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Zhang, Wei Mei, and Qiu Mei Zhang. "How to Apply E-Commerce in Furniture Enterprises." Applied Mechanics and Materials 380-384 (August 2013): 2356–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.380-384.2356.
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In the modern information society, e-commerce enables furniture enterprises and individuals that master information technology and commercial rules to employ all sorts of electronic tools and network in a systematic way and to engage in all kinds of commercial trade activities that are realized with the electronic mode with high efficiency and low costs. In order to better develop e-commerce, furniture enterprises should make an analysis of demands on e-commerce and define the goal, guarantee of organizations, go on Strategic planning, evaluate its effect.
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Muzakir, Mellisa Fitri Andriyani, Maisaroh Maisaroh, and Tatik Tatik. "Pelatihan E-Commerce Untuk Mendorong Terwujudnya Wirausaha Santri Pada Yayasan ASWAJA Nusantara, Sleman, Yogyakarta." Jurnal Abdimas Madani dan Lestari (JAMALI) 4, no. 1 (March 31, 2022): 17–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.20885/jamali.vol4.iss1.art3.
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Aswaja Nusantara Foundation is a foundation engaged in education and community assistance. This fooundation houses the Aswaja Nusantara Islamic Boarding Shool, Which has 130 students. In addition to studying religion, student at Aswaja Nusantara Islamic Boarding Shcool are also provided with knowledge, one of which is entrepreneurship. The Aswaja Nusantara Foundation Specifically providessupport and attention to student for entrepreneurshipprogrram. There are three problems faced in the santri entrepreneurship, namely the lack of entrepreneurial motivation and entrepreneurial skills possessed, difficulties in the marketing, and mastery of internet technology for business which is still zero. This service aim to provide skills in the use of e-commerce in business world, so that students are able to have the skills and are able to utilize e-commerce applications to support students entrepreneurs. The method use in the service program is e-commerce training and media creation assistance for marketing student’s products. The target of the program is 25 participants consisting of Aswaja Nusantara students, representatives of student from nearby Islamic boarding schools, micro enterprises fostered by Aswaja Nusantara Foundation. At the end of the program, participants are expected to master the application of e-commerce technology and motivate the to apply it in their start-up business.
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Seed, H. Bolton. "SUBSTRUCTURE DESIGN OF THE NEW MYSTIC PIER NO. 1, BOSTON." Coastal Engineering Proceedings 1, no. 3 (January 1, 2000): 16. http://dx.doi.org/10.9753/icce.v3.16.
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In order to provide adequate modern terminal facilities to handle the anticipated commerce requirements, the Port of Boston Authority, in 1947 prepared a master plan for the future development of the port. The second step of this plan was the reconstruction, on modern standards, of the old Mystic Pier No. 1. Planning for this work was started in 1949 and the new pier was opened to commerce in September 1952.
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He, Fu Bao, Yi Lai Zhang, Tong Jun Guo, and Hong Chen. "Customer Satisfaction Evaluation of Ceramic E-Commerce Platform." Applied Mechanics and Materials 397-400 (September 2013): 2681–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.397-400.2681.
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Customer satisfaction is an important comprehensive index to evaluate e-commerce platform, and carrying on customer satisfaction evaluation is an important part of the evaluation to e-commerce platform. This paper starts from the customer satisfaction, builds the evaluation index system and the multi-level evaluation mode of ceramic e-commerce platform based on the grey system theory and using the analytic hierarchy process combined with fuzzy comprehensive evaluation, and applies the mode. We can master the influence factors of customer satisfaction and provide guidance to the improvement of the platform through analyzing the evaluation result.
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Miajee, Md Rezaul Karim. "SET for E-commerce Transactions." American International Journal of Sciences and Engineering Research 1, no. 1 (November 30, 2018): 13–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.46545/aijser.v1i1.22.
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The Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) is a convention intended for ensuring Visa exchanges over the Internet. It is an industry-supported standard that was shaped by Master Card and Visa (going about as the administering body) in February 1996. To advance the SET standard all through the installments network, exhortation and help for its improvement have been given by IBM, GTE, Microsoft, Netscape, RSA, SAIC, Terisa and VeriSign. SET depends on cryptography and X.509 v3 computerized certificates to guarantee message confidentiality and security. SET is the main Internet exchange convention to give security through validation. It battles the danger of exchange data being changed in travel by keeping data safely encoded consistently and by utilizing computerized certificates to confirm the personality of those getting to installment points of interest. The specifications of and approaches to encourage secure installment card exchanges on the Internet are completely investigated in this paper.
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Osteen, Mark. "“A Moral Form to Master Commerce”: The Economies of DeLillo'sGreat Jones Street." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 35, no. 3 (April 1994): 157–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00111619.1994.9936474.
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Rosalinawati, Emma, and Syaiful Syaiful. "Analisis Pajak Penghasilan atas Transaksi E-Commerce di Kabupaten Gresik." JIATAX (Journal of Islamic Accounting and Tax) 1, no. 1 (April 2, 2018): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.30587/jiatax.v1i1.443.
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Taxes on online transactions become one of the expansion of tax revenues which presents a challenge for the taxation system in Indonesia. Basically the obligation of taxpayers of conventional businesses and online businesses (e-commerce) is no different. Gresik is one of the regencies in the East Java region where people like to make buying and selling transactions online. The study uses a normative and empirical approach in Gresik Regency which is applied by conducting library studies and field studies through data collection from the results of interviews that will be conducted to; e-commerce players from Gresik Regency, Tax Practitioners Tax Service Office (KPP) North Gresik and academics who master taxation. The results of interviews with e-commerce actors obtained information that most e-commerce actors did not agree with the imposition of tax collection on transactions on e-commerce transactions. The head of the extensification and extension section at the Gresik North Tax Service Office revealed that the potential of online business transactions in Gresik is growing very rapidly but the limited data available so far the North Gresik Tax Office has not been able to distinguish the payment of taxes on e-transactions commerce and conventional.
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Reyneke, Mignon, and Claire Barnardo. "Yuppiechef: from clicks to bricks – an omnichannel approach for a South African business." Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies 9, no. 3 (November 4, 2019): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eemcs-05-2019-0107.
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Learning outcomes The learning outcomes are as follows: understanding online, traditional and omnichannel retail and the challenges and benefits of each method; evaluating the effect of consumer buying behaviour on a company’s growth strategy; assessing the effect of changing industry dynamics and technology on consumer behaviour; and understanding the role of consistent customer experience across different retail mediums. Case overview/synopsis This case looks at Yuppiechef, a successful e-commerce business, and their move from “clicks to bricks” with the introduction of retail stores. Founder and CEO of Yuppiechef, Andrew Smith, shares the current business status and considers how to maintain the brand’s culture with the growth of retail and being an omnichannel pioneer. Complexity academic level The primary target audience for this teaching case is postgraduate business students, especially students of digital marketing, strategy and e-commerce. This teaching case is intended to be used as case study in postgraduate business programmes such as Master of Business Administration (MBA), a specialist masters’ programme such as MM (Entrepreneurship), post-graduate diploma in management (PGDip), as well as selected executive education programmes. Supplementary materials Teaching Notes are available for educators only. Subject code CSS 8: Marketing.
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Hussain, Jamilah, and Shukeri Mohamad Ros. "A STUDY ON THE USE OF E-LEARNING AMONG STUDENTS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF TRADE POLYTECHNIC TUANKU SYED SIRAJUDDIN." International Journal of Education, Psychology and Counseling 6, no. 38 (March 1, 2021): 66–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.35631/ijepc.638007.
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The e-learning method has been widely used since the pandemic epidemic covid 19. This study was conducted to examine the level of students' acceptance of e-learning learning in the learning process among students of the Department of Commerce Polytechnic Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin (PTSS). The objective of this study is to examine the level of acceptance, the ability of students, and the impact of e-learning learning. This study also aims to analyze the readiness of institutions to provide resources for successful e-learning. Data analysis based on feedback from 201 students from the Department of Commerce to review readiness, ability, and e-learning learning can help students of the Department of Commerce master their learning outcomes. The results of this study show that most students know and are sensitive to e-learning and know the benefits or benefits they get from e-learning compared to conventional methods. However, facilities and internet facilities are an obstacle to this noble endeavor.
