Business Section Research Articles

MAKING SENSE OF CHINA'S ECONOMIC SLOWDOWN WITH THE FUTURE CONCERNS Authors

The motivation to drive study is to audit the variables having a beneficial budgetary effect in China discover the purposes for the subsequent cash related rest from the point of view of the New-fangled Institutional Economics (NIE) than the Marxian believers. The past school was essentially worried over the motor of "source" (altering game measures for makers) to build financial yield and benefit, while they last for the most part imparts to Marxian worries over the driver of "interest" (a libertarian model of pay dissipating that is at the foundation of mass use) of expanding money related creation and supportability. NIEs stress that if an allowed and exposed market for examinations is made, China's can't continue with its cash related improvement or become a general centre point for mechanical movement or savvy introduction. Notwithstanding, this paper shows that the creation of a working business part for contemplations would not generally ensure the sensibility of budgetary improvement, drawing on the exercises of Japan's affiliation. This paper endorses that it takes quite a long while to make a working business section for insights that change into some other time of post-industrialization. Moreover, in the post-industrialization mastermind, quick thing creating is cultivated by solid test, in which doing combating firms animate the presentation of battling things into the marketplace, which might open ground-breaking firms to important powerlessness. Keywords: China, money related change, advanced communism, post-development. JEL Code: B12, F20, N15

Recruitment of scarce competences to rural regions: Policy perspectives

This paper studies the perceived difficulty of recruiting scarce competencies to rural regions. Furthermore, the role of policy in facilitating and enhancing recruitment to and better skills matching in rural regions is discussed. Based on a survey targeted to the business sections of Swedish municipalities, the results show that recruitment is perceived to be difficult in both rural and nonrural regions and that the difficulty of recruiting for the right skills results in a lack of skills matching and constitutes an obstacle to growth. Rural regions located close to urban areas can to some extent mitigate these recruitment problems, and their locations pose less of a barrier in recruitment processes compared to those of remotely located rural regions.Which policies can help remedy recruitment problems faced in rural regions? In both rural and nonrural regions, incentives for writing off student debt and relocation support for accompanying persons and tandem recruitment are perceived to be the most promising policies. Rural regions are more receptive to the implementation of such policies. Finally, the need for flexibility and policies that can be adapted to the regional demand for labour are stressed.

Editors Construct the Renaissance Canon, 1825—1915. By Paul Salzman

Contrary to its title, Paul Salzman'sEditors Construct the Renaissance Canon is less about the construction of the canon than about the construction of individual nineteenth‐century editions, and some twentieth‐century ones. The canon in question is the English literary canon and the editors considered are for the most part English. Salzman sets out to remedy the neglect suffered by nineteenth‐century editors and to show that their work still has value, especially with regard to their capacious understanding of what constitutes a worthy object of literary editing and to the variety of their editorial approaches, all more or less displaced by the apparent singleness of the New Bibliographic method. The usefulness of the term Renaissance remains unexplained, as the book also features a discussion of the editing of Chaucer and of Restoration literature. While the task, because of its great ambition, may seem difficult to accomplish, the book is rather short. A brief introductory chapter (pp. 1‐6) states the aim of the book—to remedy the neglect—and lays out its structure, whereas the quick concluding chapter (pp. 133‐43) dwells on the implications the nineteenth‐century tradition might have for current editorial trends, particularly the editorial projects driven by the idea of an author's complete works. The rest of the book is divided into four parts (Chapters 2 to 5), each of which describes the work of an individual editor or a group of editors. The principle of organization is thus partly biographical and partly chronological. However, it is impossible to guess from the chapter titles, and sometimes from the chapters themselves, in what ways individual editors in fact helped construct the Renaissance canon of English literature. The second chapter is simply titled ‘Alexander Dyce’ (pp. 7‐41); the third does not name an editor, but it is mostly about James Orchard Halliwell and appears to be primarily interested in the construction of ‘a perfected Shakespeare text’ rather than the Renaissance canon (pp. 43‐81); the fourth is a densely populated one, with Alexander Grosart, Frederick J. Furnivall, Mary Cowden Clarke, Horace Howard Furness, and A. H. Bullen, who are broadly defined as ‘amateurs’ and ‘professionals’ working in the second half of the nineteenth century (pp. 83‐112). Those, like me, who might be guilty of thinking that all editors are either amateurs or professionals will learn from Chapter 5 that further distinctions are in order, for that chapter is concerned with ‘Scientific Professionals and Learned Amateurs’ (pp. 113‐32). The former are R. B. McKerrow and W. W. Greg, names almost too familiar to students of English editing, while the latter is Montague Summers, an editor of Restoration literature whose most memorable if hardly flattering description in this book comes from Vita Sackville‐West's letter to her husband written after she had lunch ‘with the priest’: ‘Dressed in black, hung with amethyst crosses and bits of jet, black suede shoes, fat white hands, a fat dimpled face, oiled black curls, very carefully disposed—he is just like a Lely’ (p. 130). The portrait is so striking—and so expressive of Summers's devotion to things Catholic, medieval, and occult—that his success as an editor of Aphra Behn and of various Restoration dramatists forms but a curious background, like a tiny but busy section of some Renaissance painting. As such, it is symptomatic of Salzman's own method, according to which Halliwell's scrapbooks deserve twenty pages, but Furness (who on p. 103 is also called Furnivall) and his great American variorum is given only four and a half. In fact, Furness himself adopted the scrapbook method, but unlike Halliwell he refrained from destroying Renaissance books and was content to treat so only his editorial predecessors. This was not simply an early experiment in Furness's editorial career (cf. p. 103); it was the way in which he went about editing Shakespeare, as the volumes preserved in the Furness collection at Penn abundantly show. In terms of editorial method, then, Halliwell and Furness would have made great chapter companions.

