Use Of Quantitative Methodology Research Articles

Effect of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on Financial Decision-Making: Mediating Role of Financial Technologies (Fin-Tech)

The main objective of the current study is to shed light on the mediating effect of financial technology (Fin-Tech) on the relationship between artificial intelligence (encompassing natural language processing (NLP), machine learning algorithms, computer vision, predictive analytics, robotic process automation (RPA), blockchain technology, and deep learning) and financial decision-making from the perspective of financial managers within Jordan's commercial banking sector. Realizing this objective required the use of quantitative methodology. A questionnaire was self-administered by 86 financial managers in the Jordanian banking sector. Primary data was analyzed using AMOS. Results of analysis confirmed that FinTech plays a significant mediating role between AI applications and financial decision-making. Machine learning was identified as the most impactful AI technique, facilitating more informed decisions through advanced data analysis and pattern recognition beyond the scope of traditional analysis methods. The novelty of current research is in the fact that it offers valuable insights into the intersection of AI and Fin-Tech within the Jordanian financial sector. It contributes to the understanding of how advanced AI techniques can enhance financial decision-making, emphasizing the importance of multidisciplinary expertise in the development of AI-driven financial systems. The findings have significant implications for both theoretical understanding and practical application in the finance industry. Doi: 10.28991/HIJ-2024-05-03-015 Full Text: PDF

Pengunaan NARS Power Players Sebagai Virtual Brand Ambassadors Untuk Memengaruhi Konsumen

Virtual brand ambassadors have become a new type of brand spokesperson with the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI). NARS Cosmetics, a pioneering cosmetics company, has introduced their own virtual brand ambassadors known as NARS Power Players. However, the existing literature has not yet answered whether the attributes of virtual entities can shape consumer response. The novelty of this research lies in its focus on NARS Cosmetics' virtual brand ambassadors, the NARS Power Players, which are a new phenomenon in the field of brand representation. While virtual brand ambassadors have emerged with AI technology, there is a gap in the existing literature regarding how the attributes of these virtual entities specifically impact consumer attitudes. This study addresses this gap by investigating the influence of credibility, attractiveness, congruence, and human-likeness of NARS Power Players on consumer attitudes. Additionally, the study incorporates several relevant theories, including Stimulus-Response Theory, Source Credibility Model, Source Attractiveness Model, Match-up Hypothesis, and Uncanny Valley Theory, to provide a theoretical framework for understanding the impact of virtual brand ambassadors. The use of quantitative methodology and the specific focus on NARS Power Players contribute to the novelty of this research, offering insights that can further enhance our understanding of consumer responses to virtual brand representatives.This study used quantitative methodology by distributing online questionnaires to 112 respondents. The results showed that the credibility, congruence, and human-likeness of virtual brand ambassadors had a positive and significant influence on consumer attitudes. However, attractiveness did not have a significant influence on consumer attitudes. Researchers can further explore this topic by conducting investigative qualitative research on consumer perceptions and comparative analysis with human endorsers and non-human endorsers.

Analysis Of The Influence Of Leadership, Work Discipline And Compensation On Performance Of State-Owned Pawnbroker Employees In Indonesia

The competition amongst Indonesian pawn services, both state-run and commercial, has intensified in the contemporary globalization age. In this study, Pegadaian is one of the government-owned pawn service branches, was examined by researchers. The purpose of this study is to ascertain if or to what extent the factors of work discipline, leadership, and salary affect employee performance. This study makes use of quantitative methodologies and data gathering strategies that include questionnaire distribution and library data. Thirty employees made up the study's sample. Multiple linear regression is the data analysis method that is employed with SPSS. Additionally, the impact of leadership, work discipline, and salary on employee performance is seen in hypothesis testing. The corrected R Square value, derived from multiple linear regression analysis, is 60%. Thus, it makes sense that factors related to work discipline, leadership, and remuneration account for 60% of the variance in employee performance.

