Current Issue : January - March Volume : 2021 Issue Number : 1 Articles : 5 Articles
The embedding of trading and banking functions in a social network offers promising prospects for trade, financial intermediation, and social networks, as well as for network users. Social sites are becoming more sophisticated due to the variety of applications and interaction channels that provide not only social contacts (P2P), but also business-tobusiness (B2B), business-to-consumer (B2C), and consumer-to-consumer systems (C2C). The paper shows that the alliance of electronic commerce, electronic banking, and social networks gives a synergistic effect - a new type of network that combines the communication of regular users of social sites with information in the media and contacts with sellers of goods and financial intermediaries. Switching to social networks 4.0 takes place. They are characterized not only by information and socio-communication functions but also by channels and applications for marketing, promotion, and sale of goods, as well as making payments and providing financial services....
A company's environment is constantly changing, new competitive models have appeared, new tangible and intangible resources are being built and new competitive regulations form a new competitive framework which opens the field to new opportunities and new threats. With this dynamic, companies are rushing towards the development of their strategic decision system which must be powerful to follow any material (product and service) or immaterial resource (belief, knowledge, know-how) coming from one of the direct competitors. In this context, a conceptual study is carried out with the objective to analyze the evolution of cognition-based competition using artificial intelligence (AI) technology as a support for strategic decision-making; this is in order to transform the competition into an intelligent mode. The finding is presented in an intelligent approach designed to generate automatic competition rules based on deep learning techniques....
Blockchain applications are considered as “trustless” machines, because they reduce business’s needs of trust in others. The “trustless” nature draws researchers’ attention on investigating the implications of blockchain in a business environment. From a view of business ethics, this paper aims at evaluating the impacts of blockchain applications on trust and business. After expounding the relations between trust in blockchain and trust in business partners, I evaluate the impacts based on a framework of competence trust, contractual trust, and goodwill trust. My conclusion is that full acceptance of trust in blockchain over trust in others is not good and will cause several risks that cannot be neglected. The main contribution of this paper is investigating and summarizing ethical and commercial risks of blockchain applications including disintermediation fallacy, centralization of trust, ambiguous contract, noncognitive trust in untrustworthy partners, and more actions guided by moral minimum....
The vigorous development of characteristic leisure agriculture has further broadened the development space of rural agriculture and organically combined agricultural products and services. This not only beautifies the rural environment, but also makes the landscape construction of the countryside show results. This paper will take the development of leisure agriculture in Beipiao area as an example to explore the development trend and predicament of leisure agriculture in poor areas and optimize the existing management ideas and models, so as to drive the open, intensive and diversified development of leisure agriculture....
The implementation of a new investment is subject to uncertainty in many aspects. Therefore, not only should it be preceded by the analysis of internal and external factors that may affect it but also be based on the risk management principles. The implementation of a product innovation is one of the undertakings, which are burdened with high risk. It mainly stems from the fact that broadening the product portfolio most often aims at increasing the organization’s profits. The present paper identifies and assesses risk factors related to the implementation of a new product based on a waste raw material. At the first stage of the research, risk factors were identified through brainstorming within the areas of the organization’s context, experience, market observations and professional literature. Next, each risk factor was assessed by the research participants according to the likelihood of occurrence and its potential effects. On the basis of the obtained results, critical (unacceptable) risks were determined. Consequently, mitigation actions were proposed in reference to the unacceptable risks. These actions should contribute to reducing the importance of the threats to an acceptable level, and, thus, boost the project’s chances to succeed....
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