Global Market Economy Research Articles

The Rise of Pentecostalism in Modern El Salvador: From the Blood of the Martyrs to the Baptism of the Spirit. By Timothy H. Wadkins

In The Rise of Pentecostalism in Modern El Salvador: From the Blood of the Martyrs to the Baptism of the Spirit, Timothy Wadkins aims to demonstrate how “Spirit-filled forms of Christianity” have contributed to “a massive grassroots and socially complex religious movement that is deeply embedded in El Salvador’s shift toward modernization” (p. 9). He hit his mark! Combining historical prose, live interviews with key Pentecostal leaders, and extensive historical research, Wadkins weaves a gripping narrative that answers questions that other research has overlooked in the quest to explain the remarkable shift toward modernization in El Salvador. While Catholicism and Vatican II have played a part, reliance upon that factor as a complete explanation overlooks the alarming growth of non-Catholic Christian groups, predominantly comprised of Pentecostals. In this “New World Order” (Chapter 3), Wadkins identifies Protestant contributions, sociological factors, and modernization as the impetus that has led to such vibrant growth among Pentecostals and as an explanation for the resulting modern El Salvador. Typically, Wadkins points out, modernization—such as “immigration and urbanization, education and literacy, industrialization and technology, and capitalism and democracy” (p. 52)—has been at odds with religion, usually leading to educated citizens, but empty churches. He explains, “while religion may very well be an expression of modernization, it is also likely that modernization opens up opportunities for new religious movements and plays a vital role in shaping religious preferences” (p. 53). Wadkins describes dissent against the old, static social order (Catholic hegemony) and recounts the actions of “resistance movements such as student organizations, trade unions, Liberation Theology and the base communities” (p. 54). The historic event that galvanized each of these forces was the Salvadoran Civil War, resulting in the demise of the old social order and the establishment of modern El Salvador, characterized by its “fitful entry into the global market economy, increased literacy across all sectors, a new emphasis on individualism and equality, and an openness to democratic political structures” (p. 54).

Application of Computer-aided in the Theoretical Impact of International Trade and the Analysis of Real Challenge for Electronic Commerce on International Trade

With the popularity of the Internet, information technology has developed at an alarming rate. E-commerce has brought earth-shaking changes to people’s lives. E-commerce is changing people’s way of life and international trade. It created a new business model. E-commerce makes people’s life more convenient and fast. People can buy anything they want on the Internet, without the restriction of time and space. Through the computer-aided, traders from all over the world who participate in trade can exchange trade online without meeting each other. So, e-commerce has brought strong impact and challenge to traditional international trade. With its unique openness, cross-regional and timeliness, e-commerce has rapidly occupied the global economic market. E-commerce has brought many changes, such as transaction mode, reduced transaction costs, increased transaction opportunities and so on. This paper first analyses the current situation of e-commerce in the new economic situation. And then analyses the theoretical impact and practical challenges on international trade. Finally, this paper puts forward some improvement measures.

Application of Artificial Intelligence Technology in Enterprise Management Reform

The essence of economic globalization refers to the integration of global market economy. Whether an enterprise can occupy a place in the future market economy, one of the decisive factors of enterprise management will be enterprise efficiency. Only by grasping the general trend of artificial intelligence technology in enterprise management reform can enterprises obtain sustainable development. Therefore, this paper studies the application of artificial intelligence technology in enterprise management reform. This paper mainly aims at the problems existing in the management of small and medium-sized enterprises, so as to introduce artificial intelligence technology, promote the management reform of small and medium-sized enterprises, and discuss the application of artificial intelligence technology in enterprise management reform. Through data investigation and analysis of the results, this paper puts forward the application and improvement strategy of artificial intelligence technology in enterprise management reform, which provides technical support for the development of enterprise management.

Instrumentalism: A worthwhile critical concept for philosophy of education?

