Entrepreneurship is currently a popular topic for research due to the influence it brings to bear on multiple areas of life. Consequently, it is necessary to recognize the behaviors that boost the chances of entrepreneurs and their startups achieving success. This research primarily seeks to investigate the extent to which networking behaviors can influence the success of entrepreneurial startups in Jordan. For this purpose, the authors propose and study six networking behaviors as independent variables, namely cultivating internal contacts, cultivating external contacts, socialization, getting involved in professional activities, taking part in community activities, and raising one’s profile within the company. The dependent variable is the success of entrepreneurial startups. A quantitative analysis was conducted by distributing a questionnaire to startup companies in Amman, Jordan. The results confirm that the better entrepreneurs are at practicing these networking behaviors, the more influence they have on the success of their startups. Those behaviors that carry most influence are cultivating internal contacts, cultivating external contacts, and getting involved in professional activities. Finally, the research recommends further study should be carried out to make known the full impact of these six networking behaviors, in addition to encouraging more wholesale adoption of entrepreneurial networking behaviors to increase the probability of success for entrepreneurial startups.

This paper aims to investigate the moderating role of organizational routines in the relationship between behavioral repertoire and four types core competencies and four types of core competencies; including Uniqueness, Extendibility, Customer Value and Integrative Competencies are considered to measure core competencies. The study conducts a questionnaire survey in commercial Jordanian banks. The sample includes 475 employees within researched banks, and the study employs the Hierarchical Multiple Regression Analysis to test the hypotheses. Behavioral Repertoire has a significant positive effect on the four types of core competencies. Organizational Routines moderate this relationship between Behavioral Repertoire and Core Competencies. This research is one of the first attempts that investigate the relation-ship between Behavioral Repertoire, Organizational Routines and Core Competencies, extending the knowledge regarding the value of these variables and its relationship for the different types of organization.

The research aims to test the impact of corporate social responsibility toward employees on employee motivation in Vietnamese businesses. Based on 804 samples, results show that, be-sides the factors of opportunistic behavior, all factors of trust and social responsibility had positive impacts on employee motivation. In particular, the trust has the largest level of influence. The study also pointed out the opposite effect of the trust and social responsibility factors of enterprises toward employees on opportunistic behavior in enterprises. The authors propose a number of recommendations to increase employee motivation in businesses in emerging economies, including Vietnam.

This paper aims to investigate the relationship between managerial opportunistic behavior and the value of manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange, using two different indicators of company value. The first indicator looks at the value of the company from a less than ideal size and other indicators view the value of the company from the ideal size. By using 320 observations, the results of this study found evidence that managerial opportunistic behavior that is proxied by free cash flow plays a role in influencing the overvalued equity proxied by market books. Likewise, free cash flow plays an important role on influencing Tobin q. This study also establishes an indirect relationship of free cash flow to overvalued equity and Tobin q which is mediated by dividend policy. Empirical results show that dividend policy mediates the effect of free cash flow on overvalued equity and also Tobin q partially.

The purpose of this article is to build a consumer loyalty model by considering consumer satisfaction as a mediating variable between the image of micro banking and consumer relations with consumer loyalty. Design/methodology/approach of this article is a research on micro banking customers. The survey was conducted on 100 micro banking customers. The research shows that company image positively influences customer satisfaction and customer loyalty. Customer relationship positively influences micro banking company image, customer satisfaction and customer loyalty. In addition, customer satisfaction influences customer loyalty. Moreover, customer satisfaction cannot be used as a mediation variable between micro banking company image and relationship with customer. Practical implications of this research is that consumer loyalty could be enhanced by strengthening the image of micro banking companies, strengthening consumer relations and maintaining customer satisfaction. This research is important to identify the image of micro banking and consumer relations and their relationship with customer satisfaction and consumer loyalty, since the strength of micro-enterprises lies in the ability to build image and proximity to consumers. This is important be-cause of the limited ability of micro banking companies to advertise heavily on various advertising media.

This article investigates the causal connection between social capital (SC), knowledge transfer, innovation and firm performance. Based on existing literature on social capital, we develop a research model showing that three dimensions of social capital, including network ties, trust and shared visions, have positive relationships with company performance via two mediators, namely knowledge transfer and innovation. Using a sample of 153 Vietnamese firms, including one to two respondents from each firm, our study applied structural equation modeling to confirm the hypotheses. The results show that all three dimensions of social capital were positively related to firm performance with knowledge transfer and innovation acting as mediators. Knowledge transfer and the company's innovation were found to have a strong as-sociation with each other. Academically, this paper offers an opportunity to investigate social capital in terms of other factors in one specific industry. Practically, our findings motivate firms to focus on improving knowledge transfer on both quantity and quality prospects to boost firm performance.

The objective of this study is to analyze the role of gender in decision making in rural areas and to measure the level of equality between husband and wife in the family in rural Trieu Son district, Thanh Hoa province. The research results show that there are differences in decision-making in production management, income-generating production activities, and in developing household economic resources in terms of gender. The highest importance factors affecting this issue include gender and educational background.

There is no doubt that m-commerce a paramount contributor to many companies and economies in many areas around the world. Thus, changes the way of m-commerce companies be-comes very important in order to gain more profit. The main reason for this study is to in-crease the customers’ awareness toward using mobile for purchasing purposes. The study reveals how m-commerce process changes the role of trading from the traditional way to the electronic one. The objective of this research is to determine the impact of ease of use and perceived cognitive control on consumer perception for using m-commerce system. Data of the survey were collected from Arab Open University (AOU), the number of participants was 618. The results indicated that all variables affected consumers toward using mobile for purchasing purposes in coming future.

Career maximizing is the extent to which a person desires to make career decisions in pursuit of maximizing goals. It is now receiving widespread academic and research interest from various quarters. Since a career is a process wherein individuals narrow down their life choices, to create and find their self, it is of paramount importance. Employee engagement is an affective cognitive state at workplace, which is persistent and pervasive in nature. It is capable of enhancing employee empowerment, and reducing workplace deviance and turnover intentions. The study identified the relationship between career maximization and employee engagement. It was found that the two variables were having significant positive relationship. No significant difference was found in the gender wise analysis of the two constructs. The study has brought out significant addition to management literature as no earlier studies have been done to identify the relationships.

The study aims to search and identify barriers to the customer’s awareness of tourism services in hotels working in Al-Kharj city in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. A sample of hotel customers was taken, amounting to (500) customers to find out the quality of these services, as the quality of tourism services is an essential pillar of the competitiveness of the tourism facility in light of the market economy conditions. It is not possible to know if these services need improvement without specifying and identifying their quality levels and the customers' evaluation. The study reached a set of results; the most important of them is that there is no relationship between the customer’s awareness of the tourism service and the intangibility of the services or the types of advertising message. The study recommended a set of recommendations, the most important of which is to continuously improve and develop tourism services and train workers to provide these services on modern means in the field of tourism services and using modern tourism marketing methods.