Current Issue : January - March Volume : 2021 Issue Number : 1 Articles : 5 Articles
Discrete, non-virtualized network elements are characterized by large costs, limited functions, vendor lock-in, and limited orchestration. Virtualization technologies like virtual machines (VM) and containers have expanded the scope of virtual resource utilization through consolidation of workloads that were previously running on multiple servers by running them on a single server. With the advent of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), industries are able to reduce the micro-economic factors associated with vendor proprietary model such as transaction costs and (physical and human) asset specificity to deal with vendor vulnerabilities in contractual relationships because Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) can virtualize dedicated networking functions that were traditionally performed by vendor appliances such as routers, switches, firewalls, and load balancers. Even though virtualization technologies (VMs and containers) and NFV have demonstrated their benefits in the market, little attention has been devoted to the development and adoption of containers to build VNFs. This research paper identifies micro- economic factors, such as transaction costs, associated with searching, buying, provisioning, and maintenance of vendor proprietary appliances and compares them with the coordination costs associated with the adoption of containerized VNFs. This comparative analysis could be used to identify the type of network operators that could serve as key organizers (the network operator who can benefit largely by adopting containerized VNFs) of an open source peer production model as well as other firms that could serve as individual contributors. Furthermore, to identify various rewards and incentives that a managerial firm can leverage to motivate its employees to participate in such an effort, a quantitative survey was conducted (with Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 Service Providers) to identify the managerial incentives such as bonuses, rewards, peer recognition, and promotion targeting varied network operator firms to accurately capture and analyze employee interests/motivation. Finally, the paper shows a measuring framework to evaluate individual contributors based on the project modularity and indicates the viability of this model....
This year, the most attractive current politics and economy news is the measures taken by governments to deal with the risk caused by the epidemic. It is widely believed that the global economy has suffered seriously from the virus. To deal with that, developed countries such as the US, Canada, Japan, the EU, the developing countries, like China, Brazil has already announced some measures and policy. As a big developing country, China is worthy to be analyzed, compared with different period of itself and other countries....
The aim of this paper is to find out the determinants of the electronics trade flows of Romania and their impact before and after the EU integration, the impact of the traditional determinants, like the economic size and distance, as well as the impact of the economic, trade policy and political determinants. An augmented gravity model was used, including traditional variables as GDP, distance, EU membership and common border, as well as nontraditional ones, as trade openness, political stability and inflation. A balanced panel approach was used in order to solve the heteroskedasticity problem. EViews 10 was used for regression. For Romanian trading partners, the findings are in line with the previous studies. The economic size of the partner countries, the common border, the EU membership, the trade openness and the political stability positively influence the electronics trade flows. The distance between countries and the trading partners inflation have a negative impact on the electronics trade flows. But some atypical results were found for the Romanian variables. The coefficients for the Romanian GDP are negative, and for the Romanian inflation, negative and also positive coefficients were found. The trade deciders should understand the dynamics and the structure of the Romanian electronics trade flows and the importance of the trade policy factors, like trade openness and of the political factors, like the stability. In the future, the dynamics and the structure of the Romanian electronics exports, re-exports, as well as electronics parts as components should be studied separately....
Environmental protection and the promotion of export domestic value-added rate is a hot issue in economic development. This paper first explores the mechanism of environmental regulation on domestic value-added rate of export, and then empirically tests the impact of environmental regulation on domestic value-added rate of industrial export in China by using panel data of 270 prefecture level cities from 2003 to 2016. In the sample period, the intensity of environmental regulation has a non-linear impact on the export domestic value-added rate. With the increase of environmental regulation intensity, the export domestic value-added rate shows a U-shaped relationship. In the eastern, central and western regions, the impact of environmental regulation on export domestic value-added rate is consistent with the overall results. However, it is not significant in the western region. This study provides enlightenment for the government to formulate and implement appropriate environmental regulation policies according to regional development differences....
Eco-innovation becomes an emerging priority of the European Union (EU) policy. To secure the environmental protection and economic growth eco-innovations have a central role. As the numerous practical examples demonstrate, eco-innovation is a powerful instrument that combines reduced negative impact on the environment and the positive impact on the economy and society. Emphasizing eco-innovation as a means for achieving sustainable development requires information on the performance of main actors, in particular, countries. Measuring country´s performance of eco-innovation has started via indices or scoreboards. Policy and innovation actors can thus learn about diagnosing different areas of eco-innovation, monitoring trends and directions. The aim of this paper is to assess the ecoinnovation performance during the last three years in Slovakia by means of eco-innovation index, to analyse and assess the components and indicators of eco-innovation index for Slovakia in the year 2018 and to compare them with those of EU 28–average. Identified and discussed will be the areas in which the main weaknesses and strengths are evident. Based on the research results formulated will be the main implications for managers and policy makers in Slovakia to improve the state in mentioned area. Our study is based on secondary sources of data coming from the Eurostat and Eco-Innovation Observatory. The study is qualitative and descriptive in nature; methods used in the paper are the method of casual analysis, deduction, abstraction, comparison as well as the synthesis....
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