Competitive Entity Research Articles

Unveiling Indonesia's New Capital: A Digital Content Analysis of Tourism Narratives

This research investigates the role of digital narratives in promoting emerging destinations, with a focus on Indonesia's new capital (IKN). Utilizing the Digital Content Reviews and Analysis Framework, this study analyzed 248 digital posts, including social media posts and videos, to evaluate the effectiveness of tourism strategies that emphasize authentic cultural elements and unique regional attractions. The findings demonstrate that strategically crafted digital content significantly increases public awareness and interest in IKN. The analysis of 194 posts, through sentiment classification and toxicity scoring, reveals a predominantly positive public discourse, with an average toxicity score of 0.05541 and a maximum score of 0.90611. The sentiment classification model exhibited high accuracy (97.46% ± 3.00%) and precision (96.78% ± 4.17%), with a micro-average accuracy of 97.48%, and a notable AUC score of up to 0.999, indicating robust differentiation between positive and negative sentiments. These results underscore the practical implications of leveraging digital media to enhance tourism promotion strategies, suggesting that effective digital narratives, supported by comprehensive analytical frameworks and minimal toxicity, are crucial for converting interest into actual tourism activity. This approach positions IKN as a competitive entity in the global tourism market, emphasizing the importance of digital narratives in shaping international perceptions of new destinations.

FEATURES OF THE ORGANIZATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTING IN THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN

The successful functioning of any business entity in a complex and rapidly changing environment of the economy is determined by its competitiveness. A competitive entity is an organization that has a high value and demand for its products. Therefore, one of the most important conditions for business development and expansion is considered to be the correct accounting of environmental costs, along with the skillful Organization of the methodology for accounting for production costs and costing. This article reveals the need to study environmental accounting in modern conditions aimed at achieving the ultimate goal of any production in order to reduce the impact of environmental damage caused by industrial enterprises. The purpose of the article is to disclose the methodology of "environmental cost accounting", which reflects the relationship between economic costs and environmental protection costs, which allows ensuring the competitiveness and reliability of products. During the execution of the article, various research methods were used, including the dialectical approach, monographic research and graphic methods. The results and conclusions obtained from the study are highlighted by the degree of influence of companies on the effective organization of environmental activities of organizations, in addition to demonstrating the ability of companies to use rational methods of effective management of economic and environmental costs and the formation of cost. In the scientific article, the definition of the formation of the target cost is formulated, the importance and methods of environmental accounting are studied to determine the competitiveness of products and the impact of production on the environment.

Nature's Metaphorical Tapestry: Unravelling Green Discourse in Pakistani Newspapers in English through an Ecolinguistic Lens

Metaphors wield a profound influence on our cognitive processes and actions. This research investigates the nature metaphors embedded in Pakistani newspapers in English within the context of green discourse. It delves into an analysis of how metaphors shape our conceptualization of the environment by considering their multiplicity, duality, and cultural diversity. By employing Stibbe's stories model as a foundational framework and applying semi-automated corpus methods to achieve the research objectives, this study discerns prevalent metaphorical structures that portray nature as a competitive entity, a personified being, a mechanical construct, a interconnected web, and a valuable resource. This research advocates for adopting a more responsible use of metaphorical language by the media personnel to have a more harmonious relationship with nature.

Joint extraction of entities and relations via an entity correlated attention neural model

Named entity recognition and relation extraction are crucial tasks in natural language processing. As the traditional pipelined manners may suffer from the error propagation issue and ignore underlying interactions, joint extraction of entities and relations has become the dominant trend. However, the performance of existing joint extraction models needs improvement. This paper presents a two-stage tagging scheme that separately labels candidate head entities and multiple tail entities in specific relations. Next, it proposes a novel lightweight joint extraction neural model based on the entity-first labeling strategy. In the proposed model, the BiLSTM-based encoder combines the hidden state and global context features and feeds them as input for the next two entity labeling tasks. Further, with the input of the mixed context representation, the candidate-head-entity recognition module is adopted to identify the candidate head entity, while the multiple-tail-entities recognition module is equipped with an entity-correlated attention mechanism to identify the corresponding tail entity under a specific head entity. Comprehensive experiments on two widely used English datasets and one self-constructed Chinese dataset were performed. The experimental results showed that the proposed model outperformed the baseline approaches in the relation extraction task and achieved a competitive entity recognition effect via a lightweight architecture.

