Current Issue : April - June Volume : 2015 Issue Number : 2 Articles : 5 Articles
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the influences of private investment inflows on\nemployment and output across manufacturing industries. The study covered a time period\nfrom 1980 to 2010 for the variable of private investment inflows and from 1981 to 2011 for\nthe variables of employment and output. There were seven cross-section units to represent\nseven categories of industries for the analysis. Using a regression technique, the estimated\ncoefficients private investment flows had statistically significant influences on the levels of\nemployment and output. Using Pearson Correlation technique, there was a positive\ncorrelation between employment and output. Private investments are encouraged to\naccelerate output growth and employment enhancement in the sector....
Information system change is concerned with deliberate\nmodifications to an organization�s technical and organizational\nsubsystems that deal with information. Changes\nresult in adjustments being made to the configuration of\ninformation systems that could have an impact on the\noperations of those systems. This paper examines the\nproblem of interference between old configuration activities,\nnew configuration activities and reconfiguration\nactivities that occur due to overlapping modes. The paper\nproposes a novel form of depicting and solving the problem\nbased on a flow-based conceptualization in which a\nconfiguration can be viewed as a system of flow systems\norganized architecturally, described by their internal flows,\nand connected by external flows and triggering. This\nmethod of diagramming is applied to a complex case study\ninvolving the reconfiguration of an office workflow for\norder processing described in BPMN. The diagrams\nresulting from this method and the BPMN diagrams are\nthen examined side by side. Accordingly, the conclusion is\nthat a new high-level representation seems more systematic\nas a foundation for building a conceptual schema of\nbusiness processes....
The tremendous growth of the strategic management field has not mitigated the problem of\nlack of consistency in terminology. To make things even worse, general-purpose catalogs,\nsuch as ABI and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) have developed inconsistent lists of\nstrategy terms. The phenomenon weakens the legitimacy of the field as a normal science.\nBased on extensive review of business indices and high quality business journals, we help\naddress this problem by proposing a taxonomy for strategic management scholars to use in\nkey word selection. This effort is rendered in a three-step approach. First, we identify terms\nassociated with strategy by investigating two different types of databases, which are general\nindices such as ABI/INFORM and the Permuterm Subject Index (PSI) and journal indexes.\nSecond, we record an explicit definition for each of the terms identified. Finally, we eliminate\nany terms that were clearly not relevant to the field of strategy based on criteria established ex post selection of the terms. To complement our key word selections, we further propose a\npreliminary draft of an indexing system based on the Journal of Economics (JEL) model.\nTaken together, our research proposes a mechanism which can be used by the strategic\nmanagement field to help researchers signal the subject and scope of their studies more\neffectively....
We study the effect of monetary policy shocks on commodity prices. While most of the literature has found that expansionary\nshocks have a positive effect on aggregate price indices, we study the effect on individual prices of a sample of four commodities.\nThis set of commodity prices is essential to understand the dynamics of the balance of payments in Colombia. The analysis is based\non structural VAR models; we identify monetary policy shocks following Kim (1999, 2003) upon quarterly data for commodity\nprices and their fundamentals for the period from 1980q1 to 2010q3. Our results show that commodity prices overshoot their long\nrun equilibrium in response to a contractionary shock in theUSmonetary policy and, in contrast with literature, the response of the\nindividual prices considered is stronger than what has been found in aggregate indices. Additionally, it is found that the monetary\npolicy explains a substantial share of the fluctuations in prices....
This paper aimed to explore the determinant factors to affect the capability to innovate\norganization and used method to gather the data on agency of US. Foreign Missions in\nThailand. The finding revealed that the survey from employees understood the concept of innovation. In the quantitative section involved collecting data from 270 employees by\nquestionnaire. The results showed mean of the factors to affect organizational innovativeness\nis rather high level, commitment to learning, Customer focus, management support,\norganizational structure, knowledge sharing, contingency reward. This implies that all factors\nwere important and that organization is moving to innovative organization....
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