Pub Date : 2018-08-01DOI: 10.13189/UJM.2018.060801
M. Bojadjiev, A. T. Misoska, Biserka Mirocevic, M. Stefanovska-Petkovska
{"title":"Organizational Culture and the \"Voice\" of Small Entreprises in the Electrical Engineering Service Sector in the Republic of Macedonia","authors":"M. Bojadjiev, A. T. Misoska, Biserka Mirocevic, M. Stefanovska-Petkovska","doi":"10.13189/UJM.2018.060801","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13189/UJM.2018.060801","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":211193,"journal":{"name":"Universal journal of management","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123598720","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}
Pub Date : 2018-08-01DOI: 10.13189/ujm.2018.060802
S. Islam, A. Kalam, Afia Fahmida
This paper investigates the determinants of consumers' choice of semi processed frozen snacks food products (especially snacks category) and develops an empirical understanding of the factors affecting customers' choice behavior. We have chosen this study to look specifically at processed frozen snacks and breakfast products as they represent a rapidly increasing segment of the restaurant snacks and breakfast replacement category. In this research descriptive statistics and factor analysis have been conducted to identify the factors that actually affect Consumers' decision in selecting semi processed frozen food products of different brands. Responsiveness has been got regarding the factors like brand image, quality, how much hygiene, price, processing time etc. Eight salient features of the product were selected after a pretesting consumer survey and initial discussion with the channel members. After analyze the total variance it is found that three principal components are liable for more than 60% of total variance, each of which initial Eigen value is also more than 01 (required). After varimax rotated component matrix analysis it is found that 5 variables i.e. product quality, price, taste, availability and competitive superiority, are strongly correlated with the three principal components.
{"title":"Factors Affecting Customers' Brand Choice Behavior of Semi Processed Frozen Food Products: A Study in Khulna City, Bangladesh","authors":"S. Islam, A. Kalam, Afia Fahmida","doi":"10.13189/ujm.2018.060802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13189/ujm.2018.060802","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the determinants of consumers' choice of semi processed frozen snacks food products (especially snacks category) and develops an empirical understanding of the factors affecting customers' choice behavior. We have chosen this study to look specifically at processed frozen snacks and breakfast products as they represent a rapidly increasing segment of the restaurant snacks and breakfast replacement category. In this research descriptive statistics and factor analysis have been conducted to identify the factors that actually affect Consumers' decision in selecting semi processed frozen food products of different brands. Responsiveness has been got regarding the factors like brand image, quality, how much hygiene, price, processing time etc. Eight salient features of the product were selected after a pretesting consumer survey and initial discussion with the channel members. After analyze the total variance it is found that three principal components are liable for more than 60% of total variance, each of which initial Eigen value is also more than 01 (required). After varimax rotated component matrix analysis it is found that 5 variables i.e. product quality, price, taste, availability and competitive superiority, are strongly correlated with the three principal components.","PeriodicalId":211193,"journal":{"name":"Universal journal of management","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115592321","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}
Pub Date : 2018-08-01DOI: 10.13189/ujm.2018.060803
Jim I. Unah, Waheed O. Dawodu
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Pub Date : 2018-08-01DOI: 10.13189/ujm.2018.060804
D. Procházková, J. Procházka
The aim of all people is human security and development. Therefore, they need technological facilities, which ensure energy, services and products for life. Present cognition shows that safety of technological facilities is based on copping with risks. Human cognition contains a lot of knowledge and experiences with risks, but in reality only part of them are used in practice. The aim of research, the results of which are presented, was the judgment, how in practice connected with complex technological facility safety it is used the present human cognition on work with risks. With regard to world dynamic development it is necessary the priority risks to monitor and to cope with them during time, and also to measure the respective safety. At measure of rate for safety level we use the known experience that the better coping with relevant risks, the higher facility safety level is. The analysis of based publications and data from real practice shows that seven domains at work with risks are important. The paper shows the results of critical judgment of individual techniques that are used at work with risks in technological facilities in practice.
