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Retail giants in every other industry have extensively used sophisticated visual merchandising techniques but they have been grossly underutilized in the auto industry. For this reason, there are no specific guidelines or manual provided to utilize visual merchandising elements inside the car showroom especially in automotive scene. By using strategic visual merchandising, car dealers can turn prospects into buyers. However, the visual merchandising elements must capture the emotion and perception of customers. Therefore, this study aims to identify the roles of visual merchandising inside a car showroom as stimuli that attract customers at the point of sale i.e. the car dealership and proposing emotional design approach in designing car showroom. By means of the proposed conceptual model, it should complement the current design approach in enhancing consumer purchasing behavior from the design perspectives. The conceptual framework has emerged from emotional design concept that allows the creation of desirable showroom design. As a result, this concept can be a guideline to facilitate marketer and dealer in designing a car showroom through visual merchandising elements.

Nobody on the planet is going to be untouched by the impacts of climate change. This study aims to arrange the various socioeconomic elasticities of environmental pollution in order of priority, depending on the length of time period, to establish the most effective policy. We employed a simultaneous equations system to find out the various socioeconomic elasticities in the long run and short run in Iran during 1974-2012. Based on the results, per capita CO2 emissions, GDP, energy consumption show the strongest interactions (relationships and elasticities) in the equations system as a whole in the long run. Moreover, it is the trade openness, labour force, financial development, and urbanization which show the most decisive effects in the short run. So the effectiveness of the system variables depends on the time period. Trade openness, labour force, and financial development play the most leading role in the short run, notwithstanding their limited role in the long run. However, energy consumption elasticity of CO2 emissions and urbanization elasticity of energy consumption are among the largest elasticities both in short run and long run. Therefore, energy consumption, economic growth and urbanization should be reduced and financial sector should be grown to decrease the environmental pollution. Moreover, economic growth is an effective factor for the long run; and trade openness and financial development are effective for the short run but urbanization and energy consumption are influential for both the long run and short run policies.

There is a growing concern for ever increasing external debt stock of countries in the worldwide. Coupled with resent global crises, the sustainability and efficient use of external debt becomes more and more important. To this end, we have tested the hypothesis of external debt led growth hypothesis for the case of Turkish economy. Our result has confirmed that Turkey's external debt both sustainable and efficiently used, at least for the last decade or so. The overall result proves also the reality of Turkish proverb “debt is a man's whip”.

The popularity of mobile applications (mobile apps) is undeniable where it allows people to perform several tasks through the use of smartphones, tablets or corresponding devices. Regardless of the great benefits in terms of innovation, the fast and nonstop growth of the mobile market has caused in some division of the platforms that support mobile device as an ideal platform for language learning applications for dominant languages such as English, Spanish and French in a fun and interactive devices. However, studies have yet to be conducted on the use of mobile technology in learning Kadazandusun language. Indeed, no empirical evidence of user acceptance on mobile apps as an effective medium to learn Kadazandusun language and demand a new study on how mobile technology such as mobile apps can help in preserving the language. Therefore, this conceptual paper discusses the user acceptance of the potentiality of mobile apps as an effective medium to learn Kadazandusun language, guided by the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). It is proposed that the users’ acceptance of using mobile apps in learning Kadazandusun language is influenced with their perceived usefulness of the mobile apps and their perceived ease of mobile apps use, which in turn influence their attitude towards mobile app usage and behavioral intention to use. Additional variables to the model includes content richness, user satisfaction, and perceived playfulness. Direction for future research is also presented.

The paper presents merchandise trade between China and Africa and between India and Africa over the period from 2000 to 2014. The analysis is based on the data retrieved from the UN Comtrade Database. Both, China and India have significantly increased their trade in goods with 54 African countries since the beginning of the 21st century. In the analysed period, China's bilateral trade with Africa increased 21 times while India's about 13 times. The Asian countries increased their merchandise trade with Africa mainly due to the development of South-South cooperation and diplomatic relations with the region, and combining trade with development assistance. So far the winner of the Sino-Indian trade competition in Africa is China. The value of China's total trade with Africa surpassed India's nearly 3 times in the years 2000-2014.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between the green value, emotional value, environment conscious, consumers’ perceived quality, and repurchase intention towards green products at Parkson Bandar Utama, Selangor. The variables are divided into three models where perceived quality is acting as the mediating variable and repurchase intention as the dependent variable. The questionnaires were filled by the respondents who already purchased green products at Parkson Bandar Utama. For this quantitative research, a total of 200 respondents participated in the survey. The study has found that green value has significant relationship with both perceived quality and repurchase intention. Emotional value has significant relationship with perceived quality. However, its relationship with repurchase intention is insignificant. For environment conscious, though its relationship with perceived quality is insignificant, when paired against repurchased intention, the relationship is found to be significant.

Today, the amazing speed of development of information technology and informatics industry, causing major changes in the handling money and resources in areas that are new concepts as electronic banking and electronic transmission provided. These two concepts, the creator of a new type of banking under the Banking electronics.

Scientific Study on the economic and especially the psychosocial factors of success in negotiation processes between buyers (procurers) and suppliers (producers) in the food trade. In particular it examines the economic and mental satisfaction in the decision-making and in the negotiation processes for efficient food supply. It is examined primarily as transparency in addition to Harvard concept at annual meetings (or between the year) favoring a satisfactory result for both negotiators. In a structural equation model, the Harvard negotiating points are brought with transparency in communication and this in terms of economic success experiences and the sociomental satisfaction.

This paper studies the relationship between the features of managerial board, ownership structure and firm performance of a particular type of new technology ventures: the academic spin offs. These are mainly small and medium firms, focused on high technology, research and innovation, that involve private and public actors in their ownership structure. Literature shows that these firms play an important role for economic growth of a country, however in Italy a high degree of academic spin offs doesn’t survive for a long time. Managerial competences, corporate governance attributes and financial structure could explain these phenomenon. This study observes a sample of Italian academic spin offs established in the last five years: primary data on corporate governance, industry, ownership structure, financial aspects are taken from the National Register of Firms, University (parent organization) and company website. Statistics show relevant relations between firm performance and corporate governance attributes and confirmed, after the start-up, the inefficiency of the board of directors in which there is an overlapping between academic-founder and manager, suggesting greater openness to outside expertise.