IJV partner relations in emerging markets: the importance of Greek partner's prior IJV experience

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to examine the effect of the Greek partners' prior international joint venture (IJV) experience on partner compatibility, knowledge transfer (KT) and trust in their IJVs.Design/methodology/approachThe authors conducted a primary research study and collected a total of 50 useable questionnaires from Greek firms with IJV participation.FindingsThe findings show a positive effect of the Greek partner's prior experience in IJV establishment and management on partner compatibility and on successful KT to the IJV.Practical implicationsThe results are significant for executives of firms who seek to expand to international markets through IJV formation and for practitioners involved in IJVs, regarding prior IJV experience, partner compatibility and KT to their IJVs.Originality/valueThis study uses a sample of Greek firms with IJV participation to examine the effect of their prior IJV experience on IJV partner relations in the region of South East (SE) Europe. Additionally, it enhances the understanding of the effect of prior experience in the IJV establishment and management in emerging markets and sheds light to the antecedents of partner compatibility, which have been neglected by researchers.

Exploring Subsistence Marketplaces Through a Feminist Perspective

Extant literature in the field of subsistence marketplaces adopts a gender-neutral framing of marketplace exchanges despite the overwhelming experience of disadvantage faced by women relative to men as a consequence of patriarchal structures. The authors employ feminist perspectives to render visible constructions of power inequities. First, the authors employ a gendered lens to revisit the topics and data in four published papers in the field of subsistence marketplaces, revealing new questions for future research to answer as well as opportunities to reimagine policy responses. Second, they demonstrate how a gendered analysis was conducted in a primary research study with 21 men and women involved in microfinance programs in rural South India. The findings reveal that gender is a social construction that can be “done and undone,” to transform unequal power relations between men and women in subsistence marketplace exchanges. Several implications for theory and marketing practice are then provided.

Global Neurodiverse Support Systems

Neurodiversity refers to the inherent differences in the structure and functioning of the brain causing neurological variations. These include but are not limited to Autism, ADHD, Learning disabilities, Tourette’s syndrome. However, the understanding of these conditions and the support available has considerable scope for improvement, and new advances are continually being made. This leads to a vast disparity in the support systems available for the neurodiverse community across different countries. This paper comprises of two parts; the first half includes an analysis of the global support systems for neurodiverse conditions based on the current research available for different regions; the second half includes a primary research study conducted supported by gap-identification analysis of Mumbai’s (India) neurodiverse support system. A set of suggestions is formulated based on observations such as the lack of a multidisciplinary approach, poor levels of coordination, low levels of inclusion in the education sector from the research survey, to improve the support provided to the neurodiverse community. Based on these evidence-based solutions further research can be conducted to mitigate the problems faced by the neurodiverse community and its coexisting support systems.

Young people's experiences of an anti-bullying Drama in Education workshop six months' post-participation

The purpose of this primary research study was to explore young people's experiences of an anti-bullying Drama in Education workshop, to understand the meanings young people have attributed to their experiences in relation to the workshop using an interpretative study design and to understand if the intervention has influenced participant's knowledge, skills, and behaviours in bullying situations. The research aims to fill the knowledge gap of the mechanisms in which arts and health promotion and health education interventions enhance social and cognitive skills in young people and the longitudinal impact of drama interventions and their relevance in enhancing long-term skills and knowledge.

Experimental Analysis of Machine Learning Algorithms Based on Agricultural Dataset for Improving Crop Yield Prediction

Agriculture is the primary research study area in India as agriculture is the main source of income for various communities. In classification algorithm for agricultural dataset according to production, area, crop and seasons. Here, four classification algorithms are used with the help of WEKA tool. These algorithms are namely the present scenario, there is a call to renovate the enormous agriculture data into diverse technologies and make them accessible to the farmer for improved decision making. The endeavor of this work is to find out the finest Random Tree, J48, Bayes Net and KStar etc. The captured results revealed that Random tree algorithm performed well in terms of error rate and provides slightly better performance than KStar, Bayes Net and J48 classifiers. In this paper, our objective is to apply machine learning techniques to mine constructive information from the agricultural dataset to improve the crop yield prediction for major crops in Nashik district of Maharashtra.

What is innovative to public libraries in the United States? A perspective of library administrators for classifying innovations

Innovations are critical for public libraries but rarely does any primary research study the scope and interpretation of the term “innovation” by public libraries. Also, few of the existing innovation typologies are based on data collected from public libraries. This study fills in the gap by eliciting 80 innovations reported by the administrators of 108 award-winning public libraries in the United States, and proposes the first organic classification of innovations for public libraries, with the following four types of innovations: Program (access-oriented/use-oriented), Process (efficiency-driven/effectiveness-driven), Partnership (internal/external), and Technology (web-based technologies/assistive technologies/artificial intelligence). Findings can advance the state of innovations in libraries.