Showing papers in "Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences in 2014"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the concept of employee engagement and also analyzed three divers, namely communication, work life balance and leadership, and analyzed how these drivers impact the level of employee performance and well-being at workplace.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the academic literature on factors that drive social media marketing adoption in SMEs and organization and provide a balanced view of the current state of global social media adoption research.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the latest developments in internet shopping, home delivery and the potential impacts on city logistics and alternative vehicle use and illustrate the rapid changes during the past few years and the potentially important impacts on patterns of transport within urban areas.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the content of university entrepreneurship education and its impact on students' entrepreneurial intentions and find that what is offered is not necessarily the most demanded in entrepreneurship education as lectures and seminars are provided more, but networking and coaching activities are expected more by the students.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed and analyzed the studies carried out on blended learning through reflecting on the past, the present and the future, and concluded that blended learning would have a great role in the future and it would be dominated by the distributed learning environments.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the effect of service quality (SQ) dimensions on satisfaction, identifying the impact of satisfaction on word of mouth communication and repurchase intention (RI) and searching a significant relationship between WOM and RI.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the literature on potential direct and indirect effects of ICT on SMEs performance and identify those that could determine a business success, based on systematic, logic and comparative analysis of scientific literature.

TL;DR: The findings show that the religious belief, exposure, certification logo, and health reason are potential sources of Muslim awareness about halal consumption, but health reason is the most contributing predictor of level of halal awareness.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors outline the nature, effects and present status of the Social Media, underlying their role as customer empowerment agents and propose two possible Social Media marketing strategies: a passive approach focusing on utilizing the social media domain as source of customer voice and market intelligence, and an active approach i.e. engaging the social Media as direct marketing and PR channels, as channels of customer influence, as tools of personalizing products and last but not least develop them as platforms of co-operation and customer-generated innovation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate whether Edmodo is an authentic teaching strategy that should be employed by more teachers hoping to encourage a student-centered technology driven learning environment where students are actively engaged and practicing views of responsible learning.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of social media marketing medium toward brand loyalty and purchase intention in Generation Y was studied, and the results indicated that the online marketing communications, specifically, E- WOM, online communities and online advertisement are effective in promoting Brand loyalty and product purchase intention through company website and social media platforms.

TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual framework was developed by identifying five (5) variables for project success namely Project Management Action, Project Procedures, Human Factors, External Issues and Project Related Factors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an overview of different project management approaches and defines project management methodologies, and provide basis for further research on application of different Project Management approaches and methodologies.

TL;DR: The study found that the higher education in Thailand did not meet the expectations of undergraduate students, and there are a lot of service improvements efforts need to be fulfilled to enhance the service quality.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a last-mile typology and an instrument to simulate the total last mile costs whereby specific last mile characteristics are used as independent variables, taking these "last mile problems" into account.

TL;DR: In this article, tax knowledge and tax complexity are viewed as contributing factors towards non-compliance behavior among tax filtration among tax payers, and the study attempts to delve in the underlying reasons for noncompliance.

TL;DR: The results show that DVRP has better performance than other existing delay efficient routing protocols, in term of end-to-end delays, energy consumption, and data delivery ratios.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present concepts of city logistics for sustainable and liveable cities, and the procedure of urban freight transport management is described, which is an adaptive management system that uses the PDCA (Plan, Do, Check and Act) cycle.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed an amount of researches examining the relationships between FDI and economic growth, especially the effects of FDI on economic growth from 1994 up to 2012, and found that the main finding of the FDI-EG relation is significantly positive, but in some cases it is negative or even null.

TL;DR: In this paper, a case study was carried out in Lisbon, Portugal, to estimate car sharing impacts and the effects of a possible technology change, and the most relevant variables influencing the economic feasibility of the car sharing the cost related variables, reducing the break-even timeframe from 36 to 57%.

TL;DR: In this paper, 69 randomly selected research papers published in the refereed journals in the area of supply chain collaboration has been reviewed, based on the analysis of reviewed papers a total number of 28 factors affecting supply chain collaborations have been identified.

TL;DR: The literature review of 30 empirical studies was conducted to compare them on SDL and SRL in the context of e-learning to find overlappings and differences between the concepts and research methods.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors considered that the best place to prepare the agent of change of the nation that will bring prosperous to others is education institution is no longer a place to transfer knowledge only, but it is also a place for form youth's attitude, behaviour, character, and leadership.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the global issues related to the role of project cost management professionals in the implementation and evolution of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in the construction industry.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address the problems of risk management in construction projects using a knowledge-based approach, and propose a methodology based on a three-fold arrangement that includes the modeling of the risk management function, its evaluation, and the availability of a best practices model.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of social media for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is analyzed in terms of the number of likes and followers, richness of content, interaction with customers and the use of language.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss factors such as Halal certification, Halal standard, HalAL traceability and role of government in enhancing the integrity of Halal food supply chain in the current complex food trade scenario.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study the halal concept on food and provide an insight to halal food producers to look into the non-Muslim consumers as one of their target market in Halal food industry.

TL;DR: It is important to evaluate the suitability of the implementation of a curriculum of the study area in order to ensure the implemented curriculum can produce human resources, which are qualified, skilful and can fulfil the need of the industries and the current market.

TL;DR: In this paper, the core idea of Project Based Learning is to connect student's experiences with school life and to provoke serious thinking as students acquire new knowledge, which can leverage the advantages of modern teaching techniques.