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Showing 1 to 20 of 71 for “"Commerce, management, tourism and services"”.
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The effect of fairness perception of performance measurement in the balanced scorecard environment
… have identified problems with traditional management control and performance measurement systems to evaluate managerial and business unit performance (Kaplan and Norton, 1996; Olve, Roy, and Wetter, 1999). One response has been the use of the balanced scorecard (BSC) to provide a more …
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Financial reporting disclosure on the internet: an international perspective
… elements of financial reporting frameworks and practice in the context of the Internet. The Internet has emerged as a recent medium of presentation of corporate information. Currently, the levels of disclosure vary widely between companies within countries and on an international level, in …
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Factors that determine corporate governance in Thailand
The aim in this study is to discover the nature and extent of corporate governance structures and practices in listed companies in Thailand. This includes a consideration of theoretical underpinning for amendments made to the western models of corporate governance that have been implemented by Thai …
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A cross-cultural study of accounting concepts applied in international financial reporting standards
… in Malaysia to obtain their attitudes, beliefs and opinions about their motivational goals, and their interpretations and judgments in financial reporting. The results reveal a set of individual-level accounting motivational values that is a more comprehensive and theoretically valid …
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Internal Audit, Internal Control and Organizational Culture
… at the organizational culture of organizations and their internal audit operations from the perspective of operational audit. The study will use an organizational cultural model to see if operational internal audit has identical cultural to the organization, and if not what differences exist, …
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Non-Audit Services and Auditor Independence: the Case of Saudi Arabia
… is a critical issue for stakeholders and other users of the audited financial statements. This type of relationship is predicated on trust; however, it is susceptible to differing motives, conflict of interest, and information asymmetries. An external auditor’s independence is crucial …
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A Challenge for Change: a Thai Telecommunications Case Study
… is set in the context of increased competition and rapid change in the telecommunications industry in Thailand. The aim of the research and the selected methodological tool of benchmarking is to contribute to improvement of work performance and to provide a basis for such improvement in the …
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Audit committee effectiveness: Australia and Saudi Arabia
… for mechanisms to enhance corporate governance and increase the quality of financial reports has mostly focused on the structure of audit committees. This thesis empirically investigates whether there is an association between audit committee effectiveness (ACE) and the selection of a high …
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A case study of the interests and needs of the district director to improve job performance in the Bangkok metropolitan administration
… Metropolitan Administration, Bangkok, Thailand, in order to produce an operational strategy for a learning organisation and an improvement in work quality. The population sample consists of the Permanent Secretary, two Deputy Permanent Secretaries, and all fifty District Directors of the …
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Factors Influencing Australia's Dairy Product Exports to Thailand: 1980-2002
… Australia's dairy product exports to Thailand. To the author's knowledge, such an analysis has not been conducted so far. The research consists of literature reviews of the theories and empirical studies of comparative advantage and export demand, the econometric estimation of Thailand's …
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Neuro-Fuzzy Forecasting of Tourist Arrivals
This study develops a model to forecast inbound tourism to Japan, using a combination of artificial neural networks and fuzzy logic and compares the performance of this forecasting model with forecasts from other quantitative forecasting methods namely, the multi-layer perceptron neural network …
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An investigation of the professional development practices of vocational education and training educators in the tourism and hospitality sector
… development (PD) within the Vocational Education and Training (VET) arena. The major focus of this study was to investigate how PD provision for a selected group of VET educators in the tourism and hospitality sector has equipped them with both the technical competence of their discipline and …
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Travel guidebooks and the independent traveller in the Asia Pacific Region
… travellers has prompted the need for accurate and reliable information to plan holidays and to evaluate on-site activities. In organising and undertaking independent tours, travellers face the challenge of searching useful information about the destinations they are visiting. Specifically, …
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A comparative study of administrative leadership in Thai universities
This study set out to examine and describe the administrative experiences of senior leaders and senior and junior staff in three Thai universities. The researcher chose to employ a grounded theory approach to analyse data collected from in-depth interviews with twelve participants including one …
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Factors Affecting Cross-Cultural Adjustment Of Taiwanese Expatriates Assigned to Subsidiary Companies In Mainland China
Because of increasing global competition and the internationalization of world markets, the assignment of expatriate employees is becoming increasingly essential for the successful worldwide development of many multinational corporations (MNCs). International expatriates are imperative to the …
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Understanding the International Students' Innovation Decision Process with Particular Reference to International Higher Education Service in Australia and in Thailand
… as one of the leaders in this service and ii) Thailand as an eastern developing country that has potential to offer this service. However, as a new country offering this service, Thailand lacks experience of operating it in the world market. Therefore, it is necessary to learn from a …
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Values in Leadership: Approaches of Victorian Local Government Managers
… has been imbued with the language of business management. In part, this has occurred because other levels of government have brought changes to the operation of local government and also because public sector managers have accepted the conventional wisdom that the private sector provides the …
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An Assessment of the Internet's Potential in Enhancing Consumer Relationships
… then evolve around retaining consumers and building long-term consumer relationships. In the pursuit of acquiring consumer loyalty, enhancing consumer value has been the focus of many firms' relationship building efforts. Hence, this study aims to understand the affect of using the …
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A stakeholder approach to ecologically sustainable tourism : the case of the Twelve Apostles, Port Campbell National Park, Victoria
… has been widespread support for formal treaties and declarations to ensure ecologically sustainable development (ESD) internationally and in Australia, at national and state levels, for almost 30 years. Despite this, the momentum of ESD appears to be waning (Low et al 2000). It is the author’s …
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Dimensions of Earnings Inequality in Australia
Over the last three decades, Australia and many other industrialised nations have seen major social and economic changes. For Australia, two of these have been increasing inequality of earnings and the growth in alternative forms of employment arrangements. For the US and a number of other …
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