Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
What is the Right Innovation Type for your Industry? Evidence from Chemical Firms in Korea

The literature has two different perspectives on which innovation types should be implemented to achieve innovation performance; some argue that they should pursue process-oriented innovation, while others maintain that both product- and process-oriented innovation should be performed. Though innovation efficiency should be measured, which takes both input and output variables into account, the research so far has been measured only with the performance of the innovation. Accordingly, this study identifies which innovation type is the most advantageous in terms of innovation efficiency for the chemical firms. We use data of 64 Korean chemical companies from a 2016 Korean innovation survey and perform data envelopment analysis to calculate innovation efficiency. Kruskal–Wallis one-way ANOVA and bootstrap DEA were also conducted to compare the difference of innovation efficiency among groups, depending on which innovation types are oriented. The result shows that focusing on process innovation rather than both product and process innovation is more appropriate to achieve higher innovation efficiency, and pursuing process innovation rather than product innovation tends to achieving a higher level of innovation efficiency in the Korean chemical industry.
Halal logistic services, trust and satisfaction amongst Malaysian 3PL service providers

Purpose This study aims to empirically examine a model of the halal logistic services, its impact on manufacturers’ trust and satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach This study was conducted through survey questionnaires after an extensive review of the literature. A total of 564 samples of the questionnaire were distributed to logistics management representatives of halal manufacturing companies in Malaysia. This survey was carried out to measure the respondents’ perception of halal manufacturers’ satisfaction with third-party logistic (3PL) service providers in Malaysia. The instruments/survey incorporate halal assurance services, halal service diversity and halal service procedure as the antecedents of halal manufacturers’ trust and satisfaction. Findings The findings indicate that halal assurance services and halal service procedure are positively associated with manufacturers’ trust and satisfaction, while halal service diversity is not associated with it. The study also shows that manufacturers’ attitude play a mediator role between the halal logistic service and manufacturers’ satisfaction. Originality/value The study provides useful information in understanding the importance of halal logistic services and more particularly aims at facilitating 3PL service providers to offer halal logistic services quality that suits the manufacturers’ needs.
Bayesian aggregation of expert judgment data for quantification of human failure probabilities for radiotherapy

The paper deals with the quantification of probabilities for human failures in the radiotherapy domain. The probabilities are used as input for the development of a Human Reliability Analysis (HRA) method specific for radiotherapy. Quantification is based on expert judgment, in view of the lack of relevant data. A Bayesian aggregation model is used to aggregate the judgments collected during elicitation sessions with domain experts. A qualitative scale is first used; then the judgments are interpreted as information on the order of magnitude of the error likelihood and aggregated under the Bayesian scheme. Besides for the specific domain of interest, this work is relevant for novel HRA applications outside typical domains, for which the need to incorporate expert judgment in traceable and defendable ways is key. magnitude of the error likelihood and aggregated under the Bayesian scheme. The paper presents the results of the aggregation. The application shows the ability of the aggregation approach to formally represent the variability of the experts’ estimates. Besides for the radiotherapy domain, the work presented in this paper is relevant for the various efforts recently done to extend HRA methods for application beyond their most typical applications, i.e. nuclear power plant operation. Lack of relevant data is a major issue for these novel applications (Bye et al. 2017, NASA 2012, Gibson 2012, Mkrtchyan et al. 2015, NUREG 2016) and methods to elicit expert judgment in a formal and defendable way are needed along with specific data collection initiatives. The paper is organized as follows. The next Section provides the background on the HRA method under development, for which probability values are sought for in this paper. Section 3 presents the design of the elicitation sessions and the concepts underlying the Bayesian approach for processing and aggregation of the judgments. Section 4 presents the application to two Decision Trees part of the framework of the HRA method under development. Concluding remarks close the paper. 2 BACKGROUND INFORMATION The framework for the HRA method consists of eighteen decision trees, one for each failure mode
E-Commerce Cart Abandonment: Exploring Consumer Behavior's and Reasons for Cart Abandonment

