International Journal of Economics & Management Sciences

Since1929 the World experienced several significant changes in crisis situation, perception and measures. This general status can also be applied to the civil aviation sector. This paper estimates the impact of the crises on Turkish Civil Aviation Companies in 2004 and 2011. The main aim of this study is to evaluate and compare between 2004 and 2011 conditions of the Turkish Civil Aviation Companies during several national and international crises.

New trends in the field of procurement require embedment of sustainability principles in the way the entire procurement process is executed. The need to improve organisational efficiency, reduce waste, overcome supply chain risk, and achieve competitive position has made companies to start considering environmental issues from a competitive view point. Procuring organizations are more seriously involved in designing and implementing sustainable procurement policies focusing on how environmental issues and issues relating to other aspects of the sustainable development pillars (society and economy) can be integrated in the procurement process activities. However, a clear understanding of the concept of sustainability and how it is related to the procurement process is still lacking especially within the context of a developing country like Uganda. This paper seeks to review the concept of sustainable procurement, provide a discussion on the practical implications associated with sustainable procurement practices and identifying gaps that would guide future research.

In the last decades and modern business environments, agility is advocated as the fundamental characteristics for business competitiveness which aims increasing organizational flexibility in new situations and opportunities. This goal will achieve using a comprehensive insight into high tech and internal capabilities through informational systems. Saipa auto group is a leading company in customer services that there is no research about its agility so, such studies is one of the manager?s problem during the time. This study tries to appear agility situation in Saipa group and arrange the best suggestion toward agile organization using a quality function deployment model. Study results show that in general there are 10 service element and 10 KPO in this corporation. Moreover, in four indicators out of ten, Saipa group have a better position relative to competitors but 6 indicators are classified as weal points that have to improve in long term.

Knowledge Management (KM) is considered to be one of the management tools in the ever-changing competitive world.[1] The main purpose behind this study is to research the knowledge management impact on productivity increase by the help of information technology (IT) from the viewpoint of planning and supply chain management (SCM) in the Iranian Automobile making company in Syria (Siveco) as one of the siding companies of Saipa automobile making company in Iran. The findings of this paper gained from studying the literature and probing into the experience and search results recorded by the Iranian experts who attended in Siveco company for a period of two months in year 2008 in the early stages of starting up Pride automobile export in Syria which focused on the role of KM in cost reduction (CR), making wealth and value added by preventing and decreasing the stagnant inventory of the production warehouses, optimizing the packing designs, decreasing the amount of defected parts, wasting and operator mistakes, and supplying the ordered parts in time for developing the economic production in the primitive stages of Pride export to Syria throughout the facilities provided in the field of information technology.

As a result of recent technological improvements, social media is an issue to be investigated in terms of marketing science since consumption related communications are occurred in this area. The goal of this study is to illuminate the word of mouth in social media and reasons of this behavior. Under this framework previous studies are researched and initial data were gathered by survey study which was made with undergraduate students of Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences of Kirikkale University who are common users of social media. Statistical analyses were conducted to illuminate the issue on gathered data namely; reliability, factor, and correlation analysis. As a result of analyses; positive attitudes toward social media, credibility of information generated in social media, social media using experience, attitudes toward marketing with social media, extraverted personality, daily social media using duration, quantity of friends in social media, credibility of friends in social media, credibility of relationships in social media and technology using anxiety are specified as main factors that affect word of mouth behavior in social media. At last findings were interpreted and suggestions for future studies were made.

The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between Materials Management and success of manufacturing firms. The empirical analysis focused on the Nigerian Bottling Company Plc (NBC), being one of the largest manufacturing firms in Nigeria. Data was collected through a structured questionnaire, supported by interview. Using Chi-square (?2) test of independence, the results provided evidence of a positive significant relationship between efficient Materials Management and firm success. The implication of this is that through efficient management of materials, a manufacturing firm can achieve significant cost saving, improvement in production efficiency, and increase in profitability. The study also found that inter-departmental coordination, effective inventory management, good relationship with vendors, and state-of-the-art facilities/ICT were significant success factors of Materials Management. This study showed that for manufacturing industries to experience remarkable success in their performance, priority must be given to Materials Management as a total concept.

