A Study on Consumer Inertia towards E-Wallet usage at Patan City

Demonetization effect, Government promotion, Merchant acceptance, Effect of COVID-19, availability of internet and smart phones etc. are in favour of adoption of E-wallet in market as payment alternative but still Consumer inertia towards use of E-wallet prevails in India. In spite of many advantages to use E-wallet over traditional payment system, Consumers having hesitation due to concerned factors associated with it. Perceived Risk associated with E-wallet usages are safety, privacy, digital literacy, language, cost, fraud etc. makes impact on intention to use and consumer adoption behaviour. Research aims to examine the major factors concern for consumer’s inertia to use of E-wallet. It is an attempt to find out reasons of adoption and impact of demographic variable on concern factors with statistical analysis using SPSS.

RESALE OF GREEN HOUSING COMPENSATES FOR ITS PREMIUM PRICING: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF CHINA

ABSTRACT Green housing reduces resource consumption and protects the ecological environment. Sustainable buildings and construction have gained increasing attention in the last decade. Many empirical studies have confirmed that green housing imposes a price premium at the presale stage. The high price could be a concern that prevents homebuyers from purchasing green buildings. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence on whether the premium pricing could be compensated for by the resale price. To address this gap, this study establishes a hedonic regression model to estimate the price premium of green housing at the resale stage. The results show that green housing certified with the Chinese Green Building Label (CGBL) offers a 6% price premium compared with non-green housing at the resale stage. The results also show that green housing with a higher level of green certification, e.g., the 3-star CGBL, provides a greater price premium at resale. The findings indicate that home-buyers can obtain financial compensation for the high cost when purchasing a green home. Our findings also indicate that the price premium for reselling a green home is not always enough to compensate for the purchase cost in different cities. Policy recommendations for government promotion of green housing are also discussed.

Business Operation Approach of Small and Medium Enterprise in Pathumthani Province

The purposes of this research are to study; 1) The importance level of factors lead to the business operations approach of SMEs 2) The characteristic of SMEs. 3) The relationship between the characteristic of SMEs and the importance level of factors lead to the business operations approach of SMEs. 4) Business operation approach of Small and Medium Enterprise in Pathumthani Province. Research via quantitative methodology. Data were collected from the executive or owner of SMEs in Pathumthani Province, by accidental sampling of 385 respondents of unknown exactly population. The research instrument were questionnaires. The data were then analyzed by computer software packages, statistic treatments were frequency, percentage, means, standard deviation, and ranking, Pearson Correlation, and Multiple Regression at statistical significance level of .05 The results of the research were as follows: 1) Overall the importance level of factors lead to the business operations approach of SMEs in Pathumthani Province were at of a high importance level, raked by CV (Covariant) respectively were: Technology Development and upgrading of firms' technology, Innovation and information technology, Products, Distribution and supply chain, Business Environment, Price, Government promotion, Market promotion. 2) Overall and individual of the characteristic of SMEs in Pathumthani Province were at of a high importance level, raked by CV (Covariant) respectively were Average total turnover per year, .Amount of employees, SMEs business operation.3) There were moderate relationship level between the characteristic of SMEs and the importance level of factors lead to the business operations approach of SMEs in Pathumthani Province. 4) Business operation approach of Small and Medium Enterprises in Pathumthani Province = was 0.783 Government promotion, was 0.775 Innovation, was 0.771 Technology Development and upgrading of firms' technology, was 0.702 Distribution and supply chain, was 0.681 Products, was 0.641 Price, was 0.421 Market promotion. (R square = 0.851)

Ecuador deal will help long-term debt sustainability

Significance COVID-19 lockdown measures and low oil prices are weighing on the economy, which the IMF expects to contract by 6.7% this year. According to the IMF, Ecuador’s gross financing needs will reach almost 14% of GDP, a high level for a dollarised country with low reserves and no market access. Impacts Government promotion of public-private partnerships will result in a moderate increase of infrastructure projects in the short term. Whoever wins the election may struggle to advance their agenda, especially if it involves austerity measures. The debt deal mitigates risks to the dollarisation regime, to which the authorities are fully committed.

At Home among Strangers: U.S. Artists, the Soviet Union, and the Myth of Rockwell Kent during the Cold War

After World War II, Soviet institutions organized many exhibitions of the American artist Rockwell Kent that bypassed the U.S. government. Promotion of Kent's work in the USSR was an exclusively Soviet enterprise. This article sheds new light on the Soviet approach to the representation of U.S. visual art during the Cold War. Drawing on U.S. and Russian archives, the article provides a comprehensive analysis of the political and aesthetic factors that resulted in Kent's immense popularity in the Soviet Union. Contextualizing the Soviet representation of Kent within relevant Cold War contexts, the article shows that his art occupied a specific symbolic position in Soviet culture. Soviet propaganda reconceptualized his biography and established the “Myth of Rockwell Kent”—a myth that helped to legitimate Soviet ideology and anti-American propaganda.

Research on cooperation strategy between government and green supply chain based on differential game

Based on the “three bottom line” and stakeholder theory, the paper considers the relationship and cooperation strategy between the government and the supplier and manufacturer of the green supply chain. By constructing the dynamic differential game model, the paper discusses the differences in the optimal effort level, green degree of product, reputation and the optimal benefit under the three situations of noncooperation, government promotion and collaborative cooperation. The results show that the optimal effort level, green degree of product, reputation and the optimal benefit in collaborative cooperation are obviously higher than the situations of non-cooperation and government promotion, and the cooperation of the three parties can promote the development of green supply chain. Government promotion is better than noncooperation. The government plays an active role in improving the optimal benefit and reputation of green supply chain. Finally, the reliability of the proposed proposition is verified by an example analysis, which provides an important reference for improving the efficiency of green supply chain.

Towards an understanding of Twitter networks: The case of the state of Mexico

The purpose of this research is to provide some understanding of Twitter Networks, using the data from the Twitter discussion generated on the State of the Union from Governor Eruviel Avila in 2015 and 2016. We analyzed and compared Network Links from tweets of two years, using Netlytic as a mining text tool. This research presents two contributions: 1) the links analysis perspective of social media; and, 2) we proposes a methodology to assess the impact of online social media and government promotion. Our findings suggest that citizens use social media platforms to interact with politicians in offices, and supports the argument about “networked individualism” in which analyzed Twitter accounts reveal many citizens’ opinions and retweets related to the governor’s use of YouTube for his State of the Union speech. Decision-makers can use this study to improve communication with their customers (public) and allocate resources effectively for better public services. Finally, the last trend has tried to understand content analysis by wording. There is a lack of research about network links, their quality and users that are part of such network to understand in an integrated perspective the impact of social media.