Pub Date : 2018-05-30DOI: 10.17015/EJBE.2018.021.01
D. Ford, Laurie L. Ziegler, Ray T Fang, Oscar Holmes
Increasingly, managers of global teams are faced with the challenge of how to foster knowledge sharing within a virtual or hybrid community. In this study, we replicate Chiu, Hsu, and Wang’s (2006) study of the influence of social capital factors on knowledge sharing in virtual communities and extend it to reveal how both the quantity and quality of knowledge sharing may mediate between social capital factors and network involvement and commitment. The context of our investigation is a professional hybrid community in Central Eurasia. Using singleindicator structural equation modeling (SEM) to test our proposed model, we were able to demonstrate both convergent and discriminant validity among the study variables. Our study also provides partial support for the proposed model. Implications for research and practice are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2018-05-30DOI: 10.17015/EJBE.2018.021.04
T. Takemura, Takashi Kozu, Koichi Takeda, Toru Suehiro
In this article, we investigate the determinants of risk asset holding ratio using micro data collected from a Web-based survey. The findings of the current study indicate that, (1) factors such as subjective excess return, overconfidence and time discount rate make positive effects on the ratio of any risk asset holding (factor such as informal information sources make a negative effect), but the effects of other factors in our model vary with the type of the risk assets. Especially, the information sources used in investments make different effects on each type of the risk assets. (2) Psychological factors such as overconfidence and time discount rate used in behavioral finance increase the ratio of the any risk asset holding.
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Pub Date : 2018-05-01DOI: 10.17015/EJBE.2018.021.03
Khadra Dahou, Ishaq Hacini
Being the most important asset, the human resource represents today the source of the organizations’ sustainable competitive advantage. This focus on the employee as the organizations’ core of human capital management drives the current interest in empowerment. This paper explores the concept of employee empowerment and the main influential factors in implementing an empowerment initiative: job design, transformational leadership, decision-making authority, continuous training and development, sharing information, and self-managed teams. Using a hypotheses testing approach, this correlational cross-sectional field study investigates the influence of the six factors on the adoption of employee empowerment. Using a questionnaire method, data was collected from Jordanian commercial banks. The results of a multiple linear regression analysis revealed that sharing information, job design, transformational leadership and decision making authority have a positive effect on employee empowerment. Sharing information and adopting the appropriate job design inside the organization have the strongest influence in that fostering these initiatives would certainly make banks’ employees’ empowerment successful. The research provides insights into the perception of employee empowerment in the Jordanian context, specifically in the banking industry, a high service- oriented sector where empowering employees become a must for a better customer service.
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Pub Date : 2018-05-01DOI: 10.17015/EJBE.2018.021.06
S. Musallam
This paper explores the relationship between financial ratios and market stock returns of 26 Qatari listed firms from 2009 to 2015. The results of Weighted Least Square (WLS) show that earnings per share, earnings yield ratio, and dividend yield ratio have significant and positive relationship with market stock returns while market to book value ratio, return on assets, return on equity, price to earnings ratio, dividends earnings ratio, and net profit margin have insignificant relationship with market stock returns. The implications will be for policymakers of government in selecting and deciding their policies. It will also be for investors and managers to make better decisions.
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