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These proceedings contain the papers and posters of the 13th International Conference on Mobile Learning 2017, which was organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), in Budapest, Hungary, April 10-12, 2017. The Mobile Learning 2017 Conference seeks to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of mobile learning research which illustrates developments in the field. Full papers presented in these proceedings include: (1) Design of a Prototype Mobile Application to Make Mathematics Education More Realistic (Dawid B. Jordaan, Dorothy J. Laubscher, and A. Seugnet Blignaut); (2) Tablets and Applications to Tell Mathematics' History in High School (Eduardo Jesus Dias, Carlos Fernando Araujo, Jr., and Marcos Andrei Ota); (3) Assessing the Potential of LevelUp as a Persuasive Technology for South African Learners (Nhlanhla A. Sibanyoni and Patricia M. Alexander); (4) #Gottacatchemall: Exploring Pokemon Go in Search of Learning Enhancement Objects (Annamaria Cacchione, Emma Procter-Legg, and Sobah Abbas Petersen); (5) A Framework for Flipped Learning (Jenny Eppard and Aicha Rochdi); (6) The Technology Acceptance of Mobile Applications in Education (Mark Anthony Camilleri and Adriana Caterina Camilleri); (7) Engaging Children in Diabetes Education through Mobile Games (Nilufar Baghaei, John Casey, David Nandigam, Abdolhossein Sarrafzadeh, and Ralph Maddison); (8) A Mobile Application for User Regulated Self-Assessments (Fotis Lazarinis, Vassilios S. Verykios, and Chris Panagiotakopoulos); and (9) Acceptance of Mobile Learning at SMEs of the Service Sector (Marc Beutner and Frederike Anna Rüscher). Short papers presented include: (1) Possible Potential of Facebook to Enhance Learners' Motivation in Mobile Learning Environment (Mehwish Raza); (2) D-Move: A Mobile Communication Based Delphi for Digital Natives to Support Embedded Research (Otto Petrovic); (3) Small Private Online Research: A Proposal for a Numerical Methods Course Based on Technology Use and Blended Learning (Francisco Javier Delgado Cepeda); (4) Experimenting with Support of Mobile Touch Devices for Pupils with Special Educational Needs (Vojtech Gybas, Katerina Kostolányová, and Libor Klubal); (5) Mobile Learning in the Theater Arts Classroom (Zihao Li); (6) Nomophobia: Is Smartphone Addiction a Genuine Risk for Mobile Learning? (Neil Davie and Tobias Hilber); (7) Analysis of Means for Building Context-Aware Recommendation System for Mobile Learning (Larysa Shcherbachenko and Samuel Nowakowski); (8) RunJumpCode: An Educational Game for Educating Programming (Matthew Hinds, Nilufar Baghaei, Pedrito Ragon, Jonathon Lambert, Tharindu Rajakaruna, Travers Houghton, and Simon Dacey); (9) Readiness for Mobile Learning: Multidisciplinary Cases from Yaroslavl State University (Vladimir Khryashchev, Natalia Kasatkina, and Dmitry Sokolenko); and (10) The M-Learning Experience of Language Learners in Informal Settings (Emine Sendurur, Esra Efendioglu, Neslihan Yondemir Çaliskan, Nomin Boldbaatar, Emine Kandin, and Sevinç Namazli). Reflection papers presented include: (1) New Model of Mobile Learning for the High School Students Preparing for the Unified State Exam (Airat Khasianov and Irina Shakhova); (2) Re-Ment--Reverse Mentoring as a Way to Deconstruct Gender Related Stereotypes in ICT (Kathrin Permoser); (3) Academic Success Foundation: Enhancing Academic Integrity through Mobile Learning (Alice Schmidt Hanbidge, Amanda Mackenzie, Nicole Sanderson, Kyle Scholz, and Tony Tin); (4) Using Tablet and iTunesU as Individualized Instruction Tools (Libor Klubal, Katerina Kostolányová, and Vojtech Gybas); (5) DuoLibras--An App Used for Teaching-Learning of Libras (Erick Nilson Sodré Filho, Lucas Gomes dos Santos, Aristóteles Esteves Marçal da Silva, Nidyana Rodrigues Miranda de Oliveira e Oliveira, Pedro Kislansky, and Marisete da Silva Andrade); (6) Educators Adopting M-Learning: Is It Sustainable in Higher Education? (Nicole Sanderson and Alice Schmidt Hanbidge); and (7) M-Kinyarwanda: Promoting Autonomous Language Learning through a Robust Mobile Application (Emmanuel Bikorimana, Joachim Rutayisire, Mwana Said Omar, and Yi Sun). Posters include: (1) Design of Mobile E-Books as a Teaching Tool for Diabetes Education (Sophie Huey-Ming Guo); and (2) Reading While Listening on Mobile Devices: An Innovative Approach to Enhance Reading (Aicha Rochdi and Jenny Eppard). The Doctoral Consortium includes: How Can Tablets Be Used for Meaning-Making and Learning (Liv Lofthus). Individual papers include references, and an Author Index is included.

