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The moderating effect of psychological factors on consumer of electric and hybrid vehicles’ response purchase decisions
,Pages: 1649-1658 Arwa Hisham Rahahleh, Monira Abdallah Moflih, Zaid Ahmad Alabaddi and Sanaa Nawaf AL-Nsour PDF (288 K) |
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This research provides an analysis and evaluation of consumer purchasing behavior using green electronic marketing of vehicles diversification into new markets, focusing on Electrical Vehicles (Ev) and Hybrid Vehicles (Hv). The world has been making remarkable efforts to make everything green and cleaner by the help of the advanced technology, including transportation. The technology especially the E marketing, social media, etc. focuses on orienting people to believe that hybrid and electrical vehicles generate less pollution, will save money and reduce dependence on natural sources of fuel. This research aims to inspect the relationship between Stimuli Factors, Electrical Vehicles’ (Ev) and Hybrid Vehicles’ (Hv) Consumers and Response Purchase Decisions (S-O-R), in addition to inspect the moderation effects of Psychological Inputs on S-O-R relationship in Vehicle industry of Jordan. The current research used quantitative method to gather accessible data from the sample of the study. Variables used in this study include HVs & EVs consumers, Stimuli factors (marketing inputs, external environment) and positive psychological inputs and response purchase decisions. Partial Least Squares (PLS) approach as a statistical method was used to analyze the data. Results indicate that all the relations had a positive significant, except the interactional relationship be-tween Stimuli factors which includes marketing inputs, external environment, and positive psychological inputs, affect response purchase decisions. In other words, the mediation (HVs & EVs consumers) shows valuable change for the prediction of response purchase decisions while, moderated effect of psychological inputs did not make change.
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Effects of human resources management practices and organizational justice perceptions on organizational cynicism: A research on municipalities in a developing country
, Pages: 1659-1670 Tolga Atikbay and Yıldırım Öner PDF (288 K) |
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Organizational cynicism is one of the key factors that should be monitored in an organization since it is largely due to organizational reasons and it can be expressed that some of the most important reasons are human resources management (HRM) practices and organizational justice concepts. Although there are some researches on the bilateral relations of these variables with each other, in the literature, no study that examined the relationships and effects be-tween these three concepts, at the same time, has been observed. Therefore, this study focuses on the relationship between perceived HRM practices and organizational cynicism with the mediating role of perceived organizational justice. In this study, descriptive approach was applied and to test the research model; a quantitative method and questionnaire-based survey were conducted. The survey data were collected from the employees across local administra-tions (municipalities) in a developing country, Northern Cyprus, by using convenience sampling method. In order to test the conceptual framework, SPSS v24, Hayes Process v3.4 and Amos v22.0 Programs were used. In this context, in SPSS program, exploratory factor analyses and linear regression analysis were performed. Besides, Amos Program was used for confirmatory factor analyses. In addition, Hayes Process analysis was applied to determine the mutual relationships between variables and the direct and indirect effects between each other. According to the results of the analysis, it is observed that the perceived organizational justice mediates the relationship between perceived human resources management practices and organizational cynicism. In other words, the results proved that effective application of contemporary HRM approaches boosts the perception of organizational justice and at the same time helps to reduce organizational cynicism and also high perceived organizational justice reduces organizational cynicism. In addition, in this study, the scale developed by Singh (2004), which was widely used in the measurement of HRM practices in the literature, was further developed by the addition of work conditions, and at last it has been transformed into a more comprehensive scale that can be used in both public and private sectors. Thus, it has been made more appropriate for today's HRM practices and theory. Consequently, this study contributes to the relevant theoretical literature and has some important implications for managers.
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The influence of CEO characteristics on corporate environmental performance of SMEs: Evidence from Vietnamese SMEs
, Pages: 1671-1682 Nhat Minh Tran and Bich-Ngoc Thi Pham PDF (288 K) |
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Drawing on upper echelon theory, this study investigates the impact of CEOs’ (chief executive officers) demographic characteristics on corporate environmental performance (CEP) in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We hypothesized that CEO characteristics, including gender, age, basic educational level, professional educational level, political connection, and ethnicity, affect SMEs’ environmental performance. Using the cross-sectional data analysis of 810 Vietnamese SMEs, this study provides evidence that female CEOs and CEOs’ educational level (both basic and professional) are positively related to the probability of CEP. We also find that based on the role of institutional environment on CEP, political connections had a negative effect on CEP in the context of Vietnam. Another finding is that SMEs with chief executives from ethnic minority groups show a higher level of the probability of corporate environmental performance than companies operated by Kinh chief executives. Since CEP is an essential dimension of corporate social responsibility, a strategic decision for SMEs, it is crucial for the company to select appropriate CEOs based on their demographic characteristics.
