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International Journal of Business and Management, 2015

This study reviews critically the performance of financial ratios in retail industry. The data obtained from OSIRIS database was analysed by Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software version 22 (Test of normality, Kruskal-Wallis Test, Comparison of means, Correlation and Regression Analysis). Our main findings showed that retailing companies in Malaysia contribute high means value for ROCE, ROA, profit margin, current ratio, liquidity ratio, solvency ratio and number of employees. While Japan showed the highest means value of sales growth rate and USA showed high means value of ROE, market capitalization, number of shareholders, and number of subsidiaries over the period 2008-2012. The results support the first hypothesis which stated that, sales growth rate of retail companies in Japan is better than the USA. While, the results did not contribute to the second hypothesis, which stated that Japan and USA have a successful performance of financial ratios compared to Malaysia. Lastly, the results support our third hypothesis; the corporate variables influence the performance of financial ratios of the retailing companies.

International Journal of …, 2012

Nowadays some of the popular place for the shopping is supermarkets that are a self-service environment. All the supermarkets want to make a good relationship with their costumers and they want to save their costumers and their looking for the more costumers then they have to satisfy their costumer and increase their consumer target market, and they want to track the customer satisfaction in the supermarket surroundings that is very important.

Journal of Transnational Management, 2015

This article examines the applied dimensions of relationship marketing, namely, customer service, loyalty=rewards programs, personalization, customization, and brand=store community with different customer retention levels in three retail stores in Malaysia. The relationship between customer service, loyalty=rewards programs, customization, personalization, and brand=store community with customer retention were examined via an empirical investigation of 450 loyalty=reward program members of three retail stores in Malaysia. The survey was personally administered but self-completed. All variables, namely, customer service, loyalty=rewards programs, customization, personalization, and brand=store community, were able to significantly discriminate between high and low customer retention levels. Retail managers in a developing country like Malaysia must be aware of the importance of these applied dimensions of relationship marketing (i.e., what can be done or practiced by the retailer to manage and enhance customer relationships) and how they impact customer retention levels.

Retailing in the 21st Century, 2006

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International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research Vol. 2, Issue 3, 2014

This article discusses the historical development of Japanese investment in Malaysia between the years 1981 and 1990. When Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad took over the administration, Japanese investment in the country has been growing rapidly as Japan emerged as the largest trading partner of Malaysia. The consequence of crisis with the British government witness by 1982 Japan’s position in Malaysia has further strengthened through the implementation of the Look East Policy. Through this policy, the Japanese management system and work ethic has been widely publicized to continue the pro-Japanese orientation. Although researcher found too many previous studies on Japanese investment in Malaysia, this study will complement previous studies by the data collected from different sources from previous researchers. The different data will also provide new insight to the reader about the history of Japanese investments in this period. The main focus of the Japanese investments directed at the investment date, the parties involved, the amount of capital, total employees, location and sector expertise.

For decades, retail marketing strategy has analyzed the alternative routes to retail industry growth. Despite the strong interest in retail marketing, there is no consensus in the literature about what constitutes retail marketing strategy for customer satisfaction and loyalty as well as whether it affects a company’s retailing performance. Today, retailers need to devote more consideration to long-term strategic planning to cope effectively with the growing intensity of retail competition as well as shift in customer needs. This book provides how retailers will deal effectively with their customers’ patronage and satisfaction. Customer loyalty is measured through satisfaction using structural equation modeling technique. The findings should assist retailers operating in other markets, entrepreneurs, managers of firms and policy makers to enter the market for the marketing efforts and target customers.

Zwingliana 50, 2023

In September 1608, Martin Duvoysin, a reformed citizen of Basel, was accused of blasphemous speech in Sursee, Lucerne, and sentenced to death by beheading and cremation. Three Bernese who happened to be passing through witnessed the pronouncement of sentence and the execution which took place immediately afterwards. They were convinced that this sentence was not free of confes-sional resentment and that Martin Duvoysin had fallen innocently into the clutches of Sursee's arbi-trary justice. This assessment of the incident was made public by their spokesman Gabriel Hermann in two pamphlets, both of which were reprinted several times and caused a great uproar. The Basel church leader Johann Jakob Grynäus was also deeply convinced of Duvoysin's innocence, which he expressed in a sermon that was also published in print. The grave accusation of judicial murder that circulated widely as a result of these writings forced the Sursee and Lucerne authorities to vehe-mently counter the accusation, which initially led to a months-long exchange of blows with the Basel and Bern councillors through diplomatic channels, before Lucerne also had its justifications and counterattacks spread in several printed publications. The danger of a further escalation to the point of a full-blown quarrel between the two confessions was certainly in the air, and a Swiss Con-federation divided into two camps would have had to worry seriously about its independence. It took the arbitration of the allies, who were not involved in the conflict, at the "gemeine Tagsatzung" of June 1609 to avert the threatening scenario just in time.

Samanan Qamasap Istañani. Sonoridades y espacios musicales, 2023

Con este título se inicia la segunda parte del libro. Esta pretende relacionar las perspectivas de las investigaciones mencionadas con el planteamiento y la narrativa de la temática general abordada desde el MUSEF. Es así que Richard Mújica explica la necesidad de superar la temática estrictamente musical y su entendido como expresión artística, hacia un abordaje sensorial y específicamente sonoro y sagrado que se relaciona con la naturaleza y los ciclos de la vida. La samana o “aliento vital”, juega un papel fundamental en esta relación, permitiendo resonar las prácticas sonoro-musicales con el entorno natural. Desde la palabra, el canto y la ejecución de los instrumentos musicales, se requiere de la samana y el wayra o “viento”, como elementos esenciales en la conexión profunda y sagrada con el entorno.