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{"title":"9. Rethinking corporate social responsibility: foundations for a viable reconceptualization","authors":"V. Kalkan","doi":"10.17261/Pressacademia.2017.374","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17261/Pressacademia.2017.374","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose- Corporate social responsibility has long been an issue of debate among practitioners and researchers. Recent global developments and problems in practice have led to a need for rethinking on the concept of social responsibility. This paper aims to discuss some important aspects of this need and identify issues subject to further research. Methodology- Based on a holistic literature review, basic definitions and principles of corporate social responsibility have been investigated in the light of actual challenges faced. Findings- Thoughts and suggestions about integrating the concept of the right to life into the processes of corporate social responsibility have been provided. It has been asserted that corporate social responsibility should be studied with organizational learning processes, micro-management, and social loafing concepts and issues. A discussion over various topics included in the process of rethinking and restructuring corporate social responsibility is offered, and ideas and suggestions potentially useful in the process have been put forward. Conclusion- The discussion provided has revealed a number of concerns and issues relevant to a viable reconceptualization of corporate social responsibility.","PeriodicalId":376357,"journal":{"name":"Research Journal of Business Management","volume":"262 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115013021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A REPLENISHMENT MODEL FOR VMI WAREHOUSE OF LED-CM PLANTS","authors":"Lun-Meng Su, Horng-Huei Wu, Chiu-Chi Wei","doi":"10.17261/PRESSACADEMIA.2017.367","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17261/PRESSACADEMIA.2017.367","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose- The LED Chip Manufacturing (LED-CM) is an important process in the LED supply chain. Due to customer pressure or to providing better services in order to enhance competitiveness, the Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) strategy is applied in LED-CM plant in recent years. The chips in the VMI warehouse of the customers must meet the specifications of the customer requirements. Basically, Chips of a specification of the customer requirements compose of the chips of different bins. A bin is defined by the definite electrical functions of LED chips. Deciding how many chips of each feasible bin must be allocated to a replenishment order (RO) affects the performance of VMI in  LED-CM plant.   Methodology- A model of allocating chips from bins to ROs for LED-CM plants is proposed in this paper. Three objectives, i.e., maximizing ROs of delivery, maximizing throughput of delivery and maximizing the total left chips of the feasible bins of potential ROs, are considered in the proposed model to obtain the best result.  Findings- The obtained ROs of delivery or throughput of delivery could serve as a valuable informance for LED-CM plants.  Conclusion- Results show that employing the proposed methodology can facilitate LED-CM plants to implement the VMI service effectively.","PeriodicalId":376357,"journal":{"name":"Research Journal of Business Management","volume":"110 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116379288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"CORRELATIONAL INFERENCES FROM TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION 2017 WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKING","authors":"Ali Baykal","doi":"10.17261/PRESSACADEMIA.2017.371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17261/PRESSACADEMIA.2017.371","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose- If knowledge is a strategic commodity as asserted by so many scholars then the amount and the quality of service provided by the universities are to be assessed in a variety of ways. The general aim of this study is to extract some information from the available evidence about tertiary education. The purpose in operational terms is to make use of data published by Times Higher Education (THE) 2016-17 World University Rankings, and United Nations Development Program (UNDP).   Methodology- Pearson correlation is the statistical method used to make inferences. The variables correlated are the measures taken by Times Higher Education in 2016-17.  Namely, these are Teaching, Research, Citations and International Outlook. Some Human Development Indicators (HDI) are the variables used as benchmarking criteria taken from Human Development Report 2014 published by UNDP. These are HDI-2012, Research and Development Expenditure, Educational Expenditures, PISA-2012 Scores.  Findings- The computations yields mostly positive high correlations between pairs of variables mentioned above. General Educational Expenditure seems to be the variable correlated not so significantly with the others.  Conclusion- The present report displays results in conformity with the expectations. Conclusions are valid for the countries in general and for Turkey in particular separately as well as for the whole bunch of universities. The author hopes to collect critical and complementary comments in return.","PeriodicalId":376357,"journal":{"name":"Research Journal of Business Management","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116084074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A STUDY ON THE DIFFERENCES OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP POTENTIAL AMONG GENERATIONS","authors":"M. Ş. Ensari","doi":"10.17261/PRESSACADEMIA.2017.370","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17261/PRESSACADEMIA.2017.370","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose – The paper aims to explore the differences between the factors that affect the entrepreneurship potential of the Baby Boomers and X, Y, Z generations.  Methodolgy - To carry out this study, 532 individuals were reached with convenience sampling method and surveys were used for data collection.  