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IMPORT DEPENDENCY OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES:
A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS FOR TURKEY

Ali ERDOĞAN

Due to dependency on intermediate goods and capital goods, export growth in developing countries, increases also imports https://www.jitbm.com/files/css/eign_trade_deficit_and _no_matter_which_values_export_reaches___it_makes _developing_countries_rsquo_pqnrrnhpiqf5rhmii5empd.css; foreign trade a chronic problem. On the other hand; there is a positive correlation between national income of the countries and importshttps://www.jitbm.com/files/._because__expenses_of_enriching_countries_also_increases._in_this_study.css; utilized data from period of 2002-2015 and in which scale increasing imports https://www.jitbm.com/files/css/ts_and_national_income_as_independent_variable__this_statistical_study_reached_the_following_results_odckrxjus7tmfvhxcv2d86.css; Turkey economy depends on imports of intermediate goods and capital goods.

Quantitative Research, regression model, income elasticity of imports, homoscedasticity, logarithmic model.

THE ROLE OF MARKET ORIENTATION AND LEARNING ORGANIZATION IN ACHIEVING HIGH INNOVATIVENESS AND BUSINESS PERFORMANCE IN INDONESIAN BATIK INDUSTRY

Ali Yusuf

This study aims to examine the effects of market orientation and learning organization on firm innovativeness and business performance. This study follows a survey method to collect data pertaining to the phenomena of variables being investigated by utilizing a single respondent design. A total of 224 Indonesian batik companies are taken to test the proposed model by utilizing covariance-based structural equations modeling approach. It was found that both market orientation and learning organization was positively associated with firm innovativeness and business performance as well. In addition, firm innovativenessmay account for the effects of market orientation and learning organization on business performance. This implies that the batik companies have to reorient their marketing strategy, including foster their market orientation. The batik companies also need to possess some degree of organizational learningin respond to the uncertain environment and market changes. In addition, the batik companies should put a greater emphasize to use market orientation and organizational learning benefits to generate innovation capability to achieve a high business performance.

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR SELECTING OF
MEAT PRODUCT PACKAGING

Tengku Khairil Ahsyar, Kudang Boro Seminar, Irman Hermadi, Nugraha Edhi Suyatma

Efforts to maintain the quality of meat products can not be separated from the selection of appropriate packaging with the characteristics of the meat product itself. The amount of meat characteristics and packaging properties will slow down and complicate the decision–making process when choosing the appropriate packaging. Decision support system is a system that makes it easy and quick to make decisions. This research aims to develop a decision support system for determining the appropriate packaging of meat products. A C4.5 decision tree algorithm was used in generating the rules to determine the meat product packaging. Stages of the research include problem identification, literature review, data collection, meat and packaging analysis, system requirement analysis, building the system design, system implementation, and testing. The result of this research is a web-based decision support system for selecting of meat packaging using PHP programming language and MySQL database. The system has been developed to consist some features including user profiles, selecting of meat product packaging, a list of meat products packaging, a list of meat product parameters, and user comments.

Decision Support System, Decision Tree, Meat Product, Packaging, Web Base

EVALUATION OF AUGMENTED REALITY TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE BY IRANIAN TOURISTS

Elaheh Homayounvala1, Nelly Pourmehr2

Tourism industry has a significant impact on the economy of many countries. Providing enjoyable tourism experience is an important issue in this industry. Information technologies can boost on-trip tourists’ experience. Augmented Reality (AR) technology is among technologies with great potential in this industry. But technologies can only enhace users’ experience if they are accepted and adopted by the users. There are limited studies that analyze the social acceptance of augmented tourism experience.This paper examines the acceptance of AR technology based on the experiences of  tourists in Tehran, Iran. We find how perceived usefulness and the perceived ease of use have impct on the intention to use AR technology. The results of this study can provide valuable information for developers and designers of augmented tourism experience.

Augemented Reality(AR), Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), tourism experiences.

ERP WORKFLOW AS NEW PRODUCT IN CASE OF FEDERATED ERP SYSTEM

Evan Asfoura, Mohammad abd Al haq

FERP Mall is a proposed intermediary business model for marketing of distributed ERP component-                based Web services. This FERP Mall aims to cover the needs of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to FERP functionality because the conventional ERP systems are expensive and only large companies can afford these systems. Beside the intermediation of FERP Web Services these mediators describes the appropriate FERP Workflow (Wf) for the end-user companies, which integrate the required FERP Web services. The relevant question in this case is: how to find the appropriate price of each FERP workflow description as marketable product? Therefore, this work describes a logical analysis of this product (Wf-definition) and find out a suitable model, which can be considered for the determination of logical prices of these products.

N INTER-CAMPUS STUDY ON EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT: ASSESSING THE LEVEL OF EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT IN PRIVATE HIGHER LEARNING INSTITUTION

Jawahir Che Mustapha, Yasmin Yahya, Norhayati Ali, Siti Hajar Nasyari

In today’s competitive economy, employee engagement has become an important measure of person-organization alignment. This paper reports on the employee engagement of private higher learning institution. The objectives of this study were to assess the level of workplace engagement for Universiti Kuala Lumpur (UniKL), and to investigate the association between workplace engagement and employee position as well as service duration. A cross-sectional survey design was used, with samples of 1749 taken from 14 institutions of UniKL in Malaysia. The Chi-square test confirmed that there were statistically significant association between workplace engagement and service duration. However, no significant associations were found between workplace engagement and employee position. By assessing employee engagement, organizations can improve their ability to ensure that workers are recognized and rewarded, positioned in the right roles and emotionally invested in their jobs.

Employee engagement, workplace engagement, association, employee position, service duration.