2006 - Volume 12 - Issue 1

Recent Submissions

  • In pursuit of globalization: Learning from the hard lessons 

    Burney, Mohammed A.; Sohail, M. Sadiq ( Qatar University , 2006 , Article)
    Companies that are successful in their local markets often assume that the ingredients behind that success should enable them to expand around the world. But such thinking can be grossly mistaken. There is multitude of ...

  • Why Purchase Online? An Empirical Study of Australian Internet Shoppers 

    Chang, Joshua; Samuel, Nicholas ( Qatar University , 2006 , Article)
    The reach of the Internet as a shopping medium has provided shoppers with significant benefits over traditional storefront shopping in terms of time saving, cheaper products, and product selection. This creates a need for ...

  • Determinants of Current Account Deficit in Developing Countries: The Case of Bangladesh 

    Kamrul Hassanm A. F. M. ( Qatar University , 2006 , Article)
    Co-integration and Error Correction Model (ECM) are employed to study the behavior of Current Account Deficit (CAD) of Bangladesh and its determinants. The determinants of CAD include budget surplus, domestic saving, ...

  • Determination of Optimal Safety Stock Policies 

    Najdawi, Mohammad K.; Liberatore, Matthew J. ( Qatar University , 2006 , Article)
    Setting safety stock policies are especially important in the management of retail and wholesale inventories, as well as stores, spare parts, supply items, and in certain areas of production planning. From a practical ...

  • Do Bubbles Equally Affect Japanese Bank Performance? 

    Abdel Azeez, A. A.; Younezawa, Yasuhiro ( Qatar University , 2006 , Article)
    Japanese banks experienced severe adverse shocks during the post bubble period due to the collapse of the so-called bubble economy. This paper investigates the performance of Japanese bank stocks in the bubble period and ...

  • Knowledge Management Concepts as viewed by executive managers in Jordan 

    Ahmed, Marwa ( Qatar University , 2006 , Article)
    What is the major knowledge management (KM) concept that the executive managers viewed? To answer this question a total of 45 questionnaires were used in this research. SPSS, ANOVA, T-test and sheffee test were used for ...