Academic Articles & Research Papers

Real options theory in international business

International Business

The open character of the global economy combined with the internationalization of business means that business students are increasingly required to understand the complexities of international business. This introductory textbook provides...

International Business Management

\n \t\t\tAn Australasian perspective providing a broad coverage of the many facets of the topic. 'International Business Management' is a fresh and original book written from an Australasian perspective providing a broad coverage of the man...

Synergistic Effects and Kinetic Analysis in Co-Pyrolysis of Peanut Shells and Polypropylene

The impact of COVID-19 has boosted growth in the takeaway and medical industries but has also generated a large amount of plastic waste. Peanut shells (PS) are produced in large quantities and are challenging to recycle in China. Co-pyrolys...

Forestry at the EU’s Doorstep – How Much are We Ready in the Area of Occupational Safety in Forestry?

According to the classification of business activities in the National Classification of Activities, agriculture, forestry and fishery together account for 3.43% of all injuries recorded in 2009, which places them in the lower part of the a...

TRENDS IN UKRAINE'S INVESTMENT ATTRACTIVENESS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

The country's investment attractiveness is one of the determining factors in attracting investment into the economy. The study emphasizes the relevance of research in this area. The article considers the dynamics of foreign direct investmen...

The impact of technical barriers to trade on Vietnam's fruit and vegetable exports to key markets

PurposeThis paper examines Vietnam's fruit and vegetable exports to major destination markets including The United States, South Korea, China and Japan with a particular focus on the impact of technical barriers to trade (TBTs) during the p...

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR FINANCIAL REPORTING: INTEGRATED POLICY

Abstract. The project of the International Accounting Standards Board that updates and develops international accounting standards (IASB) has been lasting more than twenty years. In Ukraine, International accounting standards were adopted a...

Corruption in international business: A review and research agenda

We systematically reviewed the literature on corruption in international business (137 articles) for the last 17 years between 1992 and 2019. Additionally, we identified seven research streams in this growing literature: (1) the legislation...

International Business: Competing in the Global Market Place

Part One-Introduction and Overview Chapter 1: Globalization Case: Who Makes the Apple iPhone? Part Two-Country Differences Chapter 2: National Differences in Political Economy Chapter 3: Political Economy and Economic Development Chapter 4:...

International Business

It is difficult to trace the origins of international business (IB) activity in Greece. Fragmentation of research, lack of documented and centrally stored evidence and practical limitations do not allow us to understand exactly the ‘when’ a...

Surface Reconstruction Adopting Laser Plane of Linear Path System Registered by Parallel Constraint

A surface reconstruction technology, which is contributed from the parallel constraint between two laser planes, is introduced and achieved by a laser projector guided by a linear path system. The projection geometry is constructed by the p...

PROPOSING A FRAMEWORK FOR ESTABLISHING A GREEN ENERGY LOGISTIC HUB: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY IN EGYPT

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has emphasized the opportunity to create "hydrogen hubs" to reduce costs associated with low-carbon hydrogen pathways. A "hub" is a region capable of aggregating hydrogen demand, typically found in coas...

Editorial: introduction to group research projects developed within an intensive programme in railway and logistics

This paper introduces a special issue of the Journal Transport Problems on group research projects developed within the RailNewcastle summer school organised and held in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England. The participants (both educat...

Minimizing the Sum of Makespan and Total Weighted Tardiness in a No-Wait Flowshop

This paper presents a cloud theory-based iterated greedy (CTIG) algorithm for solving the no-wait flowshop scheduling problem (NWFSP) with the objective of minimizing the sum of makespan and total weighted tardiness. The performance of the ...

Hierarchical ordered logistic regression analysis of urban rail transit driver fatigue determinants: impact of emotion regulation and sleep patterns

Abstract Urban rail transit (URT) drivers play a crucial role in ensuring operational safety; however, existing literature lacks in-depth research on the underlying mechanisms influencing driver fatigue in URT systems. To fill this gap, thi...

International Conference on Transportation Engineering 2007

Proceedings of the First International Conference on Transportation Engineering, held in Chengdu, China, July 22-24, 2007. Sponsored by China Communications and Transportation Association; the Transportation and Development Institute of ASC...

Enhanced Satellite Monitoring of Dryland Vegetation Water Potential Through Multi‐Source Sensor Fusion

Abstract Drylands are critical in regulating global carbon sequestration, but the resiliency of these semi‐arid shrub, grassland and forest systems is under threat from global warming and intensifying water stress. We used synergistic satel...

Termometría de dos piroxenos en condros de la condrita ordinaria Nuevo Mercurio H5, México

  En este trabajo se reconstruye la historia térmica de algunos condros de la condrita ordinaria Nuevo Mercurio H5. Con base en evidencias texturales fue posible discriminar las temperaturas propias de la formación de condros de aquéllas...

ELF and VLF signatures of sprites registered onboard the low altitude satellite DEMETER

We report the observation of ELF and VLF signature of sprites recorded on the low altitude satellite DEMETER during thunderstorm activity. At an altitude of ~700 km, waves observed on the E-field spectrograms at mid-to-low latitudes duri...