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Zhu, Ling, and Jie Lin. "A Pricing Strategy of E-Commerce Advertising Cooperation in the Stackelberg Game Model with Different Market Power Structure." Algorithms 12, no. 1 (January 18, 2019): 24. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/a12010024.
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A lot of research work has studied the auction mechanism of uncertain advertising cooperation between the e-commerce platform and advertisers, but little has focused on pricing strategy in stable advertising cooperation under a certain market power structure. To fill this gap, this paper makes a study of the deep interest distribution of two parties in such cooperation. We propose a pricing strategy by building two stackelberg master-slave models when the e-commerce platform and the advertiser are respectively the leader in the cooperation. It is analyzed that the optimization solution of the profits of both parties and the total system are affected by some main decision factors including the income commission proportion, the advertising product price and the cost of advertising effort of both parties’ brand in different dominant models. Then, some numerical studies are used to verify the effectiveness of the models. Finally, we draw a conclusion and make some suggestions to the platforms and the advertisers in the e-commerce advertising cooperation.
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Aini, Qurotul, Mukti Budiarto, and Aulia Edliyanti. "Peran Gamifikasi E-Commerce Untuk Mendukung Ekonomi Kreatif." IJAcc 2, no. 1 (February 26, 2021): 33–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.33050/jakbi.v2i1.1499.
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In accordance with Presidential Decree Number 142 of 2018 on Economic Development Master Plan 2018-2025 National Creative that serve as the foundation in developing a creative economy that supports the national policy on "Making Indonesia 4.0", however, the current problem is the lack of contribution and the role of students in developing economic digitization. creative and marked by the lack of renewal of the Entrepreneurship course. Another problem is that there are still many agencies that have not been able to provide a website-based ecommerce container to accommodate student research results. With this problem, an ecommerce gamification-based student creative economy is utilized which aims to increase student interest in digitizing a creative economy and increase the number of quality scientific publications. Stages of research methods Gameplay e-commerce such as playing a game each user gets a level from the category of product purchased, of course, each level has its own features that make users interested in the privileges of each level.
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Aini, Qurotul, Mukti Budiarto, and Aulia Edliyanti. "Peran Gamifikasi E-Commerce Untuk Mendukung Ekonomi Kreatif." IJAcc 2, no. 1 (February 26, 2021): 33–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.33050/ijacc.v2no1p4.
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In accordance with Presidential Decree Number 142 of 2018 on Economic Development Master Plan 2018-2025 National Creative that serve as the foundation in developing a creative economy that supports the national policy on "Making Indonesia 4.0", however, the current problem is the lack of contribution and the role of students in developing economic digitization. creative and marked by the lack of renewal of the Entrepreneurship course. Another problem is that there are still many agencies that have not been able to provide a website-based ecommerce container to accommodate student research results. With this problem, an ecommerce gamification-based student creative economy is utilized which aims to increase student interest in digitizing a creative economy and increase the number of quality scientific publications. Stages of research methods Gameplay e-commerce such as playing a game each user gets a level from the category of product purchased, of course, each level has its own features that make users interested in the privileges of each level.
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Mahpuz, Mahpuz, Hariman Bahtiar, Fathurahman Fathurahman, and Amri Muliawan Nur. "Pelatihan pembinaan UMKM berbasis Teknologi Informasi untuk meningkatkan SDM pelaku UMKM." ABSYARA: Jurnal Pengabdian Pada Masyarakat 2, no. 2 (December 31, 2021): 212–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.29408/ab.v2i2.4206.
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Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Indonesia are currently one of the business sectors that can assist the government in employing the community. The Indonesian government, in its policies, has allocated many funds to increase the interest of the millennial generation in the field of entrepreneurship, especially various types of technology-based businesses such as startups, so that the Indonesian economy is growing. This training activity for assisting MSME actors aims to improve the ability of MSME actors ability to develop their business through information technology assistance. Improve knowledge of financial management and e-commerce for MSME actors and mastery of Information Technology for MSME actors. The participants came from 3 sub-districts in East Lombok Regency, namely Sukamulia, Selong, and Labuan Haji. The MSME coaching training involved 100 MSME participants in 3 sub-districts. MSME actors are given an understanding of the use of e-commerce and the importance of using technology in developing MSME products to increase their income. Implementing this activity is by practicing using various available promotional platforms, such as YouTube, Instagram, and Google Business. The results obtained are that MSME actors can master the basics of using the promotion platform that has been taught
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Dahal, Rewan Kumar. "Students’ Perception towards Master of Business Studies (MBS) Semester System: A Case Study of Nepal Commerce Campus." Pravaha 24, no. 1 (June 12, 2018): 181–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/pravaha.v24i1.20237.
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The study sought to understand and analyze students’ perception towards MBS semester system taking a case of Nepal Commerce Campus with regard to (a) academic resources, (b) course organization and planning, (c) physical resources, (d) governance and image, and (e) overall perception of students. It followed descriptive research design with using questionnaire survey instrument. The population of this study comprised all 668 MBS semester students and the sample consisted 246 students selected through random sampling techniques. The survey questionnaire was set in seven sections with 30 questions of various types to collect data. Collected data were analyzed with the help of SPSS software (version 23). The research result revealed that the perception of the students towards all aspects is quite satisfactory except toilets and canteen facilities of Nepal Commerce Campus. The study drew some feedback and suggestions from students for the betterment of the college. It covered those students who were studying MBS semester system since the last five out of 48 month’s course cycle therefore it didn’t cover the aspects of semester system. It enhances the understanding of stakeholders about the issues of semester system at master’s level.Pravaha Vol. 24, No. 1, 2018, Page: 181-195
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Wang, Lei. "Application of a Fuzzy Information Analysis and Evaluation Method in the Development of Regional Rural e-Commerce." Advances in Multimedia 2022 (September 15, 2022): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/4744099.
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As a new form of e-commerce, digital industry will become a tool to enhance regional competitiveness and win the allocation of resources, and its advanced degree is the standard to measure economic strength. In the process of development, countries and regions need to master their development status, so a set of digital industry evaluation index system is necessary to help various fields monitor the development status of e-commerce industry, aiming at providing more targeted services. Therefore, the establishment of regional digital industry progress index is conducive to evaluating and improving the development level of e-commerce. Because of the unbalanced development among different regions and the diversity and fuzziness of evaluation indexes, how to evaluate the development degree of cross-border electronic commerce in a region has become the main problem at present. In this paper, the evaluation index of regional promotion degree in cross-border electronic commerce is constructed, and on this basis, the intuitionistic fuzzy multiattribute group decision-making method based on induction is used to evaluate the promotion degree of regional cross-border electronic commerce. By analyzing the actual situation of cross-border Internet e-commerce comprehensive evaluation cases in various regions of Zhejiang Province, it is proved that this method is really effective. In view of this, this paper constructs an integrated multiangle monitoring index system of regional digital industry progress index, puts forward a subjective and objective method based on the principle of the minimum distance between the evaluated object and the ideal point, and combines the regional digital industry progress index with the comprehensive index method. The measurement model is used to measure the progress of digital industry in this region from June 2019 to June 2020, as an empirical object. The empirical results will show that this road is easy, and at the same time, we can fully grasp the progress of digital technology in a region.
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Septiowati, Rini, Silvia Sari, Purwatiningsih Purwatiningsih, Ruruh Dyatmiko, and Widayat Widayat. "Meningkatkan Profit Umkm Dengan Menerapkan Penjualan Melalui Digital Marketing Di Masa Pandemi Covid-19." JURNAL ABDIKARYASAKTI 1, no. 2 (October 12, 2021): 129. http://dx.doi.org/10.25105/ja.v1i2.9311.
