This study investigates the aspects of e-payment security concerning e-commerce consumers’ purchase intentions. This study further involves college students in Semarang – Indonesia as representatives of the millennial generation. Structural equation modeling (SEM) using Wrap-PLS is employed to analyze the data. The findings show a fit model to explain e-commerce customers’ purchase intentions. The results of this study reveal a better mediating effect of perceived usefulness on e-payment security and customers’ purchase intentions. Perceived ease of use also has a significant indirect effect, through e-payment security, on e-commerce customers’ purchase intentions. In addition, understanding the ease and usability of the security aspects of the payment affects e-commerce consumers' purchase intentions. The results also give a heightened awareness of security in electronic transactions.

Presently, online users usually tend to use the Internet to get some details information and forward their purchasing experience on social media platforms. This activity helps other users create their own purchasing plans simpler. However, there are not many studies on accepting and forwarding e-WOM. This paper examines the effect of EWOM elements containing tie strength, message credibility, and source credibility on acceptance of e-WOM (AEWOM). The study also investigates the effects of other EWOM elements including customers' mood on forwarding e-WOM (FEWOM). Moreover, this study examines the mediator effect of (AE-WOM) between (tie strength, message credibility, and source credibility) and FEWOM together with the moderator effect of gender differences between AEWOM and FEWOM. In the current paper a sample of 381 students is selected at the Jordanian university. The findings show positive relationships among all variables. The research also offers recommendations to marketers in order to improve the value of content which is generated by online users.

This paper examines the effect of industrial park development on people's livelihoods through different impacting channels; including employment, production means and infrastructure. The result of the research shows that industrial park development had a positive influence on people's livelihoods through additional employment, non-farm investments, access to policies, household labor, etc. However, industrial park development also causes negative impacts on people's livelihoods causing unemployment. Data for research is collected from households including land acquisition and no land acquisition living around industrial parks. Research findings can be considered as a basis to help develop the positive influence and restrict the negative influence of industrial park development on people's livelihoods in Vietnam.

This paper offers an empirical study of the role of work motivation in mediating the effect of education-training and leadership style on the performance of Ministry of Education employees in Timor-Leste. Data were obtained from 86 employees as samples through questionnaires. We applied the SEM-PLS to analyze the proposed relationship model. Empirical results show that work motivation mediated the influence of leadership style on employee performance, but not for education-training. The results can provide valuable insight for public service management.

This paper investigates firm heterogeneity in total factor productivity across manufacturing sectors for Vietnamese manufacturers over the period 2010-2016. Productivity is proxied by total factor productivity and estimated by following a procedure by Ackerberg et al. (2015) [Ackerberg, D. A., Caves, K., & Frazer, G. (2015). Identification properties of recent production function estimators. Econometrica, 83(6), 2411-2451.], using value-added production. While several measurements of total factor productivity are used, namely: growth, distance, dispersion and spillover effects, firm heterogeneity in productivity sources conveys more information about firm-specific differences in productivity. In this regard, in terms of labor, the larger firms yield higher TFP level/TFP distance /TFP dispersion, whereas, in terms of capital stocks, TFP level/TFP distance /TFP dispersion decreases as firm sizes increase. With respect to average wage, top-quartile firms paying high wages register much greater TFP level/ TFP dispersion than bottom-quartile firms. We find that the beneficial impact of exports on productivity is the most evident when firms become exporters and exporters shorten the TFP distance and strengthen TFP dispersion. Regarding ownership, FDI exporters have significant-ly higher TFP growth/ TFP dispersion than domestic firms. Results from firm heterogeneity effects on TFP certainly provoke policies expanding SMEs in terms of capital stocks and obtaining advantages of labor costs, paying higher wage rate, involving into the trade, and may have the foreign capital investment.