An Efficient Predicative Approach of ESG Invest Scoring Using Random Forest Algorithm

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors are considered while making business and investment choices. Human capital and climate change are causing firms to re-evaluate their focus away from conventional financial gains. Investors are drawn to socially responsible investments due to a shift in global attitudes toward sustainability and the availability of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) indicators. The strategic value of ESG measures has been researched extensively for private organisations, but less attention has been paid to public corporations. The use of quantitative methodologies for improving and standardising ESG grading, as well as for building ESG portfolios, is neglected, despite the fact that ESG-driven portfolios currently represent a significant and rising share of global assets under management. Deep learning is used to develop an ESG investment score prediction algorithm in this article. The ESG score is analysed and predicted using a random forest learning algorithm in the suggested system.

Public–Private Partnerships in Urban Regeneration Projects: A Review

With the changing paradigm of the State’s functions and the increasing private sector participation in urban planning, public–private partnership (PPP) arrangements gain prominence in the development of cities, whether in the construction and operation of new infrastructures or in interventions in urbanized areas. Regarding urbanized areas, urban regeneration practices constitute an important response in the face of urban degradation observed in different cities, as well as an alternative to the consumption of new land. Despite their use in different contexts, the PPP option in urban regeneration projects encounters many obstacles related to high investment risk, low financial and social return, and the numerous sources of uncertainty generated by these projects. The present work consists of a systematic literature review of papers on PPP in urban regeneration projects, seeking to identify the main research topics addressed so far and what gaps can be identified. It uses a hybrid methodology considering a systematic quantitative review, a semantic analysis, and a narrative analysis. The findings show that the literature on the topic is recent and has been increasing in recent years, with emphasis on Europe, followed by North America and Asia. The literature presents a high variety in terms of journals, authors, and institutions. As for the methodology adopted in the articles, it highlights the use of quantitative methodologies. Five main topics were found: policy, projects, governance, financial and economic issues, and management and contract issues. The topics found show the complexity of PPPs in urban regeneration projects. The gaps observed refer mainly to financial and economic issues, as well as management and contract issues.

Gender Stratification and Feminist Sociology: Why East-Central Europe Needs More Quantitative Gender Stratification Research

Unlike in Anglophone sociology, the sociological analysis of gender inequalities in East-Central Europe has not yet reached the status of a prominent subfield in stratification research. To address the key societal challenges of this century in East-Central Europe, we argue that the region is in need of a strong development in gender stratification research and a greater use of quantitative methodologies. Such advancement would strengthen not only stratification research but also feminist sociology in East-Central Europe. It would also facilitate the transfer of professional knowledge in stratification and feminist studies to the public. Drawing on the classical concept of Weber’s ideal types, we further argue that gender stratification research, with its participation in academic and public debates, has the potential to not only reveal the differences in opportunities between males and females but also reduce such inequalities.

Women's consumption of men's professional sport in Canada: Evidence of the ‘feminization’ of sports fandom and women as omnivorous sports consumers?

Women sports fans have been substantially understudied compared to their male counterparts. While a growing number of studies seek to redress this, there remains a stark absence of quantitative approaches that would allow investigations regarding patterns of women’s sporting consumption and historical trends in the potential growth of this fandom. Using large-scale survey data from Canada from 1990 through to 2015, and employing quantitative methods of latent class and regression analysis, this study seeks to redress these issues by testing the ‘feminization’ thesis of increased women’s sporting fandom over the past three decades. In addition, we consider whether women’s fandom has become increasingly ‘omnivorous’ over this time period and the nature of this consumption today. Results show support for the feminization thesis. These findings are significant as through the use of quantitative methodologies we evidence the narrowing gender gaps in professional sports following between men and women, and women’s increasingly omnivorous consumption of sports. However, we find substantial gender gaps and inequalities in omnivorism by which the evidence suggests increased socio-economic and cultural barriers to omnivorous consumption of sport for women. We suggest that these women omnivores may be able to utilize their sporting knowledge in an instrumental way for benefits in various social settings, especially workplaces. It is hoped that this article will pave the way for further quantitative studies on women sports fans across different contexts.

