Economics, Social Sciences and Information Management
Proceedings of the 2015 International Congress on Economics, Social Sciences and Information Management (ICESSIM 2015), 28-29 March 2015, Bali, Indonesia

Coordinators: Gaol Ford Lumban, Hutagalung Fonny

Language: English
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The 2015 International Congress on Economics, Social Sciences and Information Management (ICESSIM 2015), held 28-29 March 2015 in Bali, Indonesia, aimed to provide a platform for the sharing of valuable knowledge and experience in the context of changing economics and social settings.

Information technology has changed many aspects in our life, including how we communicate, working, socializing, education, and business. Along with the improvement of internet, information management is very important to keep the economy moving in a positive direction and to monitor social change in society. Information management business refers to the definition of control of the business by utilizing Internet media / Information Technology to conduct business activities, or carrying out our business activities online. To utilize internet in economics, business and socializing, collaborations between engineering, the social sciences, and economics are absolutely necessary. Researchers should be more active in conducting research in all the fields and collaborating between one another across disciplines.

This proceedings volume contains contributions on the topics of business, economics, development studies, social sciences, and information technology, and will be of interest to a range of scholars, academics, practitioners, and business managers.

Preface; Keynote speakers; Social economics: Strategic use of context integration capabilities of the industrial designer; Ethnic prejudice and tolerance in national literature; Exploring the use of ‘Wiggio’ to support online collaborative learning for adult learners; Resilience and family functioning among young adults in Malaysia; The role and function of the counseling psychologist in a hospital setting; Implementation of information and communication technology in Islamic University of Indonesia; Estimation of innovative potential: Spatio-dynamic approach; The mediating effects of self-esteem on the relationship between parenting styles and academic achievement of form four students in Klang Valley; Delinquency: Does religion play a vital role in misbehaviour? The evolution of society and the development of literature; Characterizing the university sector in Chile through cluster analysis; Determinants of job performance among state-owned charity organizations employee: Evidence from Malaysia; Necessity of the introduction of the progressive income tax system: A case of Latvia; Green entrepreneurship proclivity among Generation Y nascent entrepreneurs of Malaysia; Traffic congestion classification using data mining techniques; Why brain drain? Malaysian experience; The relation of work culture towards job satisfaction and job performance among teachers in vocational college; Mining Malaysian Board forums for asynchronous communication; Mismatch between housing affordability and affordable houses in Malaysian property market: A review; School readiness among Indigenous children; Developing a systematic assessment system for the LINUS program; Perception of sexual harassment among women employees: Implications for counseling services in organizations; Volatility and co-movement in staple food commodities prices using DCC framework; Issues in urban poverty and its relation to juvenile issues identification; Online games in pre-service teacher training: A proposed framework; Design and development of an Islamic education instructional multimedia for Malaysian secondary schools; Mobile learning for teaching and learning Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM): A review of literature; Internet-based products in Islamic commercial banks in Indonesia; Usage of video clips in teaching science for primary school students in Malaysia; Employment scenario for persons with disabilities through Person with Disabilities Act of 2008
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Ford Lumban Gaol, Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta, Indonesia. Fonny Hutagalung, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.