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ОРГАНІЗАЦІЙНО-ЕКОНОМІЧНІ МЕХАНІЗМИ РОЗВИТКУ ВНУТРІШНЬОГО ВОДНОГО ТРАНСПОРТУ ПІД ЧАС ВІЙСЬКОВОГО ВПЛИВУ В УКРАЇНІ

In the study, the authors considered peculiarities and prerequisites for development of inland water transport in Ukraine, its role and organizational& economic mechanism for development of inland water transport in the modern military transport system of Ukraine. Inland water transport under influence of active hostilities on the territory of Ukraine should be integrated with other types of transport system: railway, road, to create a cyclical transport logistics system. This mechanism can increase an efficiency and reliability of transport services and reduce costs for related business activities. As the inland water transport plays an important role in the transport system, Ukraine seeks to expand its export markets, its importance will continue to grow under conditions of active hostilities. Therefore, understanding the shortcomings and development trends of the national system of inland water transport will contribute to the process of inland water transport renewal in Ukraine. The goal of the study is to analyse prerequisites for development of inland water transport of mechanisms that take into account the specifics of inland water transport based on their comprehensive analysis in order to conceptualize specific organizational&economic mechanism for its functioning during military influence in Ukraine. In Ukraine, the correspondent risks should be considered in managemental, commercial and industrial aspects of inland water transport in a complex manner. The study analyses the current state of inland water transport and its contribution in ensuring transportation of foreign trade goods within the territory of Ukraine. The specifics of production processes of inland water transport are characterized, and in particular, the influence of weather and climate conditions on them, a significant number of stakeholders involved in the transportation process and the need to obtain a large number of approvals in a realm of inland water transport services and cargo in the port. All this together determines the practical impossibility of clearly defining the time parameters of transport processes in shipping. As a result of the analysis of the commercial aspects of the operation of inland water transport.

Activities and Outputs from SME and MNC Collaboration on R&I Projects

The fifth generation (5G) of telecommunication systems is creating new business opportunities for many industry verticals. Managing the innovation process is risky and calls for collaboration with various ecosystem stakeholders to meet the demands of technology, business, and customers. This article investigates the activities and output of participation in collaborative research and innovation (R&I) activities for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) and Multi National Corporations (MNCs) and how they engage with such activities. A survey was conducted with a non-random sample of 42 respondents involved in R&I projects and further supplemented with three in-depth interviews of a subset of the survey respondents. Our key findings indicate that SMEs benefit from technology-related activities and access to decision makers in MNCs. Heavy-handed bureaucracy in projects is a friction point for SMEs, which prefer development speed over scheduled reports and deliverables. In contrast, MNCs benefit from business-related activities by advertising technology to clients, suppliers, and downstream business models. Suggested improvements include additional client needs assessments, trialing of technology and service concepts, and dissemination of the results of R&I activities. SMEs and MNCs view establishing relationships with other partners as valuable for accessing key competencies and vertical industry ecosystems. Our findings provide novel insight in the collaboration of R&I projects with SMEs and MNCs and contributes to the business ecosystem and open innovation literature. Further research should include follow-up studies of the SME–MNC collaboration towards commercialization of innovative 5G use cases.

Are Telecommuters’ and Non-Telecommuters’ Daily Time-Use Behaviors Different? An Episode-Level Model for Non-Mandatory Activities