{"title":"Alternatives of Work with Risks Used at Technological Facilities Safety Management","authors":"D. Procházková, J. Procházka","doi":"10.13189/ujm.2018.060804","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13189/ujm.2018.060804","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of all people is human security and development. Therefore, they need technological facilities, which ensure energy, services and products for life. Present cognition shows that safety of technological facilities is based on copping with risks. Human cognition contains a lot of knowledge and experiences with risks, but in reality only part of them are used in practice. The aim of research, the results of which are presented, was the judgment, how in practice connected with complex technological facility safety it is used the present human cognition on work with risks. With regard to world dynamic development it is necessary the priority risks to monitor and to cope with them during time, and also to measure the respective safety. At measure of rate for safety level we use the known experience that the better coping with relevant risks, the higher facility safety level is. The analysis of based publications and data from real practice shows that seven domains at work with risks are important. The paper shows the results of critical judgment of individual techniques that are used at work with risks in technological facilities in practice.","PeriodicalId":211193,"journal":{"name":"Universal journal of management","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124136318","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}
Pub Date : 2018-07-01DOI: 10.13189/UJM.2018.060701
Andrée Piecq
{"title":"What if Burnout was a Symptom of Our 21st Century Society?","authors":"Andrée Piecq","doi":"10.13189/UJM.2018.060701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13189/UJM.2018.060701","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":211193,"journal":{"name":"Universal journal of management","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124452672","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}
Pub Date : 2018-07-01DOI: 10.13189/ujm.2018.060702
C. Mavhunga
The dearth of studies to establish the line of fit for the indigenisation policy in Zimbabwe and the enactment of the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act [S.494] [ZIDERA] 1 by the United States of America [USA] to challenge the government of Zimbabwe`s land reform and indigenisation policies motivated the production of this paper. Policy makers, members of the public, politicians, new farmers and other influential business pundits in Zimbabwe participated in the study. The study used non-experimental descriptive research design combining the deductive and inductive research approaches to be comprehensive. A desk review of secondary sources such as the indigenization Act [Chapter: 14:33] 2 , publications, policy guidelines and other relevant material was sought to establish the theoretical proposition. Questionnaires and interviews were the main research instruments. The study findings were that developing countries were getting impoverished whilst developed countries were getting enriched by the way poor states got integrated into the world system. The basis of this result is that poor countries depend on exports of primary products whilst rich nations export processed goods to poor countries at exorbitant prices, thereby deepening the poverty level. This violates the United Nations General Assembly resolution [1803.[xvii] 3 which entrenches the Principle of Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources.(PPSNR).To correct the imbalance, the study conclusion supports the need to indigenize the economy, but with a policy shift on the modalities in the configuration of the policy framework. The study also recommends the adoption of the Line of Fit theory in which indigenisation policy consideration focuses mainly on product beneficiation than continual exports of primary products. This indigenisation model need to embrace a 360 model which embraces mainly indigenized education systems, indigenized economic models, indigenized financial and management literacy and an indigenized corporate governance policy document for Zimbabweans and the removal of sanctions by the United States of America to give a chance to Zimbabweans to grow the economy to a 100 billion mark by 2030.
{"title":"Towards Building the Indigenisation Theory: The Zimbabwean Resource Management Perspective","authors":"C. Mavhunga","doi":"10.13189/ujm.2018.060702","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13189/ujm.2018.060702","url":null,"abstract":"The dearth of studies to establish the line of fit for the indigenisation policy in Zimbabwe and the enactment of the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act [S.494] [ZIDERA] 1 by the United States of America [USA] to challenge the government of Zimbabwe`s land reform and indigenisation policies motivated the production of this paper. Policy makers, members of the public, politicians, new farmers and other influential business pundits in Zimbabwe participated in the study. The study used non-experimental descriptive research design combining the deductive and inductive research approaches to be comprehensive. A desk review of secondary sources such as the indigenization Act [Chapter: 14:33] 2 , publications, policy guidelines and other relevant material was sought to establish the theoretical proposition. Questionnaires and interviews were the main research instruments. The study findings were that developing countries were getting impoverished whilst developed countries were getting enriched by the way poor states got integrated into the world system. The basis of this result is that poor countries depend on exports of primary products whilst rich nations export processed goods to poor countries at exorbitant prices, thereby deepening the poverty level. This violates the United Nations General Assembly resolution [1803.[xvii] 3 which entrenches the Principle of Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources.(PPSNR).To correct the imbalance, the study conclusion supports the need to indigenize the economy, but with a policy shift on the modalities in the configuration of the policy framework. The study also recommends the adoption of the Line of Fit theory in which indigenisation policy consideration focuses mainly on product beneficiation than continual exports of primary products. This indigenisation model need to embrace a 360 model which embraces mainly indigenized education systems, indigenized economic models, indigenized financial and management literacy and an indigenized corporate governance policy document for Zimbabweans and the removal of sanctions by the United States of America to give a chance to Zimbabweans to grow the economy to a 100 billion mark by 2030.","PeriodicalId":211193,"journal":{"name":"Universal journal of management","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114859421","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}
Pub Date : 2018-07-01DOI: 10.13189/UJM.2018.060703
N. Firsova, Ivan P. Vaghely
This paper outlines a view of cultural issues, connecting it to the risk literature. Culture, as a risk-driver of the firm, has not previously been fully explored. International business scholars tend to ignore either the external or the internal aspects of a firm's cultural environment, emphasizing only one side: either cultural diversity issues within the organization or host country cultural challenges. Using strategic management, this paper suggests that cultural risk should consider both out there according to product-market-positioning concepts and in here with the resource-based view of the firm to capture the essence of the firm's cultural dynamics. This paper proposes a theoretical framework to assess cultural risks under an enterprise-wide risk management (ERM) process to better manage such risks. The suggested framework can serve as a tool to benefit researchers as well as practitioners.