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Impact of financial constraints on the development of Vietnam’s firms
, Pages: 1683-1692 Hung Nguyen Viet, Hoa Ha Quynh and Thanh To Trung PDF (288 K) |
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This paper examines the impact of financial constraints on the development of Vietnamese firms driven by Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth at the firm level. The effects of financial constraints by FCIf index on TFP growth of 97,860 firms are estimated by applying Dynamic Panel Data model over the period 2012-2017. The results show that there was a negative correlation between FCIf and labor productivity growth and TFP growth in all industries. While FCIf index is increased by 0.1, TFP growth of firms is reduced by 3.71%. The results also show that there was an inverse relationship between FCIf index, and the size of value added and assets of firms. Firms operating in manufacturing, wholesale and retail trade, and private firms face the biggest financial constraints.
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A study on behaviors of purchasing life insurance in Vietnam
, Pages: 1693-1700 Thi Huong Mai, Thi Chinh Nguyen, Le Lam Vu, Van Hung Bui, Thi Thu Cuc Nguyen and Duc Tai Do PDF (288 K) |
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This research is conducted to examine the process from the intention to purchase life insur-ance among people in two major cities of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, based on the theoretical framework of theory of planned behavior. The study is conducted in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam through an online questionnaire of 358 people. Based on the data collected, the study used Cronbach’s alpha, exploratory factor analysis, KMO and Bartlett’s test and regression analysis by using SPSS software. The results show that life insurance buying behavior was influenced by purchase intention, attitudes, financial insight and product accessibility. Moreover, it was recognized higher weight of financial literacy and product accessibility in life insurance buying behavior. The research determined that financial knowledge could promote buying intention to actual purchase behavior in the life insurance area.
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The mediating role of e-word of mouth on the relationship between content marketing and green purchase intention
, Pages: 1701-1708 Jassim Ahmad Al-Gasawneh and Abdullah Matar Al-Adamat PDF (288 K) |
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The current paper was a quantitative study examining the mediating role of E-WOM when it comes to content marketing and its connection with green purchasing intentions in Jordan. The underpinning theory in this study was the social communication (SC) theory. A survey questionnaire was used to collect relevant data, after being distributed to the general managers. Overall, 202 questionnaires were used in this paper's data analysis, and the outcomes were investigated through partial least squares structural equation modeling. The results of the analysis denoted that the E-WOM controlled the relationship of content marketing with green purchasing intentions. As a result, this paper offers practical findings that companies in Jordan could boost customer intention to purchase green products, by achieving word of mouth and presenting suitable marketing content.
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The relationship between higher education and entrepreneurial intention among Vietnamese students
, Pages: 1709-1718 Chi Nguyen Thi Kim, Hieu Pham Van, Ha Thai Van and Thu Pham Kim PDF (288 K) |
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This study aims to examine the effects of higher education on self-efficacy, perceived behavioral control and entrepreneurial intention among Vietnamese students. By collecting data from 553 Vietnamese students at universities and colleges in Vietnam, authors employed the quantitative approach such as certain descriptive statistics, explorative factor analysis, correlation coefficient analysis, ANOVA test and multiple linear regression to analyze the relationship between higher education, self-efficacy, perceived behavioral control and entrepreneurial intention. In addition, Chi-square and Cramer’s V tests are implemented to indicate the difference of higher education on entrepreneurial intention. The research results show that there is a positive relationship between higher education and entrepreneurial intention, while self-efficacy and perceived behavioral control also had positive effects on entrepreneurial intention. Moreover, Chi-Square and Cramer’s V test report that there was a strong evidence of higher education in entrepreneurial intention but there were no differences in self-efficacy and entrepreneurial intention.
