Social capital in e-commerce era: toward a deeper knowledge of its conceptualization and empirical measurement in agribusiness

PurposeE-commerce, with technology as its backbone, is an indispensable business trend associated with the wave of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Recently, its intensifying role has also been noticed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, technology adoption to pursue an e-commerce model for agribusinessmen is not easy, while the COVID-19 has made them lose customers and led them to crises. In that context, the role of social capital (SC) has increasingly been paid significant attention, especially for micro and family businesses. Agribusinessmen can use SC to adopt technology, renew and reinforce their businesses in the global agricultural supply chain disruption context. However, there seems to be a dearth of an integral measurement of social capital (IMSC) to apply to the practice effectively. Recognizing this need, the current study aims to develop an integral scale for SC.Design/methodology/approachThis research adopts a widely accepted and rigorous scale development process, a mixed-methods research design and essential statistical techniques to develop an IMSC.FindingsThe result develops an IMSC consisting of nine facets: linking-corporate, bonding-bridging, trust in political institutions, trust in public services, generalized social trust, norms and social sanctions, subjective safety, civicness and community cohesiveness. The scales of these facets are found to be unidimensional, reliable and valid.Originality/valueThis is the first study developing an IMSC to contribute to the extant literature. The study also provides managerial implications for practitioners to strengthen SC and adopt technology to improve their businesses.

RECENT TRENDS IN BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT

Trade is the tertiary production type of business in economic activities and business is economic activity is also known as Pink Color Workers. In this business, mainly goods are exchanged. In short, buying and selling goods is a trade or a business. This research paper is based on the secondary information material. This research paper provides nautical analysis of the various types of current occupations and how they are managed or attempts to conduct descriptive or theoretical studies. The type of trade and its management before the industrial revolution was very different from modern times, and the development of technology after the industrial revolution led to major changes in the form and method of trade and its management, and in the 21st century the development of technology thus vary fast change of business trend and management. The main objective of this research paper is recent trends in business and management with the aim of conducting a thirty trend study. KEY WORDS: Recent Trends, Business, Management, Tertiary Production, Pink Color Workers.

Global Pandemic, Technology Booms and New Business Trends: The Case of Japan

The outbreak of COVID-19 has reshaped business environments across the world. Minimal physical contact quickly becoming the standard practice for how everyone interacts, almost everything is going online and touchless. Japan, as one of the most technologically innovative nations in the world, its technology firms and IT industry have enjoyed a prosperous year. The new global business trend and market demand has created new growth opportunities for Japanese firms in reviving the slumping economy. By exploring new business trends and booms in technology sectors, the intent of this study is to examine the impact of COVID-19 on business. The first section includes a discussion on digitalization and global pandemic technology growth, including examples involving the United States and China. The second section is focused on Japan by examining the COVID-19 impact on Japan’s economy, business trends and how this situation has benefitted technology players in Japan. Using business performance records in terms of equity gain and revenue growth, the impact of COVID-19 on business across sectors is investigated, with emphasis on Japan’s digital business and industry of automation, robotics and sensor technology. It concludes that the impacts of COVID-19 on the ways of doing business will be long lasting, and is expected to continue benefitting digital business and technology sectors.

Customer Churn Prediction using Sandpiper Optimization with Bidirectional Gated Recurrent Unit for Business Intelligence

Recent innovation in business intelligence (BI) assists companies to stay successful and competitive with the increasing business trend. Businesses have started to examine the succeeding level of data analytics and BI solution. At the same time, Customer Churn Prediction (CCP) is an essential procedure involved in business decision making that effectually determines the churn clients and performs adequate processes to retain customers. With this motivation, this paper presents a sandpiper optimization with bidirectional gated recurrent unit (SPO-BiGRU) for CCP on BI applications. The SPO-BiGRU model aims for determining the occurrence of customers into churner or non-churner. In addition, the SPO-BiGRU technique involves pre-processing, classification, and hyperparameter optimization. Followed by, the BiGRU model is applied to perform the predictive process. At last, the SPO algorithm is applied to optimally adjust the hyperparameters involved in the BiGRU model. For validating the enhanced performance of the SPO-BiGRU method, a wide range of simulations take place and the results are inspected under varying aspects. The experimental results portrayed the supremacy of the SPO-BiGRU technique over the recent state of art approaches.

Campus No. 10

Contiene: El Programa de Educación Financiera “Mis Finanzas” Conferencias virtuales ; El Programa de Educación Financiera “Mis Finanzas” Taller bursátil ; Congreso de Recursos Humanos ; Congreso estudiantil Business Trend UCA 2020. Realidad Empresarial No. 10, 2020: 109-113

Effects of Patent Right and Innovation Diversity on Business Performance in Biomedical Industry

Under the impact of business trend and internationalization, the rapid growth of patent applications reveals national emphasis on intellectual property. When biomedical Industry concentrates on core competency and largely outsources parts of production, patents allow biomedical Industry keeping the technological value that biomedical Industry largely applies for patents to manifest the innovative technology. Taking biomedical Industry as the research object, 50 listed biomedical companies in Chinese medicine database are selected for this study. Based on the database and assisted with Market Observation Post System, the business data of such 50 biomedical companies are searched. According to the results, suggestions are further proposed, expecting to help biomedical Industry promote the profitability when devoting to patent application and planning.

The Analysis of Innovation Management in Google

Google has search engine, android operating system and so on. Its products innovation is remarkable as known as PageRank and world most used smart phone, Android. Not only management strategy, but also everyday life is interconnected with IT evolution. Google’s search engine lured more than half of traffic among other competitors and its Android OS for portable devices dominated major smart device market. Google Inc’s innovation for both of products and management sections are constantly getting upgraded and it shows that this organization have never stopped for adapting to current customer’s needs and innovation for its organization to get well shaped. This research is understanding of how current cutting-edge technology can be presented and major perspective to estimate future business trend with idea that is well established academical approach to Google’s innovation for both of technology and organizational transformation.

Prediction of Regional Commercial Activeness and Entity Condition Based on Online Reviews

The activeness of regional business entities, like restaurants, cinemas and shopping malls, represents the evolvement of their corresponding commercial districts, whose prediction helps practitioners grasp the trend of commercial development and provides support for urban layout. On the other hand, online social network services, such as Yelp, are generating massive online reviews toward business entities every day, which provide a solid data source for the prediction of regional commercial activeness and entity condition through big data technology rather than applying business data with limited access and poor time efficiency. Inspired by the outstanding performance of deep learning in the field of image and video processing, this paper proposes a deep spatio-temporal residual network (DSTRN) model for regional commercial activeness prediction using online reviews and check-in records of commercial entities. Furthermore, aiming at predicting business trend of entities, we also propose a novel multi-view entity condition prediction model (SBCE) based on online views, along with business attributes and regional commercial activeness. The experiments on the public Yelp datasets demonstrate that both DSTRN and SBCE outperform the compared approaches.

The Expansion Dilemma for Fourth-Party Logistics Services: Kodan Solutions Private Limited

The purpose of the case is to introduce the students to an emerging business trend of outsourcing the logistics function. The case enables the students to analyse the benefits of outsourcing logistics function and understand the concept of third-party logistics (3PL) and fourth-party logistics (4PL). The case is developed based on the primary data collected through interviews with the protagonist. Also, secondary data from published reports and archives of the company were used for the development of the case. After the case discussion the students will be able to understand the role of project logistics services in the supply chain. They will also understand the role of value-added logistics services such as cross-docking, reverse logistics and customs clearance, and the documentation involved in cross-border logistics. This case is among the first few cases on the concept of project logistics services and their role in the supply chain management.