adoption using 117 website adopters and 102 non-website adopters as sample data from Iranian SMEs. Narver and Slater’s scale (MKTOR) for market orientation, Weerakoon’s Multi-Model Performance Framework (MMPF) for business performance and Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) for website adoption are tested and used. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to validate the measures in the study. Regression analysis was performed to determine whether market orientation is associated with firm’s performance and
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Running head: SUN MICROSYSTEMS CASE STUDY PROJECT SUN Microsystems Case Study Project Jeffery M. Anderson, 105225 BBA 3391-06B, Information Systems Cost Analysis Brief History of SUN Technology and Text Summery Sun Microsystems was born after Stanford University, Palo Alto graduate student Andy Betchtolsheim, conceived a UNIX based workstation he deemed the “68000 Unix System” for a networking project named Stanford University Network. Early February 1982 colleagues Vinod Khosla, Scott
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International Journal of Trade, Economics and Finance, Vol. 1, No. 2, August, 2010 2010-023X Factors Influencing Activity-Based Costing Success: A Research Framework Zhang Yi Fei and Che Ruhana Isa becoming more and more popular [3-7] ABC aims to provide accurate costing information to managers to allocate activity costs to products and services by applying cost drivers [8]. Academics who advocate ABC, such as, Cooper and Kaplan [9], and Swenson [10] argue that it provides more accurate cost
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Psychology Not to be confused with Phycology, Physiology, or 1 Etymology Psychiatry. Further information: Outline of psychology and Index The word psychology literally means, “study of the soul" of psychology articles (ψυχή psukhē, “breath, spirit, soul” and -λογία -logia, “study of” or “research”).[10] The Latin word psycholoPsychology is an academic and applied discipline that gia was first used by the Croatian humanist and Latinist involves the scientific study of mental functions and Marko
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Project management From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Business administration | | * Company * Business * Conglomerate | Business organization * Joint-stock company * Limited liability company * State-owned enterprise * Privately held company | Business entity * Cooperative * Sole proprietorship * Partnership * Corporation | Corporate governance * Annual general meeting * Board of directors * Supervisory board * Advisory
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Scheme and Syllabus of B.E. (Computer Science and Engineering) 3 rd th TO 8 Semester 2014-2015 University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Panjab University, Chandigarh DEPARTMENT: COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING VISION: To be recognized as an international leader in Computer Science and Engineering education and research to benefit society globally. MISSION: · · · · To move forward as frontiers of human knowledge to enrich the citizen, the nation, and the world. To excel in research
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FACTORS AFFECTING TECHNOLOGY USES IN SCHOOLS1: AN ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE Yong Zhao Kenneth A. Frank Michigan State Univeristy Contact information: Yong Zhao, 115D Erickson, College of Education, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, Email: zhaoyo@msu.edu, Phone: 517-353-4325 This study was made possible by a grant from the Michigan Department of Education (MDE), but views and findings expressed in this report do not necessarily reflect those of MDE. The following individuals
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A JOINT STUDY OF THE ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK AND THE ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK INSTITUTE Disaster Risk Management in Asia and the Pacific ISSUES PAPER Disaster Risk Management in Asia and the Pacific Issues Paper April 2013 A Joint Study of the Asian Development Bank and the Asian Development Bank Institute © 2013 Asian Development Bank Institute All rights reserved. Published 2013. Printed in Japan Printed using vegetable oil-based inks on recycled paper; manufactured through a totally
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integrated marketing communication Philip J. Kitchen and Inga Burgmann INTRODUCTION Integrated marketing communication (IMC) emerged during the late twentieth century and its importance has been growing ever since (Grove, Carlson, and Dorsch, 2002; Cornelissen, 2001; Hartley and Pickton, 1999). Owing to the impact of information technology, changes came about in the domains of marketing and marketing communications which led to the emergence of IMC (Kitchen et al., 2004a; Phelps and Johnson,
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