:- As an important part of today’s economic status, online market plays an important role in the fast growth of the Internet economy over the last decade. The popularity of the online markets gave way for the research community members to explore, analyse, investigate and finally find some solution, to motivate the online shoppers to complete purchasing stage. The e-commerce shopping cart is used to analyse the online behaviour of the consumers in placing the items in the online cart. This paper is about to study the reasons for abandoning shopping cart before completing the purchasing stage and giving solutions for those reasons, based upon the survey results collected from three different sources, online, social media and hard copy. The survey has been done on 9 different reasons to abandon shopping cart on two different age group people, 18 to 25 age group and 25 to 35 age group.
IMPLEMENTATION OF BIG DATA ANALYSIS ON POPULATION GROWTH IN GOVERNMENT SECTOR

In this paper we are going to predict the population growth of India for the year 2021. This journal is a kind of survey that makes predictions of the population in 2021 using the available big data. Also, the paper has incorporated various data preparation, survey and also has some critical applications for government sector. In general, the census survey in India is taken in a period of once in 10 years, so this journal aims to predict the population approximately on the basis of big data, well in advance of the government survey.
Collaborative Consumption Usage in the US and India: An Exploratory Study

While collaborative consumption and access-based businesses are thriving in the marketplace, researchers are yet in the process of attaining a comprehensive understanding of consumers’ collaborative consumption determinants and deterrents. This research, which focuses on collaborative consumption users vs. non-users in the US and Indian markets, aims to understand the predictive factors of collaborative consumption usage across these two economies and cultures. Discriminant analysis identifies respondents’ Perceived Sustainability as the strongest predictor of usage followed by Trust, Generosity, Risk-seeking, Materialism, Power Distance, Long-term orientation and Collectivism. Theoretical and managerial implications are discussed.
Determinants of Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) Adoption from the Perspective of future Employees

“Bring Your Own Device” or short BYOD is a new trend topic the IT management has to deal with. The debate about the costs, benefits and risks is in full swing. In this research, the customer is put in the center of attention. To measure the individual constructs in the research model, a quantitative survey is conducted. The results of the survey are analyzed using a structural equation model and descriptive statistics. The research provides, first, results about which factors have an influence on a BYOD use, how the employer attractiveness changes by the offering of a BYOD service and whether the potential employees are interested in BYOD usage. JEL-Klassifikation: Z00
How does dysfunctional customer behavior affect employee turnover

Purpose Dysfunctional customer behavior is believed to engender employee stress and, in turn, fuel employee turnover. However, little research has examined the moderating role of individual-level and contextual-level resource variables. The purpose of this paper is to fill these gaps by examining employee embeddedness and individualism–collectivism as putative moderators of the hypothesized mediation chain. Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted a field study involving 264 service employees working in two hotels operated by the same international hotel chain, one in South Korea (n=138) and the other in the UK (n=126). Findings Results show that employee embeddedness weakens the impact of dysfunctional customer behavior on employee turnover via employee stress. In addition, findings suggest that collectivists (individualists) are more (less) likely to be receptive to embeddedness cues. Originality/value This is the first known study to show that employee embeddedness can mitigate the impact of dysfunctional customer behavior on turnover via employee stress. This moderated-mediation model is further moderated by employees’ cultural value orientation (individualism–collectivism). Prior literature is not explicit on these complex models.
Information security in system outsourcing

Outsourcing agreement is a document to specify the relationship between outsourcing partners; service provider who offers the outsourcing service and client whose system is to be outsourced. A major success factor of the outsourcing is clear and comprehensive specification of duties and responsibilities regarding to information security. As the outsourcing agreement is juridically binding, service provider is responsible for acting accordingly. Therefore, the agreement is where security Measures should be agreed upon. As there is no clear understanding of contents of an adequate security specification in outsourcing agreement, this paper identifies the critical components and studies the issue of how to set requirements for outsourcing service providers and control enforcement of these requirements.
The link between CEO pay and corporate social performance in Nordic countries

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Finding the new risk-free asset. An investigation of gold, wine and corporate bonds as alternatives to government bonds

24-06-2019 This thesis sets out to find the risk-free asset. In the literature, this concept is often seen as a given and operationalized by government bond yields. This thesis first deconstructs the theoretical concept of the risk-free asset, then evaluates government bonds and gold, wine and corporate bonds as possible alternatives. Then these proxies are tested on their effectiveness in a theoretical model (CAPM) and their functioning in a Markowitz-inspired portfolio. The main finding is that corporate bonds pose as a promising alternative to government bonds as operationalization of the risk-free asset.
Optimal RFID Deployment in a Multiple-Stage Production System Under Inventory Inaccuracy and Robust Control Policy