The aim of the paper is to identify suitable methods of education for individual types of voluntary further corporate professional education, which could be applied also when changing the physical teaching environment to virtual or hybrid learning environment, and to propose the methods of education suitable for companies and attractive for the participants of the corporate trainings. In the empirical research, the questionnaire method and the interview method were applied. The respondents (140) were selected from two sections of the Statistical Classification of Economic Activities of the Slovak Republic, SK NACE Rev.2. The research results presented in the tables characterize the types of education in relation to the educational methods applied in the companies analyzed. The suitability of education methods is characterized also in terms of teaching environments, the physical, virtual and hybrid environments. The results of the research confirm that the methods of education affect the interest of the participants in all types of education. [For the complete volume, "NORDSCI International Conference Proceedings: 5th Anniversary Edition (Sofia, Bulgaria, October 17-19, 2022). Book 1. Volume 5," see ED625663.]

The last few years have witnessed significant integration of technology, particularly Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in both content as well as delivery of business courses in higher education. On the one side, the contents related to technological applications are increasingly expanding the space in business education curriculum while on the other hand the mode of delivery has also been significantly influenced. The teaching of business ethics involves a number of distinct issues, often challenging the educators to plan and deliver the course effectively. The current chapter, which is based on review of literature as well as authors' own experiences in teaching business ethics in university courses, critically examines the role of technology as enabler of business ethics course delivery. The Chapter also provides a framework of how the technology can be used to link the teaching, research and participative community action in enhancing the relevance of business ethics teaching in a given context. The chapter provides conclusions for deans, course leaders and faculty members in order to manage change smoothly. [For the full proceedings, see ED654100.]

The digital world in the creative industry has provided new opportunities for entrepreneurs to utilize and exploit products and services in a more transparent and widespread manner. Products and services can grow exponentially and be offered to all users and communities throughout the world without time and space limitations. Creative SMEs, especially batik SMEs, are currently required to keep abreast of technological developments, especially digitalization. They must be able to take advantage of digital transformation in managing their business. One effort that can be made is through digital entrepreneurship training. It's just that they are still faced with several obstacles, including digital skills, digital knowledge, management commitment, and government support. Even though batik SMEs adhere to the basic principles of digital entrepreneurship, these four aspects are very important to improving the sustainable performance of SMEs. This research uses a qualitative approach using participants from batik SME owners and managers, the government, and customers of natural color batik SME in Ciwaringin Cirebon, West Java, Indonesia. Validity and reliability were carried out using a triangulation approach with three parties (SMEs, government, and customers). In increasing the success of digital entrepreneurship, fundamental changes must be prioritized: digital knowledge, digital skills, management commitment, and government support. These four aspects will make a significant contribution to improving sustainable SME performance. Apart from that, batik SMEs must play an active role in participating in digital training and connect actively and proactively with people who do not understand digital. [For the full proceedings, see ED652261.]

The paper details a course offering that centers on student transformational experience and self-efficacy growth in an international environment by merging business, entrepreneurship and cultural experiences. Self-efficacy is achieved through both a mastery experience, mastering a task and controlling the environment, and vicarious experience through observation of people and activities. An inexpensive but very effective combination of multi-cultural virtual and in situ team work with a strong cultural component provides the transformational experience. Originally involving only two universities, one in China and one in the United Sates, the course has expanded over the years of its existence to four participating universities, each representing a different continent. The virtual pre-travel component, which was always an important part of the course design, became especially prominent during the COVID-19 pandemic. The advantages and challenges associated with the course design and implementation are discussed. [For the full proceedings, see ED622227.]

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the entrepreneurial leadership as one of the modern styles of leadership in organizations. The concept of entrepreneurship constantly increases in business organizations and in educational systems. Large and strong businesses around the globe today are borne out of the creativity and effort of start-ups. Analysing the profile of the entrepreneur and the role in organizations as entrepreneurial leaders show that there is a close relationship between the concept of entrepreneurship and the exploration of opportunities which the entrepreneurial leader bases on innovation, risk-taking and adaptability to change. To run successful organizations, managers must have both leadership and entrepreneurial skills. The main motivation of entrepreneurial leaders is in their strive to create and explore social, environmental and economic opportunities. The concept of entrepreneurial leadership is relevant to academic knowledge in that, it is a new stream being developed and written literature on this topic is increasing per year. The work will aim to employ quantitative and qualitative research methods, firstly, to gain prior knowledge and secondly, to ascertain the views of the participants on their entrepreneurial leadership styles and impact on the success of their business ventures. The findings of the research will form the basis for future research for the aspiring doctorate degree in the field.

Opportunity Identification (OI) is one of the key entrepreneurial capabilities targeted in most entrepreneurship education programs. The most frequently used technique for facilitating business OI in entrepreneurship courses is brainstorming. Previous findings indicated the positive effect of hybrid (individual and group) settings on overall brainstorming outcomes, i.e., quality and quantity of the generated ideas, compared to only individual or group settings. However, to date, no study has explored the effect of hybrid brainstorming sessions on individual idea-generation skills outside the group, a possibility labelled "group-to-individual transfer". This study aims to fill this gap by conducting an experimental study with 33 bachelor's and master's students who attended an entrepreneurship course at a Dutch university. A repeated measurement study design is used to explore the effect of group idea generation on individual performance outside the group. Based on this design, students passed three phases, i.e., (1) individual, (2) group, and (3) individual idea generation, using an online platform, and the measurement was taken after the individual idea generation phases. The findings indicated that individual idea generation after the group work resulted in fewer comprehensible business ideas but with a higher rate of concrete ideas that were more innovative compared to ideas generated before the group work. [For the full proceedings, see ED630948.]