Tourism and Hospitality Research in the Peripheries: Thematic Focus and a Research Agenda from Ghana

Increasing debates on decolonising tourism and hospitality knowledge production have emerged in the context of a largely Western-dominated canon of the research production and dissemination system. This paper contributes to these debates by highlighting and centring the research in and on Ghana. This is accomplished by reviewing and synthesising 238 tourism and hospitality articles authored by 520 authors over 31 years through content analysis. The sample shows a trend toward increased use of quantitative methodology, multiple authorship and underrepresentation of hospitality research. By outlining current thematic convergence, divergence and omissions, we set out a future research agenda. Our findings demonstrate that while research productivity has been increasing consistently , there is a very limited representation of Ghanaian (African) tourism and hospitality research scholarship in the top-tier tourism and hospitality journals. This raises concerns about the need and challenge of increasing the representation and visibility of tourism and hospitality research from the peripheries.

REVEALING THE LITERARY LANDSCAPE: RESEARCH LINES AND CHALLENGES OF LITERARY TOURISM STUDIES

This article reviews the literature on literary tourism between 1983-2019. It has a double objective: on the one hand, it aims at gathering a comprehensive perspective into the quantity and evolution of studies on literary tourism and, on the other hand, identifying lines of research and the main objects of study within the research on literary tourism. The latter will allow us to identify what trends have been followed when analyzing literary tourism, both methodologically and conceptually. To answer these objectives, the article structures its literature review in two phases: a descriptive analysis and a thematic analysis. From this starting point, the article will present a number of challenges for future research on literary tourism, both at a methodological and content-related level, emphasizing the use of quantitative methodologies to approach this touristic type, analyzing the role of literary tourism in touristic destinations as well as focusing on the pedagogical needs of tourists in order to facilitate their access to literary tourism.

Leadership in Educational

The aim of this study is to show the extent to which different models of leadership in education are studied, including changes in the trends of research on each model over time, the most prominent scholars working on each model, and the countries in which the articles are based. The analysis of related literature was first conducted using a bibliometric analysis of research and review papers indexed in the Science Database Web between 1980 and 2014. A more in-depth analysis of the selected papers was then carried out using the content analysis method. Results have shown that there has been an increasing interest in educational research leadership models over time. Distributed leadership, educational leadership, teacher leadership and transformational leadership are the most studied leadership models in education research. It was also found that related research increasingly focuses on the impact of leaders on organizational behaviors/conditions and student achievement. As a result, the use of quantitative methodology has increased significantly over the last decade. Possible reasons for such changes, implications and recommendations for future research are also discussed.

Decision‐Making In A Choreographic Creative Process: A Quantitative Approach

AbstractHuman creativity finds in artistic practices one of its most admirable forms. Most of the studies about artistic practices have used qualitative approaches, focusing on the conceptual structures conveyed by the artwork. Few studies have used quantitative approaches with the potential to be generalized. This study has focused on developing a quantitative methodology to characterize an artist’s behavioral patterns while creating an artwork. Inspired by a theoretical framework from animal cognition, we analyzed the decision‐making process of an artist while choosing to invest more or less effort in given elements of the art piece. We have video recorded the rehearsals of a dance piece and hand‐scored the movement phrases elicited individually by two dancers and quantitatively reconstructed the sequence of movement phrases being performed at each moment. This representation has revealed, implicitly, that the choreographer invested more energy in creating movement sequences, and that certain elements of movement were more prone to several iterations. Our study shows that decision‐making processes in artistic practices can be revealed through the use of quantitative methodologies which can be potentially generalized to other choreographic methodologies and styles, thus leading to a better understanding of those artistic practices and, generally, of human creative behavior.

