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Entrepreneurship in the Sustainable Development Goals
Entrepreneurship plays a prominent and noteworthy role in promoting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Entrepreneurship, through the creation of new businesses, is recognized as a vital driver in providing employment, reducing inequalities, alleviating poverty, and fostering sustainable growth.
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18 Feb 2024
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Relevance of Sectoral Clustering in Corporate Debt Policy
The processing and transformation of natural resources into completed and semi-finished products is the primary function of industry in each nation’s economy. There is no denying the significance of industry and sectoral classification of the economy, but the slow development and extension of one industry could have resulted in the advancement of other sectors that are now a part of contemporary communities.
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18 Feb 2024
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Impact of Supply Chain Complexity on Knowledge Transfer
The dynamics of supply chain networks have changed due to increasing complexities. Global expansions and knowledge transfer in supply chain networks bring efficiency and effectiveness to companies. However, the probability of supply chain complexity has also been seen increasing. The barriers to sustainable supply chain networks need to be tackled in an effective manner as they impact business operations. Therefore, it is essential to eliminate and reduce the supply chain complexities, as it will facilitate the process of knowledge transfer and increase the implementation of sustainable practises in supply chain networks.
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18 Feb 2024
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Consideration of Sustainability in Projects
The instrumental role of projects in the transition of organisations, and thus society, towards sustainability affects how projects are planned, organised, executed, and managed. As a result, ‘green’ or ‘sustainable’ project management is now considered one of the most critical global project management trends.
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18 Feb 2024
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Smart Technologies in Regional Innovation Systems
Innovation systems consist of different organisations from the quadruple helix, as well as the interactions and linkages between them. Smart technologies and ICT play a key role in the efficiency of systems. At the same time, regional scale is considered crucial for studying innovation in systems.
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17 Feb 2024
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Click-Through Rate Prediction and Customer Representation
Click-Through Rate Prediction is a significant subject in e-commerce for both academia and industry. In order to accurately predict the customer's click intent, it is necessary to create a personalized customer representation. Learning such a customer representation is currently state-of-the-art.
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14 Feb 2024
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Industry 4.0 Technology on Workforce Employability and Skills
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0 or I4.0) has gained increasing attention both in the academic and non-academic domains. Industry 4.0 was a term coined in 2011 in Germany. Since then, the academic literature describing and analyzing I4.0 technologies has grown considerably. While so-called Industry 3.0 introduced computers, Industry 4.0 is characterized by advancements in computing technology including expanded digitalization in logistics, cognitive and connected machines in various industrial processes, and data analytics.
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14 Feb 2024
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Evaluating the Creative Economy by Contingent Valuation Method
The effectiveness of the economic policies implemented by a country/region directly affects its economic growth potential. Cultural Heritage Festivals are a sector of the creative economy that, by promoting culture, may have a significant impact on national/regional sustainable economic development. The Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) is an appropriate method for evaluating festivals and suggest that females, spectators with high incomes and high educational levels, and visitors to Kalamata (non-residents) show an increased Willingness To Pay. These findings can be useful to cultural heritage festival organizers in developing appropriate policy strategies: targeting the social groups with the greatest Willingness To Pay; adjusting the pricing mechanism accordingly; modifying annual memberships/donations/sponsorships, indirect resources, and tax revenues and grants; and optimizing investments and allocating resources.
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11 Feb 2024
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Cultural Diversity and Conflict in Family Businesses
Family firms play a key role in the economic growth and employment of any country. Several researchers argued that culture of family businesses plays an important role in determining whether the firm continues successfully beyond the first generation. Involvement of the family in business is often portrayed both as a special feature of the family business and as an important source of conflict in these businesses.
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08 Feb 2024
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Value Creation with Project Risk Management
The conceptual shift, from a traditional task perspective and a managerial approach to project risks toward a value-centric view, underlines the challenge of creating different forms of value for multiple project stakeholders. This emerging theme arises the need for a new holistic framework for value creation through Project Risk Management (PRM).
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08 Feb 2024
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