Findings - It is found that Z generation’s entrepreneurial potential is rather lower than Baby Boomers, X and Y. According to gender and marital status there are some differences in entrepreneurship potential, but not for the other demographics.  Conclusion -  As a result of findings, it is thought that, the results of this study will contribute to the literature relating to the question of “has the next generation better entrepreneurship potential or not at the time of the study conducted”, since the study for the first time takes into consideration Z generation.","PeriodicalId":376357,"journal":{"name":"Research Journal of Business Management","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131710370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"THE EFFECT OF LEVERAGE FACTORS OF LEARNING TO PRODUCT QUALITY OF WOODEN HOUSE INDUSTRY AT WOLOAN DISTRICT, NORTH SULAWESI, INDONESIA","authors":"L. R. Rengkung","doi":"10.17261/PRESSACADEMIA.2017.366","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17261/PRESSACADEMIA.2017.366","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose- The purpose of this study is to determine the ability and to analyze the effect of leverage factors of learning to product quality in Wooden House Industry at Woloan District, North Sulawesi, Indonesia, as well as to predict the probability of this industry to produce quality products. Methodology- To answer these purposes, the Logistic Regression is being applied to 38 firms and customers.  There are 22 firms that are able to produce good quality  and 16 firms that  produce less quality. Predictly, there are 19 firms that are able to produce good quality, 12 firms that produce less quality, and 3 firms that obviously are able to produce good quality but predictably unable to produce good product, and 4 firms that obviously  produce less quality, but predictably will be able to produce  good quality.  Findings- The leverage factors of learning have a significant effect on product quality. Simultaneously, all factors have significant effect on the product quality, partially, factors of knowledge acquisition, knowledge assimilation and knowledge exploitation have significant effect, except knowledge transformation.  Conclusion- It can be concluded that learning process should be applied as a routine and sustainable activity for this industry to produce quality products. The role of management in this process is to acquire new and relevant knowledge, to utilize and optimize knowledge, to increase research and development, to optimize human resources, to initiate new thinking, to innovate new product, and to identify new solutions to solve problems.","PeriodicalId":376357,"journal":{"name":"Research Journal of Business Management","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114265560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"THE FACTORS AFFECTING THE ATTITUDE OF CONSUMERS' PURCHASING PRIVATE LABELS","authors":"Ebru Enginkaya","doi":"10.17261/PRESSACADEMIA.2017.368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17261/PRESSACADEMIA.2017.368","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose- Private labels in the consumer packaged goods have experienced a worldwide growth in availability and market share in recent years. Retailers offer private labels in many different product categories to attract new consumers and gain sustainable consumption. The growing penetration of private labels in a markets and acceptance by the consumer provides sales and profits for retailers. The changes in consumers’ life styles, purchasing behaviours and expectations led changes in consumption patterns. For the consumers, private labels represent the choice and opportunity to purchase many variety of  products at savings compared to other brands, without waiting for promotional pricing. The private label products are going a long way toward answering the need for affordable packaged goods for consumers. This research aims to investigate the dimensions that are important to consumers during their purchase of private labels.  Methodology- In this study it is aimed to examine consumer attitudes related to private labels. The variables which have effect on the attitudes that consumers develop towards the private label products were examined. Convenience sampling method is used in face to face survey and data collected from 447 consumers who buy private labels. The hypotheses of this study are developed through mentioned purposes and t-tests, correlation and regression analysis were conducted. Findings- Price conciousness, value conciousness and consumer innovativeness variables have an influence on consumers’ attitude towards private labels. Price conciousness  variable has the greatest effect on private label attitude. Conclusion- Price and value conciousness are the major determinants of consumers’ purchase decision of private labels. Price consciousness is the most important factor on the consumers’ attitude towards private labels and purchase behavior. Consumers who are more sensitive to price and value, prefer private label products while shopping. According to their experiences these consumers believe that private labels are reliable and can be used instead of expensive alternatives.","PeriodicalId":376357,"journal":{"name":"Research Journal of Business Management","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130836473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Discussion on the applicability of the briefing method on open and distance learning: animated and scenarian expression applications","authors":"U. Keskin, Murat Akyildiz","doi":"10.17261/PRESSACADEMIA.2017.372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17261/PRESSACADEMIA.2017.372","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose- Two basic issues in preparing and presenting presentations in the field of open and distance education are to inform the audience and present a general outline. In addition, it is sometimes necessary to include details the audience needs to a certain extent.  