Business Investment Research Articles

A statistical approach to Hollywood remake and sequel metadata

Abstract Hollywood film remakes, as old as the cinema itself, have attracted much professional, critical, and academic attention. They have been viewed by art critics as products of cultural derivativity and imperialism and commended by financial experts as low-risk business investments, closely linked to other forms of brand extension, such as sequels and bestseller adaptations. In this article, we adopt a film-historical quantitative approach to Hollywood film remakes by analysing metadata obtained from the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) and verified against reliable print and web sources. We analyse 986 Hollywood remakes produced between 1915 and 2020 in terms of raw and relative frequencies of annual releases, genre (in)stability, and patterns of transnational reproduction. We contrast our findings with those outlined by Henderson (2014a) in his statistical survey of Hollywood sequels, series films, prequels, and spin-offs, presented in his monograph The Hollywood Sequel: History and Form, 1911–2010. Having completed his list with recent sequential productions released between 2011 and 2020, we investigate the potential parallels between Hollywood remaking and sequelization practices. Our findings demonstrate historical discrepancies in various ‘content recycling’ trends, which help better characterize the cultural and commercial significance of remakes and serial forms in the American film industry.

Smart Automated Liquid Sprinkler Robot Integrating IoT and Deep Learning for Precision Crop Management

Abstract: The Smart Automated Liquid Sprinkler (SALS) is a groundbreaking solution aimed at revolutionizing traditional watering systems through the integration of IoT technology. Its development addresses pressing challenges such as water scarcity and labor-intensive maintenance in outdoor environments. SALS combines advanced sensors to monitor humidity and weather conditions in real-time, ensuring precise watering tailored to the specific needs of plants while minimizing manual intervention. Furthermore, it incorporates obstacle detection and avoidance features, enhancing its efficiency and durability by mitigating the risk of accidents. By integrating deep learning models for rainfall prediction, SALS optimizes water usage preemptively, adjusting watering schedules to environmental conditions. Offering independent operation and a modular design, SALS provides flexibility to users, catering to gardens of all sizes and promoting greener and healthier environments. The longterm savings from reduced water consumption and labor costs make SALS a wise investment for homeowners, businesses, and municipalities, heralding a new era of efficiency and sustainability in outdoor maintenance

HALAL INVESTMENT AND TOURISM POLICY IN ACEH PROVINCE, INDONESIA: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES

The Government of Aceh holds the authority to implement halal investment and tourism policies as outlined in Article 25 of Qanun Number 8 of 2013 on Tourism, in conjunction with Article 165 of Law Number 11 of the Aceh Government, which allows for domestic and foreign investment in tourist attraction businesses. However, this authority has not been fully utilized, leading to a negative impact on poverty rates in Aceh. This article employs a normative juridical method, utilizing library research and collecting primary, secondary, and tertiary materials to analyze laws and regulations qualitatively. The current implementation of halal tourism and investment policies in Aceh has not effectively addressed poverty alleviation. Halal tourism is not solely market-driven but also community-driven. Challenges to the implementation of halal tourism include internal factors such as natural disasters, political instability, and institutional management issues, as well as external factors like Islamophobia and marketing perceptions. To address these challenges, the Government of Aceh should establish national and international cooperation programs and strategies to promote the potential of halal tourism. Additionally, a dedicated qanun related to halal investment and tourism should be developed to support these efforts.

Інституційне середовище банківської підтримки розвитку малого підприємництва в україні

