Purpose Structural equation modeling (SEM) depicts one of the most salient research methods across a variety of disciplines, including hospitality management. Although for many researchers, SEM is equivalent to carrying out covariance-based SEM, recent research advocates the use of partial least...

Nous présentons ici une extension de la méthode PLS, l'ACIMO-PLS, permettant de modéliser «globalement» un ensemble de tableaux de données mesurés sur les mêmes individus. L'optimisation du critère proposé revient à la résolution de PLS traditionnel, mais engendre des objets et aides...

Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) are businesses that help accelerate the rate of economic growth in low-income countries and also contribute to poverty alleviation if managed with the right leadership. However, in Ghana most SMEs fail in the first year of existence (Biekpe, 2004) due to...

Purpose: This paper aims to examine how the adoption decision of the internet banking in North Cyprus would be affected based on the following dimensions; the technology features, the personal characteristics, the social environment and the expected risk. Design/methodology/approach: A...

The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) analysis can identify relationships between different sectors of the company's activities and the interactions between them. Prof. Bernard Morard together with Dr. Alexandru Stancu and Dr. Christophe Jeannette from University of Geneva, Switzerland developed a way of...

We propose a framework for estimation and inference about the parameters of an economic model and predictions based on it, when the model may be misspecified. We rely on a local asymptotic approach where the degree of misspecification is indexed by the sample size. We derive formulas to...

Islamic financial facilities like profit and loss sharing (PLS) are flexible enough to provide built-in stabilizers to the investment process. The amplitude of all phases of the business cycle will be smaller in an Islamic economy compared to advanced capitalist economies where the fixity of the...