Academic Articles & Research Papers

The Importance of Digital Transformation in International Business

This study was developed under the scope of a Portuguese project focused on the entrepreneur’s perspective and perception on the internationalization process of his company: more specifically, about the factors that enhanced the company ent...

International business: an emerging vision

This volume explores the conceptual domain of international business inquiry, the constructs that hold promise for integrating the field, and the future directions that appear particularly fruitful for theory building and theory testing....

Critical Perspectives on International Business

A Theory of Cooperation in International Business

To what extent are cooperative ventures really cooperative? What exactly is meant by cooperation in this context? In international business, the term cooperative venture is often used merely to signify some alternative to 100 per cent equit...

International Business: Strategy, Management, and the New Realities

I. FOUNDATION CONCEPTS 1. Introduction: What is International Business? 2. Globalization of Markets and the Internationalization of the Firm 3. Organizational Participants that Make International Business Happen 4. Theories of International...

Language in International Business: A Review and Agenda for Future Research

A fast growing number of studies demonstrates that language diversity influences almost all management decisions in modern multinational corporations. Whereas no doubt remains about the practical importance of language, the empirical invest...

International Business

Competitive intelligence for international business

The influence of green quality of work life, green employee engagement, and green rewards on green employee retention in SME employees

One of the biggest challenges for employers is retaining employees, who are crucial for enhancing company performance, especially in SMEs. This research aims to determine the influence of Green Quality of Work Life, Green Employee Engagemen...

Colour-Blind Attitudes among Welfare Professionals: Examining the Relationship Between Colour-Blind Attitudes, Anti-immigration Attitudes and Social Desirability

Colour blindness is a concept that is established in the US context, and it has gained increased attention among European scholars. Yet we find less studies in the European context that measure colour-blind attitudes and show its prevalence...

Multi-label Patent Classification Based on Text and Historical Data

Patent classification,which is used to assign multiple international patent classification(IPC) codes to a given paten,is a very important task int the field of patent data mining.In recent years,many studies on this task focus on mining pa...

Social Innovation in Education and Social Service Organizations. Challenges, Actors, and Approaches to Foster Social Innovation

Social innovation became a widely discussed topic in politics, research funding programs, and business development. Recent European and US economic and science policies have set aside significant funds to generate and foster social innovati...

The Life is “Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish”, But Not Short: The Deserted Old in the Extreme Reality

Aging is an inevitable reality of human lives, and hundreds of thousands of studies address the questions of what makes people old. However, the underlying fact behind the question of what makes us old is the apprehension to face the grim r...

FORMAL AND SIGNIFICANT MUTATIONS OF TRADITIONAL DIPLOMACY

The purpose of this thesis is to make an empirical research over the existing literature regarding the new paradigms of diplomacy in the new era and identify future approaches of the field that enhance our understanding over the subject. Fu...

Islamic Financial Literacy and Sustainable Financial Performance: The Mediating Role of Green Banking

This study examines the effect of Islamic financial literacy on sustainable financial performance, with green banking as a mediating variable in Islamic banking institutions in Semarang City, Indonesia. A quantitative approach was employed ...

On the Path to Innovation: Analysis of Accounting Companies' Innovation Capabilities in Digital Technologies

Purpose – This article examines the innovation capability of accounting firms in the Brazilian market, in their use of digital technologies, based on technology development, operation, management, and transaction capabilities. Design/met...

Role of AI and IoT in Advancing Renewable Energy Use in Agriculture

This paper discusses how integrating renewable energy, AI, and IoT becomes important in promoting climate-smart agriculture. Due to the changing climate, rise in energy costs, and ensuring food security, agriculture faces unprecedented chal...

Why is the screening rate in lung cancer still low? A seven-country analysis of the factors affecting adoption

Strong evidence of lung cancer screening’s effectiveness in mortality reduction, as demonstrated in the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) in the US and the Dutch–Belgian Randomized Lung Cancer Screening Trial (NELSON), has prompted count...

Partnership for large and small businesses in the development strategy of the industrialized region

The article deals with the integration of large and small businesses in order to increase mutual effectiveness. Currently, large business, mainly in form of transnational and national corporations, is the foundation of the economy on a glob...

Global supply chains and China’s textile cross-border trade: case study of Jiangsu province

As one of the world's largest producers and exporters of textiles and clothing, China plays a key role in the reconstruction of the global supply chain and in the changes in the international trade situation. China's textile industry, as a ...