Telecommuters (individuals working from home), and non-telecommuters (individuals working at the workplace) might have significantly different daily time-use patterns. For example, telecommuters might be able to engage in more episodes of non-mandatory activities such as recreation and pick-up/drop-off of children, as many telecommuters have a relatively flexible work arrangement in relation to their work location and schedule. This study aims to explore the non-mandatory activity engagement and duration decisions of these two worker profiles at a disaggregated-episode level. To do so, a multiple discrete continuous extreme value with ordered preferences (MDCEV-OP) model is adopted, using the 2018 travel survey data from the Central Okanagan region of British Columbia, Canada. This model accounts for multiple occurrences of each activity type (i.e., episodes) along with their corresponding durations. In doing so, the model adopts a logical ordering ensuring that the jth episode is not predicted without the occurrence of the ( j–1)th episode of an activity type. The model results reveal that telecommuters are more likely to engage in higher episodes of non-mandatory activities, compared with non-telecommuters. For instance, female teleworkers are found to be more likely to participate in higher episodes of activities associated with household-related responsibilities such as shopping. In contrast, female non-telecommuters are associated with participating in more episodes of personal business-related activities. The findings of this study provide important behavioral insights into the activity-time-use patterns of telecommuters and non-telecommuters, which can be utilized to develop more effective and equitable travel demand management plans, policies, and models.

Enhancing Thailand’s Durian Export Capabilities Through SCOR Model: Thailand to China

Because there is the significance of Thailand’s durian export but obstacles from some related factors linking to the points of external and internal perspectives, this article, therefore, aims at providing the guideline to enhance Thailand's durian export capabilities through SCOR model. The SCOR model is important to business chain since it can evaluate and display related business activities from assessing customer needs, sourcing materials, creating the products and fulfilling customer satisfaction. SCOR model to enhance Thailand's durian export capabilities encompass with 6 major processes including plan, source, make, deliver, return and enable. Successfully enhancing Thailand's durian export capabilities through SCOR model can contribute advantages for durian exporters.

PRACTICES & TRENDS IN RELATIONSHIP MARKETING IN THE PRESENT DIGITAL ERA

Relationship marketing is the modern marketing approach that advocates about the relationship of a company with its key parties. In order to achieve the desired goals of the company, it is essential to establish and maintain a pleasant relationship between the company and its related parties. In 21st century, world has become the tech-world. Innovation and automation of activities are the demand of this era where everyone has an action-packed schedule. Now, we are performing our works especially business-related activities through the help of technology that supports ease-of-doing, less working period and automation. In this research paper, the researcher has tried to describe the significance of customer relationship marketing and the various practices and innovative trends in customer relationship marketing in this digital age.

Metadata analysis of systematic literature reviews on academic spin-offs

Besides assuming the role of teaching, research, and extension, the university, has expanded the boundaries of scientific knowledge to promote a business ecosystem. The business-related activities can be driven by the leadership of students with an entrepreneurial capacity, based on the technology transfer produced by the academic research and generated by companies that somehow have been idealized or had the active participation of the faculty members and the technology under their control. This model of companies, named in the literature as academic spin-off, has increased the attention of researchers at two main points: i. understanding the phenomenon itself and ii. contribute to identifying the lack of the process, whether related to the support structure or capacitation of faculty members to develop the entrepreneurial activities, as well as in understanding the commercialization of knowledge as technology transfer. In this context, the present work provided a metadata analysis of systematic literature reviews on the academic spin-off, mapping the knowledge on the subject and searching for reviews that cover the technology transfer models to study the viability of protecting the academic intellectual property as a product. Methodology: the data used in this study were retrieved from the database Web of Science and revised according to the protocol Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR). The bibliometric analysis of metadata was conducted in RStudio software with the package Bibliometrix and its web interface Biblioshiny. Results: 40 review articles published in peer-reviewed journals from 2006 to 2021 were selected from the initial collection. Then, as result of the bibliometric analysis, it was obtained the data of production indices (main authors, sources, and most cited articles), the evolution of chronological discussion on the subject, and other complementary. Conclusion: it was found indications of studies that discuss technology transfer models and others that examined empiric models in the academic scenario. However, in the selected collection, was not identified any review papers on academic entrepreneurship that were related to the viability of intellectual property as products to be commercialized. Also, it was identified that the word academic entrepreneurship stands out as the main keyword word to represent the research.