Globalization continues to influence the focus, method, and pace of education across different levels. This paper draws attention to the challenges globalization poses and its impact on the individual and learning. Also, highlighting a "new school structure" based on the logical relation between transformative emancipatory learning and critical pedagogy. The new structure uses problem-based classrooms to cultivate students as co-creators of useable knowledge. The paper draws extensively from Freire's liberating pedagogy and concludes that it is the task of educators to change the educational school structures and pedagogy. To set students free from the ontological bondage of the neoliberal, market-dominated societal construct accentuated by globalization. [For the full proceedings, see ED597456.]

The introduction of a learning organisation model brings many benefits to organisations. To evaluate whether it is a learning organisation, the Marsick and Watkins Dimensions of a Learning Organisation Questionnaire can be used. In the Czech Republic, only a few studies have been conducted using this questionnaire. The aim of this paper is to compare the IT sector and the education sector in terms of learning time and assessment of the individual dimensions of the learning organisation by Marsick and Watkins. In 2018 and 2019, studies with the Dimensions of a Learning Organisation Questionnaire focusing on the IT sector and the education sector (secondary schools) were conducted in the Czech Republic. In total, 201 respondents from the IT sector and 121 respondents from secondary schools participated in the study. When comparing the time spent on self-education in both sectors, it is clear that the employees spend 1 to 20 hours per month with self-education, while in the IT sector common employees dedicate more to self-education, executives dedicate more to self-education in the education system. When comparing the average values of the dimensions of a learning organisation in relation to the time spent on self-education, the results in both sectors are very similar. It can be argued that the assessment of individual dimensions increases with the time spent on self-education up to 20 hours per month. The biggest difference in average values can be seen in Dimension 4, while the smallest difference on average dimension can be seen in Dimension 7. [For the complete proceedings, see ED608557.]

Nowadays, any modern company or organization is focusing on the strategic management of human resources, many of them through dedicated applications, enabling the attraction and the retention of the best employees and a better management of human resources in general. Studies have been conducted showing that training represents a source of motivation for the human resources and a large number of the employees in general are feeling motivated by non-material benefits, one of the most important of those being the possibility of developing new skills, through training. The training methods are pursuing at the present moment two main trends: first, a part of the companies will get in touch with external companies, whose specialization is based on training and team building, and second, the other part of the companies will hire people that have the task of providing that specific training. Given the advantages known about the modern learning platforms, like diminishing the costs by eliminating transportation costs, the possibility to make modifications on the information provided, the collaboration between learners, the fact that it can be done anywhere at any time, this article aims to find out what is the degree of e-learning platforms implementation within companies in Romania. At the same time, this paper will present the employers' perception on e-learning, identifying and measuring it by means of a questionnaire, analyzing the human commitment degree due to the training, showing the benefits of developing new skills and how this is influencing their evolution. [For the complete proceedings, see ED590269.]

The study was carried out to access the activities of Idia renaissance skill acquisition programme in enhancing livelihood among women in Benin City. The need for the study arose as a result of the rising cases of unemployment, poverty, human trafficking, experienced in Benin City. The study was guided by four research questions and three null hypotheses. A descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study consisted of 150 women, 135 of them were adult learners who were registered in the programme, while 15 of them have graduated and established their businesses. The researcher used the entire population for the study because they were readily accessible and manageable, no sampling was done. The data for this study was obtained using a questionnaire. The findings revealed that IRSAP was effective in providing skills in hair dressing, cosmetology and bead making. It was recommended among others that the Government should expand and extend IRSAP programme to all the 18 local governments in the State. Finally, The State Government should continue to assist the trainees with micro credit loan after learning a skill at the Centre. This will encourage many vulnerable people in our society to enrol in the programme. [For the full proceedings, see ED613257.]

Multicultural organizations can be central to mitigate organizational situations in which envy could potentially flourish, therefore contributing to fostering organizational conduct that leads to institutional social responsibility. The paper focuses on the inner workings of organizations related to their leaders' understanding of what the expression "social responsibility" means. The article highlights how envy among its members could be tackled in order to boost social responsibility, and promote social justice. The paper analyses institutional leaders' discourses from an enterprise and from a higher education institution (HEI), gleaning their meaning of social responsibility and their perceptions of their role in challenging envy as part of that social responsibility agenda. In order to challenge envy and promote fair conducts and social responsibility, the role of positive multicultural leaders and the strengthening of an organizational collective identity should be emphasized. The findings suggest that organizations need to be better equipped in order to face organizational turbulences detrimental to the social responsibility success, by focusing on cultural diversity and retention of good workforce as part of their social responsibility and social justice remit. The paper discusses social responsibility in a way that goes beyond the hitherto prevalent focus on environmental concerns and corporate accountability. Also, it is relevant comparatively in that it shows aspects to be addressed for the success of social responsibility in international contexts. [For the complete Volume 13, Number 1 proceedings, see ED568595.]

Teaching an online fully asynchronous information technology course that requires students to ideate, build an e-commerce website, and develop an effective business plan involves a well-developed and highly engaging course design. This paper describes the design, development, and implementation of such a course and presents information on students' learning effectiveness and challenges associated with managing a course using this approach. [For the complete proceedings, see ED579335.]