Deploying radio frequency identification (RFID) devices or applying robust production control policy can both reduce the negative impact of inventory inaccuracy. In this paper, we investigate the problem of optimally deploying RFID devices in a multistage production system with inventory inaccuracy and robust control policy. We first model the multiple-stage production system as a Markov decision process model, in which the decision of deploying RFID devices is included. After that, an integer programming model is constructed for optimally deploying RFID device problem. Meanwhile, we propose a robust production control strategy by employing the policy iteration and the decomposition/coordination techniques, and a heuristic algorithm is proposed to solve the integer programming model. Finally, numerical experiments are conducted to examine the performance of the proposed optimal RFID deployment approach. We discover that when RFID is deployed at a certain workstation (i.e., production equipment), the benefits of deploying RFID devices can transfer to the upstream and downstream stages (i.e., reduce the production cost of both upstream and downstream stages). Furthermore, numerical experiments reveal that the deploying RFID devices evenly among all the stages of the production system will generate a better performance.
A Quasi-Static Model for Studying Physical Interaction Between a Soft Robotic Digit and a Human Finger

This paper presents the development of a framework based on a quasi-statics concept for modeling and analyzing the physical human-robot interaction in soft robotic hand exoskeletons used for rehabilitation and human performance augmentation. This framework provides both forward and inverse quasi-static formulations for the interaction between a soft robotic digit and a human finger which can be used for the calculation of angular motions, interaction forces, actuation torques, and stiffness at human joints. This is achieved by decoupling the dynamics of the soft robotic digit and the human finger with similar interaction forces acting on both sides. The presented theoretical models were validated by a series of numerical simulations based on a finite element model which replicates similar human-robot interaction. The comparison of the results obtained for the angular motion, interaction forces, and the estimated stiffness at the joints indicates the accuracy and effectiveness of the quasi-static models for predicting the human-robot interaction.
Smart Mobility: Services, Platforms and Ecosystems

Smart mobility is booming and comprises an important part of the development of smart cities. City bikes are already widely used in many cities and new types of vehicles, such as scooters, are entering the market. This opens new niche markets for vehicle fleet operation and maintenance, and creates challenges for effective services, due to the existence of expanding heterogeneous vehicle fleets located in large geographical areas, and the inclusion of new types of vehicles with operation and maintenance requirements.
Do Non-Family Member Managers Enhance Venture Performance of Family Businesses Evidence from Nigeria

This study examines the enhancing effect that non-family members plays on the performance of family businesses in Nigeria. Survey design was adopted and Data was collected through structured selfstudied questionnaire designed on 5-point likert scale. The main source of data was primary and the target population consisted of owners/founders and top management staff of selected family businesses in five states of Southwest, Nigeria. A sample size of 538 was drawn from the study population of 26744 using Cronrach approach. The single hypothesis formulated was tested with Pearson product moment correlation coefficient at 0.05 level of significance. Based on the analyzed data, the study found a positive relationship between non-family member managers and venture performance among the selected firms because the former enhances the latter. It is advised that that family business in Nigeria must strive to maintain non-members of the family in the management structure so as to enjoy stellar venture performance and more business viable achievements.
ANALISIS PERENCANAAN DAN PENGANGGARAN UNTUK ANGGARAN PENDAPATAN DAN BELANJA DAERAH PADA BADAN KEUANGAN KABUPATEN KEPULAUAN SANGIHE TAHUN ANGGARAN 2015

Planning and budgeting is a part which cannot be seperated from the proccess of government financial management. Need for integrity against a schedule of planning and budgeting Anggaran Pendapatan dan Belanja Daerah (APBD), linkages planning document that one against the other, as well as effective and efficient local government solutions to constrains in the planning and budgeting of the previous fiscal year APBD to be implemented in the next fiscal year. Badan Keuangan Kabupaten Kepulauan Sangihe is a functional government part that has the task of carrying out the affairs of local governance best on the principle of autonomy and helper task in the areas of income, asset and financial management areas, so that the operations of the system of government financial arrangements in particular regions can be run well. The purpose of this research was to determine whether the proccess of planning and budgeting for Anggaran Pendapatan dan Belanja Daerah (APBD) on Badan Keuangan Kabupaten Sangihe fiscal year 2015 is in compliance with Permendagri Nomor 13 Tahun 2006.This research uses descriptive research method. The research results showed of 14 steps, 1 of which shows the time and discrepancy functions according to Permendagri Nomor 13 Tahun 2006. Keywords : Planning, Budgeting, Regional Expenditure
Replication Data for: A Review of Best Practice Recommendations for Text-Analysis in R (and a User Friendly App)

