The review process of academic, scientific research and its basic tenets is considered, thereby distinguishing between (i) reviewing of manuscripts to be published in the scientific literature, (ii) reviewing of research proposals to be financed by funding agencies, (iii) reviewing of educational or research institutions with respect to their proper functioning, and (iv) reviewing of scientists...

there are many approaches in economic literature for investigation of firm performance. in general, those theories very useful for investigation the nature and role of competitive advantage. resource based view, dynamic capability, entrepreneurial theory, neoclassic theory, industrial organization approach are some of those theories. todays, banks try to attract customers through various new me...

Purpose: The paper provides a comprehensive and up-to-date literature review of customer value concepts and distinguishes complex customer value from the various perspectives. It structures the themes and dimensions between the various approaches along the customer value main lines in the literature. Design/methodology/approach: The paper reviews current literature and illustrates different typ...

Literature reviews are complex, time-consuming undertakings. Most research methodologies are deductive and require the researcher to commence with a review to inform the study and formulate the research question. On the other hand the grounded theory method is inductive, ending with a theory rather than beginning with a hypothesis, and literature in these studies is typically used as a comparat...

Sitting for prolonged periods of time increases seating interface pressures, which is known to increase the risk of developing pressure ulcers. Those at risk of developing pressure ulcers are advised to perform pressure relieving movements such as "pushups" or "forward leans" in order to reduce the duration and magnitude of pressure acting on the vulnerable ischial tuberosity region. The aim of...

Received: 31 August 2009 Revised: 25 September 2011 Accepted: 16 October 2011 Abstract This paper offers guidance to conducting a rigorous literature review. We present this in the form of a five-stage process in which we use Grounded Theory as a method. We first probe the guidelines explicated by Webster and Watson, and then we show the added value of Grounded Theory for rigorously analyzing a...

in this paper after reviewing the literature of the research based on previous researches, a quantitative framework has been explained to measure organizational intelligence. this framework contains types of innovation in harmonizing conceptual model which in spite of various uses of this method in decision making, has been unprecedented in the fields of psychology and organizational behavior. ...

agility is considered the ability to respond quickly to changes and a major factor for success and survival in today's business. the purpose of this research is to offer a conceptual model using interpretive structural modeling(ism). to this end after reviewing literature and theoretical background, the indices related to achieving agility via information technology (it) have been identifi...

Haemorrhage arising from gastric arteriovenous malformation (AVM) is rare and normally occurs in the elderly. Bleeding gastric AVM presenting in the younger age group is even rarer. We report a case of a 14 year old boy who presented with recurrent episodes of haematemesis. He subsequently underwent a proximal gastrectomy and the histological examination confirmed a gastric AVM. After reviewing...