Business Ramifications Research Articles

Unveiling and speculators in Addis Ababa: Insights, recommendations, and economic implications for sustainable development

<p>Land speculation poses a significant challenge in Ethiopia, particularly in urban and peri-urban areas where large acquisitions and land scarcity prevail. This study aims to discern land speculators in Addis Ababa by employing the motivation and scale method to optimize societal benefits. Employing a multi-sourced data approach and triangulation techniques, this research enhances data reliability. Primary data sourced from interviews, focus groups, and field surveys, supplemented by secondary data from various literature, spanning October 2021 to January 2023, forms the basis of the analysis. Results indicate that affluent individuals, brokers, bankers, and local government officials dominate land speculation activities in both urban core and periphery areas of Addis Ababa, perpetuating the unfair exclusion of lower-income groups from land ownership. To address this issue, three key recommendations are proposed: implementing a one-person, one-plot statute, imposing high property value taxes, and enforcing temporal restrictions on land development. Additionally, exploring the economic and business ramifications of these recommendations on investment patterns and market dynamics is crucial for ensuring their sustained effectiveness in fostering sustainable development.</p>

Image Based Search Engine Using Deep Learning

Abstract: Machine the learning's field of image recognition as well as classification is one that is expanding quickly. The business ramifications of object identification, which is a crucial component of picture categorization, are enormous. A procedure to identify and recognize an item or property in a digital video or picture, image recognition is a subset of artificial intelligence. A larger phrase used to describe techniques for obtaining, processing, and analyzing data from the actual environment is computer vision. The highly dimensional data generates judgements that are expressed as numerical or pictorial information. Artificial intelligence (AI) also encompasses event detection, object identification, learning, picture the rebuilding process, and tracking of video in addition to image classification. This project outlines a methodical strategy to organizing using machine learning. digital photos. Convolutional neural network (CNN) and deep neural networks are two classifiers that may be combined to improve classification performance. Over the past several years, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have emerged as the leading approach for image classification and object recognition tasks. On several of the picture categorization databases, they now outperform humans. Most of these datasets are built around the idea of tangible classes; photographs are categorized according to the kind of item they include. Using Abstract classes, this project will propose a unique picture classifying dataset that should be simple for humans to solve but difficult for CNNs to fully understand. This dataset and potential variants of the dataset are used to assess the classifications performance of common CNN designs. Interesting topics for future study are found

Incremental Innovation: Long-Term Impetus for Design Business Creativity

In business, innovation thinking is expanding beyond product innovation, and it is being marketed as a catalyst for unique user experiences, businesses, and organizational and cultural change. Product design and design-driven business operations require an innovative mindset. In this study, we examined how progressive innovation thinking can be applied to three aspects using a combination of case studies: idea genesis, process, and decision making. We also examined thinking studies from relevant companies to investigate how to create user-pleasing experiences and details in products and to develop a framework for progressive innovation thinking strategies and implementation methods for designers. Our findings will help designers and corporate design teams find a steady flow direction in the execution of their design business, capture the first moments of brilliance and replicate ideas, generate a constant stream of creative ideas, maintain a constant flow of innovation in their design business, and enhance the overall business capability of the design team. This framework has academic and business ramifications: it can provide guidance and ideas to other design teams looking to execute their design business and act as a reference for adopting progressive, original thinking work and creative businesses.

Keeping staff safe: consent in the care home

The law is clear when it comes to assault or harrassment in the workplace. However, life is rarely as straightforward as legislation. In dealing with the legal or business ramifications of an assault, the human element can be forgotten. Esther Wiskerke brings the focus back to the person affected and the support they may need from a manager

James Schwoch. Wired into Nature: The Telegraph and the North American Frontier.

The history of the telegraph and, by extension, of computer networks and the internet has enjoyed a boom over the past decade. Increasingly, historians have been moving away from discussing the evolution of these technologies and more toward their business ramifications or how they were used. James Schwoch’s new book Wired into Nature: The Telegraph and the North American Frontier advances the study of how the telegraph was used in the nineteenth century by focusing more on the military and government’s use of telegraphy in the American West, leaving to others discussions about Western Union and other business themes. He sheds much new light on the use of telegraphy by the U.S. Army to control, even fight, Indians. He adds to our understanding of the challenges of stringing wire across mountains, deserts, and Alaska. His research expands our understanding of how the United States became a wired-up nation by the end of the 1800s.

CFIUS 2.0: An Instrument of American Economic Statecraft Targeting China

On 13 August 2018, the president of the United States signed a bill to strengthen the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), an interagency executive body responsible for screening foreign investments made in the United States for national security risks. The move is primarily aimed at preventing Chinese firms from exploiting the US open capital markets to acquire technology. While much commentary exists spelling out the changes made to CFIUS by way of the legislation, their focus is largely on the legal and business ramifications of the policy at the firm level. This analysis assesses what CFIUS strengthening portends for the tech ambitions, examines the Chinese state’s response to the move, and observes its relevance to US–China economic decoupling.

