Generally speaking, the severe financial constraints of the municipalities on the one hand, and the inefficiency of state investment companies on the other hand, affirm the necessity of private sector participation in the efficiency of providing services to cities. The performance of the private sector in comparison with the public sector has its own properties and characteristics, the most important of which are high performance and access to diverse resources. Valuable international experience in the field of municipalities’ utilization of private sector capacities to implement urban services projects confirms this issue. The present study was conducted aiming to apply fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making technique (FMCDM) in formulating and prioritizing strategies for developing economic participation in urban management of Ahvaz Metropolis. The main research approach was developmental-applied, descriptive, analytical, and survey research. Based on the SWOT analysis, identifying and evaluating the current situation were done and then, according to the identified criteria, four strategies were developed. Finally, using FDEMATEL technique, strategies were prioritized. The research results show that the strategies such as doing pathological study in Ahvaz municipality investment; designing and providing investment packages; increasing the positive interaction with the executive and necessary devices with the participation of other interested organizations for the promotion of services and performing tasks based on laws, regulations and guidelines delegated to the municipality; forecasting the incentive system to reduce the risk of projects; providing Cadastre and GIS; designing a database of investors and urban projects; setting up an in-vestment facilitation team with the participation of departments related to the municipality; and identifying regular investment capacities related to inherent duties of the municipality are among the most important strategies in developing economic participation in Ahwaz Metropolis.

The purpose of this article is to make an assessment on infrastructure development efficiency based on Data envelopment analysis (DEA) method. The proposed method allows assessing the level of current infrastructure conditions which provides production and social dimension of its stable development. The article substantiates the necessity of conducting an analytical assessment of infrastructure development level which identifies its weaknesses and determines potential of improving its performance indicators. An integral assessment of transport infrastructure efficiency is proposed. To assess the problems of infrastructure development provision, a comparative analyses and ordering the objects according to growth or decrease of the indicators is performed. The results of the research allow discovering the causes of harmful phenomena in the system of management and development, and identifies major trends and prospects of development.

This article concentrates on extending a theoretical framework by exploring employees’ willingness to report unethical issues under the effects of ethical leadership, public service motivation, peer relationship, affective commitment, and fairness. By using structural equation modeling to analyze data collection from 320 public servants in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, the results demonstrate that all the mentioned factors are positively correlated with willingness to report unethical issues in the context of the public sector, except for public service motivation. The findings open a potential path for future investigation of affective commitment and fairness as mediators that help to stimulate the behavioral reports of misconduct at workplaces. The new findings expand the literature in the public sector and suggest possible solutions to promote an energetically ethical environment.

The aim of this research is to investigate the repurchase intention of online customers at e-commerce merchants. The study investigates three factors; perceived risk, perceived usefulness, and online trust through collecting samples from 128 college students in the Online Learning program in Jakarta. The analysis technique used is SEM-PLS, with the guidance of the SmartPLS 3.0 program. The results of the study confirm that perceived risk had a negative effect on online trust and repurchase intention. Perceived usefulness has a positive impact on online trust and repurchase intention. Lastly, online trust influences repurchase intention in e-commerce merchants.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the factors that influence students' choice of buying Korean skincare products in Da Nang city. Through the use of appropriate research methods, the authors have found that there are 5 factors affecting the choice of buying skincare cosmetics in descending order: Price; Advertising-promotion; Product; Brand products and ultimately psychology. Through this result, Korean cosmetics manufacturers and businesses will have a way to reach students who are residing in Da Nang, where there are a number of universities to increase profits.

