scholarly journals Methods for Assessing the Investment Attractiveness of Innovative Projects

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Petro Pererva ◽  
Maksym Usov ◽  
Svitlana Chernobrovkina ◽  
Ludmila Larka ◽  
Viktor Rudyka
Keyword(s):  
Investment Strategy ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Investment Climate ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Logical Sequence ◽  
Reliable Assessment ◽  
Essential Components ◽  
Integral Assessment ◽  
Enterprise Investment

The material examines basic concepts of enterprise investment activities assessing from the point of view of the investment climate in the industry. The main objective of this study is to determine an integral assessment of the possibilities of financing innovative projects of industrial enterprises.The relevance of such a study is explained by the urgent need to form a more accurate and reliable assessment of the priorities of modern financing of innovative projects. The study takes into account additional factors that are applicable in the specific context of the enterprise.In the course of the study, the following logical sequence is observed: several relatively simple and essential components in the structure of enterprises are distinguished, which consistently have the most significant impact on the dynamics of changes in the innovative and investment characteristics of the entire industry as a whole. The research object is various energy enterprises of Ukraine since they are one of the key factors that allow creating and developing a competitive world economy in terms of energy-saving innovations, including non-traditional renewable energy.Based on the results obtained, it becomes possible to determine the integral indicators of the investment attractiveness of specific innovative projects. This technique allows you to sensibly assess all sides of the issue and make an informed management decision on forming the company’s investment strategy.

Factores de éxito en las webs de contenidos audiovisuales. Análisis cualitativo comparado

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susana Fernández-Lores ◽  
Gema Martínez-Navarro ◽  
Diana Gavilán
Keyword(s):  
Success Factors ◽  
Formal Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Ticket Sales ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Evolution Of Technology ◽  
Content Recommendation

The evolution of technology and the digital empowerment of society have led to the proliferation of Audiovisual Content Webs (ACWs) where users can share information and experiences, along with other commercial resources. ACWs have led to significant changes in the way users can select and access audiovisual content. The design of these websites combines various features, including a user community, streamed content, ticket sales, and recommendations, among others. Each ACW has a specific profile with respect to the mentioned variables. The aim of this study is to identify the critical success factors for a ACW, i.e., which features and the form they should take to attract followers, thus increasing the capacity to prescribe and broadcast content. Using qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), a formal analysis technique that allows the identification of combinations that produce a certain result, a sample of the 12 most representative cinema websites in Spain is analyzed. The results indicate that the incorporation of content recommendation systems and the connection with streaming platforms through which the content can be accessed are key factors in the success of these ACWs. This work contributes academically to the knowledge and explanation of audience behavior in the new audiovisual scenario. From a professional point of view, relevant design suggestions are offered to platform creators. Finally, the limitations of this work are described, and future lines of research are considered. Resumen La evolución de la tecnología y el empoderamiento digital de la sociedad ha dado lugar a la proliferación de webs de contenidos audiovisuales (WCA) donde los usuarios comparten información y experiencias, junto a otros recursos comerciales. Las WCA han provocado cambios significativos en la forma en la que los usuarios pueden seleccionar y acceder a los contenidos audiovisuales. En su diseño, estas webs combinan varias prestaciones: comunidad de usuarios, contenidos en streaming, venta de entradas o recomendaciones, entre otros. Cada WCA presenta un perfil específico respecto a las variables descritas. El objetivo del presente trabajo es identificar los factores críticos de éxito de una WCA, es decir las prestaciones y la forma que deben adoptar para captar seguidores, aumentando con ello capacidad de prescripción y difusión de contenidos. Mediante el análisis cualitativo comparado (QCA), técnica formal de análisis que permite la identificación de combinaciones que producen un determinado resultado, se analiza una muestra de las 12 webs de cine más representativas en España. Los resultados indican que la incorporación de sistemas de recomendación de contenidos y la conexión con plataformas en streaming desde las que poder acceder a los contenidos son factores claves del éxito. El trabajo contribuye académicamente al conocimiento y la explicación de la conducta de la audiencia en el nuevo escenario audiovisual. Desde el punto de vista profesional se ofrecen sugerencias relevantes de diseño para los creadores de plataformas. Por último, se describen las limitaciones del trabajo y se plantean futuras líneas de investigación.

