scholarly journals Key Factors Determining the Ethnocentric Tendencies of Consumers in Serbia

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dragana Gašević ◽  
Dragana Tomašević ◽  
Marija Vranješ
Keyword(s):  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Great Benefit ◽  
Statistical Techniques ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Consumer Ethnocentrism ◽  
Foreign Products ◽  
Nonparametric Techniques

Ethnocentric behaviour of consumers is related to the attitude and intentions of consumers when deciding upon purchasing a product, i.e., it is such a kind of behaviour which implies giving priority to purchasing domestic rather than foreign products. The results of a large number of studies show that not all consumers are equally ethnocentric. Therefore, it is of utmost significance to realize that consumers rely on various signals and make different decisions depending on their inclinations towards consumer ethnocentrism. The aim of this paper is to examine the influence and interaction of demographic characteristics of respondents in Serbia on consumer ethnocentrism. Several statistical techniques that provided support during the testing of research hypotheses have been applied in the preparation of this paper. We used nonparametric techniques (Mann-Whitney U test and Kruskal-Wallis test). The results indicate that men are more ethnocentric than women, as well as persons with lower level of education than those with higher level of education. Also, the results have shown that respondents who achieve the highest level of income are not ethnocentric in the least. In addition, it has been established that there is no statistically significant impact of the criteria of the year on the level of consumer ethnocentrism. The research results provide useful information for marketers and managers of companies that currently operate or are planning to enter Serbian market in the forthcoming period. Another great benefit is reflected in the fact that these results draw the managers’ attention to the fact which consumer groups are the most ethnocentric and thus allow the creation of high quality strategies.

Analysis of Factors Affecting Technological Innovativeness in Engineering Enterprises in Tanzania

2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Emmanuel A. Mjema
Keyword(s):  
Innovation Management ◽  
Positive Culture ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Fundamental Innovation ◽  
Local Material ◽  
The Right

This paper discusses the technological innovativeness in engineering enterprises in Tanzania and analyses the factors affecting the innovativeness. It starts by analyzing various concepts regarding innovation, then analyzed from documentary review factors affecting innovativeness and then analyzed the innovativeness in Tanzanian enterprises.From the documentary review it was learnt that the following key factors influence technological innovativeness: Existence of innovation management; Existence of market to absorb the products of innovation; Existence of partnership between the universities and the firms; Existence of positive culture and politics towards innovation; The governmentplaying its role to influence innovation; Existence of the right knowledge; and Ability of the enterprises to access to financing institutions that support innovation.The research shows that there is hardly any fundamental innovation in Tanzania, what is presented as innovation is the copying of technologies and manufacture them using local material. Theresearcher established the following factors affecting the innovativeness of engineering enterprises in Tanzania: Level of education among the entrepreneurs in engineering enterprises; financing for the enterprises in Tanzania; partnership with R&D institutions; innovativeness culture; and market for Tanzanian products.

scholarly journals Development of Product and Packaging Label for Kao-Taen (Rice Cracker) of the Agro-group of Kao Kwang Tong Sub-district, Nong Chang District, Uthaithani Province

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tawat Payim
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Research Results

<p>This research was aimed to develop the product and packaging label for Kao-Taen (rice cracker) of the agro-group of Kao Kwang Tong sub-district, Nong-Chang district, Uthaithani province. It explored and developed Kao-Taen product using materials within the community, and evaluated the product design and packaging label by specialists. <strong></strong></p><p>The research results suggested the outcome of product development, with Kao-Taen of 3 cm. in diameter and 1.5 cm. thick, the size allows for more convenient consumption by consumers. The design of packaging label in style 3 with mean 4.92 was considered most appropriate. The key factors contributing to the community product development included available materials in the community, community’s self-capability, presentation of community uniqueness, and low cost. </p>

scholarly journals ANALISIS TINGKAT KEPUASAN PELANGGAN TERHADAP PELAYANAN PT PELNI (PERSERO)

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arif Fatkur Rohman ◽  
Bambang Syairudin ◽  
Endah Angreni
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
Shopping Centers ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Clean Room ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Repair Service ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Sample Data

Development and competition business of transporting had been restrictive. Each operators race competition do innovation, efficiency, and continuous improvement. The customers of PT Pelni from year to year continues to decrease. Although actually PT Pelni also improve themselves, repair service and innovation, but still be unable to improve the number of passengers. This study attempts to know the level customer satisfaction PT Pelni to make known well and innovation that has done is in line with hope customers. The measurement of the customer satisfaction PT Pelni done with the approach servqual method. Aspects which are under consideration includes 5 dimensions main namely tangibles, reliability, responsiveness, assurance, and empathy which divided in 29 indicators variable. This research using respondents as the sample. Data analysis used the analysis method servqual and cartesious diagrams. The research results show that there are inconquirity between hope customers by the fact experienced. The largest is in dimension tangible, with the gap an average of -1,3.While gap smallest there are in dimension responsiveness -0,42. Analysis by diagram cartecious show you some attribute in the main priority improvement: furnishings that high quality (2), facilities shopping centers on a vessel (4), the availability of a bed with the corresponding numbers of a ticket (6), size cabin large (7), and the condition a clean room (8). All those attributes including in dimension of tangible.