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Entrepreneurship attitude of managers, member participation, and cooperative performance: Evidence from Indonesia
,Pages: 1719-1728 Ernita, Firmansyah and Tri Martial PDF (288 K) |
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The purpose of this study is to know the effect of entrepreneurship attitude of manager of cooperatives and member motivation in enhancing member participation in North Sumatera Province, Indonesia. A questionnaire with a 1-5 Likert’s scale is used to examine the hypothe-ses of the survey. Respondents consisted of 100 leader/managers and 100 members of the cooperatives. The results show that entrepreneurship attitude of manager and member motivations correlated significantly in increasing the participation of cooperative members with r1 = 0.866** and r2 = 0.902**, respectively. Likewise, entrepreneurship attitude of manager and member motivation had significant effects on increasing member participation. It is also found that R-Square = 0.836, and F-value was 247.430. In conclusion, the independent variable significantly correlated and increased participation of the members. It is very important to insert entrepreneurship attitude and motivation in providing cooperative education.
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Management bias as a cause of employee weak performance: Case Study at Jadara University
, Pages: 1729-1736 Khaled Abdel Kader Alomari PDF (288 K) |
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The study seeks to define the role of management bias on the weak performance of employ-ees. The research sample comprised of 107 male and female employees. To achieve this re-search purpose, there were 79 questionnaires valid for statistical analysis, adopting the descriptive approach. Questionnaire was used to measure the effect of management bias on employ-ees’ weak performance. The study concluded that the university dependence on scientific foundations, qualifications, and abilities in selecting and recruiting employees was intermediate, which indicates that the university does not often follow the right regulations in selecting employees, indicating the bias existing in employees’ selection. In light of the aforementioned results, the study recommended the management at Jadara University to establish an inde-pendent committee of professionals to recruit efficient and qualified employees.
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Factors influencing on tourism sustainable development in Vietnam
, Pages: 1737-1742 Anh Vu Mai, Kim Chi Nguyen Thi, Thanh Nga Nguyen Thi and Truong Le PDF (288 K) |
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The study aims to examine the factors affecting sustainable tourism development. First, the paper presents the literature review to show the related theories and overview of the tourism sector in Vietnam. Secondly, the research model and hypotheses are represented to test the relationships between influencing factors and sustainable tourism development. Finally, 329 questionnaires had been collected from state management agencies and tourism enterprises. By using SPSS and Smart-PLS-SEM, the research shows that seven factors were affecting on sustainable tourism development in Vietnam. Specifically, social engagement has the strongest effect on sustainable tourism development, followed by state managerial competence respectively, tourism service quality, the quality of tourism human resource, infrastructure development, material tourism facilities and tourism resource.
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On the relationship between total quality management practices and firm performance in Vietnam: The mediating role of non-financial performance
,Pages: 1743-1754 Thi My Dung Pham PDF (288 K) |
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Total quality management (TQM) is one of the popular management methods in many devel-oped countries, while it is an entirely new method for emerging economies. Although TQM practices contribute to the sustainable development of organizations, it is challenging to adopt this method efficiently. Six criteria factors are playing important roles in TQM implementation, which are: leadership, process management, quality information, employee training, customer focus, and supplier management. Each factor has different roles for firm performance represented by financial performance and non – financial performance. Identifying the relationship between TQM practices and the performance in Vietnamese enterprises, the research investigates the role of non – financial performance as a mediator variable in the relationship between TQM practices and financial performance. Through designing a questionnaire to conduct a survey, this paper studies the mediating role of non – financial performance on the relationship between TQM practices and financial performance utilizing SPSS 20 and AMOS 22 software with 211 Vietnamese enterprises by using SEM analysis. The estimation results propose that non – financial performance plays a vital role as a full mediator in the relation-ship between TQM practices and financial performance in the Vietnam context. In this research, there is no difference in the mediating effect level of non – financial performance between TQM companies & non – TQM companies as well as ISO adopters & non – ISO adopters. The study suggests that Vietnamese enterprises should have strict commitment to place TQM philosophy in actions at this early step of TQM implementation process to achieve considerable benefits in long-term development.
