The recommendations described in this paper are a continuation of research previously reported in the Telematics and Informatics journal. This paper explains how the tourism organisations from sub-Saharan Africa can evolve their websites into marketing tools and how they can overcome the impediments to e-commerce adoption and usage. The recommendations also explain how the other major players w...

the aim of this study was to evaluate the development priorities and strategies of judo championship in iran from experts' viewpoints. statistical population consisted of all experts of this field including adult national judokas, coaches, board of directors and superior managers of judo federation (n=60) and the available sample consisted of 40 subjects. a researcher-made questionnaire wa...

Quarterly earnings guidance — managers’ public forecasts of forthcoming earnings — is widespread yet highly controversial. A recent position paper by the CFA Institute and the Business Roundtable emphatically calls on managers to ‘‘end the practice of providing quarterly earnings guidance’’ (CFA Institute 2006, 2). Similarly, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (2007) publicly implored managers to sto...

Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) constitute a major safety problem. Healthcare managers need complete and valid information to fight against these infections. The purpose of this study was to develop a dashboard of indicators to help healthcare managers monitor HAIs. A pilot testing approach was used that was composed of the following steps: literature review, consultation with infection...

The main objective of this research is to determine the role of passive defense in urban crisis management from the perspectives of experts and urban managers Municipality of Tehran- District, 5. In order to carry out the study, an analytical-applied research method and a combination of documentary, descriptive, analytical and case study methods are used. All managers and experts of Tehran’s mu...

this study aims to investigate the effect of good characters of managers on organizational trust in tamin ejtemaei in kerman based on the islamic hints. this research is descriptive-applicable in terms of objective. population was 400 managers of tamin ejtemaei organization in kerman province. a sample of 196 people was selected by cukran's formula. a self-administrated questionnaire was e...

the aim of this study was to explain and prioritize the barriers facing privatization of sports in iran. first, complementary data were gathered, coded and analyzed through the review of the theoretical bases, comparative studies and deep semi–structured interviews with experts in order to identify the barriers facing privatization of sports. after identifying the barriers, the obtained variabl...