Are levels of competencies related to academic leadership effectiveness? Is gender related to leadership effectiveness? Is there an interaction effect between levels of competencies and gender on leadership effectiveness? These research questions were examined in the context of middle level...

There are various approaches to the measure quality of e-services. They have mentioned many dimensions of e-service quality provided by service organisations i.e. banking, restaurant, investment, trade etc. However, sometimes there may be confusions in selecting appropriate dimensions to assess...

Maria Santissima Assunta in Cielo Church, situated in S, Maria la Fossa (X-XI) is one of the most beautiful and important monuments of southern Italy. It is on the left of the Volturno River, near the Porto delle Femmine, in a marshy and hunting area. It was built little by little from the X...

The objective of this article is to identify the possibilities of organizational innovation at micro-economic level and industry level, in order to ensure the long term viability of this domain in Romania. To achieve the above mentioned objective, there has been studied and analyzed the...

Global urban populations are increasing day by day and putting continuous pressure on cities. The level of world urbanization rate was 50.6% in the year 2010 and it is forecasted that by 2050 it will be 70% , UN (Habitates, 2010). Rising trend of urbanization creates various urban problems like;...

This study evaluates major factors (i.e. service quality, brand perception and perceived value) affecting on customers’ satisfaction in e-banking service settings. This study also evaluates influence of service quality on brand perception, perceived value and satisfaction in e-banking....

This paper conducts a comparative analysis on the megacity transportation planning systems between New York and Shanghai. This case study examines the seven lessons learned from New York’s public transportation development: building political partnership; ensuring economical reasonableness;...

The authors’ intention was to correlate the traditional body of knowledge in decision making associated to data gathering and problem solving in order to help the decision makers in their to prioritize scarced resources with the attempt to provide a more systematic and improve Early Warning...

This article examines the foreign direct investment (FDI) in Portugal, i.e why foreign companies are located in Portugal. The compression of the determinants of FDI is important to take decisions on economic policy. The determinants of the location were used as market size, labour cost, taxes...

The Halal global market is promising a rapid and sustained growth (Berry 2008; Sungkar et al., 2008). In fact, only for Halal food industry, the amount of international trade has exceeded 2.1 trillion USD in 2006 (Berry 2008; Riaz and Chaudry 2004). The reasons of the prompt growing are multiple, but...