Experiences, Perceptions, and Expectations of the Business Community in Mexico Amidst the COVID-19 Crisis

2022 ◽  
pp. 39-59
Author(s):  
Jesús Manuel Palma-Ruiz ◽  
Herik Germán Valles-Baca ◽  
Carmen Romelia Flores-Morales ◽  
Luis Raúl Sánchez-Acosta
Keyword(s):  
Economic Activity ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Business Community ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Sampling Frame ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Support Strategies ◽  
Income Expectations ◽  
Perceptions And Expectations

The objective of this chapter is to provide a contextualized perspective about the effects of the COVID-19 health crisis for companies with economic activity and fixed installations in Mexico, mainly during the second to third phases of the contingency. For this purpose, data from the INEGI ECOVID-IE 2020 survey is analyzed, which used a sampling frame of 1,873,564 Mexican companies compared by size. Relevant information is provided about the reality of the Mexican business community to report the main sanitary measures implemented, the operational actions used, the sources and types of support received, the best support policies identified, and the income expectations for the following months. Faced with a negative scenario, targeted support strategies from governmental, chambers, and business organizations must be aligned to regain the confidence of the business community to support their continuity.

Information overload in business organizations and entrepreneurship: An analytical review of the literature

2021 ◽  
pp. 026638212110549
Author(s):  
CA(Dr.) Gaurav Bhambri
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Agents ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Professional Literature ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Paradoxical Situation

In this paper I analytically review the literature on the information overload problem, with special reference to the business organizations and entrepreneurship and the study mainly reveals that the problem of the information overload has been existed for many years, whereas in current years the problem has become more clearly recognized and experienced. A concern stressed in the literature is the paradoxical situation that most probably there is an abundance of information available and it is often difficult to obtain useful, and relevant information when it may be needed. Both perceptions and the actual effects of information overload have exacerbated by rapid advances made in the information and communication technology, whereas it is not clear cut as to whether Internet has worsened/improved the situation. Some solutions have put forward to reduce the information overload are a reduction in duplication of the information found in professional literature; the adoption of the personal information management strategies, along with the integration of software solutions such as push technology and intelligent agents; and the provision of value-added information. Main emphasis is placed on the technology as a tool and not driver, while increased in information literacy may provide key to reducing the information overload in organisations.

scholarly journals Development Factors of Region’s Foreign Economic Activity in the Context of Global Challenges

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 688-712
Author(s):  
Yuliya G. Lavrikova ◽  
Elena L. Andreeva ◽  
Artem V. Ratner
Keyword(s):  
Economic Activity ◽  
English Language ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Business Community ◽  
Homogeneous Groups ◽  
Global Challenges ◽  
Country Factors ◽  
Federal Districts ◽  
Production Technologies ◽  
Organisational Factors

New global challenges such as COVID-19 pandemic, strengthening of protectionism, production technologies development, digitalisation and energy transition, require reinterpretation of regions’ foreign economic activity (FEA). In this context, the research aims to identify and classify development factors of such activity in regions described in the international scientific literature. We analysed works obtained from international (Scopus and Web of Science) and Russian (Elibrary.ru, journal websites) databases using the search terms “regional foreign economic activity”, “regional export”, “global challenges”, “export support”, “foreign investments”, etc. 143 Russian- and English-language articles and books published in the period 1980–2021 were chosen. Selected works, focused on Russian federal districts and regions, as well as advanced and emerging countries, describe various approaches to examining the specificity and development patterns of world regions. Based on the data, we performed structural analysis of foreign economic activity factors using the method of multi-parameter classification. The revealed factors were compared and divided into homogeneous groups with multilevel structures (macro-groups — groups — subgroups — individual factors). After analysing the variety of approaches, we identified five macro-groups of factors: 1) global challenges and partner country factors; 2) resource, industrial, transport and infrastructure potential; 3) organisational factors (finances, specialists’ skills, business community); 4) investment, innovation and image potential; 5) state support of foreign economic activity. The proposed classification considers the development of global, national, regional entities, as well as FEA participants and individuals, taking into account both direct and indirect factors. The research findings can be used for developing short-, medium- and long-term approaches, models and forecasts of regions’ foreign economic activity.

scholarly journals Modeling and analysis of COVID-19 new deaths using tree-based ensemble