Replication materials for "A Review of Best Practice Recommendations for Text-Analysis in R (and a User Friendly App)". You can also find these materials on GitHub repo (https://github.com/wesslen/text-analysis-org-science) as well as the Shiny app in the GitHub repo (https://github.com/wesslen/topicApp).
A systematic mapping study on gamification applied to e-marketing

Purpose Today, marketing has evolved due to the emergence of new electronic technologies and has shifted to e-marketing. Meanwhile, the gamification and gamified systems is an up-to-date research topic that has attracted the attention of many researchers in recent years. As one of the main goals of marketing is to increase customer engagement and loyalty by persuading and motivating them to participate, the gamification has a great potential for e-marketing. Although much research has been done on the gamification subject in e-marketing, there has not yet been a comprehensive review of these studies. This paper aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the scientific and practical research on gamification applied to e-marketing using the systematic mapping study methodology. Design/methodology/approach Because considerable research has been devoted to gamification since 2011, and the number of papers published in this area has grown steadily from 2011, the paper reviews the publications over the period 2011-2018. The research method includes developing research questions, designing the research process and filtering the findings based on the specified criteria. Findings The findings of this study show the main applications of gamification in e-marketing, the technologies used and the proven benefits of applying this technique in e-marketing. It also provides a classification of the studies in this area. Practical implications This paper helps other researchers to understand the main areas of research in gamification within the marketing discipline and enables them to find the fields needed for future studies. Originality/value The proposed classification can give a comprehensive overview of the scientific and practical actions taken on gamification applied to e-marketing for academics and practitioners. It also enables the readers to find main areas of research and motivates them to apply gamification in e-marketing.
Investigating Firm Heterogeneity in Country-of-Origin Cluster Location Choice Decisions

Purpose This paper aims to analyse which firm-level characteristics drive their location decisions when investing in a foreign country. Focusing on origin clusters, the authors will study the potential influence of the home country context and, in particular, the impact of firm-level factors, both investor- and investment-related, underlying heterogeneity in their location choice decisions. Design/methodology/approach The empirical analysis draws on data gathered from mainland Chinese MNEs that have invested in Germany between 2005 and 2013 (269 firms). The authors chose a single host (Germany) and a single home (China) country for their representativeness and for methodological reasons to control for country effects. The authors used a multinomial logit model to assess the effects of the independent variables on the probability that each of the three location possibilities would be selected. Findings The results suggest that investors preferring co-location in origin clusters have distinct structural and strategic characteristics. From a more structural point of view, Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) undertaken by smaller firms and those without prior experience in the EU prefer an area where there are other Chinese investors. From a more strategic perspective, these FDI flows are more likely to tap into industry agglomerations when the investors’ objective is strategic asset seeking, and they have less knowledge-intensive investments. Practical implications The findings may be of great practical value to practitioners and policymakers. Knowledge of the advantages and disadvantages of the types of agglomeration networks can help managers to balance the rewards and risks in their decision-making and to select a suitable development path for their FDIs. For policymakers, an understanding of the structure and formation of different groups of firms in one location and the characteristics of investors who may enter the location can help them to improve their regulatory work and to develop policies to attract investments, thereby enhancing local economic development and community stability. Originality/value The research shifts the emphasis of the location choice decision beyond just where to locate toward with whom to collocate. It also contributes to the growing research on emerging market multinationals by providing further insight into understanding of FDI location behavior by firms from emerging economies.
The Mediating Role of Effort in the Relationship between Job Involvement and Job Performance. A Case Study of Private Higher Education Institutes in Eastern Indonesia

The objective of this study is to clarify ambiguities in the literature regarding the relationships among three key constructs of work relationships: job involvement, effort, and job performance. This present study aims to make at least three contributions: (1) to add to the theory building on how job involvement has an effect on job performance; (2) to investigate the mediating role of effort as a process underlying the relationship between job involvement and job performance; (3) to provide information to the authorities of higher educational institutions on how to improve job involvement, effort and lecturers’ performance.