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Halal-friendly tourism and factors influencing halal tourism
, Pages: 1755-1762 Junaidi Junaidi PDF (288 K) |
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This study aims to depict the halal tourism concept, its business process, and investigate dilemmas faced by tourism industry and proposes strategies to resolve the constraints based on the best practice from the tourism business operators. In addition, this study tries to investigate the influence of various factors on halal tourism. Triangulation method used by combining personal in-depth interview, documentation/literature review and field observation to generate the discussion and conclusion. Interview process was conducted by selecting four tourism operators in Indonesia who won the best halal category award by The World Halal Travel Award in Dubai. Additionally, for the empirical analysis, a questionnaire was also developed, and data was collected from a total sample of 313 Muslim tourists in the region of Indonesia. Study reveals that instead of taking position as pure sharia-compliant business, all participants chose to become Muslim-friendly business. This moderate business process transformation helps to expand their market segment to Muslim tourists at tolerable cost. The existing dilemmas faced by all entities in tourism industry are as follows: there is no formal standard of halal criteria, high-cost business transition, lack of sharia-competent human resources and lack of promotion. Besides, findings through regression analysis specifies that there is a significant and positive influence of quality and certification of halal food, male serving in the restaurants, halal activities and separate recreational facilities on halal tourism industry. The study was engaged with the best practices from halal business operators. Further research is suggested to involve tourists’ perception of halal-related product, management, human resource and finance operated by the halal business operators. Meanwhile, this study has considered a limited number of factors influencing on the halal tourism with traditional analysis approach.
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An analysis of underlying constructs affecting the quality of accounting human resources
,Pages: 1763-1770 Dang Huy Nguyen PDF (288 K) |
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This paper is conducted to investigate the impact levels of inside determinants on the quality of accounting human resources in accounting service firms in Hanoi. Data are collected using 120 questionnaires from accounting service firms. Based on the data collected, we use Cronbach’s Alpha, EFA and regression model for learning the effect of different variables on the quality of accounting human resources. The results show that three inside determinants including Human resource assessment (A), Human resource training (T) and Human resource recruitment (R) had positive relationships with the quality of accounting human resources. Based on the findings, some recommendations are given for improving the quality of accounting human resources of accounting service firms in Hanoi.
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The effect of servant leadership on employees’ self-reported performance: Does public service motivation play a mediating explanatory role?
, Pages: 1771-1776 Pelin Bayram and Khaled Zoubi PDF (288 K) |
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Previous studies have established that leadership has a decisive role in shaping organizational outcomes in general and performance in particular. However, few efforts have gone into ex-plaining the effect demonstrated by servant leadership on how employees do perceive their performance and whether such a relationship is mediated by public service motivation. This paper addresses servant leadership, public service motivation and employee performance among staff in the context of Jordanian civil servants. Data was gathered from a random sample drawn among 3000 employees of the Jordanian customs department. Structure equation modelling techniques were used to statistically analyze the dataset. This draws scholars’ attention into how servant leadership plays a role affecting civil servants perceived self-reported performance while motivating employees to serve the cause of governmental institutions which in turn enhances an increase on the reported performance levels. This paper produces further evidence to support servant leadership and public service motivation adoption to affect performance in previously neglected area of Jordanian public service within the Jordanian customs department.
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The effects of human resource flexibility, employee competency, organizational culture adaptation and job satisfaction on employee performance
, Pages: 1777-1786 Rahmat Sabuhari, Achmad Sudiro, Dodi W. Irawanto and Mintarti Rahayu PDF (288 K) |
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This research aims to study and analyze the effects of human resource flexibility, employee competencies, organizational culture adaptation, and job satisfaction on employee performance. The study also examines the indirect effect between human resource flexibility and employee performance with the mediation of organizational culture adaptation and the effect of competence on employee performance through job satisfaction as a mediator variable. Us-ing certain criteria, 105 employees of PT Pos Indonesia were selected as the sample. SEM-PLS was used to test the hypotheses. The study finds that human resource flexibility, employee competencies, and job satisfaction significantly influenced employee performance, but organizational culture adaptation did not have any significant effect on employee performance. Therefore, organizational culture adaptation was unable to mediate the effect of human re-source flexibility on employee performance. However, job satisfaction partially mediates the effect of employee competencies on employee performance.