Technical services and user service improvement

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (6/7) ◽  
pp. 505-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Huang ◽  
Katherine Wong
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Service Improvement ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Content Type ◽  
University Of Oklahoma ◽  
Online Catalog ◽  
Efficient Processing ◽  
The University ◽  
Technical Services

PurposeFrom the cataloging librarians' point of view, this paper aims to present how technical services, especially the cataloging department, can play important roles in the improvement of user services.Design/methodology/approachThe paper examines the practices of the University of Oklahoma Libraries.FindingsThe paper identifies several aspects in which technical services can enhance the quality of user services, especially in the cataloging department. A library's online catalog becomes the first point of access to the library's information resources. Its quality can be improved and enriched in many ways to raise users’ satisfaction. Aside from the improvement in technical aspects, efforts should also be made to promote collaboration between technical and public services so as to ensure efficient processing of materials and to meet the needs of library users.Originality/valueThe value of the paper is in showing that the quality of an online catalog and the cooperation between public and technical services are two of the key factors in achieving high quality of user services.

The combination of different open innovations: a longitudinal case study

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 342-362
Author(s):  
Xiaodong Yuan ◽  
Xiaotao Li
Keyword(s):  
New Product Development ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Longitudinal Case Study ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Strategic Direction ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Innovation Capacity

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how an organization can combine different types of open innovations and what are the key factors that may influence the combination of different open innovations. Design/methodology/approach The basic methodology of this paper is the longitudinal inductive analysis within the conceptual framework of the open innovation proposed by Dahlander and Gann (2010). In this case study of Xiaomi Tech Inc., the open innovation combination is investigated through examining 25 new products created between August 2010 and December 2016 in terms of four general types: acquiring, sourcing, selling and revealing open innovation. Findings In practice, the combination of different types of open innovations can be realized. A firm may combine different open innovations at three levels: a single product level, a related product cluster level and a company level. In addition, different open innovations can be combined in diverse modes. The purpose of combining different types of open innovations is to overcome the disadvantages of each type and to exploit the advantages of all different types. Many factors may affect a firm’s option of how to combine open innovations. At different development stages, a firm may make and implement corresponding strategic direction based on its innovation capacity and internal resource. For a given strategy, the firm needs to create profits and manage intellectual property in the implementation of open innovations. These factors are interacted each other, rather than isolated. Originality/value The findings of this paper are helpful for better understanding how and why an organization can combine different types of open innovations. From a managerial point of view, an organization may combine different types of open innovations to leverage advantages and avoid disadvantages of each certain type of open innovation. An appropriate combination of different open innovations can effectively improve new product development.

scholarly journals Linking the spare parts management with the total costs of ownership: An agenda for future research

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 991 ◽  
Author(s):  
Orlando Duran ◽  
Irene Roda ◽  
Marco Macchi
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Spare Parts ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Economic Point ◽  
Spare Parts Management ◽  
Physical Asset

Purpose: This manuscript explores the link between Spare Parts Management and Total Costs of Ownership or Life Cycle Costs (LCC).Design/methodology/approach: First, this work enumerates the different managerial decisions instances in spare parts management that are present during the life cycle of a physical asset. Second, we analyse how those decision instances could affect the TCO of a physical asset (from the economic point of view). Finally, we propose a conceptual framework for incorporating the spare parts management into a TCO model.Findings: The recent literature lacks discussions on the integration of spare parts management with the Total Costs of Ownership (TCO). Based in an extensive literature revision we can declare that the computation of costs related to spare parts management has been neglected by TCO models.Originality/value: The contribution of this paper is twofold. First, a literature review and identification of a series of spare parts management decision instances and its relationship with TCOs is presented in this paper. Second, a conceptual framework is suggested for linking those decisions instances to a total cost of ownership perspective. Some research questions and future research challenges are presented at the end of this work.

scholarly journals Assessing the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles' Surveillance Problems and Actual Solution Options from the Different Stakeholders' Viewpoint

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bianka Károly ◽  
Balázs Sághi
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Global View ◽  
Actual Solution

The problems related to the integration of the unmanned aerial vehicles into national airspaces is one of the main topics that the scientific researchers are dealing with these days. Despite that, none of them are investigating the UAVs from the surveillance point of view. For that reason, highlighting the problems that have to be dealt with and assessing them through a holistic approach is the aim of the paper. Therefore, the paper takes the different stakeholders view and identify the key factors that have to be taken into account. The authors propose the surveillance technologies that can be considered and evaluated them along the revealed factors through a global view. The results can be applied as a base for the further research in UAVs surveillance domain.