The Level of Diversification on the Firms of the Iberian Market

It is a fact that a company’s durability may depend on its capacity to readjust to a world in continuous change. Diversification strategies should be a security device, reduce the risk, and at the same time, search for possible profitable opportunities. Therefore, when a diversified firm follows one of its business sections and realizes that the performance is worse than foreseen, this negative impact may be diminished by other segments with better performance. Contextually, the current study aims to determine a correlation between value and corporate diversification in the Iberian market. We use Tobin’s Q as the measure for value and the Herfindahl Index to measure diversification. In addition to the study of correlation, this paper also analyses the level of diversification for the firms that integrate the Iberian market and if their market value is above or below their book value. Using these metrics, we found a negative correlation between value and diversification in the Iberian Market. In our sample, we also found that highly diversified firms performed worse than focused firms on average. In the Portuguese sample, we were able to determine the level of diversification that maximizes the Tobin’s Q of a firm. According to Tobin's Q, our sample was characterized by a low level of diversification in general and that the companies were slightly overvalued.

Mitigating the effect of shipping on freshwater cetaceans: The case study of the Yangtze finless porpoise

Shipping has increasingly become a major threat to cetaceans due to its direct effect (e.g. ship strikes) and indirect effects (e.g. noise and habitat displacement). Most previous studies have focused on the deleterious effects of shipping traffic on marine species, while the effect of shipping on freshwater cetaceans has received little attention. The Yangtze River is a major trade artery in China, and shipping traffic there caused deaths of the now-extinct Yangtze river dolphin or baiji (Lipotes vexillifer). Here, we examine the distributional overlap of another cetacean species, the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise (Neophocoena asiaorientalis asiaorientalis) and cargo ships in a busy section of Yangtze River from Ezhou to Zhenjiang City. We use vessel-based survey data from 2006, 2012, and 2017 to quantify the distribution of porpoise. We use satellite images to quantify the distribution of cargo vessels travelling upstream. Most porpoise were concentrated within 300 m of the river banks. Shipping increased by 65% from 2006 to 2017, and ~ 60% of the upstream vessels was also within 300 m of the banks. This increase in shipping may have caused an observed shift in porpoise distribution away from the banks after 2006. Enhanced enforcement of existing shipping regulations that limit vessels to established shipping lane and set refuges in the side channels could help reduce the distributional overlap of porpoise and ships and aid in porpoise conservation. This could be applied and benefit the cetacean conservation under continued growth of shipping in rivers.