ВПЛИВ ПАНДЕМІЇ КОРОНАВІРУСУ НА МІЖНАРОДНУ ТОРГІВЛЮ ПОСЛУГАМИ

The article examines the features of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on international trade in services. International trade in services is an area that is developing extremely dynamically, in particular, there is a trend of informatization of services and their virtualization. Increasingly, the provision of services is becoming cross-border and taking place in cyberspace due to the development of information and telecommunications. The current state of peculiarities of Ukraine's foreign trade relations in the sphere of services is revealed. A characteristic aspect of international trade is the extraordinary development in the context of globalization and integration processes. The problematic aspects of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on international trade in services are highlighted. It is determined that the study of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on international trade in services is especially relevant. It is determined that international trade in services is an area that is developing extremely dynamically, and under the influence of the coronavirus pandemic, in 2020 there was a sharp decline in international trade, the most significant decline occurred in the second quarter of 2020. Ukraine’s position on the world market as a competitive entity that needs to strengthen and improve its position on international trade in services is highlighted. Important factors that influence the development of international trade in services are described. It has been determined that trade in services can be considered a component of world trade, which is most affected by the coronavirus due to the establishment of transport and tourism restrictions, the closure of many retail outlets and hotels. It is considered how individual entrepreneurs try to continue to work in quarantine without violating it, and rise in the field of online services. It has been determined that in Ukraine, ill-considered steps by the authorities through the coronavirus could trigger a social explosion among workers in the service sector and other industries, which will have much more devastating consequences for Ukraine than a pandemic. The forecasts for the recovery of Ukraine after the COVID-19 pandemic are described.

Towards a discourse and governmentality approach to spatial development – the case of inner city shopping centres

Using the example of the political-planning discourse on former plans to develop a large-scale shopping centre in the inner city of Mainz, the potential benefits of a discourse and governmentality approach to spatial research subjects is discussed. In particular, the discursive discursive mechanisms of inscribing an entrepreneurial and depoliticized conception of urban space into apparently neutral and objective techniques of spatial analysis are worked out. At the same time, this idea of urban space as a competitive entity determined by spatio-economic principles is challenged by competing conceptions of urban development focused on the conservation of place-specific structures of the built environment. Thus, the case study illustrates how discourse analysis can excavate the spatial knowledge structures guiding the management of contemporary urban development projects.

PAKISTAN INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES (PIA): REHABILITATING CORPORATE SICKNESS

Continuous improvement or development of all types of organizations is a mandatory element for the economic growth of any country. The fast-growing pace of the economy in the world results in the augmented competition and it sometimes leads to the problem of corporate or industrial sickness. This study aims to identify Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) sickness status and to devise the strategies by exploring revival or rehabilitating factors. The commonly used Altman’s Z-score graphs have been developed and analyzed to determine sickness of an opted entity from 2008 to 2016 and to explore the revival or rehabilitating factors, interviews from representatives (sampled using purposive sampling technique) of all selected departments of PIA have been taken through a semi-structured questionnaire. The interview transcripts were analyzed through thematic content analysis and the thematic map has been developed. The findings identified clearly showed corporate sickness in PIA and authors worked on the optimal course of actions to rehabilitate the sickness and devised strategies to turn PIA into competitive entity through analyzing various internal & external reasons. This study suggests key recommendations to the Government of Pakistan to prevent the public sector (existing) entities getting sick in future.

Brace yourselves: esports is coming.

Competitive gaming (or esports) is an emerging phenomenon with a field of over 454 million fans globally. Despite its tremendous popularity and commercial support, esports is not widely understood. It is also disregarded as a reputable or credible form of competition. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) contends that esports may be considered a sporting activity, but this is limited to the basis of its sedentary nature and poor governance. These authors present evidence to inform and clarify misconceptions surrounding esports among the broader scientific community. They also encourage researchers to engage in further work into the phenomenon of competitive gaming with regard to health and performance, resulting in a better understanding of esports and guiding its development as a credible, competitive entity.

