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The 2009 Deaflympics Sport Tourism have become a significant component of destination marketing. Previous work suggests that sport events verify the relationships among the variables of the participants' background, the attractiveness of local sport tourism, participation motives, satisfaction, and loyalty. Analysis done by structural equation modeling suggests that the participation motivation had...
Market share of environmental friendly products in Indonesia is still low, and its growth is still considerably slow. One way to overcome the problem is by creating the appropriate products to the appropriate consumers. Therefore, the ability to identify the characteristics of potential consumers is very important in order to be able to design the appropriate products group of consumers. This paper...
The arrivals of the Chinese people to Malaysia (Malaya) started since the early fifteenth century. At that time, they came as traders, seafarers and miners. The movements of Chinese people were very limited since at that time China was practicing a closed door policy with foreign countries. Thus, communications to and from China were very minimal. However, in 2001, the Chinese government had implemented...
This study concerns ethics in consulting and professionalism. It deals with definition of profession: knowledge and skills, the concept of social interests and service, ethical guideline, community enforcement and sanction, and self control, as well as discipline. Moreover, the study shows management consulting is a profession: technical competence, the consumer's interest, objective and impartiality,...
Non-financial information such as human capital has become an important source of information in determining corporate value and firm wealth in the era of globalization, technological change, and knowledge-intensive economy. Human capital is a key element in improving a company's assets that can be used to increase productivity as well as to sustain competitive advantage. Currently human capital disclosure...
Malaysia is one of the very environmentally rich countries in the world. At present, her traditions and heritage have been facing with numerous environmental problems such as air pollution, water pollution, exploitation of natural resources etc. Although, there are some historic states in Malaysia listed as a UNESCO Heritage Sites in the country. In order to cope with the environmental problems, the...
This paper presents a research agenda to firstly investigate the awareness and strategies of green operations and logistics in retail sector, and then develop a knowledge management (KM) model. Within the research, besides the understanding obtained on the drivers and barriers for retailers leading the supply chain “greening” journey, the KM model will also be developed through the application of...
Special Large sport events are the significant component of destination marketing. Previous studies suggested that sport events need to verify the relationships among the exercise experience variables of the participants, watching sports programs experience, the attractiveness of local sport tourism, participation motives, participation satisfaction and loyalty. This study applied structural equation...
This essay analyses the finished vehicle logistics chain including a single supplier, distributor and retailer with the establishment of VMI and third-party logistics. Through dynamic simulation, comparative analysis of financial performance indicators, the article gives the conclusion: Based on the integration of third-party logistics and VMI, performances of supplier, retailer as well as the whole...
In this paper, agent-based collaborative decision-making processes are addressed to resolve the dynamic scheduling problem of a distributed project. If any delay event occurs, the self-interested activity agent, the major agent in the framework for dynamic scheduling, can automatically cooperate with other agents to solve the delay problem through a two-stage decision-making process: the fuzzy decision-making...
In this era of customer-oriented and highly competitive environment in the electronics industry, many companies have implemented Electronic Customer Relationship Management (eCRM) as a link between businesses and customers. The obtained customer data assist companies in understanding customer needs and identifying appropriate strategies for effectively performing data analysis. eCRM simulates innovation...
To strengthen competitiveness, many ship owners have shifted their vessels' registrations to open registers as Flag of Convenience (FOC) vessels. The tendency of flagging out in Taiwan is more serious. This paper adopts the consistent fuzzy preference relation (CFPR) to evaluate the relative attractiveness of different types of registers to containership corporations in Taiwan. The preference of registry...
Strategic management researches in the perspective of resource based on the organic product industry is still limited in number although this industry has contribution to economic level of these countries. This research used descriptive and explanatory methods. The type of this research is causality research with cross sectional. The sampling technique is cluster area sampling. This paper discusses...
This paper studied the service quality of Taipei Metropolitan Rapid Transit (MRT) System using a SERVQUAL questionnaire and Importance-Performance analysis. The original SERVQUAL question items were modified to fit the context of Taipei Metropolitan Rapid Transit characteristics. After the conduction of the survey, statistics analyses such as factor analysis and ANOVA analysis were applied to understand...
The paper aims to elucidate the value creation and strategic groups of financial capital (FC) and intellectual capital (IC), which will serve as the criteria for business valuation and strategic management. We apply the strategic group concept to explore the value relevance of FC and IC. Cluster analysis is utilized to discover patterns in data. This paper leverages a model to represent value creation...
Consumer behavior is essentially a decision-making processes by consumers either individuals, groups, and organizations that includes the process of choosing, buying, obtaining, use of goods or services. The main question in consumer behavior research is how consumers make a purchase decision. This study indentifies factors that are statistically significant to impulsive buying to Kacang Garuda (Peanut)...
The conceptualisation of absorptive capacity in technology transfer (TT) in construction organisations could occur simultaneously, involving the flow of imported technology (i.e., knowledge, skills and tools) via construction projects. The absorptive capacity is the ability of the firm to assimilate imported technology, depending on their organisational technological capabilities. There are numerous...
This short article reviews what happened during the 10-years period after Taiwan joined WTO in Jan. 2002. Economic Indicators as well as social impact will be brought forward for discussion. It is our initial conclusion that joining WTO, which was so highly cherished 10 years ago, has created free trade mechanism and promoted efficiency and business innovation. But other equality and public interest...
Japan has a great influence on the Asia-Pacific and even the world economy. After decade years of declining, Japanese construction industry recovered in 2008 and accelerated slightly from 2009. The International Advanced Index is used to measures the international performance of Japanese construction industry. In addition, a comparative research is adopted to study the difference between 2000 and...
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