyekum title: Innovation, Environmental Antecedents and Performance Outcomes of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies in Ghana date: 2022 words: 7160 flesch: 41 summary: This journal is published by the University Library System of the University of Pittsburgh as part of its D-Scribe Digital Publishing Program, and is cosponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Press Volume 12 No 2 (2022) | ISSN 2158-8708 (online) | DOI 10.5195/emaj.2022.265 | http://emaj.pitt.edu | http://www.library.pitt.edu/ http://www.pitt.edu/ http://www.library.pitt.edu/articles/digpubtype/index.html http://www.upress.pitt.edu/upressIndex.aspx http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/ Volume 12 No 2 (2022) | ISSN 2158-8708 (online) | DOI 10.5195/emaj.2022.265 | http://emaj.pitt.edu Collins Kankam-Kwarteng, Francis Osei, George Nana Agyekum Donkor Emerging Markets Journal | P a g e |27 Innovation, Environmental Antecedents and Performance Outcomes of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies in Ghana Collins Kankam-Kwarteng Francis Osei George Nana Agyekum Donkor I. Introduction The field of public sector innovations has witnessed considerable number of research over the last decade. Innovation and Public Sector Performance Description of public sector innovations varies from a passive adopter of innovation to a preemptive source of novel concepts and inventions (van Acker, & Volume 12 No 2 (2022) keywords: analysis; antecedents; ghana; innovation; mmdas; model; outcomes; performance; performance outcomes; public; sector; study; table cache: emaj-265.pdf plain text: emaj-265.txt item: #110 of 191 id: emaj-266 author: Yavuz, Melih Sefa; Bozkurt, Gözde; Boğa, Semra title: Investigating the Market Linkages between Cryptocurrencies and Conventional Assets date: 2022 words: 7005 flesch: 53 summary: In future studies on this subject, while examining the relations between the cryptocurrency market and conventional asset markets, they can differentiate according to the level of development of countries and economic regions (BRICS, MENAT, European Union, etc.). Due to the fact that cryptocurrency markets interact with conventional asset markets and the movements in conventional investment instruments affect the cryptocurrency markets, findings of this research also support the idea that cryptocurrencies are an alternative investment tool for investors. keywords: analysis; assets; bitcoin; causality; cryptocurrency; economic; et al; gold; index; journal; markets; relationship; studies; test; variables cache: emaj-266.pdf plain text: emaj-266.txt item: #111 of 191 id: emaj-27 author: Simonet, Daniel title: Entry modes of European firms in Vietnam date: 2012 words: 12149 flesch: 50 summary: This journal is published by the University Library System of the University of Pittsburgh as part of its D-Scribe Digital Publishing Program, and is cosponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Press Volume 2 (2012) | ISSN 2158-8708 (online) | DOI 10.5195/emaj.2012.27 | http://emaj.pitt.edu Entry Modes of Europen Firms in Vietnam Emerging Markets Journal | P a g e | 10 Volume 2 (2012) | ISSN 2158-8708 (online) | DOI 10.5195/emaj.2012.27 | http://emaj.pitt.edu Entry Modes of Europen Firms in Vietnam Daniel Simonet I. Foreign  firms  and  the   preference  for  private   partners  in  newly-­‐emerging   emerging  markets   Reducing dependency remains a priority for foreign firms entering a newly-emerging, often adversarial market. For foreign firms, as the time horizon of public development projects increases (which is also an indication of international lenders’ commitment), risk intensity is not inherently less, but rather spreads over a longer period, thereby signaling that a short term loss could be offset on the long run. keywords: business; company; country; economic; emaj.2012.27 |; entry; entry modes; equity; firms; foreign; http://emaj.pitt.edu; international; investment; journal; markets; modes; online; partner; subsidiary; trust; venture; vietnam; vol; volume cache: emaj-27.pdf plain text: emaj-27.txt item: #112 of 191 id: emaj-270 author: Martynov, Arkady title: The Phenomenon of Hybrid State Capitalism in Emerging Market Economies: Present and Future date: 2022 words: 7315 flesch: 41 summary: A retrospective of the transformation of the entire enclave of emerging market economies in a large number of countries was briefly presented. Prospect for the Transformation of Emerging Economies with Hybrid State Capitalism The Covid-19 Pandemic has caused great damage to emerging market economies, many of which have been thrown back in terms of potential output for several years. keywords: bank; capitalism; changes; countries; development; doi; economies; journal; markets; sceme; state; transformation; world cache: emaj-270.pdf plain text: emaj-270.txt item: #113 of 191 id: emaj-273 author: Ranjbarian, Bahram; Abbaszadeh Avilagh, Hamed title: Investigation of Ethnocentrism Effect on Turkish Textile Image and Consumer Purchase Intention: Isfahan and Tabriz Cities as a Case Study date: 2022 words: 5727 flesch: 50 summary: Country image, product image, and consumer purchase intention: Evidence from an emerging economy. However, country image studies typically have only evaluated the cognitive aspects of products (Pappu, Quester & Cooksey, 2007; Kaynak & Cavusgil, 1983). keywords: citizens; consumer; country; ethnocentrism; image; isfahan; journal; product; tabriz; turkey; turkish cache: emaj-273.pdf plain text: emaj-273.txt item: #114 of 191 id: emaj-275 author: Toraman, Yavuz title: Interest-Free Finance Model by Using Blockchain-Based Company Tokens: Research on Digital Turkish Lira (DTL) and Borsa Istanbul with Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) date: 2022 words: 7816 flesch: 57 summary: Modeling consumers’ trust in mobile food delivery apps: perspectives of technology acceptance model, mobile service quality and personalization- privacy theory. Blockchain technology, which offers a decentralized transaction network, has contributed significantly to the development of digital currencies. keywords: acceptance; attitude; blockchain; company; dtl; interest; journal; model; participation; research; tam; technology; tokens; turkey; use; usefulness cache: emaj-275.pdf plain text: emaj-275.txt item: #115 of 191 id: emaj-277 author: Altun, Ozan; Kızıl, Cevdet; Selvi Hanişoğlu, Gülay; Demir, Nazar title: Paint Marketing and Factors Affecting the Consumers’ Paint Purchase Preference from the Viewpoint of Paint Industry Members in Turkey date: 2022 words: 15191 flesch: 58 summary: In future studies, comparisons can be made by running the research on paint consumers. Educational status of individuals was not an effective factor concerning paint preferences. keywords: approach; businesses; consumers; consumption; customer; factors; family; goods; individuals; journal; level; marketing; needs; paint; paint industry; paint marketing; paint preferences; paint purchase; preference; product; properties; purchase; purchasing; understanding; use cache: emaj-277.pdf plain text: emaj-277.txt item: #116 of 191 id: emaj-28 author: Apak, Sudi; Akman, Vedat; Çankaya, Serkan; Sonmezer, Sıtkı title: The Case for Gold Revisited: A Safe Haven Or A Hedge ? date: 2012 words: 3827 flesch: 66 summary: V. Conclusion   This paper has examined the fit of the GARCH model for gold returns and provides evidence that return of silver, USD returns and change in the volatility index influences gold returns positively whereas, Swiss Franc and Canadian Dollar returns influence gold returns negatively regardless of presence of the 2008 crisis. Abstract This paper attempts to analyze the relation among gold prices and other macroeconomic and financial variables and addresses the question whether gold is a safe haven or a hedge for investors. keywords: dollar; gold; hedge; journal; model; prices; returns; usd cache: emaj-28.pdf plain text: emaj-28.txt item: #117 of 191 id: emaj-284 author: Fakunmoju, Segun Kamouru; Abdullahi, Bello Ibrahim; Gbadebo, Oketoyin Abraham title: Investors’ Psych and Stock Return in Nigeria during the Covid-19 Pandemic Era date: 2024 words: 3830 flesch: 52 summary: As a result, stock investors became more cautious since the advent of the Covid-19 epidemic that hit stock markets throughout the world, from the United States and the United Kingdom to France and China, Japan, Turkey, South Africa, Tunisia, Nigeria, and other rising and developing economies (Dertli & Eryuzlu, 2020). Based on the findings, the study recommends that, stock market managers should implement effective market information transparency policies and present