The article is devoted to the study of the evolution of the formation of the institutional environment for the functioning of small businesses in Ukraine and the development of proposals for its improvement to stimulate bank support in the field of small business. The regulatory and legal basis for developing small entrepreneurship has been staged. A portrait profile of a small business entity in Ukraine has been created. A scheme of interaction of state institutions supporting small entrepreneurship by supplementing its infrastructural block with new institutional units has been developed. Within the framework of the existing infrastructure, it is proposed to create a Bureau of credit histories of small business entities and a Unified platform for financing small business development. The priority directions for optimizing regulatory and legal support for small businesses are substantiated. The following are defined as control points for the regulation of small entrepreneurship: approximation of business management and regulation standards to EU standards; development of financial instruments alternative to lending; digitization of financial services, etc. It is essential to direct regulatory efforts in regulating alternative banks’ activities to support financial market intermediaries (fintechs, microfinance organizations, leasing and factoring companies) and diversify funding sources (factoring, crowdfunding). Stimulating the development of microcredit in Ukraine requires a comprehensive approach, the components of which can be simplifying the mechanism of obtaining microcredit, creating conditions for the development of non-bank financial institutions, improving the legislative provision of bank microcredit, state incentives for banks to expand micro- and other types of lending; creation of cooperative banks specialized in lending to small businesses; state support for microcredit information programs; reduction of the tax burden and improvement of investment and credit support mechanisms for small businesses; expansion of the list of state preferential lending programs for small enterprises; gradual increase in the volume of microcredit to support start-ups; expanding the use of digital financial technologies. Keywords: small business, institutional environment, banking support, regulatory and legal support.

Investment strategy – a tool for forming sustainable competitive advantages of enterprises

Introduction. Business investment can extend beyond meeting current investment needs arising from the need to replace outdated assets and the structure of economic activity. Ensuring a stable position of enterprises on the market and long-term economic development requires appropriate investment support. This requires creating an investment management system based on scientifically balanced forecasts regarding the directions and forms that ensure the realization of the general goals of the development of enterprises and the adaptation of their activities to the conditions of the external environment. The investment strategy is an effective tool for long-term management of the enterprise's investment activities in the conditions of the realization of the goals of economic development, significant changes in macro- and micro-economic factors, the influence of state regulation on market processes, the state of the investment market and related uncertainties. This determined the choice of topic, research structure, relevance, and theoretical and practical significance. This article aims to form an investment strategy as a tool for obtaining sustainable competitive advantages for enterprises. The results. Understanding the essence of investment and its implementation mechanism in modern conditions will allow food enterprises to optimize their activities, contribute to the company's development, and increase their market competitiveness. Investments are a vital tool in the competitive struggle, as their implementation leads to lower costs, lower prices, increased profits, the emergence of new needs, attracting financial resources, and improving the manufacturer's image. Conclusions. Investments play a pivotal role in implementing innovations, be it scientific, technical, organizational, or socio-technical. These innovations are aimed at use in the operational, investment, or financial spheres of the enterprise, with the goal of generating income and influencing qualitative changes in social and economic terms. Therefore, in the modern market, and particularly in the post-war period, investment and innovation activity in Ukraine will be a key driver of economic development and a prerequisite for enhancing the competitiveness of enterprises. Keywords: investments, innovations, strategic management, influencing factors, fruit and vegetable preserves.

Analisis Kelayakan Investasi Usaha Peternakan Ayam Guna Memenuhi Kebutuhan Telur di UD. Hadhita Jaya Makmur

Feasibility Analysis of Investing in a Chicken Farming Business to Meet the Need for Eggs which aims to determine the feasibility of a business. In an analysis of the feasibility of establishing a business, it can be carried out through several aspects, namely a monetary perspective, a special perspective, a market perspective using several methods, namely Draft Budget (RAB), Net Present Value (NPV), Net Benefit Ratio (NET B/C ) Internal Rate of Return (IRR), Payback Period (PP) and). This analysis produces data that shows the RAB of the feasibility of UD's business investment. Hadhita Jaya Makmur amounting to Rp. 1,470,669,000, with an NPV of Rp. 347,561,231 IRR is 43%, then the business PP is for 2 years, and the NET B/C is 3. According to the existing analysis regarding feasibility here it can be concluded that investment in the UD.Hadita Jaya Makmur business has met the feasibility of business investment, because has a positive NPV value, higher IRR on funding costs, relatively short PP, and larger NET B/C and is financially profitable for this business.

