Strategic advising and capacity building are closely interconnected, as they involve the deployment to foreign countries of American advisers who will act by strengthening democratization, attracting military police contingents, civil administrators, providing humanitarian assistance, economic stabilization infrastructure development. All these instruments aimed at influence everywhere used Was...

Today IT executives need to define their IT strategy and align it with the overall corporate strategy. However, research offers them little advice with respect to determining the strategic position of their IT departments as a basis for strategic planning. Based on a review of concepts from general management, this paper proposes a framework for strategic positioning in IT management. The autho...

Retail brands (RBs) have become a strategic feature of the retail industry. Their role in building consumer loyalty is usually taken for granted and yet has not been completely identified. The purpose of this paper is to understand how retailers manage customer knowledge relationship management through an integrated framework of CRM and Knowledge management for retail brands and their role in b...

The goal of the present study was to utilize a profiling approach to understand differences in motivation and strategic self-regulation among post-secondary STEM students in major versus required non-major computer science courses. Participants were 233 students from required introductory computer science courses (194 men; 35 women; 4 unknown) at a large Midwestern state university. Cluster ana...

OBJECTIVES To describe a conceptual framework to assist in the application of capacity-building principles to public health nutrition practice. DESIGN A review of the literature and consideration of the determinants of effective public health nutrition practice has been used to inform the development of a conceptual framework for capacity building in the context of public health nutrition pra...

seistan was one of the important ancient urban centres in south eastern persia. the ruins of the city show the prosperity and fertility of this city to the extent that a british civil officer considered it as the ancient london of asia. this article attempts to describe the enormous latent wealth of this ancient city which made it important for strategic, political and commercial reasons. due t...

with the unfolding of recent developments in the arab world and fall of political systems in some of arab countries as well as spread of islamic thoughts, new grounds have been created for new wave of islamic awakening. it seems that this wave has become dynamic over the past few years. islamic awakening is an opportunity for realization of the ideal of palestine. the present paper is an attemp...