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Abaker Targio Hashem ◽  
Raja Sher Afgun Usmani ◽  
Asad Ali Shah ◽  
Abdulwahab Ali Almazroi ◽  
Muhammad Bilal
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Disease ◽  
United States ◽  
Random Forest ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gradient Boosting ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Modeling And Analysis ◽  
Extreme Gradient Boosting ◽  
The World

The COVID-19 pandemic has emerged as the world's most serious health crisis, affecting millions of people all over the world. The majority of nations have imposed nationwide curfews and reduced economic activity to combat the spread of this infectious disease. Governments are monitoring the situation and making critical decisions based on the daily number of new cases and deaths reported. Therefore, this study aims to predict the daily new deaths using four tree-based ensemble models i.e., Gradient Tree Boosting (GB), Random Forest (RF), Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost), and Voting Regressor (VR) for the three most affected countries, which are the United States, Brazil, and India. The results showed that VR outperformed other models in predicting daily new deaths for all three countries. The predictions of daily new deaths made using VR for Brazil and India are very close to the actual new deaths, whereas the prediction of daily new deaths for the United States still needs to be improved.<br>

Between Order and Justice: Investments in Africa and Corporate International Responsibility in Swedish Media in the 1960s

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 401-444 ◽  
Author(s):  
NIKOLAS GLOVER
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Home Country ◽  
International Study ◽  
Border Crossing ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Business Community ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Policy Problem ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Corporate Social

This article analyzes how the public relations of multinational companies was affected by the double impact of decolonization and spread of television during the 1960s. It contributes to recent theoretical conceptualizations of corporate social responsibility by adding the dimension of home country stakeholders and the border-crossing character of corporate responsibility. The analysis deals with the changing media representations in Sweden of Swedish-owned firms in Liberia and South Africa before, during, and after what has been called the “postcolonial moment” (1960–1963). In its wake, Swedish industrialists faced a new policy problem: firms in overseas markets were no longer expected to do only what was legal in the host country but also what was considered right in their home country. The analysis follows the debates concerning this issue of corporateinternationalresponsibility throughout the 1960s, and how national business organizations and executives in firms such as the Liberian-American-Swedish Mining Company publicly sought to defend the role of Swedish foreign direct investment in Africa. The business community developed various public relations strategies to engage with its critics, professionalized their media relations, and organized international study tours for unions and politicians.

scholarly journals Information and News Consumption. Perception on the Communication of Authorities and Journalists During the Covid-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 104-123
Author(s):  
Raluca Mureşan ◽  
Minodora Sălcudean ◽  
Adina Pintea
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Public University ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Many Sources

Starting March 2020, Romania has been faced with a health crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, a crisis reflected in media communication. In such situations, media play a crucial role in making relevant information timely and accessible, to help people learn about and understand what this pandemic is and how it is assessed, how to protect themselves, and what measures are taken by the authorities. This study aims to analyse how Romanian students keep informed during this national and global crisis, which also generates adjacent media phenomena such as an increase in misinformation, lack of transparency in communicating with the public or over-abundance of information. To this end, we applied a questionnaire which was answered by 426 students from a public university in Romania. The results show that students use many sources to get the information they consider important, believe that the types of messages that help them feel properly informed about the pandemic and its implications: data, figures, accurate facts, and the information received from authorities or experts and that they prefer multimedia digital content. Young people tend to be cautious concerning the transparency of official communication and continue to consume information transmitted by the mainstream media, perceived as being more credible than other news sites.

scholarly journals Transaction Analysis of Business-Ecosystems

2021 ◽  
pp. 138-147
Author(s):  
S. N. Kukushkin
Keyword(s):  
Transaction Costs ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Organizational Form ◽  
Business Organization ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Business Ecosystem ◽  
Business Ecosystems ◽  
Transaction Analysis ◽  
Legal Forms

Business-ecosystem is a rather new organizational form of interaction on market between customer and producer, which is used widely today by business-organizations of different organization and legal forms and types of economic activity. The article provides the analysis of business-ecosystems in view of the theory of transaction costs. The terms ‘ecosystem' was initially proposed to describe the environment of mutual existence of different biological beings. Later it was used for depicting the environment of business-organization. In this environment various antipodes exist and interact. At first sight they should avoid collaboration with each other, but in fact mutual coexistence intensifies every participant and fosters their development, therefore, they shall find forms and means of co-existence. In spite of the fact that business-ecosystem is a rather new trend in research in the field of economy and management, certain approaches to research and classification of the phenomenon have been created. The author in view of neo-institutional theory proves that business-ecosystem meets all classical canons, therefore it functions as a classical business-organization with similar goals and relevant tools.

