{"title":"Data Assessment Model for Strategic Management","authors":"Mikko Kontio, M. Marttila-Kontio, Virpi Hotti","doi":"10.5171/2015.561648","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5171/2015.561648","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":187676,"journal":{"name":"Communications of the IBIMA","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132645093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The current study aims at assessing the functional relationships between knowledge management processes and both organizational business processes’ and employees’ benefits. The assessment is taking place within an academic institution's portal environment. The study particularly investigates the effect of knowledge discovery, knowledge capture, knowledge sharing and knowledge application on business processes’ effectiveness, efficiency, and innovation; and employees’ learning, adaptability, and job satisfaction. Statistical analysis is performed using the PLS method on a structural equations framework.Consistent with previous research, knowledge sharing produces the highest effect on organizational business processes’ and employees’ benefits.
{"title":"The Effect of Knowledge Management Processes on Organizational Business Processes’ and Employees’ Benefits in an Academic Institution's Portal Environment","authors":"F. Hegazy, K. Ghorab","doi":"10.5171/2015.928262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5171/2015.928262","url":null,"abstract":"The current study aims at assessing the functional relationships between knowledge management processes and both organizational business processes’ and employees’ benefits. The assessment is taking place within an academic institution's portal environment. The study particularly investigates the effect of knowledge discovery, knowledge capture, knowledge sharing and knowledge application on business processes’ effectiveness, efficiency, and innovation; and employees’ learning, adaptability, and job satisfaction. Statistical analysis is performed using the PLS method on a structural equations framework.Consistent with previous research, knowledge sharing produces the highest effect on organizational business processes’ and employees’ benefits.","PeriodicalId":187676,"journal":{"name":"Communications of the IBIMA","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132721075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This research aims to quantify the impact that ten years’ worth of development in education and income provision has had on the capacity component of the water poverty index (WPI). It focuses on the southern part of the Gauteng and on the northern part of the Free State provinces, and is based on previous work in the region. The primary data source for the capacity component is Census data, and therefore Census data from both 2001 and 2011 are used for the comparisons. It indicates that although increased effort and spending on education has been successful in raising the capacity component score significantly, it seems to have been at the cost of income capacity, whose subcomponent score has decreased. Education is a national strategic priority, and this research has shown that interventions are starting to pay dividends. It has several other positive social implications as well, for example the improvement of the overall water poverty index, amongst others. Future research will have to focus on monitoring the effectiveness of interventions, this will ensure that the decision making process is always as relevant as possible.
{"title":"The Capacity Component of the Water Poverty Index and the Impact of Ten Years","authors":"C. V. D. Vyver","doi":"10.5171/2015.574276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5171/2015.574276","url":null,"abstract":"This research aims to quantify the impact that ten years’ worth of development in education and income provision has had on the capacity component of the water poverty index (WPI). It focuses on the southern part of the Gauteng and on the northern part of the Free State provinces, and is based on previous work in the region. The primary data source for the capacity component is Census data, and therefore Census data from both 2001 and 2011 are used for the comparisons. It indicates that although increased effort and spending on education has been successful in raising the capacity component score significantly, it seems to have been at the cost of income capacity, whose subcomponent score has decreased. Education is a national strategic priority, and this research has shown that interventions are starting to pay dividends. It has several other positive social implications as well, for example the improvement of the overall water poverty index, amongst others. Future research will have to focus on monitoring the effectiveness of interventions, this will ensure that the decision making process is always as relevant as possible.","PeriodicalId":187676,"journal":{"name":"Communications of the IBIMA","volume":"121 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133439657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sona Mardikyan, Endam Yıldız, Mehmet Ordu, Burcu Şimşek
Despite the development of the information society and the widespread diffusion of information technology, the disparities between groups of countries in terms of accessing and using information and communication technologies (ICTs) are still valuable. This disparity is defined as the term of digital divide. Although there are several different views about measuring the digital divide, in this study, International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) ICT key indicators are used to measure the global digital divide. The cross-sectional data are collected for 145 countries in the world, for year 2011. One-way ANOVA and regression analysis are applied as statistical methods to analyze global digital divide. According to the results, variables related to development levels, income levels, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) membership and continental differences are highly associated with the digital divide.
