Volume 2, Issue 1 (2010) | American Journal of Economics and Business Administration

Service Quality Perceptions between Cooperative and Islamic Banks of Britain

Daing Maruak Sadek — 2010-03-31

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Published online: 31 March 2010; doi:10.3844/ajebasp.2010.1.5

Problem statement: The objectives of this study were to determine mean comparison all 6 dimensions between Cooperative Bank (CB) and Islamic Bank of Britain (IBB) in Leicestershire, United Kingdom, to...

The Malaysian Public Procurement's Prevalent System and its Weaknesses

Rohana Othman — 2010-03-31

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Published online: 31 March 2010; doi:10.3844/ajebasp.2010.6.11

Problem statement: This study examined the public procurement system as prevalent in the Malaysian government system of administration. Various aspects of public procurement are outlined including ty...

The Economics of Autism in Egypt

Roger Lee Mendoza — 2010-03-31

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Published online: 31 March 2010; doi:10.3844/ajebasp.2010.12.19

Problem statement: This was the first study ever done on the cost consequences of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in Egypt or any other developing/industrializing country. The following questions we...

A Quantitative Study on Japanese Workers' Awareness to Information Security Using the Data Collected by Web-Based Survey

Toshihiko Takemura — 2010-03-31

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Published online: 31 March 2010; doi:10.3844/ajebasp.2010.20.26

Problem statement: The researches in the field of social sciences such as economics and business management were not conducted until around 2000. Particularly, there are few empirical studies on infor...

Neuro-Based Artificial Intelligence Model for Loan Decisions

Shorouq Fathi Eletter — 2010-03-31

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Published online: 31 March 2010; doi:10.3844/ajebasp.2010.27.34

Problem statement: Despite the increase in consumer loans defaults and competition in the banking market, most of the Jordanian commercial banks are reluctant to use artificial intelligence software s...

Impact of foreign Direct Investment on Shares Market Value in Amman Exchange Market

Mohammad I. Al-Halalmeh — 2010-03-31

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Published online: 31 March 2010; doi:10.3844/ajebasp.2010.35.38

Problem statement: To examine the impact of foreign direct investment on share market value in Amman Exchange Market. The impact of foreign direct investment on shares market value s investigated in t...

Interaction of Export Instability and Openness-Growth Nexus In East Asia and Pacific Countries (1990-2006)

Zamanian Gholamreza — 2010-03-31

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Published online: 31 March 2010; doi:10.3844/ajebasp.2010.39.44

Problem statement: Because of the importance of the relation between instability of economic variables and making decision for determinants, this is so considerable to find the interaction between ins...

Explaining Local Growth-Management Policies: The Role of Public Goods

Donna Driscoll — 2010-03-31

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Published online: 31 March 2010; doi:10.3844/ajebasp.2010.45.55

Problem statement: Local jurisdictions such as cities and counties enact a wide variety of growth-management regulations, such as zoning ordinances and growth-promoting incentives. Approach: Use a the...

The Impact of Organizational Justice on Employee's Job Satisfaction: The Malaysian Companies Perspectives

Choong Kwai Fatt — 2010-03-31

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Published online: 31 March 2010; doi:10.3844/ajebasp.2010.56.63

Problem statement: This research study analyzed the impact of organizational justice as encompassed by two components, namely distributive justice and procedural justice on employee’s job satisfacti...

Marketing Strategies in Port Industry: An Exploratory Study and a Research Agenda

Angelos M. Pantouvakis — 2010-03-31

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Published online: 31 March 2010; doi:10.3844/ajebasp.2010.64.72

Problem statement: Market globalization increases demand and the competition between firms. Ports as basic figurative nodes cannot remain separate from this change. Technological improvements, the inc...

The Productivity and Human Capital in the Japanese Software Industry: The View of Service Innovation

Kazunori Minetaki — 2010-03-31

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Published online: 31 March 2010; doi:10.3844/ajebasp.2010.73.77

Problem statement: It has been pointed out the weak competitiveness of Japanese software industry. The industrial characteristic of the software industry in Japan is the subcontract system. There are ...

On Calculating Activity Slack in Stochastic Project Networks

Gary Mitchell — 2010-03-31

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Published online: 31 March 2010; doi:10.3844/ajebasp.2010.78.85

Problem statement: Identifying critical tasks in a project network is easily done when task times are deterministic, but doing so under stochastic task times is problematic. The few methods that have ...

Study of Relation of Psychological Factors of Empowerment and Entrepreneurship

Mehrdad Goudarzvand Chegini — 2010-03-31

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Published online: 31 March 2010; doi:10.3844/ajebasp.2010.86.89

Problem statement: Today, organizations are able to survive that have dynamic requirements and potentials and can make a proper response to changes and equip their human sources to the knowledge and s...

On Replenishing Items with Seasonal Intermittent Demand

Gary Mitchell — 2010-03-31

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Published online: 31 March 2010; doi:10.3844/ajebasp.2010.90.102

Problem statement: There are numerous difficulties associated with replenishing intermittent demand items and these are compounded when the demand distribution(s) vary seasonally. Excess inventories d...

Measuring Investors' Reaction to the Adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards in Greece, Using a Market-Based Model

Athanasios Vazakidis — 2010-03-31

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Published online: 31 March 2010; doi:10.3844/ajebasp.2010.103.112

Problem statement: The aim of this study is to highlight the main differences between International Accounting Standards and Greek accounting, The sample constituted by 90 randomly selected Greek comp...

Clayboy Pottery Company: A Case Study in Quality Management in a Job Shop Operations System

Michael R. Summers — 2010-03-31

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Published online: 31 March 2010; doi:10.3844/ajebasp.2010.113.119

Background: This case study is designed for upper-level undergraduate students in a basic operations management course. Prerequisites would include statistics and computer science. Objective: The purp...

Aspirin in Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Events: Does Market Failure Matter?

Roger Lee Mendoza — 2010-03-31

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Published online: 31 March 2010; doi:10.3844/ajebasp.2010.120.128

Problem statement: Against the backdrop of the 2009 scientific studies qualifying the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular benefits of aspirin, two interrelated questions are raised for investigation in...

Waves of Knowledge Management: The Flow between Explicit and Tacit Knowledge

Roxanne Helm Stevens — 2010-03-31

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Published online: 31 March 2010; doi:10.3844/ajebasp.2010.129.135

Problem statement: Knowledge Management (KM) is often equated with content management. Indeed, robust knowledge management processes include a database; but, information becomes knowledge when it is u...