an accurate situation of the market to the investors during any pandemic period so that individual stock market investors can be guided against the psych pressure from market misinformation. keywords: covid-19; doi; investors; market; pandemic; psych; research; returns; stock; study cache: emaj-284.pdf plain text: emaj-284.txt item: #118 of 191 id: emaj-294 author: Oladimeji, Moruff Sanjo; Ayo- Balogun, Atinuke Oluwatoyin; Odunayo, Henry Adewale title: Moonlighting and Organizational Performance in the Nigerian Banking Sector date: 2024 words: 6162 flesch: 48 summary: However, Bawalla (2021) opined that employees feel disheartened by their employer because of the increased revenue, and this is because employee moonlighting affects all aspects of human resources management. Different studies have examined moonlighting in one way or the other For instance, the effect of moonlighting on organizational commitment and entrepreneurial motivation (Sena & Sachdeva, 2020), moonlighting practices on SMEs performance (Khatri & Khushboo, 2014), the effect of employee moonlighting ( Banerjee, 2017), moonlighting and financial motivation (Block & Landgraf, 2016), moonlighting and job Volume 13 keywords: banking; banks; deposit; employees; job; journal; management; money; moonlighting; performance; productivity; sector; service; study cache: emaj-294.pdf plain text: emaj-294.txt item: #119 of 191 id: emaj-3 author: Camgoz Akdag, Hatice title: Business Excellence in Kazakh Higher Education Institutions date: 2011 words: 3348 flesch: 36 summary: At this point in time, quality education has essential characteristics that can be implemented in many culturally appropriate forms. Education is a human right, and therefore quality education supports all of the human rights; - is based on the four pillars of Education for All – learning to know, learning to do, learning to live together and with others, and learning to be; - views the learner as an individual, a family member, community member, and a global citizen and educates to create individual competency in all four roles; - upholds and conveys the ideals of a sustainable world – a world that is just, equitable, and peaceable, in which individuals care for the environment to contribute to intergenerational equity; - takes into consideration the social, economic, and environmental contexts of a particular place and shapes the curriculum or program to reflect these unique conditions. keywords: education; excellence; institutions; kazakh; model; quality; system cache: emaj-3.pdf plain text: emaj-3.txt item: #120 of 191 id: emaj-301 author: Toraman, Yavuz title: The Roles of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) in International Trade, Logistics and European Union’s (EU) Energy Supply Security date: 2024 words: 8646 flesch: 55 summary: In this context, the EU aims to enhance both energy efficiency and diversify energy supply sources to ensure energy supply security. These projects are essential for completing the transportation integration of EU countries and countries in different regions to facilitate the economic and trade activities of the EU (Bezpalov et al., 2022). keywords: cooperation; corridor; countries; economic; energy; energy supply; gas; oil; ots; security; supply; trade; transportation; türkiye; vol cache: emaj-301.pdf plain text: emaj-301.txt item: #121 of 191 id: emaj-303 author: Onivefu, Oshireku Vincent; Onivefu, Omuya Stephen; Onivefu, Adaviriku John; Onivefu, Zainab Oyioza; Onivefu, Oziofu Blessing; Latinwo, Abosede Mary title: Unveiling the Potential and Significance of Marketing Research in the Nigerian Banking Industry date: 2024 words: 4750 flesch: 38 summary: Abstract This research aims to assess the significance of marketing research within the Nigerian banking sector. The study pursues the following objectives: First, to appraise the potential of marketing research as a gauge for a firm's advancement; second, to examine if marketing research contributes to a firm's economic viability; and third, to ascertain the extent of customer satisfaction achievable through marketing research. keywords: bank; banking; marketing; nigeria; onivefu; research; respondents; table; union cache: emaj-303.pdf plain text: emaj-303.txt item: #122 of 191 id: emaj-306 author: Iherobiem, Augustine Chibueze; Sanusi, Aminat Odunola title: Process Innovation as a Strategic Tool in Enhancing the Performance of Organizations: A Study of Manufacturing Firms in Nigeria date: 2024 words: 4678 flesch: 38 summary: Abstract This study investigated how process innovation might be used as a strategic tool to improve organizational performance in the context of Nigerian manufacturing companies. The study found a substantial correlation between the two variables and it was determined that process innovation is important for improving organizational performance. keywords: firms; innovation; manufacturing; nigeria; organization; performance; process; process innovation; study cache: emaj-306.pdf plain text: emaj-306.txt item: #123 of 191 id: emaj-31 author: Aydın, Nevin title: A Genetic Algorithm on Inventory Routing Problem date: 2014 words: 4281 flesch: 55 summary: The difference of inventory routing problems from vehicle routing problems is the consideration of the inventory positions of retailers and supplier, and making the decision accordingly. Vehicle routing problem is an area that the researchers bring in theoretical, heuristics and metaheuristics approaches. keywords: customers; genetic; inventory; problem; routing; routing problem; vehicle cache: emaj-31.pdf plain text: emaj-31.txt item: #124 of 191 id: emaj-311 author: Dwivedi, Gayatri; Sharma, Seema title: Anchoring the Anchor: Spirituality as an Entrepreneurial Competence date: 2024 words: 7292 flesch: 41 summary: Anchoring the Anchor: Spirituality as an Entrepreneurial Competence Gayatri Dwivedi Seema Sharma I. Introduction Unraveling the unexplored dimensions of entrepreneurship that deceptively seem distant and detached from axiological tenets, the study foregrounds the pivotal role of spirituality in entrepreneurial scheme of things (Rose, 2001; Seaward, 2001; Ganzin et. Volume 7 No 2 (2018) | ISSN 2158-8708 (online) | DOI 10.5195/emaj.2018.134 | http://emaj.pitt.edu Anchoring the Anchor: Spirituality as an Entrepreneurial Competence Gayatri Dwivedi Indian Institure of Technology Delhi, India | e-mail: gayatri.dwivedi@dms.iitd.ac.in Seema Sharma Indian Institure of Technology Delhi, India | e-mail: seemash@dms.iitd.ac.in Abstract Spirituality is the fountainhead of many of the required and elemental entrepreneurial competencies, yet it seems to be out of the main stage in entrepreneurial-competence dialogue. keywords: attributes; competence; doi; entrecomp; entrepreneurship; individual; journal; life; purpose; research; self; spirituality; strengths; world cache: emaj-311.pdf plain text: emaj-311.txt item: #125 of 191 id: emaj-312 author: Mwaanga, Clement; Moyo, Edwin; Chungu, Kelly title: University-related Factors influencing Technological Entrepreneurial Intentions of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Students: A Comparative Study of Private and Public Universities date: 2024 words: 7421 flesch: 39 summary: The findings suggest that attitudes towards entrepreneurship (ATE), subjective norms (SN) and perceived behavioral control (PBC) have a direct impact on TEIs for private university students and ATE and PBC for public university students. Factors influencing Student entrepreneurship intentions: The case of Lithuanian and South Korean universities. keywords: business; entrepreneurship; factors; intentions; journal; public; stem; students; study; support; technology; universities; university cache: emaj-312.pdf plain text: emaj-312.txt item: #126 of 191 id: emaj-325 author: Toraman, Yavuz title: Space Economy, Tourism and Logistics date: 2024 words: 2536 flesch: 56 summary: As shown in Figure 2, the most mentioned concepts concerning the literature research in the field of space tourism are tourism, space tourism, tourism space and dark tourism. In this study, the space economy has been evaluated within the scope of space tourism and space logistics. keywords: activities; economy; logistics; research; space; tourism cache: emaj-325.pdf plain text: emaj-325.txt item: #127 of 191 id: emaj-329 author: Olunuga, Olugbenga Adeshola; Ashoghon, Mustapha Babatunde Ademola title: Financial Innovation, Economic Growth and Sustainable Development in an Emerging Market: Nigeria date: 2024 words: 4185 flesch: 37 summary: Abstract This paper presents recent studies on the effects of financial innovation on economic growth and sustainable development