swift development in economic aspects and the call for more concentration on the ethics in new era is taking considerations in the world. the aim of this study was the investigation of the impact of the islamic work ethics and its aspects in every point of human being characters, especially in employees’ hope, resilience, optimism and efficacy, as the dimensions of positive psychological capita...

all researches and documents have a philosophical basis and since paradigm refers to the system of thinking, it can be basis for research patterns. despite of the various discussions on information system paradigms and code of ethics , non of them deal with paradigm of code of ethics. due to this gap the aim of this research is explaining the position of ethics paradigm in organizations code of...

Increasing saturation, maturity and globalisation in the agricultural goods market is forcing suppliers to innovate in order to sustain their business performance. One of the options open to them is to gain a deeper understanding of existing and potential customers in order to develop marketing strategies tailored to meet their priorities. This paper contributes to this option by identifying th...

“Food production and distribution in South Africa, as in most other countries, is undergoing major structural changes caused by changing and diverse consumer demands, new technologies (e.g. bioand information technologies), new product characteristics, changing firm sizes and more exposure to world markets... the structural realignment in agriculture and the formation of new supply chains are p...

Fish rolls are a popular value-added, fish based, ready-to-eat food snack sold in Lagos, South west Nigeria. The study was carried out to determine nutritional composition of commercially fish rolls available in some parts of Lagos metropolis. Six brands of fish rolls were collected and analyzed for proximate composition and energy values with a view to evaluate their levels of nutrients. The n...

Gains in scientific and technological knowledge in the West led not only to increases in the amount of food produced, but also led to improvements in knowledge of the nutritional values of food and the physiological effects various foods have on people. Such advances were made possible by industrious work by scientists, farmers, scholars, entrepreneurs, and inventors. The following excerpt is t...

We consider the problem of choosing, from a set of N potential SKUs in a retail category, K SKUs to be carried at each store so as to maximize sales or a defined profit function. Assortments can vary by store, subject to a maximum number of different assortments. We describe an approach in which we view a SKU as a set of attribute values, use sales history of the SKUs currently carried by the r...

The present paper attempts to bring further evidence on the behavioral gap for organic food in Britain. The stated preferences are analyzed with the contingent valuation method while the revealed preferences are estimated with the hedonic pricing method. We find a small but significant gap in the premium for organic food between stated and revealed preferences. This gap may suggest a need for p...

The central question to be examined in this study is associated with the value of the Malays traditional culinary practices of Malay chef in preparing the traditional food in Malaysian hotels. Present understanding highlighted that hotels are giving high priority on their superior services, such as luxury accommodations and intimate hospitalities. As such, promoting local foods in their dining ...