Digital Natives are raised with computers and the Internet, which are a familiar part of their daily life. To gain insights into their attitude and behavior, methods and media for empirical research face new challenges like gamification, context oriented embedded research, integration of multiple data sources, and the increased importance of personal data. The paper presents and evaluates a method based on Delphi technique, which integrates multimedia data capturing in the field with multi-round face-to-face discussions. As the front end, a very fast and fuzzy platform was implemented, which is currently being used by over 100 million Digital Natives. It allows teaching the participants to use embedded research and to understand the impact of self-monitoring for health and fitness on business models, which was one central aim of the supported course. Additionally, it is used to gain insights into Digital Natives' attitude and behavior. [For the complete proceedings, see ED579190.]

These proceedings contain the papers of the International Conference e-Learning 2018, which was organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society, 17-19 July, 2018. This conference is part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 2018, 17-20 July, which had a total of 617 submissions. The e-Learning (EL) 2018 conference aims to address the main issues of concern within e-Learning. This conference covers both technical as well as the non-technical aspects of e-Learning. The conference accepted submissions in the following seven main areas: (1) Organisational Strategy and Management Issues; (2) Technological Issues; (3) e-Learning Curriculum Development Issues; (4) Instructional Design Issues; (5) e-Learning Delivery Issues; (6) e-Learning Research Methods and Approaches; and (7) e-Skills and Information Literacy for Learning. Besides the presentation of full, short and reflection papers, tutorial and doctoral consortium, the conference also included two keynote speakers, Prof. Dr. Rosa M. Carro, Head of the Department of Computer Engineering, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, and Prof. Dr. Ana Fernández-Pampillón Cesteros, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. An author index is provided and individual papers include references.

Facebook is currently one of the most popular platforms for online social networking among university students. The ever-growing prevalence of Facebook has led business educators to explore what role social networking technology might play in business training and professional development. Nonetheless, much is left to be learned about how Facebook is influencing student learning in the area of business communication. This paper examined the effect on learners' satisfaction of incorporating Facebook into business communication courses. A total of 147 undergraduate students from a national university in Taiwan participated in this web-supported study. To analyze the students' reflection quantitatively, a survey was employed. The findings showed that the incorporation of Facebook into coursework effectively assisted students' learning of business communication. Facebook worked as the social glue that connected students together in a learning community, provided opportunities for sharing, and transformed students' learning attitudes towards their business presentation projects. Students deepened their understanding of content knowledge learning not only from the class input but also via peer feedback activities on Facebook. In addition to the benefits gained, care should be taken not to over-privilege Facebook. Weighing the balance between social networking practice on Facebook and face-to-face interaction in class, pedagogical suggestions and recommendations are addressed for future pedagogical use and research direction. [For full proceedings, see ED565087.]

A two-year project was organised to promote creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship for young people in eight Slovenian regions. The project's aim was to train teacher-mentors, who then trained pupils and worked with them and local community representatives to carry out projects. The paper presents the findings of a project that monitored the work of enterprise circles and analysed their strengths and weaknesses. Differences were also found between the positions taken by the group of teachers that participated in the project and a randomly selected control group of teachers. The findings indicate that teachers who led enterprise circles were critical of an over-emphasis on administrative work connected to the preparation of typical business plans. They were frustrated by overly detailed and prescriptive syllabuses, are more likely to accept pupils' ideas, and make more frequent use of ICT in their teaching. They are less likely to attribute open thinking and innovation to their schools and also believed that their schools were less tolerant of mistakes and put more emphasis on discipline. [For complete volume, see ED567118.]

The article discusses the shortcomings of the methodology of neoclassical theory as a basic theory determining the content of contemporary economic theory course at Russian educational institutions namely unrealistic conditions of perfect competition, rationality of economic behavior of business entities, completeness and authenticity of commercially relevant information, consideration of exclusively quantitative characteristics of economic processes and phenomena without regard to their essential characteristics and patterns of evolution, unjustified simplification of the analyzed subject for the clarity of material presentation in graphical models. Indicated preconditions of economic analysis reduce the scientific and practical value of the teaching material of similar quality. The problem concerning the lack of a single strictly consistent terminology in the Russian textbooks on this subject by various authors that hinders mastering of the learning material by the students is also emphasized. In order to achieve scientific consistency and practical significance of the economic theory course it is proposed to link it mainly on the basis of the ideas proclaimed by the classical school of political economy, German historical school, Keynesianism in relation to the reasoning of the state regulation directions, American classical institutionalism, German ordoliberalism. At the end of the article the need to strengthen the budget financing of the educational process in modern Russia and return to the strict competitive selection of applicants are discussed. [For the complete Volume 13, Number 2 proceedings, see ED568600.]

