IJSSHS, Vol 3, Issue 1-2, 2011 – Advancing Interdisciplinary Studies on Social Sciences

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Agnes Csiszarik-Kocsir & Monika Fodor & Andras Medve

The Current and Future Perspectives of Indebtedness of the Municipalities

Amir Maleki & Sara Karimzadeh

A Survey of Relationship Between the Environmental Attitudes and Environmental Knowledge and Energy Consumption Behavior among Citizens of Urmia, West Azerbaijan, Iran

Anubama Ramachandra & Nur Naha Abu Mansor & Norhalimah Idris

Line Managers’ Role in Continuous Professional Development and Human Resources

Aydin Cam

Journalism After Wikileaks Experience

Dondu Ucecam Karagel

The Distribution of Elderly Population in Turkey and the Factors Effecting this Distribution

Emine Tugba Kocabiyik

The Impact of Country-of-Origin Effect on Turkish Consumers’ Response Toward Foreign Advertisements

Eva Pinter

Merger and Acquisition in the Financial Services Industry

Ewa Matuska

Innovations at Organisation via Creativity of Employees

Ezgi Eyuboglu

Augmented Reality as an Exciting Online Experience: Is it Really Beneficial for Brands?

Farrah Merlinda Muharam & Maria-Antonia Tarrazon

“Green” Corporate Social Responsibility: To Be or Not To Be?

Hamidah Abdul Rahman & Maisarah Mohamed Saat & Azizah Rajab

Professional Contentment in a Research University: A Case Study

Ilkben Akansel

Pricing of the Art and the Mutual Study of European Union (EU)-Turkey by the Mediation of the Structure of Art Markets: British Royal Ballet (BRB) and Ankara State Opera and Ballet (ASOB) Cases

Irem Kizilaslan

ELT Student Teachers’ Competence for Teaching Language Skills: A Qualitative Exploration

Ismet Ates & Mehmet Bolukbas

Turkey’s Competitiveness in terms of Determinants of FDI: A Comparison with Hungary and Poland

Jasri Jamal & Nor Aziah Mohd & Kamal Halili

Alternative Dispute Resolution in Islamic Finance: Recent Development in Malaysia

Khalaf Taani & Mari’e Hasan Hamed Banykhaled

The Effect of Financial Ratios, Firm Size and Cash Flows from Operating Activities on Earnings Per Share: An Applied Study on Jordanian Industrial Sector

Kolsoum Parhizkari & Steffen Kuehnel

Comparing Modernization in Iran and Turkey

Marcus Stoerkel & Andreas Heck

Global Trends and Practical Examples of Supply Chain Management within the Mobile Telecommunications Industry

Maria Fekete Farkas & Gabor Valko & Roland Toth

Global Challenges and Biofuels

Maruti Kamble

Sufi Saints in Karnataka

Maryam Lari

The Images of Angels in Iranian Art -A Civilization Interaction in a Comparative

Study-

Maurizio Norcia & Antonella Rissotto

How Does Poverty Work? Representations and Causal Attributions for Poverty and Wealth

May Chen Yap & David Yoon Kin Tong & Kim Piew Lai

Consumers’ Perceptions Towards International Supermarket Private Brand Products

Mehmet Ulutas & Adnan Kalkan & Ozlem Cetinkaya Bozkurt

The Effect of Person-Organization Fit on Job Stress and Conflict: An Application on Employees of Businesses in Dalaman International Airport

Meltem Arat

To What Extent the Student is a Customer

Mustafa Kirli & Harun Gumus

The Implementation of Strategic Management Accounting Based on Value Chain Analysis: Value Chain Accounting

Mustafa Ozturk & Osman Nuri Aras

Foreign Capital Investments and Economic Crises in Turkey

Pat Williams-Boyd & Mary Margaret Sweeten

Freeway Segregation, Community Schools and the Urban Poor

Prakash Dongre

Role of Social Forestry in Sustainable Development – A Micro Level Study

Rasa Balvociute & Solveiga Skuncikiene

Towards Sustainable Economic Convergence: Comparative Analysis of Macroeconomic Situation in Lithuania, New and Old Euro Zone Countries

