Contemporary Issues In Business Research Articles

Contemporary Issues in Business and Economics in Vietnam and Other Asian Emerging Markets

This Special Issue publishes high quality papers on contemporary issues in business and economics in Vietnam and other Asian emerging markets. These papers were accepted and presented at the 2019 Vietnam’s Business and Economics Research Conference (VBER2019) organized by Ho Chi Minh City Open University, Vietnam in July 2019. Emerging issues in business and economics from Vietnam and other emerging markets in the Asian region have been addressed from various angles, from economics, finance, and statistics to management science. Five out of the 14 studies in this book were conducted to investigate various issues in relation to the Asian region such as the exchange rate regime in Asia, financial inclusion, and financial development and income inequality in Asian emerging markets. Seven studies were conducted in response to emerging business and economic issues in Vietnam such as fiscal decentralization, urbanization, foreign direct investment, and corporate financial distress. Other papers even considered various relevant aspects from the United States and Europe to the Asian region including double taxation treaties and agricultural shocks to the oil price. The findings from these papers are useful for practitioners, policymakers, and academics.

Policy Entrepreneurs and FDI Attraction: Canada’s Auto Industry

New perspective is provided on a critical period in the development of the Canadian automotive industry. In the 1980s, five foreign manufacturers built new vehicle assembly operations in Canada, effectively transforming that country’s automotive industry. Drawing from a combination of interviews with key actors and a review of archives, this case study makes several contributions. First, gaps are closed in the economic history of one of Canada’s most important industries. Second, the case demonstrates the capacity of using historical perspective to extend an existing theory to a new area of inquiry. In this case, Multiple Streams Theory is employed to explain the process of inward FDI attraction. This includes a description of the role of policy entrepreneurs and their capacity to create and exploit opportunities. Third, the case demonstrates the continuing relevance of integrating historical perspective to contemporary issues in business, management, and public policy.

Editorial: Welcome to the Muma Business Review!

The Muma Business Review (MBR) is a new peer-reviewed open access journal specifically intended to serve the needs of both the practitioner-researcher. Its mission is to publish empirical findings and conceptual analyses that have been rigorously developed, that are communicated in a manner that is accessible to practicing managers and, most importantly, that address the real world challenges facing managers. It is specifically intended to serve the needs of the rapidly growing community of individuals that have received, or are pursuing, executive doctorates in business. Participants and graduates of these programs face a practical challenge: how to communicate what they have learned. Trade journals typically give insufficient weight to the rigor of what they publish. Academic journals, at the other extreme, tend to prize rigor above all else—including readability, timeliness and practical importance. The MBR seeks a middle ground, offering fast turnaround and valuing rigor--yet also recognizing the benefits of plain language and problems of practical interest. This editorial presents the philosophies of the MBR and lays out a broad framework of policies that will guide the journal’s submission, review and publication processes. We are committed to interdisciplinary thinking and, in our quest to share relevant research that addresses contemporary issues in business, we support a broad view of what constitutes research. As such, our submission and other policies differ from traditional academic journals. As an open access publication, we will not charge any fees for submission or publication. Our publication will be readily available for readers in academia and the business world. Decisions on submissions will be rendered quickly—typically in less than a month— and authors should expect quick turnaround. We aim to publish articles within two months of initial submission, ensuring that what we publish is always current. Central to our mission is mentoring practitioner scholars. We instruct our reviewers to be both constructive and specific in their suggestions so our authors can improve their research and communication skills. In short, neither publishing with the MBR nor should reading what we have published should ever be a chore!

MECHANISMS OF STATE REGULATION OF SMALL AND MEDIUM BUSINESSES

Subject of research is the mechanisms of state regulation of small and medium businesses in Ukraine. The purpose of the research is effective mechanisms development of state regulation of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Methodology. The article uses general and special methods of investigation: empirical research methods (observation, comparison); methods used empirically and theoretically study (abstraction, analysis and synthesis); methods of theoretical research (ascent from the abstract to the concrete, systemic and structural approach). The article highlighted the priority areas of activity in Ukraine, such as agriculture, IT-sector and tourism. In particular, we have analyzed data of the State Statistics Service of Ukraine and international surveys such as Enabling the Business of Agriculture, DOU, Deloitte (Global Survey of RD introduction of modern technology and innovation; gradual increase in the level of mechanization of agricultural production. Scientific research preparation and training of local staff employed in the agriculture and food industry must become the main aspects of quality development. The article defines that IT market requires quality of the state regulation in readiness for a permanent dialogue with government and comprehensive support for sector as a strategic development of the country; development strategy and projects for development of the sector; effective fight against corruption at all levels. The relevance of government regulation in the development of green international tourism is determined. Modern historical and cultural features of Ukraine can allow providing a range of services for international tourism community. There is analyzed an impact of export orientation for small and medium business in the article. Export agribusiness areas that are not yet wide developed are identified: the supply of organic products (use of fertilizers over many years significantly reduced the possibility of growing organic products in the EU, Ukraine has a a lot of land that is not processed); bean cultures export (For example, provision of population with bean cultures is only 8%, 92% – import in Turkey. The production of bean cultures have high indicators in Ukraine); selling of honey (Ukraine takes 3rd place in Europe on manufacture of of honey, and only a small part is realized abroad). As a result of research we have created own Index of business quality development (IBQD), which includes the negative tendencies of development in international rankings and current state of socio-economic environment in Ukraine. Index of business quality development considers the practical significance and is formed directly on the SMEs questionnaire and includes the following blocks: general information about the company; contemporary business issues (the study of actual practical problems of business); providing state functions to support the business development. Thus, the Index of business quality development shows efficiency of mechanisms of state administration in the SMEs sphere in dynamics.

The Relations Between Momentum, Value Size, And Liquidity Factors And Stock Returns On The Polish Market

The research outcomes in this paper were presented at The 2-dn International Scientific conference “Contemporary Issues in Business, Management and Education 2014” [Zaremba, Konieczka, 2014].

Special Issue Editorial: Navigating the liquid complexities of leadership

This Special Issue of the Journal of Contemporary Issues in Business and Government set out to examine this theme and, in so doing, to provide new and up-to-date insights from the leadership discipline.