Disney's animated films have long been a significant source of entertainment for children across the world, and the global reach of Disney has only increased since the company's extremely lucrative acquisition of Pixar, a merger that has produced some of the highest-grossing films of all time. However, while animated Disney films are renowned for their stimulating visual pleasures and nostalgia-inducing depictions of childhood innocence, the viewing public has become increasingly aware that "behind all those cute characters, that family fun, and that nearly impenetrable aura is another avaricious multinational corporation" (Budd & Kirsch, 2005, p. 3). While the Disney brand persists as a pervasive and ubiquitous force in children's visual cultures around the world as Pixar continues to break box-office records, critics and social theorists have recognized Disney films as racially problematic, working as visual texts that both mask and reinforce institutional racism through the commodification of white supremacy. Borrowing from Hurley's (2005) work on the importance of fairy tale images on the ways that children of color internalize white privilege, I examine some of Pixar's most recent films as visual texts that shape children's ideas about race. Through the normalization of White language, culture, and beauty standards, these films serve as racial pedagogies that both reinforce structural and institutional racism and maintain status quo ideologies. I explore what critical readings of these films as visual texts reveal about their power to 'teach' viewers about diverse racial identities and examine how viewers might employ racial counter-gazes to disrupt hegemonic readings of these films. As ideological and pedagogical texts, Disney films provide multiple entry points for critical discussions about how race is represented in the media. However, these discussions are often emotionally complicated by the realization that these films have been sources of knowledge construction, visual pleasure, and the ephemeral 'magic' of childhood nostalgia for even their harshest critics. As Budd and Kirsch (2005) note, "Disney critics implicitly had to try to understand why people, perhaps including at least part of themselves, actually liked, even needed Disney--without attacking, demonizing, or condescending to those people" (p. 12). Thus, participants in any critical discussion must acknowledge that the problematic racial politics of Disney films do not necessarily preclude these films' affective and emotional pleasures, or even the more positive and wholesome messages they may convey on other levels; indeed, the coexistence of all these elements reveal Disney films as complex discursive spaces with multiple possibilities for pedagogical engagement. However, while Disney's animated films have, as visual texts, served to mask the institutional entrenchments of racism while silently reinforcing them through a history of stereotyped and Othered representations of non-White identities, they are also complex discursive spaces providing openings for alternative and oppositional pedagogies due to their ability to be read through--and complicated by--multiple racial gazes.

Dexteropreneurship is a new concept that supplies a new view of the ambidexterity of entrepreneurship and thinking that can reveal the configuration of proactive, innovative, and risk-taking in the ambidexterity of an entrepreneur's activities. Based on the topic' novelty, there has been no term' conceptualization and a merged view of dexteropreneurship. The purpose of this paper is to discuss dexteropreneurship through a Systematic Literature Review (SLR), which develop a conceptualization that purpose to have a better understanding of how entrepreneurs balance exploratory and exploitative processes and how to configure entrepreneurship to support exploitation and exploitation. Derived from this, this paper aims to provide literature based on conceptualization providing a practical implementation for practitioners along with a research agenda that is a valuable contribution to new paradigms and possible future research of dexteropreneurship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Business transactions between companies are more and more executed by a flow of well-defined electronic business documents. The resulting inter-organizational business processes are often realized by concepts known from service-oriented computing. Exchanging a business document corresponds to a service call and the input/output of the service calls commonly follows a certain business document standard. However, these standards typically present the superset of all required elements used in any business context. In a specific context (in a specific industry, in a specific geopolitical region, etc.) the input/output is adjusted to this context by constraints on the generic structure. Accordingly, a specific service is always used in a specific context. It follows that it is important to define the business context of a service (in a structured format). For this purpose we have developed the Business Context Ontology model (BCOnt). In this paper we elaborate on the theoretical concepts and the underlying algorithms as well as on their implementation in practice. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Return merchandise authorization (RMA) provides a tremendous impact on product quality, customer satisfaction, and the level of customer loyalty and retention. In this work, increased attention is given to the supply chain process sustainability, generally, and the RMA process, specifically. This paper explains the effort spent on developing and improving the RMA process for an electronic manufacturing company in the USA. This includes building the process flow, Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing (SAP) linkage, organizational chart, releasing standard operating procedure (SOP), designing structural layout, building the communication channels, defining customer induced damage (CID) and vendor induced damage (VID) regulations, and building the proper computer integrated manufacturing system (CIMS) to monitor and control the built process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Service orientation has significantly facilitated the development of complex distributed systems spanning multiple organizations. However, different application areas approach such systems in domain-specific ways, focusing on particular aspects relevant only for their application types. As a result, we observe a very fragmented landscape of service-oriented systems, which does not enable collaboration across organizations. To address this concern, in this work we introduce the notion of Collaborative, Dynamic and Complex (CDC) systems and position them with respect to existing technologies. In addition, we present how CDC systems are modeled and the steps to provision and execute them. We also contribute an architecture enabling CDC Systems with full life cycle coverage that allows for leveraging service-oriented and Cloud-related technologies. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Workflows are ubiquitous in educational ERP and process management. The question we address in this paper is how to specify and design verifiable workflows for educational processes. To specify workflows, we borrow a simple algebraic notation from computer science. We illustrate the use of this notation through a series of typical workflow examples. We show how an algebraic specification is more expressive than a graphical specification. We then show how these algebraic specifications may be represented in the Scribble specification language, which has in built tools for verification. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

