Business Scene Research Articles

Start-Ups: Importance and Role in the Economy

This paper examines the importance and the role that start-ups play in securing the future economic growth and development of a society, thereby concluding that Albania must do a lot more to afford start-ups the right and favorable environment for their flourishment. Start-ups are a relatively late comer to the Albania’s innovation and business scene, and this definitely has a bearing on its development endeavors. As of today, Albania has about 88 start-ups per 1 million inhabitants, whereas the European Union average is of 250 start-ups per 1 million inhabitants. The paper takes a close look at the theoretical foundation and functioning of start-ups by referring to the most prominent studies conducted worldwide, as well as to their importance and role in generating economic growth and development by looking at various indicators, such as enticing industry disruptions, spurring innovation, encouraging investments, enhancing competition, offering new products and services, growing markets, job creation, etc. Received: 2 June 2024 / Accepted: 25 July 2024 / Published: 29 July 2024

Online Job Portal

This investigation paper looks at the rise and advancement of online work entries and their noteworthy effect on the business scene. With the expansion of web utilization all-inclusive, online work entries have gotten to be instrumental in interfacing work searchers with bosses, streamlining the enlistment handle, and encouraging the coordination between ability and openings. The paper investigates the history, usefulness, and key highlights of online work entries, as well as their part in tending to different challenges in conventional work strategies. Besides, it dives into the innovative headway and developments driving the ceaseless advancement of these stages, such as manufactured insights, machine learning, and information analytic. Also, the paper examines the benefits and downsides related to online work entrances from both work seekers' and employers' viewpoints, along with future patterns and potential headings for inquiries about and advancement in this field. Key Words: online work entrances, business, enrollments, innovation, manufactured insights, machine learning, information analytic, work searchers, managers, patterns.

Outsourced Facility Management (OFM) Services to Creating Global Competitiveness

In a time of increasing globalization and fierce competition in the market, being competitive has become essential for companies in a variety of sectors. Providers of Outsourced Facilities Management (OFM) services, which include everything from space management to security and maintenance, are essential in helping businesses streamline their operations and concentrate on their core business. The strategic value of outsourcing Facilities Management services is gaining more attention and adaption as the business landscape gets complicated and complex. This increased adoption of the OFM services creates opportunities thus resulting in the presence of both local and global players in this industry. Local outsourced facilities management service providers are encountering a progressively competitive market in today’s business scene. To assess and improve the competitiveness of local OFM service providers fighting to gain market shares against global industry giants, this study explores the idea of critical success factors (CSFs). CSFs stand for those critical areas in which a company must succeed to meet its objectives and beat out rivals. CSFs are essential for comprehending the unique factors that allow local OFM service providers to not only endure but also prosper in a complex network of markets. Additionally, local outsourced facilities management services providers must evaluate their abilities, performance, and competitiveness in comparison to well-established global facilities management leaders that are present in the country. By comparing with these industry giants, local suppliers can establish a baseline and initiate research to gain useful insights, direction, and positioning. This will help them improve their global competitiveness and survival at least at the local industry level. This study examines the rationale for comparing a local supplier against the industry’s critical success factors (CSF) with global companies and emphasizes the potential advantages gained from conducting such a comparison. Keywords: competitiveness, outsourced facility management, property management, critical success factors, integrated facility management

The Impact and Integration of Artificial Intelligence in Human Resource Management: A Middle Eastern Perspective

This big study looks into how Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human Resource Management (HRM) connect in the Middle East. In the area where technology is changing very quickly, the study wants to find out how AI integration is changing HR practices in this place. The main part of the study is carefully created surveys for HR people and experts in AI/CS. These aim to find out how AI is used now, what more can be done with it, and ethical questions around its use in HRM. The main results show that AI is drastically making human resources jobs like hiring new workers, managing their paychecks, and checking their performance easier. This lets people working in HR avoid boring tasks and concentrate on big roles. The study also looks into the problems and limits that come with using AI. These include thinking about what's right, keeping your data secret, and needing a human link in HR jobs. This study is very important because it looks at how AI makes HR better. It also shows the careful mix needed between using new technology and keeping people in mind. It gives a future outlook on how AI can change HRM in the Middle Eastern business scene. It offers helpful information for both people who work there and those studying it.