The aim of the article is to posit the question whether, or under what conditions ‘instrumentalism’ can be seen as a viable target of the philosophical critique of education. Firstly, I will briefly review and compare three critical conceptions in modern philosophy that interpreted Western civilization as a form of instrumentalism, yet, at the same time, used the concept perhaps too sweepingly: Adorno and Horkheimer (instrumental reason), Heidegger (calculative thinking) and Arendt (means-ends logic in politics). Secondly, I will discuss the exact sweeping moment in those thinkers’ ways of pursuing their critiques of instrumentalism and the way it can, in fact, weaken the pedagogical impact of their analyses. We face a paradox here: if we consistently follow Heidegger and Adorno (Arendt as well, but the situation looks much better with her, as usual), we are prone to ignore the actual perils for freedom in, for example, subsuming education to the global market economy, because it appears to be only a contingent or occasional (ontic) phenomenon that has its ontological roots as early as Homer or Plato. Conversely, if we ignore their analyses, we endanger our critique with inevitable shallowness, i.e. with a tendency to moan about the obvious circumstances without a real understanding of their ontological, historical and cultural backgrounds. This paradox can be translated as a general paradox of the relationship between philosophy and education. To conclude, I will illustrate this by referring to the leading question of this volume: ‘what (is education) for?’, or, to put it differently, to the problem of the purpose of education. If we assume that within the problem itself instrumentalism is inscribed (as all the three philosophers would), we still face the pedagogical and concrete problem of discerning different types of instrumentality. This problem corresponds with the various ways we describe our educational aims and goals.

The Information Game

ABSTRACTStudents want to know why accounting and auditing are important. The Information Game is a classroom resource that introduces the role of accounting, the value of information, the value of auditing, and the importance of auditor independence in an easy-to-use, fun exercise for the first day of class. Students experience the value of (accounting) information and auditing during the game. The Teaching Notes that accompany this case provide (1) additional commentary on the game, (2) post-game questions, (3) a suggested script, and (4) a summary of concepts, analogies, and takeaways that help students appreciate the importance of accounting and auditing in the global market economy. An anonymous survey of those who have used the Information Game suggests that instructors find the game highly effective and generally easy to use. Instructors tend to occasionally refer back to the game's concepts and takeaways during the remainder of their course.

‘Living Artistically’ under Post-Fordist Conditions

‘Shaping one’s life artistically’ implies the principle ‘I live as an artist when all my actions, and my expression in general, in connection with any content whatever, remain for me a mere show and assume a shape which is wholly within my power’ (Hegel). Drawing on Hegel, the ‘young’ Marx advocated ‘production in accordance with the laws of Beauty’ (‘artistic work/life’), as a kind of work which, inasmuch as it was ‘free’, provided a model for the elucidation of the presupposition of human emancipation. ‘True Art’ appears to be work performed under the umbrella of a ‘free community’, where the division between masters and slaves, working class and capitalists, emancipators and emancipated, is abolished. Does the conception of ‘living artistically’ (still) have a critical emancipatory value, and how can it be formulated under the conditions of a global market economy and post-Fordism, where every critical act, event and activity is appropriated?

Study of economic management forecast and optimized resource allocation based on cloud computing and neural network

As various factors which affect the development of global market economy become increasingly uncertain, economy and commodity will become more and more fluctuating in economic operation. With its strong nonlinear mapping capacity, artificial neural network has already been applied in many fields, time series analysis, and trend prediction. Cloud computing can interact fast with service provider at the minimum management cost. This paper proposes an economic forecast and optimized resource allocation model based on cloud computing and BP neural network. Its main goal is to break down a complex prediction task into several sub-tasks, effectively reduce the workload of a single computer and enhance the operating efficiency. Simulation results show that the proposed method does not rely on gradient information and has strong optimization calculation ability. At the same time, it can analyze and predict economic management, so as to provide strong decision support for decision makers.

The Information Game

Students want to know why accounting and auditing are important. The Information Game is a classroom resource that introduces the role of accounting, the value of information, the value of auditing, and the importance of auditor independence in an easy-to-use, fun exercise for the first day of class. Students experience the value of (accounting) information and auditing during the game. Available teaching notes provide (i) additional commentary on the game, (ii) post-game questions, (iii) a suggested script, and (iv) a summary of concepts, analogies, and takeaways that help students appreciate the importance of accounting and auditing in the global market economy. An anonymous survey of those who have used the Information Game suggests that instructors find the game highly effective and generally easy to use. Instructors tend to occasionally refer back to the game’s concepts and takeaways during the remainder of their course.

