{"title":"Quantitative ABCD Analysis of Consumers’ Intention toward Mitigation of Food Waste in Restaurants","authors":"Meghana Salins, P. Aithal","doi":"10.47992/ijmts.2581.6012.0250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47992/ijmts.2581.6012.0250","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: The primary goal of the ABCD Analysis Framework is to discover the variables that affect customers' intentions to mitigate food waste while dining in restaurants and to assess the underlying determinants and issues that underpin the model's advantages, benefits, challenges, and disadvantages. An appropriate score / weightage can be given for each component utilizing the ABCD model. Additionally, the framework intends to apply factor analysis and elementary analysis to get additional understanding of the subject.\u0000Design: The published papers pertaining to the ABCD analysis framework have been extensively evaluated for this study. By giving proper weight to key attributes and using quantitative analysis through focus group interaction, the study was able to identify the key influencing variables and essential constituent aspects for the mitigation of food waste behaviour of consumers in restaurants.\u0000Findings: Based on the ABCD analysis framework, it was discovered that many businesses and individuals adopt this new kind of approach that promotes sustainability or survival to get through their serious issues and find short relief. Through focus group discussions, the ABCD framework's assessment of consumers' intentions to reduce food waste has led to strong support for the advantages elements. Therefore, the results of this model will help back up the effectiveness of the mitigation of food waste in restaurants. \u0000Originality/Value: The ABCD analysis method is used in this study to closely investigate consumers' intentions to reduce food waste while dining in restaurants. In order to comprehend the many aspects influencing customers' intention to mitigate food waste, the research utilizes determinant issues, key attributes, factor analysis and elementary analysis based on essential critical constituent elements.\u0000Paper Type: Empirical analysis.","PeriodicalId":319077,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Management, Technology, and Social Sciences","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115246809","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":"Consumer Buying Behaviour Trends of E-Commerce in India- A Case Study","authors":"A. Nasabi, S. H.","doi":"10.47992/ijmts.2581.6012.0247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47992/ijmts.2581.6012.0247","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: Asia's E-Commerce sector is booming and is estimated to develop rapidly. This paper examines the potential development areas for Indian e-commerce while providing a general picture of the Trends in Consumer Buying Behavior. Additionally, learn about several elements that will be crucial for the progress of Indian e-commerce in the future. A SWOC analysis is done for a deeper understanding of the industry. In this study, we discovered that overall e-commerce in India, an emerging sector, will grow rapidly in the years to come.\u0000Design/Methodology/Approach: The case contributes to the SWOC analysis of the current situation of the E-Commerce sector. The study is derived from secondary data from sources like literature, case studies, and books. \u0000Findings/Result: In order to increase customer engagement and foster familiarity and trust, e-commerce businesses are attempting to strengthen their supply chain and delivery capabilities. Additionally, they are incorporating technology to provide a customized purchasing experience. The sellers may intensify organic traffic of customers and also sales with e-commerce blogging content. They will be able to optimize content to increase traffic and sales without consuming to spend additional money by doing anything from creating videos to writing blog posts. Additionally, they will be able to monetize those visitors with retargeting advertisements in addition to attracting traffic naturally through content production.\u0000Originality/Value: The discoveries in the case will give more insight into consumer buying behavior trends and help e-commerce sellers to target better to obtain consumer satisfaction and consumer loyalty.\u0000Paper Type: Case Study","PeriodicalId":319077,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Management, Technology, and Social Sciences","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114840305","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":"Literature Review on Consumer Perception and Buying Behaviour on Baby Care Products","authors":"Kavitha Pakkala, K. Shivashankar Bhat","doi":"10.47992/ijmts.2581.6012.0246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47992/ijmts.2581.6012.0246","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: Different behaviours have had a significant impact on how people shop and consume. The goal of this study is to understand consumer purchasing habits and to pinpoint the variables that affect parents' decisions to buy baby care goods. There is a shortage of knowledge regarding how consumers perceive and what factors influence customers' purchasing decisions for baby care items.\u0000Design/Methodology: Studies, case studies, journal articles, reviews and variety of research papers serve as secondary sources for the research.\u0000Findings: Research study reflects that, nurturing a baby is the most challenging stage of life since it requires an awareness of the requirements of a baby's body to promote the healthy growth of both physical and mental state. As far as the baby products are concerned parents become more responsible while taking the right decisions so that their children are safe and secure. Parents in India are becoming more brand savvy and informed and they favour high-quality goods.\u0000Originality/value: This is done in order to comprehend how people and families act when they purchase a product. This is an effort to discover and investigate what consumer activities and behaviors result in a product purchase. India's market for baby care goods is growing and changing over time as a result of changing consumer tastes, rising incomes, and a growth in the proportion of working women.\u0000Paper Type: Review Paper","PeriodicalId":319077,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Management, Technology, and Social Sciences","volume":"754 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131205161","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":"Factors Influencing Buying Behaviour of Ayurvedic Products - A Review","authors":"Bharathi, S. Mayya","doi":"10.47992/ijmts.2581.6012.0248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47992/ijmts.2581.6012.0248","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: Ayurveda, a system of conventional medicine with roots in ancient wisdom, has grown in importance in modern society and today plays a significant role in every aspect of human existence. Ayurveda gained notoriety due to its purity, safety, naturalness, and lack of adverse effects. The main objective of this study is to identify the various factors that influence how consumers buy ayurvedic products, how these factors foster consumer trust, how consumer trust is transformed into purchase intention, and finally, how consumer purchase intention is transformed into final consumer behaviour.