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The Last-Mile Delivery of Products
Last-mile delivery (LMD) is a challenging and costly supply chain process that involves direct customer interaction. Last-mile logistics is an emerging research area. In particular, the European Commission Directorate General for Energy and Transport provides guidelines for abnormal road transport, such as heavy, bulky, and oversized (HBO) products.
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  • 20 Dec 2023
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The Utilization of Artificial Neural Networks
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has revolutionized the way organizations face decision-making issues. One of these crucial elements is the implementation of organizational changes. There has been a wide-spread adoption of AI techniques in the private sector, whereas in the public sector their use has been recently extended. One of the greatest challenges that European governments have to face is the implementation of a wide variety of European Union (EU) funding programs which have evolved in the context of the EU long-term budget.
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  • 24 Jun 2022
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Discount Incentives and Hotels' Carbon Reduction
To improve carbon reduction efficiency, green hotels adopt cash discount incentives to encourage green customer behavior. An incentive mechanism is a policy or plan that compels individuals to work toward accomplishing a certain goal. In addition to achievement and recognition, monetary and material incentives are the most common incentives in management science. As monetary incentives, discount incentives’ effectiveness in promoting green customer behaviors has been controversial.
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  • 23 Aug 2023
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Assets with Historical—Architectural Significance and Historic Designation
The historic designation of individual properties and entire neighborhoods has experienced an evolution in its meaning in recent decades. The original passive approach to managing historical buildings, which primarily regarded them as “values” to be defended and preserved for future generations, has been supplemented by strategies aimed at their valorization, derived from an awareness of the potential of such resources for the community, as a means of promoting the economic and social conditions of local populations.
  • 363
  • 05 Jul 2023
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Online Group Buying
O2O (Online to Offline) is a business model that utilizes e-commerce platforms to combine online information with offline products. Consumers can browse product information online, complete payments, and obtain goods or services offline. In recent years, e-commerce platforms have developed rapidly, and increasingly more consumers have become accustomed to purchasing goods or booking services online. For restaurants, collaborating with third-party online platforms and providing group buying services are also common ways to increase sales channels and expand sales. Group buying, also, namely, group purchase or Tuangou in Chinese, refers to a shopping model which consumers with the same needs group together to purchase with discounted prices.
  • 363
  • 15 Dec 2023
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Entrepreneurial Financial Support and New Ventures’ Performance
Findings demonstrated that all financial and operational performances of new venture constructs in this research model were completely supported. Furthermore, entrepreneurial financial support had the strongest direct and indirect effects on firm innovation and competitive advantage, while firm innovation and competitive advantage fully mediated relationships between entrepreneurial financial support and firms’ financial and operational performance. In the post-COVID-19 pandemic era, the resource-based view (RBV) theory offers novel insight for governors and other stakeholders to build an efficient financial support system, while providing entrepreneurs with strategies to leverage said system to develop innovation for achieving better competitive advantage, leading to higher firm performance.
  • 362
  • 19 Dec 2023
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Advanced Air Mobility Standards in Medical Drone Delivery
There are three application areas that have been accelerating the demand for cargo drones: (1) deliveries to areas with limited accessibility, such as oil rigs, ships, remote communities, islands, mountainous regions, disaster areas, and communities with poor roads; (2) rapid delivery of emergency medical items, such as antidotes, resuscitation equipment, injections, bandages, blood, and human transplant organs; and (3) same-day or same-hour delivery of packages and food in congested urban environments. All three applications can involve both middle-mile (between hubs) and last-mile (hub to home) deliveries. The focus of this research is on opportunities to increase the speed and reduce the risk of middle-mile delivery of pharmaceuticals by using emerging cargo drone technologies.
  • 361
  • 28 Aug 2023
Topic Review
Blended Finance and Partial Risk Guarantee
A partial risk guarantee (PRG) is one of the critical instruments in the blended finance approach that provides assurance to the risk investor to lend leveraged capital to the borrower. Under the PRG scheme, philanthropic capital is employed as a risk guarantee to create financial and economic additionality through the multiplier effect.
  • 360
  • 21 Aug 2023
Topic Review
The Nexus between Entrepreneurship and Environmental Quality
The economic literature has extensively documented the role of entrepreneurship as a driver in transforming political, economic, and social systems. Numerous studies have delved into how entrepreneurship can contribute to solving challenges related to sustainable development. Given this context, entrepreneurship is widely recognized as a crucial source in delivering sustainable processes, products, and services, driving progress toward a green economy.
  • 357
  • 21 Nov 2023
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Innovation on Economic Growth, FDI, and Self-Employment
Innovation positively influences GDP, domestic institutional framework, local infrastructure, local knowledge and technology, and creative outputs. In contrast, innovation negatively correlates with domestic self-employment, often associated with necessity-driven entrepreneurship. Gross domestic product (GDP) per capita measures a country’s economic output, self-employment assesses entrepreneurial activity, and foreign direct investment (FDI) indicates confidence in a country’s economic prospects and innovation trends. 
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  • 12 Jul 2023
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