International Developments in Management Research

Edited by Gregory T. Papanikos

ISBN: 978-960-9549-66-0, 364 pages

First published in 2011 by ATINER

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Electronic copy: 30€

Table of Contents

1.

International Developments in Management Research: An Introduction

Gregory T. Papanikos

1

Part A: Strategic Issues

2.

Decision Support for Knowledge Management: An Analytical Perspective the New Approach

Luiz Flavio Autran M. Gomes, Jorge L. Cataldo and Ailson De Moraes

11

3.

Privatisation and Changes in Strategic Management

Koldo Zabalza and Jesús Matey

21

4.

Corporate Governance Systems Facing the Economic Crisis

Riccardo Astori and Luisa Bosetti

37

5.

Main Challenges in Organizational Management for a Sustainable Development in 21st Century: A New Perspective

Maria Cinta Gisbert López, Júlio Costa Mendes, Pedro Fernandes Anunciação, Fernanda Jesus Andrade, Cristina Reis Fernandes and João Carlos Rocha Santos

63

6.

Corporate Sustainability Supported through Internationalisation and Diversification Strategies: The Case Study of one of the Biggest Portuguese Companies of the Building and Civil Construction Industry

Maria Cinta Gisbert López, João Carlos Rocha Santos and David Snow

83

7.

Importance of Organizational Values in Business Firms:A Content Analysis Approach

Esin Ertemsir Berkin, Yonca Gürol, Yasemin Bal and Pinar Büyükbalci

103

8.

Externalisation of Logistics: The Case of the Ready-to-wear Sector

Laetitia Dari

113

9.

An Investigation of the Significant Measures of the Balanced Scorecard Perspectives and the Strategy Map in the Service Industry  (Evidence from a Chain-Hotel in Iran)

Mohammad Namazi and Amin Nazemi

129

10.

Benchmarking ESSQ Management Systems

Pekka Tervonen, Joonas Alapiha and Harri Haapasalo

153

11.

Quality Oriented Value and Performance Drivers

Roland Jochem and Dennis Geers

163

12.

Total Quality Management from a Turkish Perspective: Discovering the Main Characteristics of Turkish Firms Applying Total Quality Methods

Oygur Yamak

177

Part B: Human Resources Issues

13.

Diversity Retention and Organizational Peak Performance

Sabah J. Alwan

189

 

14.

Psychological Capital and the Entrepreneurial Intention of College Students

Terrence C. Sebora and Sannan Tantiukoskula

199

15.

A Cognitive Development Model of Entrepreneurial Learning

Rooted in Family Business: The 5+5+5 BELÔ Method

Cindy Iannarelli, Leann Mischel and Joe Aniello

221

16.

Managing Boundaries:

The Case of Home-Based Self-Employed Teleworkers

Mona Mustafa

231

17.

An Asian perspective on the influence of Age, Job Characteristics and Training Opportunities on Job Satisfaction

Peter Hosie, Payyazhi Jayashree, Abdellatif Tchantchane

and Lee Ban Seng

243

18.

Perceptions about and Transitions towards Retirement

Marita Naudé and Therese Jefferson

263

19.

A Practice on the Organizational Justice Perception and Organizational Commitment Relation in the Tourism Sector of Turkey

Serdar Çöp, Ali Yayli and M. Murat Kizanlikli

277

20.

The Evolution of Managers and Team Members’ Perception,

A Case Study in Information Systems

Dorota Leszczyńska and Laurence Saglietto

293

21.

The Efficiency and Effectiveness of Information Technology for Human Resources in the Public and Private Sectors in Thailand

Boon-anan Phinaitrup and Gary N.McLean

305

Part C: Special Management Issues

 

22.

Improving Business Major Persistence to Sophomore Year through Modest Revisions to the “Introduction to Business” Curriculum: Preliminary Results from a Longitudinal Study

Don Lifton, Aimee Dars Ellis and Rachel Hart

331

23.

A Conjoint Analysis on the Determinants of Viewer Choice of TV Programming

Pinar Yildirim and Baris Ursavas

339

24.

Managing an Experience Operation

Mehran Sepehri

351