Academic Articles & Research Papers

Which Policy Issues Matter in Canadian Municipalities? A Survey of Municipal Politicians

Whether it’s a big city or a small town, all Canadian municipalities have core issues that their elected politicians are concerned about. Regardless of size, the daily business of a municipality must be managed and policies determined about...

Multinational Enterprises and Public Policy

Media and cultural policy as public policy

The British Labour government's media and cultural policies since 1997 are analysed as aspects of public policy. This allows assessment of the media and cultural policies of a supposedly centre‐left government in a conjuncture marked by neo...

American Public Policy: An Introduction

1. Public Policy: An Introduction. 2. Contexts of Public Policy. 3. The Economy: Changing Government-Business Relationships. 4. Economic Issues: Taxing, Spending, and Budgeting. 5. Energy and Environmental Policies: Policy Instability. 6. C...

Commercial interests in health policy dialogues: a qualitative content analysis of NEDLAC’s engagement with South Africa’s Health Promotion Levy

Abstract Background Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are rising rapidly in South Africa, prompting the introduction of the Health Promotion Levy (HPL) in 2018 to reduce the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages. However, the levy remains...

Entrepreneurship, Economic Growth and Public Policy

The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy

Abstract The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy mines all the traditions of public policy. Public policy is the business end of political science. It is where theory meets practice in the pursuit of the public good. Political scientists appro...

ICT-enabled supply chain integration capabilities and firms’ financial performance: an empirical study of Tanzania’s manufacturing SMEs

The spectacular advancement in information and communication technology (ICT) has shaped the way firms conduct their business, interact and communicate with customers and suppliers along their supply chains (SC). Yet, there exists limited k...

Mapping Customer Relationship Management Research in Higher Education: Trends and Future Directions

Customer relationship management (CRM) has become a critical strategy for higher education institutions (HEIs) to enhance student engagement, institutional efficiency, and digital transformation. Despite its growing adoption, the evolution ...

Giving Sense to Change Leadership: Towards a Narrative-Based Process Model

Introduction: Recent studies on change agency and organizational change failure have significantly broadened the organizational behavior perspective on individual change experiences, however, the underlying mechanism for change leaders’ inf...

How the European Court of Justice’s judgement on Case 19/15i single-handedly changed the EU’s food information policy

The European Court of Justice is asked by the German courts to determine if the European Union’s legal framework on the use of nutrition and health claims in the advertising of food products applies to commercial communication that is direc...

The Relevance of Phonology to Communication Studies

The notion people have of the relationship between phonology and some other fields of study is that they are totally different and independent of one another. Some think that communication studies are independent of phonological studies. In...

Post-Truth and Critical Communication Studies

Abstract While the periodizing concept “post-truth” (PT) initially appeared in the United States as a key word of popular politics in the form “post-truth politics” or “post-truth society,” it quickly appeared in many languages. It is now t...

Estructuración de la microempresa establecida en el sector comercial de la Ciudad de Milagro, Ecuador

In seeking to analyse the current structure of small businesses in the town of Milagro we considered those that have a maximum of 10 people, whose activities are performed mostly in an empirical manner, in view of the low levels of academi...

AGRICULTURE IN THE FACE OF CLIMATE CHALLENGES – THE PROBLEM OF GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

Changes in seasonal weather cycles, a growing number of extreme phenomena, an upward trend in temperature and changes in the distribution of rainfall, significantly affect the functioning and effectiveness of agriculture. However, agricultu...

Bankruptcy Prediction, Financial Distress and Corporate Life Cycle: Case Study of Central European Enterprises

Businesses are influenced by the cyclical nature of economic development and distinct stages in the corporate life cycle. Accurate early-warning mechanisms are crucial to mitigating bankruptcy risk, enabling timely rescue measures. This art...

Political Science

Abstract What does political science as a discipline contribute to the understanding of the relationship between business and government? The field has long been a stepchild within the discipline with many fewer practitioners than the study...

Assessing Efficiency of Public Poverty Policies in UE-28 with Linguistic Variables and Fuzzy Correlation Measures

The present study analyzes the efficiency of social expenditure by EU-28 countries within the period 2014–2018 to reduce poverty. The data are provided by programs European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) and Euro...

Artificial neural network modeling of mixed convection viscoelastic hybrid nanofluid across a circular cylinder with radiation effect: Case study

As a result of its use in the manufacturing and construction industries, research on the flow of nanofluid is rather well-known among academics and professionals in related fields. It is helpful for electrical equipment to utilize it for co...

A mathematical model for process cycle time - theory and case study

The article focuses on derivation of a regression model which describes dependence of process cycle time on relevant factors entering the process. The analyzed processes are typical in that the coefficient of variation of times correspondin...