Unravelling the credit market shocks and investment dynamics: A theoretical and empirical perspective

This paper investigates the underlying credit market shocks that historically affected business investment in the Slovenian economy. In contrast to the existing literature, we explore more profound structural shocks beneath the credit demand and supply shocks. For the purpose of structural identification, we propose a theoretical model of the credit market that reveals the credit market imperfections on the side of credit supply as well as liquidity demand. The theoretical structure justifies our set of identifying restrictions, further evaluated with the structural Bayesian VAR model. Our results confirm the relevance of loan supply shocks for the business investment activity, suggesting the existence of credit market imperfections. Furthermore, business investment is strongly conditioned by liquidity demand shocks, which explain a significant part of the variation in investment activity. Even though loan supply shocks constrained the investment activity in Slovenia during the financial crisis, the results of our analysis suggest that banks predominantly reacted to the increasing financial risk as opposed to the changes in their profit functions. Based on the results, we may conclude that in the common monetary area, fiscal policy should implement country-specific measures to effectively address the business sector's expectations regarding the economy's medium- and long-term development.

Decision Making on a Software Upgrade or Decommission with Data Mining and Machine Learning Techniques in Information Technology Industry

The Organizations have been investing more in Technology and Infrastructure spends like software upgrades, software renewals, software replacements, platform migrations etc., apart from investment in Business, People, and Processes. In this context, it is not an easy task for stakeholders to decide whether to go for a software upgrade or to replace it with another software. There is no unified approach or solution to consolidate data and relationships of Information Technology Assets, Software Upgrades, Software costs, Software defects, Software Performance Metrics, Security issues, IT system versions, service level objectives etc. Due to this, the decision making of software upgrades and software decommissioning is a tedious process and takes more time and effort. There is a need to build a solution that can integrate and validate the information like software assets, software upgrade success and failure likelihoods, cost benefit analysis of Cloud Computing, software metrics for fault prediction, software maintainability prediction results, Digital Transformation readiness and other related factors. There is an opportunity to apply Machine Learning techniques in defining and deriving the success likelihoods on the following data: Systems and data integration, software assets compatibility, operational service level agreement breaches, quality assurance metrics, security issues, number of open defects, number of defect fixes, number of priority incidents, mean time to resolve critical incidents, expected cost increase in software maintenance, potential cost reduction with the software or hardware replacement etc. This Research Proposal outlines the above mentioned to build a recommendation system aka decision tree namely Software Upgrades or Decommissions Life Cycle.

Enhancing portfolio management using artificial intelligence: literature review.

Building an investment portfolio is a problem that numerous researchers have addressed for many years. The key goal has always been to balance risk and reward by optimally allocating assets such as stocks, bonds, and cash. In general, the portfolio management process is based on three steps: planning, execution, and feedback, each of which has its objectives and methods to be employed. Starting from Markowitz's mean-variance portfolio theory, different frameworks have been widely accepted, which considerably renewed how asset allocation is being solved. Recent advances in artificial intelligence provide methodological and technological capabilities to solve highly complex problems, and investment portfolio is no exception. For this reason, the paper reviews the current state-of-the-art approaches by answering the core question of how artificial intelligence is transforming portfolio management steps. Moreover, as the use of artificial intelligence in finance is challenged by transparency, fairness and explainability requirements, the case study of post-hoc explanations for asset allocation is demonstrated. Finally, we discuss recent regulatory developments in the European investment business and highlight specific aspects of this business where explainable artificial intelligence could advance transparency of the investment process.

Internationalization of family business and innovation investment: An executive incentive-based perspective

We selected a sample of listed family business in China from 2017 to 2022 to explore the relationship between the internationalized operations of family businesses and corporate innovation investment. It is found that the internationalized operation of family businesses has a positive impact on innovation investment; executive compensation incentives and executive equity incentives positively regulate the impact of the internationalized operation on innovation investment of family businesses.

Designing an impactful APRN residency program for rural communities.

The largest healthcare system in New Mexico, in collaboration with the University of New Mexico College of Nursing, identified an opportunity to increase and retain the number of family practice NPs and certified nurse midwives in rural communities by creating an immersive 1-year rural residency program for newly graduated advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs). This article describes the journey to design this program and build its infrastructure with the aim of addressing the needs of both APRNs during their transition to practice and patients in rural areas, while providing a return on the healthcare system's business investment. Program results are also reported. Program funding was provided by a Health Resources and Services Administration grant, the Presbyterian Healthcare Services executive team, and the Presbyterian Healthcare Foundation.