Roziana Shaari & Siti Fatimah Bahari & Nor Akmar Nordin & Kamaruzzaman Abdul Rahim & Azizah Rajab & Mohd Hairil Faiz Hanafiah

An Application of Role Identity Theory to Foster Academics Creativity in a Research University

Ruta Ciutiene Evelina Meiliene & Bronius Neverauskas

Project Portfolio Selection Competences Research in Universities of Lithuania

Sabrina De Regt & Tim Smits & Dimitri Mortelmans

Trends in Authoritarianism: Evidence from 31 European Countries

Sadettin Keskin

Inter-Cluster Pipelines: The Driving Force of Knowledge Creation and Economic Development

Sadullah Celik & Ulkem Basdas

Wavelet Comovement Analysis Between Tendency Surveys and Economic Activity in Turkey

Sangroengrob Tibrat

Personality’ Segmentation on the Facebook User in Thailand

Sawmya Ray

Right Intention, Not So Right Outcome: Addressing Domestic Violence through Women’s Cell

Sehriban Sahin Kaya

Hidden War against Women

Sibel Coban & Nihan Mutlu Konakci

Attitudes of the Music Teacher Candidates in Turkey Towards the “Individual Instrument Training Lesson”

Sinem Kocamaz

A New Form of Security Cooperation and Collective Conflict Management in the Post Cold War International System

Syed Shan E Raza

Impact of User it and Internet Skills on Online Banking, Input to Innovative Banking Strategies

Xue Fa Tong & David Yoon Kin Tong & Liang Chen Loy

Factors Influencing Entrepreneurial Intention among University Students

Yalcin Bozkurt & Mevlut Gul & Gulay Hiz

A Review on Consumer Perception of Organically Produced Red Meat and Meat Quality

Yavuz Ozdemir & Huseyin Basligil

Analyzing Tourism Potential and Determining Strategies: Cases of Some Cities in Turkey

Vol 3 No 2 , July 2011

Content

Abdulla Azizi

Innovations and Changes Brought by the Lisbon Treaty: The Social Aspect

Adriana Raducanu

We Are Not Ourselves – Female Characters in Bharati Mukherjee’s Novels

Aynur Pala

The Need for Character Education

Ayse Canatan

Problems Emerging from the Care of Older People: Who Care, Who Pay and Who Control

Ayse Guc Isik

Boundaries and Ethnic Identities – The Conception of Boundary in a Diverse Area-

Azizah Rajab & Hamidah Abdul Rahman & Roziana Shaari

The International Students’ Perception towards the Education Quality

Banu Metin

The Trend in Poverty Rates from the Period of Economic Crises in 2000 and 2001 up to Nowadays in Turkey: A Field Research Regarding Absolutely Poor in Ankara

Burcu Devrim Ictenbas & Hande Eryilmaz

Quality Function Deployment as a Strategic Planning Tool

Burcu Turkcan & R. Fatih Saygili

Foreign Direct Investment Inflows and Net Exports Relationship in Turkey: An Analysis for the Post 1980 Period

Chiara Pierobon

The Role of Music in the National-Bolshevik Organization: A Web-Based Analysis

Chun-Hao Chang

The Competition/Cooperation Relationship in Executive Power Operating of Semi-Presidentialism

Cigdem Aksu

Different Types of Capitals Mobilized to Strengthen Local Political Leadership

Cristina Prochazkova Ilinitchi

Did the Recent Economic Crisis Impact Remittances? Evidence from Transition Countries

Dace Krumane

Impact of the Co-Branding on Customers’ Loyalty in Stockmann Ltd

David Ferreira Lopes Santos & Santiago Valcacer Rodrigues

The Relationship Between Financing Policy and Financial Performance in the Brazilian Textile Industry

Derya Cakir & Kamil Demirhan

Political Character of the Social Actions in the Process of Globalization: A Case Study

