Strict Competition Research Articles

ESCAPING INCOME TRAP INDEX (EITI)

Middle-income Countries (MIC) that were unable to increase their National Incomes Per Capita (NIPC) to become High-Income Countries (HIC) and were stuck at a certain income threshold fell into the Middle Income Trap (MIT). In this study, 65 countries where 38 of them were HIC which might be taken as an example of economic development success and 26 of them as MIC those had strict competition in the international market along with Türkiye, which was examined as a sample country in the study, have been investigated by Escaping Income Trap Index (EITI). The index consisted of 5 sub-indices and 82 indicators multidimensionally. Türkiye did not have a successful ranking in the overall index and sub-indices. The ratio of Türkiye’s EITI score to leader country’s scores was 65 per cent. It was 60 per cent in the other popular indices generated by international organizations. The relationships of calculated EITI scores with Income Per Capita (IPC) for 65 countries have been tested with both the Cross-sectional Data Method for the 2013-2014 period and the Panel Data Method for twenty-one periods between 1993-1994 and 2013-2014.

Proposed Marketing Strategy to Increase Sales of F&B Business (Case Study: Kapau Anak Sultan)

Kapau Anak Sultan is a quick-service restaurant chain specializing in Nasi Kapau, a mixed rice dish from Nagari Kapau, West Sumatra. Established in early 2021, Kapau Anak Sultan currently has over 20 outlets all over the Jabodetabek area and other cities in Indonesia. According to the external analysis, the constant rise of GDP mostly due to F&B businesses and the increase in monthly expenditure for food and beverage has made the outlook for the F&B businesses in Indonesia promising. However, the sales of Kapau Anak Sultan are declining, and brand awareness is still considered low compared to competitors. Thus, this research was conducted to provide Kapau Anak Sultan with marketing strategies aligned with the business strategy. This research used primary and secondary data. To obtain the primary data, both qualitative and quantitative methods were used in this research. To determine the current customer and internal conditions, an in-depth interview with the CEO and management was carried out. Furthermore, an online survey was conducted for the customer analysis, in which 224 respondents were obtained. Meanwhile, the secondary data, for instance, textbooks and previous research journals were used to determine the external conditions. This research affords the new segmentation, targeting, and positioning for Kapau Anak Sultan and provides the new marketing mix (4Ps), such as product, price, place, and promotion. In summary, Kapau Anak Sultan needs to re-assess its resources and capabilities to deliver excellent marketing strategies and be able to survive in the strict competition in the F&B industry.

Isotopic niche partitioning between an invasive fish and two native mesopredators in the Colombian Caribbean

The ecological interactions between invasive species and members of the invaded community determine the impacts of biological invasions. Severe detrimental impacts of the invasive lionfish (Pterois volitans) in the Western-Atlantic have been well documented in northern regions of the invaded area. Yet, the fundamental nature of lionfish interactions with native predators remains unclear and understudied in the Southern Caribbean. Here, we use a series of quantitative tools applied on bulk muscle tissue stable isotope data (δ13C and δ15N), to compare inter and intraspecific isotopic niche metrics, similarity in the use of food resources, and the proportional contribution of two primary carbon sources to the diet of lionfish and two common ecologically similar mesopredators (Cephalopholis cruentata and Lutjanus mahogoni) in Taganga Bay (Colombian Caribbean). Limited overlap in the Bayesian standard ellipses of native mesopredators and lionfish suggested a substantial amount of partitioning in the use of food resources and, therefore, little apparent ecological impacts on native mesopredators by lionfish, in terms of strict competition for the use of food resources. Native mesopredators showed low trophic diversity, and a high degree of trophic redundancy (for C. cruentata). In contrast, lionfish had broad trophic diversity and high among-individual isotopic variability. This was consistent with Bayesian mixing models that revealed differential patterns in the importance of primary carbon sources in the diet of lionfish compared to native mesopredators. These results imply that different resource-consumer dynamics exist between lionfish and native mesopredators, despite fulfilling similar functional roles in the food web structure of Taganga bay, as indicated by similar Bayesian estimated trophic positions. Thus, our study highlights the importance of species-specific trophic characteristics in delineating invasive-native ecological interactions and constitutes the first study to examine trophic interactions among native mesopredators and the invasive lionfish in the Southern Caribbean.