Cross-ownership in the banking system in Vietnam

The banking industry is an important component of the economy, contributing significantly to economic development and national growth. A sustainable and effective banking system will bring many benefits to the economy, minimizing disadvantages to society and the environment. The banking sector in Vietnam is currently undergoing comprehensive restructuring efforts aimed at enhancing operational efficiency and ensuring safety and sustainable development within the context of economic integration. While cross-ownership is deemed normal in economies reliant on credit, the situation in Vietnam is complicated by underdeveloped inspection and supervision activities. This raises concerns about the potential negative impacts of cross-ownership on the overall efficiency of the economy, with particular emphasis on its ramifications for the banking and financial sector. In this paper, we aim to explore the complex world of cross-ownership, taking a closer look at how it's influencing the global business scene and, more importantly, shaping the banking sector in Vietnam. Our focus is on unraveling the various aspects of cross-ownership, understanding its prevalence worldwide, and delving into the implications it holds

Barbie - od przedmiotu do rzeczy

Barbie, the doll-symbol, the pop culture icon and significant prop on the artistic, political, social and business scenes, has been arousing emotions in subsequent generations for several decades. It is worth noting, however, that today Barbie is no longer just a passive instrument illustrating desired ideas, but has become a factor creating reality independent of her creators. In the present discussion, the author focuses on the interpretation of the phenomenon of Barbie perceived as an object and a thing in the sense of the Italian philosopher Remo Bodei. The article attempts to trace the transformation of the image of the Barbie doll from its creation to modern times, when its popularity peaked thanks to the excellent marketing strategy accompanying the distribution of Greta Gerwing’s 2023 film Barbie.

Impoliteness Strategies Used by the Baroness in the Movie Cruella

This study aims to find out the types of impoliteness strategies and the similarities and differences of the impoliteness strategies used by the Baroness, an antagonistic character with an impressive background, toward Estella and Cruella in the movie Cruella. The theoretical framework used is Culpeper’s (1996, 2005) and Bousfield’s (2008) impoliteness strategy. This study employed a qualitative approach. The writers collected and analyzed the Baroness’ utterances to her subordinate, Estella, and to her business rival, Cruella, during the business scenes. The Baroness used all six types of impoliteness strategies to Estella, namely: bald on record impoliteness, positive impoliteness, negative impoliteness, sarcasm/mock politeness, withhold politeness, and off-record impoliteness. On the contrary, the Baroness only used four out of six types of impoliteness strategies to Cruella, specifically excluding: negative impoliteness and withhold politeness. The Baroness’ background and personality, as well as the interlocutor’s own background, might have influenced the findings of the study.

“A STUDY ON CUSTOMER PERCEPTION TOWARDS SERVICE SATISFACTION AT GIRIAS INVESTMENT PVT LTD BENGALURU”

This research looks on client opinions and their influence on service satisfaction in the setting of Girias Inestment Pvt Ltd, a well-known retail company. Understanding client perspectives and their accompanying levels of contentment has become critical for long-term success in today's competitive business scene. The major goal of this dissertation study is to investigate the multiple factors that create customer views of Girias Pvt Ltd's services and to examine the manner in which those impressions influence general customer contentment.

Impact of Digital Technologies on Business Performance in Serbia

Research Question: The main goal of the study was to investigate the degree to which Serbian businesses accept and use digital technologies as part of the digital business transformation process. Motivation: The main aim was to research the specific determinants of the digital economy, digital technology and digital business transformation. Through an empirical analysis, digital technologies were classified as primary and secondary and the motive was to examine whether digital technologies affect revenue growth, productivity improvement, increase in market share, customer satisfaction and employee satisfaction, reduction in operating costs, development and use of digital products, digital market expansion and digital platform development. Idea: The main idea behind the study was to determine to what extent the said technologies are employed in Serbian businesses, as well as to develop a model of the impact of digital technologies on business performance, which may serve as a basis for further research. Data: The research was conducted from October 2020 to March 2021. A questionnaire was sent to over 500 email addresses of Serbian companies, and 98 questionnaires were filled in and duly returned. We displayed the most important characteristics of our sample and that way pointed out its randomness and representativeness and explained the choice of data analytics methods we use. Tools: The research instrument was a questionnaire including the general information (Part I). Part II included the question regarding the primary and secondary digital technologies used in their daily business activities. In Part III, the participants were required to state the specific outcomes their company expects to obtain as a result of digital business transformation. Findings: Mobile technologies, social networks and cloud computing were found to be dominantly employed technologies by the Serbian businesses from the sample. In percentage terms, the second class of disruptive technologies was shown to be insignificantly present in the Serbian companies. Finally, it appears that the role and importance of robotics and artificial intelligence have started to be recognised on the business scene. There is a significant impact of digital technologies on business performances, and we also give correlations between specific digital technologies and business performances, and intensity and statistical significance of impact in each case. We have also determined that some significant technologies make a latent, indirect impact on performances and shown the way that occurs. The analysis is performed after standardizing the ordinal scale values of variables making the results more accurate. Contribution: The paper provides the state of affairs regarding digital technologies use by Serbian businesses, as well as that of digital business transformation.