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<p>Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat yang berjudul Meningkatkan profit UMKMdengan menerapkan penjualan melalui digital marketing di masa pandemic covid-19 ini bertujuan untuk memberikan pengenalan tentang digital marketing, mengajak serta menanamkan kesadaran kepada para pelaku UMKM bahwa sangat penting mengembangkan pemasaran melalui digital marketing untuk bisa meningkatkan penghasilan dan bertahan di masa pandemi covid. Target dari pengabdian ini adalah UMKM di Dusun Cisadap, Ciamis Jawa Barat. Hasil dari PKM ini terbukti para pelaku UMKM dapat mengusai cara penjualan melalui e-commerce dan digital marketing agar tetap bisa bertahan di masa pandemic covid-19.</p><p>Keywords: digital marketing, e-commerce, penghasilan, UMKM</p><p>Abstract: <br />Community Service entitled UMKM Development by implementing sales through digital marketing during the Covid-19 pandemic aims to provide an introduction to digital marketing, invite and instill awareness to UMKM players that it is very important to develop marketing through digital marketing to increase income and survive. during the covid pandemic. The target of this service is UMKM in Cisadap Hamlet, Ciamis - West Java. The results of this PKM are proven that UMKM players can master the way of selling through e-commerce and digital marketing so that they can survive during the Covid-19 pandemic.<br /> <br />Keywords: digital marketing, e-commerce income, UMKM</p><p> </p>
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Zhao, Xin, and Yan Hong Huangfu. "Research on Data Mining in the Information Network Application." Applied Mechanics and Materials 713-715 (January 2015): 1839–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.713-715.1839.
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Turn of the century, with the rapid development of database and network technology, we produce and the ability to collect data has been rapidly increasing, a large amount of data stored in databases and data warehouses, we have been submerged in the vast ocean of data and information. People need to have a new, more effective means to a variety of large amounts of data mining in order to realize their potential, data mining is to generate and rapidly developed applications in such environments, it appears to automatically and intelligently put massive data transformation provides a means for useful information and knowledge. This article will combining data mining and e-commerce, introduced the data in e-commerce information platform mining methods, so as to provide reference for the information network of employees, in order to better analyze the hidden relationships between data and model, master user preferences, provide personalized marketing decisions for decision support network platform, to reduce the risk.
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Wheeler, Charles. "Buddhism in the re-ordering of an early modern world: Chinese missions to Cochinchina in the seventeenth century." Journal of Global History 2, no. 3 (November 2007): 303–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1740022807002306.
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AbstractIn the seventeenth century, Chan Buddhist masters from monasteries in South China boarded merchant ships to Chinese merchant colonies in East and Southeast Asian port cities to establish or maintain monasteries. Typically, Chinese seafarers and merchants sponsored their travel, and sovereigns and elites abroad offered their patronage. What were these monks and their patrons seeking? This study will investigate the question through the case of one Chan master, Shilian Dashan, who journeyed to the Vietnamese kingdom of Cochinchina (Dang Trong) in 1695 and 1696. In Dashan, we see a form of Buddhism thought to have vanished with the Silk Road: that is, Buddhism as a ‘missionary religion’ able to propagate branch temples through long-distance networks of merchant colonies, and to form monastic communities within the host societies that welcomed them. This evident agency of seafaring Chan monks in early modern times suggests that Buddhism’s role in commerce, diaspora, and state formation in early modern maritime Asia may compare to religions like Islam and Christianity, and deserves further study.
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Pressey, Andrew. "A quiet revolution." Journal of Historical Research in Marketing 9, no. 4 (November 20, 2017): 511–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jhrm-05-2017-0018.
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Purpose The study aims examine the popular master narrative that marketing education in Britain first appeared in the 1960s and understand if its origins can in fact be traced to an earlier period. This is undertaken through an examination of the courses taught from 1902 to 1969 at the Faculty of Commerce, University of Birmingham, Great Britain. Design/methodology/approach The study draws on a number of primary source materials held at the archives at the Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham, that are related to the Faculty of Commerce. Findings The study identifies that marketing courses were being taught in Britain long before the 1960s by the new business schools; we can trace its origins to the beginning of the twentieth century at Birmingham. From 1902 onwards, marketing was consistently part of the syllabus of the undergraduate programme and it became part of the core syllabus of the post-graduate programme. Research limitations/implications The findings of the study require marketing education scholars and scholars of the emergence of marketing thought to revise their beliefs concerning the emergence of marketing education in Great Britain and situate this in an earlier period. Originality/value The paper demonstrates the historical value of studying early commerce syllabi and the manner in which marketing-themed content was delivered to students.
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Xu, Bin, Zhouhao Zhang, and Xinqi Li. "Research on the Coordination of Quality Behavior of Supply 3 Chain of E-Commerce Platform under C2B Model of High-Grade E-Commerce Based on Differential Game." Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research 17, no. 4 (October 27, 2022): 1409–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jtaer17040071.
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With the increasing demands of consumers for product grade, the C2B model of high-grade e-commerce emerges as required. In order to solve the problem of coordination and cooperation between e-commerce platforms and manufacturers, and to further develop the C2B model of high-grade e-commerce, this paper studies the coordination of supply chain interests by establishing a differential game model considering product grade factors. By comparing the equilibrium solutions of differential games under different decision-making situations, a cooperative coordination mechanism is proposed. Next, the equilibrium solution is further analyzed by means of numerical simulation. Finally, the influence of several important parameters on the equilibrium solution is discussed through sensitivity analysis. It is found that (1) the supply chain parties have optimal quality behavior in the centralized decision-making situation, and the overall benefit is the greatest. (2) Compared with the Nash non-cooperative game, the optimal quality behavior of the dominant party remains unchanged, and the optimal quality behavior of the following party is enhanced after both parties move from the Stackelberg master-slave game, and the optimal profits of both parties, as well as the overall increase. (3) The cooperative coordination model can coordinate the quality behavior of both sides of the supply chain when the benefit distribution coefficient is within a specific range.
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Zulma, Gandy Wahyu Maulana, and Achmad Hizazi. "The Relevance of E-Commerce Tax Application in Indonesia: Based on the Perspective of Taxation Expert." Organum: Jurnal Saintifik Manajemen dan Akuntansi 3, no. 2 (December 7, 2020): 94–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.35138/organum.v3i2.103.
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This study aims to understand the relevance of e-commerce tax regulations in Indonesia, which were cancelled by the Government. The method used is applied research with explorative study techniques designed in structured questionnaires and interviews with 15 respondents who were judged to have the right expertise with different backgrounds such as consultants, tax observers, academics, managers, e-commerce entrepreneurs, and policymakers. The results showed that it was necessary to revise tax laws to adjust to the digital era's demands soon. In addition, technological innovation in taxation was considered to reduce administrative costs in terms of tax authorities. Big Data tax management was considered to make tax authorities' performance efficient and can anticipate higher costs. The quality of human resources must support technological innovation to bring up a new profession in the future, namely experts who master tax and technology with the term "Taxologist". Finally, the Government needs to secure Value-Added Tax (VAT) taxes in the short term until a global consensus agreement is reached in 2020.
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Mall, Andrew. "Concentration, diversity, and consequences: Privileging independent over major record labels." Popular Music 37, no. 3 (September 12, 2018): 444–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261143018000375.
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AbstractThe field of popular music studies has long been interested in the relationships between record labels and the music they make available to consumers. At the micro level, research on record labels provides insight into the tensions between art and commerce and those between individuals and institutions. At the macro level, this research illuminates changes in socio-economic trends, music industry structures and structural inequalities. A meta-analysis of this literature reveals an ‘indie prejudice’: a preference for (and even a bias in favour of) independent labels coupled with a dismissive approach to the study of major labels and musical mainstreams that impacts our ability, as a scholarly field, to speak with authority about the largest segments of the commercial record industries. What larger implications for our scholarship might confronting this prejudice reveal? What master narratives have structured popular music studies’ preference of independent over major record labels? In this article, I argue that the art/commerce dichotomy has remained influential, although it can have unintended and dangerous side effects if it becomes a guiding assumption.