Современные подходы к обеспечению комплексного развития Северного морского пути: маркетинг-анализ транспортно-логистического потенциала

. The article on the basis of marketing approach analyzes the main factors, that determine the development of the Northern Sea Route (NSR) in the context of increasing intensity of shipping and freight transport growth. The purpose of the research is on the basis of the three-dimensional matrix (consumers — needs function — technology to meet needs) to consider the expectations and needs of key actors of the Arctic marine highway use, assess the process of demand formation, identify and summarize the most important factors of functioning of the NSR taking into account regional specific features to meet the needs and preferences of the NSR user groups, analyze bottlenecks of cargo transportation in the conditions of strict competition in the market of maritime transport services. The expediency of the three-dimensional matrix is substantiated by systematizing the significant features of the NSR use, based on the characteristics of the product that are important for consumers (the NSR transport and logistics services). This toolkit made it possible to determine measures to increase the NSR operation attractiveness. It is noted that the needs of the NSR user groups demand the following: advanced organizational management structure, implementation of measures to ensure navigation safety, creation and development of coastal infrastructure, modernization and construction of multifunctional ports, modern ice-breaking fleet availability and operation of monitoring systems. The relevance of the use marketing tools to solve the problems of the integrated development of the NSR in order to attract consumers and increase its competitiveness was offered. The novelty of the work lies in the author’s view on the prospects of the NSR development manifested in the offered algorithm (three-dimensional matrix of diagnostics) of marketing analysis of maritime transport along the NSR with the consistent identification of factors influencing the shippers' choice of transport services. The results obtained show the practical significance of the research, and help more comprehensively and systemically study the priority areas of the NSR development and its transport and logistics potential.

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The Influence of Innovation in Product Excellence, Product Price, and Product Credibility Towards Customer Purchase Intention in Herbal Tea Products

The development of herbal tea products in Indonesia has great potential due to plenty of natural commodities found in this country and the habit of Indonesian citizens that make drinking tea a lifestyle. However, the growth of business that is significantly increased shows a very strict competition. To survive and win the market, companies including the herbal tea industry must conduct product innovation based on customer preferences to improve the quality of goods or services offered. By using the multi linear regression method, the influence of product innovation towards purchase intention in herbal tea products is positively significant at 77.9%. Moreover, the product innovation variables in the form of product excellence, product price, and product credibility can explain about 60.1% towards the purchase intention. The product credibility variable has the greatest influence when compared to others. Using simple linear regression, it is also found that the dimensions of product scent, suitability between product price and benefits, and product information are the most significant dimensions compared to the others. The results of this study can be used to build business strategies for herbal tea companies to innovate products that are in accordance with what their customers preferences.

PENGARUH KUALITAS PELAYANAN PENGAMBILAN KREDIT TERHADAP KEPUASAN NASABAH PADA BANK RAKYAT INDONESIA UNIT KOTA UTARA

This Research aims to determine if the quality of credit retrieval service affects customer satisfaction of BANK BRI North City unit. The strict competition situation has caused companies to be difficult to increase the number of subscribers. In existing markets, too many products with many advantages and value are offered by competitors, making it difficult for companies to seize competitors ' markets. Therefore, a better alternative is to make various efforts to maintain an existing market through increasing customer satisfaction. The study used the method of sampling Accidental sampling Or convinience sampling, and a sample number of 97 samples. The data collection methods used by spreading questionnaires were processed using simple regression analysis techniques. Results of this study were obtained results of regression equation y = a + b x then obtained the result of the equation: Y = 4.249 + 0.898 X. And evidenced by the achievement of measurement results r = 0.820 and R ² = 0.672. Thus, 67.2% of customer satisfaction can be explained by the quality of service provided by the Bank of BRI North City unit. While the remaining 32.8% is influenced by other factors. And test T acquired t count = 13.958 and t table = at α = 0.05 = 1.671 This shows H0 rejected and H1 received. Because T count = 13.958 ˃ t table = 1.671.

