Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Saleh Hamed AlHarbi ?? Author-Name-First: Saleh Hamed Author-Name-Last: AlHarbi ?? Author-Email: s.alharbi@ut.edu.sa Author-Workplace-Name: Tabuk University ? Faculty of Business Administration ? Department of Management Author-Name: Selma Sidahmed Abedelrahim Author-Name-First: Selma Author-Name-Last: Sidahmed Abedelrahim Author-Email: ss.mohammed@ut.edu.sa Author-Workplace-Name: Tabuk University ? Faculty of Business Administration ? Department of Management Title: Organizational Culture Assessment using the Competing Values Framework (CVF) in Public Universities in Saudi Arabia: A Case Study of Tabuk University Abstract: Today the organizational culture (OC) is treated as the main driver in making decisions in organizations and as a critical determiner of their effectiveness. Due to the lack of studies in the field of OC assessment in Middle Eastern countries and particularly in Saudi Arabia, this study aimed to portray the dominant culture type (Clan, Adhocracy, Hierarchy and Market) in Tabuk University. It also set out to determine the culture type that dominates according to the dimensions of Organizational Culture (Dominant Characteristics, Organizational Leadership, Management Organizational Glue, Strategic Emphases and Criteria for Success) by using an organizational culture assessment instrument (OCAI) based on the Competing Values Framework (CVF). The target population was the Tabuk University workforce (N= 1999). A sample was drawn from the population (N= 322) composed of two categories, academic staff and employees. The study findings indicate that the dominant culture type in Tabuk University is clan culture. However, three other types of culture characteristics are represented in some dimensions (Dominant Characteristics, Organizational Leadership and Management of Employees) besides the clan characteristics. The results indicate that there are statistically significant differences in culture strength according to some respondents' demographic characteristics. Classification-JEL: M10 Keywords: organizational culture, OCAI, CVF Journal: International Journal of Business and Management Pages: 1-16 Volume: 6 Issue: 2 Year: 2018 Month: November File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-business-management/publication-detail-6861 File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-business-management/publication-detail-6861?download=1 Handle: RePEc:sek:jijobm:v:6:y:2018:i:2:p:1-16 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Vjosa Fejza Author-Name-First: Vjosa Author-Name-Last: Fejza Author-Email: vjosa.fejza@uni-pr.edu Author-Workplace-Name: University of Prishtina " Hasan Prishtina", Faculty of Economics Author-Name: Hykmete Bajrami Author-Name-First: Hykmete Author-Name-Last: Bajrami Author-Email: hykmete.bajrami@uni-pr.edu Author-Workplace-Name: University of Prishtina " Hasan Prishtina", Faculty of Economics Author-Name: Ramiz Livoreka Author-Name-First: Ramiz Author-Name-Last: Livoreka Author-Email: ramiz.livoreka@uni-pr.edu Author-Workplace-Name: University of Prishtina " Hasan Prishtina", Faculty of Economics Title: Customer Behavior in Commercial Banks of Kosovo Abstract: Taking into account the importance of analyzing and studying consumer behavior, it was seemed necessary to conduct a research on this issue. As part of this research, consumer behavior in the Kosovo?s Commercial Banks were studied and analyzed.This study is divided into the three main parts: the first part of the study includes a review of various literature, publications and scientific journals related to understanding the role and importance of consumer behavior in enterprises.The second part of the study includes a survey questionnaire with a 500 individual client sample base, randomly selected from commercial banks in Kosovo in order to determine behaviors of existing customers in the banking sector, and analyze various internal and external factors which influence such behaviors. Finally, data obtained from the literature review and questionnaire surveys were used to draw conclusions on issues central to this research and issue recommendations which may be useful to commercial banks currently operating in Kosovo. Classification-JEL: M31, M31, M31 Keywords: Consumer behavior; internal factors; external factors; bank; banking system. Journal: International Journal of Business and Management Pages: 17-35 Volume: 6 Issue: 2 Year: 2018 Month: November File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-business-management/publication-detail-6863 File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-business-management/publication-detail-6863?download=2 Handle: RePEc:sek:jijobm:v:6:y:2018:i:2:p:17-35 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Frank W. Hager Author-Name-First: Frank W. Author-Name-Last: Hager Author-Email: frank_hager@yahoo.com Author-Workplace-Name: University of Latvia, Faculty of Economics and Management Title: LINKS BETWEEN TELECOMMUTING, SOCIAL SUPPORT AND MENTAL WELL-BEING AMONG TELEWORKERS ? A LITERATURE REVIEW Abstract: Importance of the topic: Through limited communication possibilities, social support can be provided via structural distance only in a limited way. But exactly social support is a buffer to reduce work-related stress and diseases. The issue of workplace health promotion has so far received little attention in teleworking. The issue of workplace health promotion has so far received little attention in teleworking, which is incomprehensible, because healthy employees are the basis of an agile and competitive company.Aim of the study: The objective of this study is to identify and synthesize what is known about telecommuting, social-support and mental well-being of employees, and how these constructs are linked. Therefore the respective understandings of social-support and of healthy work behind the background of telework has to be elaborated, to develop the underlying interpretations of subjectivity, in order to propose a