Vol. 12 No. 2, June 2012

Index

• A welcome note from the managing editors.
• Portfolio management in the Italian mutual fund industry: an interview survey.
• Why did the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) fail--or did it?
• An organizational treatise on the Golden Age of Piracy and its virtual implications.
• Management accounting systems and institutionalization in medium-sized and large family businesses--empirical evidence from Germany and Austria.
• The study of relationship between percived organizational support and performance of personnel at Rajamangala University of Technology Isan.
• Chinese consumer attitudes toward automobile country of origin.
• Islamic finance: a parallel financial system.
• Higher education, employability and the worldwide economic crisis.
• 'Best practice' or 'best fit': transferring management knowledge in international consulting assignments.
• The effects of International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) 3 disclosure index on liquidity ratios.
• Management: an epistemology of the term.
• Solving multi objective facility layout problem: modified simulated annealing based approach.
• Business ethical decision making in Central Asia: preliminary evidence from Kazakhstan.
• Structure, conduct and performance of tea marketing in Nandi North CountY, Kenya.
• The state of society and economy, problems, quality life of migrant workers in seafood export processing industries in Thailand.
• Empowering leadership and knowledge sharing: moderating role of employee's exchange ideology.