10 articles in this issue
Cynthia L. Knott, G. Steube
Increasing concerns about security and privacy have raised the bar for interest in ways to protect information. Although newer approaches include face recognition, the use of passwords is commonly used today as the best approach for protecting data. Web s... see more
Roger C. Russell, Catherine E. Aquino-Russell
Expatriates live many paradoxical experiences while being immersed in another culture (Russell, 2006; Osland & Osland, 2006; Russell & Dickie, 2007; Russell & Aquino-Russell, 2010; 2011). This led us to wonder what it might be like for host country nation... see more
Jozef Zurada
The paper explores the effect of removing/replacing missing values on the classification performance of several models. The original data set, which contains a relatively large number of missing values, comes from the credit scoring context. This data set... see more
Naheed Atta, Muneer Ahmad, Inayat Mangla, Dan Farrell
Despite its ubiquity in organizations, organizational politics may be viewed negatively by managers. When managers empower employees, the effect of organizational politics may be moderated. This study of Pakistani managers (n=357) demonstrates that organi... see more
Faleh Alshameri, G. Robert Greene, Mukesh Srivastava
Purpose - The paper seeks to categorize mission and vision statements into clusters and demonstrate how these clusters can be profiled in the context of Globalization, Innovation and Strategy Centric features for assessment of strategic alignment, positio... see more
Bruce Q. Budd
This is an investigation into website analytics and the traffic source effect on goal conversions.The primary objective is to measure its web page analytics and improve its commercial marketing strategy.Crucial benchmarks of website efficacy for improved ... see more
Daniel W. Sullivan
According to the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), 32% of American manufactures reported that even during the height of the recession, they had unfilled job openings. The reason cited for this phenomenon was that American manufacturers were una... see more
Tab W. Cooper, Lucia Stretcher Sigmar
Confronting others with constructive criticism and feedback to hold them accountable for their actions and behavior is an important leadership skill in managing people. While the majority of literature generally supports the need for constructive supervis... see more
Wei-Li Wu, Yi-Chih Lee
Consumers value the advice of others when they are shopping online. Therefore, some high pageview bloggers could have a great influence on a consumers shopping decision. Blog marketing is a new communication tool. Blog trustworthiness, product attitude an... see more
Gillian Coote Martin
People often assume that innovation is synonymous with originality. However, a study reveals a difference between innovation and creativity in relation to how a person uses originality to create change. Creative people think of new phenomena; innovative p... see more