E-Commerce Logistics

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anu Bask ◽  
Mervi Lipponen ◽  
Markku Tinnilä
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
21St Century ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Critical Part ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
A Minor

E-commerce has attracted increasing interest at the beginning of the 21st century, in both academia and practice. Today, the Internet is commonly used by both consumers and businesses as a means of purchasing goods. The authors’ study focuses on e-commerce logistics, focusing on the physical delivery of goods sold over the Internet. Based on a systematic review of articles, the authors will summarize and analyze the main findings of academic literature and highlight certain research issues recognized on this topic. The main objective is to study the state-of-the-art of e-commerce logistics research and future research needs. The reviewed articles have been formed into seven categories, and each category is discussed in the paper. The largest categories discuss e-commerce logistics in relation to retail strategies, logistics strategies and structures, and buyer preferences. Although logistics is a critical part of e-commerce, it seems based on the review that not many e-commerce logistics solutions have been developed or studied in current research, and logistics has often been treated as only a minor issue among other issues in e-commerce.

scholarly journals Cyber-Flirting: An Examination of Men's and Women's Flirting Behaviour Both Offline and on the Internet

2004 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica T. Whitty
Keyword(s):  
Physical Attractiveness ◽  
The Body ◽  
Nonverbal Cues ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Online Interactions

AbstractWhile flirting is a relatively underresearched area within psychology, even less is known about how people cyber-flirt. This paper explores how often individuals flirt offline compared to online. Moreover, it attempts to examine how men and women flirt within these different spaces. Five thousand, six hundred and ninety-seven individuals, of which 3554 (62%) were women and 2143 (38%) were men, completed a survey about their flirting behaviour both in face-to-face interactions and in chatrooms. The first hypothesis, which stated that the body would be used to flirt with as frequently online as offline, was partly supported. However, it was found that individuals downplayed the importance of physical attractiveness online. Women flirted by displaying nonverbal signals (offline) or substitutes for nonverbal cues (online), to a greater extent than men. In chatrooms men were more likely than women to initiate contact. It is concluded that cyber-flirting is more than simply a meeting of minds and that future research needs to consider the role of the body in online interactions.

Sport in business studies: a state-of-the-art literature review

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 529-546
Author(s):  
Christofer Laurell ◽  
Sten Soderman
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Marketing Strategy ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Business Studies ◽  
Current State ◽  
State Of Research

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to provide a systematic review of articles on sport published in leading business studies journals within marketing, organisational studies and strategy.Design/methodology/approachBased on a review of 38 identified articles within the subfields of marketing, strategy and organisation studies published between 2000 and 2015, the articles’ topical, theoretical and methodological orientation within the studied subfields were analysed followed by a cross-subfield analysis.FindingsThe authors identify considerable differences in topical, theoretical and methodological orientation among the studied subfields’ associated articles. Overall, the authors also find that articles across all subfields tend to be focussed on contributing to mature theory, even though the subfield of marketing in particular exhibits contributions to nascent theory in contrast to organisation studies and strategy.Originality/valueThis paper contributes by illustrating the current state of research that is devoted or related to the phenomenon of sport within three subfields in business studies. Furthermore, the authors discuss the role played by leading business studies journalsvis-à-vissport sector-specific journals and offer avenues for future research.

Learning Non-Taxonomic Relations of Ontologies

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-122
Author(s):  
Mohamed Hassan Mohamed Ali ◽  
Said Fathalla ◽  
Mohamed Kholief ◽  
Yasser Fouad Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Semantic Knowledge ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Automatic Extraction ◽  
Ontology Learning ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Specific Domain ◽  
Taxonomic Relations