Political Ideology in Consumer Resistance: Analyzing Far-Right Opposition to Multicultural Marketing

Political ideologies of the far-right are gaining ground in world politics and culture, not least by way of market forces. It has therefore become urgent to understand how these ideologies manifest themselves in the fields of marketing and consumption at a sociocultural level. The authors explore the discursive efforts in far-right consumer resistance to advance a political agenda through protests directed at brands’ multicultural advertising and analyze how these consumers conceptualize their adversaries in the marketplace. In contrast to previous framings of adversaries identified in consumer research, where resistance is typically anticapitalist and directed toward firms’ unethical conduct or the exploitation by the global market economy per se, the authors find that the following discursive themes stand out in the far-right consumer resistance: the emphasis on the state as main antagonist, the indifference to capitalism as a potential adversary, and overt contestation of liberal ethics. The article concludes with a discussion of research contributions as well as the public policy and marketing implications in light of a growing far-right consumer culture.

Knowledge and awareness on the Impact of Covid-19 on global wealth - A survey

Coronavirus, also called as COVID-19, a pandemic disease that causes a widespread concern about the economic hardships for both the consumers and businessman communities that are present across the globe. As the coronavirus unfolds, the global economic market melts down, which is caused by this pandemic disease, pushes the wealthy. The main aim of this study is to evaluate the awareness level of global wealth due to covid 19. A self-designed survey study was conducted among 100 individuals of the general population. The questionnaire was designed in the manner to assess their knowledge about the impact of COVID-19 on global wealth. The questionnaire contains a set of 15 questions. It was distributed through the google docs. The results and data from this study was using SPSS software. The responses recorded in the present study from the survey participant depicts that the participants possess adequate knowledge about the COVID-19 infection and equally they possess an adequate awareness about the impact caused globally due to COVID-19. The results of the present study shows that 71.03% of the participants are aware about the pandemic outbreak COVID-19 and among them 57.94% participants believes that the pandemic outbreak COVID-19 resulted in a global impact on various industries. Within the limitations of the present study, awareness and knowledge among the survey population about the impact of COVID-19 on global wealth is and from the result of the descriptive analysis carried out in the present study, it is evident that majority of the population are aware of the impact caused on the global wealth due to the pneumonia associated with the global pandemic outbreak, COVID-19.

Reputable Relevant Realistic Reliable and Rigorous Human Resource Management Strategic Approaches and Practices in the 21st century

Human resource management is a multi-dimensional and complex phenomenon comprising a number of management themes. Without reputable, relevant, realistic, reliable and rigorous Human Resource Management strategic approaches and practices, companies can fail to effectively operate in a global market. The world has become interconnected as companies operate in a competitive global market economy. Even though Human Resource Management continuously gains scholarly attention yet there are still many gaps in it which need attention. There is no conclusive research on Human Resource Management strategies and approaches in the management of complex workplace issues. These complex issues faced today include convergence, divergence and cross-vergence of International Human Resource Management approaches, Cross-Cultural Management, Reward Strategy, Talent Management, and Control or Commitment Strategy. This paper provides a springboard for a better understanding of the Human Resource Management strategies, approaches and practices in the management of complex workplace issues. Appropriate management of people endows companies with unique and indispensable capabilities and capacities needed for differentiating and survival in a global market economy. The paramount goal of an organisation is to meet and satisfy customer needs and to be a market leader. Reputable, relevant, realistic, reliable and rigorous Human Resource Management strategies can help to fulfil the needs of customers, thereby increasing company profitability.

Borrowing Statistics and Modeling Analysis Methods to Explore Universal Laws in Economic and Financial Systems

After more than three decades of reform and opening up, China’s socialist market economy has been recognized worldwide. Not only has the productivity and people’s living standards greatly improved, but it has also won a high international reputation in China. The global market economy model includes the US free market economy, the Japanese-style executive market economy, and the northern welfare market economy. Each of these market economic models has its own characteristics, but some basic characteristics are the same. How to deeply analyze and understand the essential characteristics and development trends of the economy is of great significance. Therefore, in order to explore the universal laws in the economic and financial system and promote economic development, this paper specifically investigates and analyzes China’s economic market through statistical and modeling analysis methods. It is found through investigation that China’s primary and secondary industries are developed. However, for the sustainable and effective economic development, the development of the third economy is inevitable. I hope that the research in this article can provide a certain reference for China’s economic development.

