Academic Articles & Research Papers

Network capability, relational capability and Indonesian manufacturing SME performance: an empirical analysis of the mediating role of product innovation

The relational capability can create networks and build relationships to be an essential part of a company to improve business performance. This study aims to empirically prove the influence of knowledge sharing on product innovation, the e...

Environmental Disclosure Versus Environmental Performance: Implications for Corporate Financial Performance and Risk

Environmental considerations shape corporate strategy, risk management, and firm valuation. Yet, empirical evidence on the links between environmental performance, environmental disclosures and corporate financial performance is mixed and o...

Voluntary HIV Counselling and Testing Services: Knowledge, Attitudes, and Correlates of Utilisation among Young People in the Tema Metropolis, Ghana

Voluntary HIV counselling and testing (VHCT) is a successful intervention for fostering early HIV detection, which is essential for the management of the disease. This study sought to determine the prevalence and factors that influence the ...

Environmental shadows in the age of progress: The toll of economic globalization on China's climate

This study investigates the impact of economic globalization on China's climate using city-level data from 2005 to 2019. This study employs the Spatial Durbin Model (SDM) to reveal an inverted U-shaped relationship between globalization and...

School Business Administration

Political, Economic, and Organizational Context Role and Function Management Techniques Classified Personnel Administration Purchasing and Supply Management Budgeting Processes and Procedures Financial and Property Accounting Data Processin...

The future of doctoral education in business administration

Purpose Doctoral education in business administration needs to change in order to cope with the fast growing demand for PhD holders, who can teach and perform research at a high quality level. Additionally, society has a rapidly growing nee...

Human Resource Management Strategies in Achieving Competitive Advantage in Business Administration

Human Resource Management (HRM) is a very important aspect in the modern business world. Companies that manage their people effectively tend to have a greater competitive advantage over their competitors. This is due to the fact that HR is ...

The Roles of Foreign Language in Business Administration

This paper explores the roles of foreign language in business administration, investigates the manager perspectives, studies the problems of foreign language usages in communication, to discover modes of developing employee’s foreign langua...

A solution approach to the orienteering problem with time windows and synchronisation constraints

The orienteering problem with time windows and synchronisation constraints, known as the Cooperative Orienteering Problem with Time Windows (COPTW), is a class of problems with some important applications such as in home health care and eme...

Predicting Water Flux in Forward Osmosis with Unknown Feed Solution Composition: An Empirical Approach Based on Thermodynamical Properties

This study investigated the predictability of forward osmosis (FO) performance with an unknown feed solution composition, which is important in industrial applications where process solutions are concentrated but their composition is unknow...

Modeling and Optimizing the Performance of an Industrial Trigeneration Unit

Trigeneration provides an effective means of power, heat, and cold production on site. Proper design and well-managed operation of such units can bring in substantial savings in consumed primary energy as well as in the amount of greenhouse...

The influence of the Fourth Industrial Revolution on organisational culture: An empirical investigation

The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is known to transform and create opportunities for the world of work. However, little is known about how the future workforce, such as university students, are being equipped and exposed to 4IR technol...

Prognostic techniques for aeroengine health assessment and Remaining Useful Life estimation

Predictive maintenance is the latest frontier in the management and maintenance of many industrial assets, including aeroengines. Made possible by last decades advances in monitoring equipment and machine learning algorithms, it permits ind...

Formulation, characterization, and valorization of the antioxidant, antibiofilm, and anti-adhesion potentials of a clove essential oil nanoemulsion

Food safety and control are fundamental public health issues that maintain consumer confidence and protection. This design (management) requires monitoring production, processing, and conservation processes while limiting microbiological, c...

Process-Programmed Extraction–Structure–Activity Relationships (ESAR) in edible and medicinal mushroom polysaccharides: a mechanistic and application-oriented framework

Background: Edible and medicinal mushroom polysaccharides (EMMPs) display wide-ranging bioactivities, yet progress has been limited by siloed workflows. Extraction, structural analysis, and biological evaluation are often conducted independ...

The neglect of industrial design

This paper aims at helping innovators to rethink their overall approach to industrial design in product innovation. It examines the role of industrial design in product innovation and demonstrates with both normative and empirical evidence ...

Sustainable Industrial Design and Waste Management

The Impact of Industrial Design Effectiveness on Corporate Financial Performance *

Despite the growing recognition of industrial design's value in creating sustainable competitive advantage, few studies have attempted to quantify the contribution that design makes to company financial performance. This article examines th...

Industrial Design

Industrial design is the professional service of creating and developing concepts and specifications that optimize the function, value, and appearance of products and systems for the mutual benefit of both user and manufacturer. Industrial ...

Industrial Design

Industrial design is the professional service of creating and developing concepts and specifications that optimize the function, value, and appearance of products and systems for the mutual benefit of both user and manufacturer. Industrial de...