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Liefländer-Koistinen, Luise. "Übersetzer- und Dolmetscherausbildung in Finnland." Glottodidactica. An International Journal of Applied Linguistics 27 (November 1, 2018): 91–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/gl.1999.27.06.
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Translator education in Finland has been on university level since 1980. There are four Schools of Translation belonging to the University of Helsinki (Kouvola), University of Joensuu (Savonlinna), University of Tampere and University of Turku. Students have to study appr. 5 years to get the degree of Master of Arts. They usually study at least two languages - they can choose between English, Russian, German, Swedish or French as their main subject, and there is the choice between several other languages or special subjects (like: language of law, commerce, intercultural communication etc.) as a second or third subject. Finnish translators get jobs in the EU, the business sector or administration.
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Schoeman, Aldi, Geoff Bick, and Claire Barnardo. "Cape union mart: digital transformation and customer experience during a crisis." Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies 11, no. 3 (August 12, 2021): 1–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eemcs-04-2021-0116.
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Learning outcomes The learning outcomes of this paper are as follows: to define the scope of digital customer experience, why it is important and how it can be used to create a competitive advantage, to evaluate the various challenges for traditional retail businesses that undertake a digital transformation strategy, to critically assess a chosen digital transformation strategy, to identify the key features of a successful digital transformation strategy and to develop a crisis communication strategy. Case overview/synopsis The Cape Union Mart Group is a typical apparel retail company faced with the challenge of improving the digital customer experience and accelerating digital transformation in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Due to the pandemic, the demand for e-commerce increased dramatically. However, strict lockdown regulations forbade the delivery of clothing. When the lockdown was lifted, there was an order backlog of four weeks. To add to this challenge, the Group was in the midst of a technology update. They moved their entire information technology (IT) backbone to three clouds and, just a week before the lockdown, launched five new websites for its five different retail chains. The ultimate goal with the technology update was to give the company a competitive advantage by improving the customer experience. However, having to do this at an accelerated pace due to the pandemic posed a number of challenges. The case provides a vivid description of how the crisis unfolded and how Grant De Waal-Dubla, the executive of e-commerce and IT at the Group and his team responded to the challenges, together with the marketing team. Based on the success of e-commerce during the lockdown, the owners of the business then tasked Grant with new, aggressive growth targets. Whilst dealing with the aftermath of the lockdown, Grant’s main challenge is to develop a strategy to reach those targets. Complexity academic level The primary target audience for this case are postgraduate students enrolled on programmes such as Master of Business Administration or specialist masters in a business field such as marketing or strategy and also for Executive Education courses. Supplementary materials Teaching notes are available for educators only. Subject code CSS 11: Strategy.
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Kárpáti, László. "Master training in Agribusiness and Rural Development at the University of Zagreb." Applied Studies in Agribusiness and Commerce 1, no. 1 (December 31, 2007): 87–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.19041/apstract/2007/1/15.
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The title of the proposed JEP project is: “Agribusiness Higher EducAtion Development” with the acronym AHEAD. This curriculum development project – in case of acceptance – will last for three years, from July 2005 and June 2008. The primary project site is the University of Zagreb, Croatia; the contractor and the co-ordinator institution is the University of Debrecen, Hungary. In the consortium, 3 further European universities (University of Hohenheim, Wageningen University and Scottish Agricultural College) will participate, from the Croatian side the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management and an additional 7 Croatian institutes will also be involved. The total number of members in the consortium is 13. The main objective of the AHEAD project is to establish new BSc and MSc programmes in Croatia at two Faculties of the University of Zagreb. These are as follows: Agricultural and Rural Development, Food Safety and Quality Management and pilot MSc training in Agribusiness and Rural Development. These are preceded by faculty retraining programmes in food safety and quality management, as well as agribusiness and commerce within the framework of a MBA programme accredited by the International MBA Network. The professional content of the project is a modernised curriculum and training palette that would be available by the end of this project at the University of Zagreb, serving not only the higher education of the country, but the demand of the Croatian national economy as well, in line with the basic principles of the European Union.
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Song, Yiming, Shun Wu, Yang Zhou, Yiting Pan, and Kumar Sudhir. "Optimized Demand Information Sharing Model of Dual-Channel Supply Chain in E-Commerce." Mathematical Problems in Engineering 2022 (September 30, 2022): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/7255653.
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In the dual-channel supply chain, the relationship between the electronic direct selling channel and the traditional selling channel is situated in an antagonistic game. The present study used the master-slave game model to analyze the dual-channel supply chain structure, where the manufacturer is the leader of the game, and the seller is the follower of the game. Based on the game analysis theory, the game order of manufacturer and seller is analyzed in the state of demand information sharing. The decision model of each member in the dual-channel supply chain is constructed, and the optimal production decision and product price decision under the demand information sharing between the seller and the manufacturer are determined by the reverse induction method. The expected economic benefits of both are calculated, respectively. The experimental results showed that the economic benefit of the model is higher than that of the traditional demand information nonsharing model, which could enhance the economic benefit of the manufacturer and the seller at the same time and alleviate the contradiction between the electronic direct selling channel and the traditional selling channel.
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Alpern, Stanley B. "What Africans Got for Their Slaves: A Master List of European Trade Goods." History in Africa 22 (January 1995): 5–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3171906.
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A great deal has been written in recent decades about the Atlantic slave trade, including the mechanics and terms of purchase, but relatively little about what Africans received in return for the slaves and other exports such as gold and ivory. And yet, if one is trying to reconstruct the material culture of, say, the Guinea Coast of West Africa during the slave-trade period, the vast European input cannot be ignored.The written evidence consists of many thousands of surviving bills of lading, cargo manifests, port records, logbooks, invoices, quittances, trading-post inventories, account books, shipping recommendations, and orders from African traders. English customs records of commerce with Africa during the eighteenth century, when the slave trade peaked, alone contain hundreds of thousands of facts. A thorough analysis of all available data would call for the services of a research team equipped with computers, and fill many volumes. Using a portable typewriter (now finally abandoned for WordPerfect) and a card file, and sifting hundreds of published sources, I have over the years compiled an annotated master list of European trade goods sold on a portion of the Guinea Coast from Portuguese times to the mid-nineteenth century. The geographic focus is the shoreline from Liberia to Nigeria; from it more slaves left for the New World than from any comparable stretch of the African coast. I call the area “Kwaland” for the Kwa language family to which nearly all the indigenous peoples belong.
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Suriyati, Suriyati. "Desain Perancangan E-Commerce Kain Tenun Lombok Desa Sukarara Lombok Tengah." To Maega | Jurnal Pengabdian Masyarakat 2, no. 2 (September 14, 2019): 36. http://dx.doi.org/10.35914/tomaega.v2i2.241.
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Lombok is songket woven fabric which has embossed on cotton yarn, threads of silver or gold thread. Songket weaving craft that is learned by the women Sasak is a type of traditional weaving craft. Starting from the yarn manufacturing, dyeing, to the manufacture of woven fabrics, all done the old fashioned way. To make a yarn that will be used for weaving using natural materials, such as fiber pineapple, banana fiber, cotton, and bark. As for the dye, using natural dyes from ingredients that are also naturally anyway. To produce songket cloth of a width of 1.2 m and 2 m in length takes 2-4 weeks. Motif used in the manufacture of songket is a legacy handed down that are not allowed to diseberluaskan. It is said that the traditional songket motifs from village Lombok Sukarara reached more than 100 patterns. Nothing is recorded or drawn details, unless stored in the form of a master to learn generations to come. This study uses qualitative research aimed at understanding more deeply to a problem that is studied. This study investigates the problems in marketing and promoting traditional handicrafts woven Sasak by breaking factor in using fishbone diagrams. Woven Songket generated Lombok society is very unique, because here there is a meeting of western and eastern. Technically, the second meeting of the area led to the integration in other areas in Indonesia that did not exist. Along with the development, songket cloth or woven cloth Lombok has developed the idea, both in terms of the motive and the enrichment of the author, to give birth to works of Neat and very attractive to domestic and foreign tourists. Innovation targeted in this study is an application of e-commerce in helping to market, promote and manage sales songket online.
