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JULY 2012 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE <http://www.besiweb.com> July 6-9, 2012 Salzburg, Austria Crowne Plaza Hotel – The Pitter <http://www.imlauer.com/en-luxury-hotel-crowne-plaza.htm> PROGRAM Sessions, Panels, Roundtables & Posters (To find your assignments please point to “Edit” and then “Find”; type in your last name and hit the Enter key) Thursday, July 5, 2012 Pre-Conference Day-long excursion: Neuschwanstein Castle & Garmisch (Germany), 8:00 AM – 8:00 PM Registration: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Reception: 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM Friday, July 6, 2012 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM Room: Linz Session [1]: Ethics, Management & Human Resources CHAIR: Leonie Jooste, University of Wollongong in Dubai, UAE & Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa. AUTHORS & TITLES: Pierre Joubert, MHRP I Vaal University of Technology, South Africa. The Awareness of Sexual Harassment Policies and Procedures of Academic Staff at Higher Education Institutions in South Africa. 1 Claribel Müller & Peter Ras, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa. Research Design in Supply Chain Studies: The Purpose and Place of Workshops. 2 Ivana Žilić, College of Šibenik, Šibenik, Croatia & Željana Dulčić, Letovanićka 32, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia. The Role of Public Relations Department in Promoting the Concept of Socially Responsible Business in Croatia. 3 Leonie Jooste, University of Wollongong in Dubai, UAE & Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa. A Comparison of Ethical Perceptions of Earnings-Management Practices – MENA Region and USA. 4 Charles E. Beck, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA. 5 Creating an Ethical Organization: Building a Supportive Communication Climate. DISCUSSANTS: 1. Mark S. Teachout, University of the Incarnate Word, USA. 2. Leonie Jooste, University of Wollongong in Dubai, UAE & Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa. 3. Claribel Müller, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa. 4. Charles E. Beck, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA. 5. Pierre Joubert, MHRP I Vaal University of Technology, South Africa. Coffee Break: 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Friday, July 6, 2012 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM Room: Schloss Saal I Session [2]: Marketing & Entrepreneurship CHAIR: Jonatan Jelen, Parsons the New School for Design, USA. AUTHORS & TITLES: Yuhanis Abdul Aziz, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia. The Tourist Emotions Scale: Development and Validation. 1 Shih-Ju Wang & Heng-Chiang Huang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan. Film Critics and Consumer Word of Mouth for Movies: Valence and Variation Effects. 2 Ja-Shen Chen & Yi-Chun Chen, College of Management, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan. The Impacts of Mobile Service Innovation on Innovation Performance. 3 Jonatan Jelen, Parsons the New School for Design, USA & Marko Kolakovic, University of Zagreb, Croatia. Putting the “Design” Back into Organizational Design – The Case of High Social Value-Creative Business Models. 4 Kinga Kopfer-Rácz & Ágnes Hofmeister-Tóth, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary. 5 The Impacts of Socio-Cultural Background on Entrepreneurial Behaviour and SME Marketing. DISCUSSANTS: 1. Heng-Chiang Huang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan. 2. Yuhanis Abdul Aziz, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia. 3. Jonatan Jelen, Parsons the New School for Design, USA. 4. Ja-Shen Chen, College of Management, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan. 5. Marko Kolakovic, University of Zagreb, Croatia. Coffee Break: 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Friday, July 6, 2012 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM Room: Schloss Saal II Session [3]: International Trade & Industrial Performance CHAIR: Roberto Bergami, Victoria University, Australia. AUTHORS & TITLES: Soichiro Takagi & & Hideyuki Tanaka, The University of Tokyo, Japan. International Trade of Information Services, and its Effect on Productivity and Industrial Structure in Japan. 1 Marine Hadengue & Thierry Warin, École Polytechnique of Montreal, Qc, Canada. Learning-by-doing: Patterns of Specialization and Unconditional Convergence. 2 Ho-don Yan, Peggy Chao & Li-Ju Chen, Feng Chia University, Taiwan. Assessing Currency Misalignments in Emerging Market Countries. 3 Yu-Lin Wang, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan & Jen-Yao Lee, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Science, Taiwan. Should Loan Guarantees Target Low-risk or High-risk Entrepreneurs in Credit Markets with Asymmetric Information? 4 Kusdhianto Setiawan, Hiroshima University of Economics, Japan; Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. International Asset Pricing in United States and Japan: An Empirical Reinvestigation on CAPM using Time Varying Beta. 5 DISCUSSANTS: 1. Roberto Bergami, Victoria University, Australia. 2. Soichiro Takagi, The University of Tokyo, Japan. 