{"title":"Examining the Global Digital Divide: A Cross- Country Analysis","authors":"Sona Mardikyan, Endam Yıldız, Mehmet Ordu, Burcu Şimşek","doi":"10.5171/2015.592253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5171/2015.592253","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the development of the information society and the widespread diffusion of information technology, the disparities between groups of countries in terms of accessing and using information and communication technologies (ICTs) are still valuable. This disparity is defined as the term of digital divide. Although there are several different views about measuring the digital divide, in this study, International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) ICT key indicators are used to measure the global digital divide. The cross-sectional data are collected for 145 countries in the world, for year 2011. One-way ANOVA and regression analysis are applied as statistical methods to analyze global digital divide. According to the results, variables related to development levels, income levels, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) membership and continental differences are highly associated with the digital divide.","PeriodicalId":187676,"journal":{"name":"Communications of the IBIMA","volume":"118 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116367612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this article, we propose and test a model to explain the determinants of an organization’s IT budget. The research model extends prior research by providing a strong theoretical underpinning for the driving forces of IT budget, incorporating both dynamic and static contingencies internal to the organization, as well as from the external environment. We find that these contingencies are positively related to the IT budget decision. Our findings also demonstrate a moderating, as well as direct effect of the industry strategic role of IT, contributing to previous research, which identifies only a direct effect. Drawing on a comprehensive database and using objective measures for our research, we aim to provide a reference metric for an organization’s IT budget decision
{"title":"Determinants of information technology expenditure: a contingent model","authors":"K. Shen, M. Khalifa, Valerie Lindsay","doi":"10.5171/2015.440860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5171/2015.440860","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we propose and test a model to explain the determinants of an organization’s IT budget. The research model extends prior research by providing a strong theoretical underpinning for the driving forces of IT budget, incorporating both dynamic and static contingencies internal to the organization, as well as from the external environment. We find that these contingencies are positively related to the IT budget decision. Our findings also demonstrate a moderating, as well as direct effect of the industry strategic role of IT, contributing to previous research, which identifies only a direct effect. Drawing on a comprehensive database and using objective measures for our research, we aim to provide a reference metric for an organization’s IT budget decision","PeriodicalId":187676,"journal":{"name":"Communications of the IBIMA","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129201116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In the context of an unstable economic, social and political environment, SMEs in Romania are very vulnerable. It requires careful study of the causes that generate problems, major obstacles in developing their business objectives and setting priorities for supporting this sector. The success of an organization, the ability to adapt to economic variables and maintain an upward trajectory are determined largely by the quality of its leaders. The entrepreneur’s personality characterized by strong motivation gives to an organization a powerful entrepreneurial dimension. The model developed allows to determine the degree of entrepreneurship qualities depending on business risk and the management performance of entrepreneurs. It has a great influence on economic and social activity, the organizational climate of each economic unit. The proposed model can be successfully used in practice to calculate the entrepreneurial qualities for different categories of entrepreneurs for which a performance evaluation has been conducted, according to specific evaluation criteria.
{"title":"A Competitive Model for Entrepreneurial Qualities","authors":"G. Boca, C. Rădulescu, Cezar Toader","doi":"10.5171/2015.100244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5171/2015.100244","url":null,"abstract":"In the context of an unstable economic, social and political environment, SMEs in Romania are very vulnerable. It requires careful study of the causes that generate problems, major obstacles in developing their business objectives and setting priorities for supporting this sector. The success of an organization, the ability to adapt to economic variables and maintain an upward trajectory are determined largely by the quality of its leaders. The entrepreneur’s personality characterized by strong motivation gives to an organization a powerful entrepreneurial dimension. The model developed allows to determine the degree of entrepreneurship qualities depending on business risk and the management performance of entrepreneurs. It has a great influence on economic and social activity, the organizational climate of each economic unit. The proposed model can be successfully used in practice to calculate the entrepreneurial qualities for different categories of entrepreneurs for which a performance evaluation has been conducted, according to specific evaluation criteria.","PeriodicalId":187676,"journal":{"name":"Communications of the IBIMA","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122405530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Although reputation management literature has been dominated by marketing and communications-led perspectives, there is anagreementthat corporate reputation and good governance are often built from the internal towards external stakeholders. Lately, balancing the usage of social media as opposed to conventional media has demanded both human resources managementand public relations to become more strategic in addressing the role of brand communication via social media to gain competitiveness and business value. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the role of brand management for engaging employees, while building the reputation of the company. Most research on reputation management and branding focus either on social expectations and trust of external stakeholders and emphasis on internal stakeholders, particularly employees, is quite recent. “Employer branding” has been the application of branding principles for competitive advantage in strategic human resource management. Internal marketing of employer brands need to support external marketing so that organizational reputation is persistent. Employee commitment here refers to the degree to which an employee has positive associations and perceptions towards the organization, its brand values, brand personality and reputation. The researcherhas drawn upon prior research to develop anintegrated model that aims at linking strategic human resources management (SHRM), branding and corporate reputation. By using structured interviews of managers from various companies in different sectors, comparing and contrasting challenges and implications may pave the way for an integrated understanding of employees as the ultimate brand ambassadors/ advocates.