in Nigeria. Financial markets are becoming more advanced and complex due to financial innovation, which helps direct capital towards productive sectors that are necessary for economic growth and development. keywords: development; economy; growth; innovation; journal; nigeria; research; services; transaction; value cache: emaj-329.pdf plain text: emaj-329.txt item: #128 of 191 id: emaj-33 author: Khiari, Wided title: Corporate Governance and Disclosure Quality: Taxonomy of Tunisian Listed Firms Using the Decision Tree Method based Approach date: 2013 words: 8212 flesch: 45 summary: An index that reflects the quality of disclosure information about direction and shareholders noted Index2;  In this part, we’ll try to establish connections between scores of information disclosure and governance characteristics of Tunisian listed firms. keywords: board; company; disclosure; disclosure quality; financial; firms; governance; information; ownership; quality cache: emaj-33.pdf plain text: emaj-33.txt item: #129 of 191 id: emaj-330 author: Alesmaiel, Abdullah; Fifield, Suzanne; Hof, Justin title: The Influence of Foreign Investors on the Efficiency of the Saudi Stock Market date: 2024 words: 9404 flesch: 55 summary: However, the results of these studies have provided no clear consensus on whether stock market liberalization affects stock market efficiency. Specifically, Maghyereh and Omet (2002) examined the Jordanian stock market and found that stock market efficiency had not improved after liberalization, while Laopodis (2004) examined the Greek stock market during the sample period from January 1985 to December 2001. keywords: efficiency; liberalization; market; market efficiency; period; ratio; results; stock; stock market; test; variance cache: emaj-330.pdf plain text: emaj-330.txt item: #130 of 191 id: emaj-331 author: Ayo-Balogun, Atinuke O.; Ajao, Chukwudumebi Cynthia; Oluwaniyi, Adetunji Moses title: Effect of Green Bonds in Financing Sustainable Agriculture in Nigeria date: 2025 words: 4085 flesch: 42 summary: adetunji.oluwaniyi@federalpolyilaro.edu.ng Abstract The concept of green bonds emerged as a way to provide investors with an opportunity to contribute to environmental projects while earning returns on their investments. The study aimed to determine how green bonds affect the funding of sustainable agriculture in Nigeria. keywords: agriculture; bonds; development; farmers; finance; financing; green; nigeria; table cache: emaj-331.pdf plain text: emaj-331.txt item: #131 of 191 id: emaj-338 author: Wagan, Shah Mehmood; Sidra, Sidra title: How Big Data Patents Affect Enterprise Data Technology's Impact on Market Value and Profitability date: 2024 words: 7006 flesch: 31 summary: In the fifth part, the industry heterogeneity effects of enterprise data technology capabilities are analyzed, and industrial Internet supplier companies are used as sub- samples to explore and analyze the specific mechanisms by which enterprises can achieve profit improvement through data technology capabilities. Abstract This paper explores in detail the impact of enterprise data technology capabilities on market value and profits. keywords: article; capabilities; companies; data; data technology; enterprise; impact; market; patent; profits; technology; technology capabilities; value cache: emaj-338.pdf plain text: emaj-338.txt item: #132 of 191 id: emaj-339 author: Adeoti, Johnson; Okpanachi, Victor; Olawale, Yinusa; Balogun, Ebenezer title: Online Behavioral Experience of Nigeria University Students: Customer Expectation Approach date: 2025 words: 6425 flesch: 35 summary: Research Model and Assessment To assess the effect of behavioral experience on customer expectation, the variables used to measure behavioral experience were convenience (Con), product credibility (PC), and comparison and choice (CC) against Customer expectation (CE). Similarly, a study by Lee and Kim (2021) explored the relationship between customer experience and expectation in the hospitality industry. keywords: choice; comparison; convenience; credibility; customer; customer expectation; expectation; experience; journal; online; product; study; university cache: emaj-339.pdf plain text: emaj-339.txt item: #133 of 191 id: emaj-344 author: Martynov, Arkady title: The Hybrid Structure of Emerging Market Economies: A Political Economy Vision in the context of India, China and Russian Federation date: 2024 words: 8521 flesch: 39 summary: Abstract This article analyzes the present and future development of national economies belonging to emerging markets (EME). In the present realities, a significant number of national economies with emerging markets possess a powerful development potential. keywords: capitalism; china; countries; development; doi; economies; economy; hybrid; india; institutions; journal; markets; national; russian; state; structure; system cache: emaj-344.pdf plain text: emaj-344.txt item: #134 of 191 id: emaj-345 author: Toraman, Yavuz; Ölçen, Olcay; Ceylan, Onur; Mertoğlu, ⁠Gizem title: Supply Chain Finance: A Study on the Use of E-Money date: 2025 words: 4286 flesch: 57 summary: Reconnoitering the Effects of Risk and Knowledge on Use Intention for E-money Services Among Saudi Arabian Residents. Retailers offer e-Money applications to their consumers, which are the subject of the research. keywords: chain; finance; funds; model; money; research; retailers; supply; use cache: emaj-345.pdf plain text: emaj-345.txt item: #135 of 191 id: emaj-348 author: Okon, Idorenyin; Clement, Ozele E. title: Female Directors’ Role on Capital Structure and Firm Performance Nexus: New Evidence from an Emerging Market - Nigeria date: 2025 words: 9626 flesch: 35 summary: The study finds that female directors moderate the relationship between capital structure and firm performance, improving the impact of debt levels on profitability while reducing market performance. Our study is motivated by the need to understand whether the observed benefits of board gender diversity, such as reduced information asymmetry and improved risk management, extend to moderating the effects of capital structure on firm performance. keywords: asset; board; capital structure; debt; directors; effect; equity; firm; market; performance; presence; ratio; relationship; value cache: emaj-348.pdf plain text: emaj-348.txt item: #136 of 191 id: emaj-35 author: Sorhun, Engin title: DOES EU-INTEGRATION CHANGE AGGLOMERATION PROCESS? THE IMPACT OF EU MEMBERSHIP PROCESS ON THE CITY-SIZE DISTRIBUTION OF TURKEY date: 2013 words: 5545 flesch: 56 summary: Gabaix, X., Ioannides, Y. (2004), The evolution of city size distributions, Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, in: J. V. Henderson & J. F. Thisse (ed.), Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, edition 1, volume 4, chapter 53, pages 2341-2378 12. In empirical research β is the estimated coefficient, giving the slope of the log-linear relationship between city size and city rank. keywords: agglomeration; cities; city; distribution; law; membership; process; size; turkey cache: emaj-35.pdf plain text: emaj-35.txt item: #137 of 191 id: emaj-354 author: Adeogun, Stephen Oluseun; Adebayo, Olaoluwa Ayodeji; Adeniran, Omotolani Elizabeth title: Influence of Employees’ Socioeconomic Characteristics and Innovation Culture on Sustainable Organizational Change Management in Agricultural Organizations of South-West Nigeria date: 2025 words: 7069 flesch: 22 summary: This study examines how employees’ socioeconomic characteristics and innovation culture influence sustainable organizational change management. The region's organizations provide a fertile ground for studying the complex interactions between employees’ characteristics and innovation culture in shaping sustainable organizational change. keywords: change; change management; characteristics; culture; employees; innovation; innovation culture; journal; management; mean; nigeria; organizations cache: emaj-354.pdf plain text: emaj-354.txt item: #138 of 191 id: emaj-36 author: Baran, Mehmet; Sönmezer, Sıtkı title: HOW TO GROUP FINANCIAL DATA WITH MAXIMUM HOMOGENEITY? date: 2013 words: 2312 flesch: 53 summary: This is one reason why Fisher algorithm found particular favor with hydrologists: Most of the lakes and rivers have near-constant depth for long periods of time, with very rapid change of depth during short intervals of time (ie, spring rains) between them. Therefore, Fisher algorithm in its classical form (ie, Equations (1)-(9) given above) is largely unsuitable for discovering trends in financial data, and boundaries between neighboring trends. keywords: algorithm; data; fisher; order; time cache: emaj-36.pdf