This research paper intends to contribute to the overall understanding of the relationship between Lean Manufacturing techniques and the achievement of Competitive Priority, including continuous improvement, comprehensive manufacturing maintenance, cellular manufacturing, rapid installation / quick changeover and Five-S-Workplace Organization, by analyzing the role of the technological process as a mediating factor. This study aims to evaluate the impact of these factors on competitive priority through evaluating the technological process as a mediating factor in clothing companies listed on the Amman Stock Exchange, which is considered as one of the important industrial sectors in Jordan. A random sample was applied to the population of this study consisting of all executives, department managers and employees specialized in operating companies. A total of 156 questionnaires were collected and analyzed using the Smart Partial Least Square (PLS) technique, which depends on the Structure Equation Modeling approach. Based on the findings of the statistical analysis, it has been concluded that the lean manufacturing techniques impact on competitive priority. The indirect effect of process technology on the relationship between Manufacturing Techniques and competitive priorities was considered to be statistically significant. The results also show that the direct effect value of the Manufacturing Techniques variable on the competitive priorities (dependent) variable (in the presence of mediator) was (0.353). The study recommends the deployment of Spread the philosophy of lean manufacturing for all organizations and use modern technology to improve productivity.

This paper investigates the influence of the attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control on students' intention to choose sharia economics study program at IAIN Ponorogo. It took 108 students of the fifth semester of Sharia Economics Department at IAIN Ponorogo. The sample included 85 students that were calculated using Slovin formula and chosen randomly from the population. The study used a questionnaire and employed the 5 Likert scales. The study also employed Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to examine the role of belief, attractiveness, parental support, peers support, family culture, self-efficacy, and interest on intention. Path analysis was conducted using SmartPLS 2. The results show that students' choice in sharia economics study program was influenced by intrinsic factors, belief, self-efficacy, and interest. The extrinsic factors such as the attractiveness of study programs, parents, peers, and family culture did not influence the intention of students to choose sharia economics study program. The intention of IAIN students to choose to study in sharia economics study program was more determined by intrinsic factors, and not influenced by extrinsic factors. This is due to the strong influence of the religious factor of Islam which positions learning as part of worship and factors originating from students themselves. Further research at public universities needs to be done to find out other dominant variables. Based on the research findings, the Sharia Economics Study Program at Islamic Universities has a strong appeal for prospective Moslem students.

The study on knowledge management is in waning trend, which caters less interest in scholars to discuss recently. The area that received widespread attention previously has unlikely be-come an old-fashioned term which perceived as less important among few organizational re-searchers. Looking to the trend, the researcher takes an evaluative step to examine whether Knowledge Management is still relevant for organizations nowadays by studying the impact of knowledge management on organizational business performance. The study was conducted in 2016 and it was involved companies in electrical and electronic sector located in Malaysia. In this study, knowledge management was formed from three elements including knowledge acquisition, knowledge sharing and knowledge utilization. A total of 287 questionnaires were collected from electrical and electronic companies in Malaysia. The finding shows that among all those three knowledge management elements, only knowledge acquisition and knowledge utilization were still relevant to organizational business performance in Malaysia nowadays, whereas knowledge sharing was perceived to be less important. The findings of this study provide insight into the importance of knowledge management in organizational business performance.

Social media has become one of the most effective tools for marketing and promotion of brands. Given this importance of social media, it is therefore critical for brands to develop quality content for their brand pages and frequently interact with consumers. Using theoretical lens of Stimulus-Organism-Response (S–O-R) paradigm, this research aims to study the impact of content quality and brand interactivity on purchase intention via mediation of brand awareness. To this end, we collected data from n = 282 millennial shoppers of sportswear to test hypothesized relationships. Our findings suggest that content quality and brand interactivity significantly impact purchase intention. It is further revealed that brand awareness mediates the relationship between content quality and purchase intention as well as brand inter-activity and purchase intention. This research provides new theoretical insights into social media marketing and consumer behavior research by linking content quality and brand interactivity to purchase intention.

The purpose of this study is 1) to find out whether there is an influence of transformational leadership on soldier trust, 2) to find out whether there is an influence of transformational leadership on employee engagement, 3) to determine the effect of transformational leadership on job satisfaction, 4) to determine the effect of trust on employee engagement, 5) to deter-mine the effect of trust on soldier job satisfaction, 6) to determine the effect of Employee engagement on job satisfaction. The method used in this research is quantitative data collection methods. The data are collected through questionnaires and literature studies. The study uses structural equation modeling to test the hypotheses of this survey and the results have confirmed all the hypotheses of the survey.