{"title":"Employer Branding and Reputation From A Strategic Human Resource Management Perspective","authors":"M. Yüksel","doi":"10.5171/2015.794545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5171/2015.794545","url":null,"abstract":"Although reputation management literature has been dominated by marketing and communications-led perspectives, there is anagreementthat corporate reputation and good governance are often built from the internal towards external stakeholders. Lately, balancing the usage of social media as opposed to conventional media has demanded both human resources managementand public relations to become more strategic in addressing the role of brand communication via social media to gain competitiveness and business value. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the role of brand management for engaging employees, while building the reputation of the company. Most research on reputation management and branding focus either on social expectations and trust of external stakeholders and emphasis on internal stakeholders, particularly employees, is quite recent. “Employer branding” has been the application of branding principles for competitive advantage in strategic human resource management. Internal marketing of employer brands need to support external marketing so that organizational reputation is persistent. Employee commitment here refers to the degree to which an employee has positive associations and perceptions towards the organization, its brand values, brand personality and reputation. The researcherhas drawn upon prior research to develop anintegrated model that aims at linking strategic human resources management (SHRM), branding and corporate reputation. By using structured interviews of managers from various companies in different sectors, comparing and contrasting challenges and implications may pave the way for an integrated understanding of employees as the ultimate brand ambassadors/ advocates.","PeriodicalId":187676,"journal":{"name":"Communications of the IBIMA","volume":"150 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134572907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Adriana Caione, Roberto Paiano, A. Guido, Monica Fait, Paola Scorrano
Nowadays many small and medium companies are interested in entering into foreign markets to establish a brand presence, sell their products and beat the competitors. Before making such a marketing decision, marketing experts can be guided by the traditional analysis of reports but also by the Web, through the analysis of social networks, blogs, forums, etc. These sources can provide real-time information about the perception that users have of specific brands and products. As a result, there are several tools that can extract interesting information from these unstructured data. In this paper, we propose an innovative knowledge extraction architecture realized through the integration of some existing tools. The aim is to retrieve the more frequent concepts from unstructured sources, suggest other links of articles and images, with multi-language feature so that the research is language independent. The architecture provides a knowledge base of a specific domain, which is used to suggest concepts related to the research, and to filter the results obtained from the elaboration of the unstructured sources. We present a case of study related to marketing in agri-food sector, in order to illustrate how the software works, the results obtained, their interpretation and the managerial implications.
{"title":"Knowledge Gathering from Social Media to Improve Marketing in Agri-food Sector","authors":"Adriana Caione, Roberto Paiano, A. Guido, Monica Fait, Paola Scorrano","doi":"10.5171/2015.857912","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5171/2015.857912","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays many small and medium companies are interested in entering into foreign markets to establish a brand presence, sell their products and beat the competitors. Before making such a marketing decision, marketing experts can be guided by the traditional analysis of reports but also by the Web, through the analysis of social networks, blogs, forums, etc. These sources can provide real-time information about the perception that users have of specific brands and products. As a result, there are several tools that can extract interesting information from these unstructured data. In this paper, we propose an innovative knowledge extraction architecture realized through the integration of some existing tools. The aim is to retrieve the more frequent concepts from unstructured sources, suggest other links of articles and images, with multi-language feature so that the research is language independent. The architecture provides a knowledge base of a specific domain, which is used to suggest concepts related to the research, and to filter the results obtained from the elaboration of the unstructured sources. We present a case of study related to marketing in agri-food sector, in order to illustrate how the software works, the results obtained, their interpretation and the managerial implications.","PeriodicalId":187676,"journal":{"name":"Communications of the IBIMA","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122890317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sonja H. Bickford, M. Nenasheva, P. Kankaanpää, Timo Koivurova, Angela M. Hlavnicka
Finnish companies have a growing and keen interest in entering the changing and improving Northwestern Russian market. According to the World Bank’s rankings for the ease of doing business, Russia ranked at 92 out of 189. The country was however recognized as one of the 29 countries which had improved their rankings in 2012/13 according to reforms in at least 3 of the 10 measured topics. In addition to being ranked in the 50th percentile in the ease of doing business, the Russian business environment and culture must also be considered when deciding to enter a market sector abroad. In understanding the Russian business culture for example, as defined by Hofstede’s cultural dimensions, Russia is described as a culture of high power distance, uncertainty avoidance, and pragmatism meaning that the business culture includes the right personal contacts, bureaucratic business processes, and an orientation where the situation, context, and time have meaning for the outcome of the issue at hand. In other words, the culture and businesses thrive on the network of contacts, understanding the processes and systems, as well as on direct personal communication. In addition to the ease of doing business improving and the cultural differences, development projects in specific must go through the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process which has proven to be a market entry barrier into the Northwestern Russian region. It has been found that the EIA process and system in Russia is complex and hard to navigate, even by native developers. The issues of identifying the EIA best practices of the private sector in Northwestern Russia and thus easing the market entry barrier posed by the Russian EIA system and its process for Finnish as well as other international companies looking into entering the Northwestern Russian market are addressed with a toolkit. This toolkit is a free of charge; open, online information service – Russia (ISRussia) designed specifically from the gathered research, feedback, and needs assessment and analysis of Finland’s private sector and thus is specifically designed for the companies.