scholarly journals Sosyal Yardımlaşma ve Dayanışma Vakıflarından Sosyal Yardım Alan Kadınların Bazı Sosyo-Demografik Özellikleri ile Yoksullukla Bağlantılı Deneyim ve Görüşleri

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (13) ◽  
pp. 259-282
Author(s):  
Melike YALÇIN
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Adult Women ◽  
Young Adult Women ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Poor Women

With this research, it is aimed to reveal some socio-demographic characteristics, experiences and opinions related to poverty, and power situations of coping with poverty of poor women who receive social assistance from social assistance and solidarity foundations. The quantitative research method was used in the study, and the data were obtained by making face-to-face interviews with women who received social assistance from Ankara province Altındağ, Mamak and Keçiören Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundations and accepted to participate in the study. The poor women participating in the research are young adult women with a low level of education, married, have at least one child, are unemployed and earn their living on social assistance. They define poverty as not being able to meet their needs and state the reason for poverty as unemployment. Participants see social assistance as a strategy to cope with poverty and think that the aid given is not enough to provide for their livelihood. They think that women are affected more by poverty than men, and they define their strengths mostly as being a good mother and wife.

scholarly journals LONELINESS OF HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE STUDENTS: THE RELATION OF SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS AND SELF-ESTEEM WITH LONELINESS

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-40
Author(s):  
Nataša Kostić ◽  
◽  
Šuajb Solaković ◽  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Significant Relation ◽  
School Students ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Significant Difference

The research problem relates to the examination of the relationof socio-demographic characteristics (gender, level of education and the place where most of childhood was spent) and the self-esteem of the respondents with loneliness.In investigating this problem, the focus was primarily on the perception of the distribution of loneliness, and the examination of the relation of independent variables (socio-demographic characteristics and self-esteem) with the dependent variable (loneliness).The sample of respondents consists of 677 high school students (49.34%) and college students (50.66%) of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The range of years of subjects ranges from 15 to 23 (AS = 18.696).The results of the study show that there is a statistically significant difference in loneliness with regard to gender (U = 38672.000, Z = -6.122, p = .000), to the level of education (U = 42292.500, Z = -5.905, p = .000) and the place in which the respondents spent most of their childhood (χ2 = 9.383, df = 2, sig = .009). The results show that there is a statistically significant relation between self-esteem and loneliness (ro = -.401, sig = .000, N = 676).

scholarly journals The Evaluation of School Administrators' Views on the Need for Professional Development of Teachers regarding the Use of Technology in Physics Classes

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Gurcan Uzal ◽  
Aytekin Erdem
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
School Administrators ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Statistical Techniques ◽  
National Education ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Physics Classes ◽  
Professional Development Needs ◽  
The City

The aim of the study is to investigate the school administrators' views on the professional development needs of teachers regarding the use of technology in physics classes. The participants of the study were 121 executive teachers from the city of Kocaeli. The data for the research was obtained using the survey model and was compiled with the help of a five point Likert type scale. The data collected by a scale with the reliability coefficient of 0.92 were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistical techniques. As a result of the analysis, it was found that the administrators completely agreed with the use of the LCD panels in the teaching of physics subjects, while only agreeing with the other items. In addition, the opinions of school administrators regarding the professional development needs of teachers for the use of technology in physics classes does not differ according to demographic characteristics, but significantly do however, according to gender and experience. In light of the results, recommendations were made for researchers, administrators and the Ministry of National Education.

scholarly journals Sampled 3D models for Cultural Heritage: which uses beyond visualization?