Business Articles and Section in the World Leading Jaw-Face Reconstruction Journals

Business Articles and Section in the World Leading Jaw-Face Reconstruction Journals

An Automated Detection Framework for Multiple Highway Bottleneck Activations

Highway bottlenecks are responsible for the majority of traffic congestion. Although the problem of bottleneck detection is not new, contemporary methods have not solved the problem thoroughly with regards to bottleneck locations, activation time, and related congestion tracking. These elements are essential for identifying and characterizing a bottleneck. This paper proposes a comprehensive framework for detecting and extracting these features of highway bottlenecks from traffic data. We particularly focus on questions (i) whether a bottleneck is the primary source of congestion or (ii) whether it is activated due to congestion caused by another downstream bottleneck. The underlying principles of the proposed method include the detection of congestion (in spatio-temporal patterns of traffic congestion), and the detection of speed discontinuities in traffic data (since this is an important indicator of a bottleneck activation). The method is data-driven and automatic therefore can be easily applied to different highways and used to obtain meaningful statistics of existing bottlenecks. We have tested the method on simulated data and also demonstrated it on real data from a busy highway section in the Netherlands. The results suggest that the method is robust to different implementations, i.e. locations, of loop-detectors which measure traffic at discrete locations.

Planning for the Next Pandemic: A Global, Interoperable System of Contact Tracing

Planning for the Next Pandemic: A Global, Interoperable System of Contact Tracing John Palfrey (bio) and Urs Gasser (bio) This article was contributed to Forum—the edition’s portfolio of thematic content—by GJIA’s Business & Economics section. The list of ways in which human beings have done poorly in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic is long and growing.1 Of the many shortcomings in our global response to the COVID-19 pandemic, our failure to coordinate efforts across geographic areas, within and between countries, ranks near the top of the list. Much of the blame can be placed at the feet of national governments. The federal government of the United States, for instance, refused to take full responsibility for the health and well-being of a nation’s people, deferring major decisions to the states in some cases and obscuring the truth in others. Some US governors and mayors have stepped up in their respective jurisdictions, but they lacked the mechanisms by which to coordinate what states, cities, towns, and regions are doing to stop the spread of disease. Around the world, few true global leaders emerged to address the crisis; the international institutions established to handle this type of work, including the World Health Organization, faced funding cuts when states should have been tripping over one another to fund and support them properly.2 We have learned, yet again, that there is no way forward during a pandemic such as the COVID-19 crisis of 2020 without a massive, well-coordinated testing regime plus a system of contact tracing, absent a widely distributed vaccine and prior to herd immunity. To keep people safe while getting everyone back to work and the economy running again, the testing and tracing systems need to work within and across geographic and political boundaries.3 Widespread testing is an absolutely necessary starting point.4 During the COVID-19 pandemic, there were too few reliable tests, they were poorly distributed, and cost and availability problems meant that there were terrible inequities in terms of who could take advantage of the benefits of testing in the United States and around the world. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States, among many others, called for greater accessibility and more affordable access to testing.5 While a sound national strategy would be helpful, ramped up testing can presumably be managed locally and regionally.6 Unlike testing, contact tracing, by its nature, needs to be coordinated across geographic and political boundaries. Some number of people will travel outside their hometown, state, or country either as the pandemic is breaking or later in its spread. It is not enough to be able to track and trace a person within a limited jurisdiction. [End Page 5] It became clear very quickly that there was no coordination of contact tracing systems during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. This absence of coordination was one of the most glaring failures in a year characterized by many glaring failures in the public health system. What’s worse: despite the experiences of this year, we are in no way prepared to carry out an effective system of contact tracing in our deeply interconnected world. We learned during the COVID-19 pandemic that we are a long way from having systems that can work together to protect the public health while protecting individual privacy across the board. Even Pope Francis commented in an encyclical on our failure to coordinate in the interest of public health: “Aside from the different ways that various countries responded to the crisis, their inability to work together became quite evident. For all our hyper-connectivity, we witnessed a fragmentation that made it more difficult to resolve problems that affect us all.”7 While the system of contact tracing does not need to be the same in every area—and probably should not be the same everywhere, even within a region such as the European Union (EU)—the approaches we adopt need to be interoperable. That is to say, we will need a mechanism for the data to be shared from place to place and for the essential knowledge to flow from jurisdiction to jurisdiction...

