At the beginning of the nineteenth century, a people's game that has been around ever since medieval times started becoming more and more popular in England: soccer. The commercialism of football is the new buzzword. The leagues and teams are bringing in millions of dollars from television contracts. The uncertainty of outcome is one of the reasons why people attend football matches and/or watch live televised matches, which are modeled and contrasted. After the end of the football matches, some factors do not influence the number of viewers.

The paper presents a Granger Causality test for investigating a causal relationship between International Tourist Arrivals (ITA) and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). By using annual data in the period of 1980-2012, the results indicate strongly causality relationship between two variables. In opposite to the findings of Tang (2007), the results of the present study reveal that international tourist arrival is a catalyst for foreign direct investment in the Turkish economy.

The purpose of this study is to examine how brand equity, from a customer point of view, influences quick-service restaurant revisit intention. The authors propose a conceptual framework in which three dimensions of brand equity including brand associations combined with brand awareness, perceived quality, brand loyalty and perceived value are related to revisit intention. Data from 570 customers who had visited four quick-service restaurants in Ho Chi Minh City were used for the structural equation modelling (SEM) analysis.

This study examines how integrated social networking sites (SNSs) affect organisational management orientation (OMO) and assesses how this relationship can have an impact on managerial performance and organisational value. The researchers conducted a questionnaire and in-depth pilot interview to obtain the data with samples being selected from a developed economy (Taiwan) and an emerging economy (Thailand) with pretest.

Remittance is one of the most important external sources flowing into developing countries. Many studies have examined the impact of remittances on macroeconomic issues. However, there is a gap of empirical research on the impact of remittances on inflation in Asian and the Pacific developing countries. This study applied such econometrics methods as Ordinary Least Squares (OLS), Two-Stage Least Squares (2-SLS), Panel Generalized Method of Moments (PGMM) and panel Granger causality to investigate this impact.

Although educational practitioners have adopted social media to their online or mobile communities, little attention has been paid to investigate the social media messages related to online or mobile learning. The purpose of this research is to identify social media influencers and trends by mining Twitter posts related to online learning and mobile learning. We identified the influencers on Twitter by three different measures: the number of tweets posted by each user, the number of mentions by other users for each user, and the number of retweets for each user.

This paper examines the effect of satisfaction with firms’ products and services on their capital investment policies. Using data from the American Customer Satisfaction Index from 1994 to 2013, the results of the regression models show that firms with higher customer satisfaction will invest more heavily in capital expenditures in the future. The results further show that this positive effect is more pronounced for firms with less growth opportunities or a high cost of capital.