Knowledge Extraction Through Page Rank Using Web-Mining Techniques for E-Business

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-36
Author(s):  
Mahesh Kumar Singh ◽  
Om Prakash Rishi ◽  
Anukrati Sharma ◽  
Zaved Akhtar
Keyword(s):  
Search Engines ◽  
Web Mining ◽  
Web Search ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Web Logs ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
New Challenges

Internet plays a vital role for doing the business. It provides platform for creating huge number of customers for ease of business. E-business organizations are growing rapidly and doubly in every minute; World Wide Web (WWW) provides huge information for the Internet users. The accesses of user's behavior are recorded in web logs. This information seems to be very helpful in an E-business environment for analysis and decision making. Mining of web data come across many new challenges with enlarged amount of information on data stored in web logs. The search engines play key role for retrieving the relevant information from huge information. Nowadays, the well-known search engines, like Google, MSN, Yahoo, etc. have provided the users with good search results worked on special search strategies. In web search services the web page ranker component plays the main factor of the Google. This paper discusses the new challenges faced by web mining techniques, ranking of web pages using page ranking algorithms and its application in E-business analysis to improve the business operations.

The New Informated Business Architecture

2003 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Andrew Targowski
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Business Community ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Berlin Wall ◽  
New Era ◽  
Structure Of Scientific Revolutions ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
History Of

The fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Warsaw Pact, and the disintegration of the Soviet Union are certainly monumental events in the history of the human race as the 20th century nears its close. Monumental changes are taking place in business organizations and in the managers who run them. The business community is shifting its paradigms and the manner in which it does business. To avoid “Future Shock,” one must look beyond the trends of the past and discover the rules that will govern business in the Twenty-First Century, the Information Age. By knowing the nature of such changes and how to anticipate them, the strategist can elicit extraordinary leverage in shaping the future. Drucker (1980) in Managing Turbulent Times, writes that one of the most important skills during times of turbulence is anticipation. This chapter explores the effects of the information age (Figure 1) upon the global business enterprise which is shifting from an old paradigm to a new one, in the way Kuhn (1970) described paradigm shifts in science in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. We will also suggest that since all major business dimensions have shifted paradigms, a new era in business requires a new set of rules.

Luxury Brands and Strategic Management Accounting

2021 ◽  
pp. 157-177
Author(s):  
Peter Clarke ◽  
Edoardo Crocco
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Management Accounting ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Luxury Brands ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Managerial Accounting ◽  
Cost Information ◽  
Strategic Management Accounting ◽  
Managerial Implications

It is generally accepted that the primary objective of the discipline of management accounting is to provide relevant information, financial and non-financial, to business managers in order to assist in their decision making. This discipline evolved during the Industrial Revolution and it was, initially, referred to as cost accounting due to its emphasis on reporting internally-orientated cost information. The purpose of this chapter is to highlight the current techniques of managerial accounting widely used by business organizations all over the world and to describe the managerial implications of said methods when they are utilized by players operating in the luxury sector.

scholarly journals Varieties of Crises: Comparing the Politics of COVID-19 and Climate Change

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Hamish van der Ven ◽  
Yixian Sun
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Climate Action ◽  
Climate Crisis ◽  
State Responses

The COVID-19 pandemic is the largest public health crisis in recent history. Many states have taken unprecedented action in responding to the pandemic by restricting international and domestic travel, limiting economic activity, and passing massive social welfare bills. This begs the question, why have states taken extreme measures for COVID-19 but not the climate crisis? By comparing state responses to COVID-19 with those to the climate crisis, we identify the crisis characteristics that drive quick and far-reaching reactions to some global crises but not others. We inductively develop a conceptual framework that identifies eight crisis characteristics with observable variation between the COVID-19 and climate crises. This framework draws attention to under-considered areas of variance, such as the perceived differences in the universality of impacts, the legibility of policy responses, and the different sites of expertise for both crises. We use this structured comparison to identify areas of leverage for obtaining quicker and broader climate action.

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