Big Business Research Articles

PPG may sell a big architectural paint business

PPG may sell a big architectural paint business

Dark Quadrant: Organized Crime, Big Business, and the Corruption of American Democracy from Truman to Trump by Jonathan Marshall (review)

Dark Quadrant: Organized Crime, Big Business, and the Corruption of American Democracy from Truman to Trump by Jonathan Marshall (review)

Albion W. Tourgée's Forgotten Dystopia: How the South Conspired with Northern Monopolists to Win the Post-Civil-War Peace

Abstract: Albion W. Tourgée wrote best-selling novels based on his days fighting the Klan and trying to reconstruct North Carolina. Recently his fiction and his role as Homer Plessy's lead attorney have received renewed attention. But the work to which he devoted most energy remains forgotten. Speaking directly to today's world of ongoing racial injustice and income inequality, "89 (1888) is told by the Grand Master of the Order of the Southern Cross. He and a northern monopolist based on J.D. Rockefeller conspire to bring about peaceful secession of the South and suppression of northern workers. After summarizing the book's elaborate dystopian plot, the essay details how Tourgée forged the often-forgotten historical events on which it is based into a novel that, better than any work of the time, warned the nation of the threat posed by what W.E.B. Du Bois called the "bargain between Big Business and the South."

Expotecnología 2022

Expotecnología 2022 was an event that took place in the city of Cartagena de Indias, from November 2 to 6, 2022, with the slogan “The future of engineering in the face of technological disruption” This eighteenth version was a meeting that brought together the scientific and academic community in spaces for the dissemination and transfer of knowledge, where innovation was the essence and a fundamental part of the event. Expotecnología was created in the Faculty of Engineering Sciences - FACI, of the Antonio de Arévalo University Foundation - UNITECNAR and in this version it maintained as mission, the development of the interaction between science, technology and society, through establishing of knowledge networks and academic and professional cooperation. The main objective was to address the challenges that emerge from the everyday life of the engineering community, the problems immersed in the development of projects and programs of Higher Education Institutions (IES), organizations and research centers at the national and international level. In the development of the day of presentations in a virtual way, it was possible to promote the dissemination of the research work of professionals, teachers and students from all areas of engineering, framed in four (4) thematic axes, as follows:• New technologies: Big data, Artificial Intelligence, Business Intelligence, Software Engineering, Education and new technologies and Mobile Applications.• Petrochemicals and process control: Materials Science, Instrumentation and Control Systems, Robotics and Automation and Industrial Maintenance.• Electricity, electronics and telecommunications: IoT, Fiber optics, Digital Signal Processing, Wireless Networks, Mobile Communications, Power Systems, Energy Storage, Smart Grids, Renewable Energies, Operation and Distribution, Energy Dispatch, Energy Markets• Construction Summit: Modern Building Systems and Computational Modeling.On this occasion, the event was attended by 512 people, representatives from 25 national and 6 international universities. 32 presentations were made, of which 32 articles were selected for this volume of the IOP Conference Cycle: Materials Science and Engineering and 13 articles for the book Engineering, Innovation and the fourth industrial revolution., After a process of Peer Review. The plenary conferences were in charge of 2 national and 8 international speakers .List of Invited speakers, Organizing Committee, Special thanks are available in this pdf.

A Conceptual Analysis of Online Marketing through Corporate Greenwashing

This study aims to advance the understanding of consumer perceptions towards corporate greenwashing in internet marketing. A review of recent literature on the subject revealed a study vacuum on the impacts of corporate greenwashing on the internet and how it affects Generation Z (those born between 1995 and 2010) (Francis and Hoefel, 2018). This cross-sectional, mixed-method study methodology explores the effects of the internet marketing environment and the characteristics of Generation Z, building on existing knowledge while utilizing existing results. The study supported earlier findings by showing that Generation Z has little faith in big businesses and is inherently dubious of green marketing. But being aware of greenwashing has little direct impact on consumers' intentions to buy; instead, it depends more onother criteria.

The Perceived Role of Non-Elected Actors in Community Power Structure in Poland: Results of a Survey Experiment

Administrative decisions can be influenced not only by policies formulated by elected representatives but also by various external actors. From classic elitist and pluralist theories of community power to urban regime and network governance concepts, academic studies tell us that several institutional and individual actors with no electoral democratic legitimacy may have a significant impact on local government decision-making. In our paper, we ask the question who they are in contemporary Polish cities. Are there any systematic regularities in this respect concerning e.g. how they differ depending on the size of the local community? In this paper we look at the phenomenon through the lens of citizens’ perception of the influence on important administrative decisions made in local governments. In this research, we also check whether the style of local political leadership perceived by citizens is reflected in their expectations toward the propensity of local authorities to consider the opinions. Data is collected through a survey conducted on a representative sample of 2,000 Polish citizens who were asked about their perception of the impact of various business and societal actors. The study uses the survey experiment method in which various formulations of the question are randomly assigned to individual respondents, which allows us to measure the perceived influence of individual types of actors. Referring to the recent debate on the limitation of the applicability of regime theory to large cities only, we place a special attention to the impact of city size on the role of big and small businesses as well as various societal organizations.

