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The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility Performance on Competitive Advantage and Business Success
This study investigates how types of corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices (economic, legal, ethical, philanthropic, and environmental) affect competitive advantage and business success in an emerging country. Data...
Published by: IGI Global
Towards an Insight Into Customer Behavior in Virtual Brand Communities
This study aims at exploring the effects of customer’s personal factors and characteristics of brand community on customers’ behaviors in virtual brand community. The data were collected from customers of virtual brand...
Published by: IGI Global
An Investigation of Student Satisfaction in an Online Language Learning Course
Online learning's application in the language learning process has become an important topic as the COVID-19 crisis has restricted in-person classes. This study investigates student satisfaction in an online language learning...
Published by: IGI Global
Tirana as an Open Lab
The event we are facing at a global scale, the COVID-19 pandemic, can be considered a real death blow to the real markets, in general, as well as to a local heritage-based tourism market, in particular. The closing of both near...
Published by: IGI Global
Machine Learning Based Admission Data Processing for Early Forecasting Students' Learning Outcomes
In this paper, the authors explore the factors to improve the accuracy of predicting student learning outcomes. The method can remove redundant and irrelevant factors to get a “clean” data set without having to solve the NP-Hard...
Published by: IGI Global
An Intersectional Exploration
Intersectionality is gaining ground as a desired way of deepening our understanding of persisting inequalities engendered by poverty. Combining an intersectional framework and the idea of strategic gender needs developed by...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Using an Ontology-Based Neural Network and DEA to Discover Deficiencies of Hotel Services
Companies can gain critical real-time insights into customer requirements and service evaluation by mining social media. To acquire the service performance and improve the service deficiencies for hotels, this research proposes...
Published by: IGI Global
Evaluation of Teachers' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ability in Universities Based on Artificial Neural Networks
Based on iceberg theory and the questionnaire of competency's elements, hierarchical index system of evaluation of teachers' innovation and entrepreneurship competency in universities is established. Through researches, the...
Published by: IGI Global
Large-Scale Software-Defined IoT Platform for Provisioning IoT Services on Demand
Internet of things (IoT) has developed into an interconnected platform infrastructure for providing everyday services. Emerging end-to-end IoT services are being developed for local and multiple distributed regions. To realize...
Published by: IGI Global
The Influences of FDI, GFCF, OPEN on Vietnamese Economic Growth
The aim of study is to research the influences of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Gross Fixed Capital Formation (GFCF), Trade Openness of the Economy (OPEN) on Vietnam economic growth. This study uses the annual data for the...
Published by: IGI Global
The Effect of Culture on Performance Expectancy, Intention, and Trust in Mobile Payment Adoption
This study aims to investigate the role of culture at an individual level in the context of m-payment adoption. Specifically, it examines the effect of uncertainty avoidance and collectivism based on the Hofstede cultural...
Published by: IGI Global
Towards Reviewing an Immediate Impact of COVID-19 on the Integrative World Economy
On 31 December 2019, WHO received inputs of pneumonia cases in Wuhan city of China, but the cause of infection could not be known initially. However, after some time, the medical researchers of China disclosed a novel...
Published by: IGI Global
Employee Theft Behavior
Employee theft has becoming a serious and challenging issue for all businesses, especially to hotel organizations where employees have easy access to cash, amenities, and other inventories and items. This research is based on...
Published by: IGI Global
An E-Portfolio as an Assessment Strategy in an Open Distance Learning Context
Matlala Makokotlela
Oct 01, 2020
There has been a growing interest in using an e-portfolio as an alternative method of assessment in an open distance eLearning environment. The use of an e-portfolio as another method of assessment in Environmental Education...
Published by: IGI Global
Marketing in an Economic Downturn – Challenges and Opportunities
Pratap Mandal
Jan 01, 2020
The business environment is uncertain. It becomes even more turbulent during recession. This uncertainty directly affects the investments made by firms. Firms hesitate to invest during a recession because of the belief that the...
Published by: IGI Global
Improved Semantic Representation Learning by Multiple Clustering for Image-Based 3D Model Retrieval
Under the heavy management on the increasing 3D models, the topic of image-based 3D model retrieval which organizes unlabeled 3D models based on abundant knowledge learned from labeled 2D images has drawn attention. However...
Published by: IGI Global
AN INCLINATION TOWARDS ACCUSATIVE
Alana Johns
Jul 30, 2013
This paper argues that linguistic hierarchies are not real in any linguistic sense but are summaries of linguistic observation or typology. Position in any hierarchy is based on intrinsic properties, specjically complexity of...
Published by: Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association
A Model of Semantic-Based Image Retrieval Using C-Tree and Neighbor Graph
The problems of image mining and semantic image retrieval play an important role in many areas of life. In this paper, a semantic-based image retrieval system is proposed that relies on the combination of C-Tree, which was built...
Published by: IGI Global
Ethics of Retailers and Consumer Behavior in E-Commerce
In the era of the information-communication technology with the development of electronic commerce, consumers can buy almost everything anywhere and at any time. One of the greatest benefits of e-commerce has been the...
Published by: IGI Global
Ballot Blockchain System Design and Development on Ethereum Platform
Ballots are often hold for fair decisions such as party theme selecting, however, the existing traditional ballot has some problems involving amount of human resources, cost of places, equipment, time and traffic, and repeated...
Published by: IGI Global
An ‘Amuse-Bouche at Best'
Paul Moody
Jul 01, 2017
Much has been written about the function of narrative in virtual reality (VR) productions (Aylett & Louchart, 2003; Aylett et al, 2005; Ryan, 2001; 2005; 2008; 2009), but the role of the audience, and the relative degree of...
Published by: IGI Global
Clinical and laboratory factors associated with neonatal sepsis mortality at a major Vietnamese children's hospital.
Nguyen Duc Toan, Thomas C Darton, Nguyen Hoang Thien Huong, Le Thanh Hoang Nhat, To Nguyen Thi Nguyen, Ha Thanh Tuyen, Le Quoc Thinh, Nguyen Kien Mau, Pham Thi Thanh Tam, Cam Ngoc Phuong, Le Nguyen Thanh Nhan, Ngo Ngoc Quang Minh, Ngo Minh Xuan, Tang Chi Thuong, Nguyen Thanh Hung, Christine Boinett, Stephen Reece, Abhilasha Karkey, Jeremy N Day, Stephen Baker
Apr 17, 2023
Sepsis is a major cause of neonatal mortality and children born in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are at greater risk of severe neonatal infections than those in higher-income countries. Despite this disparity, there...
Published by: PLOS global public health
Reflections of an Academic Father
Trevor Stewart
Apr 15, 2022
This chapter discusses the complexity of balancing the professional and personal goals and identities that can often seem incongruent as teacher educators manage the demands of life in the academy. The author explores that...
Professional Development Education Teacher Education Social Sciences and Humanities Library and Information Science
Published by: IGI Global
How Perceived Risk and Suspicion Moderates the Relationship Between Information Source, eWOM, and Purchasing Decision
This research aimed to examine the customer behavior in online shopping by measuring product characteristics, information sources, perceived risk, electronic word-of-mouth, suspicion, and purchase decision with the moderation...
Published by: IGI Global
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