Volume 1 (2005) Issue 2

EDITORIAL

Dr. A.K.Srivastava

Editor-in-Chief

The second issue of Skyline Business Journal is now in your hands. The Skyline Business Journal, a bi-annual research publication of Skyline College, Sharjah, aims at providing active forum for academicians and professionals to share their research experiences in all business related areas…Read more

UAE: Financial Development and Economic Growth

Alexander Mosesov, Associate Professor, Skyline College Sharjah, UAE

Nizar Mousa Farih Sahawneh, Lecturer, Skyline College Sharjah, UAE

ABSTRACT
Within last three decades both financial sector and UAE economy as a whole experienced a remarkable growth. Based on extended (1973-2003) time series data, this research attempts to find the relationship between financial and economic development of the UAE…Read more

Keywords: UAE, financial sector, economic development.

Suggested citation: Mosesov, A., & Sahawneh, N. M. F. (2005). UAE: Financial Development and Economic Growth. Skyline Business Journal, Volume 1, No. 2, pp 1-5.

The Persuasive Power of Country of Origin on Consumer Value Perception: A Control Theoretic Perspective

Globalization and Higher Education: Emerging HR Challenges and Benchmarking Issues before Universities in 21st Century

A New Commit Processing Under Distributed Real Time Database Systems

Y. Jayanta Singh, Department of Computer Studies, Skyline College, P.O.Box 1797, Sharjah, UAE

Vikas Humbe, Research Scholar, Department of Computer Science and I.T. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad – 431004. (M.S), India

S. C. Mehrotra, Department of Computer Science and I.T. Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad – 431004. (M.S). India.

ABSTRACT
A real time database system (RTDBS) is a Transaction processing system that is designed to handle workloads where transactions have a complete deadline.…Read more

Keywords: Real time database system, distributed sites, deadlines of transactions

Suggested citation: Singh, Y. J., Humbe, V., & Mehrotra, S. C. (2005). A New Commit Processing Under Distributed Real Time Database Systems. Skyline Business Journal, Volume 1, No. 2, pp 19-24.

On the Empirical Evidence of Price Stability and Money Supply Relation in the United Arab Emirates

Atul Deshpande, Lecturer, Skyline College, Sharjah, UAE

ABSTRACT
This research paper attempts to meet three objectives. First, is inflation and money supply relation very significant in a small open economy of the UAE? Second, what is the causal point for a relative stability of prices in the UAE...Read more

Keywords: Money supply (M1 and M2), velocity (transactions), demand for money, real cash balances, nominal GDP, real GDP, GDP deflator, exchange rate, interest rate, ‘t’ statistic and ‘t’ value, Mean, Standard Deviation, Ordinary Least Square (OLS).

Suggested citation: Deshpande, A. (2005). On the Empirical Evidence of Price Stability and Money Supply Relation in the United Arab Emirates. Skyline Business Journal, Volume 1, No. 2, pp 25-32.

A SCENT-SATIONAL STUDY An Empirical Study on the Purchase Behaviour of Employed and Unemployed Women of Dubai and Sharjah Regions, U.A.E., towards Perfumes

K. Shivakumar, Associate Professor, Department of Marketing Studies, Skyline College, Sharjah, U.A.E

Sumathi Natarajan, Adjunct Faculty, Skyline College, Sharjah, UAE

Rengasamy Elango, Assistant Professor, Department of Business and Management Studies, Skyline College, Sharjah, U.A.E

ABSTRACT
A survey was carried out between November, 2004 and January, 2005 by the authors to gain an insight into the purchase behavior of both employed and unemployed women of the Dubai and Sharjah...Read more

Keywords: Perfumes, fragrance, consumer behaviour, women

Suggested citation: Shivakumar, K., Natarajan, S., & Elango, R. (2005). An Empirical Study on the Purchase Behaviour of Employed and Unemployed Women of Dubai and Sharjah Regions, U.A.E., towards Perfumes. Skyline Business Journal, Volume 1, No. 2, pp 33-38.

Personality Correlates of Time Management: A Quantitative Study of Time Behaviour of Indian Executives

Beena S. Saji, Assistant Professor, Skyline College, Sharjah, UAE

ABSTRACT
Globalization and rapid changes in technology mark today's business environments. The business at the speed of thought is a criteria for success in this high velocity environment where...Read more

Keywords: Time management, personality factors, planning, controlling, organizing, delegation

Suggested citation: Saji, B. S. (2005). Personality Correlates of Time Management: A Quantitative Study of Time Behaviour of Indian Executives. Skyline Business Journal, Volume 1, No. 2, pp 39-44.

Shared Secret Authentication Protocol for Client and Server in Internet Banking Applications 

Hasan Al-Saedy, Associate Professor, Skyline College, Sharjah, UAE

ABSTRACT
In this paper the authentication concepts, in internet banking, are demonstrated. The available internet security technologies are explained, the strength...Read more

Keywords: Internet banking, shared secret protocols, internet security technologies

Suggested citation: Al-Saedy, H. (2005). Shared Secret Authentication Protocol for Client and Server in Internet Banking Applications. Skyline Business Journal, Volume 1, No. 2, pp 45-46.