The objective of this paper is to provide start-up management with practical strategies during monitoring phase. In this study, we conducted personal interviews with CEOs of some venture capital firms in Malaysia. Out of more than fifty active registered venture capital firms, only four firms provide funds to start-ups and their CEOs representatives participated in in-depth interview. Our findings displayed that daily status-checking meetings during monitoring phase help project management to deliver a successful start-up. Moreover, these results support what others found in other countries.

This paper aims to assess the financial performance of two (2) Development Financial Institutions (DFIs) in Malaysia namely; Bank Simpanan Nasional or National Savings Bank (BSN) and Bank Kerjasama Rakyat Malaysia or Cooperative Bank (BR) for a period of 5 years spanning from 2006 to 2010. The DFIs are specialized financial institutions established by the government to achieve the socio-economic development objectives of the country through developing and promoting the key strategic sectors of the economy. In this study, we employed most commonly used financial ratio tools on a sample of two (2) development financial institutions to evaluate their performances so as to indicate how well they are prepared to meet the socio-economic development objectives of the country. To the best of our knowledge, related study assessing the performance of DFIs in Malaysia is scant. Thus realizing from the scarcity of studies on this component of financial system particularly in the case of Malaysia, we consider the present effort to be worthy addition to the existing literature in this line. To achieve our objectives, we used data and other relevant information collected from the annual reports of individual Development Financial Institutions under consideration. In addition, we also utilized Annual Reports of Bank Negara Malaysia or Central Bank of Malaysia (BNM-AR). The results showed that the financial health of the two DFIs under this study is sound but comparatively Bank Rakyat (BR) is in better position than its peer Bank Simpanan Nasional (BSN). The sound financial health also indicates the potential ability to cater the financial needs of the strategic sector of the economy towards achieving the socio-economic development objectives of the country.

Since the Internet has been shown in recent literature to be a pervasive system in tourism it is important to understand its roles in more detail. The basis for this study regarding to the Internet is an important information source for participants in tourism and, as such, figures prominently in various tourism decision-making processes. Based on information systems acceptance literature, this study developed an integrated model to predict the relationship between internet usage and the marketing of tourism in Jordan. The results indicated that the attitudes toward behavior, subjective norm, perceived behavior control, internet usage are possible determinants of actual usage of e-tourism. This model hopefully provides a framework for future research, and will serve as a basis for our future survey and analysis of data.

The author begins the article with an analysis of the role of productivity in national economic competitiveness. This is followed by a discussion of a national policy framework and strategy to create competitiveness. Next, the appropriate foreign direct investment promotion strategies are presented. The author then outlines the role of appropriate trade and export promotion policies and an enabling macroeconomic environment to generate sustainable growth. He concludes the article with policy implications and recommendations needed by Sub-Saharan African governments to attract investments, create wealth and foster national sustainable development.

The study analyzed cash crop output volatility in different agricultural policy programme periods from 1961 to 2010 in Nigeria. Descriptive analysis and analysis of variance model was used to analyze the specific objectives.The results reveal that, the Pre-Operation Feed the Nation period (1961-1976) and Structural Adjustment Programme (1986-1993) period were the most volatile policy periods for most cash crop outputs in the country. Whereas, cash crop outputs were most stable during the Operation Feed the Nation period (1976-1979) and Green Revolution period (1980-1985). The result further reveals that the mean cash crop output volatility during post structural adjustment programme period was significantly different from other policy periods for most cash crop exception of coffee. The result implies that the impact of the current post structural adjustment agricultural policy on Cotton, Groundnut, Cocoa, Rubber and Oil palm crop output volatility in the country differs significantly from some previous agricultural policy programme periods. The result established the fact that the agricultural policy programmes actually influenced key cash crop outputs and their volatility; but these influences were mixed and inconsistence across cash crop enterprises and policy programme periods in the country. Following the results, we recommend that government should formulate appropriate specific cash crop policy packages as part of the holistic agricultural policy programme. This kind of policy programme would ensure quick intervention and promote result oriented cash crop policy programme in the country.