More than Money: Political Participation by Elite Business Families

Business families directly participating in political roles have considerable influence in various countries. We explore political business families’ unique economic and social characteristics through a social embeddedness lens. We build a comprehensive dataset of Chilean business families and identify their direct political participation from 1989 to 2020. We find limited support for economic features tied to political participation, whereas social characteristics, such as nationally rooted origins, religious affiliations, and family generation, are shared features of political business families. We extend the literature by analyzing how business families with greater social embeddedness act as legitimate representatives of the big business class in the state.

Commentary] To Publish Scientific Journals: For Some, the Big Business of the Century

This brief commentary addresses the escalating issues within the scientific publishing industry. The author highlights the proliferation of predatory journals and the adoption of similar profit-driven models by established publishers. He points out the ethical dilemma posed by Gold Open Access (OA) journals, which charge significant Article Publishing Charges (APC) to authors while not compensating peer reviewers. The commentary underscores the resulting strain on the peer-review process, with a decline in the availability and quality of reviewers. The author observes a shift from the traditional reciprocal peer-review system to one burdened by challenges, including shortened review deadlines, reliance on less experienced reviewers, and instances of manuscripts being unreviewed. He advocates for compensating reviewers if authors are charged for publication, warning that the current system risks the integrity of peer-reviewed research. Finally, the commentary applauds initiatives like the resignation of editorial board members from Elsevier journals to start non-profit journals, urging scientific communities to regain control of scholarly publishing.

Growing Restiveness of the Peasantry in Contemporary India: Context and Challenges

The global rise of neoliberalism has drastically altered the economic landscape of the peasantry and deepened the agrarian crisis of the countries of the Global South, including India. The roots of India’s agrarian crisis can be traced to a very significant transition from dirigiste to a neoliberal macroeconomic policy regime, in 1991, which has continued till date. Its most gruesome manifestation has been high and ever-rising farmers’ suicides. Factors such as substantial compression of rural development expenditures, increasing input prices, vulnerability to world market price fluctuations due to greater openness, inadequate crop insurance and substantial weakening of the provisioning for credit, along with the governments’ apathy to the demand for remunerative prices for farm produce, are among the obvious causal correlates of the contemporary agrarian crisis in the country. An important consequence has been a steady building up of peasant resistance, particularly over the last decade, leading up to the recent mass protests. Given their scale, intensity, and tenacity, they have been widely hailed as among the most significant resistance movements within the country and across the world against the machinations of corporate power and the interests of big business. This article addresses some of the primary features of the farmers’ movement in India, and the contradictions and challenges with which it has been contending.

Empirical Analysis on the Impact of Regional Allocation of Big Health Industry on Industrial Economic Value Added

Background: With the development of economic society, people’s demand for big health products is also growing. At the same time, the uncertainty of big healthy enterprises’ operations is increasing, and the internal factors affecting enterprise performance are also increasing. Methods: Based on the data from 2010 to 2020 of 329 listed big health products companies in China, this paper adopts a fixed effect regression model to empirically analyze the relationship among marketing/ sale expenditure, R&D expenditure, and economic value added of big health enterprises. The moderating effect of economic level and population size on the model is discussed by grouping regression. Results: The results show that: In the long run, R&D investment and marketing/ sale investment can significantly promote the growth of the overall value of China’s big health enterprises, and the promotion effect lags. Conclusions: The big business enterprise of health investment in R&D and marketing/ sale of enterprise development is affected by the business area location, such as R&D and marketing/ sale spending in big cities can promote enterprise economic value added, and the small city marketing/ sale into obvious economic value added of the enterprise itself. Still, the R&D investment in the small city has no significant correlation with enterprise economic value added.