Priority sector lending in India: Revisiting the issue under new guidelines of RBI

The banking sector plays a vital role in the development of the economy and the role of bank credit in economic development cannot be neglected. For removal of poverty and equitable distribution of income, various credit arrangements have been arranged by RBI off and on and one of them is Priority Sector Lending. In Priority Sector Lending, credit is given to those sectors which are creditworthy and contribute to the national product of an economy but not able to perform well due to lack of finance. Priority sector includes agriculture, MSMEs, educational loans, housing loans, export credit, social infrastructure, small business, and weaker sections of the society, etc. RBI issues various guidelines from time to time to do the financial inclusion in these sectors, in the same line, new guidelines have been issued by RBI on September 4, 2020. In the present study, we have discussed various changes that have been done in priority Sector lending as per the new guidelines. Major problems faced by the priority sector have also been discussed.

Buenos Aires in 1949

Large cities are often spoken of as being “international,” but I suppose that Buenos Aires must be the most truly international city in the world. Its population—at any rate in the business section...

Occurrence of the rare plant Sternbergia colchiciflora in an urban environment

In this paper, we report a remarkable population of the rare plant Sternbergia colchiciflora found along a busy road section in the downtown of county seat Veszprém (W-Hungary). The population contains at least 7000 individuals and spreads across fifteen grassy traffic islands. Regarding the position of individuals, their relative distance from the road/sidewalk within the traffic islands differed significantly from a hypothetical uniform distribution, with higher number of individuals situated close to the island edges than expected by chance. Besides this rare bulbous plant, several other dry grassland specialist plant species were also found in these habitat patches, e.g., Astragalus austriacus, Festuca rupicola, Filipendula vulgaris, Muscari neglectum, Petrorhagia saxifraga, Potentilla arenaria, Ranunculus illyricus, Salvia nemorosa, Sanguisorba minor, Teucrium chamaedrys, Thesium linophyllon, Verbascum phoeniceum and Vinca herbacea. The origin of these dry grassland plants in this highly disturbed urban environment is uncertain; possibly, they were introduced ca. 15 years ago in the course of earthworks during the construction of the road. Recent management (frequent and motorized lawn mowing) seems to favor the Sternbergia colchiciflora, while the habitat is currently not directly threatened. Unfortunately, the potential for local conservation appears to be highly limited.

Correction to: Special Section of Familial Organizations and International Business: Individual, Organizational and Institutional Variety in and beyond Asia

The following articles are intended for inclusion in the Special Section on Familial Organizations and International Business: Individual, Organizational and Institutional Variety in and beyond Asia. These were however published in a separate issue, Volume 37 Issue 1.

Collaborating With NPs and PAs: Best Practices for Comanagement of Patient Care

Collaborating With NPs and PAs: Best Practices for Comanagement of Patient Care

Building the Great Recession News Corpus (GRNC): A contemporary diachronic corpus of economy news in English

The paper describes the process involved in developing the Great Recession News Corpus (GRNC); a specialized web corpus, which contains a wide range of written texts obtained from the Business section of The Guardian and The New York Times between 2007 and 2015. The corpus was compiled as the main resource in a sentiment analysis project on the economic/financial domain. In this paper we describe its design, compilation criteria and methodological approach, as well as the description of the overall creation process. Although the corpus can be used for a variety of purposes, we include a sentiment analysis study on the evolution of the sentiment conveyed by the word credit during the years of the Great Recession which we think provides validation of the corpus.

Extracting the Mediation Model of Perceived Organizational Support in the Relationship between HRM Practices and Organizational Commitment of Bankers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan): A Review Paper

Human resource management is one of the necessary tools of todays modern organizations. Businesses without a trained and skillful human resource (HR) are far left behind in competition and market share. The fundamental role of HR and human resource systems are to hunt, hire and train professionals for different business structures and sections. Without proper and professional team of human resource, organizations simply become machines and thus do not survive in the long run. This paper has been designed to review the existing literature available on HRM practices, organizational commitment, perceived organizational support and demographic attributes to extract the mediation model.