Role of the Digital Technology in accelerating the growth of micro, small and medium enterprises in Uttarakhand: Using TAM (Technology Acceptance Model)

The purpose of this study is to examine how can Digital Technology accelerate the growth of micro, small and medium enterprises in Uttarakhand by adopting the latest yet cost-effective Digital Technologies in their business models, enabling the marketers to connect with their prospective customers effectively and obtain business objectives. Data from 60 micro, small and medium enterprises owners had been collected through an online questionnaire. Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) was used to develop hypotheses, and the statistical tool ‘t-test and ANOVA’ were used for data analysis and their proper assessment. The research findings revealed that Digital Technology plays a vital role in the growth of small businesses irrespective of their year of establishment, nature and stages of business i.e. ‘growth’, ‘stable’ and ‘slowdown’. It is the best practice across the functional area of businesses; viz. marketing, finance, human resources and general business-related activities for yielding lucrative results and achieving business objectives.

Mapping Women’s Geography of Fear onto the Entrepreneurial Landscape

In studies of emotion in entrepreneurship, the link between gender and geography and the effects of both on women's decisions about whether or not to engage in business-related activities, are areas relatively unexplored. In response to this identified research gap, we have conducted a study that proposes the concept of the 'geography of fear’ and examines female entrepreneurs’ relationships with, and use of, physical places and spaces needed for business social activities. Previous studies that address the fear of harm in entrepreneurship and the associated gendered norms regarding women’s use of space, are rare. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 23 female nascent entrepreneurs. Based on participants’ narratives, it is the perception of others tied with gender norms, proneness to vulnerability and coping mechanisms, which in the context of women entrepreneurship contribute to the development of the geography of women entrepreneurs’ fear and to understanding the intersection between emotions, gender and geography in influencing women’s entrepreneurial decisions in their use of space.

COVID-19 and the bleisure travellers: an investigation on the aftermaths and future implications

ABSTRACT Bleisure travel is a terminology usually used to label travel that involves components of both business and leisure. It characteristically takes the form of business travellers prolonging the length of their trip, to relish leisure activities at the destination visited. The study investigated the effect of COVID-19 on the bleisure travellers and the repercussions of covid-19 pandemic on their future travel behaviour. A qualitative research methodology was adopted and data was collected with the help of a semi-structured interview guide to interviewing people who were involved in bleisure travel. A total of 30 respondents from several industrial verticals like service, healthcare, tourism, IT, academia etc. were considered for the study. Data were analysed with the help of Nvivo-12 by using thematic analysis. The results revealed that due to this global pandemic, bleisure travellers are highly demotivated, scared and anxious. The results further conveyed that the future of bleisure travel seems uncertain and blurry which not only affects the tourism or travel pattern of the tourists but will have a high impact on pure business-related activities as well. The study will help to chart out the future course of actions and to analyse the implications of COVID-19 on bleisure travel.

Role of E-Commerce in Insurance Industry

E-commerce consists of buying and selling of products and services over electronic systems such as the internet and other computer networks. E-commerce is a commercial activity dealing directly with the trading of goods and services and with other related business activities, in which the electronic communication medium plays a central role. These activities include the communication of information, the management of payment, the negotiating and trading of financial instruments and the management of transport. The e-business can be used for three primary processes which help to enhance the business and they are; • The Production Process • Customer Centric Process • Employee Centric Process The production processes is the first which include procurement, ordering and replenishment of stocks; processing of payments; electronic links with suppliers; and production control processes, among others. The second is customer-focused processes, which include promotional and marketing efforts, selling over the Internet, processing of customers purchase orders and payments, and customer support, among others. An internal management process The third includes employee services, training, internal information-sharing, video-conferencing, and recruiting. Generally electronic applications enhance information flow between production and sales forces to improve sales force productivity. The purpose of this paper is to find the benefits, challenges and success of e-commerce with special reference to Life Insurance Corporation of India.