The Impact of Human Resource Management Practices on Perceived Organisational Justice

The paper sought to investigate the impact of perceived organisational justice and Human Resource Management (HRM) practices. HRM practices have been recognised progressively more as a vital ingredient towards sustained competitive success, especially firms and organisations that are operating in unstable, challenging and rapidly changing international competitive environments. The paper made use of quantitative methodology. Data was collected from a list HRM payment registered National Department of Public Works (NDPW). Target population were 1296 employees and only 500 employees were selected using simple random sampling. A total of 375 questionnaires were completed. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to analyse the data using inferential and descriptive statistics. Employees are not satisfied with the following HRM practices: performance management, compensation, promotion, recruitment and selection. The study recommends that for NDPW to achieve its strategic mandate attention must be given to promote positive organisational justice.

Illness perception and high readmission health outcomes.

This review identified associations between illness perception and health outcomes of patients with a medical diagnosis included in the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program. Inclusion criteria were English language, use of quantitative methodology, health outcomes specified, and identifiable effect size and statistical significance of the relationship. Most of the 31 studies in this review showed that favorable illness perception has been associated with better health outcomes, while unfavorable illness perception has been associated with worse outcomes. A multifaceted approach might include behavioral, clinical, educational, and psychosocial components to improve one’s illness perception through educative, cognitive-behavioral, or psychodynamic counseling.

Digital sources: a case study of the analysis of the Recovery of Historical Memory in Spain on the social network Twitter

The incorporation of digital sources from online social media into historical research brings great opportunities, although it is not without technological challenges. The huge amount of information that can be obtained from these platforms obliges us to resort to the use of quantitative methodologies in which algorithms have special relevance, especially regarding network analysis and data mining. The Recovery of Historical Memory in Spain on the social network Twitter will be analysed in this article. An open-code tool called T-Hoarder was used; it is based on objectivity, transparency and knowledge-sharing. It has been in use since 2012.

Unearthing strategic fantasy themes in human communication through Bormann, Cragan, and Shields’ symbolic convergence theory : Cragan, J. F., & Shields, D. C. (1995). Symbolic theories in applied communication research: Bormann, Burke, and Fisher. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

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Safety culture and an invisible nursing workload

BackgroundNursing workload remains an issue in current health care contexts. The use of quantitative methodologies, methods and tools to measure workload has not produced adequate data to inform workforce policy to resolve workforce concerns about workload. ObjectiveThis study aimed to identify the influence of both culture and climate as factors in nursing workload. MethodsThis research used an overall critical ethnographic methodology to investigate the real lifeworkload issues of nurses. Methods included fieldwork observations and informal discussions over a 3year period and 11 in-depth interviews. ResultsThe study identifies the impact of safety mandates on nursing workload as an invisible phenomenon within current workload methodologies. Such mandates add to nursing roles and routines, and become a ‘taken-for-granted’ activity that is not always directly related to patient care, nor is a visible factor in workload measurement. ConclusionGiven that workload measurements are formulated on direct patient care activities, indirect and unrecognised activities may create additional nursing workload.

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The emphasis in the article has been put on the appropriateness of the use of quantitative methodology in political science. There have been presented the numerous arguments of the interpretive potential of mathematical formulas for explanation of political processes, and particularly in the spectrum of comparison and evolution. An obvious historical pattern between the increase of popularity of the use of quantitative methodology in political science has been determined, for instance, during the period of Chicago school, behaviorism or in 1970th, when the scientists proposed the main numerical indexes for the analysis of political realities on the one hand, and the numbers of political publications on the other hand. The author has drawn an analogy with the peaks of scientific activeness and the speed of introducing quantitative indicators for evaluation, in particular, the party sphere. Detailed analysis of the basic numerical indexes, helping to describe the state, configuration and evolutional aspect of party systems, has been executed. This primarily is an effective number of parties’ index, which gives an idea about the competitive number of political parties in the country, and as a consequence about the fragmentation of party systems and the comparative dynamics of its development. The indexes of fragmentation and polarization, which allow drawing a conclusion on the stability and solidity of the parliamentary coalitions, and therefore the cohesion of the entire political system, have been determined. The index of electoral volatility, which demonstrates the electoral preferences of the population and their variability have been additionally considered. Although it is rather difficult to talk about the vector of cause-effect relations and the level of correlation between the variability of electoral preferences and changes in the party system, but the evaluation of the party system in the range of stability / instability requires consideration of this indicator. The newer indexes, which are more often used for evaluation of the level of institutionalization of parties and party systems, and the indicators of stability / changeability of the party system, have been referred to. The main focus has been drawn to the government-level research, and namely to the three main components such as the frequency of changes in governments, rules (formula) of their conduction, and the conditions of access for the purpose of a potential alternative. The author concludes that modern political science is incomplete without the use of quantitative methodology, which in turn is impossible without a quantitative interpretation of the received numerical indicators.

