International Business

As the creative industry grows from the producing sector and becoming more complex in business industry, entrepreneurship will draw more attention to the need for emphasizing among SMEs in creative industry in Malaysia. Artists should develop entrepreneurial thinking in their business strategies to face challenges in competitive market today. A good creative entrepreneur not totally depends on the artistic value, but they should emphasize on how to utilize the minimum resources to fulfill the maximum consumer requirement towards the product demand in a market. Hence, entrepreneurship training is a fundamental step to make creative entrepreneur become more knowledgeable, skillful, and motivate. Nowadays, the Minister of Arts, Culture and Heritage takes responsibility to ensure that the implementation of creative industry in Malaysia becomes reality (Rais Yatim, 2006). So, entrepreneurship training becomes useful for creative entrepreneurs to achieve the government planning. A good infrastructure becomes useless if government cannot produce good practitioners in creative industry. Entrepreneurship training is a part of the creative entrepreneur development in business management in creative industry. In fact, Malaysia has a vibrant entrepreneurial base with a huge potential to become a global player. Indeed, the past and current policies to create a class of entrepreneurs have succeeded in the sense that there are more involved in business now compared to before. So, entrepreneurship training becomes as a first step approach among local creative entrepreneurs to develop their motivation toward successful in business in creative industry.

The purpose of this research is to study the development of SKPT Saumlaki in fishery priority sector. The research method used is descriptive quantitative and literature review. The data used are secondary data published by BPS-Statistics of West Southeast Maluku (MTB) and Maluku Province. Fisheries is an important sector and can be developed in improving people's islands welfare. Therefore, need efforts to increase the production with the infrastructure and facility development in Saumlaki Fishery Centre.

The study focuses on work family conflict of expatriates. Extending the prior work on work family conflict, applying role theory and conservation of resource theory, the paper presents a theoretical framework regarding situations and conditions specifically related to expatriates that can contribute to their work family conflict as prior work on expatriates is scarce in this particular research domain. It investigates the influence that issues like role novelty, cultural novelty, spousal adjustment, and education facilities may have on the work family conflict of expatriates. The study also postulates the probable moderating role of personality traits in the relationship between these issues and work family conflict being experienced by expatriates.

Social capital refers to the extent, nature and quality of social ties that individuals or communities can mobilize in conducting their affairs. Social capital is not a new concept but gained prominence in the policy arena in the late 1980s, when it found its way into many policy programmes for social integration and cohesion in North America and Europe. In recent years, social capital has become a key concept in academic theories and research, and influential as a framework for guiding policy-making that seeks to shape everyday practices in relation to building social integration. A range of related reasons have been put forward for this attention. These include a concern with the excesses of current individualism and nostalgia for a lost cohesive past; the desire to reintroduce a normative and social dimension to understandings of how society works; the impulse to control contemporary liberal societies that are increasingly diverse and undergoing rapid social change; and the way that social capital enables governments to leave aside redistributive economic policies in favour of (less expensive) informal, community-based social relations.

In this paper, the United Nations Convention on International Multimodal Transport of Goods in Geneva-1980 is compared to Iranian Law and UNCTAD/ICC rules. Topics such as concepts and general definitions, scope of convention, combined transport documents, guarantees and liability of consignor, legal status of risky cargos, responsibility of carrier or forwarder, duration and scope of responsibilities of carrier are studied. Several questions are answered, that include: 1- Is the responsibility of carrier in Geneva Convention and Iranian legal rules are based on fault or not? 2- Is the legal nature of combined forwarder’s obligation is obligation of results or obligation of means? ultimately the carrier’s responsibility arising out of the other’s action (laborers, representatives), exemption cases of carrier arising out of the other’s action, carrier rights, litigations and lapse of time are investigated.

In this study including the literature that has been made so far about the anomaly concept used to explain every situation which is against the efficient market hypothesis, and "Days of the week Effect" which is among the periodical anomaly types, additionally, the efficient market hypothesis and shortly the anomaly types take place. In the end of the study: it has been determined that the average daily incomes in the beginning of the week, and at the end of the week shows difference according to the other days of the week, and while the incomes on Mondays, which is the first day of the week, tend to be negative , the incomes on Fridays, which is the last day of the week, tend to be positive , and according to the result that appears, it has been understood that Mondays and Tuesdays are the highest and the lowest risky days and the observed high and positive incomes on Fridays shows statistically meaningfulness. Possible reasons that are shown to this result are many factors such as the exchange applications of weekend effect, the behaviors of the individual investors, the news given by the firms on Fridays, profit distribution days and the firm size effect.

This article presents information about Consumers International (Global Association of Consumer Unions) and its offices at various regions. It is also discussed about the role of Consume Voluntary Organisation in the society, benefits in having a Consumer Voluntary organization.

The case of prohibition of transaction for real or legal persons is a common case in notary public’s offices. Notary public’s offices avoid doing their routine duties in creating documents when they encounter personal names that their legal actions are banned by judicial authorities and related circulars have been announced. Studying the legal basis of individuals’ transaction restrictions, the limitation of basic conditions of transaction correctness, the position of legislator’s Injunctions to stop transactions and similar issues, bring this point to mind that doing transactions and transferring properties in these situations is correct, and such injunctions cannot form a reason to nullify the transaction.

Cross-cultural Differences in Managing Businesses: Applying Hofstede Cultural Analysis in Germany, Canada, South Korea and Morocco Abstract Recently, expansion to new markets is a common thing for international business. Nevertheless, any decision to expand should be preceded by a thorough analysis of all possible obstacles. Culture is among the most significant factors influencing the business model. Therefore, it is of critical importance to demonstrate cross-cultural competence while making any decision to establish business in a foreign country. The purpose of this study is aimed at providing support for the decision-making process related to expanding business to other countries. This study utilizes Hofstede cultural analysis applied to four countries including Germany, Canada, South Korea and Morocco. Basing on the findings it is possible to better understand the peculiarities of each country in terms of their cultural differences including the following factors: power distance, individualism, masculinity/femininity, uncertainty avoidance, long term orientation and indulgence. The results of analysis are gathered in a table offering brief information on each reviewed country. Moreover, this paper reviews business opportunities and potential conflicts in the above-mentioned countries. Keywords: Establishing business, foreign countries; Cross-Cultural Differences, Hofstede Cultural Analysis, power distance, individualism, masculinity/femininity, uncertainty avoidance, long term orientation and indulgence

The main aim of this study is analysis of job satisfaction and emotional intelligence between staffs in private banks in Kermanshah. This study is according to descriptive analysis and reaching branch and information gathering tools is questionnaire and for assessing job satisfaction we use briefed and worth 18 questionnaires and for assessing emotional intelligence we use Mayer and Salvoy 27questionaries. Sample population volume 270 subjects from staff's private banks in Kermanshah and according to sampling random way some of them had been chosen a stoical population and finally we collected 92 questions airs. For determining normality of data we use Kolmogorov -Simonov test and results of tests confirm normality of data so meaningful relationship between them had approved.