plain text: emaj-36.txt item: #139 of 191 id: emaj-37 author: Kargı, Bilal title: INTERACTION BETWEEN THE ECONOMIC GROWTH AND THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY: A TIME SERIES ANALYSIS ON TURKEY (2000-2012) date: 2013 words: 4694 flesch: 53 summary: Keywords: Economic growth, construction industry, time series analysis. Additionally the third hypothesis, “ when talking about the periods of crisis in all country groups, the percent of construction industry in the GDP goes down in recession while it goes up in the aftermath of recession” can be tested. keywords: analysis; construction industry; emaj.2013.37 |; gdp; growth; series; turkey; volume cache: emaj-37.pdf plain text: emaj-37.txt item: #140 of 191 id: emaj-38 author: Çelik, Ahmet Alkan title: Economic Barriers to Democratization in MENA date: 2013 words: 7496 flesch: 39 summary: As Schwarz states, “[t]he large and considerable amount of state revenues accruing to rentier states in the form of external rents gives the state additional resources and serves thus to reduce the state’s need to extract money from its society” (Schwarz 2004: 23). All these countries of the same region have a commonality: their economies are dependent on ‘rents’ from natural resources (Financial Times, 2011)or 'rent equivalents' from aid money and financial support (Schlumberger, 2006)which provide most of the export earnings and state revenues. keywords: arab; change; countries; democracy; democratization; economic; journal; mena; military; oil; regime; region; resource; revenues; states cache: emaj-38.pdf plain text: emaj-38.txt item: #141 of 191 id: emaj-39 author: Aydın, Nevin title: Heuristic Clustering Algorithms in Ad hoc Networks date: 2014 words: 1766 flesch: 57 summary: Such networks are called mobile multi- hop radio networks, or ad hoc networks or peer-to-peer networks. The limitations of the infrastructure networks initiated the need for wireless networks without fixed infrastructures. keywords: heuristic; networks; node cache: emaj-39.pdf plain text: emaj-39.txt item: #142 of 191 id: emaj-40 author: Çetin, Ayşe Tansel; Kızıl, Cevdet; Zengin, Halil İbrahim title: Impact of Mentoring on Organizational Commitment and Job Satisfaction of Accounting-Finance Academicians Employed in Turkey date: 2013 words: 13307 flesch: 48 summary: Abstract The primary objective of this paper is to investigate the impact of mentoring on organizational commitment and job satisfaction of accounting-finance academicians employed in Turkey. Survey method is utilized in order to reach this goal and questionnaires are distributed to test the effect of mentoring on Turkish accounting-finance scholars’ organizational commitment and job satisfaction. keywords: age; career; commitment; continuance commitment; development; effect; gender; job satisfaction; journal; mentoring; model; modeling; professional; research; role; social; support; variables; vol cache: emaj-40.pdf plain text: emaj-40.txt item: #143 of 191 id: emaj-41 author: Wang, Lingling; Fan, Bo; Aybar, C. Bulent; Ficici, Aysun title: Changing Dynamics of Foreign Direct Investment in China’s Automotive Industry date: 2013 words: 8563 flesch: 60 summary: Yet, productivity-augmenting effects from FDI on Chinese automotive industry do transpire neither through direct methods nor through spillovers. The importance of automotive industry is very well accepted in the field of international business as it contributes to the economic development of any region where it is established. keywords: automotive; china; fdi; industry; journal; level; productivity; variable cache: emaj-41.pdf plain text: emaj-41.txt item: #144 of 191 id: emaj-42 author: Mili, Mehdi; Sahut, Jean-Michel title: Determinants of loans and deposits strategies of foreign bank subsidiaries in emerging countries date: 2013 words: 8543 flesch: 45 summary: No 2 (2013) | ISSN 2158-8708 (online) | 10.5195/emaj.2013.42 | http://emaj.pitt.edu mailto:milimehdi@gmail.com mailto:jmsahut@gmail.com http://www.library.pitt.edu/ http://www.pitt.edu/ http://www.library.pitt.edu/articles/digpubtype/index.html http://www.library.pitt.edu/articles/digpubtype/index.html http://www.upress.pitt.edu/upressIndex.aspx http://emaj.pitt.edu/ Determinants of loans and deposits strategies of foreign bank subsidiaries in emerging countries Emerging Markets Journal | P a g e |29 Volume 3 The invasion of the emerging country by foreign banks had direct effects on the transmission of credit shocks from developed countries to developing Determinants of loans and deposits strategies of foreign bank subsidiaries in emerging countries Emerging Markets Journal | P a g e |31 Volume 3 keywords: bank; bank subsidiaries; countries; country; credit; discipline; host; journal; latent; liquidity; market; parent; parent bank; subsidiaries; variables cache: emaj-42.pdf plain text: emaj-42.txt item: #145 of 191 id: emaj-43 author: Kızıl, Cevdet; Eddy, Valorie; Clary, Laura; Crowell, Katrina title: Hershey’s Entry to the Australian Market with a New Brand: An Accounting and Marketing Perspective date: 2013 words: 14068 flesch: 56 summary: Opportunities Having a sourcing and manufacturing global presence creates an opportunity for Hershey to expand globally to sell Hershey products in other countries. One of them is entering the new market with strategic alliances, which enables the companies to access assets not available in the market, access to technology and markets, get introduced to new products and form synergies with partner organizations (Bradley, 2002). keywords: accounting; australia; brand; chocolate; company; consumers; e |; emaj.2013.43 |; entry; firm; hershey; hershey company; income; journal; market; marketing; new; online; population; product; research; volume; years; | http://emaj.pitt.edu cache: emaj-43.pdf plain text: emaj-43.txt item: #146 of 191 id: emaj-44 author: Nişancı, Ensar title: The New Intellectual Capital Of Turkey: Muslim Intellectuals date: 2013 words: 3364 flesch: 44 summary: As agents, new intellectuals do not support the idea of Islamization of society. In this article both defining features of new Islamic Intellectuals by comparision and contrast to state intellectuals and ulema. keywords: generation; intellectuals; islamic; muslim; new; state; turkey cache: emaj-44.pdf plain text: emaj-44.txt item: #147 of 191 id: emaj-45 author: Assefa, Efrem Sisay title: The effects of Justice Oriented Service Recovery on Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty in Retail Banks in Ethiopia date: 2014 words: 4854 flesch: 47 summary: Abstract The principal objective of this study is to investigate the effects of justice oriented service recovery on customer satisfaction in retail banks in Ethiopia. This response is often referred to as service recovery and is defined as the process by which a firm attempts to rectify a service delivery failure keywords: banks; customer; journal; justice; loyalty; recovery; recovery satisfaction; satisfaction; service cache: emaj-45.pdf plain text: emaj-45.txt item: #148 of 191 id: emaj-46 author: Baltacı, Nuri; Ayaydın, Hasan title: Firm, Country and Macroeconomic Determinants of Capital Structure: Evidence from Turkish Banking Sector date: 2014 words: 7252 flesch: 52 summary: Firm capital structure is irrelevant in efficient financial markets as shown by Modigliani and Miller (1958). These theories, in contrast to Modigliani and Miller’s (1958) assumption of a perfect market, suggest that several factors may determine firm leverage, either firm-internal or firm-external. keywords: capital; capital structure; country; debt; determinants; firm; journal; leverage; order; pecking; structure; theory cache: emaj-46.pdf plain text: emaj-46.txt item: #149 of 191 id: emaj-47 author: Acar, A.Zafer; Acar, Pınar title: Organizational Culture Types and Their Effects on Organizational Performance in Turkish Hospitals date: 2014 words: 8484 flesch: 47 summary: According to the literature, one of the substantial intangible forces that affect performance is organizational culture. Keywords: Organizational culture; healthcare industry; hospitals; business performance. keywords: acar; analysis; business; business performance; culture; culture types; effects; healthcare; hospitals; industry; journal; performance; public; research; study; types cache: emaj-47.pdf plain text: emaj-47.txt item: #150 of 191 id: emaj-49 author: Rodoplu Şahin, Didem; Çubuk, Duygu; Uslu, Tuna title: The Effect of Organizational Support, Transformational Leadership, Personnel Empowerment, Work Engagement, Performance and Demographical Variables on the Factors of Psychological Capital date: 2014 words: 11762 flesch: 