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Evaluating The Alignment Of Academic Research And Industry Leadership Best Practices, Thomas A. Maier

Thomas A. Maier

This hospitality leadership research analysis was conducted in order to assess the alignment of academic research and industry leadership best practices. Gaps were identified and implications for professional practice discussed.

Cloud Computing Providers And Data Security Law: Building Trust With United States Companies, Jared A. Harshbarger Esq.

Jared A. Harshbarger

Cloud computing and software-as-a-service (SaaS) models are revolutionizing the information technology industry. As these services become more prevalent, data security and privacy concerns will also rise among consumers and the companies who consider using them. Cloud computing providers must establish a sufficient level of trust with their potential customers in order to ease initial fears - and ensure certain compliance obligations will be met - at least to the extent that any such inquiring customer will feel comfortable enough to ultimately take the irreversible step of releasing their sensitive data and personal information into the cloud.

Patterns Of Capital Structure And Dividend Policy In Pakistani Corporate Sector And Their Impact On Organization Performance, Ahmed Imran Hunjra, Muhammad Bilal, Haroon Shafi, Ikram Ullah, Kashif Ur Rehman

Ahmed Imran Hunjra (PhD)

The purpose of this study is to determine the patterns of capital structure decisions and dividend policy as well as their level of application in Pakistani corporate sector and also to check the impact of capital structure and dividend policy on organization performance. A total of ninety one questionnaires were distributed in different companies but seventy three filled were received and sixty one were processed for analysis. The potential respondents were finance executives and financial analysts of the companies. The study concludes that capital structure decisions are being properly practiced while dividend policy is a major concern in most of …

Determinants Of Business Success Of Small And Medium Enterprises, Javed Mahmood Jasra, Muhammad Asif Khan, Ahmed Imran Hunjra, Rana Aziz Ur Rehman, Rauf I. Azam

Ahmed Imran Hunjra (PhD)

The small and medium enterprises (SMEs) play critical role in the development of the country. The success of SMEs depends on number of factors. This study examines the role of key factors in the success of SMEs in Pakistan. The study also investigates the relationship between SMEs success and its determinants. Target population of the study was SMEs operating in different lines of business from service to manufacturing. Sample size of this study was 520 small and medium lines of businesses. Responses of the subjects were collected through questionnaires. SPSS software is used for analysis. This study concludes that there …

Determinants Of Short Term Investment Decision Making, Muhammad Naeem Akhtar, Ahmed Imran Hunjra, Kashif Ur Rehman

Ahmed Imran Hunjra (PhD)

This study examines the impact of financial literacy, accounting information, openness to experience and information asymmetry on the short-term investment decision making of the stock market investors. For this purpose 23 item questionnaire was developed and distributed among 185 stock market investors through non-probability sampling. The results indicate that all these factors have a significant effect on the short-term investment decision making. Results also indicate that individual investors with higher educational qualifications have more intentions for short-term investments as compared to the investors with other qualifications.

Financial Crises And Economic Growth In Pakistan: A Time Series Analysis, Rauf I. Azam, Iram Batool, Rabia Imran, Ahmed Imran Hunjra, Muhammad Irfan Chani

Ahmed Imran Hunjra (PhD)

The purpose of this research is to investigate causal relationship between economic growth and major indicators of financial crisis -- inflation rate, interest rate and the volume of foreign debt-- in Pakistan. This study also highlights the stability of the relationship between indicators of financial crisis and economic growth. The annual time series data ranging from 1972 to 2010 is used for the analysis. Johansen’s co-integration test is used to check the stability of long run equilibrium relationship between the variables used in the study. The results indicate that is long run stable equilibrium relationship between economic growth and the …

The Impact Of Political Events On Financial Market Volatility: Evidence Using A Markov Switching Process, Ahmed M. Khalid, Gulasekaran Rajaguru

Ahmed Khalid

This paper investigates the impact of political shocks (positive and negative) on financial markets. Using data from Pakistan for the period January 1999 to September 2006, we link ‘a’ political event to the financial market volatility. We use high frequency data from three indicators (currency, stock and money market) of the financial market for empirical estimation. We employ a Markov Switching process to identify the low and high volatility regimes in Pakistan’s financial market and then link these regimes to certain political events. We use data on daily observations of exchange rates, stock prices and interest rates to perform empirical …

Technology Based Employee Training And Organizational Performnace, Asad Afzal Humayoun, Ahmed Imran Hunjra, Kashif Ur Rehman

