Volume 4, Issue 1 (2012) | American Journal of Economics and Business Administration

Service-Learning in a Managerial Accounting Course: Developing the ‘Soft’ Skills

Victoria Calvert — 2012-01-03

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Published online: 3 January 2012; doi:10.3844/ajebasp.2012.5.12

Problem statement: This study explores the impact of a service-learning project embedded in a managerial accounting course through the lens of students’ technical, professional and personal developm...

Learning from Lessons Learned: Project Management Research Program

Kam Jugdev — 2012-01-09

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Published online: 9 January 2012; doi:10.3844/ajebasp.2012.13.22

Problem statement: When we fail to learn from our own mistakes or those of others, we tend to repeat the mistakes. This study discusses lessons learned as important ways of gathering and sharing both ...

Satisfaction with Knowledge and Competencies: A Multi-Country Study of Employers and Business Graduates

Ana Azevedo — 2012-01-14

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Published online: 14 January 2012; doi:10.3844/ajebasp.2012.23.39

Problem statement: This study critically discusses findings from a research project involving four European countries. The project had two main aims. The first was to develop a systematic procedure fo...

Trans Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership With Japan, South Korea and China Integrate: General Equilibrium Approach

Todsadee Areerat — 2012-01-17

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Published online: 17 January 2012; doi:10.3844/ajebasp.2012.40.46

Problem statement: The Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement (TPP) is a high standard and broad based Free Trade Agreement that aims to integrate the economies of the Asia-Pacific re...

Gravitational Force of Community Events: A New Method of Evaluating Value of Local Events

Nathanael L. Adams — 2012-01-30

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Published online: 30 January 2012; doi:10.3844/ajebasp.2012.47.58

Problem statement: This proposed “Gravitational Force” model was created to give communities a way to measure how effectively local events attract participants and visitors from a distance. Additi...

A Comparison of the Business Environments of Two Emerging Economies

Celina Garcia — 2012-02-14

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Published online: 14 February 2012; doi:10.3844/ajebasp.2012.59.64

Problem statement: Brazil and Mexico, the two largest emerging economies of Latin America, have undergone significant transformation in the past decades providing unique business opportunities to inte...

A Practical Framework for the Continuous Advancement of Entrepreneurship Education

Robin Anderson — 2012-02-25

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Published online: 25 February 2012; doi:10.3844/ajebasp.2012.65.71

Problem statement: As the business environment becomes more and more complex due to rapid globalization, increasing competition and advancing technologies, universities are under more pressure to resp...

Public Funding and Affordability of Substance Abuse Treatment Services

Roberto A. Trevino — 2012-02-28

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Published online: 28 February 2012; doi:10.3844/ajebasp.2012.72.83

Problem statement: Substance abuse continues to cause significant personal, social and economic costs to the US economy. In order to decrease these costs, the goal of the US public health policy has b...

Forecasting the Stock Exchange of Thailand uses Day of the Week Effect and Markov Regime Switching GARCH

P. Sattayatham — 2012-03-15

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Published online: 15 March 2012; doi:10.3844/ajebasp.2012.84.93

Problem statement: We forecast return and volatility of the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Index. Approach: In this study, we modeled the SET Index returns using mean equation with day of the week e...

Reducing the Hindering Forces in Intra-Family Business Succession

George S. Vozikis — 2012-03-20

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Published online: 20 March 2012; doi:10.3844/ajebasp.2012.94.104

The majority of research has focused on how families can best prepare to hand the family business to the next generation and concentrated mainly on factors that facilitate succession. However, very fe...

The Growth of Small Businesses: Towards A Research Agenda

Akin Fadahunsi — 2012-03-26

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Published online: 26 March 2012; doi:10.3844/ajebasp.2012.105.115

Problem statement: The central objective of this study is to help define a framework for researching the growth of small businesses. Approach: By way of a literature review, the study evaluates curren...