Development of small and medium-sized businesses in agriculture in the Kyzylorda region of Kazakhstan

In market economy, strict competition, the urgent task is to ensure the effective functioning of agricultural business. The goal is to show the impact of entrepreneurship on socioeconomic development of the Kyzylorda region, methods of supporting small and medium-sized businesses in agricultural sector, and also to analyze the effectiveness of financing support programs. Methods – the theoretical basis of the study: fundamental and applied developments of domestic and foreign scientists, leading experts in this field. When analyzing the main economic indicators, statistical data and reports on the republican and regional level were used. Results – recommendations have been prepared on introduction of effective tools to promote entrepreneurial activity, main provisions of which can be used in preparation of strategic, operational plans for agricultural entities. Conclusions – for the effective functioning of small and medium-sized agribusiness entities, State programs have been developed to help small and medium-sized businesses, including a set of measures aimed at their further economic growth, strengthening market mechanisms aimed at increasing labor productivity, and stimulating the use of innovative technologies. At the present stage of development of domestic AIC, one of the most important tasks is to ensure sustainability of agriculture and formation of competitive agricultural production. Small agricultural business, as one of the main elements of economic system of society, is able to increase social stability of the village, support the diversification of economy and its active innovative activity. A serious shortcoming and omission in the field of small-scale production is the lack of the established system for purchase and marketing of agricultural products, as well as supply and maintenance.

Minat Siswa/Siswi Sekolah Menengah Atas (SMA)/ Madrasah Aliyah (MA) Kota Kediri Melanjutkan Studi Di Perguruan Tinggi

Education is an important factor for the continuance of the country and a support factor which becomes an important role in entire sectors of life, because the life quality of a country is closely related to the level of education. To be able to become survive individuals in strict competition of working world, it is not enough for them having senior high school level of education; however, they need to have higher education. Therefore, in this study, it is important to know the interest of senior high school students (SMA/MA) in Kediri city to continue studying in higher education. The finding shows that, form 100% of expectation, the interest of SMA/MA students in Kediri city to continue studying in higher education is 15.542: 19.404 = 0.81 or 81%. Hence, it can be concluded that the interest of SMA/MA students to continue studying in higher education is big. The finding of this study can be basis information or reference to make a policy for STAIN Kediri to conduct efforts to build and repair the institution quality to improve the brand image or reputation of STAIN Kediri institution to be better so that it happens information dissemination orally to community, parents, and candidates of students that can improve the students’ interest to register in STAIN Kediri.

Analisis Rasio Keuangan Dan Metode Economic Value Added (EVA) Untuk Menilai Kinerja Keuangan Perusahaan

State-owned enterprises (BUMN) liquid a form of government investment that manages the life of many people, state-owned construction (KARYA) liquid state-owned enterprises that focus on the field of considerable construction is very influential in all aspects of the country. Entering the era of globalization and the demands of construction services users to the company's performance permissible better. The very strict competition between construction companies can pose a risk of competition in the financial performance of state-owned enterprises (KARYA), so that state-owned enterprises are still weak in the mastery of local project (market). This research aims to identify financial performance in the STATE of construction (KARYA) from the level of liquidity, solvency, and profitability and examined by the economical value-added method (EVA) to know the value added economy in the company'S construction Field (KARYA). This method of study uses a quantitative descriptive method with the approach of financial analysis and the use of economic value-added methods (EVA). Using data will be financial from Tofu 2015 S. D 2018. Based on the results of the analysis of financial performance of the 4th (four) enterprises in the work in the field of poor debt acquisition is a major factor and added economic value shows less good results because fewer companies obtain positive value. This should be the company to maintain liquidity ratio value..
 