39 summary: Thus, positive psychology brought along an approach called the “positive organizational behavior” that aims to improve employee performance at work by focusing on the strengths of the employees rather than uncovering their weaknesses, and measuring, developing and managing psychological elements beyond these strengths. “Can Positive Employees Help Positive Organizational Change? keywords: capital; employees; empowerment; engagement; factor; job; journal; leadership; level; luthans; organization; performance; self; support; table; value; variables; work; work engagement cache: emaj-49.pdf plain text: emaj-49.txt item: #151 of 191 id: emaj-5 author: Akman, Vedat title: Empirical Look at the Factors Affecting Perception of Business Ethics in Turkey date: 2011 words: 4120 flesch: 49 summary: ANOVA Analysis Results The ANOVA done for this analysis shows that if the significant value is greater than 0.05 which means that the independent variables (business ethics variables) do not explain the total variation very well according to the dependent variable (age and gender/ job and sectorthe null hypothesis is rejected, meaning that there is no relationship between age, gender and business ethics variables / job and sector and business ethichs variables. The ANOVA done for this analysis shows that if the significant value is smaller than 0.05 which means that the independent variables (business ethics variables) does explain the total variation very well according to the dependent variable (age and gender/job and sector). keywords: age; analysis; business; business ethics; ethics; factor; gender; job; relationship cache: emaj-5.pdf plain text: emaj-5.txt item: #152 of 191 id: emaj-50 author: Rodoplu Şahin, Didem; Uslu, Tuna title: Investigation of Effects of Accreditation, Institutionalization and Data Communication on Quality Improvement and Employee Performance date: 2014 words: 8895 flesch: 33 summary: When the predecessors in the literature are examined, it is seen that structural and psychological empowerment applications appears to affect the perceptions of employee performance. Keywords: corporate governance, knowledge management, organizational communication, quality improvement, predict employee performance New articles in this journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License. keywords: accreditation; communication; effects; employees; governance; improvement; information; institution; journal; knowledge; management; performance; process; quality; quality improvement; standards; work cache: emaj-50.pdf plain text: emaj-50.txt item: #153 of 191 id: emaj-51 author: Tepe, Berna title: Intermediate Appellate Review of Commercial Law Decisions in Turkey date: 2014 words: 10473 flesch: 35 summary: Appellate decision quashing the first instance court’s decision partially or entirely in case of an erroneous application of the law or the contract between the parties, or nonobservance of a condition for judiciary action. 16 If a third person’s request for intervention has been rejected by a first instance court, it is acknowledged that such decision can be challenged (before the Court of Cassation) at higher appellate review in an independent manner17; the (Turkish) Court of Cassation has declared that rejection of requests for intervention can be appealed both in respect of principal intervention and auxiliary 14 keywords: appeal; appellate; cassation; code; court; decision; instance court; law; procedure; proceedings; review cache: emaj-51.pdf plain text: emaj-51.txt item: #154 of 191 id: emaj-52 author: Erdoğan, Seyfettin; Yıldırım, Durmuş Çağrı title: The Relationship Between the Budget Deficit and Current Account Deficit in Turkey date: 2014 words: 3707 flesch: 59 summary: Keywords: Budget deficit, Current account deficit, Twin deficit, Co-integration analysis, ARDL model. Abstract One of the most debated topics in Economics literature is the relation between budget deficit and current account deficit. keywords: account; account deficit; budget; budget deficit; data; deficit; series cache: emaj-52.pdf plain text: emaj-52.txt item: #155 of 191 id: emaj-53 author: Kargı, Bilal title: The Data of Labor Market In Turkey and Time Series Analysis On Economic Growth (2000:01-2013:03) date: 2014 words: 3050 flesch: 70 summary: Keywords: Population, labor force rate, economic growth. And even if the population grows, labor force rate is low. keywords: data; force; growth; labor; population; rate; turkey; unemployment cache: emaj-53.pdf plain text: emaj-53.txt item: #156 of 191 id: emaj-54 author: Arslan, Mehmet Lütfi; Seker, Sadi Evren; Kızıl, Cevdet title: Innovation Driven Emerging Technology from two Contrary Perspectives: A Case Study of Internet date: 2014 words: 8936 flesch: 47 summary: All the novel technological achievements like web 2.0 or web 3.0 are new epochs of Internet technology and Internet is spreading in multiple dimensions, reforming the paradigm, and innovating the technology in a self- renewing fashion. As long as decentralized, interoperable, and open nature of internet technology survives, we assert that this would be possible if only there are committed designers, architects and organizations that can elevate themselves in such a position that they exhibit no drive for commercial or political power.4 Paper proceeds in the following ways: keywords: communication; computer; decision; freedom; information; internet; makers; making; network; pioneers; research; role; society; technology cache: emaj-54.pdf plain text: emaj-54.txt item: #157 of 191 id: emaj-56 author: Alpat, Fatma Engin; Aksu, Yusuf Ziya title: Fashion as a Marketing Tool and Its Communication Aspect in Developing Markets date: 2014 words: 5882 flesch: 53 summary: The process of product creation is closely related to the economic, sociological and psychological factors considered, hence, sociologists and trend setters are working together because the concept of fashion product should be viewed as a determiner of status and power of a certain community. 3) It is necessary to know the markets and the reasons consumers change their taste in order to spread fashion products to the market. keywords: communication; concept; fashion; human; industry; marketing; markets; mass; new; people; products; textile cache: emaj-56.pdf plain text: emaj-56.txt item: #158 of 191 id: emaj-57 author: Khatua, Sitangshu; Pradhan, Hemant Kumar title: Examining Overreaction in Indian Stock Market for Quarterly News date: 2014 words: 10219 flesch: 62 summary: The present study substantiates the policy recommendation for the market players as well as for the analysts in estimating earning announcement events under different market condition and different market capitalization value of the firm. To ensure that above two periods do not overlap it is required that the peer’s earnings announcement date precede firm i’s earnings announcement date by at least five calendar days or one week. keywords: announcement; date; earnings; event; firm; journal; market; news; overreaction; returns; size; stock; study; volatility cache: emaj-57.pdf plain text: emaj-57.txt item: #159 of 191 id: emaj-58 author: Chen, Menggen title: Study on the Shock-transmission Mechanism of Stock Price among China, Russia and India date: 2014 words: 6239 flesch: 50 summary: For example, Premaratneb and Balaa (2004) showed that the comovement-effect among stock markets of America, Britain, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore is statistically significant at different levels, and there is a significant transmission phenomenon from the stock markets of small economies to those of America, Britain and other major economies. There are two representative views to explain the comovement-effect of stock markets: fundamental-based comovement and behavior-induced comovement (Qixia Yang, 2007; keywords: china; comovement; markets; price; response; stock; stock market; stock price cache: emaj-58.pdf plain text: emaj-58.txt item: #160 of 191 id: emaj-59 author: Çağlar, Emine Sevinç; Turgut, Tülay title: Factors Effecting E-Learning Preference: An Analysis On Turkish University Students From Government and Private Institutions date: 2014 words: 4053 flesch: 61 summary: Keywords: e-learning, university students, cost reduction in training, gaining time in education New articles in this journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License. III. RESULTS To start with, mean scores of answers for each of the seven statements reflecting preferences of students’ for e-learning were calculated. keywords: government; internet; items; learning; preference; students; time; university cache: emaj-59.pdf plain text: emaj-59.txt item: #161 of 191 id: emaj-6 author: Ozturkkal, Belma title: A Simulation Set-up to Observe the Effects of the Emotional Factor on Capital Markets date: 2011 words: 5153 flesch: 52 summary: The findings support previous findings of Capra (2004), where happy mood people act more strategically on a previous study. Future research should also consider to have a more detailed analysis with real stock market investors with mood elicitation techniques as this will be the next step to search for a link with major emotions. keywords: capital; emotions; investor; journal; markets; mood; people; profitability; self; study; subjects cache: emaj-6.pdf plain text: emaj-6.txt item: #162 of 191 id: emaj-60 author: Yucel, Gulcin Elif title: The Effects of EU Customs Union Integration on Turkish Intra-industry Trade date: 2014 words: 8476 flesch: 60 summary: As seen below share of Turkish manufacturing trade with EU countries decreases.  