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Interdisciplinary Journal of Contemporary Research In Business
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from May 2009
Last Number: January 2011
ISSN 2073-7122
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The move from doctor-centred healthcare to patient-centred healthcare has the potential to enable people to become more actively involved in the management of their health care, especially with chronic conditions. The increasing number of community based support groups devoted to health issues reflects this situation. With the advancement in information technology some of these community based support groups are increasingly using websites, bulletin boards, mailing lists, and other internet-b...
Measuring Ecommerce Website Success
This paper presents a research model, which is built on communication theory (Shannon and Weaver 1948) and DeLone and McLean's (1992, 2003) information system model, to identify eCommerce website success dimensions. The research model is aiming to make contribution to literature by identifying and incorporating dimensions of success relevant to eCommerce websites. Further empirical research is required to validate the finding.
Post Liberalization Impact of Macroeconomic Factors On the Stock Market Returns
Financial market liberalization may have a positive influence on the economy of any country in many aspects. Some researches have argued that liberalization decreases the cost of capital, increases returns and private investment which leads awards enhanced economic growth, particularly in developing markets (Bekaert ET al., 2005). The impact of financial liberalization on the stock returns and volatility is an important issue for researchers, regulators and investors. The present study invest...
Motivation and Dissatisfaction of Pakistani Pharmaceutical Salesforce
The current study intends to determine whether the findings obtained by administering questionnaire on a pharmaceutical sales force are concurrent with Herzberg's findings. Surprisingly, Herzberg's hygiene factors are found to be sources of job satisfaction rather than job dissatisfaction. The implications for sales force management are also presented.
Islamic Entrepreneurship: An Ongoing Driver for Social Change
The current study attempts to examine the concepts and dimensions of social entrepreneurship and social enterprise as applied to Islam a s both a social and spiritual religion. The paper views the Islamic society as an extended business organization that aims to generated economic and social value. The prosperity of business in Islam depends on incorporating ethical, social, environmental and economic drivers into the business organization's mission and its interactions with others. Islamic b...
The long term success of organizations depends on many factors. The service sector organizations need to strive through service quality. These organizations try to satisfy customers by providing best quality services. The following study examines the service quality of the mobile service providers and satisfaction of the customers' with this quality. The study focuses only the SMS service provided by telecom organizations. Service quality is measured using 5 dimensions and its relationship is...
Managerial Competencies in the Malaysian Financial Services Sector
Managerial Competency is considered a key factor in contributing to the survival and performance of any organization. It has been proven that firm performance and managerial competencies are interrelated. This study presents the findings of managerial competencies in the Malaysian financial services sector. 48 items under 16 managerial competency dimensions i.e., Leadership, Communication, Customer Concern, Team Building, Team Membership, Results, Personal Drive, Planning, Efficiency, Decisio...
Organizations today need to create a set up at workplace that makes the employees motivated, loyal, satisfied and committed for a strategic competence. Effective organizational intervention leads to greater satisfaction of the employees if they are provided rewards and extrinsic compensation like pay increments, bonuses, allowances and grants along with job security and promotion opportunities. The employees feel satisfied and psychologically affiliated with their organizations if they found ...
Monetary Policy and Bank Performance : The Nigerian Experience
This paper examines the impact of monetary policy instruments on the performance of banks in Nigeria during the period 1980-2006. Using the Ordinary Least Square procedure the study evaluated the contributions of selected monetary policy variables and their influence on bank performance in Nigeria. The revelation is that only two out of the five selected explanatory variables exert a significant impact on the level of bank performance in Nigeria within the study period. The study therefore, c...
In organizations, the managerial workers tend to influence their subordinates in aligning their own motivation with the needs of the organization. Motivating employees begins with the way to influence worker's behavior. The understanding of this phenomenon is conducive to the results expected by the organizations and the workers. The thrust of this article is to utilize a descriptive survey approach to depict the scope of a certain numbers of factors that stimulate employees in the workplace....