 Keywords: Financial Ratio Analysis, Economic Value Added, BUMN Construction

Pengaruh Produk, Harga, Bahan Baku Bagi Penjualan Di PT. Hon Chuan Indonesia Periode 2015-2019

The increasing of plastic industry growth in Indonesia have bump-up potential of plastic pellets requirement as well, which the nature source of plastic pellets itself restricted and limited. Those will impact to plastic pellets import high demand especially for food and beverages area who use them. Strict competition and challenges to the restriction of plastic raw material usage need attention on product, price, raw material, and impact to the sales. The purpose of this study was to describe of product, price, raw material, and impact to sales, analyze the correlation value and the effect among them. This study was conducted use quantitative research method with descriptive approach and survey method. This study conducted in PT. Hon Chuan Indonesia with 118 respondents as representative from their customer data. Based on research result marketing strategy, product, price, raw material, and sales was in approve category descriptively. And it has 1) a fairly strong and strong correlation range between product and price, 2) significant positive partially effect between product, price, and raw material 3) simultaneously effect between product, price, and raw material 4) influence between raw material and sales.

HUBUNGAN KONTROL DIRI DENGAN PRILAKU KERJA KONTRAPRODUKTIF PADA PT. AGRA BUMI NIAGA (ABN) ACEH

The growing wordl of organization and their strict competition is one of the factors to demand resources in it to be more actively developed in accordance with yhe organization standars that have been established. The advancement of community mindsets demamd that every organization to improve service Standaar for its costomers, such as government organizations that move on government duties. This study aims to determine how the relationship between self-control and counterproductive work behavior at PT. Agra Bumi Niaga (ABN) Aceh. This study uses the correlation method which is astudy that points to the concept of interrelation between several variables, the simplest correlation involves only two variables. The population in this study were all employees of PT. Agra Bumi Niaga totaling 168 employees with a sampel of 118 employees. Data collection techniques used by questionnaire media, and interview method. Data analysis techniques in this study used correlation regression analysis. The results of this study indicate that there is a significant relationship between self- control and counterproductive work behavior at PT. Agra Bumi Niaga Aceh. Relationships that are categorized as strong /high correlation, this can be proven based on the results of the calculation of the correlation test with a significant value = 0,907. The higher self-control in employees, the lower the counterproductive work behavior of eployees at PT. Agra Bumi Niaga Aceh. Thereby in anticipating low self-control and high counterproductive employees, PT ABN Aceh is expected to provide seminars on self-control in its employees so as to improve self control and improve control themselves in a working envioronment in order to make to make a positive impact on themselves and others.

STRATEGI PENGEMBANGAN TEKNOLOGI E-COMMERCE UMKM RUMAH SAYUR LEMBANG MENGGUNAKAN METODE ANALISIS SWOT

The research aims to identify the fundamental potential information of internal and external factors that determinant strategies that can be used in strategy development. The development of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (UMKM) Rumah Sayur impresses slowly, because of the missed in e-commerce technology in its business. Cause a lack of opportunities to be able to compete in the business world. There needs to be a system development strategy to run and develop well. One of the ways that can be done to help determine an e-commerce technology system development strategy is to conduct a SWOT analysis. SWOT analysis is necessary to know the strengths and weaknesses as well as opportunities and threats to the company or business to face strict competition as well as to give competitiveness among Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (UMKM. And the results of the analysis describe the analysis of the internal business factors and the company's e-commerce technology system as well as the external factors of business and the SME's e-commerce technology system Rumah Sayur From the results of the analysis, it was concluded that Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (UMKM) Rumah Sayur need to take policy aggressive strategy to develop e-commerce technology given the high strength and opportunity in the middle of existing Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (UMKM) competition

The Role of Alumni in Improving School Marketing

In the amid of the educational institutions growth, there is strict competition with the various advantages offered, schools that still want to exist in the fields should have an effective marketing strategy to recrut learners as a key component in the education system. Many marketing strategies are avaiable, part of it is promotion. In the promotion there is a Word of mouth Marketing model. Researchers assumed that this promotion model was more effective and efficient when it gained the support of alumni roles as a school product that had strong ties with his almamater. The quality of the alumni is a reflection of the quality of the institution hence to influence the community in choosing a quality school. What differs from other research is the author elevating the important role of alumni in school marketing. The purpose of this research is to describe the important role of alumni for schools and the role of alumni in improving school marketing. Data was taken from literature, alumni interviews related to alumni and observation roles. The results of the study showed the strategic and potential of the alumni role should be recognized and utilized for school development. The role of alumni include: Develop extracurricular activities, build opinions on the quality of the school in the community, build networks outside of the school, become motivators and Inspirators for the sister of her class, become a companion of learning, supporting activities organized by the school, and the evaluation media for the school curriculum. The role of alumni in improving school marketing is very high. This is because the perception of schools developing in the community as consumers are influenced by the quality of alumni as a school product, the quality of alumni supports the promotion of schools in the community as well as information about schools obtained directly through alumni.