Measurement, incorporation and use of performance information in the budget

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-355
Author(s):  
Pieter Bleyen ◽  
Stijn Lombaert ◽  
Geert Bouckaert
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Fiscal Sustainability ◽  
Performance Information ◽  
The Public ◽  
Performance Budgeting ◽  
Logical Sequence ◽  
Analytical Point ◽  
The Way

In search for efficiency, effectiveness and fiscal sustainability, governments gather more performance information than ever before. As many of them have sought to incorporate and use this kind of information in budgeting and planning documents, the main goal of this article is to discover how local government performance budgeting practices can be mapped by a survey in a way that enables international comparison. Three previous mapping endeavors served as preliminary guidelines to develop a refined index based on the dimensions measurement, incorporation and use of performance information which form a generally accepted logical sequence in the public management literature. Results for the case of 304 Flemish local governments show a huge variation in the way performance budgeting is practiced, as index scores vary from nearly zero to more than 76 percent. Although it seems that available performance information is incorporated fairly well, measurement and use are lacking. It can be concluded that measuring performance budgeting offers interesting insights in the way this kind of budgeting is practiced in local governments. Although, from an analytical point of view, it is not sufficient to fully grasp performance budgeting and this for several reasons discussed in the article.

scholarly journals FORMING OF THE MECHANISM OF THE ENTERPRISE’S MARKET CAPITALIZATION FOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ITS MAIN GOALS OF INVESTMENT ACTIVITY

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor Kryvovyazyuk ◽  
Oleksandr Burban
Keyword(s):  
Financial Analysis ◽  
Investment Strategy ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Management Mechanism ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Investment Activity ◽  
Business Valuation ◽  
Market Capitalization ◽  
Scientific Discussion ◽  
Main Components

The article summarizes arguments and counterarguments in the framework of scientific discussion on the formation of a mechanism for managing the market capitalization of an enterprise from the point of view of achieving its established investment goals. The main goal of the research is to create a new approach to the formation of the mentioned mechanism, which was implemented through a critical analysis of the modern scientific publications within the topic. A detailed analysis of the internal structure of the enterprise’s market capitalization management mechanism allowed to define its main components list which includes: a main goal of the mechanism (which is related to enterprise’s value maximization), management methods (financial, administrative, legal), principles (purposefulness, planning, competence, disciplines, incentives, hierarchy), tools (business valuation, financial analysis, benchmarking), subjects, objects, management factors (improving of financial, administrative or production system) and result (which is measured by enterprise’s market capitalization dynamics). Also, it was revealed that there’s a connection between internal components of enterprise’s market capitalization management mechanism and external factors, which can be microeconomic (are under direct enterprise’s influence) or macroeconomic (can’t be influenced from an enterprise’s side). Having summarized the main goals of an enterprise’s investment strategy, three main groups of the goals were selected to reveal the existence of a direct relationship between formation of a mechanism for managing the market capitalization of an enterprise and its main goals of investment activity. First one is related to improvement of enterprise’s value (based on changes in capital), second is related to level of enterprise’s profitability, and third is defined with achieving a positive social effect. The study empirically confirms and theoretically proves that the expression of the effectiveness of the market capitalization management mechanism of an enterprise is a direct identification of the achievement of the goals of its investment strategy.

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AS AN ORGANIZATIONAL AND LEGAL MEANS OF PROTECTION OF PROPERTY RIGHTS

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ihor Binko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Public Property ◽  
Procedural Basis

