Mentoring, as a social learning model, is based on the practice of broadly stressing the importance of positive reinforcement on behavior change (Bandura, 1977). Mentoring places emphasis on learning from other people through models of expected behavior norms (Mahoney, 1974; and Staats, 1975,...

Organisations within sport industry are playing an important role in society nowadays. They influence fans attitudes through their activities, which in many cases may be classified as CSR. Those include volunteerism, educational initiatives, philanthropic/charitable donations, community...

Business Process Management (BPM) is not a new concept as Social Networks and Social BPM that are starting to get as much attention as previous, both on academic contexts and in organizations. Social Networks are evolving and, although there is recognition of the importance that they have in...

Many developing countries have tried to increase firm provision of training by providing subsidies funded by taxes proportional to the firm’s wage bill. These training funds, however,may backfire if the adverse effect of the tax on training incentives outweighs the positive effects of the...

Purpose: A proposed analytical model in this research analyses the corresponding angles of the strategic triangles (Prospector, Analyzer, and Defender). The model compares the angle differences between the strategy and resource triangles with opinions from different management groups of...

We analyzed the e-business websites of Realestate.yahoo.com, Realtor.com, and Zillow.com. We looked at the similarities and differences between them and how e-business components help differentiate one company from another and the role this plays in contributing to their success. We looked at...

Purpose – This paper intends to present personality traits of successful project managers that tend to restrain standardization efforts within organizations yet contribute heavily to success. The paper also determines analyses and recommends various new and existing project management...

Purpose: This paper investigates associations between the grants, enterprise efficiency and innovativeness using a combination of enterprise accountancy data and unique in-depth enterprise level survey data. Enterprises in Slovenia can obtain investment and research and development grants from...

Modern companies seeking to increase in the value have to be innovative. This is because innovation is an attribute of a knowledge-based economy, the competitiveness of enterprises, the market value of the company's growth and the challenge for many industries, not just those who are exposed to...

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between risk perceptions (financial, performance, social, time and privacy risks) and risk reduction strategies (brand loyalty, word of mouth, past experience, money back guarantee, store image, shopping, major brand image,...