Lodz City Tour: The Changing Nature of the Urban Restructuring of a Post-Socialist Industrial City

This paper describes the restructuring of Poland’s third-largest city, Lodz (Łódź). Once a thriving metropolitan hub of textile and clothing manufacturing, Lodz was confronted with the closure of its numerous factories in the early 1990s with Poland’s transition from a planned to a global market economy. The city suffered an abrupt and dramatic decline followed by a redefinition of its economic, spatial and social structures. The paper focuses on the major economic and spatial phenomena taking place in the city in the three decades after the economic collapse. Using an evolutionary approach, it identifies and discusses the gradual shift of Lodz’s restructuring. We claim that the restructuring initially involved mostly organic and spontaneous initiatives of dynamic local and non-local actors, with minor and circumstantial involvement from the local authorities. However, over time, the restructuring of Lodz has become influenced and driven by nationally and EU-set objectives and targeted urban policies, with urban and infrastructural projects as driving vehicles.

Global Instability of Gold Prices: View from the State-corporation Hegemonic Stability Theory

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is an explanation of reasons of gold prices instability after the establishment of the free gold market in 1968-1974. Subject of the analysis, i.e. the gold has been chosen because of its big strategic importance as a reserve metal for states and business over the world. Therefore, prices of the gold are connected with the global political-economic situation. Design/Methodology/Approach: The design is a new application of the theory of the state-corporation hegemonic stability, i.e. a new contemporary theory of international political economy. The research method is a describing political-economic analysis based on statistical data. Author analyses the gold prices in particular time periods and according to the state-corporation hegemonic stability theory. Findings: According to presented point of view, fiat money in circulation and a lack of fixed gold exchange standard in connection with a relatively stable global political-economic situation are the most important reasons of unstable and relatively low market prices of the gold in long time periods. However, disturbances of the world system cause fast and relatively big growths of gold prices in short time periods. Therefore, the global instability of gold prices is a phenomenon of the contemporary world. A destruction of the global system or world war in the future can cause a big increase of gold prices. Moreover, in the longer run, a further growth of prices of the gold will be probably unavoidable because of inflation in spite of periods of their drops. A fiat money system without any established gold parity adds monetary advantages for the contemporary global market economy, i.e. opportunities to increase money supplies in spite of a lack of gold reserves. Therefore, according the state-corporation hegemonic stability theory, state-powers and biggest transnational corporations are not interested to change the fiat money standard into the gold money standard. Practical Implications: The result can be considered for short-term and long-term investments in gold. Originality/Value: Original research based on the new theory.

Downscaling the planetary boundaries (Pbs) framework to city scale-level: De-risking MENA region’s environment future

Modern cities are considered as the most harmful artifacts created by mankind since 5400 BCE within the Sumerian civilization (Eridu). Since then, cities have continued to proliferate and expand across the world accompanying homo sapiens revolutions and becoming the origin of many environmental disruptions. Indeed, modern societies’ behaviors and lifestyle patterns are pushing the urban system dynamics to be more complex and more dependent on the global economic market. Likewise, redesigning modern cities and industrialized societies to cope up with the contemporary environmental challenges is inevitable for maintaining Earth’s life-support system. Our study provides the first glimpse estimations of different footprints (CO2; Harvested primary corps; Raw Material Inputs; Nitrogen; Phosphorus; Cropland pasture land and Freshwater) for big cities in the MENA region broken down into five major consumption categories using an Extended-Environmental Input-Output (EE-IO) analysis which shed light on the relation between urban economic consumption and associated environmental impacts. Down-scaling the planetary boundaries indicators (Pbs) to city scale level can be used to reinforce the operational scope of existing urban sustainability agendas or in designing new urban tools to better orchestrating growing economies into the global environment sustainability issues. To our knowledge, this study is the first on downscaling the Pbs framework to city scale level and providing first footprints insights on a part of the world that is not enough scientifically explored.

A Gig mHealth Economy Framework: Scoping Review of Internet Publications.

