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Journal of Global Management Studies Volume 3, Number 2 CONTENTS Continuance Intention of Using Microblogs. Yu-Hao Chuang, Chia-Sheng Lin, and Wesley Shu It’s a Jungle Out There. On Managerial Cognition, Change, and Learning During Internationalization. Gerhard Apfelthaler, Jörg Hruby, and Mary Jo Shane Global Market Integration: An Intersectional Model for A Multi-Identity System. Beryl Y. Chang Financial Growth and Analysis of Modaraba Sector since 2001-2009 (In Pakistan). Yasir Hassan and Saleha Yasir ABSTRACTS
Some
studies show that Twitter’s growth is leveling off and that its
marketing has been ineffective. The purpose of this paper is to analyze
what is needed for microblogs’ perpetuation. Factors such as
message quality, source credibility, perceived usefulness, perceived
interactivity, perceived playfulness, confirmation, and satisfaction
were tested for their impact on continuance intention.
A Post-Acceptance Model of Microblog Continuance was proposed based on IS Continuance Model. Tests for content validity, reliability, convergent validity, discriminant validity, and model fitness show that our model, survey, and data are all valid. Continuance intention to use microblogs is greatly affected by satisfaction, which in turn is affected by perceived interactivity and perceived usefulness, but satisfaction is not affected by confirmation or perceived playfulness. Although confirmation has no direct effect on satisfaction, it affects perceived interactivity and perceived usefulness, which in turn affect satisfaction. Keywords: Microblog, IS Continuance
It’s a Jungle Out There. International
expansion is one of the most challenging organizational events,
requiring employees to change, learn and adapt. While these concepts
have been applied in a variety of diverse contexts, change and learning
during the internationalization process for small- and medium-sized
enterprises has largely been ignored. Our study focuses on the
cognitive changes that managers of small and medium-sized European
companies experienced when shifting their focus to international
environments. Employing a grounded theory approach, our results
indicate that internationalization triggers changes in managerial
cognition in four major areas – perceptions of trust, intuition,
cultural awareness, and approaches to doing business abroad.
Keywords: Internationalization, global mindset, managerial cognition, international strategic decision-making, grounded theory, individual learning
Global Market Integration: Given
the complexity in the process of global market integration due to
intrinsic differences such as social and political causes among
nations, this paper develops a hybrid model utilizing the concept of
intersectionality in seeking continued global market enhancements in a
multi-identity system. It posits that while intersections in
socio-cultural and geo-political regions are essential in facilitating
economic exchanges among nations, multi-level intersections beyond
these dimensions exist to achieve similar objectives. Subsequently,
country-specific identities and core-values, internal balancing factors
of individual nation, and conditions in maintaining external
equilibrium at the international level are central for sustainable
global market integrations.
Keywords: intersectionality, global integration, national identity, equilibrium.
Financial Growth and Analysis of Modaraba Sector Since 2001-2009 (In Pakistan)
Yasir Hassan Lecturer: Lahore Business School, the University of Lahore, Pakistan Yasir.uol@hotmail.com Saleha Yasir Lecturer: Department of Pharmacy, the University of Lahore, Pakistan ABSTRACT The main objective of conducting this study is to present the real sense of improvement from Islamic point of view and financial growth of Mudaraba sector (In case of Pakistan) over 2001-2009. Islam appears to be the only vibrant religion and it tells us about anticipation of interest. But at the same time it gives a complete begin of doing business and financing modes. Several scholars of WEST believe that the use of Islamic banking is more appropriate for economic expansion. While this study finds out the effect of total sales by the change in Paid-up-capital, numbers of Shares and Equity of modarba sector. Same analysis is done with backward method, Profit after Tax is best described by Equity, Sales, (Bank) / Financial Charges and Profit before tax. With the help of graph as well as multiple regressions, it is much easier to take better decision that sales and profit is increasing or decreasing since 2001 to 2009. Keywords: Islamic banking, Mudarba, lump sum amount, least significance test.
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