Humanizing Stakeholders Interaction: As a Part of Corporate Responsibility
The purpose of this study was to bring out the potential of stakeholder interaction and to find methods that help to realize the expectations of stakeholders. For the study communication of environmental issues as part of corporate responsibility was selected as the primary object. The data were collected via a survey questionnaire from 50 respondents middle management of 36 different companies. A likert scale questionnaire was developed to find out the Improving stakeholder relationship on o...
The greatest challenge of the banking sector today is how best to identify an impending banking crisis so that appropriate measures can be taken well in advance. Therefore, predicting bank financial conditions is crucial so as to prevent further negative effects to the economy. This study aims to seek preliminary evidence on the financial conditions of the Malaysian banks using logistic regression (LR) model. Six financial ratios under three categories; capital risk, liquidity risk, and other...
The Impact of Sectoral Credits On the Performance of Commercial Banks in Nigeria
This study examines the effect of commercial bank's credits to defined sectors of the Nigerian economy on their performance using commercial bank total investments and foreign assets as performance indicators for a period of twenty-six years(1981-2006). The OLS estimation technique adopted for the study revealed that sectoral credits has a direct and significant relationship with both total commercial bank investment and foreign asset base. However, only the commercial bank credit to the Othe...
The Determinants of Firms' Growth: Case of Pakistan
This research study investigates the determinants of the firm's growth. Here we examine the four factors I-e size, Capex, ROS; leverage associated with the growth expectations of the firm. For designing highly effective programs for the improvement of the firm's growth it is very important to understand the variables that boost or decline the firm's growth. Previous research shows no significant relationship of size with the firm's growth but this time we find significant relationship between...
Exports-Led Growth Hypothesis: Further Econometric Evidence From India
This paper re-investigates export-led growth hypothesis for India. The paper has employed cointegration and multivariate Granger Causality developed by Toda and Yamamoto (1995) to study the long-run and short-run dynamics among exports growth, imports growth and real output growth over the period 1960 to 2007. The empirical results strongly support a long-run relationship among import, export and output growth. The paper finds feedback effect between import, export and output growth.
Impact of Counterproductive Work Behavior in Organization Performance in Pakistan
The basic theme of this paper is to see an impact of counterproductive work behavior on organizational performance in Pakistan. Counterproductive Work Behavior is an independent variable and organizational performance is dependent variable. Sample size taken for research is 470 and response rate is 88 percent. For analysis of results correlation analysis and Regression analysis methods are used. After analysis results proved that Counterproductive Work Behavior has negative and significant im...
Politics of Sindh 1936-1947: Its Repercussion in Making of Pakistan
The separation of Sindh from Bombay presidency and restoration of the provincial status opened the new chapter of politics in Sindh. British rulers introduced the democracy and election system. It introduced new trends in the politics of India. Sindh also accepted that trends and new political phenomenon started in it. The purpose of this research paper is to examine the politics and political activities of the politicians of Sindh and also analyze that how they changed their loyalties. The a...
An Evaluation of the Main Critical Success Factors of Tourist Destination Marketing
Tourism has achieved high progress in late the 90s and still, as the world economy of the twenty-first century will be led by three industries: telecommunication, information technology and tourism. In fact, tourism is expected to grow very rapidly in the near future which will present both challenges and tremendous opportunities for the pubic and private sectors to exploit these opportunities. The purpose of this study is to discuss the main critical success factors of tourist destination ma...
Effect of Gender On the Success of Women Entrepreneurs in Jordan
The aim of this study is to address gender barriers in the business environment in Jordan. Two variables that may influence economic success of businesses owned by women entrepreneurs in Jordan were selected for this purpose. These variables are the marital status of female entrepreneur and its effect on her business, while the second variable is related to gender discrimination and whether it is considered a major obstacle facing women entrepreneurs. To analyze data collected from 102 conven...