Criatividade em indivíduos com transtornos e dificuldades de aprendizagem: revisão de pesquisas

O presente trabalho teve como objetivo identificar as produções científicas nacionais e internacionais que tiveram como foco a investigação da relação entre criatividade e dificuldades/transtornos de aprendizagem. Em nível nacional foram consultadas as bases de dados SCIELO, PEPSIC, CAPES e BDTD e no internacional, as bases APA, ERIC, PubMed e Scopus, sem delimitação de tempo. Como resultado, constatou-se a existência de 57 produções internacionais e cinco nacionais. As análises identificaram que não houve diferenças estatísticas significativas entre as médias das produções das últimas três décadas e que as investigações focalizaram principalmente o transtorno específico de leitura/Dislexia, o uso da metodologia quantitativa e o emprego do Teste de Torrance. Alguns nomes dados aos grupos investigados na maioria dos trabalhos não denotaram com clareza as origens das dificuldades de aprendizagem - se seriam ou não decorrentes de transtorno de aprendizagem. Concluiu-se que são necessários novos estudos sobre a temática, nos quais se caracterizem melhor os grupos investigados e a nomenclatura utilizada.

World Cities, Culture and Informality: A Challenge to the Practice of Boundary-Setting

The world cities discourse can be credited with broadening the analytical boundaries of the globalisation debate to include a greater set of actors and practices in the global economy. However, academic debate and policy thinking about world cities are also guilty of applying an (economic) reductionist framework, as exemplified by their foremost use of quantitative methodologies. This has resulted in the omission of many important elements of city life from the analysis. While this problem is not exclusive to culture, it has significant implications for the study of cultural practices in the context of world cities; even more so when they do not fit into formal structures. This paper challenges this reductionist practice. It argues that in order to better understand world cities today, a broader set of issues – and methodologies to interrogate them – needs to be considered. To read or download this article, please follow this link: http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1502385 DOI: 10.14324/111.2057-2212.054

Methodology Voga in the Field of Entrepreneurship: Employment of Quantitative Methods for the Study of the Inherent Characteristics Entrepreneurs

This study aimed to investigate how the quantitative methodology has been employed in research on "the inherent characteristics of entrepreneurs." Specifically, we analyze the Brazilian production exposedat the National Meeting of Anpad( EnANPAD ) over 10 years, since 2003, year of the creationof aspecific space for production in entrepreneurship, by 2012. Among the 279 articles on entrepreneurship published in EnANPADin these 10 years,a purposive sample of 28 articles was analyzed. At first abstracts, introductions and objectives were analyzed for the classification of subjects and subsequently proceeded to the detailed analysis of the employedmethods in the studies.In order to provide an analysis that indicates how to characterize the entrepreneurshipstudies on in Brazil in present, the moreaddressed issuein the field of entrepreneurship were investigated to evaluate the use of quantitative methodology, also justified, as target of this investigation, by being the main method used in the studies on the subject . The study allowsto identify methodological tools which are suitable to investigate the inherent characteristics of entrepreneurs and how these resources were used. The level of quality required for publication in EnANPAD collaborates to say about the viability of the search strategies outlined in this study. There is also a contribution to the delimitation of the object of research in the field of entrepreneurship, especially in Brazil.