CROSS-SELLING AND UP-SELLING IN A BANK

Increasing competition on the banking market, as well as the desire to achieve maximum profits, means that banks are increasingly looking for methods that will allow them to increase sales. One of them turned out to be sales techniques such as cross selling and up selling, which undoubtedly increase the bank’s profit. In addition, cross-selling contributes to building a larger product portfolio of the client, which binds it more strongly to the bank and minimizes the risk of the customer moving to a competitive entity. However, the use of these sales techniques also entails risks. One of them is the loss of a good image. The aim of the article is to present the results of an own study on the use of cross-selling and up-selling by banks and influence on their image. Additionally, the article presents the essence and way of functioning of cross-selling and up-selling, which are used by financial institutions in the pursuit of profit maximization. The results of the study confirmed that the results of the application of these sales techniques turns out to have a negative impact on the customer’s perception of the bank. Both cross-selling and up-selling contribute to the dissatisfaction of customers, which often leads to the loss of their part in favor of a competitive bank. In addition, the negative perception of the bank undermines its image, which is an important element in such a strong competition.

“In the Words of the Enemy”: the Islamic State’s reflexive projection of statehood

ABSTRACTIn this article, we examine how the Islamic State utilises direct quotations from prominent politicians, State leaders, authors and terrorism experts to position itself as a competitive entity that threatens the existence, borders and security of established States. Analysing a column in Dabiq entitled “In the Words of the Enemy” (published from July 2014 to August 2016), we establish that the Islamic State conscripts “enemy” utterances to progressively project its own identifications of statehood, positioning itself as a viable alternative to existing nation states. Overall, this analysis enriches current research on the Islamic State and offers contributions towards both counterterrorism efforts and an understanding of non-state actors operating in an era of intense mediatisation.

A review of the academic and grey literature on the Academic Foundation Programme

The purpose of this study was to review the academic and grey literature specific to the Academic Foundation Programme. This was performed as part of a broader review of the programme. In the United Kingdom the Academic Foundation Programme (AFP) is a competitive entry entity running parallel to the Foundation Programme, the first two years of clinical practice and training for new medical graduates. An electronic search of online journal databases was performed. This was supplemented by hand searching of medical education journals. Grey literature was identified by searching websites of relevant governmental and non-governmental organisations. Eleven academic journal articles and four pieces of grey literature were identified. Personal accounts dominated and shared several positive features of the programme including gaining research skills and having a degree of work freedom balanced with the limitations of a four-month block and frustration at the pace of progress. The personal accounts were supplemented by a small-scale qualitative interview study and an online questionnaire study. The literature pertaining to the AFP is almost entirely positive but is lacking in both critical discourse and higher level evaluation, future studies must move forward in terms of rigour to help our understanding of what does and does not work for early medical academics, and perhaps more importantly, why this might be the case.

La hegemonía cultural del "glolugar": entre la relegación y la reivindicación local. El caso de Valencia

This paper discusses how the hegemony of the global place (glolugar), the paradigmatic figure of the urban neoliberal processes, has implied a certain model of cultural policy and urban development. This model has been developed in the project of City of the Arts and of the Sciences, in Valencia City. The cultural hegemony of the glolugar cannot be understood without framing it in a global trend since it is the extension of the neoliberal urbanism. In this frame, the city is conceived as a competitive entity in a global space that promotes the commoditization of urban space and the entrepreneurial attitude in the local public management. From the analysis of the City of the Arts and of the Sciences, we will investigate the links between neoliberal urbanism, cultural politics and city model. Nevertheless, we will show how the struggles against these neoliberal policies of the glolugar there has been conforming in the popular neighborhoods some socio-cultural actions, to counteract this gentrifying trend and to propose an alternative culture and urban planning.

Small Shop Dynamics: Time and Technology

Nearly invisible in the manufacturing industry hierarchy are those small manufacturers with fewer than 50 employees. These firms, labeled Small Shops, constitute a large percentage of manufacturers. This study focuses on the impact of technological innovation and time relative to the re-emergence of small shops as a competitive entity in the industrial hierarchy.

TERRITORIO, TURISMO Y COMPETITIVIDAD. METÁFORAS DE ÉXITO Y DESEO DE PROGRESO EN EL MEDIO MAGDALENA

This article presents a critical analysis of the way in which the territory is seen using metaphors and economist type ideologies. This is expressed through public agents and other agents and institutions discourses that see in the territory a competitive entity, oriented to the search of success through strategies which are closer to those used by the private business, instead of to those built through the tradition of the public sector which are mostly interested in the common welfare rather than in factors such as efficacy or usefulness which are considered ends in themselves. This case study approaches tourism (historical, ecological, etc.) as the activity which, with a questionable rationality, is thought as the means for the accomplishment of the plans for territorial development in Magdalena Medio (Colombia). The methodological proposal appeals to the analysis of the discourses and the State ethnography, searching to identify and question the discourses in which the territory is reduced to a competitive entity which follows the approaches close to social Darwinism.

