The broad range of activities undertaken in a hotel, combined with its high labour intensity and volatile demand, signify a predisposition particularly suited to outsourcing. In this paper, transaction cost economics (TCE) theory, agency theory and the broader outsourcing literature are drawn upon to inform the distillation of 20 outsourcing / insourcing motives. The relative significance of th...

Global challenges of climate change and environmental deterioration helped in formulating seventeen sustainable development goals through United Nation. Achieving these goals, Malaysia initiated track progress towards affordable clean energy. The natural environment are mostly influenced by human behavior. Due to the role behavior change, a strong tendency pursuit energy sustainability exists. ...

This paper presents the results of an empirical study that investigates the relationship of user involvement toward user satisfaction of a commercial Website. This study adopts categorization of Website design factors into motivating factors and hygiene factors. This categorization is used to determine what design factors contribute to user satisfaction and dissatisfaction. A laboratory experim...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the motivating factors of employees working in various Malaysian organizations. Design/methodology/approach – A survey method was adopted. The survey questionnaire consisted of two parts: respondents’ personal information were obtained through Part A and in Part B, they were asked to rank the ten motivating factors in terms of their effectivene...

BACKGROUND Nowadays, plastic surgeries are among the most popular types of surgeries around the world and Iran has one of the highest rankings in this respect regarding its population size. Based on these facts, the present study was conducted in order to evaluate the volunteers’ motivations attitudes and informational sources in Tehran, Iran. METHODS The study was conducted on a cross-secti...