Improvement of Production Scheduling Performance using Simulated Annealing Algorithm

Production scheduling aims to minimize processing time, waiting time, and inventory levels, as well as efficient use of facilities, labor, and also equipment. In producing these products there is usually ineffectiveness in the scheduling process, such as sorting jobs that are not optimal so that the production requires a long time to produce products in large quantities. Therefore improving performance in order to increase productivity must be carried out continuously considering tremendously strict competition in the industry and manufacturing sector. This study is aimed to minimize the makespan value by scheduling the job sequence optimally. In this study, simulated Annealing Algorithm is used as one of the algorithms for generic optimization that is then compared to the algorithm used by companies. Based on the data processing, the maximal iteration has been reached with 2 iterations. The last iteration is selected which has the smallest makespan value, namely J2-J4-J3-J1 schedule with makespan value of 18,811.2 minutes. The makespan value obtain by simulated annealing algorithm is considered 9.03% more efficient compared to the companies method.

An optimized model using LSTM network for demand forecasting

In a business environment with strict competition among firms, accurate demand forecasting is not straightforward. In this paper, a forecasting method is proposed, which has a strong capability of predicting highly fluctuating demand data. Therefore, in this paper we propose a demand forecasting method based on multi-layer LSTM networks. The proposed method automatically selects the best forecasting model by considering different combinations of LSTM hyperparameters for a given time series using the grid search method. It has the ability to capture nonlinear patterns in time series data, while considering the inherent characteristics of non-stationary time series data. The proposed method is compared with some well-known time series forecasting techniques from both statistical and computational intelligence methods using demand data of a furniture company. These methods include autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA), exponential smoothing (ETS), artificial neural network (ANN), K-nearest neighbors (KNN), recurrent neural network (RNN), support vector machines (SVM) and single layer LSTM. The experimental results indicate that the proposed method is superior among the tested methods in terms of performance measures.

Applying an Evolutionary Growth Theory for Sustainable Economic Development: The Effect of International Students as Tourists

In this globalized era of strict competition, all actors in countries must focus on their strengths for continuous growth, which would presumably lead to sustainable economic development. Amongst the three components of sustainable development, this paper focuses on the economic and social aspects. Many countries are becoming service-oriented for economic growth. Education is a form of human capital investment which significantly contributes to countries’ national income via students, particularly international cross-border students in higher education institutions. While endogenous growth models dismiss the importance of governments in the growth process, in this paper, the Keynesian and new growth theories are combined to form an evolutionary growth theory. This research aims to analyze the short and long-term relationships between macroeconomic variables, international students, and their impact on the gross domestic product (GDP) of a small island with the intention of policy implications for stakeholders to reach or maintain sustainable economic development. Using an evolutionary growth theory with 34 years of time-series data on quarterly base, the vector autocorrection (VAR) model helps reveal the short and long-run relationships as well as impacts on the economy for sustainable economic growth. The results confirmed a long-run relationship via cointegration. Moreover, they approved bidirectional causality between student numbers, general secondary school enrolment, and GDP. Findings suggest significant implications for all stakeholders, particularly for higher education institutions, the government, and local citizens due to the importance of micro and macro-economic variables’ effect on GDP. The results prove that educated human capital contributes to economic growth. Governments should continue their existing strategy regarding secondary school enrolment rates as it is found to be the most effective variable in the long-run. As education, knowledge, and information transfer rises, it contributes to sustainable development through promoting social stability. Limitation of the unavailability of the total yearly population, GDP was opted instead of GDP per capita.