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Hassi, Abderrahman, Dalal Rachid, and Badr Lahrichi. "Kamal Reggad and e-commerce entrepreneurship in Morocco." Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies 6, no. 3 (September 23, 2016): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eemcs-05-2015-0073.
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Subject area The case is designed for students with prior knowledge of principles of management, particularly leadership theories. The case would also benefit bachelor students who already took an introductory course to leadership such as organizational behavior or graduate students who are familiar with the leadership and/or entrepreneurship literature. This case study may be used in the following academic courses: theories of leadership, leadership and leaders, organizational leaders’ roles, management skills, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial management. Study level/applicability This case study may be used in the following academic programs: Bachelor’s in Business Administration Master of Science in Business Administration MBA Programs. Case overview Kamal Reggad is a Moroccan entrepreneur who created the company Menaclick, an online business that aims to sell and promote various products and services nationally and internationally at discounted prices. Goods and services are posted on Menaclick’s website www.hmizate.ma, which means “good deals” in Moroccan Arabic. The Hmizate platform operates a daily-deals and group-buying website offering discounted deals to Moroccan customers. The deals are mainly on goods and services such as traveling, food, esthetics, shopping, high-tech gadgets and recreational events (Eco, 2013). Menaclick is based in Casablanca, Morocco, and its website www.hmizate.ma is one of the most popular websites in the country with over 40,000 visitors per day. In the past few years, Kamal has been significantly contributing to building the groundwork of the e-commerce industry in Morocco, a course that has been changing the way Moroccan customers shop for goods and services. In fact, it is because of the merits of group-buying sites such as Hmizate that over 16 million Moroccan internet users navigate the net daily to buy products and services online with ease and facility (Maroc Numeric Cluster, 2014). Kamal Reggad is a fitting example of an innate leader who introduced a new leadership style to Morocco. Kamal took a colossal risk by targeting a new and unexplored market in Morocco which is the e-commerce business; his risks have paid off. As the case explains, Kamal’s success is because of his passion, perseverance and positive attitude. Expected learning outcomes In general, the objective of the case study is to further enhance the understanding of leadership in general and entrepreneurial spirit in particular. The case study will assist students in developing their leadership-related skills through the discussion of a real-life situation and experience and propose an example of the importance of participative leadership during the launching phase of a business venture. The case is designed to provoke and stimulate students’ personal reflections about a particular management style, especially in entrepreneurship. Supplementary materials Teaching notes are available for educators only. Please contact your library to gain login details or email support@emeraldinsight.com to request teaching notes. Subject code CSS 3: Entrepreneurship.
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Hsu, Madeline Y. "Migration and Native Place: Qiaokan and the Imagined Community of Taishan County, Guangdong, 1893–1993." Journal of Asian Studies 59, no. 2 (May 2000): 307–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2658658.
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An the spring of 1984, officials of Taishan County, Guangdong, erected a statue in the central square of the county seat to commemorate the man whose life represented the highest attainment of ambition, idealism, and patriotism in recent local history. The man so honored was neither a conquering general nor a communist zealot. Taishan's chosen hero was a master of commerce and industry, who overcame the early disadvantages of birth to an impoverished family to become a wealthy and successful businessman, a powerful labor contractor, a railroad engineer, and the owner of a thriving import-export business based in the American city of Seattle. Chen Yixi (1844–1928) was not distinguished by financial success alone, for many other Taishanese men went to America, where, by dint of hard work, determination, and luck, they also became wealthy men.
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Belozerskaya, Marina. "Jan Van Eyck's Lost Mappamundi-a Token of Fifteenth-Century Power Politics." Journal of Early Modern History 4, no. 1 (2000): 45–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157006500x00132.
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AbstractAccording to Bartholomco Fazio, humanist and secretary to King Alfonso I of Naples, Jan van Eyck painted a mappamundi for Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy. The passage regarding this map appears in De viris illustribus, a eulogy of great men of the fifteenth century, and furnishes the only record of this work. The brevity and ambiguity of Fazio's description have prompted scholars to debate the appearance, location, function, and even the authorship of the elusive map. In this article I not only revisit these problems, refuting previous conjectures, but seek to go further in order to gain a wider view of this lost work by a renowned master at the nexus of cartography, diplomacy, commerce, religion, and learning that linked fifteenth-centuty Europe into a community of shared tastes, interests, and concerns-perspectives from which it has not been addressed.
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Topping, Matthew W. "“Words That Open Your Heart”—Overcoming Social Barriers to Heritage Language Reclamation in Ishigaki City." Languages 8, no. 1 (December 21, 2022): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/languages8010005.
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Ishigaki Yaeyaman, a heavily minoritized Southern Ryukyuan language, is not a language of commerce, education, media, or government validated by the socioeconomic center. Nevertheless, it holds a certain value for a group of people in Ishigaki City that is intangible and deeply personal. In keeping with the goal of this special issue—to step out of the established dichotomies that impede the vision and practice of Ryukyuan language learning—this work sheds light on the ideologies and practices of new speakers of Ishigaki Yaeyaman, who traverse a ‘third space’ in their use of the language between public-and-private, polite-and-rude, spoken-and-written, and Japanese-and-Ryukyuan. It builds on the author’s findings, including field observations made during doctoral research at University of the Ryukyus. A participatory action research methodology is employed, drawing upon qualitative data from semi-structured personal interviews and the in-person observation of Master–Apprentice language learning sessions within a local grassroots initiative begun in December 2019. The analysis suggests a need to break away from the dichotomies dictating the environment and situations in which new speakers may interact with traditional speakers and among themselves. This is recommended to take the form of Master–Apprentice training in a context that encourages the transformation of language attitudes and awareness, creating a ‘safe space’ that is dialogic, collaborative, and transdisciplinary.
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Maeer, Alistair. "The Baltic and the birth of a modern English maritime community: the Muscovy Company and nautical cartography, 1553-1665." Romanian Journal for Baltic and Nordic Studies 4, no. 2 (December 15, 2012): 19–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.53604/rjbns.v4i2_2.
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English merchants and navigators began developing their skills in the late sixteenth century to reach Baltic shores and in the process birthed a distinct English nautical charting tradition which continued to service and reflect English interests for over a century. Specifically, the efforts of the Muscovy Company and the emergence of a distinct master-apprentice relationship of chart makers within the Drapers’ Company instigated the emergence of a modern maritime community in England replete with the financial structures, ships, and skills necessary to encompass the globe. As a result of various setbacks in the late-sixteenth century, English merchants and mariners shifted from coastal trading ventures to direct long-distance overseas commerce. This transformation was initiated through the efforts of the Muscovy Company and its accompanying introduction of marine charts for navigating distant shores. The introduction and expansion of direct long-distance overseas trade and modern navigational techniques then spurred the creation of a domestic charting industry to service these English navigational needs, the Thames School of English marine charting. Born out of a close association with English commerce to the Baltic, members of the Thames School continued to produce nautical charts of the globe that reflected ever-expanding English interests until the early-eighteenth century. This paper argues that trade to and from the Baltic acted as a proving ground, the venue, within which both the origins of English long-distant overseas trade and nautical cartography emerged—two fundamentally necessary components for the Empire which followed.
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Paul, P. K., P. S. Aithal, and K. S. Shivraj. "M.Phil. as Masters by Research Work Programs in IT & Computing Fields: A Case Study of Indian Private Universities." Asian Journal of Information Science and Technology 8, no. 1 (May 5, 2018): 15–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.51983/ajist-2018.8.1.2594.