{"title":"Strategic Options to Cultural Risk Management: A Theoretical Framework","authors":"N. Firsova, Ivan P. Vaghely","doi":"10.13189/UJM.2018.060703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13189/UJM.2018.060703","url":null,"abstract":"This paper outlines a view of cultural issues, connecting it to the risk literature. Culture, as a risk-driver of the firm, has not previously been fully explored. International business scholars tend to ignore either the external or the internal aspects of a firm's cultural environment, emphasizing only one side: either cultural diversity issues within the organization or host country cultural challenges. Using strategic management, this paper suggests that cultural risk should consider both out there according to product-market-positioning concepts and in here with the resource-based view of the firm to capture the essence of the firm's cultural dynamics. This paper proposes a theoretical framework to assess cultural risks under an enterprise-wide risk management (ERM) process to better manage such risks. The suggested framework can serve as a tool to benefit researchers as well as practitioners.","PeriodicalId":211193,"journal":{"name":"Universal journal of management","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130396110","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}
Pub Date : 2018-06-01DOI: 10.13189/ujm.2018.060604
José Artur Vieira, Marcela do Carmo Silva, Carlos Francisco Simões Gomes, Marcos dos Santos
{"title":"Multicriteria Decision Integrated Prospective Theory Applied at Engineering Services' Company","authors":"José Artur Vieira, Marcela do Carmo Silva, Carlos Francisco Simões Gomes, Marcos dos Santos","doi":"10.13189/ujm.2018.060604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13189/ujm.2018.060604","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":211193,"journal":{"name":"Universal journal of management","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121132643","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}
Pub Date : 2018-06-01DOI: 10.13189/UJM.2018.060602
L. Bianco, S. Porisiensi, G. Baracchini, Laura Battigelli, C. Ceschia
{"title":"Circular Economy in EAF Process: How to Make It Sustainable with Zero Waste Project in Ferriere Nord","authors":"L. Bianco, S. Porisiensi, G. Baracchini, Laura Battigelli, C. Ceschia","doi":"10.13189/UJM.2018.060602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13189/UJM.2018.060602","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":211193,"journal":{"name":"Universal journal of management","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124712387","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}
Pub Date : 2018-06-01DOI: 10.13189/UJM.2018.060601
P. Eskerod, Jovana Đurić
A blooming hotel industry has the downside of an increased negative environmental impact. At the same time, many hotel guests and employees have become conscious of eco-friendliness and green practices. In addition, 2017 was by United Nations declared as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development, with the emphasis on (among other elements) resource efficiency and environmental protection. A hotel that has obtained green certificate(s) promises green services, products, and operations, and possesses thereby (potentially) important strategic assets, when it comes to attracting customers and employees. Many green certifications are offered within the hotel industry, such as for example Green Globe and Green Key. However, which certificate(s) to choose is a strategic choice for the hotel management. In this paper, we examine green certifications in order to determine similarities and differences among them. As part of the research, we analyze the usage of green certificates in different regions (e.g. Southeast Europe). Even though many of the certifications are offered internationally, we identified clear differences in dissemination across regions. In addition to region, our motivation factor analysis shows that belonging to a hotel chain/brand seems to be highly influential on the choice of certificate(s).
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