Strict competition enforcement and welfare: A constitutional perspective based on Article 101 TFEU and sustainability

This article investigates the purpose and workings of EU competition law and policy: how does the protection of competition promote welfare? It scrutinizes the claim that sustainable consumption and production (SCP) requires flexible rather than strict enforcement of Article 101 TFEU. Flexible antitrust proponents argue that SCP requires sector-wide private coordination, as manufacturers of sustainable products suffer if consumers can opt for cheaper, less sustainable products. Four main arguments build on compliance with, respectively, the constitutional context of EU competition law, the more economic approach, the legitimate objective doctrine, and the useful effect doctrine. This article questions all four arguments. Integrating principle and practice, the article shows that strict competition enforcement is the way forward to promote welfare, in this case SCP. Problems of under-regulation should be addressed by the regulatory State.

PSYCHOLOGICAL DETERMINANTS OF PROFESSIONAL BURNOUT OF SPECIALISTS IN SOCIONOMIC PROFESSIONS

The article presents the problem of psychological burnout of socionomic profession representatives, which is manifested in emotional exhaustion, aggressiveness, loss of interest in the profession. The term “burnout” or “burning” outlines the feelings of demoralization, disappointment in life, and energy depletion. This term describes the state of extreme exhaustion of healthy people who work in the field of social assistance and are in close contacts with people in the emotionally intense environment. The specific feature of the socionomic professions, to which we refer the professions that labour subject is social relations at different levels of social interactions (their study, formation, correction, management, expertise, etc.), is that such specialists at their professional work deal with different kinds of social problems that lead to their professional burnout. The article emphasizes that the emotional exhaustion is manifested through the feelings of emotional strain, emptiness, the lack of personal emotional resources. The employees with a tendency to professional burnout are characterized by depersonalization, a formal attitude to their professional duties, nervousness and irritability. Emerging negative attitudes can initially have a latent character and can be identified by internal, restrained irritations that eventually break out in the form of anger. There is a strict competition for success among the representatives of socionomic professions in the present conditions of their professional work. Sophisticated professional life, characterized by a large number of social contacts during a working day, extremely high responsibility, the underestimation of the employees’ professional significance by their management and colleagues, the need to be at all times in the "form", contribute to the development of the job-related burnout syndrome. The socially approved image of a socially successful person is the image of a self-confident person, independent and determined, and successful in their career. Therefore, many people are trying to correspond to this image in order to be in-demand in society. There is a strong correlation between the syndrome of burnout and a person’s locus of control. If a specialist takes responsibility for the events occurring in his/her life, explaining them by own behaviour and personal traits, this specialist has internal locus of control. Such people are less tended to professional burnout, in contrast to those who are inclined to transfer the responsibility for events onto external factors. The carried out theoretical analysis of scientific literature devoted to the phenomenon of professional burnout, suggests that this is a long-term, unfavourable state for the personal development connected with the negative influence of the social environment on the person. &nbsp

An Effective Spectrum Handoff Based on Reinforcement Learning for Target Channel Selection in the Industrial Internet of Things.

The overcrowding of the wireless space has triggered a strict competition for scare network resources. Therefore, there is a need for a dynamic spectrum access (DSA) technique that will ensure fair allocation of the available network resources for diverse network elements competing for the network resources. Spectrum handoff (SH) is a DSA technique through which cognitive radio (CR) promises to provide effective channel utilization, fair resource allocation, as well as reliable and uninterrupted real-time connection. However, SH may consume extra network resources, increase latency, and degrade network performance if the spectrum sensing technique used is ineffective and the channel selection strategy (CSS) is poorly implemented. Therefore, it is necessary to develop an SH policy that holistically considers the implementation of effective CSS, and spectrum sensing technique, as well as minimizes communication delays. In this work, two reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms are integrated into the CSS to perform channel selection. The first algorithm is used to evaluate the channel future occupancy, whereas the second algorithm is used to determine the channel quality in order to sort and rank the channels in candidate channel list (CCL). A method of masking linearly dependent and useless state elements is implemented to improve the convergence of the learning. Our approach showed a significant reduction in terms of latency and a remarkable improvement in throughput performance in comparison to conventional approaches.