텍스트 마이닝 기법을 활용한 코로나-19 펜데믹 발생 이전과 이후 스타트업 성장요인에 관한 인식변화 연구

The purpose of this study is to investigate and analyze the changes in social perceptions of startup growth factors in the period before and after the COVID-19 pandemic using text mining techniques, and to provide useful information for government agencies' policy formulation and companies' decision-making for startup growth in the post-COVID-19 era. The TEXTOM program was used to collect and analyze the data. The analysis methods used were word cloud analysis and frequency analysis through text mining, TF-IDF analysis, N-gram analysis, ego network analysis, and CONCOR analysis. The results of the analysis showed that the words that changed significantly after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic were “finance” from 6th to 12th, “startup” from 10th to 20th, “scale-up” from 16th to 4th, and “innovation” from 17th to 11th. Keywords such as “big business”, “government”, and “economic growth” have not appeared in the top 30 keyword impression frequency since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. This indicates that the external environmental shocks brought by the COVID-19 pandemic require new ways of growth and innovation, and that startup growth has shifted from 'exogenous structural changes' such as government support to 'autogenous structural changes' based on the startup ecosystem. In addition, since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, words related to startup growth strategies such as “accelerator”, “power”, “growth platform”, “follow-up support”, “need”, “secure”, “technology”, “barrier”, “foundation”, “market creation”, and “economy” have appeared. Through the CONCOR analysis, we concluded that social interest in the growth of startups is increasing amidst the low growth of the Next Normal, and that internal resource capacity enhancement and the scale-up ecosystem, an environmental factor that can support it, and horizontal networks among firms are key factors as the main drivers of startup growth, and discussed theoretical, policy, and practical implications based on this. Finally, we discuss the limitations and future directions of this study.

RETRACTED: Removing blurring for better understanding the main challenges facing digital entrepreneurs in the digital era: An empirical investigation study from emerging country

The purpose of this study is to examine the main challenges that these entrepreneurs in developing nations confront. This study utilizes a digital startup database maintained by the Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship (MoDEE) in Jordan and conducts semi-structured interviews with a random selection of 85 early-stage digital entrepreneurs. In order to understand the cognitive and psychological characteristics of digital entrepreneurs and their motives for entering the field, this study draws on the theory of planned behavior. Using NVivo 20, a theme analysis is carried out. Based on the interviews conducted, the top industries among the startups that were looked at were big data and business analytics, internet-of-things (IoT), cybersecurity (CT) technology, food service and agri-tech, warehouse automation (WA) and elastic logistics (ELs), conversional artificial intelligence (CAI), financial technology (FinTech), and block chain technology (BCT). 42.5 % of the target population is represented by the large sample size that was used. These obstacles could include long-term funding, a dearth of one-on-one coaching and guidance, unforeseen risks or setbacks, and financial constraints. The study's conclusions may provide policymakers with a tactical manual for removing the main barriers that emerging digital entrepreneurs and their firms must overcome.

ВПЛИВ МАЛОГО ТА СЕРЕДНЬОГО СЕКТОРІВ ПРОМИСЛОВОСТІ НА ЕКОНОМІЧНЕ ЗРОСТАННЯ ОБ’ЄДНАНИХ АРАБСЬКИХ ЕМІРАТІВ

A nation's socioeconomic growth is significantly impacted by its small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Jobs are created by small and medium-sized businesses, which also participate in international trade and compete with big businesses. Similar to this, in the UAE, small and medium-sized businesses play a significant role in economic development that is sustainable. The purpose of the article is to determine how small and medium-sized businesses affect economic growth in the United Arab Emirates. The subject of the study is small and medium industry sector and their influence on the economic growth of the United Arab Emirates. The methodological basis and information base of the research are current scientific and applied research, statistical information. The article uses a number of methods, including analysis, synthesis, comparison and generalization. The main hypothesis of the study was the assumption that the efficiency of economic management and the financial condition of the public sector depend on the quality of budget forecasting and planning, because they are the key to the sustainable development of socio-economic processes. Presenting main material. The results of the research method (Vector Error Correction Model VECM analysis) with the constant Dickey-Fuller test (ADF), the Johansen test for cointegration, the Granger test for causality, and the response function (IRF) for secondary data in time series for the period 1999-2019 showed that the variables of the number of firms were significantly correlated with the variables of the number of firms.The originality and practical significance of the research.Economic growth and small and medium-sized businesses are causally related in two ways. The results of the VECM analysis also demonstrate that in the short term there is a significant positive effect on the number of small and medium enterprises in lag-1 on Economic growth, in addition to the existence of a unidirectional and bidirectional causal relationship for the variable number of workers and economic growth in the United Arab Emirates.Conclusions. Economic growth, the number of small and medium-sized businesses, and their employee bases are all interconnected over the long term.

The rise and transformation of big business in Argentina (1913–1971)

AbstractThis article analyses the structure and changes of large companies based on a new database of the 200 largest non-financial firms operating from 1913 to 1971 in Argentina. The main contribution of the research consists of the elaboration of the rankings of the 200 largest companies according to their paid-up capital between 1913 and 1971 and the construction of a database of large companies based on homogeneous sources and criteria. The study identifies the long-lasting presence of family-based diversified business groups and foreign multinationals from the first global period to the end of Import Substitution Industrialisation. It also shows that the presence of foreign companies among the 200 largest firms is higher than that identified in other countries. The study constitutes the first comprehensive research into big business in Argentina until the 1970s and a first attempt to identify the life cycles of the largest companies in Argentina.