Ahmed Imran Hunjra (PhD)

The ever growing complexity and variability in the business environment followed by a sharp change in the technology, the organizations as well as the aggressive competition needs use all of their resources to achieve the competitive advantage in the industry and the most consistent and important source of competitive advantage is the skilled workers. The success in the business depends solely on the faithful and loyal workers and it is undesirable fact that the HR practice is an important source of the work relations. In the light of current situation the focus of this study is to use the relevant …

Understanding Csr: An Empirical Study Of Private Self-Regulation, Benedict Sheehy

Benedict Sheehy

Abstract: The article is a study of an important burgeoning form of regulation—private self-regulation—in the area of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Rather than taking a purely theoretical approach or a social scientific study relying publicly reported data, the article addresses the issue by way of interview based case studies. As a study in regulation it clarifies the difference between various types of self-regulation, trade associations’ codes as private self-regulation and government sponsored self-regulation. This distinction hampers efforts to understand the important aspects of motivation and compliance. This study provides empirical examination of compliance in private self-regulation. Given the impact and …

Collaboration Tools For Education - "Learn And Teach Online”, Nader Ale Ebrahim

Nader Ale Ebrahim

No abstract provided.

Application Of Finance Techniques: An Empirical Analysis Of Pakistani Corporate Sector, Ahmed Imran Hunjra, Ghulam Shabbir Khan Niazi, Syed Waqar Akbar, Kashif Ur Rehman

Ahmed Imran Hunjra (PhD)

The study reviews the core areas of the finance functions and their level of applications in Pakistani corporate sector. A total of 70 questionnaires were distributed in different companies, 53 were received and 49 were processed, the respondents were finance executives and financial analysts of the companies. The study concludes that respondents are well aware of finance functions; out of these functions applications of capital structure decisions are being properly practiced while dividend policy is a major concern in most of the organizations. Investment appraisal techniques are not followed systematically due to constraints on capital investment and availability of resources. …

Transition To Is Project De-Escalation: An Exploration Into Management Executive's Influence Tactics, Gary Shan Chi Pan, Shan Ling Pan

Gary PAN

This paper seeks to understand the factors that shape management executives' influence behaviors and the influence tactics that may be utilized during de-escalation of commitment to information systems (IS) projects. De-escalation is potentially a more important issue than escalation because de-escalation provides remedies for the ills of escalation. Therefore, it is important to understand how project stakeholders' commitment to troubled IS projects may be transformed under management executives' influence, hence allowing project teams to carry out their de-escalation activities. Here, we adopt theories of leadership, politics, and interpersonal influence, as our lenses to examine the management executive's influence behaviors during …

Competencies For Managing Change, Lynn Crawford, Anat Hassner Nahmias

Lynn Crawford

Organisational changes are recognised as a specific project type that can benefit from the application of project management skills, tools and techniques. Associated with this trend is evidence of rivalry in the marketplace between Project Managers and Change Managers concerning who should be managing business change. And these are not the only contenders. Corporate executives and senior managers, although they may engage the assistance of both Project Managers and Change Managers, generally see themselves as taking the leading roles in managing major organisational changes and transformations. As such endeavours are most likely to take the form of programs, comprising multiple …

Effect Of Organizational Change On Employee Job Involvement: Mediating Role Of Communication, Emotions And Psychological Contract, Rana Rashid Rehman

Rana Rashid Rehman

The purpose of the current paper is to provide a conceptual framework for studying the impact of organizational change on employee job involvement while communication, emotions and psychological contract plays mediating role in this relationship. The current study conceptualize that organizational change followed by effective communication generate the positive emotions which ultimately increase the employee job involvement where as organizational change with ineffective communication causes negative emotions which results in low employee job involvement. The study also founds that organizational change may break the psychological contract between employee and employer which reduces the employee job involvement.

Portfolio Management: Roles, Responsibilities And Practices: A Qualitative Study, Aileen Koh

Aileen Koh

The increasing use of project and programs by organizations to achieve business strategy has led to the need to understand portfolio management. Along with the increasing diffusion of portfolio management a new managerial role evolves: the portfolio manager. This new role is pivotal in planning and controlling complex project landscapes more effectively and more efficiently, in implementing portfolio management practices as a management innovation.The practices of portfolio management, together with the associated roles, responsibilities of portfolio managers were investigated. This paper presents the first stage qualitative study, using an inductive interview based approach with six portfolio managers from six organizations …

Factor Explaining The Choice Of Finance Major: Students Perception Towards The Finance Profession, Ahmed Imran Hunjra, Kashif Ur Rehman, Abrar Ahmad, Nadeem Safwan, Ijaz Ur Rehman

Ahmed Imran Hunjra (PhD)

No abstract provided.