Indonesian Culinary Application System Design with UML Method

Indonesia has an important role as a country that produces various high-quality culinary items. Indonesia, with its plethora of natural resources and cultural diversity, can generate a wide range of culinary goods, including traditional foods and beverages as well as modern culinary inventions. Natural and cultural potentials are the foundation for the development of exceptional food and beverages in a country manufacturing culinary products. However, numerous issues with marketing are not global enough, even though Indonesian culinary items should be able to compete with well-known food products. Information technology and the internet have altered the culinary business scene in Indonesia, making it easier for local culinary products to obtain worldwide market share. This article investigates how the existence of information technology and the internet has opened up new avenues for Indonesian culinary manufacturers to broaden their marketing reach. Indonesian culinary items can now be accessed by consumers worldwide via an online platform, removing geographical barriers and presenting substantial economic growth possibilities. This study created an application system to advertise culinary products, with the first steps focusing on designing application systems. The Unified Modeling Language technique is used to create the culinary application system. This procedure aids in visualizing the system's structure, and interactions deployment. As a result, development teams and stakeholders have a more structured design and a better grasp of the system. Unified Modeling Language is quickly becoming a valuable tool for supporting thorough collaboration and documentation in application development.

Surveillance detection of anomalous activities with optimized deep learning technique in crowded scenes

The performance of conventional surveillance systems is challenged by high error detection rates in busy scenes, which has significantly affected the accurate detection of the current surveillance system. Feature representation and object pattern extraction from different scenes have made deep learning (DL) promising methods in surveillance systems, compared to the approaches where features are created manually. To improve the detection accuracy, this paper presents an intelligent DL technique that combines convolutional neural network (CNN) and long short-term memory (LSTM). CNN extracts and learns the object features from a set of raw images, while the LSTM is then used by gated mechanisms to store important information from the extracted features. The proposed method was validated using datasets from the University of California San Diego (UCSD). The result shows that the model achieves 95% accuracy, which is superior compared to other conventional detection models.

მონაცემთა ცენტრის მომავალი, მისი დადებითი და უარყოფითი მხარეები

Why are more and more large and mid-sized organizations now considering data center outsourcing? Are the pros of IT outsourcing overblown? Or do organizations want to embrace the trend for the financial and operational advantages that data center management outsourcing offers? Unfortunately, a simple yes or no will not be enough to answer the above questions. According to a recent survey of Fortune 500 companies by Forbes, most IT companies now prefer IT outsourcing over in-house data center operations due to the advantages that data center outsourcing offers. This includes minimal operational costs, better utilization of infrastructure, access to servers and compute/storage on demand, etc. Before you decide to outsource your data center, carefully research your options, analyze your business prospects, and conduct a careful examination of your assets, budgets, and requirements. Carefully evaluating the pros and cons of data center outsourcing and how it might affect your business is something you should consider before signing an outsourcing contract. Data centers are critical to today's business scene. Although their demands have always been on an upward trajectory, the situation created by the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed it further. Like all other segments in and around IT, data center technologies are rapidly changing to achieve a highly optimized and efficient system. Therefore, it is very important for you as a business owner to stay up to date with each of these technological changes and trends. After all, they are going to create the future of data centers. Advances in technology will help the overall performance of the data center. Predictive analytics tools can help security and real-time monitoring teams spot potential problems early and fix them before they impact operational performance. Data center AI can highlight areas that could work more efficiently, such as cooling or power consumption. Thus, data center composability means creating resources that can work with many different systems. Instead of dedicated or narrow-use resources providing only one service, data centers should use resource pools that can contribute to the deployment of different types of workloads, such as storage, networking, or server equipment. Likewise, the implementation of composite resources helps to avoid locked capacity in the data center, thereby improving efficiency and throughput. Above all, digital transformation will enable data centers to deliver additional value to customers. Edge computing will help providers run low-latency workloads with end users, while software virtualization will create more budget-friendly options for multiple workloads. As private and public clouds combine to create more flexible and robust hybrid cloud deployments, companies will leverage technology to do more with less.