BackgroundThe gig economy (characterized by short-term contracts rather than being a full-time employee in an organization) is one of the most recent and important tendencies that have expanded through the global economic market thanks to advances in internet and communication technologies. Similarly, mobile health (mHealth) technologies have also evolved rapidly with the development of the internet and mobile apps, attracting attention globally for their health care benefits.ObjectiveThis study aimed to propose an integration of mHealth within the framework of the gig economy that leads to a new dimension of health care services and the proposal of a new term: gig mHealth.MethodsA review and systematic search of articles, books, and opinions that allowed for answering the research questions were executed through the internet. In this sense, the concept of the gig economy and examples, advantages and disadvantages, were reviewed. Similarly, the general characteristics of mHealth technologies were revised. In addition, the role of technology in supporting the development of the gig economy and mHealth technologies and the interactions between them were investigated.ResultsThe findings suggested that the gig economy is characterized by its flexibility in working hours, on-demand work, free agents, freelancing, freedom in the choice of work, and independent contracts. In addition, an analysis of an mHealth system indicated that it was composed of patients, specialists, nurses, and database administrators. In this system, patients and specialists or nurses are connected to cloud services for the transmission of data and medical information through a mobile app. Here, the administrators update the database and app features, among other technical tasks. Conversely, a general structure of an integrated gig mHealth system was developed. In this structure, the mHealth care services and the mHealth care activities were incorporated into a gig economy model. In addition, a practical example of an integrated view of a gig economy app in mHealth that illustrates the interaction between the patients (consumers) and providers (partners) of mHealth care services, mHealth care activities, health care professionals, and individual contractors was presented. The consumers and providers were interconnected with the health care company, brand, or firm through digital means using a mobile app or Windows platforms.ConclusionsThe analysis carried out in this study suggested the possibility of integrating mHealth within the framework of the gig economy enhancing health care service delivery and the management of health care activities. The following 4 major areas of apps proposed in the mHealth framework that can catalyze the operations using the features of the gig economy were sharing/renting medical and diagnostic equipment and resources, on-demand appointments/self-health management, on-demand health care services, and assigning health care activities/gigs to individual contractors. This integration leads to a new dimension for health care services and the proposal of a new term: gig mHealth.

Linkage between global economic variables and Indian stock market

Linkage between global economic variables and Indian stock market

Application of LED (Lean Embedded D3) Methodology to Improve Quality of Starter Motor EGT- Assembly

In the era of liberalization and open global market economy, Each and every organization wants to produce and deliver good quality products at a minimum price in order to remain competitive in the markets .To achieve this objective one must pay proper attention to their quality and lean manufacturing practices and aim for zero defects in their organizations. In the present work a new methodology namely LED3 (Lean embedded D3) methodology is applied to address the quality issue in starter motor manufacturing company. The root cause for failure of starter motor was successfully traced out using Ishikawa and five why analysis and a new technique was implemented to overcome the quality issue. After successfully implementing the new method the rejection rate has come down drastically from 7% to less than1% and Cycle time reduced from 1min to 30 sec. Total 3 hours saved per day.

Development of Systematic Methods for Managing Socio-Economic

This article presents the results of the development of scientifically based mechanisms for the adaptation of Russian organizations to the conditions of the global market economy. The basis for this was the study of the management system, its organizational structures, mechanisms that ensure a balanced management system and meet modern market requirements. In this regard, one of the important factors, or rather, one of the fundamental conditions, is the formation of a qualitatively new mobile management system that adequately responds to external and internal changes, forming new forms of managerial decisions and well-reasoned plans for their implementation..

An environmental harm perspective to examine our understanding of UK nuclear energy expansion

Uranium makes up 95% of the compounds used in the nuclear energy industry in the United Kingdom (UK). In 2018, the UK had 15 nuclear reactors which generate up to 21% of the UK’s electricity, however, the UK government plans to retire half of these reactors by 2025. Nonetheless, in 2017, the UK government announced they plan to invest up to £100 million in small nuclear power generation stations. This they contend will ‘provide a competitive edge to technology and a new source of clean power’ (GOV, 2017). This article aims to evaluate the outcomes of the proposed expansion of the nuclear energy industry in the UK.This study outlines what are the ecological and social considerations that must be considered when developing policy if the UK is to expand its nuclear energy industry. Using theoretical perspectives from the green criminological literature, it considers the strengths and weaknesses of the industry. In doing so, it highlights the interrelations between (nuclear) energy production, global economic market structures, and notions of social and environmental harm. Lastly, we utilize our theorization to posit a series of recommendations surrounding the intensification and expansion of nuclear energy production in the UK.