Utilization of non-timber forest products as alternative sources of food and income in the highland regions of the Kahuzi-Biega National Park, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

In developing countries, studies on sustainable preservation of forests (including non-timber forest products NTFPs) have been poorly carried out for promoting alternative income generating activities (IGA) to alleviate pressure on praised resources by local communities living close by protected areas. This study aimed at (1) inventorying NTFPs exploited by local communities around the Kahuzi Biega National Park (KBNP), (2) assessing their therapeutic values and nutritional contributions, and (3) analyzing their rural and urban market values to determine their potential as alternative income sources as well as the major constraints in their exploitation. Individual interviews were conducted with 790 rural and urban households in Kabare, Walungu, Kalehe, and Bukavu City, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) coupled with focus group discussions with key stakeholders around KBNP. Street vendors, restaurants, hotels, and market owners were also interviewed on uses, awareness of the nutritional and therapeutic values, and factors hindering NTFPs wide use in Bukavu urban environments. Physicochemical analyses were also conducted on main NTFPs to determine their nutritional values. Results showed that local populations around KBNP exploit at least 55 NTFPs, mainly for self-consumption as food, feed, and medicine. NTFPs represent the second most important income source around KBNP, accounting for 23.3 % of total households’ income after agriculture that generates 25.7 % of total households’ income. Income from NTFP trade was primarily used for food supply (29 %), investment in small businesses (19.6 %), children's education (17.7 %), and healthcare expenses (5.1 %). These NTFPs had varying nutritional values (in terms of proximate composition, essential minerals, and bioactive compounds). Solanum nigrum (24.9 %), Termitomyces robustus (18.0 %), Amaranthus viridis (17.6 %), and Piper nigrum (16.9 %) are valuable sources of proteins while Zingiber officinale (25.5 %), T. robustus (15.4 %) and P. nigrum (14.3 %) are rich in dietary fibres. Piper nigrum (37.0 and 128.3 mg/kg) and Basella alba (35.1 and 108.7 mg/kg) had the highest zinc and iron contents, respectively. Some of the most nutritious NTFPs, such as S. nigrum, Dioscorea spp., and P. nigrum had high contents in anti-nutritional elements and should be processed properly to maximize bioavailability. Besides, NTFPs created employment opportunities for collectors, vendors, supermarkets, hotels, and restaurants both in rural and urban areas. Though varying with rural communities, the main challenges in the NTFP value chain were low market values (48.6 %), short shelf life (22.5 %), and excessive taxation (19.1 %) while in urban areas, seasonality (36.9 %), scarcity (17.7 %), and prohibiting high prices (17.7 %) were the major limiting factors. This study highlights the significant role played by NTFPs in providing healthy and nutritious food and income for households surrounding the KBNP, and thus emphasizes the necessity for their promotion as alternative income sources and healthy diets to alleviate poverty and hidden hunger around the KBNP.

Financial frictions in a macroeconometric model: A counterfactual analysis for the case of Slovenia

The paper investigates the importance of modelling the effects of financial frictions in a macroeconometric framework for the small open economy of Slovenia. We enhance the model with additional behavioural equations pertaining to business and residential investment, the respective lending rates, and the gross operating surplus of non-financial companies. The estimation period spans from 1999Q1 to 2019Q4, meaning a period of significant financial distress was included in the analysis. Counterfactual analysis was conducted by comparing simulation results from a macroeconometric model with the explicit modelling of financial frictions to a model with limited transmission effects. The results indicate that financial frictions significantly hinder macroeconomic development under adverse macroeconomic scenarios. Policymakers’ measures should focus on maintaining financial sector stability and enabling external financing access for non-financial companies and households during adverse economic situations.