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Scopigno
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
3D Models ◽  
3D Scanning ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Research Results

<p>Digital technologies are now mature for producing high quality digital replicas of Cultural Heritage (CH) artefacts. The research results produced in the last decade have shown an impressive evolution and consolidation of the technologies for acquiring high-quality digital 3D models (3D scanning) and for rendering those models at interactive speed. Technology is now mature enough to push us to go beyond the plain visualization of those assets, devising new tools able to extend our insight and intervention capabilities and to revise the current consolidated procedures for CH research and management. The paper presents a few recent experiences where high-quality 3D models have been used in CH research, restoration and conservation. These examples constitutes a broad review of different uses of digital 3D<br />assets in the CH domain.</p>

scholarly journals Social representations of dietary practices and their determinants in a Moroccan community

2021 ◽  
Vol 119 ◽  
pp. 02003
Author(s):  
Imane Barakat ◽  
Mohammed Elayachi ◽  
Rekia Belahsen
Keyword(s):  
Social Representations ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Dietary Practices ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Food Practices ◽  
Education Professional ◽  
The Social ◽  
Study Population ◽  
Professional Occupation ◽  
Eating Practices

Food is a multidimensional science that has appeal among other social representations of food practices. This study aimed to characterize and identify the determinants of eating practices according to the social representations of a population in the Rabat-Salé-Kenitra (RSK) region of Morocco. Data concerning socio-demographic characteristics were collected using a questionnaire. The social representations of dietary practices were obtained by characterizing three dietary practices. The main results showed that the high proportion of the study population is over 34 years old, is female, is married, and resides in the urban area. The most characteristic of good dietary practices chosen by the majority of the population was palatability, the factor chosen as the least characteristic of good dietary practices was traditional preparations. Among the studied factors, age, gender, higher level of education, professional occupation, "married" marital status, and involvement in purchasing and food preparation within the household are the determinants of certain representations.

Foreword / Uvodnik

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomislav Topolovčan
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Great Pleasure ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Scientific Explanations ◽  
And Control

Dear readers!It is our great pleasure to present to you the first regular issue of the Croatian Journal of Education in 2021. This issue brings ten papers by authors from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, South Korea, Serbia, Spain and Turkey. Regarding the categorisation of the papers, this time we present four original research papers, three preliminary communications and three review papers. As previously, the featured papers advocate the thematic diversity of the concerns in the field of education. Furthermore, the papers present innovative, creative and multidisciplinary approaches to researching the issues of education. Through the research results and their interpretation, the presented works offer scientific explanations and understandings as well as predictions and control of the research phenomena in the field of education. Thereby we further develop the interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary direction of the Croatian Journal of Education. In this regard, we still wish you much success in your creative and innovative scientific projects, and we are looking forward to many more of your high-quality papers in 2021. --- Dragi čitatelji!Veliko nam je zadovoljstvo predstaviti vam prvi redovni broj Hrvatskog časopisa za odgoj i obrazovanje u 2021. godini. U ovom broju donosimo deset radova autora iz Bosne i Hercegovine, Hrvatske, Južne Koreje, Srbije, Španjolske i Turske. U pogledu kategorizacije radova, ovaj put predstavljamo četiri izvorna znanstvena rada te tri prethodna priopćenja i tri pregledna rada. Kao i do sada, u prikazanim radovima zastupamo tematsku različitost problematike odgoja i obrazovanja. Također, u radovima su zastupljeni inovativni, kreativni i multidisciplinarni metodološki pristupi istraživanja problematike odgoja i obrazovanja. Rezultatima istraživanja i njihovim interpretacijama, u predstavljenim prilozima ovoga broja, ponuđene su nove i inovativne deskripcije, klasifikacije, definicije, znanstvena objašnjenja i razumijevanja te predikcija i kontrola istraživanih fenomena odgoja i obrazovanja. Time i dalje razvijamo interdisciplinarnost i multidisciplinarnost Hrvatskog časopisa za odgoj i obrazovanje. Stoga nam je iznimno drago što na ovaj način predstavljamo nove znanstvene doprinose istraživanja autora predstavljenih priloga. U tom pogledu, i dalje vam želimo mnogo uspjeha u vašim kreativnim i inovativnim istraživanjima i znanstvenim projektima te se radujemo vašim novim kvalitetnim radovima u 2021. godini.

Key Factors of Dynamic SMEs in Colombia Using GEM Data

2020 ◽  
pp. 152-171
Author(s):  
León Darío Parra Bernal ◽  
Milenka Linneth Argote Cusi
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Business Training ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
The Public ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
Gem Data ◽  
Knowledge Intensive Entrepreneurship ◽  
Policy Discussion ◽  
Binomial Logistic Model

This chapter contributes to the public policy discussion about the key factors related with dynamic SMEs in Colombia. Authors analyze the case of Colombia through a quantitative approach with a binomial logistic model to estimate the level of association between selected independent variables and dynamic SMEs in the country using GEM data 2017. One of the most important outcomes was that the export activity as well as the level of education of entrepreneurs and previous business experience increase the propensity of Dynamic SMEs in the country. In contrast, variables such as seed capital at the beginning of business and business training did not show a significant relationship with Dynamic SMEs for this case. Notwithstanding the prosperity entrepreneurship ecosystem in Colombia, only 3% of entrepreneurs and their companies are classified as dynamic by authors' model, and there are still great challenges to changes in public policy toward knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship.

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