Ontologies, as semantic knowledge representation, have a crucial role in various information systems. The main pitfall of manually building ontologies is effort and time-consuming. Ontology learning is a key solution. Learning Non-Taxonomic Relationships of Ontologies (LNTRO) is the process of automatic/semi-automatic extraction of all possible relationships between concepts in a specific domain, except the hierarchal relations. Most of the research works focused on the extraction of concepts and taxonomic relations in the ontology learning process. This article presents the results of a systematic review of the state-of-the-art approaches for LNTRO. Sixteen approaches have been described and qualitatively analyzed. The solutions they provide are discussed along with their respective positive and negative aspects. The goal is to provide researchers in this area a comprehensive understanding of the drawbacks of the existing work, thereby encouraging further improvement of the research work in this area. Furthermore, this article proposes a set of recommendations for future research.

scholarly journals Systematic Review on Security and Privacy Requirements in Edge Computing: State of the Art and Future Research Opportunities

IEEE Access ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 76541-76567 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muktar Yahuza ◽  
Mohd Yamani Idna Bin Idris ◽  
Ainuddin Wahid Bin Abdul Wahab ◽  
Anthony T. S. Ho ◽  
Suleman Khan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Edge Computing ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Opportunities ◽  
Privacy Requirements

RAINFALL RUNOFF MODELLING USING NEURAL NETWORKS: STATE-OF-THE-ART AND FUTURE RESEARCH NEEDS

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (sup1) ◽  
pp. 52-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashu Jain ◽  
Holger R. Maier ◽  
Graeme C. Dandy ◽  
K. P. Sudheer
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Rainfall Runoff

scholarly journals Review on Research and Developments of Sinks for Various Applications

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Wong Wei Syuen ◽  
Umar Nirmal ◽  
M. N. Ervina Efzan ◽  
Ammar Al Shalabi
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Future Research ◽  
User Needs ◽  
Design Features ◽  
Design And Development ◽  
Multiple Functions ◽  
Design Evolution ◽  
Multiple Function ◽  
The Future

In 21st century, kitchen sink is no longer a luxury for a house but has become a necessity. Human nowadays are pursuing for an advance kitchen sink with multiple function and ergonomic to the user. This work is a dedicated review on the design evolution of sinks from year 1973 till 2016. According to the patents review from year 1973, kitchen sink or faucet with multiple functions compiled with ergonomic features are invented and improved in its design from time to time. The patents discusses on the stand alone sink, portable basin that can be packed, use of flexible braided metal hose, sensor operated faucet, foldable kitchen sink and others design features which is crucial to the user. As part of an initiative to predict user needs in the future, future research on state of the art design and development of a smart ergonomic sink for home applications has been included in this work.

scholarly journals Outcomes From Health Information Exchange: Systematic Review and Future Research Needs

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. e39 ◽  
Author(s):  
William R Hersh ◽  
Annette M Totten ◽  
Karen B Eden ◽  
Beth Devine ◽  
Paul Gorman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Health Information Exchange ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Needs

scholarly journals A critical analysis of the impact measurement in impact finance

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 56-63
Author(s):  
Luca Piras
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Traditional Theory ◽  
Impact Measurement ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Measurement Models ◽  
Valuation Model ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Metrics And Measurement

Academic literature on impact finance has not yet covered all aspects of the topic, nor has significantly contributed, so far, to solve several relevant problems arising from the field. Defining the metrics and measurement models suitable to assess impact is probably, among them, the most important one. Practitioners seem willing to exploit the potential value and, although useful heuristics and practical solutions have been found, no satisfactory and widely accepted valuation model is available. The present paper tries to summarize the state of the art, through the analysis of the available literature and tries to address some possible development in future research. The underlying idea is that the field is still very new, on one side, and extremely diverse in its manifestation, therefore no traditional theory fully applies to it. At the same time, the research on the topic still relays on practitioners’ effort, rather than on academia, a gap that ought to be filled. The paper concludes that Impact Finance and Investing are perhaps too narrow labels that limit the possibility to fully grasp the core of it and propose to widen up it by using “Positive Finance” as a more comprehensive one. Indeed, it has been found that academic empirical studies are so far very few and statistical findings far from being robust. The absence of accepted market models, prevent researchers from delivering a theoretical effective interpretation of the growing market.

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