EuroMed Journal of Business: Volume 7 Issue 1

An evaluation of the use of competencies in human resource development – a historical and contemporary recontextualisation

Peter Stokes, Ewan Oiry

Competencies have come to play a central role in a wide range of settings in UK public and private sector contexts. This phenomenon is usually analysed but rarely…

An extension of TAM model with IDT and security/privacy risk in the adoption of internet banking services in Greece

Apostolos N. Giovanis, Spyridon Binioris, George Polychronopoulos

This paper presents an extended technology acceptance model (TAM) with concepts from the innovation diffusion theory (IDT) and customers’ perceived risk, aiming to examine the…

Need for cognition as a predictor of store brand preferences

Sigal Tifferet, Ram Herstein

Store branding has gained much attention from branding researchers, including studies of market segmentation. However, the psychological profile of the store brand consumer is…

Navigating retail brands for staying alive

Balakrishna Grandhi, Jyothsna Singh, Nitin Patwa

A retail brand is an asset of value to the stakeholders. Nurturing it enhances quality and stability of earnings. Franchising it across emerging countries provides an opportunity…

A comparison of e‐business models from a value chain perspective

Xiaohuan Zhang, Alex Williams, Yiannis E. Polychronakis

This paper sets out to identify key success criteria for e‐business and consider emergent models which integrate the most value‐adding characteristics in response to the…