Factors Affecting Employee Readiness to Change in Construction State-Owned Enterprises

In recent years, there have been companies that were initially successful, then lost in competition and even disappeared from the business scene, even though the company was once known to be innovative in new products. The company's defeat was not due to simply failing to compete with competitors from similar industries but by new companies that created new businesses and markets. Organizational change is a continuous and dynamic process. Change cannot be stopped once a change initiative has been implemented. Change always occurs because the environment changes. The biggest actors in organizational transformation are people because an organization's most affected members are employees. Construction company management believes change must be planned, controlled, and directed as part of organizational life. One form of change is now experienced in implementing digital technology, which can be combined with other technologies. This research is used to examine construction companies in Indonesia, with limitations on facilitative leadership and job security towards readiness to change, psychological capital mediators and organizational support moderators. The design is cross-sectional, with primary data collection on construction companies, and the research methodology is a Structural Equation Model (SEM) from Lisrel. Findings based on five indicators, i.e. facilitative leadership, job security, psychology capital, readiness change, organizational support, GFI = 0.85 < 0.90 (marginal), CFI =0.98 > 0.90 (fit), NFI = 0.97 > 0.90 (fit), NNFI = 0.98 > 0.90 (fit) and RMSEA = 0.096 < 0.08 (marginal). This capability enables construction companies to do business in the digital modular field and simplify the construction process. By mastering various technologies, construction companies can work with many parties in project work and investment offers.

Maria Czaplicka: Gender, Shamanism, Race [Maria Czaplicka: Płeć, szamanizm, rasa; Biografia antropologiczna

Maria Czaplicka: Gender, Shamanism, Race [Maria Czaplicka: Płeć, szamanizm, rasa; Biografia antropologiczna

Marketing Tactics Underlying Scenes: Viewers’ Purchase Motivations in Li Jiaqi’s Live Streaming

Based on Joshua Meyrowitz’s media situation theory and Halliday’s functional grammar, this paper takes Li Jiaqi’s live streaming of “55 cost-effective festivals” on May 5, 2022, as its research object to explore the scene’s construction tactics and anchor’s influence on scenes construction. By doing this, it intends to reveal the hidden marketing tactics in live streaming for the sake of helping viewers to be more rational in the process of watching live streaming and providing certain reference values for those who want to enter this industry. This paper aims to address the following two questions: 1) What types of scenes are constructed in the process of live streaming? 2) How the anchor influences the scene construction? The results show that 1) four scene types are found in Li Jiaqi’s live streaming, namely, virtual online consumption scene; artificially presupposed usage scene; real-time interaction scene, and elaborate business scene in which relevant marketing tactics are used wisely; 2) the anchor relies on his personal style, personas, and narrative methods to affect scene construction. Through the analysis of these scenes and the anchor’s influence, this paper finds that by right of grasping viewers’ attention and enhancing their trust and narrowing the distance between each other, Li Jiaqi successfully influences viewers’ purchase motivations, then a sales purpose is achieved.

Interviews with 34 Japanese Leaders and Employees Reveal the Secrets of Success and Long-Term Survival of Japanese Companies

Japanese leadership style has encompassed worldwide success and criticism. For example, Toyota is an example of a leading and successful Japanese company in industry. With its new and creative ideas, this company was able to rebuild the marginalized image of Japanese cars in the international business scene and take a large share of the car market in the world. Our interviews with 34 Japanese leaders and employees and our observations as senior consultants in Japanese organizations have shown that the innovative and agile organization of these organizations minimizes inefficiencies in the two prominent areas of human resource and leadership development. However, a quote from a Japanese business leader posits that “non-Japanese employees of Japanese firms frequently mention the penchant that many Japanese managers have for public criticism. Whereas Americans would prefer to receive negative feedback in private, Japanese seem to prefer to give it in public. And in some cases, the negative feedback goes one step beyond into the realm of “chewing out,” or just plain yelling.” We identified 5 secrets of success and long-term Survival of Japanese companies. They are strategy, social capital, new competencies, leadership development and systems approach. Now we will look at the five secrets of the success of these organizations so that managers can use them.

Underutilized Tool of Project Management - Emotional Intelligence

Past exploration has ordinarily centered on particular credits that influence a pioneer's viability. This review, all things considered, takes a gander at whether the capacity to understand individuals on a deeper level conservatives the expected adverse consequence of disseminated presence on commitment and impact, and at last, pioneer viability. Buttressed by the capacity to understand individuals on a deeper level, commitment, and impact hypotheses, the exploration question zeroed in on how the ability to understand people on a profound level abilities moderate the effect of a task supervisor's disseminated presence to deliver the pioneer powerful. The review test for this examination came from willful members who work for a U.S. government organization involving pioneers co-situated with their groups and circulated presence pioneers. Distinct measurements showed that pioneers with higher ability to appreciate people on a profound level (EI) were more captivating and persuasive than co-found pioneers with high EI. Relapse examinations showed most noteworthy importance between the reliant factors — commitment and impact — and the free factors of dispersed presence and the ability to understand individuals on a deeper level while utilizing the capacity to appreciate people at their core branches and undertakings for the EI factors. Information from this study showed disseminated presence pioneers with high capacity to understand anyone on a profound level capacities impact commitment and impact decidedly. Crafted by this exploration propels bits of knowledge into how the ability to understand individuals on a deeper level impacts, emphatically, project pioneer commitment and impact when the undertaking chief's presence is dispersed. The information delivered by this examination was useful however just somewhat on the grounds that results were not adequately broad. In any case, the use of this study applies to the reasonable world as circulated groups is by all accounts a more long-lasting piece of the business scene than transitory, and figuring out how to all the more likely work as a venture supervisor with conveyed presence is fundamental for the two associations and task directors.

