Social Sciences and Humanities

This article is a literature review that contains the results of several previous studies relating to the role of information, especially financial information in the business world. Based on the study of some existing article, indicates that an important part of information for individuals and for organizations. Information plays an important role in many aspects, also serves as a tool for the organization to achieve its objectives, especially accounting information. This information plays an important role in business organizations.

New Mutual Fund product has been major component of competitive strategy to improve investor’s objective and their profitability. There are several mutual fund products available and there is an expectation from asset management companies to customize a new mutual fund product based on the investors’ expectations and their objectives.

The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of user ability, top management support and user involvement to the quality of the accounting information system and its implications on the quality of accounting information. The unit of analysis in this study is the head accounting staff of 55 colleges in Bandung-Indonesia. The results showed that the user ability, top management support, user involvement have a significant effect on the quality of accounting information systems.

Purpose: The main purpose of the study was to determine the effect of entrepreneurial supply chain management competencies on organizational performance. Design/methodology/approach: The study used random sampling technique to select a sample size of 368 supply chain managers from manufacturing firms in Nairobi County, Kenya with a response rate of 56.25per cent.

This research will study the relationship between HRM ethics, CSR and its impact on employer brand. (or) A question that arises in this context is then how the two constructs – HRM ethics and CSR – are correlated and what is their impact on the employer brand? To achieve the aim of this research, it is divided into three main sections. In the first section, a theoretical framework related to ethical HRM, CSR and employer brand is outlined.

Green The purpose of this paper is to propose how can a generalized view of Darwinism can be capitalized on to argue for an evolution theory of marketing research. It is argued that the stages of variation, selection and replication in Darwinism thinking are analogous in conjunction to the encoding, application and decoding phases of evolutionary marketing research. This research concludes that such triangulated should lead to enhanced academic comprehension of marketing phenomena, insights and outlooks.

This study aims to compare high-school students in Turkey and the U.S., in terms of career-decision making difficulties. The research group consists of a total of 576 students, including 296 high-school students in the U.S, and 280 high-school students in Turkey. The data of the research were collected by the “Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire” (CDDQ). The career decision-making difficulties are composed of three sub-scales, including lack of readiness, lack of information and inconsistent information.

There are many diverging opinions on the issue of immigration and in 2012 one specific cultural group received large attention within national media. One movie offers a portrayal of what life would be like in California if those of Hispanic ethnicity suddenly disappeared. Director Sergio Arau’s “A Day without a Mexican” (2004) is a satirical comedy that seeks to demonstrate how important Hispanics are to California. This movie intends to be comedic while conveying a persuasive message about the important role of Hispanics in America.

One of the major challenges of globalization for a developing country is to preserve its unique culture and practices while stepping inside the global arena of inclusiveness. At Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) in the Sultanate of Oman, the College of Education has been accepted as a precandidate for National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) accreditation. The faculty is facing a series of transformations as they ready for their looming site-visit in a year’s time. This project focuses on the early days of the process of adapting a U.S.

This study examined the issues of lobbying and advocacy for improved library development and services in Anambra state, Nigeria. It investigated the involvement of the librarians and their willingness to be trained on the strategies of lobbying and advocacy. It also identified the challenges that affect lobbying and advocacy. The descriptive survey research design was adopted using designed questionnaire for data collection.