{"title":"IKEA’s Global Sourcing Challenge","authors":"Chen-yun Ye","doi":"10.25236/AJBM.2021.030707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25236/AJBM.2021.030707","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses how to tackle the problems of child Labor in India’s regions of business. Including how to respond to the negative coverage of German television and similar international public opinions, how IKEA reevaluates and improves supplier contracts or simply chooses to terminate them, and how IKEA decide on its strategy to operate in India. This paper based of the case and reports about IKEA, relating its situation with the methodology of business ethics. IKEA, as an industry leader of the world furniture retailer, plays a role that sells affordable and elegant furniture to consumers around the world. However, IKEA’s rapid development of globalization is not smooth. IKEA’s rapid development of globalization is not smooth. Despite the company’s superior financial performance and market share, some product problems made the company aware of environmental and social problems, which were found to include excessive formaldehyde and child labor The dilemma IKEA faces is that it must work with other suppliers around the world based on suppliers that are not directly controlled by the parent company and the actions of these suppliers have a negative impact on IKEA’s products and reputation such as hire the child labor in South Asian. This paper concludes the need to re-evaluate suppliers and the feasibility of the company’s strategy in South Asia.","PeriodicalId":221340,"journal":{"name":"Academic Journal of Business & Management","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115064493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integrated Performance Evaluation and Strategic Implication Report on Z Energy Limited","authors":"Han Wang","doi":"10.25236/AJBM.2021.030705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25236/AJBM.2021.030705","url":null,"abstract":"Z Energy Limited is a New Zealand-based fuel company, founded in 2010. In 2013, Z Energy became a listed company on the NZX, and also started to trade on the Australian Stock Exchange publicly. This report focuses on Z Energy’s non-financial performances and how they affect company’s value. Z Energy has been devoting itself to sustainable development while the actual performances were usually under the expectations. On the other hand, Z needs to deal with the challenges raised from electric energy. Even though Z has been trying to positively respond to the market variations and expecting a promising future, the outcomes are less likely to be optimistic. From the macroeconomic perspective, Z is significantly influenced by global crude oil prices and forex rates, it is sensitive to the changes in market conditions. Although New Zealand has a low-inflation economic environment, the impact of international economic conditions will override the influence from the domestic market. However, Z has also made some achievements in supplying biofuels and developed a long-term cooperation with Fonterra. In addition, Z Energy has applied numerous methods, such as HSSE strategy, to improve employee involvement and loyalty, and adopts “Strengthen the Core” strategy to expand businesses.","PeriodicalId":221340,"journal":{"name":"Academic Journal of Business & Management","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115251802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research on the Development of China's Diversified Business Groups: Paragons or Parasites?","authors":"Yixuan Zhang","doi":"10.25236/AJBM.2021.030704","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25236/AJBM.2021.030704","url":null,"abstract":"Diversified business groups are a relatively common form of modern economy, which plays a key role in China's economic development and market process. Under the new economic situation, diversified business groups conform to the trend of economic development and play important roles in optimizing capital allocation, promoting labour employment, and enhancing brand strength. However, the development of diversified business groups is a \"double-edged sword\", and the positive and negative effects it brings must be fully considered. This paper discusses the formation reasons and advantages of diversified business groups in China, and also objectively analyses the tunneling behaviour, diversified discounts and rent-seeking problems that occurred during the development process.","PeriodicalId":221340,"journal":{"name":"Academic Journal of Business & Management","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132272963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research on Credit Strategy of small and medium-sized Enterprises based on Optimization method","authors":"Yifan Lu, Ling Liu, Zhenrong Cao","doi":"10.25236/AJBM.2021.030703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25236/AJBM.2021.030703","url":null,"abstract":"Aiming at the credit strategy of small and medium-sized enterprises, this paper makes a related research on risk assessment. First of all, carry on the corresponding risk assessment to the small and medium-sized enterprises and divide the corresponding grades, and finally determine the proportion of the credit funds of certain enterprises to the total credit of the bank in the whole year. Then a scientific risk assessment model is established by grading and calculating the proportion of funds. Based on the simplex method of linear programming, this paper studies the annual credit allocation of enterprises, and obtains the optimization model of bank loan income, and then produces the optimal scheme of annual credit allocation of enterprises.","PeriodicalId":221340,"journal":{"name":"Academic Journal of Business & Management","volume":"153 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131435414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research and Analysis Report of Kweichow Moutai Company","authors":"Y. Qian","doi":"10.25236/AJBM.2021.030701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25236/AJBM.2021.030701","url":null,"abstract":"Fiedler mentioned \"does not exist a kind of is suitable for various situation of universal principles and methods of management, management can only act according to the circumstances of the specific\", moutai company is the most influential brand in China and to achieve a monopoly in the competition and development, based on the fundamental analysis and technical analysis, maotai company for the industry analysis, company analysis and technical analysis, This paper probes into the development prospect of Maotai Company, obtains some problems existing in the development and puts forward corresponding investment suggestions for investors.","PeriodicalId":221340,"journal":{"name":"Academic Journal of Business & Management","volume":"138 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123259357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Empirical