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Indian higher education system is changing rapidly. During the last few decades after Independence of India, several educational institutions have been developed throughout the nation. During this period apart from the establishment of HEIs various new degrees, diplomas and awards have been started. Like the United Kingdom and its follower countries, degrees in the field of Science and Applied Sciences started and continued both Science and Engineering platform/ stream. Similarly, in research segment two main degrees till continued one is Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) and another is Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.). Both are important and valuable in their own place. The M.Phil. program is a kind of research based master’s program and similar to the Masters of Research (M.Res.) programs available in many countries. M.Phil. is also a smaller and previous part of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD). Normally it requires less time than a PhD program. The program available worldwide and in India also it has offered by the universities. In India, the degree is available in different platform or stream i.e. Arts, Science, and Commerce. Even in Technology and Management stream as well the programs have been started in recent. This paper is conceptual in nature and primary study based on the availability of M.Phil. program nationwide. The research work mainly focuses on the varieties of M.Phil. programs available in IT and Computer fields and especially offered by Private Universities in India.
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Brown, Alan S. "The Proving Grounds." Mechanical Engineering 139, no. 07 (July 1, 2017): 33–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.2017-jul-1.
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This article focuses on the emerging supply chain of hardware, software, and engineers transforming warehouses to test bed of innovation for autonomous robots. Although warehouses are controlled environments, they are filled with changing obstacles, traffic, and unexpected surprises. Warehouses used to be the hub of a relatively simple logistics operation. They received and stored pallets of identical goods from manufacturers and importers, and then sent boxes via a conveyor belt or cart to trucks destined for retail outlets. Bruce Welty and his partner have built a world-class e-commerce fulfillment facility, Quiet Logistics, by deploying robots sold by Kiva Systems. The next-generation robots have master control systems to optimize their movements, as do the Kiva robots. However, these new robots are designed to collaborate with human workers rather than banishing them from the aisles, which means the robots must move briskly across the warehouse floor while avoiding people, forklifts, pallets, and boxes. Economics make warehouses a great proving ground for autonomous robots.
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Greenberg, Amy S. "1848/1898: Memorial Day, Places of Memory, and Imperial Amnesia." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 124, no. 5 (October 2009): 1869–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2009.124.5.1869.
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Mr. Speaker, I believe that as we sow so shall we reap; and if in the minds of the present generation of boys and girls, young men and women, we sow the seeds of lukewarm patriotism, in the next we will reap a race of men and women who will care very little for love of country. … I would have this nation the absolute master of the commerce of the world. … [I]t is impossible to look up without having a feeling of pride steal over you for the patriots of '76, the sailors of '12, the boys in blue of '61, the courage of the boys in gray. …—Representative Edmund H. Driggs to Congress, 8 March 1898On 15 February 1898, the USS Maine exploded in Havana harbor, killing 266 crewmen. American journalists clamored for vengeance against the Spanish authorities they wrongly blamed for the accident. Three weeks later the Fifty-Fifth Congress unanimously voted in support of President McKinley's $50 million bill for the “national defense” (Morgan 275). By May, Spain and the United States were at war.
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Alyousef, Hesham Suleiman, and Amerah Abdullah Alsharif. "Thematic Progression in Saudi Postgraduate Business Students’ Multimodal Texts: An SF-MDA of Accounting Discourse." JEES (Journal of English Educators Society) 4, no. 2 (October 2, 2019): 99. http://dx.doi.org/10.21070/jees.v4i2.2582.
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Thematic progression plays a vital role in organizing the information in a text and in enabling it to be understood and communicated effectively. Studies of multimodal business discourse have been confined to workplace contexts, and across the fields of management accounting, marketing, and finance. Based on Halliday’s (2014) analytical tools of systemic functional linguistic (SFL) and Kress and van Leeuwen’s (2006) analysis of images, an Systemic Functional Multimodal Discourse Analysis (SF-MDA) was conducted to explore THEME and INFORMATION structure in five international students’ texts in a key topic in accounting, namely financial statements. The participants are first-year Master of Commerce Accounting Saudi students enrolled in the Accounting Concepts and Methods module at an Australian university. The findings of the SF-MDA revealed the frequency of Theme reiteration and the linear Theme pattern in financial statements. The first pattern is employed in accounting tables to list the corresponding numerical values. The SF-MDA findings of the balance sheet corresponded with Kress and van Leeuwen’s (2006) approach to the analysis of grammar of visual design in terms of compositional zones.
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Rijal, Deependra. "Students’ Perception on the Effectiveness of Online Classes During Pandemic." EFFORTS, Journal of Education and Research 4, no. 1 (March 30, 2022): 81–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ejer.v4i1.44173.
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The present study aimed at finding out students' perception on the effectiveness of online classes conducted during the pandemic situation of COVID -19. It attempted to find the students' perceptions for effective classes. I applied cross sectional survey design. For this, survey questionnaires were prepared in google form. Those students who were taking online classes at Nilkantha Multiple Campus in bachelor and master levels and education, arts and commerce faculties were selected as respondents for my research through convenience sampling procedure. Students were requested to reply the questions posted in their Facebook group of each classes. The data were collected, analyzed and interpreted by the help pie-charts and diagrams and descriptions. The result of this study indicated that respondents were not satisfied with their online classes due to low participation, lack of enough interaction, unattractive content delivery and the problems of poor internet and frequent power cut. Even though online classes were reported to be convenient in term of saving time, still the students perceived it to be less effective.
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Eckhardt, Giana M. "Playing the Trust Game Successfully in the Reputation Economy." NIM Marketing Intelligence Review 12, no. 2 (November 1, 2020): 10–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/nimmir-2020-0011.
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AbstractHunting for “stars”, the icons of the reputation economy, is a prerequisite for survival in e-commerce in general and on sharing platforms in particular. The key to understanding the rise of reputation is trust, and the ability of a platform to provide this trust has become crucial in the past decade. Social media managers are now key players in marketing departments. One of their most important jobs is the careful curation of digital reputations. Marketers need to engage in diverse forms of reputation management and master several challenges in designing the right systems and utilizing reputation information in optimal ways. Engendering trust is more complex than gaining star ratings or positive reviews on owned or third-party platforms. How platforms are designed – in terms of how people can make bookings or orders and how users rate each other – is the key issue. It needs to be managed in a sophisticated way, especially in an era when topics such as racial and ethnic justice are key societal concerns.
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Gerrard, Bill, and Keith Macrosson. "Teaching Technology and Business." Industry and Higher Education 11, no. 6 (December 1997): 378–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/095042229701100608.
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Research conducted 25 years ago in the UK established at that time that businesses required able, enthusiastic and broadly educated people who were willing to master quickly a firm's techniques and procedures and to advance to a position of responsibility and leadership. The BSc Honours degree in Technology and Business Studies (TBS) at the University of Strathclyde was designed to meet that requirement by providing students with an understanding of the language of technology and the language of business, and to link these two to provide a fluency in the communication skills used by managers on a daily basis. In an earlier paper Macrosson described the TBS degree, established in October 1974, as a new approach to the education of students wishing to enter industry, commerce or public service. Now, 23 years on from the first intake, this paper briefly outlines the current structure of the course, reviews its overall performance, and extracts the five principal lessons which the authors believe will be of help to those either establishing or reviewing a similar degree. The factual parts of the paper are based on a recently completed survey of the 190 TBS students currently on the course.
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Krikler, Jeremy. "A Chain of Murder in the Slave Trade: A Wider Context of the Zong Massacre." International Review of Social History 57, no. 3 (September 13, 2012): 393–415. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020859012000491.
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SummaryThis article seeks to explore from a new angle the massacre associated with the slave ship Zong – that is, the murder of around 130 slaves at sea in 1781. Hitherto, the massacre has been looked at largely in terms of the law, particularly insurance law, and the commercial logic of the British slave trade. This article gives due weight to the overriding concerns of commerce in the Zong atrocity, but it also explains it in terms of the culture and context of the selection of captives for the slave trade, a process in which ships' surgeons were prominent. It argues that this process habituated surgeons and captains – the Master of the Zong was both – to the possibility of death (at the hands of African controllers) of the captives they deemed unfit for the Atlantic slave trade. The article proposes that in the slave trade, medical expertise became yoked to the fateful decision of whether or not to accord commodity value to the captive. Where the surgeons decided to deny commodity value to a captive in the trade, he or she suffered “commercial death”, which was all too often followed by death itself.