This study explains certain issues regarding “briefing preparation and presentation” as a sub-element of “oral presentation”. Based on the fact that to what extent the issues related to “briefing method” match open and distance education presentations, it is discussed that it is necessary to adapt the briefing techniques to open and distance education presentations due to certain reasons such as time limitations of caused by today’s conditions and new generation’s impatience and lack of interest in long presentations. Methodology – In this study features of conventional and briefing presentations are compared. The criteria of this comparison are the methods and goals of open and distant education. The experience acquired from one of the animated and scripted presentations prepared in Anadolu University Open Education Faculty Learning Technologies Research and Development unit is told. Findings- The findings show that briefing presentation method is highly applicable in presentations in open and distant education. Conclusion- This article claims that the main principles of  briefing presentation method is highly applicable in presentations in open and distant education.","PeriodicalId":376357,"journal":{"name":"Research Journal of Business Management","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130608304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"DETERMINATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MATHEMATICS LITERACY, MATHEMATICS CONTENT KNOWLEDGE AND SCIENCE LITERACY ACCORDING TO PISA 2012","authors":"Dilber Polat, Y. Gödek, Volkan Kaya","doi":"10.17261/PRESSACADEMIA.2017.373","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17261/PRESSACADEMIA.2017.373","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose- In the PISA (Program for International Student Assessment), science and mathematics literacy are emphasized. PISA data are being benefited in directing education policies. In this study, it was aimed to determine the relationship between Mathematics Literacy, Mathematics Content Knowledge and Science Literacy of 15 years old students in Turkey by using PISA 2012 data. Moreover, it was aimed to reveal whether there is any relationship between the time spent on science and mathematics outside the school and students’ Science Literacy.  Methodology- This study is a descriptive research. As a research instrument, the researchers used the results of cognitive tests utilised by PISA in 2012 to assess students’ science and mathematics literacy skills. The data were obtained from the official website of PISA. In this study, parametric tests were used in evaluating the quantitative data. An ANOVA test and the correlation were used. Findings- The results show that there is a positive and meaningful relationship between Mathematic Literacy, Mathematic Content Knowledge and Science Literacy. Furthermore, it was found that there is a positive and meaningful relationship between the time spent on science and mathematics outside the school and students’ Science Literacy. Conclusion- According to the results of this study, it might be said that Mathematics literacy, Mathematics Content Knowledge and the time devoted by students to Mathematics and Science outside of the school increase, the Science Literacy increases. In addition, it was revealed that the students who have a good understanding of Mathematics are more positive in Science Literacy.  Therefore, the mathematical concepts related to the science should be included in the science curriculum after being taught in the mathematics course, this will contribute to science literacy of the students","PeriodicalId":376357,"journal":{"name":"Research Journal of Business Management","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130330146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"DETERMINATION AND COMPARISON OF TURKISH STUDENT CHARACTERISTICS AFFECTING SCIENCE LITERACY IN TURKEY ACCORDING TO PISA 2012","authors":"Volkan Kaya, Alev Doğan","doi":"10.17261/PRESSACADEMIA.2017.369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17261/PRESSACADEMIA.2017.369","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose- The main aim of this study is to determine student characteristics which affect science literacy of students aged 15 years and compare these results with the other countries according to PISA 2012.  Methodology – In this field study descriptive research has been utilized. The data have been obtained via the internet from the official PISA site ( http://www.pisa.oecd.org ) . In this study, the data obtained with the participation of students from 4 countries (Turkey, Finland, America and Israel) involved in PISA 2012 were used. SPSS 15 program was used to analyses the data. In this study, the relationship between the dependent variable (Science Literacy) and student characteristics was tested. Findings- According to the results of this study, there is a meaningful relationship between science literacy and students characteristics. Statistically meaningful relationship was also found between students’ science literacy and the number of books, computers and cell phones in their home. In addition, there were significant differences between the science literacy averages of students in four countries (Turkey, Finland, USA and Israel) and the presence of world classics and books of poetry  in their homes.  Conclusion- Similarly, the science literacy average of students in Turkey, Finland and the United States varies significantly according to the availability of supplementary textbooks in their homes. This situation was not the case for Israel students. Moreover, four countries had different results in terms of the level of science literacy and student characteristics.","PeriodicalId":376357,"journal":{"name":"Research Journal of Business Management","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133986958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Impact of Brand Authenticity on Brand Attitude and Loyalty: The Mediating Role of Self-brand Connection","authors":"H. Park","doi":"10.3923/RJBM.2017.74.79","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3923/RJBM.2017.74.79","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":376357,"journal":{"name":"Research Journal of Business Management","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128617934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}