To date no study has been made to explore the FDI motives of foreign firms in Pakistan. An attempt has been made to rectify this position through a survey of both whollyand majority-owned multinational enterprises (MNEs) in the economy. Market size and growth variables appear to be the most cited reasons for FDI by MNEs in the sample. The use of exploratory factor analysis (EFA) also reinforces...

Risks associated with adolescents’ uses of social networking sites (SNSs) propelled investigations concerning how online privacy and security behaviors are related to young people’s general activities online. To explore adolescents’ SNS behaviors, among a group of 531 volunteered adolescent participants during their junior or senior middle school years in Beijing, this study ran exploratory fac...

Implementing knowledge management or knowledge-sharing projects in an organization require significant organizational prerequisites. Lacking proper infrastructures and prerequisite, not only make the knowledge management process unprofitable, but might incur harmful effects as well. To decrease such risks, it is proposed to introduce the readiness assessment, in order to gauge a company’s appet...

Why is another measure of disturbed eating necessary? While there is a growing literature identifying links between certain emotion regulation styles and eating disturbances, much contention and contradictory evidence exists regarding the distinction between different specific eating disorder (ED) diagnoses in such relationships. This is possibly due to the common and overlapping features of di...

The relationship with patients/users is a crucial dimension for helping professionals. It is nevertheless mostly analyzed in its negative connotation, that’s to say as a possible cause, for example, of the burnout syndrome, while very few are research works that take into account the positive side of the relationship, as a resource more than a problem, and even fewer are the instruments to meas...

The factor structure of the Learning Behaviors Scale (LBS) was examined with a sample of 393 randomly selected Canadian youths in a large western city. An identical four-factor structure was observed for the Canadian sample as was obtained in the standardization sample of U.S. youths and with another American sample. Principal axis exploratory factor analysis with equamax rotations produced fac...

The importance of economic education goes far beyond the goal of improving an understanding of the basic principles of supply and demand and the workings of our economy. Economic attitudes and opinions should be a topic of interest to teachers of economics, whether they teach it as a separate course or integrate it into the existing curriculum. This study explores students’ perceptions of econo...

The prime objective of this paper was to examine the organizational attributes that motivate Generation Y (Gen Yers) to contribute innovatively in the Malaysian banking industry. To achieve the objective of this study primary data were collected through a valid questionnaire items. A total of 94 respondents from Kuala Lumpur, Petaling Jaya and Miri were involved. Descriptive statistics, explora...

The ongoing pressure on organizations to utilize the Web and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools successfully should be based on a clear understanding of the organizational context including human and technological dimensions. As a part of this understanding, this paper attempts to explore managers’ attitudes towards Web and IT. In addition, the relationship between certain dem...

An investigation of students taking online classes exposed crucial student perceptions important to their selecting online/web-assisted courses. An exploratory factor analysis provided three factors of “convenience,” “enjoyment & independence,” and “no other option available” as motivations for students taking online/web-assisted courses. Positive correlations were identified linking the person...