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The impact of entrepreneurial education on entrepreneurial intention: The case of Vietnamese
, Pages: 1787-1796 Xuan Toan Doan and Thi Thu Hien Phan PDF (288 K) |
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The objective of this paper was to assess the impact of entrepreneurial education on entrepreneurial intention on students in the North of Vietnam, through two mediating variables; namely entrepreneurship passion and entrepreneurial self-efficacy. The study was conducted on 688 students from both economic and technical university in the Northern region of Vietnam. Data collected using SPSS 22 and Smart PLS 3.0 software shows that entrepreneurial education had a strong impact on entrepreneurial intention in the North of Vietnam. At the same time, entrepreneurial education also had a positive impact on entrepreneurship passion and Entrepreneurial self-efficacy. Time and Team Cooperation maintained a statistically significant moderate role on the relationship between entrepreneurial education and entrepreneurial intention of students in the North of Vietnam.
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Social responsibility and competitiveness in hotels: The role of customer loyalty
, Pages: 1797-1802 Ahmed Mehrez PDF (288 K) |
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The concept of Social Responsibility (SR) has been evolved during the last decade and most organisations care about their society and the environment. While incorporating SR programs through organizational strategies would be mostly optional, the benefits of “doing a good business” may enhance competitiveness. Hospitality industry is not far from this where hotel sector can achieve several desirable outcomes adopting SR initiatives. Despite the fact that many services are intangible by their nature and they are evaluated based on perceptions, the willingness created by social initiatives can lead to an advantage through brand image. In re-turn, a “good social reputation” can create and maintain customer loyalty in hotels and hospi-tality. This paper investigates the role of SR on competitiveness through the mediating role of customer loyalty. A model is developed and examined through hotel industry in Qatar. Statis-tical results show that all research hypotheses were accepted and customer loyalty could be retained by incorporating SR values affecting competitiveness in hospitality industry in Qatar.
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Patients’ satisfaction of health service quality in public hospitals: A PubHosQual analysis
, Pages: 1803-1812 Reham Zuhier Qasim Almomani, Ruba Risheed Al-Ghdabi and Khaled Mohammad Banyhamdan PDF (288 K) |
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Patients’ satisfaction has become one of the critical issues for governments all over the world and they are prioritizing to keep their citizens happy. The objective of the current study was to determine the impact of health service quality on patient’s satisfaction. The study was applied on public hospitals in Jordan. The participants of this research were physician/doctors working in public hospitals in Jordan, a convenience sample with 400 questionnaires handled to the patients, and 354 questionnaires were valid for statistics. The researchers used the AMOS software version 20 to test the hypothesized structural equation model. Health service quality explained %65.7 of the variation of patient satisfaction, which was also, illustrated the extent to which the quality of health service had the potential to make a change in the level of patients’ satisfaction in public hospitals. Health service quality had a positive effect on patient satisfaction; therefore, researchers pointed out some recommendations for top management and decision-makers at public hospitals.
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Factors affecting customers selection of community pharmacies: The mediating effect of branded pharmacies and the moderating effect of demographics
, Pages: 1813-1826 Dania A. Ghattas and Ghaith M. Al-Abdallah PDF (288 K) |
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This research aims to identify and evaluate different factors influencing the customer decision in selecting a community pharmacy in the city of Amman, and study the possible impact of branded pharmacy on the selection process. Five main factors were selected based on the literature review, including convenience, physical environment, sales promotions, qualified and experienced pharmacists and customer service and three main hypotheses and twelve sub-hypotheses were developed. A descriptive analytical methodology, quantitative approach, utilizing survey strategy utilizing questionnaire were used. The population of this research consists of customers who decide to choose a community pharmacy which is estimated at 934.5 thousand households. To collect the primary data, a self-administered questionnaire was pre-pared based on previous studies; 1070 questionnaires were distributed in different community pharmacies in Amman using convenience sample (pharmacy intercept), 801 filtered and screened questionnaires were sent for statistical analyses. The results reveal that customer service factor had the highest effect on customers’ selection of pharmacies, followed by qualified and experienced pharmacists and convenience, respectively. Sales promotions and physical environment have the least impacts on customers’ decision. The results also show that there is a partial statistically significant mediation effect of branded pharmacy on the direct relationship between the selected factors and customers’ pharmacy selection. The demographic variables have no statistically significant moderating effects on the direct relationship between the selected factors and pharmacy selection. Discussion, managerial implications, and future research recommendations are provided.
