Innovation as an Evolving Capacity: Insights from Finance and Organizational Commitment
The Global Financial Crisis: Daunting Tasks Ahead The global financial and economic crisis started in 2007 as an aftermath of the housing sector bubble coupled with aggressive lending practices in the US sub-prime mortgage market and lax regulation of the financial sector. To start with, these developments affected the companies holding mortgage-backed securities and credit derivatives. The early signs of the crisis were evident in 2007; but the financial crisis developed into a full blown global recession in late 2008 battered by continuous deepening and widening of the crisis. The recession created shockwaves though the global financial system and the global economy, and the advanced economies were affected most. The governments in these countries are bracing their financial sector and the real economy by stepping up various policy measures including injecting huge sums of money for bailing out the ailing financial institutions and other industries. What is worst is that the recession appears to hang on throughout 2014.
Macroeconomic Variables, Financial Ratios and Property Stock Prices in Malaysia
Abstract This paper aims to identify the key factors behind the popularity of a website, which is the most important tool in Online Marketing. Eight factors (7-Cs plus another “C”) described by Phillip Kotler for effective website design have been taken into cognizance. Those factors are context, content, community, customization, communication, connection, commerce and constant change. Some additional factors have also been considered, for example online ad, offline ad, search engine optimization (SEO), popularity in social media etc. In this study regression analysis has been done to identify the correlation between popularity and those factors. To get more insight discriminant analysis has also been done. It was found that content and popularity in social media are two most important factors behind the popularity of a website. Customization was found as another important predictor. This study concludes that in order to have profitable websites, marketers should design a highly customizable website and put highly creative and versatile contents like news, links and various types of information apart from their regular products and services to attract and retain visitors. Further, marketers should a have Facebook page and try to make it popular to drive visitors to the original website. This study gives useful guidelines for marketers in creating an effective web-based Online Marketing campaign.
Factors Influencing Consumers’ Purchase Intention of Cosmetic Products in Malaysia
Abstract The purpose of our paper is to analyze rigorously one of the significant factors of the international competitiveness of the firms that relating to the corporate economic intelligence. The originality of this research lies in the assimilation of the shares relating to the identification and the exploitation of the opportunities, and thus, the entrepreneurial orientation, as an integral part of the corporate economic intelligence able to stimulate the international competitiveness of the Tunisians firms. The results of our analysis applied to a sample of 120 Tunisian firms show the positive and significant effects of the various devices of the corporate economic intelligence relating to the collection, the diffusion of information and the entrepreneurial orientation on the international competitiveness. In addition, our results show that the effects of the devices relating to the analysis and the processing as well as the protection of the information on the international competitiveness are done indirectly via their effects on the entrepreneurial orientation.
Testing a Confirmatory model of Facebook Usage in SmartPLS using Consistent PLS
Abstract Unprecedented development in the theory of economic organizations in past decades has brought about to significant evolution in understanding of the essence and efficiency of agribusiness organizations. Nevertheless, the traditional approach for assessing efficiency of economic organization is (through “technical or financial efficiency” of production factors, “productivity of employed resources”) is widely used. Consequently, it cannot be explained: why there are so many organizations performing with great variation in efficiency for a long period of time. This paper incorporates achievements of interdisciplinary New Institutional Economics and suggests a framework for assessing the efficiency of organizations for agribusiness and innovation. According to this new approach we have to study firm and farm as a governing rather than as production structure; assess comparative efficiency of alternative market, contract, internal, and hybrid modes of governance; take into account transaction costs and institutional, behavioral, dimensional, technological and natural factors; enrich (reformulate) criteria of economic efficiency of business organization; and better determine effective horizontal and vertical boundaries of business organizations. Specificity in the area of agri-business research and innovations is also clarified. Effective boundaries of different governing modes are assessed, and needs and forms for public intervention in agrarian research and innovation are clarified.
The Effect of Corporate Board Structure on Foreign Share Ownership: Listed Companies in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries
Corporate board; board`s financial expertise; foreign share ownership; GCC countries.
Factors Affecting the Adoption of Internet Banking: A Study in Dhaka City, Bangladesh
Internet Banking, Dhaka City, Adoption, Security, Perceived ease of use.
Critical Factors towards Philanthropic Dimension of CSR in the Nigerian Financial Sector: The Mediating Effects of Cultural Influence
Corporate social responsibility, corporate image, stakeholder pressure, philanthropic dimension, CSR in Nigeria
Financial Intermediation of Remittances around the World and Lessons for Bangladesh
Abstract Migrants’ remittance plays a significant role in the economic development of developing countries. Remittances received from migrants is one of the greatest source of external finance for many low/middle income countries and it ensures the foreign currency reserve for those countries. All the countries in the world are somehow involved in the migration process. Some of the countries are labor sending countries, some are receiving, or both and many others as transit countries. Financial intermediation process through remittances offers multiple benefits to both the senders and recipients. The intersection between remittances and financial intermediation can ensure the better economic development of Bangladesh. However, the full developmental potential of remittances in Bangladesh is far from being realized. The main reason is that most of the financial institutions in Bangladesh yet to develop a good number of remittance based products to tap the remittances into financial system. Therefore, this paper intends to identify remittance based products around the world and take it into the account for developing some products in Bangladesh. The study mainly based on the secondary data and information. The findings of the study revealed that several countries in the world have developed different remittance linked products and services for tapping remittances into financial system and they are getting significant benefits from them. From the international experiences this paper provides some suggestions to develop such products in Bangladesh for adopting new opportunities.
The Global Financial Crisis: Daunting Tasks Ahead
The Global Financial Crisis: Daunting Tasks Ahead The global financial and economic crisis started in 2007 as an aftermath of the housing sector bubble coupled with aggressive lending practices in the US sub-prime mortgage market and lax regulation of the financial sector. To start with, these developments affected the companies holding mortgage-backed securities and credit derivatives. The early signs of the crisis were evident in 2007; but the financial crisis developed into a full blown global recession in late 2008 battered by continuous deepening and widening of the crisis. The recession created shockwaves though the global financial system and the global economy, and the advanced economies were affected most. The governments in these countries are bracing their financial sector and the real economy by stepping up various policy measures including injecting huge sums of money for bailing out the ailing financial institutions and other industries. What is worst is that the recession appears to hang on throughout 2014.
Mathematical Exploration of B2C Electronic Commerce architecture via Back propagation Network Learning Algorithm
Abstract The present study assesses the technique of back propagation neural networks to appraise the average response time of a B2C Electronic Commerce architecture. In order to delineate the response time, diverse array of user requests were engaged per unit time. Furthermore, engagement of Back Propagation Network Learning (BPNL) algorithm is used to summarize the average response time and augment the enactment of the system. The comprehensive study does the comparative investigation to express the average response time for ANN enabled and without-ANN-enabled algorithm. The objective was to plaid whether ANN enabled algorithm had any bearing on the overall performance of the system. For BPNL algorithm, learning of the responses for the user requests were steered for 7 repetitions and then thorough phases were accomplished to assess the response time. After each iteration, error rates were dogged and then feed forward and back propagation algorithm were used to improve the performance. The experimentation will find its prominence in imminent B2C Electronic Commerce system project and employment and will convey the outline for such investigation. Finally, the study expands the meticulous inferences of the study.