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Corporate diversification and firm value: evidence from emerging markets
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2015)
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of corporate diversification on firm value in a sample of nine emerging markets including Brazil Chile Indonesia Malaysia Philippines Poland South Africa ...
An Inverse Boundary Value Problem for a Second Order Elliptic Equation in a Rectangle
(Vilnius Gediminas Tech Univ, 2014)
In this paper the inverse problem of finding a coefficient in a second order elliptic equation is investigated. The conditions for the existence and uniqueness of the classical solution of the problem under consideration ...
Tablets as primary educational computing devices. An impact analysis on the educational landscape in an Austrian university.
(Elsevier Science, 2014)
In this study we analyze how tablet devices could be used as educational tools to support innovative educational practice in a university in Austria. Students and educators were issued tablet devices in 2011 across the ...
Does Firm Age Affect Profitability? Evidence From Turkey
(Int Inst Social & Economics Sciences-IISES, 2016)
The objective of this study is to investigate the impact of firm age on the profitability of Turkish firms listed on Borsa Istanbul. Using a dataset covering the years between 2005 and 2014 and consisting of 302 non-financial ...
Social Media Adoption: A Process-Based Approach
(Taylor & Francis Inc, 2016)
This research conceptualizes and measures social media adoption (SMA) of companies with a process-based approach and explains its antecedents of micro- and macro-environment size and ownership as well as its consequence ...
Determinants of Saving-Borrowing Decisions and Financial Inclusion in a High Middle Income Country: The Turkish Case
(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2016)
We use a representative survey of the Turkish household sector and investigate factors impinging on saving-borrowing behavior. We run four probit regressions to elucidate (i) the saving decision (ii) asset choice or portfolio ...
Internal Customer Satisfaction Improvement with QFD Technique
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2016)
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to employ quality function deployment (QFD) method for translating internal customer needs and expectations into appropriate service specifications to perform existing process assessments ...
Dynamic Multi Threshold Priority Packet Scheduling Algorithms
(EDP Sciences, 2015)
Packet scheduling algorithms are developed in order to use shared transmission resources efficiently. Various application packets such as real and non-real time packets might have different QoS requirements and traditional ...
When Does (Mis)Fit in Customer Orientation Matter for Frontline Employees' Job Satisfaction and Performance?
(Amer Marketing Assoc, 2016)
The role of coworkers' customer orientation (CO) in influencing an employee's CO has received sparse attention in the literature. This research serves two purposes. First the study draws on person-group fit theory to develop ...
Heuristic Methods for Postoutage Voltage Magnitude Calculations
(TUBITAK Scientific & Technical Research Council Turkey, 2016)
Power systems play a significant role in every aspect of our daily lives. Hence their continuation without any interruption (or with the least duration of interruption due to faults or scheduled maintenances) is one of the ...