Issues and Challenges in the New Generation Customer Relationship Management (CRM): Coping with Unreliable Data

Vijaya Kumar Gudep, Lecturer, Business & Management, P.O. Box: 1797, Skyline College, Sharjah, UAE

SK Pemmaraju, Modern College of Business and Science, P.O. Box: 100, Al-Khwair, Sultanate of Oman

ABSTRACT
In today's competitive business climate, providing high quality of customer service is more crucial and challenging than ever. The number of customer inquiries is increasing year over year and as a result modern businesses are...Read more

Keywords: Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Business Intelligence (BI), Computer Telephony Integration (CTI), Return on Investment (ROI), Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing (BI/DW) and Extract-Transform-Load (ETL)

Suggested citation: Gudep, V. K., & Pemmaraju, S.K. (2005). Issues and Challenges in the New Generation Customer Relationship Management (CRM): Coping with Unreliable Data. Skyline Business Journal, Volume 1, No. 2, pp 47-51.

Recent Trends in Marketing of Banking Services

P. Mariappan, Assistant Professor, Department of Management Studies, MAHE (Dubai Campus), Knowedge Village, Dubai

ABSTRACT
Banking industry, locally as much as internationally, is becoming a tougher business to run and grow with the increasing competition in a shrinking border-less globe. Bankers are...Read more

Keywords: E-commerce, smart card, electronic purse, e-Pay

Suggested citation: Mariappan, P. (2005). Recent Trends in Marketing of Banking Services. Skyline Business Journal, Volume 1, No. 2, pp 52-54.

Information Technology (IT) and Decision Making: Impact of IT-Assisted Group Decision Support Systems (GDSS) on Efficiency and Effectiveness of Group Decisions

Manuel Fernandez, Lecturer, Skyline College, Sharjah, UAE

A. Nelson, Selection Grade Lecturer in Commerce Government College, Kollam, Kerala, India

ABSTRACT
Decision making is one of the most important functions of management. The success of any organization depends on the quality of decisions made...Read more

Keywords: Group decisions, decision support systems, parallelism, group memory, anonymity

Suggested citation: Fernandez, M., & Nelson, A. (2005). Information Technology (IT) and Decision Making: Impact of IT-Assisted Group Decision Support Systems (GDSS) on Efficiency and Effectiveness of Group Decisions. Skyline Business Journal, Volume 1, No. 2, pp 55-58.

Knowledge, Property, and System Dynamics of Technological Change

Ghazi Abdul Razzak Alnakkash, Associate Professor, Skyline College, Sharjah, UAE

ABSTRACT
Technological change and its relationship to the growth of knowledge are considered here from a general system theoretic perspective. The traditional linear model that has influenced economic thinking and policy...Read more

Keywords: Knowledge, system dynamics, codified and tactic knowledge, property, institutional solution, diffusion, localized solution, dissemination programs, research system.

Suggested citation: Alnakkash, G. A. R. (2005). “Knowledge, Property, and System Dynamics of Technological Change”. Skyline Business Journal, Volume 1, No. 2, pp 59-64.

Rational System of Budgeting

Mukdad M. Ibrahim, Assistant Professor, Skyline College, Sharjah, UAE

ABSTRACT
A budget is a comprehensive, formal plan, expressed in quantitative terms, describing the expected operations of an organization over some future...Read more

Keywords: Budgeting, zero base budgeting, planning programming budgeting system, decision making.

Suggested citation: Ibrahim, M. M. (2005). Rational System of Budgeting. Skyline Business Journal, Volume 1, No. 2, pp 65-68.

Excess Management, Managed and Moderator

Amin Zehra Rizvi, Assistant Professor, Department of General Education, Skyline College, Sharjah, UAE

ABSTRACT
The objective of this paper is to surface the observations made through the psyche of a humanist on a spatial and a lateral relation- ship existing between the two societies...Read more

Keywords: Efficiency and effectiveness, excess, resistance, task and not duty, balanced view and commitment.

Suggested citation: Rizvi, A. Z. (2005). Excess Management, Managed and Moderator. Skyline Business Journal, Volume 1, No. 2, pp 69-71.

Issues in Institution Building

M.Selvam, Professor in International Business and Commerce, Alagappa University, Karaikudi, India

ABSTRACT
This article is of a conceptual frame based on the experience and contemplations of the author on the main theme discussed, supplemented by a few references...Read more

Keywords: Institution building, goal setting, institution nurturing, goal formulation, manpower grooming.

Suggested citation: Selvam, M. (2005). Issues in Institution Building. Skyline Business Journal, Volume 1, No. 2, pp 72-76.

Will the Electronic Journals Replace the Paper-print Version in Lebanon?

Abdul Razzak Charbaji, School of Business and Economics, Lebanese University

ABSTRACT
University libraries in Lebanon are at the edge of important modernization as information transfer increasingly into electronic for mat. In this study, based on Davis Technology...Read more

Keywords: E-journal, technology acceptance model, factor analysis, e-environment

Suggested citation: Charbaji, A. R. (2005). Will the Electronic Journals Replace the Paper-print Version in Lebanon?. Skyline Business Journal, Volume 1, No. 2, pp 77-84.