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Impact of AMO enhancing human resource management practices on sustainable competitive advantage in insurance companies in Qatar
,Pages: 1827-1834 Tamadur Mesfer Al-shahwani PDF (288 K) |
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This research aims to explore the impact of ability, motivation, and opportunity (AMO) model to enhance human resource management practices on sustainable competitive advantage. The dimensions of the AMO model were ability-enhancing human resource management practic-es, motivation-enhancing human resource management practices, and opportunity-enhancing human resource management practices. The population consisted of all managers on the top managerial level at insurance companies. The purposive sample was composed of (124) man-agers, where the questionnaires returned, and valid for statistical analysis were (106), with the responding rate (85.5%). Structural equation modeling was used for statistical analysis and testing research's hypotheses. The results indicated that all dimensions of AMO model to en-hance human resource management practices had influenced on sustainable competitive ad-vantage. Hence, the recommendations were oriented to the organizations to improve the recruitment and training practices, as well as encouraging the employees by fair compensations and empowering them to achieve the organization's goals.
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Attitudes of managers in the Iraqi Kurdistan region private banks towards the impact of knowledge management on organizational effectiveness
, Pages: 1835-1842 Zana Majed Sadq, Bestoon Othman and Hazhar Omer Mohammed PDF (288 K) |
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This study aims to identify the impact of knowledge management through its dimensions; namely knowledge creation, storage knowledge, knowledge sharing, knowledge application and technology knowledge on organizational effectiveness based on the managers’ attitudes in private banks in the Erbil city in Kurdistan region, Iraq. To achieve the study objectives, a questionnaire was constructed consisting of (40) questions distributed to a sample of (80) managers and supervisors, (76) of which were returned, while (69) were valid for statistical analysis. The main objective of this study is to design a default model and test in the study field in order to understand how managers can successfully implement the knowledge man-agement to achieve the organizational effectiveness. The study found that knowledge management had an impact on organizational effectiveness according to the study samples per-spectives. Based on the results, the study presents a set of recommendations regarding the knowledge management which most importantly the private banks should adopt in a logical sequence. This could contribute in achieving an organizational environment supportive of enabling an environment to the practice of radical changes.
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The impact of quality of services and satisfaction on customer loyalty: The moderate role of switching costs
, Pages: 1843-1856 Ibrahim Harazneh, Mohammad J Adaileh, Ahmed Thbeitat, Saeda Afaneh, Salim Khanfar, Ahmad Ali Harasis and Hamzah Elrehail PDF (288 K) |
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This study investigates the impacts of service quality of Jordanian telecommunication and customer satisfaction on customer loyalty. The study also studies though the role of switching cost as a moderate variable. Lack of studies in the field of quality in Jordanian telecommunication is the main reason for this investigation. The study investigates the impacts based on the employees’ point of views in Aqaba special economic zone authority (ASEZA). Therefore, the study uses statistical data gathered through a questionnaire distributed to the employees of ASEZA. Thus, statistical methods are used to analyze the data collected and the hypotheses are tested. The study results show that there was a direct positive impact of service quality of Jordanian telecommunication and customer satisfaction on customer loyalty. In addition, the moderator model (Switching cost) has significant positive impacts on enhancing the relationship between service quality and customer satisfaction towards customer loyalty.
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The role of entrepreneurial orientation in the development of an integrative process towards en-trepreneurship performance in entrepreneurial university: A case study of Qassim university
,Pages: 1857-1872 Abdulaziz Abdulmohsen Alfalih and Wided Mohamed Ragmoun PDF (288 K) |
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Entrepreneurial universities can be considered a new topic that needs greater attention. Many researchers believe that universities can and must have a more important cultural and economic impact. This study seeks to develop and analyze entrepreneurial universities profile using entrepreneurial orientations in order to define an integrative process for entrepreneurial universities. This involves identifying dimensions, mechanisms, and steps for entrepreneurial universities as well as establishing a strategy and plans for universities such as Qassim University or the College of Business and Economics (CBE). To achieve this objective, this study adopted a quantitative approach based on a questionnaire. Data was collected from 210 respondents who were practitioners and academics to discover the effect of the influential factors and entrepreneurial university orientation on the entrepreneurship and innovativeness indexes. The collected data was analyzed using AMOS 24- SEM with a moderating effect. The findings revealed that CBE, in line with strategic planning and the importance of entrepreneurship in Vision 2030, tended towards developing an entrepreneurial orientation and inte-grated some good practices for the integrative process for entrepreneurial universities (IPEU). The main contribution of this paper was the identification of a path diagram and adequate practices for achieving entrepreneurial university standards. Overall, the findings explicate the importance of this step in terms of cultural, economic, and social impacts. If the findings of this study are tenaciously implemented, this may help Qassim University move towards a higher level of excellence and competitiveness based on entrepreneurship actions. Entrepreneurial university orientation seems to be important for the development of this process. In other words, to become entrepreneurial we must, in the first step, integrate this new approach to determine how to use resources and factors.
