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Showing papers in "Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences in 2012"


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TL;DR: The issue of difference with the leader of the director, including material that is much discussed in current and most experts believe that leadership is something different from the management, is discussed in this paper.

4,906 citations


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TL;DR: Major benefits of collaborative learning are set out into four categories of; social, psychological, academic, and assessment benefits.

546 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify the effect of social media marketing on brand loyalty of the consumers, given that the concept is receiving increasing attention from marketing academia and practitioners, and propose several tactics for the practitioners.

341 citations


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TL;DR: This paper provides an introduction to the technology of augmented reality (AR) and its possibilities for education and key technologies and methods are discussed within the context of education.

336 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relationship between capital structure and firm performance using panel data procedure for a sample of 237 Malaysian listed companies on the Bursa Malaysia Stock exchange during 1995-2011.

314 citations


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TL;DR: A new multiplatform software application, LINCE, whose versatility makes it ideally suited to the analysis of sports performance, overcomes some of the traditional problems faced in relation to the registration and computation of observational data in the field of physical activity and sports sciences.

296 citations


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TL;DR: The 21st century skills comprised of four main domains namely digital age literacy, inventive thinking, effective communication, and high productivity Scientific literacy is one of the skills required in digital-age literacy It means knowledge and understanding of scientific concepts and processes required for personal decision-making, participation in civic and cultural affairs, and economic productivity as discussed by the authors.

275 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the role of economic, institutional and political factors in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) in BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China & South Africa) economy and the comparative weightage of these factors in attract FDI was explored.

243 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the grounds of increasing level of organic food consumption such as motivation are most critical in understanding the potential of the organic food to become a genuinely mainstream market, they also associate organic food with natural process, care for the environment and animal welfare and the non-use of pesticides and fertilisers.

243 citations


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TL;DR: Collaborative learning (CL) is an educational approach to teaching and learning that involves groups of learners working together to solve a problem, complete a task, or create a product as mentioned in this paper.

216 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the options available to policy makers in their efforts to reduce the negative impacts of urban freight transport are reviewed, and a summary of the categories of negative impacts that can be targeted together with the specific policy initiatives available is provided.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors focused on place attachment and its significance in defining place identity with reference to three main shopping streets in the city centre of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and identified the issues concerning place identity; concepts of place and place attachment constructs, the identification of place attachment construct and place attributes that could be used as assessment indicators for future redevelopment of local urban places.

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TL;DR: It is described how a limited number of key introductory computer programming concepts have been mapped onto the game-play, and how an equivalent set of skills characterising CT can be acquired through playing the game.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of the variables including brand value, brand equity, brand quality, brand satisfaction, brand trust, and brand commitment on brand loyalty and repurchase intentions was investigated.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors study the determinants that measure the extent of financial inclusion and focus on the computation of an index that would comprehensively capture the impact of multi-dimensional variables with specific reference to India, using the latest available data.

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TL;DR: This paper analyzes the literature on determinant factors that stimulate the adoption and use of ICT and the impact on organizations, and concludes that adequate conditions favour the best ICT implementation.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed to enhance SWOT analysis with multicriteria decision making technique called Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), which achieves pairwise comparisons among factors or criteria in order to prioritize them using the eigenvalue calculation.

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TL;DR: In this paper, a model is constructed to link the relationship between green product innovation, firm performance, and competitive capability in Turkish manufacturing firms using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM).

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TL;DR: In this article, the effect of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on corporate reputation has been investigated from a multi-stakeholder perspective and the results confirm not only that as an antecedent, CSR has a strong positive effect on CR but also that CR has strong positive impact on the behaviors of customers, employees, and investors.

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TL;DR: In this article, a review of city logistics modeling efforts reported in the literature for urban freight analysis is presented, which takes into account the diversity and complexity found in the present-day city logistics practice.

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TL;DR: An adaptive large neighborhood search algorithm is proposed for solving the Waste Collection Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Window which is concerned with finding cost optimal routes for garbage trucks such that all garbage bins are emptied and the waste is driven to disposal sites while respecting customer time windows and ensuring that drivers are given the breaks that the law requires.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated whether TQM activities affect quality and/or innovative performance and also defined the effective components on these performance types, and then statistically significant and positive relationship among TQm activities, quality and innovation performance was found.

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TL;DR: In this article, the influence of Islamic work ethic on intrinsic motivation, job satisfaction, organizational commitment and job performance was investigated using a sample of 149 employees of Islamic banking in Bandar Lampung in Indonesia.

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TL;DR: In this article, work related stress is examined as a mediator of the relationship among ethical leadership, leader effectiveness and turnover intention, and it was found out that while ethical leadership and leadership effectiveness negatively affects turnover intention of employees, work-related stress has a positive effect on employees' turnover intention.

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TL;DR: Food strategies must not merely be directed at ensuring food security for all, but must also achieve the consumption of adequate quantities of safe and good quality foods that together make up a healthy diet.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assessed the use of E-SERVQUAL scale to construct e-Service Quality (e-SQ) for internet banking services and examined the effect of e-SQL on e-Customer Satisfaction (eCS).

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors recall the overview of measures to be implemented, in a "what if" framework, with strong references to the ex-post assessment of environmental impacts.

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TL;DR: In this article, a vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication system was developed in the SARTRE project, which enables forwarding of messages between vehicles to share data such as vehicle speed.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the association between gender diversity in the board of directors and firm performance and found that women directorship may influence firm performance by using simple random sampling techniques to get an adequate representation of women.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the relationship between supply chain management strategy and chain management practices on supply chain performance and find that supply chain managers' practices have a significant relationship with the performance of supply chain.