The article explores the idea that public administration can act as an independent means of protection of civil rights, complementing such tools as civil law types of protection of rights, which consist in proving the legality of possession of the property itself. Protection of property rights is traditionally considered a field of private law, built on the principles of respect for private property, equality of arms, independence of the court and a fair settlement of legal disputes. It is stated that, unlike civil law methods of protection of rights, public administration as a method of protection of rights is aimed not at protecting the issue of legality of possession but at protecting the registration record from wrongful distortion. A large array of rules on the protection of private property is of a public law nature and is associated with the administration of relevant records. It is argued that from the point of view of protection of property rights, in particular property rights to real estate and their derivatives - the rights of the mortgagee, rights of claim, which are notarized, etc., the activities of state bodies are an organizational means of protecting such rights in the form of public administration. Publicity means that any decisions regarding changes in registered rights are made in public and, in accordance with the procedures provided by law, become public property, including stakeholders and an indefinite number of entities. It is determined that the essence of administration is that rights are protected on a procedural basis and the need for certain legal preconditions for making a management decision on changes in registered rights cannot be replaced by other legal preconditions, or a decision cannot be made without sufficient legal grounds.

M.A. BAKUNIN ON THE GENESIS AND EVOLUTION OF THE STATE (SOCIAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS)

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 154-158
Author(s):  
VLADIMIR KSENOFONTOV ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Role ◽  
The State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Social Revolution ◽  
Marxist Philosophy ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Essential Components ◽  
Social Wealth

The article reveals the social and philosophical views of M.A. Bakunin on the genesis, essence and evolution of the state. At the same time, attention is focused on his interpretation of state power, which is a lack of justice and freedom for the people. The philosopher, in substantiating his point of view, gives a detailed analysis of the philosophical conceptual provisions on the state. M.A. Bakunin, being an anarcho-revolutionary in his philosophical views, substantiates the limited point of view on the issue of the state and its social role, the positions of the representatives of German social democracy and the views of supporters of Marxist philosophy. The article reveals the socio-philosophical positions of the Russian thinker on the issue of essential components that substantiate the need for the evolution of the state and its departure from the historical arena. At the same time, the main regulations that characterize the prospects for the development of the state and its withering away are revealed. Only a social revolution, according to M.A. Bakunin, can lead to the destruction of the state as an organ of violence, and bring the people freedom, equality and the use of social wealth. Purpose of the research: to reveal the social and philosophical positions of M.A. Bakunin on the genesis of the state, its essence and evolution. Conclusions: The state, according to the views of M.A. Bakunin, is in any form of violence against the people, and therefore it must be destroyed through a social revolution. The future structure of society, as an ideal, should be based on justice and freedom of the people, their self-organization.

scholarly journals DFT Visualization and Experimental Evidence of BHT-Mg-Catalyzed Copolymerization of Lactides, Lactones and Ethylene Phosphates

Polymers ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 1641 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilya Nifant’ev ◽  
Andrey Shlyakhtin ◽  
Maxim Kosarev ◽  
Dmitry Gavrilov ◽  
Stanislav Karchevsky ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ring Opening ◽  
Density Functional ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Basis Set ◽  
Random Copolymers ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Functional Theory ◽  
Cyclic Esters ◽  
Dft Modeling ◽  
Derivatives Of

Catalytic ring-opening polymerization (ROP) of cyclic esters (lactides, lactones) and cyclic ethylene phosphates is an effective way to process materials with regulated hydrophilicity and controlled biodegradability. Random copolymers of cyclic monomers of different chemical nature are highly attractive due to their high variability of characteristics. Aryloxy-alkoxy complexes of non-toxic metals such as derivatives of 2,6-di-tert-butyl-4-methylphenoxy magnesium (BHT-Mg) complexes are effective coordination catalysts for homopolymerization of all types of traditional ROP monomers. In the present paper, we report the results of density functional theory (DFT) modeling of BHT-Mg-catalyzed copolymerization for lactone/lactide, lactone/ethylene phosphate and lactide/ethylene phosphate mixtures. ε-Caprolactone (ε-CL), l-lactide (l-LA) and methyl ethylene phosphate (MeOEP) were used as examples of monomers in DFT simulations by the Gaussian-09 program package with the B3PW91/DGTZVP basis set. Both binuclear and mononuclear reaction mechanistic concepts have been applied for the calculations of the reaction profiles. The results of calculations predict the possibility of the formation of random copolymers based on l-LA/MeOEP, and substantial hindrance of copolymerization for ε-CL/l-LA and ε-CL/MeOEP pairs. From the mechanistic point of view, the formation of highly stable five-membered chelate by the products of l-LA ring-opening and high donor properties of phosphates are the key factors that rule the reactions. The results of DFT modeling have been confirmed by copolymerization experiments.

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