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Bick, Geoff, and Jeanné Odendaal. "UCOOK: growth challenges faced by a small- to medium-sized South African venture." Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies 9, no. 3 (October 31, 2019): 1–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eemcs-02-2019-0042.
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Learning outcomes The learning outcomes are as follows: to understand how technology can be used to create innovative entrepreneurial opportunities; to develop analytical and critical thinking skills to understand organisations, industries and their dynamics; to analyse strategic options for an entrepreneurial organisations and motivate a proposed strategic direction; and to assess the inter-functional requirements for an entrepreneurship to successfully implement a strategy. Case overview/synopsis UCOOK, a successful emerging economy SME, is confronted with the threat of retail giants (e.g. Checkers and Woolworths) entering the meal kit space. No longer the only “new kid on the block”, UCOOK has to consider a sustainable growth strategy to remain competitive. The case provides the reader with a snapshot of experiences of a meal kit entrepreneurial venture and what it entails for them to grow in the South African milieu. Principally, this case is designed to impart knowledge and stimulate a practical understanding of entrepreneurship and strategic decision-making in the meal kit industry. Additionally, the purpose is to serve as inspiration for business students to see the opportunities that lie within strategically astute emerging market ventures. Complexity academic level The primary target audience for this teaching case is postgraduate business students, especially students of entrepreneurship, strategy and e-commerce. This teaching case is intended to be used as case study in post graduate business programmes such as Master of Business Administration (MBA), a specialist Masters programme such as MM (Entrepreneurship), post-graduate diploma in management (PGDip), as well as selected executive education programmes. Supplementary materials Teaching Notes are available for educators only. Please contact your library to gain login details or email support@emeraldinsight.com to request teaching notes. Subject code CSS 3: Entrepreneurship.
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Don Ton, Anh, Laszlo Hammerl, Dennis Weber, Oliver Kremer, and Gabor Szabo-Szentgroti. "Why leaders are important for cross-functional teams: Moderating role of supportive leadership on knowledge hiding." Problems and Perspectives in Management 20, no. 3 (August 8, 2022): 178–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/ppm.20(3).2022.15.
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Knowledge exchange has been a critical factor for cross-functional teams to master different tasks and problems and promote innovation. Cross-functional teams rely on the direct cooperation of senior employees from different departments, often with converging aims, leadership, culture, and communication. However, with the ever-increasing complexity in business decisions, decision-makers invested in the manufacturing industry sector need the support of a diverse team as an advisory tool to put well-thought measures into effect. The aim of this study is to analyze how cross-functional teams in commerce and industry rely on different key performance indicators to limit knowledge hiding. This paper conducted a quantitative study of 130 individual participants working in cross-functional teams in Germany. It also adapted multiple linear regression and used a conceptual model impacting the relationship between team performance, trust, and organizational citizenship behavior, including the moderating role of leadership. The disruptive effect of knowledge hiding was contextualized. The results indicate that team performance is directly affected by the selected variables. Furthermore, it is limited to knowledge hiding, while trust and the use of adequate leadership help to retain knowledge retention. Lastly, organizational citizenship behavior was found as the paramount factor, supported by individually tailored leadership methods, to foster information exchange and thereby promote organization-wide learning.
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Krishna, Chinta Venkata Murali, G. Appa Rao, S. AnuRadha, and K. V. Daya Sagar. "Prediction of User Overall Gratification in Indian Tourism Domain on Hotel Classes and Trip Types." ECS Transactions 107, no. 1 (April 24, 2022): 19813–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1149/10701.19813ecst.
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The revenue and economy of the country in the past years significantly depend on tourism. The hotel sector's role is even more prominent in tourism. The plans and decisions of tours of users can be recommended with the collaboration of E-commerce and hotel management. The traveling proportion of the population is getting minor over the months due to the worst impact of COVID-19. Thus not just the tourism, the hotel sector is also in vain in terms of revenue. Users' past experiences and opinions help boost their satisfaction levels by providing recommendations and retaining them. The present scenario and stats prove that the selection and decision of hotels have enormous support on user reviews. This research article tries to find and analyze the various aspects that contribute more towards the gratification levels of users in Indian top tourism city hotels listed by the Master and VISA Inc. survey. This survey focuses on the item-item collaborative filtering and regression techniques based on TripAdvisor reviews of recent times. Once the dimensions are known, it helps in improving them and thus even enhances the ratings of Asian continental hotel management. This study proves that the online travel platform helps obtain reviews from users to maintain the travel recommender systems.
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Zhan, Li, and Kai Ning. "Minority Tourist Information Service and Sustainable Development of Tourism under the Background of Smart City." Mobile Information Systems 2021 (November 19, 2021): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/6547186.
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The continuous and in-depth development of smart technology has brought new development opportunities and challenges to the development of the tourism industry. This research mainly discusses the design of ethnic minority tourism information services and sustainable tourism development in the context of smart cities. The smart tourism public service application system must meet the three major requirements of different service objects. One is a smart service system aimed at satisfying tourists’ travel information services. The second is to meet the needs of tourism companies for online marketing and e-commerce on the platform. The third is to provide a platform for the government to master travel information and supervise the travel market to realize e-government management. Therefore, the smart tourism application system includes three aspects: service, market, and management. The smart tourism service module is a module that the platform provides tourists with “eating, accommodation, transportation, travel, shopping, and entertainment” tourism information inquiry and consulting services and also uses modern information technology to provide navigation, tour guide, and shopping guide services in tourism. The smart tourism marketing module is the corporate product display, image promotion, and platform sales services provided by the platform for tourism companies. The smart tourism management module provides tourism management departments with services for managing various types of tourism information on the platform, platform security operations, and emergency response systems. As an ethnic minority region, the total tourism revenue of M city in 2020 will reach 75.68 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 21.33%. This research will highlight the unique charm of ethnic minorities and help drive the economic development of one party.
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Chai Chuen, Lee, and Nor Azrina Mohd Yusof. "Development and Evaluation of a Chinese Character Educational Board Game for Non-Native Learners." Journal of Creative Practices in Language Learning and Teaching (CPLT) 9, no. 2 (December 8, 2021): 164. http://dx.doi.org/10.24191/cplt.v9i2.16449.
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There is no doubt that knowing Chinese gives graduates a competitive advantage. The ability to communicate fluently in Chinese has long been a requirement for Chinese employers, particularly those looking to do business in China's e-commerce market. Non-native learners must master four fundamental abilities in order to become literate in the Chinese language: listening, reading, writing, and speaking. Previous research has found that writing Chinese characters is frequently the most difficult task for both non-native and native learners. The issue arises during the process of learning Chinese characters and excessive use of gadgets, while online learning inspires both researchers to create a Chinese educational board game dubbed the LiSCReW Family Board Game (LiSCReW). LiSCReW is an acronym for Listen, Speak, Count, Read, and Write. The purpose of this study is (i) to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of the LiSCReW for learning Chinese characters; and (ii) to share non-native learners' perspectives and experiences while playing LiSCReW during a one-day exhibition at Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Johor Campus. To facilitate playtesting and evaluation of the board game, a total of 22 students from UiTM Johor were conveniently selected. The findings indicate that the LiSCReW board game is an effective educational tool for learning Chinese characters. The results show that respondents are more confident in recognising Chinese characters (90.9%), pronouncing Chinese characters (68.2%), reading Chinese characters (54.6%), and applying the Chinese characters they learned while playing LiSCReW to their Chinese test (77.2%). The findings can be used to guide future research into the empirical testing of Flow Theory's applicability among a large number of respondents.
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Drok, Nico. "The Future Roles of Journalism: Where Does Ukraine Stand in Europe?" Current Issues of Mass Communication, no. 29 (2021): 10–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2312-5160.2021.29.10-24.
