The latest issue of the International Journal of Applied Management and Technology offers articles ranging from how foreign direct investment is proving its worth to how information security goes beyond technical issues to how ensuring the competence of site managers in China has applications for other countries.

The IJAMT, which publishes in May and November, is an online refereed journal sponsored by Walden University’s School of Management. Through this journal, scholars, scholar-practitioners and advanced graduate students can collaborate and examine important issues in business and technology management.

Articles appearing in the November journal are

• “A New Hybrid Algorithm for Multi Objective Permutation Flowshop Scheduling Problem”
• “A Survey of Common Platform Applications and Research Issues for Industries and Industrial Engineers”
• “Becoming Lean Through the Common Platform in Manufacturing”
• “Biblometric Study on Benchmarking: A Statistical Review”
• “Evolving a Model for Probability of Detection Within a Search Box for a Search and Rescue Mission Parallel Sweep Search”
• “Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Empirical Analysis”
• “Information Security: It is More than Technical Issues”
• “Integration of E-Business into Small and Medium Size Businesses”
• “Modeling, Simulation and Analysis of Product Development Process Using MsExcel”
• “Parallel Line Flow Scheduling to Minimize Maximum Tardiness”
• “Path Optimization Algorithm for an Autonomous Mobile Robot”
• “Practice of Competence-Based Vocational Qualification Standards for Site Managers in China”
• “Single Machine Scheduling with Time Windows and Weighted Earliness/Tardiness Penalties”
• “Sustainable Nanotechnology Development: Integrating Principles of Change”
• “The Impact of Goal Congruence on Project Team Performance”
• “The Intersection of Information Technology, Power and Structure: A Contingency Approach”
• “Understanding Management Through the Physics of Leisure”
• “Pedagogy for Determining Alternate Solutions to Integer Resource Allocation Problems”
• “Assessment of Productivity of Items Manufactured by Rural Artefacts Community—With Special Reference to Jharkhand State (India)”

In addition to Walden, institutions represented in this issue’s selected submissions include the following:

• Athabasca University (Canada)
• Birla Institute of Technology (India)
• Chongqing University (China)
• Chung-Yuan Christian University (Taiwan)
• Iran University of Science and Technology
• La Sierra Group (California)
• Missouri Western State University
• National Institute of Technology (India)
• Northwestern State University (Louisiana)
• Raja Rajeswari Engineering College (India)
• Southeastern Louisiana University
• University of Cincinnati
• University of South Carolina
• U.S. Army Operational Test Command
• Xerox Research Centre of Canada

The IJAMT welcomes submissions; deadlines are March 15 for the May issue and Sept. 15 for November publication. Style guidelines and other requirements should be reviewed before submitting a manuscript.

Archived issues are also available on the Web site.

More Information
Contact Editor in Chief Dr. Raghu Korrapati, faculty member in the School of Management, at editor@ijamt.org.

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