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Digitalization and Supply Chain Performance
Supply chain digitization (SCD) is a driving force, integrating digital technologies like big data, cloud computing, blockchain, Internet of Things (IoT), and artificial intelligence into supply chain activities. SCD focuses on “data-driven decision-making”, creating operational processes enriched by digital technologies.
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17 Jan 2024
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CSR Disclosure and Women on Corporate Boards
The promotion of women in the professional area, especially on corporate boards, has become an important issue for corporate governance. The growing numbers of regulations on board gender quotas motivate scholars to pay attention to gender diversity on corporate boards. Scholars argue that women have certain attributes, such as empathy, being helpful, and sensitivity, that make them prudent guardians of shareholder interest. Generally, empirical evidence finds women’s board membership is linked with mitigatory agency problems and improved firm performance.
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17 Jul 2023
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Empowering Women through Digital Financial Inclusion
Financial inclusion empowers women and offers them more financial authority. It ultimately could have a positive impact on a family’s entire home. In addition, agency banking and other digital financial services made available through mobile phone platforms let women conduct transactions easily and safely from their own homes, companies, and communities. Despite the substantial advantages, there are still considerable challenges that need to be overcome before more women throughout the world may access digital financial services.
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31 Jul 2023
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CSR and Taxation Impact on Nigeria’s Sustainable Development
Nigeria’s upstream oil and gas sector is extensively contributing to the economic growth of the country, but the sector is plagued with challenges around corporate social responsibility (CSR) and taxation practices. The Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) was introduced to tackle these challenges towards promoting sustainable development in Nigeria.
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13 Nov 2023
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Dynamic-Nexus between Cross-Border Dollar Claims and Economic Growth
The term “Eurodollar” first appeared in the public realm in 1960 when William Clarke gave name to a fledgling market. Nowadays, the terms “Eurodollar”, “Eurodollar system”, “ledger money”, “shadow money” and “ghost money” are all used interchangeably to describe U.S. dollars that exist offshore, that is, outside the U.S. domestic currency system and out of sight of its primary regulator, the Federal Reserve.
268
01 Apr 2024
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Sustainable Supplier Evaluation
The disclosure of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) tasks, seen as companies’ performance of sustainability, has gradually became a necessity for listed enterprises.
268
01 Mar 2024
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Performance Measurement Framework
Projects often fail due to a lack of understanding of the project requirements and constraints necessary for overall success.
267
09 Oct 2023
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Smart Sustainable Tourism Village
Tourism has become one of the biggest industries in the world. Many people carry out tourism activities for relaxation, fulfilling curiosity, gaining new experiences, and entertainment purposes (pleasure). Tourism village capability having a positive and significant effect on the smart sustainable tourism village; the smart sustainable tourism village having a positive and significant effect on tourism village management performance.
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13 Oct 2023
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Leaders’ Challenges in COVID-19 and Telework
The world was taken by surprise in early 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic emerged as a health crisis. The impact on companies was overwhelming and managers were faced with crisis management. To keep operations running, services and sales were shifted to online platforms. As a result, millions of employees worldwide had to adapt to working from home or teleworking. Due to the introduction of lockdown and social distancing, teleworkers had to swiftly and with little to no planning adapt to a new method of working, which was unprecedented. It is unlikely that firms will completely return to their pre-pandemic working norms, even though the long-term repercussions of this dramatic transition are still unknown. Many professionals anticipate that remote or hybrid work will be common in future workplaces.
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11 Dec 2023
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Tourist Operant Resources on Online Citizenship Behavior
Sustainability has emerged as a critical concern in the tourism industry. In sustainable tourism, the question of how to engage tourists in value co-creation has started to receive attention.
266
11 Dec 2023
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