Turkish manufacturing trade with EU countries decreases. keywords: countries; customs; industry; manufacture; manufacturing; products; quality; trade; turkey; turkish; union; viit(l cache: emaj-60.pdf plain text: emaj-60.txt item: #163 of 191 id: emaj-62 author: Kızıl, Cevdet; Çetin, Ayşe Tansel; Bulunmaz, Ahmed title: Accounting Education Approach in the Context of New Turkish Commercial Code and Turkish Accounting Standards date: 2014 words: 7481 flesch: 45 summary: “A survey of international accounting education in the US and some other countries”, Journal of Accounting Education. Abstract The aim of this article is to investigate the impact of new Turkish commercial code and Turkish accounting standards on accounting education. keywords: accounting; accounting education; accounting standards; agree; auditing; code; courses; education; ifrs; new; research; standards; students; turkey; university cache: emaj-62.pdf plain text: emaj-62.txt item: #164 of 191 id: emaj-64 author: Ijigu, Amare Werku title: The Effect of Selected Human Resource Management Practices on Employees' Job Satisfaction in Ethiopian Public Banks date: 2015 words: 5379 flesch: 45 summary: Every individual employee wants satisfaction at job but organization is wasting its resources by focusing on wrong HR practices for employee job satisfaction (Muhammad Javed, 2012). Muhammad Javed et al.., (2012) -Recognition and training and development are a key source of employee job satisfaction in Public sector organizations of Pakistan but rewards do not have any significant impact upon employee job satisfaction. keywords: banks; employees; job; job satisfaction; management; model; practices; research; resource; resource management; satisfaction; study cache: emaj-64.pdf plain text: emaj-64.txt item: #165 of 191 id: emaj-66 author: Nair, Girish Karunakaran; Choudhary, Nidhi; Purohit, Harsh title: The Relationship between Gold Prices and Exchange Value of US Dollar in India date: 2015 words: 5857 flesch: 64 summary: The findings of the study indicated that the direction of causality was from exchange value of Rand to gold prices in pre libralization phase. However, post recession; the causality flows from exchange value of USD to gold prices in India. keywords: dollar; exchange; gold; prices; rate; relationship; study; test; value cache: emaj-66.pdf plain text: emaj-66.txt item: #166 of 191 id: emaj-67 author: Karadag, Hande title: Financial Management Challenges In Small And Medium-Sized Enterprises: A Strategic Management Approach date: 2015 words: 10056 flesch: 38 summary: The analysis of specific elements of strategic financial management practices of the model, namely strategic financial planning, strategic working capital management, strategic fixed-asset management and strategic financial reporting and control practices, and to what extent the execution of an “emergent” or “deliberate” strategic management approach in the conduct of these financial management practices would lead to better performance results, can provide significant contributions to SME financial management. Keywords : SMEs, financial management, strategic management, strategic financial management (SFM) practices New articles in this journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License. keywords: approach; business; capital; capital management; challenges; enterprises; financial; journal; management; management challenges; management practices; medium; performance; problems; smes; turkey; working cache: emaj-67.pdf plain text: emaj-67.txt item: #167 of 191 id: emaj-68 author: Saadaoui, Amir; Boujelbene, Younes title: Volatility Transmission Between Dow Jones Stock Index And Emerging Islamic Stock Index: Case Of Subprime Financial Crises date: 2015 words: 4475 flesch: 56 summary: In discussing the situation of Islamic indexes in the financial sphere, Charles, Steak and Pop (2011) found in their study that, during the crisis, Islamic indices were by the subprime crisis affected in the same way as conventional indices. Similarly, for Islamic indexes, Majid, Meera and Omar (2007), Rahman and Sidek (2011); Siskawati, (2011) found that volatility in all the major global markets is unlikely to affect Islamic indices. keywords: crisis; dow jones; index; islamic; stock; volatility cache: emaj-68.pdf plain text: emaj-68.txt item: #168 of 191 id: emaj-69 author: Akyurt, İbrahim Zeki; Keskinturk, Timur; Kalkancı, Çağatay title: Using Genetic Algorithm For Winter Maintenance Operations: Multi Depot K-Chinese Postman Problem date: 2015 words: 5598 flesch: 63 summary: The problem was modeled as the arc routing problem, which is a type of vehicle routing problems. In the study of Dali (2009), a sequential constructive algorithm way was suggested for determining the routes of snow vehicles in a multi-depot network. keywords: algorithm; chinese; depot; istanbul; maintenance; postman; problem; routes; snow; vehicles; winter cache: emaj-69.pdf plain text: emaj-69.txt item: #169 of 191 id: emaj-70 author: Akdogan, Nalan; Ozturk, Can title: A Country Specific Approach To IFRS Accounting Policy Choice In The European, Australian And Turkish Context date: 2015 words: 9577 flesch: 52 summary: Our observations will be of interest to financial statement preparers and the users of financial information because they provide evidence that if preference is given to local accounting policy under IFRS practice, this situation is expected to make financial statements comparable within the country rather than between countries by leading to consistent use of local accounting policies under IFRS practice. In today's worldwide accounting, the objective of providing understandable, transparent, and comparable financial information as the common denominator of the accounting and financial reporting became an important issue as a result of the increase in commercial activities and foreign direct investments(IASB, 2010: v) because differences in local accounting practices between countries prevent the flow of capital across borders necessary for the optimal allocation of scarce resources in the global context(Ding et al. 2008, 145). keywords: accounting; accounting policy; accounting practice; balance; context; entities; ias; ifrs; ifrs practice; method; policy; practice; reflection; statement cache: emaj-70.pdf plain text: emaj-70.txt item: #170 of 191 id: emaj-71 author: Karadag, Hande; Akman, Vedat title: The Role Of Cross Selling In SME Banking: An Analysis From Turkey date: 2015 words: 6445 flesch: 54 summary: The sales activities of SME products and services are conducted through various distribution channels such as branches and SME Support Line. This paper aims to address this gap in the literature, by investigating the role of cross selling in SME banking by analyzing the major business models and strategies both at international and local contexts. keywords: banking; banks; cross; financial; journal; lending; products; selling; services; sme; sme banking; smes; turkey cache: emaj-71.pdf plain text: emaj-71.txt item: #171 of 191 id: emaj-73 author: Sayım, Ferhat title: The Participation Banking As A Distinctive Method And The Its Growing In The Turkish Finance Market-Period: 2007-2013 date: 2015 words: 12190 flesch: 60 summary: In Turkey Participation Banks, according to the 60th article 7th paragraph of the Banking Act, can create special fund account pools for 3 or more months by collecting funds in private accounts in order to be utilized for financing planned projects or other investments, without the necessity of adhering time or types determined by the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey. In Turkish their former name Private Finance Institutions, or with the new