As early as the second half of the 20th century, theoreticians and commentators in the field of business and corporate culture have started to increasingly make use of military and war metaphors when describing or analyzing business-related matters. This ongoing tendency can be explained by the fact that both military and business jargons have had similar historical trajectories and focus on similar goals and objectives. Military philosophy can furthermore offer valuable lessons and advice to any aspiring manager. To be aware of the symbiosis between military jargon and the language of business is to have a clearer overview of the impact of business practices and eventually to gain the upper hand in a domain where battle and the survival of the fittest are at the basis of all activities and endeavors. The aim of the present paper is to trace the similar trajectories in the evolution of military and business jargon and to analyze, by resorting to practical examples, the manifold similarities between the language of war and the one of business. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The novel coronavirus has caused a global pandemic of over 10 million infected cases which lead to over 500,000 deaths. The rapid transmission rate of this virus forced countries to impose nationwide lockdowns with the aim of decelerating infection rate and warding off the inevitable overloading of their healthcare systems. A few months after the lockdown, the countries are now looking into lifting lockdown measures and reopening economies. While some nations are able to exercise precautions and safety measures to reopen securely, other countries still face many challenges. In particular, developing nations can no longer be closed for business and must reopen to sustain their economy. Inevitably, this reopening, if not done securely will lead to rapid rise in the infection rates which cannot be absorbed by their healthcare systems due to shortage of medical equipment. Under these challenges, industrial, retail, logistics as well as healthcare sectors require alternate solutions that can fulfill the dual purpose of: (i) ensuring business productivity and profitability during the pandemic (ii) reducing risk of spread of contagion in their facilities by limiting human workforce. One way of ensuring production at minimal human resources is by adoption of automation and emerging technologies available under the industry 4.0 umbrella. In many ways, the pandemic has served as a catalyst to the implementation of these technologies in many sectors. To this end, this paper investigates the scope and competitive advantages of automation and robotics in controlling and mitigating contagions while ensuring that the economy remains open for business. For results, this paper provides a statistical analysis of areas where robotics have already been implemented pre-pandemic, and the advantages they have proven to bring. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Every day is a challenge that requires a lot of knowledge and time for the purpose of achieving planned sales, finding the best suppliers, achieving set business goals. Accounting is an integral part of any business, and it is important for the successful operation of any business. Accounting has changed and continues to change and expand from the moment it emerged. Accounting has undergone a special transformation with the information technology. Digitalization as one of the most important phenomena of the 21st century has affected all parts of society and business. Accounting software has become an integral part of the business of every enterprise, and without it would be almost unthinkable to track the company's business going from procurement, production to product sales. Business processes that involve accounting tasks should be designed, optimized and simplified for the purpose of ensuring time savings. Precisely due to the fact that time is money, and in order to save time, business is increasingly being transferred to digital form. The advantages and disadvantages of digital accounting were best seen during the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this paper is reflected in demonstration of the impact of digitalization of accounting on the company's activities. The subject of research is to prove the positive and negative effects of digitalization of accounting on company's activities. Empirical studies will prove what kind of impact the use of digital accounting has on the company's business, and task set for accountants and management in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The green consumer movement represents the responsibility of humans for the ecosystem and a growing market, the green market, has been developed. This paper aims to review the status and visual map position of research in the internationally green marketing publication indexed Scopus that used a bibliometric perspective. The research was carried out using bibliometric techniques. Data analysis as well as visualization utilising VOSViewer program and the Scopus function for analyze search results. In this review, the details collected applied to 968 documents issued from 1991 through 2019. The study reveals that Polonsky, M.J., and Bucharest University of Economic Studies were the most active individual scientists and affiliated institutions in green marketing publication. In green marketing, the Business, Management and Accounting and Journal of Cleaner Production were the most areas of study and dissemination sources. There were six worldwide group maps with collaborative researchers. In order to identify the body of knowledge created from twenty-eight years of publication, this study constructed a convergence axis grouping comprising of green marketing publication: Marketing, Ecology, Environment, Information use, Sustainable products, Energy efficiency, Business strategy, and Customer loyalty, abbreviated as MEEISEBC themes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As a result of the declaration of "a state of emergency", the Republic of North Macedonia (RNM) government adopted a series of measures regarding the pandemic caused by COVID 19. Thus, the free movement of citizens and their rights in many spheres of social and private life were restricted. The austerity measures had an indirect effect on workers and businesses, increased unemployment; reduced wages; closed businesses; disabled social life; sports, religious and cultural activities, etc. The paper aims to analyze whether government measures of the RNM to deal with the pandemic during the state of emergency have been misused (from economic support to the business sector, tolerance of religious communities, etc.). Exactly how did these measures mitigate the negative effect on the country's economy, how effective and appropriate were the measures, and did they serve to better manage the protection of public health and alleviate the situation or for any other political purposes? The paper has its own time constraints and focuses on government measures as long as the state of emergency lasts, which may still continue depending on the circumstances with the spread of the virus to the population. This paper will use descriptive, historical, analytical, comparative and citizen survey methods. The paper also draws conclusions, which represent a recapitulation of the effectiveness of antiCovid19 measures in practice and suggests improvements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A Web service specification can be quite complex, including multiple operations and various kinds of message exchange patterns. In this work, we focus on the problem of restructuring a Web service, which contains a process model inside, preserving at the same time its behavior that is shown to the service user. We provide a behavioral signature model for service restructuring. It is considered for Web services to be choreography equivalence if they conform to the same behavioral signature model. Based on behavioral signature models and graph searching technologies, we provide an algorithm for restructuring the process model from within the service while assuring service choreography equivalence. A case study runs throughout the paper to illustrate the feasibility of our work. We have implemented a prototype to demonstrate and evaluate our approach. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The bursting of the dot-com bubble marked a turning point for the web. New kinds of websites sprung up and brought users different experiences, especially in user participation and openness. But academic journals have placed less emphasis on applications of Web 2.0 for business use. This paper tries to develop the business model of these new kinds of websites using ontology approach, which stresses the importance of the social network. Furthermore, this paper suggests using this business model to guide the development of the Web 2.0 website. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