Digital transformation in Retail Industry

Radical changes in the business scene request that ventures relook their plans of action, include imaginative capacities, and plan to remember new goals. Getting by in an altogether veritable business network requirements other than the capacity to sell; searching for analyzing existing business structures for seeing bottlenecks, forming dynamically momentous structures for improving operational ability, and most blend of advances, approach and undertaking plans in the framework for the notable client experience. Purchasers have chosen to purchase decisions at the store, giving physical retailers extraordinary ability to get some answers concerning and sway practices and tendencies. With the ascent of web-based business, online shopping, and most as of late keen advancements, new contenders undermine this long-standing matchless quality. Accepting a value creation perspective, we separate how digitization started the breaking down institutional retailing as the basic interface to the customer. With individual shopping experience transforming into the best approach to improving customer experience, it is the perfect open door for retailers to move from ‘customer association’ with ‘ customer duty.’ Applications and corners are overriding pieces of the conventional shopping experience, calling for store conditions to advance. Furthermore, with a stretching out number of clients moving to online stages, retailers consider their essentials by prerequisite development models and improving shopping encounters overall touch-focuses and channels.

The Story of Che Minah Songket: The Family Business For Cultural And Heritage Economy

The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic a year ago was the trigger of various forms of reaction against individuals and business entities. Though its effects on the survival of businesses depend on the severity and prevalence of the contagion in each geographical location, firms may still face a variety of challenges due to the interdependencies between businesses and customers. Ayam Bismi is not spared the effects and pressures of this challenging situation. Even if the company is operating, as usual, it still needs to review its business operations and tailor them according to its current suitability and needs. This situation raises several questions: What are the issues faced by Ayam Bismi? More specifically, this case would demonstrate how the decisions of the government regarding the Movement Control Order (MCO) continued. This became a push factor for Jaffri Ahmad and Mazlina Kamarudin, the owners of Ayam Bismi, to carry out their usual business activities to sustain this enterprise in these challenging times. But as they were adjusting to the changing business scene and activities, they overlooked certain business issues, specifically the controlled price of chicken in the market, hence burdening the business with ever-constrained cash flows. It would be useful to document their experiences to illustrate the extent of their efforts to which the organization’s strategies were directly affected by the crisis, and how they made a difference to the continuity and viability of Ayam Bismi. Such a case, as well, could facilitate the development of certain steps to mitigate losses from the COVID-19 pandemic. These steps may also be applied outside of crises to bring additional benefits to other types of businesses too. ===== Case Teaching Strategy This case is rated medium to difficult; depending on how deep the analysis one wants to undertake. The case should be distributed to participants or students a few days before the discussion session takes place, and at least THREE HOURS should be allocated for the discussion and class activity. If desired, the initial discussion can be conducted in groups of THREE or FOUR participants/students and followed by a general class discussion. For students, the case study can be used for a long report in lieu of the traditional final exam. ==== Teaching note You do not currently have access to these teaching notes. Please email at geric@umk.edu.my if you require the teaching note. Teaching notes accompany case studies with suggested learning objectives, classroom methods, and potential assignment questions. They support dynamic classroom discussion to help develop student's analytical skill

An Overview of the Audiobook Marketplace in Spain

The general objective of this research is to analyze, through a descriptive methodology, the impact that audiobooks have on internal processes in the value chain of Spanish publishers. To this are added two more specific objectives related to answer the following questions: (a) how to include the agents of the audiobook in the publishing circuit?, and (b) is this new business model consolidated within the Spanish publishing sector? Through the analysis of the publishing circuit and the production flow chart, it is possible to observe not only the impact of the audiobook on the entire operational process of a publisher but the new actors in the publishing business scene. Based on the existing data on the audiobook business in Spain, the study concludes that today, the Spanish publishing sector has recently begun to perceive the economic potential of this sound format. The confinement by COVID-19 has led to a collateral effect on the production, marketing, and consumption of audiobooks, driven by the two large publishing groups that dominate the book market in Spain.