The purpose of this study is to examine the role of change readiness in mediating the effects of ambidextrous organization and authentic followership on innovative performance. The re-sult of this study indicate that authentic followership, ambidextrous organization and change readiness directly influenced on innovative performance. The mediating role of change readi-ness did not significantly influence on relationship between authentic followership and innovative performance. Meanwhile, the mediating role of change readiness significantly influenced on the relationship between ambidextrous organization and innovative performance. The study emphasizes on the strength of the organization ambidexterity and authentic follow-ership for successes of the innovative performance mediated by change readiness.

This research aims at evaluating the traditional communication channels, and the possible impact that it may have on consumers purchase decision, particularly toward their choices of restaurants in Palestine. To achieve this purpose, two main hypotheses, and the total of four sub-hypotheses were derived based on literature review. Descriptive analytical methodology and inductive quantitative approaches were found most suitable to the nature of the research. The population of the research consisted of consumers who make the purchase decision in choosing restaurants either for themselves or on behalf of others. A self-administrated questionnaire was designed based on previous studies and primary data was collected over non-probability accidental sample (restaurants intercept). 470 questionnaires were distributed in Nablus, Ramallah and Bethlehem, 500 valid questionnaires were retrieved within a timeframe of 25 days, from 24th of June till 18th of July 2018, forming a response rate of 83.6%. Based on the statistical analyses, there is a statistically significant impact of traditional communication channels on purchase decision for Palestinian restaurants, the strength of the effect is moderate. Also, each traditional communication channels (Television, Radio, Newspaper and Outdoor) has, separately, a significant positive impact on consumer purchase decision. The strength of the effect ranged from weak to moderate, the study found that outdoors advertisements had the highest impact on purchase decision, followed by television, radio, and newspapers, respectively. Discussion and recommendations are provided based on the study findings.

The turbulent and highly competitive business environment has influenced telecommunications, recently. The purpose of this study, using the survey data from 70 firms in the telecommunication industry in Nigeria, is to examine the relationships among dynamic capabilities, innovation, organizational agility and knowledge management in achieving maximum performance in the telecommunication industry. Out of 430 questionnaires distributed, 341 were returned. Partial Least Square approach of Structural Equation Model (PLS-SEM) was used to examine the research hypothesis. The research results suggest that dynamic capabilities were positively related to both organizational agility and competitive performance. Organizational agility was positively related to competitive performance. Knowledge management was also associated with dynamic capabilities, competitive performance and innovation. Innovation was insignificantly related to competitive performance. The findings from this study should assist telecommunication industries in Nigeria to cope with unwanted changes in the business environment and also help managers make better decisions to improve performance.

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between two main dimensions, Brand Association and Customer Loyalty. Besides, the research is also conducted to test other relevant networks of Brand Awareness, Brand Equity and Customers’ Willing To Pay. A survey of which questionnaires using Likert Scale to online retailers’ customers in the North, Central, and the South (8 largest cities in Vietnam) was conducted to collect the data including 380 personally responded answers. Scale Test, Exploratory Factor Analysis, Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Structural Equation Modeling were used to prove concrete relationships amongst variances, understand factors, analyze the Goodness of Fit of the Measurement model and bring about regression weights, respectively. The results authenticated that Brand Association and Brand Awareness produce remarkable effects on Customer Loyalty. Brand Association holds a cardinal importance to Customers’ Willing To Pay. Not only can the findings be of substance for academic purpose but also they make a great contribution to the development of companies of which Customer’s Loyalty is the lynch pin.

High-growth firm is the research object of economic and business studies, because of its important influence on job creation, innovation, and tax revenues increase for the nation. This paper is designed to find some empirical evidence on the role of corporate governance on the firm’s growth, thereby providing some policy implications for improving corporate governance activities in practice. Using a sample of 241 listed companies on Vietnam's stock market in the period 2008-2017, divided into 2 groups: high-growth firms and non-high-growth firms and applying a GMM regression with the dependent variable as 3-year compound growth rate, the study finds evidence of factors affecting the growing ability of corporate governance, namely: the ownership structure, the characteristics of the Board of Directors (size, independence, gender, non-executive member, experience), and the characteristics of the CEO (age, educational level, ownership, duality).