As a newly designed major course in the direction of the "Information Technology", the "Computer System Platform" course involves comprehensive contents including computer hardware platforms, software platforms, operating platforms and also application platforms. Thus, it is difficult for students to learn this course since it covers a wide range several of knowledge. Hence, in this paper we designed and implemented an online learning and self-training system based on J2EE architecture to address these issues. The system has the functionality of importing the training questions into database in batch, and hence teachers can easily import a variety of formats of classified training questions into the database and it reduces the burden of single question importing. By using the system, students can review the knowledge learned in class, practice specifically of each chapter, and consolidate them in time. Moreover, students can also conduct a simulated examination through the automatic exam generation subsystem, which contributes to importing the effect of self-learning. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Using the correction of the Cobb-Douglas production function, this paper empirically analyzes information and economic growth in Shandong province from 1991 to 2010. The empirical results show that: information plays a positive role in promoting the economic growth of Shandong province, but its impact is less than that of capital and labor. Finally the paper draws the corresponding conclusions and proposes appropriate policy recommendations. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This paper sets the tone for the 2017 BCES Conference in that it confronts the educators and educationists assembled at the opening ceremony with some of the manifestations of the current business and economics driven orientation to life in general and to education in particular. It demonstrates how and to what extent the neoliberal life-view or orientation has so far colonized the minds of educators and educationists and affected their occupational environment. The paper concludes with a brief critical discussion of neoliberal tenets and their effects on education based on professional pedagogical insight into the human being, societal relationships and education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Java Business Process Management (JBPM) is a popular open source Java workflow platform. Eclipse is used as the platform to host the jBPM Process Definition Language (jPDL) graphical process designer. JBPM provides an Eclipse plug in called Graphical Process Designer(GPD) to create and edit the jPDL source file. But a developer cannot create a comprehensive JBPM project that include both jBPM configuration source files and Web project files related to the workflow. This paper proposes a model to resolve Web Tools Platform(WTP) Wizard extending problems in JBPM. With this model, extending Dynamic Web Project Wizard is possible and can provide a JBPM Project Wizard. A JBPM developer can create a JBPM project including jBPM configuration source files and Web project files by following the JBPM Project Wizard. The wizard will save developers a lot of time. This paper shows the details of the model. An example is illustrated to explain the complicated aspects about WTP, meantime, we summarize the details that should be taken care of. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This paper describes a newly released educational game called StoreWorld(TM) that introduces students to fundamental business concepts. Although many educational games introduce business concepts, they were founded many years ago and lack modern innovations. The core innovation that StoreWorld attempts to address is how social interaction can enhance simulation in the field of business gaming. After giving some background about related games, the authors provide an overview of the design and implementation of StoreWorld in regard to business modeling, education, and social interaction. The paper gives preliminary results and concludes with future directions of design. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

There are various kinds of and huge amounts of hotel information both from providers and customers. Hotel information by hotels and travel agents are reliable. A much large number of reviews by general users are available, which might be less reliable compared to the official ones. However, those reviews are helpful, since we can hear their personal experience and opinion. This paper proposes a method to find hints and advice for improving small hotel management by extracting and analyzing the feature words of reviews. This paper focuses on the secondary major words and compares their occurrence probabilities in the business customer's review with the family customer's review. A visual interpretation is proposed by mapping the feature words on Word Net. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