perspective for empirical investigations of health-oriented (tele-)working conditions. Methods: The study was carried out as a literature review, consisting information found in general and relevant science literature as well as scientific publications researched in common journal-databases. To gain a better understanding of how the constructs are linked, a conceptual model and testable hypotheses are provided.Findings: Proactive work-support, good workplace-relationships, but also support from non-work contexts are closely related to teleworkers? mental well-being. The question, as to why some employees in the field of telework are mentally stable and can cope with perceived, unfavorable working conditions or lower social support and others fail, can be answered by individual's Sense of Coherence (SoC), a health-related resource and their ability to use available General Resistance Ressources (GRR). Classification-JEL: M14, M50, Z13 Keywords: telework, social support, job strain, stress, well-being, job design, communication, telecommuting Journal: International Journal of Business and Management Pages: 36-58 Volume: 6 Issue: 2 Year: 2018 Month: November File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-business-management/publication-detail-7011 File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-business-management/publication-detail-7011?download=3 Handle: RePEc:sek:jijobm:v:6:y:2018:i:2:p:36-58 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: GIULI KESHELASHVILI Author-Name-First: GIULI Author-Name-Last: KESHELASHVILI Author-Email: giuli.keshelashvili@tsu.ge Author-Workplace-Name: Iv.Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Title: Value Chain Management in Agribusiness Abstract: Work offers discussion of the issues of value chain management and development in agribusiness. In particular, based on the study of business entities in Georgia it analyzes and assesses the process of value chain formation and role of the involved stakeholders that increase the product value for the consumers through organized cooperation.Value chain connects the raw material producers, middlemen, processing enterprises, sales markets, service providers and different parties, whose activities promote competitiveness of one another at marketplace and its maintenance through introduction of innovations in the processes of value chain. Value chain management is the instrument of strategic business analysis and planning that is used for coordination of the value chain components and resources. Effective management of value chain directly affects profitability of the involved stakeholders and satisfaction of consumers. The work demonstrates the main challenges hindering development and effectiveness of agribusiness management in Georgia, including land fragmentation, low availability of advanced technologies, lack of business management awareness and skills, poor organization of logistics and supply process, low opportunities of negotiating and performing agrarian marketing etc.Within the scopes of the research various cases of the agricultural cooperatives involved in the sector were studied and business cycles of priority sectors of Georgian agriculture were surveyed. Work was prepared on the basis of in-depth interviews with the industry experts, agribusiness managers and parties involved in the value chain. Secondary data (desk research) were collected through studying of the publications related to the issue and value chain reports.Seasonality of raw materials production and their insufficiency was found to be one of the main causes of instability of value chain and supply chain in agriculture sector. Participants of value chain do not perceive one another as partners and do not care properly about the quality stability thus reducing competitiveness of their businesses. In the process of research the emphasis was made on the problems of value chain management. In agribusiness, necessity of formation and setup of the full production chain allowing significant reduction of production costs was identified as one of the significant directions for production growth and development.Recommendations offered by the work would contribute to improvement of value chain management in agribusiness, in Georgia. Classification-JEL: M10, M11, Q10 Keywords: value chain management, agribusiness, agricultural cooperative, production costs, supply chain, coordination. Journal: International Journal of Business and Management Pages: 59-77 Volume: 6 Issue: 2 Year: 2018 Month: November File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-business-management/publication-detail-6993 File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-business-management/publication-detail-6993?download=4 Handle: RePEc:sek:jijobm:v:6:y:2018:i:2:p:59-77 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: PHANTHIPA SRINAMMUANG Author-Name-First: PHANTHIPA Author-Name-Last: SRINAMMUANG Author-Email: phanthipas@yahoo.com Author-Workplace-Name: Faculty of Business Administration, KASETSART UNIVERSITY Author-Name: Neungruthai Petcharat Author-Name-First: Neungruthai Author-Name-Last: Petcharat Author-Email: neungruthai@gulfcollege.edu.om Author-Workplace-Name: Gulf College of Oman Title: Management accountants? role in moving towards a corporate sustainability in Thailand Abstract: This study examines (1) management accountants? roles in driving sustainable success to create a corporate sustainability, (2) environmental information in annual reports based on the indicators of the Global Reporting Initiatives (GRI), and (3) environmental information in the reports and the information identified by the environmental management accounting (EMA) practices. Management accountants drive as a collaborator with a company to provide environmental information incorporating in the reports for investment decisions. A set of survey is created to conduct environmental performance indicators in annual reports of 2011 and 2012 of two-hundred listed companies in Thailand. Regression analysis