{"title":"Application of linguistic modelling to systems and product design","authors":"J. Korn","doi":"10.1504/ijmabs.2020.10029280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijmabs.2020.10029280","url":null,"abstract":"Design thinking is an integral part of problem solving which is an incessant activity in the living sphere for survival and achievement of ambitions, the alternative is extinction. There is a variety of problem solving or design methods usually pursued separately for systems and product in business, management, in engineering and fashion design otherwise the activity is carried out instinctively, it is innate. The aim of this paper is to introduce an integrated design thinking procedure which is supported by the 'new science of systems' in particular by linguistic modelling. Thus, design thinking has acquired a theoretical support with clearly different functions of the systems and component designers. Parts of 'science of systems' relevant to design thinking are described which serve as guidance for design activity. Problematic issues and expectations of those affected can be elucidated by managers, designers and individuals leading to emergence of a scheme intended to aid systemic thinking for solving problems and to detailed design of prototype models while admitting creativity and innovation.","PeriodicalId":297696,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Markets and Business Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128786392","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}
I. Natsvlishvili, E. Kharaishvili, T. Lazariashvili
{"title":"Bio-products market in Georgia: current challenges and development perspectives","authors":"I. Natsvlishvili, E. Kharaishvili, T. Lazariashvili","doi":"10.1504/ijmabs.2020.10029281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijmabs.2020.10029281","url":null,"abstract":"The article explores the organic food market in the world and in Georgia. The growth tendency of demand for bio-products is assessed. For Georgia, bio-production is considered as an alternative to the traditional system of agricultural production. The paper examines the experience of European countries. The ways for development of production of bio-products in Georgia are identified by comparative analysis; opportunities for population employment and income growth, nutrition quality, and environmental improvement are substantiated through the development of bio-production. The authors have studied the state programs for production of bio-products and sales promotion; conclusions were made on the feasibility of implementing adapted programs in Georgia. Qualitative research was carried out in order to identify the problems and directions of development in the field of bio-production and bio-market development; through the impact and urgency matrix were identified the barriers to bio-production, drawn conclusions on the identified problems and proposed appropriate recommendations.","PeriodicalId":297696,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Markets and Business Systems","volume":"132 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127082223","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":"Ethical concerns of consumers in mobile marketing","authors":"B. Maseke","doi":"10.1504/ijmabs.2020.10029270","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijmabs.2020.10029270","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigated various ethical concerns in mobile marketing. Smartphones have become intelligent devices which store a wide range of rich detail about the owner's personal life. Third-party applications which can lead to unforeseen privacy and security risks have become a treat. The research questions: focused on privacy concerns, malware and spam and permission marketing concerns of consumers in Namibia? Positivist quantitative survey research was applied in this study. A sample size of 384 consumers were selected from the target population 500,000 in Windhoek. This study found that consumers are aware of privacy concerns in Namibia. This is similar to what was found in a previous studies. This study also found that consumers are concerned about malware and spam in Namibia, which is a general concern of mobile device users globally. Privacy concerns awareness, spam, malware filtering should become prerequisites for mobile marketing to be effective.","PeriodicalId":297696,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Markets and Business Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130868431","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":"Industry 5.0 in the context of global socialisation and digitalisation of gig-economy","authors":"O. Shtepa, N. Kraus, K. Kraus","doi":"10.1504/ijmabs.2022.10050683","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijmabs.2022.10050683","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":297696,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Markets and Business Systems","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132174089","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}
I. Natsvlishvili, E. Kharaishvili, T. Lazariashvili
{"title":"Impact of agro tourism on economic development of related sectors in the context of sustainable well-being (case of Georgia)","authors":"I. Natsvlishvili, E. Kharaishvili, T. Lazariashvili","doi":"10.1504/IJMABS.2020.10035308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMABS.2020.10035308","url":null,"abstract":"Given paper substantiates the importance of development of agriculture and related sectors (among agro tourism) in economic growth. Problem is examined considering economic, social, cultural and political factors. Positive and negative effects of development of agriculture and related sectors are assessed. Expert survey is used to analyse their current situation and perspectives of economic development. Possibilities of industry development through improving legal regulations are revealed. Paper discusses the ways of improving statistical data generation, placing advertisements in this field. The values of agro tourism destinations are assessed using Lane criteria. Using average indicator of attractiveness of regions for agro tourism development attractive Georgian regions are revealed. The leader municipalities are identified by using the criteria of historical-cultural heritage, untouched (wiled) natural heritage, touristic infrastructure, rural landscape, food products and cuisine. For Georgia recommendations are developed about main directions of agro tourism development in the context of sustainable well-being.","PeriodicalId":297696,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Markets and Business Systems","volume":"135 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130925665","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}
A. Mahmoudabadi, Fatemeh Pourhossein Ghazimahalleh
{"title":"Developing a decision tree procedure for designing street advertising based on traffic and environmental situations","authors":"A. Mahmoudabadi, Fatemeh Pourhossein Ghazimahalleh","doi":"10.1504/IJMABS.2020.10035312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMABS.2020.10035312","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this research work is to develop a decision tree procedure for designing out-of-home advertising messages based on occasion dates and environmental and traffic situations. Through a systematic approach, the two-stage procedure has been developed to create customer oriented messages or advertising fields based on the parameters transmitted by the road traffic devices in which the key parameters have been prioritised followed by defining the best fitted advertising message. The message prioritising and creation have been designed based on the results of two questionnaires, one filled out by experts and the other by audiences. Approving the proposed procedure concurrently revealed that there is no difference between audiences' personalities and their attention to the billboards, so experts who are dealing with advertising issues can consider the occasion dates as well as environmental and traffic situations to design out-of-home advertising messages for all groups of population.","PeriodicalId":297696,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Markets and Business Systems","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133003575","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":"Developments in the resolution of systemic problems","authors":"J. Korn","doi":"10.1504/ijmabs.2020.10033918","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijmabs.2020.10033918","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":297696,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Markets and Business Systems","volume":"12 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120821505","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":"A review of systemic risk definition in financial systems: a special focus on network analysis","authors":"Hossein Dastkhan","doi":"10.1504/ijmabs.2023.10055708","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijmabs.2023.10055708","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":297696,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Markets and Business Systems","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132044904","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":"Understanding entrepreneurial competence and capability product innovation management in agriculture: a qualitative system dynamics perspective","authors":"Nathalie Lachapelle, L. Cloutier","doi":"10.1504/IJMABS.2020.10035307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMABS.2020.10035307","url":null,"abstract":"There are insights to be gained from the examination of innovation processes conducted by entrepreneurs in low and medium technology (LMT) sectors such as agricultural production. The research question addressed in this paper is: How can agricultural entrepreneurs innovate with largely undifferentiated and low-margin products? The research objective is to better understand the emerging articulation of factors regarding competencies and capabilities agricultural production entrepreneurs can mobilise to innovate in LMT. The syntax of qualitative system dynamics (QSD) is used to present a dynamic hypothesis of competence and capability development by agricultural entrepreneurs. The contribution is an analysis of the underlying feedback loop structure in support of knowledge management practice in LMT product, characteristic and process innovation by agricultural entrepreneurs, and could generally be useful to understand innovation management in other LMT sectors more generally.","PeriodicalId":297696,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Markets and Business Systems","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132567802","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":"Is the sky bluer than before Examining firm stability in Europe","authors":"Tahani Tahmid, M. Yousuf, M. Azad, Sadia Shafiq","doi":"10.1504/ijmabs.2022.10046540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/ijmabs.2022.10046540","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":297696,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Markets and Business Systems","volume":"110 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127215083","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}