Influencing Factors of Undergraduates' Entrepreneurship in Private Higher Vocational Colleges

With the gradual increase in the number of graduates from private vocational colleges throughout the country each year, my country has gradually entered the era of popularization of higher education. In order to alleviate the employment pressure of students, relevant experts and researchers called on all sectors of society to increase support for student entrepreneurship and encourage students to innovate and start their own businesses. This article aims to study the factors that influence undergraduates' entrepreneurship in private higher vocational colleges. This article explores through a combination of literature research method, questionnaire survey method and statistical analysis method. This article conducts statistical processing on the collected questionnaires and uses scientific software such as SPSS for statistical analysis. Summarize the relevant conclusions on the factors affecting college students' entrepreneurship. While putting forward specific suggestions and strategies, it also summarized the most effective entrepreneurial suggestions for college students in private higher vocational colleges. Experimental research shows that 30 people believe that the impact of related business activities on entrepreneurship is very low, accounting for 8.11% of all entrepreneurs. Many college student entrepreneurs believe that related business activities have not had a great impact on their entrepreneurship.

Features of the manifestation of national and universal values in socio-economic relations

In this article, this article examines the signs of harmonization on the basis of socio-economic relations of national and universal values, that each nation does not renounce its historical and cultural values; the sustainable reality of universal values is analyzed scientifically. From the subject and the purpose of our research, we can say that socio-economic values are formed under the influence of globalization, but they do not completely reject the universal norms, procedures and moral imperatives formed over the centuries. Most importantly, 62% of respondents acknowledge that business-related activities are supported by the state, which helps businesses to place value in people's lives. 69% of them believe that such values are in the interests of national development, and 48% believe that they will strengthen Uzbekistan's international relations. Thus, the ongoing processes of globalization, economic integration, cooperation in the world today are accelerating the harmonization of national and universal values, expanding their functions.

Influencia de los avances tecnológicos en el ejercicio de la profesión de la Contaduría Pública

La investigación que a continuación se presenta tuvo como objetivo general analizar la influencia de los avances tecnológicos en el ejercicio de la profesión de la Contaduría Pública en Colombia. Este estudio de enfoque cuantitativo se tipificó como descriptivo, no experimental, transaccional y de campo. Para la realización de este trabajo se utilizó como técnica de recolección de datos la revisión sistemática de bibliografía y la aplicación de una entrevista estructura dirigida a docentes adscritos a la Facultad de Ciencias Contables de Uniremington. Los resultados obtenidos demuestran que los avances tecnológicos han influido de manera positiva en la profesión del contador público. Las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación representan para el profesional contable una oportunidad de crecimiento y de competitividad en este mundo globalizado. La influencia de estas en los procesos financieros de las organizaciones ha generado que las empresas, las universidades, el Estado y demás organismos que regulan la profesión contable requieran de personas empoderadas de todas las actividades que se realizan en las entidades de negocios, con una visión estratégica, innovadoras, con capacidad de análisis, liderazgo en procesos y en costos, comunicación asertiva y habilidades en el manejo de un lenguaje jurídico.

ÇEVRE YÖNETİMİ UYGULAMALARININ ÖRGÜTSEL PERFORMANSLA İLİŞKİSİ ÜZERİNE BİR ARAŞTIRMA: ÇEVRESEL PROAKTİFLİĞİN ARACILIK ETKİSİ

Çevre yönetimi uygulamalarının temel boyutlarının ve öncülerinin araştırılması, artan bir araştırma ilgisini hak etmektedir. Kuramsal açıdan dinamik yetenekler kuramının argümanlarını değerlendiren bu çalışmanın inceleme alanlarından biri çevre yönetimi uygulamalarının çevresel proaktiflik üzerindeki etkisinin değerlendirilmesidir. Buna ek olarak, araştırma, çevre yönetimi uygulamalarının benimsenmesi ile örgütsel performans arasındaki ilişkide çevresel proaktifliğin aracılık rolünü araştırmaktadır. Örneklemini çeşitli sektörlerden 208 Türk firmasının oluşturduğu araştırmanın sonuçları, çevre yönetimi uygulamalarının çevresel proaktifliği olumlu yönde etkilediğini göstermektedir. Çevre yönetimi uygulamalarının örgütsel performans üzerindeki etkisinin çevresel proaktiflik ile anlam ve önem kazandığı görülmektedir. Bununla birlikte çevresel proaktiflik ve örgütsel performans arasında da olumlu bir ilişki olduğu görülmektedir. Başka bir deyişle, çevresel proaktifliğin çevre yönetimi uygulamaları ile örgütsel performans arasındaki ilişkide tam aracılık etkisi gözlemlenmiştir.

