Previous studies on social enterprises reported that unlike private enterprise consumers, social enterprise consumers appreciate the social value of the enterprise products and that social value affects customer satisfaction and repurchase intention. However, previous literature also pointed out that focusing only on social value as the factor affecting purchase behavior does not reflect the ch...

BACKGROUND Undertreatment of pain is a common problem in geriatric care. The aim of this study was to compare the caring staff 's answers concerning the resident's pain treatment with actual pharmacological pain treatment in a cross-sectional survey of the geriatric care population in the county of Västerbotten, Sweden. METHODS A cross-sectional study in all geriatric care units in the county...

Between 1911 and 1919, Joseph Grinnell, Tracy Storer, and their colleagues from the University of California at Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ) surveyed the terrestrial vertebrates along a transect that stretched from the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada, through Yosemite National Park, to the area around Mono Lake. These surveys were part of a larger study of the fauna of C...

The purpose of this paper is to systematically analyze the knowledge management research within small and medium-sized companies. The study includes a systematic review of 30 peer reviewed papers on knowledge management advantages for SMEs. Balanced scorecard perspectives cover all aspects of the organization, and, consequently, the balanced scorecard approach has been applied to classify the K...

This paper aims to examine the impact of strategy implementation drivers on projects effectiveness in NGOs. Though, the ultimate purpose of this paper is to open directions for future studies, using a relatively small sample, rather than to provide generalizable results and conclusive evidence. The study adopts quantitative approach to investigate the strategy implementation drivers-projects ef...

Purpose – This article examines the notion of value propositions (promises of reciprocal value between service providers and their customers), value-in-exchange and value-in-use, all within the conceptual context of service-dominant (S-D) logic. Design/methodology/approach – Responding to calls in the recent literature for an academic critique of S-D logic, its key constructs, and its applicati...

The presented work is based mainly on the results of “Survey of Information Specialists Labour Market in the Baltic States”, a research project which was undertaken by the Faculty of Communication at Vilnius University and the Department of Information Studies at the Tallinn University of Educational Sciences. The objective of the research was to establish the main tendencies in the labour mark...

This paper studies the relationship among corporate governance, risk taking and financial performance at bank holding companies’ (BHCs) during the financial crisis of 2008. While the paper did not find a significant relationship between corporate governance and risk-taking level, it shows that BHCs with lower risk performed better than BHCs with higher risk during the crisis. The results sugges...

In this paper, several issues regarding the epistemology of technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPCK) are first raised for the purpose of clarifying the construct. Specifically, the transformative and integrative views are juxtaposed for exploring the epistemology of TPCK, and, at the end, the transformative view is adopted concluding that TPCK is a unique body of knowledge that is con...