Dilge Kodak

Exposition of Privacy in Virtual Environments: An Assessment on the Basis of Facebook and Twitter Users

Ertugrul Ustun Geyik

A Test for Asymmetric Central Bank Preferences in Turkey

Faruk Anil Konuk & Oylum Korkut Altuna

Brand Positioning through Multidimensional Scaling: A Study in the Turkish Shampoo Market

Felicite Fairer-Wessels

Towards Sustainable Entrepreneurial Practices in South Africa: Selected Case Studies

Fitnat Nazli Saygan

Relationship Between Affective Commitment and Organizational Silence: A Conceptual Discussion

Gonul Icli

A Sociological Evaluation of Home-Based Working and Woman Labour

Gulay Aslan

Gender Perceptions of Preservice Teachers

Gulay Hiz

A Field Survey on the Conspicuous Consumption Trend in Turkey (Case Study of Mugla Province)

Gyorgy Gonda

Utilization of Renewable Energies and Changing Energy Structure at Local Goverment, as Drivers of Economic Recovery: Hungarian Case Study

Janina Seputiene

The Estimation of the Relationship Between Wages and Unemployment in the European Union

Jarolim Antal

Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement – Still Alive or Dead Concept in EU-US Relations?

Meltem Onay & Bugra Ozer

Enterpreneurship, Empowerment and the Impact of the Dimension of Female Identity on the Women Involved in Microcredit Financing Schemes: An Empirical Investigation in Izmir Metropolitan Region

Mohamad Husam Helmi

Modeling Monetary Policy Rules in the Mena Countries: Issues And Evidence

Mohamed S. El-Deeb & Yasser Tawfik & Mohga Bassim & Emad Elwy

Activity Based Costing (ABC) as an Approach to Optimize Purchasing Performance in Hospitality Industry

Monika Fodor & Agnes Csiszarik-Kocsir & Agnes Horvath & Jozsef Lehota

Model of the Factors Affecting the Chosen Way of Institutional Catering

Nadir Atesoglu & Ozturk Akcaoglu

The Barrier to Social Dynamics in Turkey: Authoritarian Mentality and Statism

Najib Ahmad Marzuki & Awanis Ku Ishak

Towards Healthy Organisation in Correctional Setting: Correctional Officers’ Wellness, Occupational Stress and Personality

Norhalimah Idris & Geoffrey Edward Chivers & Nur Naha Abu Mansor

A Call for Active HR Personnel Interventions

Nuriye Gures & Seda Arslan & Harun Yilmaz

A Comparison of Airline Service Expectations Between Passengers of Domestic and International Flights

Omer Kurtbag

US Foreign Policy in the Age of Global Uncertainty: The Obama Era Between the Tea Party-Led Opposition and the Global Power Shift in the World Politics

Osman Nuri Aras & Mustafa Ozturk

Constitutional Economics, Fiscal Policy Rules, and the Case of Turkey

Roziana Shaari & Norashikin Mahmud & Shah Rollah Abdul Wahab & Kamaruzzaman Abdul Rahim & Azizah Rajab & Maisarah Mohamed Saat & Hamidah Ab Rahman & Siti Aisyah Panatik & Hamidah Abdul Rahman & Rosman Md. Yusoff

A Study on Learning Approaches Used Among Post-Graduate Students in Research University

Sirin Akbulut Demirci

Franz Liszt in Ottoman Empire

Szczepan Lemanczyk
European Societies and Emerging Technologies – Debate on Nanotechnology in Polish and Swedish Press

Techachaicherdchoo Teerawut

Undergraduate Student’s Satisfaction toward the New Education System in Thailand

Tereza Vrbova & Michal Safar

Value Orientations and Motivational Structures in Dance Students

Tiffanie Victoria Jones

Tackled – The Immersion of Social Work Profession into the Realm of High Collision Sports

Tolga Kara & Ece Baban

The Effects of Knowledge Economy on the Costs and Cost Comparison of Traditional and Digital Goods