Cause Related Marketing And Its Impact On Sales, Ahmed Imran Hunjra, Ghulam Shabbir Khan Niazi

Ahmed Imran Hunjra (PhD)

This study examines the impact of cause related marketing (CRM) campaigns on brand loyalty, consumer purchase intention and on sales. The significance of this research involves the careful study to find the importance of CRM. This new form of marketing, practiced extensively from last two decades across the globe, focuses on CRM practices and its impacts on the companies’ sales. It will help in: a) devising better strategies for the future, b) guide organization that CRM influence the choice of consumers, c) prove to be a very important tool and instrument in creating brand awareness & loyalty and d) boosting …

No More Reinventing The Service-Learning Wheel: Presenting A Diverse Compilation Of Best Practice “How To” Articles, Amy L. Kenworthy, Charles Fornaciari

Amy L. Kenworthy

Extract: In terms of the management education literature, to date there have been a number of special issues on service-learning, each filling an important need and directed at a targeted audience. That said, what none of these issues has done, and yet what we know is a pressing need for management educators, is to present a diverse set of “how to” templates for practitioners interested in either engaging in service-learning for the first time or refining and expanding their current work in this domain. The goal of this special issue is to fill that void—to showcase a detailed set of …

Service-Learning And Negotiation: An Educational "Win-Win", Amy L. Kenworthy

Amy L. Kenworthy

Negotiation is one of the most popular elective business courses offered across tertiary educational programs today. Yet, in many undergraduate and graduate programs, the "practice" of negotiation takes place solely through role-plays and simulations. The purpose of this article is to provide a "how to" template for negotiation instructors who are interested in extending their students’ experiences beyond the sole use of in-class role-plays and simulations into the real world. The project described in this article is a semester-long, undergraduate service-learning group consulting project that has been used and refined over an 8-year period.

Product Development In The Perspective Of Knowledge Management, Abrar Ahmad, Ahmed Imran Hunjra, Kashif Ur Rehman

Ahmed Imran Hunjra (PhD)

The purpose of this study is to discover the role of social knowledge management enabler such as managerial support and empowerment in product development. This research study explores the concept of dynamic capabilities and how it is basically formed by the combination of knowledge generation, knowledge integration, and knowledge configuration. Present research study also focuses on the product organizations. The importance of knowledge management is very well understood by the companies in Pakistan, they know that the knowledge management process, if effectively processed in an organization, helps in the development of products. This study confirms that dynamic capabilities generate product …

The Impact Of Ehr On Professional Competence In Hrm: Implications For The Development Of Hr Professionals, Bradford S. Bell, Sae-Won Lee, Sarah K. Yeung

Bradford S Bell

[Excerpt] Information technology has been cited as a critical driver of HR’s transition from a focus on administrative tasks to a focus on serving as a strategic business partner. This strategic role not only adds a valuable dimension to the HR function but also changes the competencies that define the success of HR professionals. Interviews were conducted with HR representatives from 19 firms to examine the linkage between electronic human resources (eHR) and the reshaping of professional competence in HRM. Based on the findings, we draw implications for the development of HR competencies and identify learning strategies that HR professionals …

Work Teams, Bradford S. Bell, Steve W. J. Kozlowski

Bradford S Bell

[Excerpt] Teams serve as the basic building blocks of modern organizations and represent a critical means by which work is accomplished in today's world. Therefore, significant research during the past few decades has been focused on understanding work team effectiveness. This entry looks at the history of this research and what it says about team types, team composition, team development, team processes, and team effectiveness.

