A model of business success was developed with motivational resources (locus of control, self-efficacy, achievement motivation, and self-reported personal initiative) and cognitive resources (cognitive ability and human capital) as independent variables, business owners' elaborate and proactive planning as a mediator, and business size and growth as dependent variables. Three studies with a tot...

Digital skills are a critical part of any national digital strategy to promote economic and social development and are profoundly changing educational requirements and modes of delivery in many countries around the world. Yet many nations have developed strategies which focus on promoting the development of technological infrastructure without considering the skills needed to use, build and man...

In a scholarly convention, ESP has bilaterally focused on “academic” and “occupational” arenas leaving the symbiosis between the two almost untouched. The present study, thus, aims to weigh the concordance between what is taught in universities as EAP courses for B.A. students in Business and Economics and what English skills and abilities are, actually, required from them on the job. A...

a limited series of studies on capital structure have been conducted on small-to-medium size enterprises (smes). recent family-bases business literature suggests that these processes are influenced by firm owners’ attitudes toward the utility of debt as a form of financing. other factors like culture, entrepreneurial characteristics, and prior experiences may also be involved. this study intend...

Resumen Background: Recent researches in Theory of Mind (ToM) relate its development to the development of the metacognitive skills “planning,” “regulation,” and acquisition of “predictive and causal reasoning.” These studies reveal the importance of metacognitive training in the development of mentalist skills. Method: In the present work, the effects of training were compared in 20 children, ...

The lives of the human beings has affected by the information technology in their daytoday lives, because of its progression. The technology has changed vastly, when time passes and so have the chances. The demand of increase in IT/IS has made the top management of the more and more complex and difficult. Strategic information systems planning (SISP) is a real way of emerging and upholding the ...

BACKGROUND Over the past decade the profession of pharmacy has steadily evolved. The New Pharmacy Contract exposed pharmacists to a fundamental change in traditional pharmacy business models. OBJECTIVE This study will consider whether community pharmacists, pharmacy undergraduates and academic staff within the United Kingdom believe it would be beneficial to incorporate a business management ...

In business school, students must learn essential communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills. In this study, we examine whether the prototyping project in our computer-based information system (CBIS) course enhances these three essential skills. The prototyping process, taught with an information system approach, is the focus of our project-centered teaching method. The pedagogy uses...

can be attained earlier if engineering students are exposed to management, public speaking, and other non-engineering coursework. The most highly recommended courses beyond an engineering curriculum included business management, public speaking, and marketing. In addition to taking courses, the professionals surveyed suggested involvement in activities like sports, internships, volunteering, an...

OBJECTIVES After having conducted two studies of the effectiveness of workplace travel plans for promoting active travel, we investigated health and transport practitioners' perspectives on implementing workplace travel plans to share some of the lessons learnt. The objectives of this study were to describe perceived elements of effective workplace travel plans, barriers and enablers to workpla...