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The impact of environmental pollution on aquaculture development: The case of Vietnam
, Pages: 1873-1880 Thi Minh Phuong Nguyen, Duc Tai Do and Thi Phuong Thuy Nguyen PDF (288 K) |
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This research is conducted to analyze and point out the relationship between environmental pollution and aquaculture development in the coastal areas in Vietnam. In this study, we use the binary Logit model (Y = 1/0) where the variable, Y, reflects the risks and losses in the household's aquaculture; and X is a vector of factors affecting the event. The results show that, among determinants, household's aquaculture experience (X1), the water pollution degree of the household (X4), intensive farming mode of the household (D1) influence household losses, while other variables such as educational attainment of the household head (X2) and farming area (X3) are not correlated with household losses. Based on the findings, some recommendations are given in the aspect that aquaculture households in the region to use new, more effective methods to protect the aquaculture environment in developing countries, including Vietnam.
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Linking entrepreneurial orientation dimensions with multidimensional differentiation strategy
, Pages: 1881-1886 Kamal Hossain and Ilhaamie Binti Abdul Ghani Azmi PDF (288 K) |
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The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) on differentiation strategy. In this study, the components of EO are innovativeness, proactiveness and risk-taking. On the other hand, differentiation strategy indicates the product, process, market and brand differentiation. The study uses survey questionnaire for data collection. The data are collected from Muslim entrepreneurs of the apparel industry from Bangladesh. The study uses 339 data to conduct the research. After data collection, SmartPLS is applied for quantitative analysis to examine the effect of EO on differentiation strategy. The study indicates a positive and significant effect of innovativeness, proactiveness and risk-taking (EO) on differentiation strategy. Among the three components of EO, proactiveness is found the most significant component on differentiation strategy followed by innovativeness and risk-taking.
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The influence of HRM practices and employees’ satisfaction on intention to leave
, Pages: 1887-1894 Mohammad Saud Zamanan, Mohammad Humoud Alkhaldi, Abdullah Sultan Almajroub, Ab-dulmohsen Salem Alajmi, Jassim Mohammad Alshammari and Omar Jaber Aburumman PDF (288 K) |
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This study aims to examine the influence of HRM practices (employees’ empowerment, job security, and employees’ participation) and employees’ satisfaction on intention to leave and the mediating role of employees’ satisfaction from the perspective of faculty members in private universities in Kuwait. The survey questionnaire was gathered from 261 faculty members who were working in four private universities in Kuwait. The study used the software SmartPLS (version 3.2.8) to test the study hypotheses. The findings indicate that HRM practices (employees’ empowerment and job security) and employees’ satisfaction had negative effects on intention to leave, and employees’ satisfaction partially mediated the relationship between HRM practices (employees’ empowerment and job security) and intention to leave. Future studies may include other samples as public universities or other sectors in Kuwait such as the education sector or health care sector.
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A multidimensional analysis of the effects of innovation on the competitive advantage of small and medium-sized enterprises
, Pages: 1895-1902 Tarek Bel Hadj PDF (288 K) |
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This paper investigates the effects of different dimensions of innovation on the competitive advantage of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The main dimensions of the innovation retained in this study are related to different types of innovation, innovation activities, sources of internal and external information, and public support for innovation. In this study, we rely on the principal component analysis of innovation applied to a sample of 231 Tunisian SMEs. The results show that product innovation, organizational innovation and innovation activities were the key variables for enhancing the competitive advantage of SMEs. In contrast, external sources of information have no effects on the SMEs competitive advantage. The originality of this research is to provide a multidimensional framework of the effects of innovation on the competitive position of SMEs.
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