DIAS is an Asynchronous Discussion Forum Software, mainly developed in order to offer extended monitoring and interaction analysis support, by providing a wide range of indicators jointly used in various situations, to all discussion forae users (individual students, groups, moderators/teachers or even researchers/observers), appropriate for their various roles in different activities. In this ...

The literature offers little empiric evidence on the role of management accounting in inter-firm relationships. So, in the following research, we examined the effect of the use of a set of new management accounting practices namely the ABC, the balanced scorecard and the financial and accounting benchmarking as well as the effect of the investment in information and communication technologies (...

A basic proposition of process assessment models is that higher process maturity is associated with improved project performance and product quality. This study provides empirical evidence to support this proposition by testing the hypothesis that higher process maturity is negatively associated with schedule deviation in software maintenance. Next, the present study investigates whether two pr...

In this article, we introduce a model on the unintended effects of advertising. This model describes the existing hypotheses about the impact of advertising on (a) materialism, (b) parent–child conflict, and (c) unhappiness. The validity of each of these hypotheses was investigated using a vote-counting analysis. Our analyses yielded a small to moderate effect size for the relation between adve...

 Conflict of interest GRADEpro supports COI management based on four different forms that are developed by different organisations: ICMJE [4], WHO [5], NHF (McMaster-NHF Guideline Panel conflict of interest form), and MSPSC [6]. The moderator can choose only one type of form for each guideline under development and send notification to the team members to fill the COI form. The moderator can a...

Prior studies on family business, have found both positive as well as negative affects of altruism and entrenchment on firm performance. Drawing on theoretical underpinnings of resource based view, stewardship theory, and agency theory; we explain how ‘family involvement’ acts as a moderator in contingently explaining positive and negative effects of altruism and entrenchment on family firm per...

While innovations generated by supply channel relationships, as opposed to individual partners, play an increasingly important role in the success of all supply chain partners, there has been a dearth of research in the literature on how supply chain relationships cultivate the process of such innovation generation. We explore supplier market knowledge acquisition, relationship learning, system...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to suggest and empirically test a model that explains employee capabilities from the knowledge-based perspective. In this model, human capital management practices are employed as a moderator variable. Design/methodology/approach – A valid research instrument was utilized to conduct a survey of 14,769 current employees of a major North American financial s...

BACKGROUND Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) psychotherapy research has failed to identify patient characteristics that consistently predict differential outcome. AIMS To identify patient characteristics associated with differential outcome via a statistically generated composite moderator among women with childhood abuse-related PTSD in a randomised controlled trial comparing exposure th...