Marketing Orientation Embedding Internet Capability as Best Practice for Medium-Sized Global Firms

2019 ◽  
pp. 111-135
Author(s):  
Maria Giovanna Tongiani ◽  
Claudia Burchielli
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Marketing Orientation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Marketing Activities ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Different Characteristics ◽  
The Web

Contemporary competition in the distribution sector is becoming increasingly more cut-throat and consumers have multiple channels to choose from for making their purchases, each with different characteristics and practical methods. The objective of this work is to obtain information and identify the elements that allow for highlighting the ability of the medium-sized retailers who use the web and the social media to expand their own reference markets. The information will be acquired by means of interviews with Italian and international (USA and UK) customers of a medium Italian global fashion retailer. The analyses of the results will provide useful indications concerning the marketing activities for the medium retailer firms operating in the global market. This approach is followed by future research directions and a conclusion.

Islamic social finance: a literature review and future research directions

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Aibolovna Kuanova ◽  
Rimma Sagiyeva ◽  
Nasim Shah Shirazi
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Islamic Finance ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Social ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Web

Purpose This paper aims to study the main trends of scientific research in Islamic finance’s social aspects to clarify place, role and functions, especially in the context of increasing social problems. To achieve this goal, this paper focuses on the social component of Islamic finance, analyzes publications on social Islamic finance in the Web of Science database, covering the period from 1979 to 2020, specify the geographical localization of research networks, determines the most cited authors and their scientific position. Design/methodology/approach The authors have applied several literature review techniques, a bibliometric citation and co-citation analysis, a co-authorship analysis and a review of the most cited papers. The analyzes’ results allow us to offer five future questions in Islamic social finance, zakat and waqf, which have not been investigated before and could influence Islamic social finance and Islamic finance research. Findings The authors also derive and summarize five leading future research questions. Research limitations/implications This is a limitation of using only the Web of Science Core Collection database as the premier resource and the most trusted citation index for the world’s scientific and scholarly research. Further study might expand the types of analyzed units, include more keywords and include other databases, such as Scopus. Originality/value This paper can be considered as an inspirational one to future researchers and policymakers in Islamic social finance.

Personal bonds in the internationalization of the social sciences: A view from the periphery

2021 ◽  
pp. 026858092096201
Author(s):  
Leandro Rodriguez-Medina ◽  
Hebe Vessuri
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Academic Mobility ◽  
The Social ◽  
Future Research Directions

Due to the interest in formal relationships at work or to the difficulty to define what personal means, personal bonds in the social sciences have been an understudied topic. Even less has been the interest in connecting such bonds with the internationalization of careers and knowledge. In this article, the authors aim at filling this gap by studying what role personal bonds have played in the internationalization of the social sciences in Latin America. They identify factors that affect personal bonds as well as translations that scholars produce to capitalize on these ties. The most relevant of such translations, academic mobility, has to be interpreted, from a peripheral standpoint, as operating within a logic of leveling, a process that highlights structural asymmetries in the global social sciences. The authors describe both dimensions of this process and, in the concluding section, offer some policy implications and future research directions.

Category-Based Interfaces for Mobile Search

2015 ◽  
pp. 75-104
Author(s):  
Tomi Heimonen
Keyword(s):  
User Study ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Information Need ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Search Results ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Mobile Context ◽  
The Web

One of the challenges with designing effective mobile search interfaces is how to present and explore the search results. Category-based result organization and presentation techniques have been suggested in literature as a complement to the traditional ranked result list. In the mobile context categories can facilitate information access by providing an overview of the result set, by reducing the need for keyword entry and by providing means to filter the results. This chapter includes a review of recent research on category-based interfaces for mobile search. The chapter also addresses the challenges of evaluating mobile search in situ and presents a longitudinal user study that investigated how a mobile clustering interface is used to search the Web. Results from the study show that category-based interaction can be situationally useful, for example when users have problems describing their information need or wish to retrieve a subset of results. In summary, the chapter proposes future research directions for category-based mobile search interfaces.

Main Features and Types of Educational Use of Wiki Technology

2021 ◽  
pp. 213-228
Author(s):  
Nikolaos Karipidis ◽  
Jim Prentzas
Keyword(s):  
Learning Communities ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Online Learning Communities ◽  
Wiki Technology ◽  
History Of ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
The Web

Wiki technology has become very popular during the last years and is used in many fields. It enables the collaborative creation and management of content retaining the history of changes. There is abundant wiki-based content on the web covering a large number of subjects. A significant contribution of wikis involves education. Under certain conditions, technology may enhance the learning process due to the unique features it encompasses. In this context, wikis may prove very helpful as they provide the infrastructure for collaborative learning approaches and the development of online learning communities. This chapter discusses main features of wikis, wiki features specifically required in education, and typical uses of wikis in education. Representative examples of successful wikis are presented. Future research directions are also outlined.