Blockchain technology for enhancing supply chain resilience

With the soaring value of bitcoin and frenzy over cryptocurrency, the blockchain technology that sparked the bitcoin revolution has received heightened attention from both practitioners and academics. Blockchain technology often causes controversies surrounding its application potential and business ramifications. The blockchain is a peer-to-peer network of information technology that keeps records of digital asset transactions using distributed ledgers that are free from control by intermediaries such as banks and governments. Thus, it can mitigate risks associated with intermediaries’ interventions, including hacking, compromised privacy, vulnerability to political turmoil, costly compliance with government rules and regulation, instability of financial institutions, and contractual disputes. This article unlocks the mystique of blockchain technology and discusses ways to leverage blockchain technology to enhance supply chain resilience in times of increased risks and uncertainty.

Impulsive choice behavior and sensorimotor function in adult rats exposed to chronic intermittent ethanol during adolescence and adulthood

There seems to be a growing consensus in the networking business community that SDN is here to stay and that its impact will be significant. This is supported by the sheer number of venture capital companies that have invested in SDN startups over the past six years, the magnitude of those investments, as well as the size of the acquisitions that have occurred since 2012 in this space. The big question from a business ramifications standpoint is whether or not there will be a sea-change in the relationship between vendors and customers, or will the degree of vendor-lock that the large NEMs enjoy today persist in a slightly modified form. Idealistic SDN proponents proselytize that the adoption of SDN will take the power from the NEMs and put it in the hands of customers. Whether or not this happens largely hinges on how important openness is to the SDN paradigm. In the business world today there is no consensus on that. Separation of control plane from data plane need not be performed in an open manner. It is entirely possible that proprietary incarnations of this concept end up dominating the market. To help frame this discussion, Chapter 12 begins by discussing the migration of business models to Everything as a Service. We then provide forecasts of the Total Available Market (TAM) for SDN products. We then focus on the impact of SDN on incumbent NEMs and on enterprise customers. This chapter attempts to ground this discussion in business realities and avoid getting caught up in the proselytizing mentioned above. We cover the major venture capital investors in SDN startups and review the major acquisitions and startups. Chapter 12 concludes with a discussion about the career disruptions that are inevitable as SDN takes deeper root. The demand for the sort of network operator skills common today will diminish and give rise to increasing need for new expertise in the form of the DevOps specialist.

Linguistic gender marking and its international business ramifications

Darwin (1859) considered language a form of memory that stores information in a genome-like mode. Grammar, according to cognitive science research (Boroditsky, Schmidt, & Phillips, 2003), impacts a speakers’ cognitive framework and mental representation of social reality. Gender is among the most stable grammatical features (Wichmann & Holman, 2009), and comparing languages is valuable for understanding their social role (Corbett, 2011). Such research should have significant value for international business (IB), where national variations are of focal interest but where the study of linguistics has mostly been relegated to a subset of culture. Culture-based research currently relies on aggregate values-based measures of culture (e.g., Hofstede, 1980, 1998; Hofstede, Hofstede, & Minkov, 2010; House, Hanges, Javidan, Dorfman, & Gupta, 2004), making it susceptible to endogeneity problems, and contemporaneous to gender outcomes. In contrast, a language’s grammatical structure is a stable feature inherited from the distant past, unbiased by present social, political and economic forces.

Work, leisure, and tourism in the Pacific Rim

This issue of JBR is the consequence of a call for a special issue on Work, Leisure, and Tourism in the Pacific Rim. Who the special issue editors are presumably prompted submissions related to tourism or hospitality. The articles in the issue relate to the business aspect of tourism, and they show the diversity in tourism research. The study of entertainment in Macao's future presents stakeholder views. The wine tourism paper is not on demand or tourism behavior but addresses supply side issues. The articles on employees' work–family conflict moderating life and job satisfaction and telepresence affecting the demand for tourism have business ramifications. The paper on empowerment pursues applying Western views in applying a concept in the East. The study of tourists' perceptions on safety broaches some important analysis issues. The paper on using diagrams to improve survey research has broad ramifications for survey research, particularly regarding getting and using complex data. The final article addresses effectiveness and offers ideas that apply to application of DEA in business research.

Human rights and companies in conflict zones

Companies appear to be taking the business ramifications of conflict far more seriously, yet with limited consideration of the full extent of their responsibilities. Certainly, they see conflict resolution as primarily the responsibility of government yet find themselves in context specific situations where they are nevertheless expected to work actively to protect and promote human rights. In addition to “traditional” civil and political rights, companies' human rights responsibilities are increasingly also recognised. It is not impossible to apply human rights principles to conflict situations or to integrate them with a policy of conflict management. The process of managing human rights and a company's economic performance in conflict zones are directly related.

A Hundred, Years of Portland Cement, 1824–1924

SOME books are of transient value and others increase in value as time progresses. This work undoubtedly belongs to the latter class. The author's intimate knowledge of the cement industry, its complex business ramifications, and changing methods of manufacture, has enabled him to produce a book which must be regarded as authoritative over the period of which it treats, so far as the British industry is concerned. No attempt is made to follow the development of the industry in other lands, beyond what is essential for understanding it in our own. A Hundred, Years of Portland Cement, 1824–1924. By A. C. Davis. Pp. xxii + 282. (London: Concrete Publications, Ltd., 1924.) Cloth, 21s.; leather, 25s.