Futuristic Perspective Analysis of Online Buyers for Sustainability of E-commerce

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-60
Author(s):  
V Arulmurugan ◽  
S A Viknesh Kumar

In the global competitive business world, utilization of modern and innovative technological practices in business transactions is inevitable. E-commerce is a paradigm shift to connect customers electronically in the present business system. E-commerce covers electronic transmission of information, monetary payments and physical delivery of products. It is a pertinent time to analyse the future potentiality of e-commerce and the perception of online buyers who use this platform. A study was conducted with the following objectives: to describe the perception of online buyers, to make online buyers’ Futuristic Perspective Analysis (FPA) of e-commerce and to study factors influencing sustainability of e-commerce in the future. The data were collected from primary and secondary sources. A primary survey was conducted through structured questionnaire administered on select online buyers in Karaikal, Union Territory of Puducherry, India. The collected data were analysed with multivariate statistical tools like factor analysis and multiple regression analysis with SPSS. The findings were presented with suitable suggestions to know the futuristic perspectives of online buyers and the sustainability of e-commerce.

Author(s):  
Md. Abdur Razzaque ◽  
Muhammed Alamgir

Aims: The aim of the study was to assess the indicator based climate change vulnerability of south west coastal Bangladesh and its future. Place of Study: Four districts form south west coastal Bangladesh, having a total of 50 upazilas, have been selected as the study area. They are Satkhira, Khulna, Bagerhat, Pirojpur, Barguna and Patuakhali districts. Methodology: This study has been conducted, using multivariate statistical techniques, to assess the vulnerabilities of the coastal region of Bangladesh by considering the IPCC framework of vulnerability studies. A total of 31 indicators have been selected of which 23 are socio-economic and 8 are biophysical which have been retrieved from the secondary sources. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) has been applied to derive unbiased weights of all indicators considering both present (2011) and the future (2050) climate change scenarios. Results: This study has identified 7 principal components through PCA which has been grouped as PC1 (Demographic Vulnerability), PC2 (Economic Vulnerability), PC3 (Climatic Vulnerability), PC4 (Health Vulnerability), PC5 (Agricultural Vulnerability), PC6 (Infrastructural Vulnerability) and PC7 (Water Vulnerability). For all 7 PCA groups (termed as vulnerability profile), the number of high and medium vulnerable coastal Upazilas will be significantly changed in the future. No of highly vulnerable Upazila will increase from 0 to 1 for PC1, unchanged for PC2, increase from 0 to 1 for PC3, from 32 to 33 for PC4, from 47 to 68 for PC5, decrease from 48 to 46 for PC6, and an increase from 14 to 21 for PC7, respectively. Conclusion: Discrete spatial maps of each profile have been generated to assess the regional variation of all vulnerability profiles across the southwest coastal region of Bangladesh. The findings of this study might be useful for policy makers and planners.


Laws ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Elaine Kahn

There has been a paradigm shift in global communications since the death many years ago of prominent Canadians Marshall McLuhan and Pierre Elliott Trudeau. The correspondence between the two friends, from 1968 to 1980, presciently touched on our contemporary wired global village and the challenges it presents to personal privacy and to freedom of expression. I examine the relationship between the two men, as laid out in their letters and, to a lesser extent, in secondary sources, highlighting matters of privacy and media. Privacy hovers over the correspondence, even when it is not the stated topic. McLuhan, who is credited with the term “global village”, discussed with Trudeau the effect of new media on people’s notions of tribe and identity and privacy. Proving a direct influence from one man to the other, in either direction, is not possible, but there is much to play with. The gap is, as McLuhan often said, “where the action is”.


Author(s):  
Will Kynes

This chapter introduces the volume by arguing that the study of biblical wisdom is in the midst of a potential paradigm shift, as interpreters are beginning to reconsider the relationship between the concept of wisdom in the Bible and the category Wisdom Literature. This offers an opportunity to explore how the two have been related in the past, in the history of Jewish and Christian interpretation, how they are connected in the present, as three competing primary approaches to Wisdom study have developed, and how they could be treated in the future, as new possibilities for understanding wisdom with insight from before and beyond the development of the Wisdom Literature category are emerging.


2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (12) ◽  
pp. 1990-1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meindert Danhof ◽  
Kevin Klein ◽  
Pieter Stolk ◽  
Murray Aitken ◽  
Hubert Leufkens

2021 ◽  
Vol 122 (1) ◽  
pp. 170-177
Author(s):  
John McDonnell

The banking crisis and the pandemic have both demonstrated the potential for a progressive paradigm shift that could break with the hegemony of neoliberalism over Britain’s political economy. The Covid pandemic has demonstrated how many of the ideas and policies that formed the basis of the Labour Party manifestos of 2017 and 2019 are essential to tackling the current crisis of the pandemic and also for tackling the next crisis, which is the existential threat of climate change. For those on the left and progressives, the task is to discuss and plan the economy and society that will translate these lessons into a vision for the future of our society and into the concrete policy programme needed to achieve that vision. This article is based on a lecture given at the Marx Memorial Library on 23 June 2020 and we are pleased to reproduce it here.


Author(s):  
Muhammad Muinul Islam ◽  
Mohammad Ehsan

The ICT-blessed e-governance is transforming public administration systems worldwide and forcing a paradigm shift. E-governance renders a new way and style in each and every aspect of public administration. It brings about changes in the structure, functions, and processes of public service delivery, ushering transformation in the system through effectively connecting, engaging, and streamlining the relations among government, businesses, citizens, and other relevant stakeholders. Irrespective of certain obvious limitations and challenges, it not only attempts to ensure economy, efficiency, and effectiveness in service delivery, but also offers unlimited potential for combating corruption and many other bureau-pathologies in public administration. Based on secondary sources, this chapter offers brief theoretical discussions on e-governance, including, among others, its emergence, types of service delivery, and transformation stages.


Author(s):  
Paula Brügger

In a time of intense instrumentalization of life, nature becomes a mere factory from which natural resources are withdrawn. This system is causing immense social, ethical and environmental impacts, and livestock raising is at the core of these problems. The concept of speciesism – a prejudice concerning nonhuman animals, analogous to racism and sexism – is paramount in this realm. This chapter analyses the role of the mass media in perpetuating speciesist values and the urgent need for a paradigm shift. A genuine concern about the future of the planet and nonhuman animals involves questioning our speciesism and our narrow instrumental and economic paradigms.


Through case studies of incidents around the world where the social media platforms have been used and abused for ulterior purposes, Chapter 6 highlights the lessons that can be learned. For good or for ill, the author elaborates on the way social media has been used as an arbiter to inflict various forms of political influence and how we may have become desensitized due to the popularity of the social media platforms themselves. A searching view is provided that there is now a propensity by foreign states to use social media to influence the user base of sovereign countries during key political events. This type of activity now justifies a paradigm shift in relation to our perception and utilization of computerized devices for the future.


Author(s):  
Mukund Deshpande

SMEs contribute up to 60% of total employment and up to 40% of GDP in emerging economies. These SMEs recently faced, due to COVID-19 pandemic, chaotic circumstances resulting in business shut down, loss of man-hours, halt of machinery and material movement by which they lost their economy. Quick solutions to address the challenges were out of view. Moreover, making major changes swiftly in the set business system was impractical and probably impossible. Getting normalcy back on track delayed extensively owing to the unavailability of vaccines. Ignorance in terms of the remedy made the businesspersons helpless to bear with the situation. Literature exposed that the pandemic situation paralyzed the business functions entirely. Obviously, to safeguard the SMEs from such incidences in the future, this study became essential in understanding remedial, innovative, and sustainable strategies.


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