Bibliometric study on relationship of agricultural credit with farmer distress

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 278-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bhavna Pandey ◽  
Prabir Bandyopadhyay ◽  
Sanjeev Kadam ◽  
Manju Singh
Keyword(s):  
Future Research ◽  
Agricultural Credit ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Extant Literature ◽  
The Social ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Citation Graph ◽  
Relationship Of

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide quantitative analysis of the extant literature on farmer distress resulting from agricultural credit and identify research gaps. Design/methodology/approach The authors have used the citation analysis which is based on the citation graph. For the current study, the authors have used SCOPUS database. Findings The study reveals that the farmer distress is one of the social sustainability issues which have attracted major attentions from academia. Most of the studies in recent years are from South Asian perspectives and the extant literature focusing on some of the important issues like farmer challenges and pesticide poisoning. Most of the studies provide anecdotal evidences. Hence, the empirical research is scant. Originality/value The study is an attempt to provide an in-depth analysis, so that future research directions can be formulated.

Application Programming Interface (API) Research

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 76-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Ofoeda ◽  
Richard Boateng ◽  
John Effah
Keyword(s):  
Social Issues ◽  
Application Programming Interface ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Academic Journals ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Application Programming ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Programming Interface ◽  
Level Of Analysis

The purpose of this study is to perform a synthesis of API research. The study took stock of literature from academic journals on APIs with their associated themes, frameworks, methodologies, publication outlets and level of analysis. The authors draw on a total of 104 articles from academic journals and conferences published from 2010 to 2018. A systematic literature review was conducted on the selected articles. The findings suggest that API research is primarily atheoretical and largely focuses on the technological dimensions such as design and usage; thus, neglecting most of the social issues such as the business and managerial applications of APIs, which are equally important. Future research directions are provided concerning the gaps identified.

scholarly journals Social skills of gifted and talented children

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 288-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Luiza Pontes de França-Freitas ◽  
Almir Del Prette ◽  
Zilda Aparecida Pereira Del Prette
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Gifted And Talented ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Gifted Children ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Social Skills Rating System ◽  
Demographic Questionnaire ◽  
The Social ◽  
Future Research Directions

There is a clear lack of empirical studies about the socio-emotional characteristics of gifted and talented children, especially in the context of social skills. This study aimed to characterize the social skills of such children, identifying similarities and differences in the skill repertoire in comparison with non-gifted children. The sample contained 394 children from 8 to 12 years old, of which 269 children were identified as gifted. All participants answered the Social Skills Rating System and Socio-demographic Questionnaire. The results indicate a more elaborate social skills repertoire for gifted children in all categories with the exception of empathic skills. The implications of these results for the planning of educational programs are discussed and future research directions are identified.

scholarly journals Watch and Learn: Vicarious Threat Learning across Human Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 1345
Author(s):  
Yael Skversky-Blocq ◽  
Jan Haaker ◽  
Tomer Shechner
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Neural Mechanisms ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
The Social ◽  
Important Pathway ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Pathological Anxiety

Vicarious threat learning is an important pathway in learning about safety and danger in the environment and is therefore critical for survival. It involves learning by observing another person’s (the demonstrator) fearful responses to threat and begins as early as infancy. The review discusses the literature on vicarious threat learning and infers how this learning pathway may evolve over human development. We begin by discussing the methods currently being used to study observational threat learning in the laboratory. Next, we focus on the social factors influencing vicarious threat learning; this is followed by a review of vicarious threat learning among children and adolescents. Finally, we examine the neural mechanisms underpinning vicarious threat learning across human development. To conclude, we encourage future research directions that will help elucidate how vicarious threat learning emerges and how it relates to the development of normative fear and pathological anxiety.

scholarly journals Revealing Findings in Youth Sport Parenting Research

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 252-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camilla J. Knight
Keyword(s):  
Parental Involvement ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Youth Sport ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Future Work

It is widely accepted that parents are a pivotal part of young people’s sporting journey, and over the last 4 decades there has been a substantial growth in research pertaining to youth sport parenting. The aim of this paper is to review the status of the literature pertaining to parenting in youth sport and suggest areas for future work. Specifically, the author provides a very brief history of sport parenting research before turning attention to the 3 areas of study that are currently attracting the majority of researchers’ attention: the influence of parental involvement in youth sport, factors affecting parental involvement in youth sport, and strategies to promote high-quality parental involvement. Future research directions pertaining to the sport parenting questions that are asked, the populations that are sampled, and the interventions that are developed and evaluated are subsequently provided. Finally, the paper concludes with some considerations for best practice in sport clubs and organizations that seek to foster more adaptive youth sport parenting.

Status and Future Trends of Multimedia Interactivity on the Web

2009 ◽  
pp. 1345-1350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omar El-Gayar ◽  
Kuanchin Chen
Keyword(s):  
Future Development ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
The Web

This chapter provides a brief overview of Web interactivity. It highlights current research findings on interactivity from several academic disciplines and offers insights on current and future development of Web interactivity. A framework to examine multimedia and Web interactivity is provided. The chapter concludes with future trends and suggestions for future research directions.

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