La Qualificazione Del C.D. "Titolo Sportivo" Nel Trasferimento D'Azienda Nell'ambito Di Procedure Concorsuali, Claudio Sottoriva

Claudio Sottoriva

Il titolo sportivo è il riconoscimento da parte della FIGC (uno dei compiti di questo organo è quella di organizzare i campionati) delle condizioni tecniche sportive della possibilità di partecipare ad un determinato campionato. Tralasciando i problemi che riguardano le formazioni professionistiche mi soffermerei su quello che è stato specificato dalla giurisprudenza sopratutto nella sentenza del Tar Lazio Sez. ter del 22 settembre 2004, n. 9668 (Napoli/FIGC) in tema di definizione del titolo sportivo. Prima di tutto come si può definire il titolo sportivo: “ il titolo sportivo è una qualità inerente alla posizione di status che questi riveste nei …

The Use Of Social Networks In Top Management - The Case In Chile, Alfredo Enrione

Alfredo Enrione

• Survey taken in July 2011. Sample was 2,311 top managers from a universe of 17,052: Partners, Board Members, CEO and other officers in the executive suite

• Social networks are no longer exclusive to younger generations of students and lower rank employees. 77,2% of the sample used social networks

• Age was a good predictive variable: while 94% of those managers below 35 years old used social networks only 32% of those above 70 years old used them

• CEOs are at a disadvantage, board members and lower ranking officers use social networks more intensively than CEOs

• Women …

Managing Communication In New Product Development Process: Virtual R&D Teams And Information Technology, Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Salwa Hanim Abdul Rashid, Zahari Taha

Nader Ale Ebrahim

Literature proves the importance of the role of information technology in increasing the effectiveness of virtual R&D teams’ communication for new product development. However, the factors that make information technology construct in a virtual R&D team are still ambiguous. Managers of virtual R&D teams for new product development do not know “which type of technology should be used”. To address the gap and answer the question, the paper presents a set of factors that make a construct that contribute to effective communication strategy for virtual R&D teams. The proposed construct has been modified based on the findings of a field …

Leadership & Organizational Change, Terri A. Scandura Phd, Monica Sharif

Terri A. Scandura

In recent years, change has occurred within almost all organizations. Downsizing, relocations, restructuring, technological changes, mergers, process-oriented changes and people-oriented changes are happening on a daily basis. Therefore it is necessary to study the influence organizational change has on important organizational variables. We conducted a study examining reactions to different types of organizational change. We specifically looked at the extent to which employees trust their organization during different types of organizational change.

Mentoring – A Review Of The Science And The State Of The Art, Terri A. Scandura Phd

Terri A. Scandura

Mentoring is a relationship between a senior person and a junior person that enhances the junior person’s personal learning on the job and career development. Research on mentoring in organizations dates back to the late seventies to early eighties. In 1985, Kathy Kram at Boston University published a book entitled, “Mentoring at work: Developmental relationships in organizational life” that proved to be a catalyst for much research on mentoring in the management literature. In recent years, the emphasis on mentoring relationships at work has shifted to what mentee’s learn on the job – both jobrelated skills as well as political …

International Entrepreneuship And Geographic Location: An Empirical Examination Of New Venture Internationalization, Stephanie A. Fernhaber, Brett Anitra Gilbert, Paticia P. Mcdougall

Stephanie A. Fernhaber

In this paper, we argue that geographic location may be one reason why some ventures are able to acquire the resources needed to internationalize while others cannot. We use ecological arguments to predict an inverted U-shaped relationship between the concentration of industry clustering within a geographic location and the venture's internationalization. We also explore whether venture characteristics influence the nature of this relationship. Our hypotheses are regressed on international intensity and scope, and analyzed through a sample of 156 publicly held new ventures. Results confirm that location influences new venture internationalization, and firm characteristics impact the nature of the relationship.

The Impact Of Early Imprinting On Evolution Of New Venture Networks, Stephanie A. Fernhaber, Hana Milanov

Stephanie A. Fernhaber

Given the argued importance of networks to new ventures, this paper is intended to fill a noted gap in the literature pertaining to the factors that influence the evolution of new ventures' alliance networks. Drawing on the imprinting literature, we propose that one has to look beyond the first partner per se, and instead focus on the extant relationships the initial partner has with other firms. More specifically, we argue and find that the network size and centrality of a new venture's initial alliance partner influence the subsequent size of the new venture's network.

Looks Aren't Everything: Aren't Managers Concerned With Actually Being Fair, Terri A. Scandura Phd, Cecily D. Cooper

Terri A. Scandura

The justice literature has unequivocally noted how important it is employees feel they are treated fairly. Accordingly, managers often find themselves in predicaments of injustice which they must resolve. Research on social accounts describes strategies managers can use to make themselves “seem fair,” thus, alleviating their predicament. But in taking an impression management perspective of justice, this literature fails to acknowledge that many managers actually want to “be fair.” Based on the latter assumption, we propose an alternative framework for understanding how managers will address justice-related predicaments.