3. Marine Hadengue, École Polytechnique of Montreal, Qc, Canada. 4. Kusdhianto Setiawan, Hiroshima University of Economics, Japan; Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. 5. Yu-Lin Wang, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan. Coffee Break: 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Friday, July 6, 2012 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM Room: Linz Session [4]: Marketing, Accounting & Subsidies CHAIR: Carmine Sellitto, Victoria University, Australia. AUTHORS & TITLES: Carmine Sellitto, Victoria University, Australia. Customer Relationship Management Models: A Study of the Contemporary Literature to Identify Company-to-Client Business Activities. 1 Sofia Daskou & Despina Konstas, Hellenic American University, Manchester, NH, USA. The Discourse of ‘Respect for Customers’. 2 Hatice Ertürk, Hakan Ahmet Özkürkçüler & Mehmet Burak Ceran, Selçuk University, Konya, Turkey. The Effect of the Use of Information Technologies in Enterprises to Organizational Performance: An Application in the Banking Sector. 3 Mohsen Zayandehroody, Science and Research Branch / Economics, Islamic Azad University, Kerman, Iran. Considering the Distribution Effects of Subsidy Targeting on Urban and Rural Families (Iran). 4 Marianna Piskóti, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary. Nature and I – The Presence of Environmental Identity in Narratives in Hungary. 5 DISCUSSANTS: 1. Sofia Daskou, Hellenic American University, Manchester, NH, USA. 2. Heng-Chiang Huang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan. 3. Marianna Piskóti, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary. 4. James Sawler, Mount Saint Vincent University, Canada. 5. Carmine Sellitto, Victoria University, Australia. Lunch: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM (on your own) Friday, July 6, 2012 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM Room: Schloss Saal I Session [5]: Finance, development issues & workers' compensation CHAIR: Gary Baker, Washburn University, USA. AUTHORS & TITLES: Wijantini W, Prasetiya Mulya Business School, Indonesia. Strategies for Recovery from Indonesian Companies. 1 Rosemary Walker & Gary Baker, Washburn University, USA. Worklife Expectancy Tables: They Should Not Be Used to Compute Wage Loss in Injury and Death Cases. 2 Ivan Santini & Martina Sopta, University of Zagreb, Croatia. 3 Importance of Internal Financing for Croatian Corporations during Financial Crisis. Hossein Pirasteh, University of Isfahan, Iran. Government-regulated Versus Privately-managed Charitable Islamic Trusts in Iran: A Performance Efficiency Issue. 4 Hadi Ghaffari, Payame Noor University, Arak, Iran. Service Employment and Economic Development: The Case of Iran. 5 DISCUSSANTS: 1. Gary Baker, Washburn University, USA. 2. Enrique Carrasco, University of Iowa College of Law, USA. 3. Hossein Pirasteh, University of Isfahan, Iran. 4. Ivan Santini, University of Zagreb, Croatia. 6. Philip E.T. Lewis, Centre for Labour Market Research, University of Canberra, Australia. Lunch: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM (on your own) Friday, July 6, 2012 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM Room: Schloss Saal II Session [6]: International Trade, Development & Macroeconomic Issues CHAIR: Stavros Stavroyiannis Technological Educational Institute of Kalamata, Greece. AUTHORS & TITLES: Roberto Bergami, Victoria University, Australia. Australian Manufacturing Exports to ASEAN: Linking Country, Customer and Enterprise Risk in Method of Payment Choice. 1 Johan Coetzee, University of the Free State, South Africa & Christine Mitter, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria. Bank Selection Criteria: A Cross-National Comparison between Students in Austria and South Africa. 2 Ilias A. Makris, Technological Education Institute of Kalamata, Greece. What Drives Firm Growth? Evidence from the Greek industry. 3 Alfred Sitz, Institute for Labour Economics, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria. Construction, Success, and Severe Problems of the European Monetary Union. 4 Silvia Trifonova, University of National and World Economy, Bulgaria. Economic Recovery, Trading Partner Growth and Currency Board Arrangement. 5 DISCUSSANTS: 1. Stavros Stavroyiannis, Technological Educational Institute of Kalamata, Greece. 2. Stavros Stavroyiannis, Technological Educational Institute of Kalamata, Greece. 3. Johan Coetzee, University of the Free State, South Africa. 4. Zhen-Yao Chen, De Lin Institute of Technology, New Taipei City, Taiwan. 5. Ilias A. Makris, Technological Education Institute of Kalamata, Greece. Lunch: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM (on your own) Friday, July 6, 2012 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM Room: Linz Session [7]: Labor, Trade & Management CHAIR: Mohamed Ramady King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia. AUTHORS & TITLES: Mohamed Ramady, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia. Gulf Unemployment and Government Policies: Prospects for the Saudi Labor Quota or “Nitaqat” System. 1 Shaun Watson, University of the Free State, South Africa & Johan Coetzee, University of the Free State, South