법인세 인하가 기업 투자를 촉진하는가: 조세조정 토빈q 모형을 사용한 실증분석

This paper is to investigate the effect of corporate income tax on business investment by using panel data of Korean companies between 1983 and 2022. This paper estimates tax term in the tax-adjusted q model before and after economic crisis.
 The tax term estimation between 1983 and 1997 shows that the effect of corporate income tax rate on investment was strong before Korean financial crisis. Corporate income tax cut promoted significantly business investment. The estimation between 1998 and 2010 after Korean financial crisis shows that corporate income tax cut promoted moderately business investment. But the estimation between 2011 and 2022 shows that the effect of corporate income tax rate on investment is insignificantly small. Corporate income tax cut promote barely business investment after global financial crisis in 2008.
 Empirical results in this paper provide the new perspective on the corporate income tax policy. The Effect of the corporate income tax cut policy on business investment decreases rapidly as tax rate decreases and tax rate cut reduces the effect of tax incentive policy, such as investment tax credit and depreciation savings on investment.

The role of project management and strategic leadership in enhancing the investment for local and international businesses

This study aimed to analyse the role of project management and strategic leadership in enhancing the investment for local and international businesses. To achieve this purpose, the researcher conducted semi-structured interviews with managers and professionals from different companies based in the UAE. The qualitative data was then evaluated using the thematic analysis so that a more focused and specific explanation of the study's findings could be made. According to the findings, businesses face increasingly severe competition for acquiring investments amidst rapid globalisation. One of the most essential variables in a company's ability to support development, innovation, and competitiveness is its ability to attract and maximise investment. This article indulges in a more in-depth investigation of how strategic leadership and project management interact to ensure long-term profitability for businesses, either in a local or international context and make the process of attracting investment easier. Businesses can be able to acquire enhanced investments provided that they recognise the need for strategic leadership and project management and develop effective plans so that their investments can result in long-term growth, new ideas, and a competitive advantage in the modern economy.

Survey of emerging technologies and return on investment in oil palm business in south-south states of Nigeria

The difference between the oil palm business in developed economy like Malaysia and that in less developed economy like Nigeria can be traced to technological advancement. Therefore there is continuous search for production and processing technologies that can drive development of the oil palm value chain. The broad objective of the study was to investigate the effect of innovative technologies on performance of oil palm business in South-South geo-political States of Nigeria. The study employed a multi-stage sampling procedure. Well validated structured questionnaires were used as instrument for data collection. Collected data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistical tools such as mean, Percentage, Standard Deviation, Frequency Distribution Table, enterprise budgeting, and ordinary least square regression analysis. Socioeconomic characteristics of operators were diverse, with a predominance of young, married, male farmers (60.9%) engaged in small-scale production (mean farm size: 13.2 hectares). Traditional tools still dominated harvesting, but hydraulic press (adopted by 71.1%) and automated mills (5.3%) were adopted for processing. Value addition was substantially improved by processing technology and harvesting equipment in the South-South States of Nigeria. The study concluded that appropriate innovative technologies positively impacted profitability, efficiency, product quality, sustainability, and competitiveness. Training, subsidies and robust extension services to promote adoption of innovative technologies in the South-South States of Nigeria were recommended. The study has contributed to existing body of knowledge by affirming the central role of innovation in profit function and sustainability in the oil palm sector.

The role of international consulting in improving the international investment activity of the IT business

In wartime, the IT industry increases the provision of IT services not only in the domestic market, but also in foreign sales markets due to the increase in the export of IT products. However, there is a problem regarding the financing of foreign projects, so the purpose of the paper is to determine modern sources of financing IT business investment activities in order to enter the international sales markets of IT products and the use of international consulting as an effective management system for the development of foreign economic activities of domestic business entities in the field of IT. Such methods of scientific research as: systematization, comparison and systematic approach for finding sources of financing of international activities in the IT industry are applied; induction and deduction for the justification of preferential taxation and crediting, as well as the use of international consulting services for conducting export operations in the field of IT technologies. The modern conditions of taxation, crediting and financing of business entities are considered, which include: preferential taxation, credit programs for importers of IT products, inclusion of the IT industry in the "5-7-9" lending program, direct investment, use of crowdinvesting operations and fundraising. It is proposed to introduce a group of "small businesses and entrepreneurs" for IT enterprises and IT entrepreneurs as residents of Diya City and to create conditions for their preferential taxation. Measures have been developed to implement a special program for crediting the export of IT products through the export credit agency with the help of long-term bonds, as well as a special fund for crediting the IT business at the expense of deductions from all types of taxes and fees of Diya City residents. For the effectiveness of the proposed investment decisions, it is suggested to use the services of international consulting for the support of foreign economic activity.

