Indonesian Capital Market Efficiency: Islamic vis-a-vis Conventional

Market Orientation vis-à-vis Market Adaptation

The ability of firms to adapt to changing markets and technology is a fundamental topic both in strategic management and marketing literature. The focus of this paper is to study how firms adapt to their environments and create superior market orientation. We hypothesize specific relationships between market adaptation and market orientation. Moreover, we analyze the moderating effects of a fir...

The Competitiveness of On-Line vis-a-vis Conventional Retailing: A Preliminary Study

Previous research has directly studied whether on-line retailing is more competitive than conventional retail markets. The evidence from books and music CDs is mixed. Here, I use an indirect approach to compare the competitiveness of on-line with conventional markets. Focusing on the retail market for books, I identify a peculiarity in the pricing of bestsellers relative to other titles. Suppos...

Proactive Translatology vis a vis Advertising Messages

Much good work on Translation Studies (TS) has concentrated on the verbal text. Nevertheless, in our post-modern world, multi-modality is exploited to the maximum, as advertising shows. In turn, hyper-textuality is also a common feature of today’s advertising messages. Furthermore, both multi-modality and hyper-textuality are ideologically designed not only to sell products but to promote entir...

HEP , vis - a - vis Lattice QCD

I review in this presentation some aspects of phenomenology in High Energy Physics which are related to recent and possibly future progress in lattice QCD. In particular, I cover (i) the extraction of CKM matrix elements from B physics, (ii) the determination of ǫ ′ /ǫ , as well as (iii) some issues emerged in the physics of high energy jets produced in hadronic collisions, where input from non...

Understanding Relevance Vis-a-Vis Internal Transfer