Research on online auctions has attracted much attention from both practitioners and academicians. This paper aims to apply stimulus-organism-response (S-O-R) paradigm to construct the model of eloyalty of online auction websites. Technology effectiveness, network effect, and product diversity are determinants proposed to influence customers’ brand perceptions, which in turn, affect e-loyalty. ...

Recently academicians as well as practitioners have shown growing interest in agile software development methodologies. These methodologies refer to the development processes that are lighter and faster developed in response to uncertain and volatile market environment. Much of the prior literature does not provide any theoretical basis for these methodologies. In this paper, we demonstrate the...

Business organisations are one among the various pillars of economy country. The performance these is matter to be concerned stakeholders. communication business shows accountability and transparency policies adopted by them in their reporting process. Today environment volatile stakeholders expecting multidimensional information disseminated. This paper descriptive nature examine perception ac...

By publishing a special issue on ‘‘The State of Practice,’’ JBP takes an important step to bridge the science/practice gap, but it is only a step and will not alone span this gap. On the academic side, currently dominant cultures and incentive systems all but guarantee the irrelevance of most scholarly work to anyone except other scholars. On the practice side, managers rarely frame their dilem...

In Reflections on a Half Century of Injury Control, Julian Waller addressed directly the need for collaboration. He noted that organizations, as they age, tend to become insular and look inward instead of toward others for new ideas. Yet, as Waller emphasizes, a multidisciplinary approach is critical to our ability to understand and reduce injuries, particularly as problems and solutions become...

BACKGROUND Lebanon suffers from a large scale emigration of physicians coupled with an oversaturation of the physician job market. Lebanon is currently witnessing an expansion of its medical education capacity with the establishment of new private medical schools, raising the fears of a worsening market oversaturation. DISCUSSION The neighboring Arabian Gulf countries are suffering from a ser...

PURPOSE This study aimed to analyse female academician health beliefs for breast cancer screening and levels of self-esteem. MATERIALS AND METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted between October 2010 and March 2011, covering female academicians working in all faculties and vocational schools at Ondokuz Mayis University, except for the ones in the field of health (n=141). Data was col...

Introduction Is there any regularity in scientists’ research activities? For example, does there exist a period when a scientist makes his most contributions? If so, which period is the most productive period? To answer the questions above, many scholars have been contributed their efforts on studying the relationships between productivity and age, such as: (1) age distribution of scientists’ c...