name, Participation Banks haven’t authorized or empowered to collect deposits but receive fund through special current accounts or profit and loss participation accounts, and utilize fund through methods such as production financially assist, community of profit and loss, financial leasing, buying and selling documents against payment. keywords: association; bank; bank association; banking; bat; deposit; end; finance; funds; islamic; participation; participation banks; rate; total; turkey; türk cache: emaj-73.pdf plain text: emaj-73.txt item: #172 of 191 id: emaj-74 author: Spers, Renata Giovinazzo; Wright, James Terence Coulter title: Consumption Characteristics Mapping of the Base of the Pyramid (BOP) Population in Brazil date: 2015 words: 6382 flesch: 54 summary: TABLE 4 – Household expenditure subdivided into income classes (% of income) The current participation of the BoP population in Brazil will be analyzed, considering that BoP population is made up of families earning average income up to 10 minimum monthly wages. keywords: base; bop; brazil; class; consumption; data; household; income; minimum; population; pyramid; wages cache: emaj-74.pdf plain text: emaj-74.txt item: #173 of 191 id: emaj-75 author: Ersoy, Hicabi; Koy, Ayben title: The Relationship between Corporate Performance and Ownership Structure: Evidence from Turkey date: 2015 words: 4997 flesch: 40 summary: Keywords: ownership structure, corporate performance, Borsa Istanbul Stock Exchange 30 (BIST 30), panel data analysis. Corporate ownership structure and firm performance: Evidence from Greek firms. keywords: companies; firm; journal; ownership; performance; relationship; structure; value; variables cache: emaj-75.pdf plain text: emaj-75.txt item: #174 of 191 id: emaj-76 author: Kazmierska-Jozwiak, Bogna; Marszałek, Jakub; Sekuła, Paweł title: Determinants of Debt-Equity Choice – Evidence from Poland date: 2015 words: 5617 flesch: 51 summary: That, in turn, would suggest negative relationship between company profitability and its debt. Thus, based on the firm size and according to the pecking order theory, we formulate the first hypothesis: H1: It is hypothesized that the level of leverage is negatively related to company size. keywords: assets; capital; companies; debt; growth; journal; relationship; size; structure; theory cache: emaj-76.pdf plain text: emaj-76.txt item: #175 of 191 id: emaj-79 author: Kusi, Baah Aye; Ansah-Adu, Kwadjo; Agyei, Albert title: Evaluating Banking Profit Performance in Ghana during and post Profit Decline: A five Step Du-Pont Approach date: 2015 words: 6161 flesch: 60 summary: The use of Du Pont analysis by market participants. ‘Tis the gift to be simple: Why the 80-year-old Du Pont model still has fans. keywords: bank; decline; leverage; model; periods; pont; post; profit; profit decline; roe; step cache: emaj-79.pdf plain text: emaj-79.txt item: #176 of 191 id: emaj-8 author: Özkan, Gökhan title: IMPACT OF THE GLOBAL CRISIS ON THE GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS date: 2011 words: 6545 flesch: 45 summary: It was concluded that the new shape of the international financial architecture and governance structures of international financial institutions will depend on international politics as well as the evolution of the global crisis and the economic dynamics. Keywords: Governance structures, international financial institutions, global crisis, international politics This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. keywords: bank; countries; crisis; g-20; global; governance; imf; institutions; international; system; world cache: emaj-8.pdf plain text: emaj-8.txt item: #177 of 191 id: emaj-81 author: Keskin, Ayşe İrem; Yılmaz Işık, Elçin title: An Analysis of the Relationship between IFAC Code of Ethics and CPI date: 2015 words: 5664 flesch: 32 summary: Table 1: Accounting Organizations that Completely Apply the IFAC Code of Ethics COUNTRY ORGANIZATION 1 ALBANIA Albanian Institute of Certified Accountants 2 ARMENIA Association of Accountants and Auditors of Armenia 3 AZERBAIJAN The Chamber of Auditors of Azerbaijan Republic 4 BAHAMAS The Bahamas Institute of Chartered Accountants 5 BANGLADESH The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh 6 BANGLADESH The Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of 7 BARBADOS The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Barbados 8 BOLIVIA Colegio de Auditores de Bolivia 9 BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA Association of Accountants and Auditors of Republic of Srpska 10 BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA Union of Accountants, Auditors and Financial Workers of 11 BOTSWANA Botswana Institute of Chartered Accountants 12 BULGARIA Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Bulgaria 13 CAMBODIA Kampuchea Institute of Certified Public Accountants and 14 CAMEROON The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Cameroon 15 COLOMBIA Instituto Nacional de Contadores Públicos de Colombia 16 COTE D'IVOIRE Ordre des Experts Comptables et Comptables Agréés de Côte 17 CROATIA Croatian Audit Chamber 18 CYPRUS The Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Cyprus 19 CZECH REPUBLIC Chamber of Auditors of the Czech Republic 20 CZECH REPUBLIC Union of Accountants of the Czech Republic 21 DENMARK FSR - danske revisorer 22 EL SALVADOR Instituto Salvadoreño de Contadores Públicos (ISCP) 23 FINLAND HTM-tilintarkastajat ry - GRM- revisorer rf 24 FINLAND KHT-yhdistys-Föreningen CGR ry 25 GEORGIA Georgian Federation of Professional Accountants and Auditors 26 GHANA The Institute of Chartered Accountants (Ghana) 27 GREECE Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Greece (SOEL) 28 ICELAND Félag Löggiltra Endurskodenda 29 IRELAND The Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Ireland 30 JAMAICA The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Jamaica 31 JAPAN The Japanese Institute of Certified Public Accountants 32 JORDAN Jordanian Association of Certified Public Accountants 33 KAZAKHSTAN Chamber of Professional Accountants of the Republic of 34 KAZAKHSTAN Chamber of Auditors of the Republic of Kazakhstan 35 KOREA, REPUBLIC OF Korean Institute of Certified Public Accountants 36 KOSOVO Society of Certified Accountants and Auditors of Kosovo 37 KYRGYZSTAN Union of Accountants and Auditors 38 LATVIA Latvian Association of Certified Auditors 39 LEBANON Lebanese Association of Certified Public Accountants 40 MACEDONIA, THE FORMER YUGOSLAV Institute of Certified Auditors of the Republic of Macedonia 41 MALAWI The Society of Accountants in Malawi 42 MAURITIUS Mauritius Institute of Professional Accountants 43 MOLDOVA, REPUBLIC OF Association of Professional Accountants & Auditors of the 44 MONTENEGRO (REPUBLIC OF) Institute of Certified Accountants of Montenegro (ICAM) 45 MONTENEGRO (REPUBLIC OF) Institute of Accountants and Auditors of Montenegro 46 NIGERIA Association of National Accountants of Nigeria 47 PAPUA NEW GUINEA Certified Practising Accountants Papua New Guinea 48 PARAGUAY Colegio de Contadores de Paraguay 49 PERU Junta de Decanos de Colegios de Contadores Publicos del Peru 50 POLAND National Chamber of Statutory Auditors 51 ROMANIA The Chamber of Financial Auditors of Romania 52 SERBIA (REPUBLIC OF) Serbian Association of Accountants and Auditors 53 SIERRA LEONE The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sierra Leone, keywords: accountants; accounting; accounting organizations; auditors; chartered; code; corruption; countries; ethics; ifac code; institute; international; national; organizations cache: emaj-81.pdf plain text: emaj-81.txt item: #178 of 191 id: emaj-83 author: Tan, Ömer Faruk title: Mutual Fund Performance: Evidence From South Africa date: 2015 words: 5609 flesch: 64 summary: 2. Literature Review Beginning from the 1960s, there have been several studies carried out on mutual fund performance. Market timing and mutual fund performance: An empirical investigation. keywords: ability; equity; fund; managers; market; performance; south; timing; treynor cache: emaj-83.pdf plain text: emaj-83.txt item: #179 of 191 id: emaj-84 author: Chakiso, Cherinet Boke title: The Effect of Relationship Marketing on Customers’ Loyalty (Evidence from Zemen Bank) date: 2015 words: 7324 flesch: 46 summary: The effect of relationship marketing on customers’ loyalty (Evidence from Zemen Bank) Page |66| Emerging Markets Journal Ballantyne, D. Christopher, M. and Payne, A. (2002), Relationship marketing: Creating Stakeholder Value; Butterworth- Heinemann, Oxford, Britain. The sample was drawn from bank customers to determine the effect of relationship marketing dimensions on customers‘loyalty. keywords: bank; commitment; customers; effect; gratitude; journal; loyalty; management; marketing; relationship; relationship marketing; research; study; trust; zemen cache: emaj-84.pdf plain text: emaj-84.txt item: #180 of 191 id: emaj-85 author: Tepe, Berna title: Joint-Stock Corporation under Turkish Commercial Law and the Doctrine of Increasing Shareholder Commitments date: 2015 words: 8792 flesch: 37 summary: Therefore, framing certain obligations as shareholder commitments initially serves concerns of legal security. In some countries, the doctrine of increasing shareholder commitments by unanimous vote, i.e. the requirement to seek unanimous vote of the general assembly, thereby consent of each shareholder whose commitments increase by various transactions of the company. keywords: article; assembly; capital; code; commercial; commitments; company; corporation; decision; general; obligation; principle; shareholder; stock; stock corporation cache: emaj-85.pdf plain text: emaj-85.txt item: #181 of 191 id: emaj-87 author: Kızıl, Cevdet; Atalan, Alican title: Image and Reputation of Yalova City: A Study on Yalova University Students date: 2015 words: 4482 flesch: 51 summary: Moreover, it is determined that nature, weather conditions and intercity transportation are other important assets of Yalova city and they are perceived positive in terms of city image. Based on the competitive asset of city image and reputation, the perception needs an effort from a marketing perspective in order to improve the strategies for enhancing quality of life. keywords: city; image; medium; perception; students; university; yalova; yalova city cache: emaj-87.pdf plain text: emaj-87.txt item: #182 of 191 id: emaj-88 author: Meriç, İlhan; Ding, Jie; Meriç, Gülser title: Global Portfolio Diversification with Emerging Stock Markets date: 2016 words: 2765 flesch: 42 summary: Abstract Because of their low correlation with each other and with developed stock markets, emerging stock markets are generally mentioned as attractive portfolio diversification prospects for global investors. Because of their low correlation with each other and with developed stock markets, emerging stock markets can provide substantial portfolio diversification benefit to global investors [see, e.g., DeFusco et al. (1995) and Ratner and Leal (1996)]. keywords: diversification; markets; portfolio; stock; stock markets cache: emaj-88.pdf plain text: emaj-88.txt item: #183 of 191 id: emaj-9 author: Durmaz, Vildan title: ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE FOR THE ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE AIRPORT MANAGEMENT date: 2011 words: 3318 flesch: 26 summary: Today to implement airport environmental management system is seen as a critical way of solution. Sustainable airport development is an exercise in balancing the demands of the varied strands of sustainability – i.e. economic, social, environmental and ecological. keywords: airport; change; environment; journal; management; markets; online; organization cache: emaj-9.pdf plain text: emaj-9.txt item: #184 of 191 id: emaj-90 author: Krom, Ipek title: Global Online Entrepreneurship and the Impact of Innovation on Brands date: 2015 words: 6720 flesch: 45 summary: The correlation analysis showed the relationship between the variable innovation and the variables of brand trust, brand loyalty and customer satisfaction brand loyalty while regression analysis showed the strength of relationship between these variables. Abstract The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the significance of innovation driven online entrepreneurship as well as the impact of innovation on brand trust, customer satisfaction and brand loyalty in the extent of service innovations. keywords: brand; brand loyalty; brand trust; customer; customer satisfaction; entrepreneurship; google; impact; innovation; journal; new; online; relationship; research; satisfaction; service cache: emaj-90.pdf plain text: emaj-90.txt item: #185 of 191 id: emaj-92 author: Peša, Anita Radman; Brajković, Ana title: Testing The ‘Black Swan Effect’ on Croatian Stock Market Between 2000 and 2013 date: 2016 words: 11961 flesch: 53 summary: The authors suggest that, the speed of information transmission on stock markets is very high and that in most cases it is within one hour that a reaction to stock prices occurs. They found out that, stock markets in Warsaw and Krakow depend on the movements of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, but not vice versa. keywords: 2004; accession; capital; corruption; countries; country; croatia; european; exchange; foreign; government; hdz; impact; integration; journal; markets; new; price; rate; stock; stock market; swan cache: emaj-92.pdf plain text: emaj-92.txt item: #186 of 191 id: emaj-93 author: Çetin, Mehmet title: An Exploratory Study of Presenteeism in Turkish Context date: 2016 words: 10356 flesch: 58 summary: No 1 (2016) | ISSN 2158-8708 (online) | DOI 10.5195/emaj.2016.93 | http://emaj.pitt.edu An Exploratory Study of Presenteeism in Turkish Context Page |26| Emerging Markets Journal boundaries of presenteeism concept. Does sickness presenteeism have an impact on future general health?. keywords: absence; absenteeism; employees; factor; health; illness; journal; outcomes; performance; presenteeism; reasons; study; work cache: emaj-93.pdf plain text: emaj-93.txt item: #187 of 191 id: emaj-95 author: Daştan, İkram; Gürler, Cem title: Factors Affecting the Adoption of Mobile Payment Systems: An Empirical Analysis date: 2016 words: 5566 flesch: 55 summary: In recent years, there has been an increasing amount of literature on MPS. MPS can be defined as a payment system in which mobile devices are used to initiate, activate, and/or confirm any payment (Karnouskos and Fokus, 2004). Keywords: Mobile payment systems, M-Payment, Mobile payment adoption, Mobile Technologies, Adoption of MPS New articles in this journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License. keywords: adoption; ease; factors; mobile; model; mps; payment; research; systems; trust; use; usefulness cache: emaj-95.pdf plain text: emaj-95.txt item: #188 of 191 id: emaj-96 author: Çelik, İsmail Erkan title: The Relationship Between Accounting Practices and Effects of Financial Crisis in Turkey: A Case Study on an Oil Company date: 2016 words: 8451 flesch: 44 summary: In this context, these crises are actually referred to as accounting crises. Moreover, institutions being not fully independent, running creative accounting practices, having problems with fair valuation and transparency issues, presenting unreal financial reports, and sharing misleading audit reports are all related to financial crises. keywords: accounting; accounting practices; auditing; companies; company; concepts; crisis; currency; effects; foreign; markets; officer; period; practices; product; reasons; xyz cache: emaj-96.pdf plain text: emaj-96.txt item: #189 of 191 id: emaj-97 author: Kargı, Bilal title: Okun’s Law and Long Term Co-Integration Analysis for OECD Countries (1987-2012) date: 2016 words: 5021 flesch: 68 summary: 5. Results Okun Law indicates reverse relation between unemployment and growth. While average unemployment rate of the period 1970 to 2012 for OECD countries (OECD.StatExtract) was 5.586%, it is found to be 8.430% when calculated for the period 2000 to 2012. keywords: -1,955020; -1,955681; average; countries; growth; i(0; journal; law; oecd; okun; rate; relation; term; unemployment cache: emaj-97.pdf plain text: emaj-97.txt item: #190 of 191 id: emaj-98 author: Abdioğlu, Nida; Aytekin, Sinan title: The Role of Monetary Policy Announcements on Turkish Banks' Stock Returns date: 2016 words: 4913 flesch: 64 summary: 0,98% -15,89% -0,27% -1,05% 0,61% -0,68% -2 keywords: banks; car; decisions; event; impact; market; policy; returns; stock; study cache: emaj-98.pdf plain text: emaj-98.txt item: #191 of 191 id: emaj-99 author: Yaşar Uğurlu, Özlem; Kurt, Mustafa title: The Impact of Organizational Learning Capability on Product Innovation Performance: Evidence from the Turkish Manufacturing Sector date: 2016 words: 7287 flesch: 36 summary: Atik (2005) classifies innovation into three types: product innovation, process innovation, and organizational innovations. In another classification, Özen and Bingöl (2007) offer a fourfold typology: product innovation, process innovation, marketing innovation, and organizational innovation. keywords: capability; dimensions; innovation; innovation performance; journal; knowledge; learning; learning capability; new; performance; product; product innovation; study cache: emaj-99.pdf plain text: emaj-99.txt