Analysis of the Influencing Factors of Total Assets Period of Medical Manufacturing Enterprises in Guangdong Province","authors":"Chen Qu","doi":"10.25236/AJBM.2021.030702","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25236/AJBM.2021.030702","url":null,"abstract":"Based on the relevant data of 29 medical manufacturing companies in Guangdong Province from 2009 to 2020, this paper uses a multiple linear regression model to conduct an empirical study on the influencing factors of their total asset turnover. The research results show that the size of the company and the number of boards of directors are significantly negatively correlated with the total asset turnover rate, and the operating income, the number of employees, the year-on-year growth rate of operating income, the amount of research and development investment and the total asset turnover rate are significantly positively correlated. On this basis, it also studied macroeconomic factors and found that the year-on-year growth rate of GDP is a key factor affecting the turnover rate of total assets. The results of this study have been inspired by how to accelerate the turnover rate of total assets, with a view to providing relevant references for improving the operational capabilities of enterprises.","PeriodicalId":221340,"journal":{"name":"Academic Journal of Business & Management","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126021994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis of monopoly crisis in Internet Economy -- Based on market equilibrium model","authors":"Fei Wang, Yupeng Du","doi":"10.25236/AJBM.2021.030620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25236/AJBM.2021.030620","url":null,"abstract":"With the development of science and technology, the era of Internet economy is coming. The market structure of each segment of the Internet industry presents the characteristics of platform monopoly. This paper uses marginal analysis and game theory as the main analysis tools to make a comparative analysis of the Internet oligopoly market and the fully competitive market, focusing on the impact of platform monopoly on social welfare. At the same time, according to the analysis, it reconstructs the Countermeasures of anti-monopoly law, enterprise self-examination and price regulation.","PeriodicalId":221340,"journal":{"name":"Academic Journal of Business & Management","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129137146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhiyuan Wei, Yingxuan Chen, Meng Gao, Yuancen Li, Jianan Wan, Y. Su
{"title":"Stock Prediction Methods based on Ensemble Learning","authors":"Zhiyuan Wei, Yingxuan Chen, Meng Gao, Yuancen Li, Jianan Wan, Y. Su","doi":"10.25236/AJBM.2021.030619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25236/AJBM.2021.030619","url":null,"abstract":"With the rapid development of stock market, there have been large interests in stock prediction. The decision making based on rational and logical analysis as well as forecast often has a very positive supporting effect, reducing investment risk while enhancing the profits. The development of technology has led to a variety of mature machine learning models for predicting the stock market such as the support vector machine (SVM) model and support vector regression (SVR) model, which will be introduced later in the paper. In this paper, it focuses on the improvement of the existing machine learning models by comparing the deviation and coefficient of curves of different stocks. The experiment indicates that the ensemble models provide more effective and more accurate stock prediction compared with only using the SVR model.","PeriodicalId":221340,"journal":{"name":"Academic Journal of Business & Management","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124359460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research on the Financial Market Reaction under the Extraordinary Public Health Emergencies","authors":"Fang Cai, Shuyuan Zhang, J. Guo, Xinyang Zhang","doi":"10.25236/AJBM.2021.030617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25236/AJBM.2021.030617","url":null,"abstract":"In the case of serious public health emergencies, it is of great significance to fully analyze the reaction of financial market and explain the mechanism behind it, so as to build or improve the relevant feasible emergency management system. In this paper, a variety of analysis methods are used to systematically explain the typical public health emergencies, based on the empirical research on the policies of China, America, Japan and Britain during the epidemic period, this paper explores the internal logic and correlation between different reactions in financial markets from multiple dimensions, and summarizes innovative interpretations of different reactions in financial markets. The results show that under the monetary policy based on ensuring liquidity, combined with effective epidemic prevention and control measures, only in this way can the economic and financial system impacted by the epidemic be saved.","PeriodicalId":221340,"journal":{"name":"Academic Journal of Business & Management","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131183566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Paying for Debt: a Natural or Expedient Measure?—Review of Debt, the First 5000 Years","authors":"Pengyu Mu","doi":"10.25236/AJBM.2021.030618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25236/AJBM.2021.030618","url":null,"abstract":"Debt goes time and space, spanning 5,000 years of human history. Clarifying the nature of debt is of great theoretical and practical significance to the study of market and government operation and social progress. In view of the essential problem of debt, this paper adopts the literature sorting method and reads the book Debt, The First 5000 Years and relevant literature, and draws three conclusions: (1) the origin of the history of money may be the virtual currency and credit system, and the imagined \"barter\" economic model did not exist. Money, therefore, was not born \"bartering\"; the state created the market, and the market needed the state. (2) the creativity of the book is mainly reflected in the analysis of the human economy, put forward the gift economy, human economy and \"military-coinage - slavery synthesis\" of novel expressions, and finally gives a bold idea of the cancellation of all international and consumer debt. (3) the limitations of the book's capitalist perspective are very obvious. There is a misjudgment of Chinese culture and human customs, and a glorification of the shameless scandals of the Spanish and Portuguese invaders. All these are blind adherence to the capitalist system and ignorance of socialism.","PeriodicalId":221340,"journal":{"name":"Academic Journal of Business & Management","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121756081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}