is considered appropriate for this study to analyse the relationship among variables. The results reveal that environmental information incorporated in annual reports is positively relevant to the indicators of the GRI guidelines. Environmental information in the reports is also significantly related to the data identified based on the EMA practices. Although management accountants are not fully involved in capturing data, they are intending to play an important role in creating sustainable value towards a corporate sustainability. Thus, management accountant?s roles in driving as a collaborator with a company are related to creating a corporate sustainability from promoting environmental sustainability significantly. Classification-JEL: M41 Keywords: roles of management accountants, environmental sustainability accounting, environmental management accounting, environmental indicators, GRI Journal: International Journal of Business and Management Pages: 78-89 Volume: 6 Issue: 2 Year: 2018 Month: November File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-business-management/publication-detail-7025 File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-business-management/publication-detail-7025?download=5 Handle: RePEc:sek:jijobm:v:6:y:2018:i:2:p:78-89 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Izabela Stanczyk Author-Name-First: Izabela Author-Name-Last: Stanczyk Author-Email: izabela.stanczyk@uj.edu.pl Author-Workplace-Name: Jagiellonian University, Department of Human Resources Management, Institute of Economics, Finance and Management Title: Organizational support for managers implemented by external experts - research results Abstract: Organizational support is currently one of the key trends influencing the efficiency of management in the case of managers. Hence, it is essential for it to be taken into account in terms of the processes of improving the organization.The aim of the herein paper is the ascertainment of the actions of external experts from the organization of advisory services which provide support for managers in their efficient management.Qualitative research was applied in order to present a more complete picture of the organizational support for managers. Two interviews were conducted with experts from external organizations rendering support for higher level managers. The information acquired during meetings indicated the direction of support rendered for managers in terms of efficient management, as well as making the gaps in the competences of managers visible, while also the imperfections in the organizations associated with the processes, procedures, or the lack of, or insufficient systems of support in terms of managerial decisions. Respondents' answers can be used in organizations that intend to implement changes. Using the interviews, it can get valuable information on the needs of managers regarding increasing their efficiency. The results of interviews can be used by HR managers, personal advisers or HR Business Partners to build organizational support projects for managers at the various levels of management. Classification-JEL: I24, M12, M53 Keywords: organizational support, managerial efficiency, perceived organizational support, Personnel Management, Personnel Economics: Training. Journal: International Journal of Business and Management Pages: 90-107 Volume: 6 Issue: 2 Year: 2018 Month: November File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-business-management/publication-detail-7063 File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-business-management/publication-detail-7063?download=6 Handle: RePEc:sek:jijobm:v:6:y:2018:i:2:p:90-107 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Anca Tamas Author-Name-First: Anca Author-Name-Last: Tamas Author-Email: anca.tamas@rei.ase.ro Author-Workplace-Name: Center of International Business and Economics, Bucharest University of Economic Studies Author-Name: Ruxandra Popescu Author-Name-First: Ruxandra Author-Name-Last: Popescu Author-Email: ruxandra.popescu@rei.ase.ro Author-Workplace-Name: Bucharest University of Economic Studies Title: The advantages of using Best-Worst Model for hybrid products Abstract: The aim of this paper is to find out if the country of origin of the hybrid products is important for specialists using the Best-Worst Model and to highlight the advantages of using it. It proved that using Best-Worst Model reduces the biases and eliminates the cultural differences associated with Likert or other rating scales. I used quantitative methods: questionnaires. For having a representative sample, I chose only respondents who have at home the products used in the study and, in the same time, who use the respective products in their professional activity. SPSS was used for computing the scores and to check out if the gender or age have an influence on the scores. It proved that, for specialists or consumers familiar with the products, country of origin is of low importance, it is less important comparing to price or quality and it doesn?t have a significant effect on buying intention. In the case of all the analyzed products, the gender or the age of the respondents don?t have a significant effect. The paper is very appropriate for researchers, it proved that Best-Worst Model is more objective than other types of survey. It provides a better level of efficiency and it increases the flexibility of the analyzed data. The main originality/value is the application of the Best-Worst Model on specific categories of hybrid products (cars, TV sets, mobile phones, sport shoes). Classification-JEL: B41, C83 Keywords: Best-Worst Model, consumer behavior Journal: International Journal of Business and Management Pages: 108-121 Volume: 6 Issue: 2 Year: 2018 Month: November File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-business-management/publication-detail-6829 File-URL: https://iises.net/international-journal-of-business-management/publication-detail-6829?download=7 Handle: RePEc:sek:jijobm:v:6:y:2018:i:2:p:108-121