Virtual organization for supply chain integration: Two cases in the textile and fashion retailing industry

A supply chain is an alternative form with competitive entity consisting of a group of companies in the business environment. Some supply chain projects are initiated by associated firms while some are started by the head office of multinational enterprises in order to integrate the diversified subordinates. This study focuses on the investigation on the supply chain structures within the boundaries of two multinational textile enterprises, respectively. One enterprise tries to integrate the market side by merging a brand owner. The other seeks an integration solution to compensate from its loss of control of sub-manufacturing sites which during corporate expansion were registered as independent firms. Both enterprises have initiated their global logistics management projects in order to balance the demand and supply. By participating in the two projects, our research indicates the different barriers of integrating toward the upstream and downstream supply chains and provides a mutual solution by building up the e-Fashion global supply chains. Similarities and dissimilarities of both cases towards the virtual organization approach are also addressed in this paper.

Happy together?: Insights and implications of viewing managed supply chains as a social dilemma

Supply chains are beginning to displace firms as the competitive entity in the global marketplace. Managed supply chains offer the promise of added value through proactive cooperative efforts among participating firms. However, as a strategic alliance, managed supply chains represent a form of social dilemma: supply chain alliances may fail because participating firms fear opportunistic behavior on the part of other alliance participants, and as a consequence underinvest their information and resources into the alliance. The interdependence structure of the alliance may contribute to this problem. Viewing managed supply chains as a form of social dilemma also identifies solutions that may be implemented unilaterally by individual firms or jointly by the alliance to maintain the “indispensable virtue” of high trust that allows supply chains to effectively create added value.

The state, international competitiveness and neoliberal globalisation: is there a future beyond ‘the competition state’?

This article seeks to contribute to opening up a space of possibility for the state to become something other than a competitive entity in and through a critical (re)problematisation of ‘international competitiveness’ as a governmental problem. In more specific terms, it inquires into how international competitiveness was constituted as such a problem in the first place; how both the meaning of international competitiveness and the terms of the ‘competitiveness problem’ have been transformed by globalisation talk and multilateral efforts at neoliberal global governance; and how the discourse of international competitiveness works to (re)produce the state as a competitive entity on a continuous basis.

The Buyer's Perspective on Transaction Costs and Relational Norms in the Distribution Channel: Prepositions for Research

Some understanding and form of inter‐organisation management is necessary and desirable if a channel is to maintain or achieve satisfactory performance as a competitive entity (Stern and El‐Ansary 1992). Although this view is not novel (of. Alderson 1954,1957), it has not been the subject of extensive research (Frazier 1983), and interorganisational coordination in distribution channels has perhaps received less focus as a survival requirement (Dwyer and Oh 1988) than it deserves. Stern and El‐Ansary (1992) seem to reflect traditional points of view when stating that power is the major means available to achieve coordination and co‐operation among channel members. Power, however, gives rise to channel dependence and interdependence issues, (of. Pfeffer and Salancik 1978; Gaski 1984; Brown, Lusch and Muehling 1983), and issues of interorganisational governance mechanisms which for some years have also interested institutional economists, (of. Williamson 1993, 1991, 1986, 1981, 1975, Ouchi 1980) and economic sociologists, (of. Granovetter, 1985, Granovetter and Swedberg 1992). The marketing literature (of. Heide and John 1992; 1990; 1988) has questioned Williamson's somewhat simplistic treatment of opportunism as an underlying behavioural norm, central as this is to his transaction cost paradigm. Since Heide and John's [1992] work on the role of norms in marketing relationships, there is a distinct possibility that insufficient further research has been done in order to allow comparisons of their findings with those of other studies that differ with regard to cultures, settings, and time periods. Maintaining focus on the transaction between dyadic exchange partners as a fundamental activity in marketing channels (of. Achrol, Stern, and Reve 1983), the objectives of this article are to examine the existence or otherwise of relational norms between dyadic exchange partners serving as a governance mechanism safeguarding against opportunistic behaviour in the presence of transaction‐specific assets. The work of Heide and John [1992] shed much light on this, but examined the dyad from the perspective of a strong buyer facing a large number of small suppliers. We will focus on a strong supplier, facing a large number of small buyers, currently, but not indefinitely, bound to it by legislation and contract. The perspective adopted will be that of many small buyers (phar‐macies) from a monopolistic ethical drug wholesaler, at the time of dismantling of a statutory wholesale drug monopoly in Norway.