Journal of Global Business Issues back issues from January 2007:
Impact of Small Businesses on the Percentage on the Population without Health Insurance: Exploratory Evidence
Jan 01, 2007; ... Abstract This exploratory study investigates the hypothesis that the greater the percentage of firms that are "small", the greater the percentage of the population that will be without health insurance. This is because smaller firms face bargaining-power, financial, and competitive ...
Understanding Business Markets And Processes In The Gambia
Jan 01, 2007; ... Abstract This paper addresses the business markets, practice and trade policies in The Gambia. The paper provides helpful information on investment policy, economy and trade, tourism, manufacturing and telecommunication. Furthermore, the main objective of this paper is centered on ...
The Influence of the Global Business Environment in Realizing the Millennium Development Goals
Jan 01, 2007; ... Abstract This paper reviews two important phenomena in contemporary times: the Global Business Environment, a forceful, interdependent factor in the development of all areas of the world, and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), as formulated by the United Nations in 2000. The paper ...
Quantification and the Governable Person in Indonesia 1830-1870
Jan 01, 2007; ... Abstract The "Culture System" was enforced in Java and other parts of Indonesia by the Dutch colonial government between 1830 and 1870. Under this system, Indonesian farmers were forced to put aside part of their land and labor for growing cash crops such as sugar, coffee, indigo, ...
E-Learning in a Multicultural Environment Using a Publicly Available Internet Platform: Case Study of an USA - Ukraine University Partnership
Jan 01, 2007; ... Abstract: This paper reports on a critical evaluation of an electronically delivered course in international marketing delivered to graduate students at a Ukrainian university, by a faculty member from a US university. The paper examines the program's learning process and outcomes via ...
The Narrowness Of The FRC & ASB
Jan 01, 2007; ... Abstract On 1 April 2004, the UK government expanded the Financial Reporting Council's (FRC) powers to regulate corporate reporting and governance, with disastrous consequences for the accounting standard setting process in the United Kingdom as one of the powers of the FRC is to appoint ...
Running Successful Organizations Humanly: Lessons from the Trenches
Jan 01, 2007; ... Abstract This paper explores two fundamental questions: Can humans run successful organizations humanly? Can organizations add humanity to the bottom line and do well by doing good? From an individual's point of view, these questions boil down to this: Is it possible to do work, which is ...
The Intelligently: Rational Discrimination in an Irrational World
Jan 01, 2007; ... Abstract Accounting is part of society and therefore, the need of the profession is to benefit the users of information. The accounting profession is influenced by social, economical and political factors that help shape the final financial report. In the past major accounting bodies ...
The Effect Of Advertising Expenditure On Household Consumption: The Cross Country Evidence
Jan 01, 2007; ... This paper is divided into six sections. The first three sections provide an overall theoretical context for looking at the relationship between household spending and advertising. The fourth section discusses the variable sources. It also develops a simple consumption function for estimation ....
Labor fluctuation in the public accounting profession at the Big Four public accounting firms in Austria - A study on perceptions of young professionals after their job resignation
Jan 01, 2007; ... Abstract Purpose: This study inquires into how the actual working condition in Big Four public accounting firms are perceived by trainees who have left their former employers. It also examines the reasons for their resignations. Methodology/Approach: Questionnaires were ...
Production and Trade Factors between China and US
Jan 01, 2007; ... Abstract This paper examines and evaluates the factors affecting international trade between the United States and China. The Chinese economy is growing extraordinarily and is now considered as the second most productive economy on the world. If this rate of growth is sustained China ...
Proliferation of Total Quality Management in Thailand
Jan 01, 2007; ... Abstract Quality has been established as a key factor to compete successfully in the global market. Since a number of countries in Asia, in addition to the global quality leader Japan, emerged as economic powers in late 1990s, several researchers studied about the role of quality on ...
Short Paper
Jan 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT Global trends, widening global dependence on oil, macroeconomic factors, new technologies, environmental and social issues, and business developments will all profoundly shape the Middle East region in the coming years. Introduction Search the Internet and you ...