An accounting information system (AIS) manages data about a company's financial and economic status. The contribution of this paper is closing the gap between the languages used by business domain experts and IT-experts in analyzing the relevant data. A well accepted approach for an accountability infrastructure is the Resource-Event-Agent (REA) ontology. Although REA has been based on well-established concepts of the accounting theory, its representation has not been intuitive to domain experts. In previous work, we developed the REA-DSL, a dedicated and easy-to-understand graphical domain specific modeling language for the REA ontology. Evidently, a model-driven approach requires to transform the REA-DSL artifacts to code. In this paper we present the transformation of the REA-DSL to a relational database for AIS. This approach offers the advantage that a domain expert verifies the relevant data in an "accounting language", whereas the IT expert is able to work with traditional data base structures. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This paper tries to evaluate the openness of Chinese tourism market toward foreign travelers. The way of approach is by examining the tourism services trade barriers. This paper includes a model of tourism services trade barrier, which is built based on Paasche index theory, with America's direct tourism output and GNI per capita chosen as its two variables. With this model, the degree of the openness of China's inbound tourism market towards foreign travelers can be quantified. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In order to enhance the industrialization of the tourism e-commerce in china, the author of this paper, adopts SPSS17.0 statistical software to process the hands-on data based on the questionnaires and analyzes the influence factor of the tourism e-commerce systematically. The conclusion is that comprehensive information, secure transaction, convenient communication as well as good after service is the key factors promoting the tourism e-commerce. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Offices in today's world generally follow a principle, wherein the employees have workspaces earmarked for them. Some rooms are designated as conference rooms which can be booked for meetings, generally through mailing software. But of late, there have been increasing instances of offices which do not have workspaces designated for employees. Furthermore, such offices have conference rooms which cannot be booked through software. These offices function as satellite offices having a scaled down workforce. When workspaces are not designated to employees, and conference rooms cannot be booked through software, employees have to go around the office, looking for an empty workspace or an empty conference room. This would be a painstaking experience for employees, if it has to be done daily. This paper suggests a solution where an employee can find out empty workspaces and conference rooms on the mobile phone and straightaway go and occupy it. The framework suggested in this paper keeps track of all empty workspaces and conference rooms in the office at any given instance of time, and makes this information available to the employee. The solution is also cost effective because it uses Tags as an instrument to check in and check out an employee from a workspace or a conference room. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When the student is not able to solve a given problem, a plausible deductive reasoning process should be offered to him/her. Our final goal is a development of an e-Learning system which could help students not too much and not too little so that they can acquire as much deductive experience of independent work as possible. In the paper, we illustrate a solution plan graph which is a plausible deductive reasoning material with a concrete word problem. Our guiding principle for conducting the deduction is the thinking method of “working backwards” from the unknown. The paper also illustrates the details of the working backwards method. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The paper describes our web publication of visual teaching materials for business mathematics. The objective of the web site is to familiarize students with our visual approach for business mathematics at early stage. The significant advantage of visualization is that seeing the materials leads to better understanding of the mathematical process. Even if the students cannot understand the algebraic calculation process, they can intuitively understand the essence, only seeing the visual materials. The feature of our developed teaching materials is utilization of three-dimensional graphics and its animations. Just watching the animation, students can see the points, even if they have no idea about operations on the web. In the paper, we will illustrate the typical economics problem named the Marshallian demand function. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This paper presents Halos Networks as an architectural paradigm for developing ubiquitous networking and computing services at the edge of the networks A Halos Network is like a wireless network spontaneously emerging through the interactions of distributed resources embedding wireless communication capabilities. Halos Networks are capable of delivering services and data virally through multiple devices, machines and objects interconnected with one other. This paper discusses business roles for Stakeholders in Halos Networks scenarios, specifically concluding with some remarks about the Operators' role. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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The aim of this article is to analyse the "born globals" phenomenon in Czech Republic from history until present and to critically evaluate available definitions and their comparison in worldwide context. The scientific aim of this paper focuses on finding out at which level is the general knowledge about the "born globals" topic amongst both younger generation of future entrepreneurs and already established SME companies in Czech Republic. This paper also aims to define foreign market entry barriers. This paper uses the analysis of both primary and secondary data, it focuses on questionnaire research and the results are then processed and evaluated by using descriptive statistics methods and relative frequency analysis. The result of this paper is to analyse the phenomenon of "born globals" in the Czech republic, evaluate the general knowledge about the "born globals" term, define foreign market entry barriers and propose solution on how to eliminate the barriers. This paper should help managers to understand current trends, identify foreign market entry barriers while starting "born globals" companies and support the processes of internationalization and innovation in business. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Globalization has interconnected markets, businesses and economies. Recessions are economic phenomena that may affect the economic growth, and occur from time to time. The global economy goes through various economic fluctuations that represent the ups and downs of the economic cycle. This paper investigates and presents the entitled research "Economic fluctuations, global recession and the trends for economies, businesses and markets in times of globalization". As a methodology of research, authors focused on literature review and a descriptive quantitative and qualitative data analysis. The research questions are "What are the trends of the economic fluctuation and recession for business, markets and economies?" and "has there been a possibility of recession recently?". The results showed that economies in times of globalization could face the risk of recession that remains a phase of the economic cycle and appears with a decrease of the economic activity and real GDP. Generally, inflation comes out from foreign demand, private consumption and government policies and it hits goods and services, the level of consumption and investments decreases during the period of recession. The increase of inflation could generate difficulties in the purchase power. As a result, companies and businesses should find a way to be resilient during the periods of recession. Advanced economies know better how to survive during the periods of recession, as the analysis showed that globalization transmits the trends between economies, the real GDP in both advanced and developing economies appears in parallel lines of fluctuations. In conclusion, strengthening global cooperation remains the best way to improve the economic prospects. Furthermore, political adjustments, effective negotiations and investments could be useful to survive in times of recession. Due to globalization and internationalization, advanced economies and developing economies are highly connected. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper aims to develop a model that can explain the critical determinants that influencing the behavioral intention (BI) of mobile commerce (m-commerce) in collectivist cultures such as the Arab culture; particularly Jordan. The proposed model employs the technology acceptance model (TAM). TAM has been augmented with subjective norms (SN) from the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA). The augmented model further decomposed SN into different levels. In addition, three variables were used to extended TAM: Personal innovativeness in IT (PIIT) from Diffusion of Innovations (DOI), Facilitating Conditions (FC) from Decomposed Theory of Planned Behavior (DTPB) and cost derived from literature. M-commerce acceptance literature revealed the majority of the researches were conducted in developed nations. Moreover, the academic research of m-commerce acceptance in the Arab world is limited; therefore, there has been little attempt to fill the gap in understanding the antecedents of BI to accept m-commerce in the region. This conceptual model will provide a foundation for future research and a greater knowledge of the potential users of m-commerce adoption in Jordan. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It is a truism that the information and communication technologies (ICT) have changed the way people engage in all aspects of their lives, including how the judiciary functions. The ICT applications adopted by the courts are varied including access to legal materials, high technology information and evidence display systems, electronic filing, foreign language translation, multimedia court records, information and evidence retrieval, audio conferencing, video conferencing and the public's access to court information via the worldwide web. Drawn from an ongoing research, this paper aims to highlight that the growing adoption of ICT by the courts in many jurisdictions in fact raises several issues of security risks. This paper begins by illustrating the concept of courtroom technology and the current technical applications available in the Malaysian courts. The examination of the emergence of non-legal risks closely connected to security and the legal risk raised by courtroom technology is mediated through the understanding of several basic security control requirements involving authentication, non-repudiation, confidentiality, data integrity and privacy encroachment. The paper contends that despite the common notion that law will always lag behind technology, the courts would need to understand these legal and non-legal security risks and manage them in the most efficient and effective manner if judicial business were to be continually advanced by the ICT. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]