Exploring Investment Decision-Making with CAPM: Case Studies on Ten Raw Materials Companies Listed in Stock Exchange

The investment business in Indonesia experienced significant growth in line with the increasing stock trading activity in the capital market. The large number of capital markets in Indonesia means investors have to be careful in determining the shares to be chosen. Based on transaction value, the raw materials sector is the second largest sector that supports the Indonesian capital market. Given the large number of issuers in the raw materials sector, determining investment portfolios is important to obtain optimal results. CAPM can classify stocks as efficient or not based on their expected return value. The results obtained can be used as a consideration in portfolio decision-making. This research identifies 10 stocks in the raw materials sector listed on the IDX. Of the 10 stocks studied, 8 are included in the efficient category, which has a greater return than expected, and 2 are included in the inefficient category. This means that investors who want to invest in raw materials can make a decision to buy these 8 stocks, and it is not recommended to buy shares in 2 inefficient category stocks or sell 2 stocks.

Kelayakan Investasi Usaha Ayam Broiler Sistem Closed House Dan Open House Di Kabupaten Madiun

Animal protein is a protein that is good for the growth of the human body. Broiler chicken is one source of protein that is often consumed. Broiler production in Madiun Regency is not sufficient, so it is necessary to increase production through broiler farming. This study aims to identify the feasibility of broiler business investment. The location of the research was Madiun Regency and the research was conducted in May-June 2023. Respondents were taken by purposive sampling by taking 30 respondents from closed and open house systems. The non-financial feasibility analysis used market aspects, technical aspects, management and legal aspects, social, economic and cultural aspects, and environmental aspects. Based on non-financial aspects, the closed house system does not fulfill the environmental aspects and the location of the cage is too close to residential areas. Financial analysis using NPV, Net BC, IRR, PP and switching value sensitivity analysis. The results of the financial feasibility study with an interest rate of 6% and a business life of 10 years, the closed house and open house cage systems are feasible. The closed house has higher NPV, IRR, Net B/C and PP values than the open house, so the closed house system is more profitable than the open house. The results of the switching value sensitivity analysis of both types of cages have the most sensitive changes to the business in the form of decreased production, decreased prices and increased feed costs. Partnership system broiler farmers are unable to regulate selling prices and feed prices, so the only way to keep the business viable is to maintain the resulting production. Therefore, farmers must be able to master good production management and cage management to produce maximum broiler production.

Cross-Fertilisation Between EU Green Policies and Instruments Applied by Public Management: Dilemmas and Opportunities

This article aims to contribute to discussions held by the academic community that has extensively researched the EU’s green transition. The author underlines that a transdisciplinary approach involving legal, economic, and political tools provide a comprehensive cross-fertilisation methodology. The article observes implications related to EU green policies and public management instruments from two perspectives: the broadening of green transition to socio economic dimensions; and the role of government intervention in economic and green business development to illustrate examples of relevant practices in the EU. The author argues that such a methodological approach can help one to assess the actions and measures related to the green economic and business development trends that require societal support as well as the improvement of economic efficiency at the EU and national level. This contribution offers insights into the concept of green economic transitions and innovation as well as the impact of public services focused on societal change. The article concludes that a decision-making process that is based on a cross-fertilisation approach allows the implementation of green policies in national economies in the most effective manner and, in turn, provides welfare effects due to the enhancement of public administration services in their coordinated actions with entrepreneurial activities and business investments. On a wider regional scale, government/private business green partnership represents a tool that inevitably helps increase the environmental and green competitiveness of the EU and its Member States.