Journal of Business and Management Sciences

Drawing on the lack of unified definition of the business model (BM), this research attempts to compare the BM concept with similar business and managerial concepts that have dominated business and management literature. The purpose is to justify its primacy and wide acceptance in the business vocabulary. The authors define an integrative framework that underscores the centrality of the notion of value and captures the BM’s key components without constraining it to a specific field of research or industry. One of the key contributions of this research is to provide a wide-ranging definition of the BM that addresses the main dimensions of the value creation process and that can be shared and accepted by the business community regardless of perception, understanding, or theoretical anchoring.

Journal of Business and Management Sciences. 2015, 3(2), 78-84. DOI: 10.12691/jbms-3-2-4
Pub. Date: June 24, 2015

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Store Environment, Personality Factors and Impulse Buying Behavior in Egypt: The Mediating Roles of Shop Enjoyment and Impulse Buying Tendencies

by Mohamad Saad and Madiha Metawie

Original Research

This study aimed at investigating the relationships between store environment factors, personality factors and impulse buying behaviors in Egypt. In addition, the mediating roles of shop enjoyment tendency and impulse buying tendency were also investigated. The data were obtained using a structured questionnaire from 500 participants, with a reasonable mix of demographic characteristics, recruited from mega mall customers working in Cairo –Egypt. The results indicated that three personality factors (impulsivity, excitement, and esteem) and two shop environment factors (music and layout) were significantly associated with impulse buying behavior. In addition, impulse buying tendency appeared to fully mediate the relationships between personality factors, shop enjoyment factors and impulse buying behavior. While shop enjoyment tendency appeared to fully mediate the relationship between store environment factors and impulse buying behavior, but did not mediate the relationship between personality factors and impulse buying behavior. The results were discussed in line with the extant literature. Research limitations and implications were reported.

Journal of Business and Management Sciences. 2015, 3(2), 69-77. DOI: 10.12691/jbms-3-2-3
Pub. Date: June 15, 2015

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Insights of the Mongolian Labor Market

by Oyungerel Tudev and Gerelmaa Damba

Special Issue

World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report is a global ranking of the economies, covering over 100 indicators. However, a detailed profile and extensive data tables are perhaps inadequate to explain the existing circumstances of each individual country. The labor market of Mongolia, with its sudden, high evaluation results attracted particular attention of the authors, questioning whether corresponding scores provide sufficient information to understand and define the problem solving policy. The main concern raised by this study is to explain whether and to what extend the Mongolian overall ranking was affected by Flexibility, Management, Gender issues in the labor market.

Journal of Business and Management Sciences. 2015, 3(2), 64-68. DOI: 10.12691/jbms-3-2-2
Pub. Date: June 11, 2015

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Employment Gender Inequality: Overlook of Georgian Labor Market

by Tamila Arnania-Kepuladze and Giorgi Kepuladze

Special Issue

Labor market gender disparity – is the problem for many country. Employment sphere gender vertical and horizontal segregation and gender stratification refers to the overrepresentation of women or men in certain types of jobs and their under-representation in others. Despite of passage of the legislation guaranteeing equal employment opportunities and equal pay for women and men, despite some progress in the achieving of gender equality in different sphere of life, the employment sphere remains highly gender-segregated. Employment gender disparities can be given in terms of labor market participation, occupation, employment sectors, and income. This research is concentrated on the particularities of employment gender disparity in Georgia. Given paper presents the analyze of labor market in Georgia by criteria such as: gender differences in labor force participation and employment rate, employment gender division by kind of activity, occupation, employment status, and gender pay disparity. For the calculation and analysis of the pay gender disproportion two indexes are used: the Index of Pay Gender Differentiation (PGD) and the Index of Pay Gender Gap (PGG).

Journal of Business and Management Sciences. 2015, 3(2), 58-63. DOI: 10.12691/jbms-3-2-1
Pub. Date: June 10, 2015

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