The aim of this study is to evaluate how the impact of social capital on youth behaviour varies by mediating factors and to suggest evidence-based policy interventions. The type of activities adolescents participate in, the time and type of intra-familial interactions between parents and...

This paper seeks to theoretically identify the effective factors on employees' brand loyalty in the case of Agriculture Bank of Iran (ABI), based on the Rusbult's investment model. The data was gathered from 200 employees of ABI branches in Tehran city. Cluster sampling via a 29-items...

This research investigates the effects of just-in-time selling (JITS) strategy on firms' performance. A structural model is proposed that consists of measures for JITS strategy, market orientation, transformational leadership, environment, and organisation performance. Data is collected from 117...

This paper explores the underlying dimensions of absorptive capacity and its impact on the performance for firms in Zambia and Mauritius. It first defines a firm's capacity to absorb spillovers as a latent variable observable indirectly through its underlying dimensions. By means of structural...

A reliable and valid CRM (customer relationship management) index is developed in this paper. A standard methodology for scale development was followed; further to this the CRM index is developed through a case based method along with the customer and service provider weights. The findings clearly...

This paper is developed on Karande et al.'s (2002) research design, also used by Fernando et al. (2008), to investigate the ethical ideologies of financial practitioners in Nepal and to examine the differences in idealism and relativism based on corporate ethical values, gender and age of the...

This paper explores interventions of perceptions of fairness and trust in the relationships between the practice of revenue management and consumer satisfaction. The consumers, when confronting discriminations during the buying process or the selling period, may perceive unfair transactions and...

This study first examines whether it is appropriate to integrate the 13 observed corporate governance mechanisms into the multiconstruct of information transparency, ownership structure, board structure, and firm value, and further explores whether a company's simultaneous adoption of the...

This paper provides a holistic view of the ERP implementation process, by reviewing the hard and soft factors that cause success and failure for ERP implementation, as well as examine the effectiveness of the critical success factors (CSFs) of ERP on both primary (operational) and secondary...