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Financial fraud and money laundering represent an important concern both nationally and worldwide due to the huge amounts of monetary losses they imply. Besides human inspection, Data Science (DS) has proved so far to be a useful tool in order to fight these activities by automatic means. Nevertheless, this approach to the problem is still in early stages, thus yielding plenty of field to be explored...
E-commerce ideas demand validation regarding their economic effectiveness on businesses. For identifying relevant business values, some value modeling techniques are currently available in the research arena, and the e3value framework is an easy-to-use option. This framework has a notation to express different values in e-business scenarios. For most of customers, customization of requirements is...
Hirda, a tropical fruit is one of the primary sources of income in many tribal villages of Pune district. Hirda is collected by the women from the villages in large scale to sell in the local market. This is a study of supply chain of Hirda. Based on the study some recommendations are given to create better supply chain and help tribal people to get a higher share of the profit. The supply chain of...
This paper investigates the impact of the Capacity Credit (CC) values on the economics of individual Wind Energy Conversion System (WECS) projects in the light of the current Egyptian Renewable Energy (RE) regulatory incentive schemes. The methodology proposed in this paper is to assigns different CC values for WECS projects under study while keeping all other parameters whether technical or financial...
The digital transformation enables new business models and enhanced business processes by utilizing available data for analytics, prediction, and decision support. We give an overview of the enabling developments for the digital transformation, the areas of application, and concrete use case examples. We summarize our findings in a framework for the digital transformation and discuss the potential...
Firms often take up projects involving new technology, a new genre of products or entirely new markets. Such projects carry inherently higher risk than the normal business operations of the firm and so require a higher return to justify investments in them. Finance theory has no clear guidelines regarding the additional discounting rate or the risk addendum to be used for such risky projects. This...
Nowadays, sustainability is gaining considerable attention in decision making processes. Since 1987 that the concept of sustainable development was introduced this field of research has faced with some debates and continuous improvements in the logic. However, sustainability is a multi-faceted notion, which has raised the complexity of sustainable management. Therefore, this paper strives to manage...
The article presents a proposal to extend the functionality and knowledge of Business Intelligence systems to answer the requirements of managers of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It concerns two major aspects of the system, i.e. the interface that takes into account the level of knowledge of the manager, and supports the interpretation of economic and financial information using the built-in...
Nowadays, mobile operators are faced with difficult conditions, where subscriber growth rate is already at its peak. Revenue growth is also declined because legacy services are tend to decreased due to threat from OTTs. Therefore we need a strategy to be able to withstand these conditions, one of which is a glance at the digital market. Strategy to offer digital services is developed in order to increase...
This paper proposes a methodology based in fuzzy opinion under group decision making, to obtain a single index of sustainability and indicate the best actions to improve this index. This proposed methodology was implemented in a software system that provides managers with an important computational support to detect problems and implement actions to improve processes in all areas of the company, aiming...
Taiwan's cultural performance and exhibition facilities industry still has considerable capacity for development. The public sector has the output estimate based on the combination of the output and input statistics together. In this case, the problem of duplicate calculation cannot be avoided and the resulting "all-encompassing" expenditure subsidy will not generate maximum economic benefit...
We are studying the output estimates of Taiwan architectural design industry and expecting to use the supply chain relationships of Taiwan's architectural design industry and the expenditure data of the accounts of national income, to establish a consistent estimation method. We have found out that by adopting a method of Fritz Machlup, Michael Rogers Rubin, Mary Taylor Huber, and Elizabeth Lloyd...
We discovered that the humid and warm weather in Taiwan is very suitable for tea cultivation. With this and a connected transport system, the creative living with tea industry has great development potential. As long as the public sectors change their survey methods used to collect statistical data, and allow various industries in the tea industry chain to make declarations based on costs, the industry...
Green IT practice is not new term word inbusiness organisation and has actually spread in practice andapplication witnessing people working on the bright side of it.Green IT typically collaborates strongly with theenvironment. However, this paper removes itself from merelyfocusing on that perspective. In the context of this study,organisational sustainability is viewed based on threeperspectives:...
Recently, consumers are not only pay attention to the quality and price of goods but also interested in the impact of products on the environment during their lifecycle. Therefore, to meet the consumers' needs, businesses are forced to change the production processes, logistics and marketing operations. In the field of marketing, the green marketing strategy, which seems to be a useful tool for solving...
In this work a medium-sized port is analysed, which acts as a mixed network, interacting with private companies, trade associations, social groups and components of the State. Each public and private actor declares strategic phrases and rubrics in his/her mission, they can relate to the political, economic, social, technological and environmental multi-criteria macro-environment classification (PESTA)...
Administrative resources of the regulatory body and the number of regulated utilities is an important criteria in selection of price regulation methodology. Estonian experience is based on a large number of relatively small utilities. The price regulation methodology implemented is incentive type of Rate of Return where the important element is the regulatory deterrence, where the company can select...
Supplier selection and evaluation plays an importance role for companies to gain competitive advantage and achieve the objectives of the whole supply chain. To select the appropriate suppliers, many qualitative and quantitative criteria are needed consider in the decision process. Therefore, supplier selection and evaluation can be seem as a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problem in vague environment...
The basic directions of promotion of the development tendencies of quality management in the current market in the direction of formation of system based on the principles of total quality management.
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