Welcome note from the managing editors.

• Author: Claiborne, Professor C.B.

It is our pleasure to present to the Volume 11, Number 2, 2011 issue of the International Journal of Business Research (IJBR)! This issue contains 24 scholarly research papers that have met the criteria of the peer reviewers from universities around the world.

In keeping with its nascent tradition of promoting all forms of intellectual inquiry, including that conducted outside the box, the current issue proposes to its readers, the findings of research in a verity of business and economics areas.

We thank all authors for the quality of the manuscripts they submitted to our review and for trusting IJBR to be the medium to share it with a truly global audience. We praise the scholars who volunteered their expertise to review these intellectual contributions.

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