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Museums are increasingly embracing information and communication technology (ICT) to promote cultural tourism and to keep pace with changes in society. Cultural values, legacies, and customs are transmitted through museums, connecting current generations with their past. ICTs are used in almost all museum operations, both within and outside their walls, and especially for exhibitions and preservation. Prior research indicates that museums utilize a variety of ICTs to further modernize displays and artifacts and improve the visitor experience. Museums also use various digital communication tools to enrich the visitor experience. Many of the functions performed by ICTs used to create interactive processes in museum displays are the subject of ongoing research among museum scholars. This study investigates how experts and museum scholars view the effectiveness of using ICTs in creating a trend in the development of museum exhibitions in the Emirate of Sharjah. It will also discuss which available ICT applications museums can apply to improve technology services for their visitors. The study was conducted at the Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization, one of the largest museums in the Emirate of Sharjah. Both qualitative and quantitative data were collected, with questionnaires being the main method of data collection. A questionnaire was distributed to learn the views of experts about the application of ICTs in museum exhibitions. The results of the study indicate that ICTs should be designed with physical surroundings in mind. Physical distance can be bridged using “mixed interfaces” or mobile devices.

Российская экономика — это развивающаяся экономика, природные ресурсы играют доминирующую роль в экономическом развитии страны. Следовательно, на национальную экономику влияет значительная волатильность цен на ресурсы. В статье исследуется влияние эффектов перетекания волатильности на политическую неопределенность, мировые цены на нефть, обменный курс, фондовые индексы и цены на металлы в российской экономике за период со 2 июля 2008 г. по 15 мая 2020 г. Для анализа использована модель векторной авторегрессии с изменяющимися во времени параметрами (TVP-VAR). Проведенное эмпирическое исследование показывает, что цена на золото, политическая неопределенность, цена на нефть и фондовый индекс являются источниками волатильности. В то же время, волатильность влияет на такие факторы, как палладий, платина, серебро и обменный курс рубля. Рыночная капитализация является чистым донором, рынок серебра — чистым получателем. Палладий стал источником чистой волатильности после мирового финансового кризиса. Неопределенность российской экономической политики была основным источником волатильности с 2008 по 2014 гг., однако впоследствии волатильность других факторов оказывала на нее большее влияние. В 2014 г., когда цена на нефть значительно снизилась, цена на золото была основным источником волатильности для других рынков. Полная связанность рынков в значительной степени зависит от ряда экзогенных потрясений, таких как экономические санкции, введение режима плавающего обменного курса, падение цен на нефть. Исходя из представленного анализа, сформулировано несколько рекомендаций для портфельных инвесторов и стейкхолдеров в российских регионах.

Strategies are critical elements in organizational functioning. Although most organizations have good strategies, a successful strategy implementation still becomes a major challenge. Despite the clear importance of this management area and the apparent problems associated with its execution, it has however, been substantially neglected by industries. The objective of the study is to determine the barriers of strategy execution in food combining startup business, by focusing on vision barrier, leadership barrier, process barrier and people’s behaviour barrier. The study constitutes the review of theoretical and empirical literature relevant to the subject. The key barriers to strategy execution were identified and discussed; which include vision barrier, leadership barrier, process and resources barrier, as well as people’s behaviour barrier. The research was compiled from theoretical, conceptual and empirical review of literature; and a summary as well as conclusion were drawn. Translation of vision to clear objective and aligning it to strategy is still a big challenge. In addition to leader’s role of communicating strategy to the employee; leadership style, approach and perceptions are also critical to implementation. Unable to adopt the best approach with a given type of strategy and using the best communication tactic implementation would likely lead to failure. Aligning process resources, structures and program in the implementation of strategy is also critical to implementation failure, to which a problem is likely occurred. Moreover, individual’s behaviours determine if the strategy will be implemented or not. Individuals must be assigned to duties that motivate them; otherwise, they will not be committed to the organization operations. The author recommends that specific studies be conducted on the effective tools to measure and control performance, so that it could help overcoming barriers of strategy execution.

This paper aims to extent the prediction model of financial distress among Malaysian public listed companies from period 2006 to 2010. Altman Z-Score Models was used to identify classification on three main zones which are safe, grey or distress zone. The results specify that 56 % of listed companies were classified as ‘distress zone’, 24 % are known as ‘grey zone’ while 20 % are classified in ‘safe zone’. Two likely to fail companies was correctly predict at distress zone which Z-Score was lower than 1.81. Moreover, the findings show most of the companies were facing financial distress during global financial crisis on 2008. Industrial transportation and industrial engineering sectors are generally classified as ‘safe zone’ while food and staplers retailing, real estate investment and services and industrial metals and mining sectors are classified as ‘distress zone’.