Time Management and Business Activities in a Hostile Business Environment: Impact of Sit-At-Home on Micro and Small Businesses in the South East Nigeria

The purpose of this research is to determine the impact of the current sit-at-home order on businesses in the South East with specific references to micro and small businesses. The sit-at- home in the region no doubt has negative impact on businesses generally, It impacts production and productivity; it impacts both big and small businesses and more especially time that are needed for business operations; it impacts the movement of persons, goods and services. It impact all sector of the economy including the education sector as students started recoding poor performance in exams arising from skipping schools. This work is an attempt to link time management to business growth and performance whether work or academic on the one hand, and with Sit-at-home in South East Nigeria on the other. Sit-at-home created insecurity; insecurity fears; fear affected performance, and performance is affected by time management. In staying off work/business due to insecurity, more business times and opportunities are lost, hence time management is connected to this study.

MNE nonmarket strategy in a changing world: Complexities, varieties, and a values-based approach

Burgeoning complexity and variability in the political and social contexts in which multinational enterprises (MNEs) operate has led to increased research on MNE nonmarket strategy. This focus is enhanced by ethical concerns about the nonmarket practices of big business, particularly in institutionally fragile or nascent market contexts. In this introduction to our special issue on the complexities and varieties of nonmarket strategy, we review the extant research on MNE nonmarket strategy, specifically on corporate political activity and corporate social responsibility. Our review suggests that to address the complexities related to nonmarket strategy in a changing international context, corporate stewardship is inadequate and MNEs must adopt a more authentic and culturally embedded values-based nonmarket strategy approach, which can contribute to long-term advantage. Subsequently, we introduce and synthesize the papers in our special issue and present a research agenda for furthering scholarship on values-based nonmarket strategy.

Big Data 4.0: The Era of Big Intelligence

Big data has had significant impacts on our lives, economies, academia and industries over the past decade. The current questions are: What is the future of big data? What era do we live in? This article addresses these questions by looking at meta as an operation and argues that we are living in the era of big intelligence through analyzing from meta (big data) to big intelligence. More specifically, this article will analyze big data from an evolutionary perspective. The article overviews data, information, knowledge, and intelligence (DIKI) and reveals their relationships. After analyzing meta as an operation, this article explores Meta (DIKE) and its relationship. It reveals 5 Bigs consisting of big data, big information, big knowledge, big intelligence and big analytics. Applying meta on 5 Bigs, this article infers that Big Data 4.0 = meta4 (big data) = big intelligence. This article analyzes how intelligent big analytics support big intelligence. The proposed approach in this research might facilitate the research and development of big data, big data analytics, business intelligence, artificial intelligence, and data science.

Strategi Membangun Brand Community Di Media Sosial Untuk Perusahaan E-Commerce Dalam Meningkatkan Omset Penjualan

E-commerce is a contact of trade transactions between the seller and the buyer by using internet media. The advantage gained by using transactions through E-commerce is to increase revenue by using online sales that are cheaper and also at the same time operational costs such as paper, catalog printing can be minimized Big online business companies in Indonesia, such as bukalapak.com olx.co.id, lazad com, and the like have started to reap profits. Online business becomes an exciting business, not just for its founders, but for users, as well as buyers. To increase sales turnover E-commerce company utilize brand community in social media in face of increasingly competitive competition, main factor in brand community is formation of communication. The communication relationship does not need to be active but at least its existence can be determined. This means that the communication that occurs can be through social media.

Profiling the Esports Bettor

While esports betting is becoming a big business worldwide, scientific studies primarily focus on an Anglo-Saxon perspective to understand the phenomenon and its users. In this cross-sectional online survey study, we therefore investigated the esports betting profile and motivations of Dutch-speaking, European adults playing or watching video games. We conceptually replicated the American esports bettor profile to the study of Abarbanel, Macey, Hamari, and Melton (2020) in a European context, assessed the robustness of our replication with gambling-behavioral variables, and used an adapted version of the Modified Gambling Motivations Scale to unravel EU-esports bettors’ most salient betting motives. Our results reveal that the America-oriented esports bettor profile cannot be replicated in our European sample, making us question whether socio-demographics, such as gender and age, and gameplay-related variables such as video gaming frequency are robust correlates of esports betting participation. Instead, these findings suggest that involvement in esports spectatorship and the breadth and depth of participation in other gambling activities deliver the most accurate predictions, and that esports bettors are mostly driven by intrinsically- and extrinsically-oriented motives such as excitement, intellectual challenge, and monetary gain. This study may form a starting point for future research into the measurement, targeting, and regulation of esports, and gambling-related ‘at risk’ behaviors and audiences, within the European Union.

Securities Regulation and Big Business

Securities Regulation and Big Business