1900 Yılı Veba Salgını ve İzmir’in Dış Ticaretine Etkileri

Domestic economic activities and international commerce of Izmir were severely impaired by the strict quarantine of 1900 adopted against the presence of plague. However, the plague cases were very few, strict quarantine measures imposed. The epidemic and then quarantine left a major impact on the economy of Izmir and conflicts arose between the health commission, local and foreign merchants. All business-related activities such as labour movements, shipping services, foreign trading operations and business meetings suffered. Archival documents report that unemployment soared and scarcity of food started to become a major problem and meetings were organised to protest the situation. This paper aims to analyse the economic effects of the epidemic of 1900 by focusing on the decline in commercial operations and economy. Ottoman archival documents, Ottoman Yearbooks (salname) of Izmir as well as British consular reports are used for that purpose.

The role of Affiliate Marketing in Digital Space: A Conceptual Approach

Modern day marketing had gone through lots of changes and disruptions. Some of the changes are created lots of positive impact on conventional business model. The usual revenue generation model has been gone through lots of forward and backward integration. Marketers started adapting those changes positively and they are trying their best to respond to those changes. Change has become the only constant of the marketplace. In business world, it has observed that most of the advertisers are trying to employ affiliate network to track their various affiliate campaign. Measurement of affiliate campaign is important to strengthen the revenue generation model and would help to monitor other business related activities. Monitoring of E-commerce platform will become practically impossible without the inclusion of affiliate network. At the same time digital marketers cannot ignore the role of advertisers to track various affiliate campaign as well. The role of network is to offer specific tracing link to various affiliates so that they can link the text with affiliate’s website which could be effectively beneficial for the customer at the same time. Since the time of consumer 2.0, the roles of affiliates are redefined and they are helping customers’ click on the websites. It depends on the number of times customers’ click on cookie when its dropped on their computer and it is registered by the affiliate network. So, whenever the whole process would be completed from customer end, a confirmation reached at advertiser’s page and the tracking of affiliate’s network can be completed. Affiliate network plays a crucial role to find the sales recorded in their platform. Affiliate’s network is responsible for recording and publishing such data. With the help of a common platform advertiser and affiliates both able to find the sales process and tracking could be done effectively. At the same time, commission will also be tracked during the procedure. Commission structure can be traced well. The performance of the campaign can be evaluated with the help of Price tag, order ID, information about sales, promotion code and product stock keeping units (SKUs). Despite of lots of measures taken in advance still there are different types of complications and various options to improve the overall tracking model. The research paper is basically focusing on the online or e-marketing and the role of Affiliate marketing. As affiliates play a major role in online marketing platform, it is explained in different contexts as well. One thing is quite evident by analyzing the modern marketing platform that the e-channel would be the next trendsetting thing in the field of marketing.

Resolving Business and Human Rights Disputes – Is Arbitration the Way to Go?