{"title":"Online Information System - Russia Aims to Ease the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Market Entry Barrier into Northwestern Russia","authors":"Sonja H. Bickford, M. Nenasheva, P. Kankaanpää, Timo Koivurova, Angela M. Hlavnicka","doi":"10.5171/2015.185611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5171/2015.185611","url":null,"abstract":"Finnish companies have a growing and keen interest in entering the changing and improving Northwestern Russian market. According to the World Bank’s rankings for the ease of doing business, Russia ranked at 92 out of 189. The country was however recognized as one of the 29 countries which had improved their rankings in 2012/13 according to reforms in at least 3 of the 10 measured topics. In addition to being ranked in the 50th percentile in the ease of doing business, the Russian business environment and culture must also be considered when deciding to enter a market sector abroad. In understanding the Russian business culture for example, as defined by Hofstede’s cultural dimensions, Russia is described as a culture of high power distance, uncertainty avoidance, and pragmatism meaning that the business culture includes the right personal contacts, bureaucratic business processes, and an orientation where the situation, context, and time have meaning for the outcome of the issue at hand. In other words, the culture and businesses thrive on the network of contacts, understanding the processes and systems, as well as on direct personal communication. In addition to the ease of doing business improving and the cultural differences, development projects in specific must go through the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process which has proven to be a market entry barrier into the Northwestern Russian region. It has been found that the EIA process and system in Russia is complex and hard to navigate, even by native developers. The issues of identifying the EIA best practices of the private sector in Northwestern Russia and thus easing the market entry barrier posed by the Russian EIA system and its process for Finnish as well as other international companies looking into entering the Northwestern Russian market are addressed with a toolkit. This toolkit is a free of charge; open, online information service – Russia (ISRussia) designed specifically from the gathered research, feedback, and needs assessment and analysis of Finland’s private sector and thus is specifically designed for the companies.","PeriodicalId":187676,"journal":{"name":"Communications of the IBIMA","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129272365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The purpose of the study is to develop and validate an instrument to measure perception on TQM practices among research and development (R&D) center employees. Empirical data were collected from 102 employees in a public R&D center in Saudi Arabia. The content validity, construct validity, criterion-related validity, and reliability were examined. Results showed that the instrument is a reliable and valid tool in measuring the employees’ perception on TQM practices. This produces a relatively compact instrument comprising four TQM variables with 22 items that allows researchers and practitioners to measure perceived TQM implementation among all types of employees and TQM program levels in public organizations. Suggestions for using the instrument are presented.
{"title":"An Instrument for Measuring Perception Levels on TQM Practices among R&D Center Employees in Saudi Arabia","authors":"K. I. AlShitri, K. Abdulaziz","doi":"10.5171/2014.473436","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5171/2014.473436","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of the study is to develop and validate an instrument to measure perception on TQM practices among research and development (R&D) center employees. Empirical data were collected from 102 employees in a public R&D center in Saudi Arabia. The content validity, construct validity, criterion-related validity, and reliability were examined. Results showed that the instrument is a reliable and valid tool in measuring the employees’ perception on TQM practices. This produces a relatively compact instrument comprising four TQM variables with 22 items that allows researchers and practitioners to measure perceived TQM implementation among all types of employees and TQM program levels in public organizations. Suggestions for using the instrument are presented.","PeriodicalId":187676,"journal":{"name":"Communications of the IBIMA","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121468403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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