On the Determinants of the Okun’s Law: New Evidence from Time-Varying Estimates

This paper revisits, by means of both time series and panel data analyses, the empirical regularity identified by Okun’s (in: Proceedings of the business and economics statistics section, American Statistical Association, Washington, DC, 98–103, 1962) seminal paper. Based on a sample of 85 advanced and developing economies between 1978 and 2014, we confirm the existence of an average negative and statistically significant Okun’s relationship. At the same time, results suggest that the relation varies substantially across countries and times. Finally, we identify several factors affecting the variation in Okun’s coefficient across and within countries. Across countries, the relationship is stronger in countries with higher average unemployment, a larger share of public employment, lower informality and smaller agricultural sectors, and one that is more diversified. Within countries, in addition to some of these factors, we find that deregulation in labor and product markets and recessions have strengthened the response of unemployment to the business cycle.

Voice of the Customer: Creating Client Centered Cultures in Accounting Firms for Retaining Clients and Increasing Profitability

Client satisfaction and retention books line the shelves of library business sections and are frequently the subjects at conferences and online blogs. The relationship between client satisfaction and profitability is often assumed, yet not prioritized or measured. Instead, industries and companies are continuously developing new clients by selling their goods and services. The ability to compete simply on product or service no longer exists, and with the evolution of technology, customers are continuously inundated with noise. However, one could argue the greatest voice to take cues from is that of the client – meeting their needs and solving their problems. Using a case comparison method, we found that a combination of voice of the client (VoC) and “Kaizen” leads to higher levels of client satisfaction and retention levels in accounting firms.

ANALIZA CZASU TRWANIA NA RYNKU NA PRZYKŁADZIE PRZEDSIĘBIORSTW Z WOJEWÓDZTWA MAZOWIECKIEGO

Praca poświęcona jest analizie czasu trwania przedsiębiorstw na rynku. Próbę badawczą stanowiła obserwowana przez 10 lat kohorta firm z województwa mazowieckiego, które rozpoczęły działalność w 2007 r. Wykorzystano niepara–metryczne oraz parametryczne metody analizy przeżycia,w tym modele hazardu. Zwrócono również uwagę na problem cenzurowania danych. Wyniki uzyskane w obu podejściach są zbieżne. Zauważono, że największe ryzyko zakończenia działalności występuje pomiędzy 2 a 5 rokiem istnienia firmy. Istotny wpływ na czas trwania przedsiebiorstw mają takie czynniki jak siedziba, forma własności, a także sekcja działalności według PKD.

Inventory and Ratio Analysis

Inventories are rough materials, work-in-process items and completely finished product that are seen as the section of business' points of interest that are arranged or will be readied accessible to be obtained. Itemizing a sensible stock model is one of the genuine stresses for an industry. The most timely intelligent stock organization explores return to the second decade of the earlier century, anyway the eagerness for this legitimate area is up 'til now mind boggling. There is distinctive stock control technique, for instance, Economic solicitation sum, reorder point, security blend, etc. [1],[ 3],[5] Stock is the most ludicrous assets of a collecting association. Stock decisions honestly impact the estimation of cost of product sold and in this way expect a fundamental employment in choosing the declared pay of an association. As needs be, a serious examination of stock valuation and related records can give a reason to looking over the budgetary position of a firm. [2 ],[ 4],[6] Fixed assets generally called generous assets or property, plant and equipment, is a term used in speaking to assets and property that can just with critical exertion be changed over into cash. This can be differentiated and current assets, for instance, cash or budgetary adjusts, which are depicted commercial liquid assets. Guideline speaking, simply significant assets are implied as fixed. Also, a fixed/non-current asset can moreover be described as a bit of leeway not really offered to an organization's clients/end-customers. Fixes assets are planned for use for quite a while. The estimation of these favorable circumstances decreases with their use or with time or various reasons..

Analysis of Big Data in Healthcare Applications

As of late, tremendous fields of sorted out, unstructured, and semi-composed data have been made by various foundations around the world and this heterogeneous data all in all implied as enormous data. The prosperity business section has been portrayed by the need to manage the enormous data being made by various sources, which are remarkable for conveying high volumes of heterogeneous data. Distinctive huge data examination gadgets and frameworks have been created for dealing with these monstrous proportions of data, in the human administrations portion. This paper discusses the impact of gigantic data in human administrations, and various gadgets accessible in the Hadoop organic framework for dealing with it. We furthermore explore the hypothetical plan of colossal data examination for social protection which incorporates the data gathering history of different branches, the genome database, electronic prosperity records, content/imagery and clinical decisions sincerely steady system