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The changing societal context of professional journalism has brought many challenges for 21st century journalism to the forefront. The transition from a sender-oriented mass media model to an interactive network model is still in progress, but there can be little doubt that journalism will have to adapt to the new infrastructural reality in order to avoid a deepening of the current crisis in journalism. In the news industry innovation is mainly defined in terms of technology and commerce and often the cultural component is missed. However, the transition to the network model not only requires new business models and platforms, but also a new balance in the various roles of professional journalism. Although research shows changes for the better, there are no clear-cut indications that in daily practice an ambitious restructuring of the goals of journalism has yet taken place. Instead, interesting new technologies are often used for achieving traditional ends: old journalism in new digital bottles. But journalism is of central importance to contemporary society and its future cannot be left to its current producers alone. In the process of renewing the culture of journalism, education plays a central role. Students will have to learn to master the essential routines of their future profession, but next to that it becomes more important that journalism students learn to critically reflect on the future role of journalism in society. In this article the views of Ukrainian teachers on the roles of journalism are compared to those of their colleagues in other parts of Europe. It concludes that there are similarities, but also a divide.
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Finkelstein, Barbara. "Teaching Outside the Lines: Education History for a World in Motion." History of Education Quarterly 53, no. 2 (May 2013): 126–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hoeq.12011.
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Lurking in the shadows of education history are networks of human interaction, transcultural encounters, forms of global connection, and dispersed sites of cultural teaching and learning that are barely visible in the master narratives of education history. This is no surprise really. Who would have thought a half-century ago that we would become witnesses and participants in an increasingly interconnected world, bound together by global systems of commerce, transnational structures of communication, tsunami-proportion migratory flows, and ever more complex and puzzling transcultural encounters? Who could have imagined that a rising generation of globally conscious, mobile, and empowered young people—the progeny of Marshall McLuhan, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg—could refashion social and cultural networks, produce novel communicative and linguistic forms, mobilize worldwide social movements, inspire political action, unravel regimes of governance, and shape the contours of cultural life worldwide? Who could have imagined that historians of education would need to situate education history in relationship to newly evolving educational contexts of dazzling and unprecedented diversities: where encounters between total strangers from around the globe are the stuff of daily life in schools; the contours of community life and bonds of affiliation are trans-local, poly-focal, and subject to negotiation; where time-honored habits of heart, mind, and association are multitudinous and deeply challenged; where the languages of instruction, communication, and daily discourse are continually shifting and fusing; where designations of insiders and outsiders are manifold and fluid? Who could have imagined that sites of teaching and learning could become geographically unbound, disentangled from life in face-to-face communities, and the traditional boundaries of nation-state and imperial empire?
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Vysotska, V. "INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR INTERNET RESOURCES PROMOTION IN SEARCH SYSTEMS BASED ON CONTENT ANALYSIS OF WEB-PAGE KEYWORDS." Radio Electronics, Computer Science, Control, no. 3 (October 7, 2021): 133–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.15588/1607-3274-2021-3-12.
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Context. Timely and correct analysis of the process of visiting Internet resources, which led to the overall conversion of e-business, is fundamental and relevant for successfully managing the website. Appropriate, accurate traffic analysis, which brings both successful and unsuccessful conversions, will identify the cause of the impact on conversion metrics and criteria and will measure the effectiveness of changes made to the site to increase traffic conversions. It is necessary to collect information on the activities of system users on the website and determine specific performance indicators of the website to improve e-business strategy further to solve these problems and achieve the relevant goals of e-commerce. Thus, it is necessary to develop and implement an analytical method of text content support for e-commerce Internet resources based on the analysis of key performance indicators of the website, paying particular attention to determining the set of relevant and relevant keywords used by regular users and led to an increase in e-business conversions.
Objective of the study is to develop a technology for promoting Internet resources of e-commerce based on the results of Web-analytics of critical indicators of pages as KPI and KSI through forming a relevant set of keywords as feedback activity of a regular audience.
Method. An analytical method for promoting Internet resources based on the analysis of key performance indicators of the website, which is based on three main algorithms аlgorithm for identifying problem areas of the site structure for further optimization, аlgorithm for optimizing search engine marketing activities (SEM), аlgorithm for site promotion and calculation of its efficiency.
General recommendations for the design of information resources processing systems have been developed, different from the existing ones, by the presence of additional modules that significantly affect promoting the website on the Internet to further the success of ecommerce or improve the values of these indicators. Among them is the module of online shopping, marketing, module-copywriter and Web-master. For each of them, calculate their own KRI. It will allow you to effectively implement the processing of information resources at the level of system developers (reducing resources and time for development, improving the quality of information processing systems).
Results. The paper develops and describes in detail, based on the results of Web-analytics, the parameters and criteria for assessing the level of success of e-business. Software tools for monitoring the textual content of Internet resources based on the analysis of key performance indicators of the website have also been developed. For a detailed analysis of the functioning and promotion of Internet ecommerce systems such as Internet newspaper and Internet magazine, 12 different methods have been developed and implemented, respectively, with support for each of them with a different number of stages of the content life cycle. A computer experiment of analysis of key performance indicators of the website was conducted. The service of keeping statistics of visits to the Web resource allows you to estimate the increase in sales of textual content in direct proportion to the rise in the number of visits to the Web resource, the number of regular users, the prospects of marketing activities.
Conclusions. It was found that the presence of appropriate modules in the systems of information resources processing increases the sales of textual content to the regular user by 9%, active involvement of unique visitors, potential users and expanding the target and regional audience by 11%, viewed pages by 12%, resources by 7%.
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Amawate, Vibhas, and Madhurima Deb. "Post acquisition brand identity: acquisition of Flipkart group by Walmart Inc." Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies 11, no. 2 (June 23, 2021): 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eemcs-12-2018-0274.
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Learning outcomes The learning outcomes are as follows: factors to be considered in devising the best post-acquisition brand identity and outline market research techniques, which can be used to identify the best-suited post-acquisition brand identity strategy. Case overview/synopsis The case study discusses the brand strategy, which Walmart Inc needs to adopt post its acquisition of Flipkart Pvt. Ltd (Flipkart) Group in India. Flipkart had acquired Myntra Designs Pvt. Ltd (Myntra) and Novarris Fashion Trading Private Limited (Jabong), but had kept their brand identity intact; Walmart Inc was faced with the decision on moving ahead with the brand strategy of keeping individual brand identities or merging all of these into a single brand identity. The study aims to provide valuable insights into the decision-making process adopted by Walmart Inc. It includes also the role of cause-related marketing in the positioning of Myntra as a socially responsible brand. The case study opted for an exploratory research design study using the qualitative research method of in-depth interviews. In total, 10 experts in the area of marketing, market research and marketing communication were interviewed. The qualitative data were analyzed using a template approach, which analyzes the text using a codebook or an analysis guide. The analysis guide already has clearly defined themes or categories. As the qualitative interviews progress, these themes get revised. These themes are analyzed qualitatively rather than statistically. The case study suggests to the management of Walmart Inc that they need to merge Myntra and Jabong based on the degree of similarity of consumer demographics, income/social class of buyers, brand identity and buying behavior. Myntra needs to retain as opposed to Jabong, as Myntra is perceived to be a socially responsible brand that creates a purchase disposition in the minds of the consumers. A more extensive quantitative study would offer better generalizability. It was not feasible to conduct a quantitative study due to time constraints. This research would have used advanced brand imagery assessment techniques such as multi-dimensional scaling to suggest if an overlap exists between consumer segments of Myntra and Jabong. The case study provides a decision-making framework to firms and individuals who are part of organizational teams to create a post-acquisition brand strategy in the e-commerce market. The case study fulfills a need for many academicians and practitioners to understand the decision-making process followed in devising a post-acquisition brand strategy in India. Complexity academic level Senior undergraduates; Master of Business Administration; Executive Master of Business Administration. Supplementary materials Teaching Notes are available for educators only. Subject code CSS 8: Marketing.