In times of rapid growth, both in terms of economic development and globalization, an increasing number of firms extend their businesses abroad. A subsequent challenge of this development is the managerial implications of cross-cultural management. This study employs a qualitative approach in a single case study of Swedish company and its subsidiary in China. After reviewing the previous studie...

Because the cost of attracting new customers is much higher than the cost of retaining old customers, keeping customers loyal is a crucial issue for service firms. This research explores how relationship quality and switching barriers influence customer loyalty. Relationship quality consists of two aspects: satisfaction and trust. Antecedents of satisfaction and trust are explored. To test the ...

In developing world, awareness and environmental concerns are forcing small medium-sized enterprises to adopt green practices. Hence it is important distinguish the major obstacles/barriers which hinders adoption of practices in SMEs. This study utilizes a framework (three-phase) classify barriers/obstacles solutions eliminate these obstacles innovation adoption. total, twenty-five barriers fif...

This paper reports the findings from a field study investigating transfer of skills learned from a management education and development program back to the workplace. Moreover, it represents a partnership study between an executive education center (housed in a school of business), two business faculty members, and management education/development practitioners employed in the public sector. Ho...

Information and communication technology (ICT) has the potential to transform the public sector. Recently, transformational government (t-government) has been introduced as a new stage of egovernment aimed at realizing structural changes and greater benefits. Yet, there are many impediments blocking transformation and there is limited insight in these barriers. In this paper impediments for tgo...

Despite taking advantage of established learning from other industries, quality improvement initiatives in healthcare may struggle to outperform secular trends. The reasons for this are rarely explored in detail, and are often attributed merely to difficulties in engaging clinicians in quality improvement work. In a narrative review of the literature, we argue that this focus on clinicians, at ...

This document lists relevant literature for the DSTC Spectrum project on Trust Management in Open Computer Networks. 1 The Concept of Trust

in addition to providing people with health care, medical science universities play a critical role in training skilled human forces required for different parts of the society. this calls for a constant review of medical staff and an attempt to eliminate the shortages. the aim of this study was to identify the barriers of electronic education development in the educational system of ahvaz jund...

the purpose of this study is to identify the barriers of application of precision farming in the view of agricultural researchers in khouzestan province. the research method was survey. agricultural researchers in khouzestan province considered as statistical population (n=136). all researchers considered as sample size by census method.  after designing and validating the questionnaire, the qu...