The insufficient level of protection afforded to human rights violations caused by business-related activities of multinational enterprises has recently begun to garner increased attention. On an intergovernmental level, the elaboration of an internationally binding treaty regulating the activities of transnational corporations is underway. States have also taken initiatives on a national level to reflect their commitment in implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. In both respects, much work remains ahead. Against this background, a group of prominent lawyers have suggested the use of arbitration as an alternative venue for resolving business and human rights disputes. After a span over five years of concept elaboration, public consultation and drafting, the idea has materialised in the creation of the Hague Rules on Business and Human Rights Arbitration (the Hague Rules or Rules), which were officially launched on 12 December 2019. This paper aims to take stock of the proposed Rules and the context of their appearance and examine if arbitration is a suitable medium for resolving business-related human rights infringements. In doing so, it discusses the legal framework governing the confluence of business and human rights as well as the features which speak both in favor and against arbitration as a means of settling business-related human rights disputes. The provisions of the Hague Rules are addressed in detail, particularly where default rules where tailored to better respond to the needs of human rights disputes. The paper concludes with an assessment of arbitration’s potential to ensure protection and enforcement of human rights in international business and reflects whether the Rules are robust enough to empower victims in this endeavor.

Role of big data and social media analytics for business to business sustainability: A participatory web context

The digital transformation is an accumulation of various digital advancements, such as the transformation of the web phenomenon. The participatory web that allows for active user engagement and gather intelligence has been widely recognised as a value add tool by organisations of all shapes and sizes to improve business productivity and efficiency. However, its ability to facilitate sustainable business-to-business (B2B) activities has lacked focus in the business and management literature to date. This qualitative research is exploratory in nature and fills this gap through findings arising from interviews of managers and by developing taxonomies that highlight the capability of participatory web over passive web to enable different firms to engage in business operations. For this purpose, two important interrelated functions of business i.e. operations and marketing have been mapped against three dimensions of sustainability. Consequently, this research demonstrates the ability of big data and social media analytics within a participatory web environment to enable B2B organisations to become profitable and remain sustainable through strategic operations and marketing related business activities. The research findings will be useful for both academics and managers who are interested in understanding and further developing the business use of participatory web tools to achieve business sustainability. Hence, this may be considered as a distinct way of attaining sustainability.

The Competition Neutrality in Malaysia Challenges and Policy Options

Competition law (CL) prevents anti-competitive conducts but does not ensure fair competition or level playing field with respect to State-Owned enterprises (SOEs). Hence, the principle of competitive neutrality promotes that government related business activities in competition with the private sector should not have a competitive advantage or disadvantage simply by virtue of government ownership and control (UNCTAD). Therefore, specific policies and legal rules is essential for achieving competitive neutrality. The Malaysian, Competition Act 2010 (CA2010) subjectively restricts and excludes some government linked enterprises. However, the some economic or, legal policy and political reasons limits CLs applicability and dictates its scope subjectively. In these context exemptions, de facto or de jure, direct or indirect state aid and restrictive licensing requirements impairs competition to benefit the domestic economy or national champion. This practice impacts the true spirit of market competition among rivals. Although Malaysian SOEs recognised as government’s toolbox for societal and public value creation but its future should to be more actively owned and managed to avoid competing unfairly on enterprises that can deliver more efficiently and effectively the goods and services that citizens need and want. In this context, three principal questions from the international trade perspective is analysed on (1) How important is state ownership within Malaysian context (2) What types of advantages should be granted to SOEs (or disadvantages afflicting them) and (3) What policies required to enhance effective competition among all market participants? The paper reviews the state of SOE with respect to exemptions and exclusions policy with respect to governance, independent decision-making, accountability and disclosure policy to improvise the level playing scope between SOE and private sector within the competition law perspective in Malaysia.

Foreign Direct Investment in Real Estate and Related Business Services:Poland vs OECD Countries​

Poland has experienced a relatively large inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the last two decades. FDI has been flowing mainly into services and manufacturing similarly to the trend observed in global capital movement. Within the services, the financial intermediation played the biggest role in terms of attracting FDI, but real estate and related business activities (legal, accounting, auditing, tax, marketing, etc.) also saw a high inflow of foreign capital. The paper analyzes the evolution of inward FDI stock in Poland over the period 1998–2012 with a particular emphasis on real estate and related business activities. It also discusses how Poland differs in terms of sectoral decomposition in the services of inward FDI stock from other Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries representing both Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and advanced economies. Finally, the paper answers the question how Poland is performing relative to other OECD members in terms of FDI attractiveness.