\u0000Design/Methodology/Approach: Secondary sources are used to gather the information needed for the current investigation. This is based on an analysis of the literature that has already been published, including information from a variety of exploratory articles, papers, books, journals, and magazines. The information needed for the study was gathered via Google Scholars, Research Gate, and Science Direct.\u0000Results/ Findings: Consumer purchasing behaviour is influenced by a variety of factors. Manufacturers of ayurvedic products must take into account the different aspects that affect consumers' decisions to buy herbal products. The corporations can alter the things they are producing based on the analysis of these elements, making it simpler for marketers to promote their goods.\u0000Originality/Value: Through this review, the various factors influencing the buying habits of consumers who use ayurvedic products and other areas of the body of existing literature help manufacturers and marketers comprehend the influencing factors on the buying habits of customers of ayurvedic products so they can create their own marketing strategy to popularise the ayurvedic products, thereby increasing sales and profit.\u0000Type of Paper: Review of Literature","PeriodicalId":319077,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Management, Technology, and Social Sciences","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126383240","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":"Distributed Authentication Using Blockchain for Protected Communication in Cloud Based IoT Platform","authors":"Ravikanth Motupalli, K. K","doi":"10.47992/ijmts.2581.6012.0244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47992/ijmts.2581.6012.0244","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: The technology has improvised to control the devices from the remote location using the IoT framework. To improvise the storage efficiency of the technology the IoT is integrated with the cloud network. When the huge size of the data is generated this cloud server hosts the space for the big data. But the secure exchange of the data between the IoT data is not efficient to protect the confidentiality of the data. The existing security systems are either concentrating on the authentication or secure validation. Hence there is a demand for the lightweight, less complex, and strong secure framework. \u0000Design/ Methodology/Approach: The authentication phase of the proposed framework is designed using distributed block chain protocol to authenticate multiple users in the cloud environment. The SALSA20 encryption algorithm which augments the strength of the data security. The protected key exchange is done using the ReDH algorithm. Indexing is done using the hash algorithm to obtain the accuracy in the search results and to minimize the encrypting and decrypting time.\u0000Findings/ Results: The proposed distributed block chain authentication framework is proved to be efficient with less encrypting and decrypting periods of about 0.25ms and 0.2ms respectively. 97.5% of the storage efficiency proves this model to be suitable for the cloud application.\u0000Originality/Value: The proposed model has a dedicated database for the registration for the users and IoT devices which is used to validate the authentication of the system. The encryption is done using the SALSA20 algorithm and sensitivity level prediction process to measure the sensitivity score.\u0000Paper Type: Experimental Research","PeriodicalId":319077,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Management, Technology, and Social Sciences","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134451883","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":"Business Intelligence for the Evaluation of Customer Satisfaction in E-Commerce Websites- A Case Study","authors":"Priyadarshini P., K. Veeramanju","doi":"10.47992/ijmts.2581.6012.0243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47992/ijmts.2581.6012.0243","url":null,"abstract":"Background/Purpose: Advancement of technology has been proven in every field. To establish a good business or any organization is very crucial nowadays. Businesses are moving tremendously and competitors also high in number. It is very important to take a good decision based on reviews and feedback of customer, etc. By combining the strength of technology and business knowledge, Business Intelligence allows you to make good decisions that are fully informed and stay one step ahead of the competition. With the help of business intelligence tools businesses can use their data in a better way. Business intelligence incorporates Data mining, Data Analytic, Data Visualization and Machine learning to help organization for the analysis of data. This article provides the analysis of Business intelligence and machine learning techniques used in e-commerce website and ABCD framework to inspect the key factors. \u0000Objective: Analyses the business intelligence technology and sentiment analysis on E-commerce website.\u0000Design/Methodology/Approach: The information and details for this case study is obtained from different scholarly articles published in various journals and company websites.\u0000Findings/Result: The study of this paper delivers the importance of customer behavior and how it helps in growth of the industry using machine learning and business intelligence.\u0000Originality/Value/Novelty: The result of this paper gives an explanation of business intelligence and machine learning approach for customer feedback in e-commerce companies and advantages of e-commerce websites.\u0000Paper Type: Case study paper to study the advantages of business intelligence and machine learning for customer satisfaction.","PeriodicalId":319077,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Management, Technology, and Social Sciences","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130039471","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":"Comparative Study of Curiosity among Sighted and Visually Impaired Students","authors":"Buvana R.","doi":"10.47992/ijmts.2581.6012.0242","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47992/ijmts.2581.6012.0242","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: Curiosity is the basis of learning anything new. Children possess heightened curiosity than adults. Several studies have explored the relationship between curiosity and motivation. This trait is also found to enhance learning in children. Does this trait have similar significance in visually impaired children as sighted children? This study aims to understand the difference between the two groups with the standardized Curiosity and Explorative Inventory (CEI-II.). Most of the learning is by observing and seeing. In the absence of this in visual impairment, the ability to become curious becomes limited. Embracing new ideas and learning them can provide insight to their open-mindedness. The explorative nature of curiosity renders in personal growth and personality development. This study opens up areas like motivation, personal growth, and approach to learning new things to be explored as potential areas for future researchers. \u0000Design/Methodology/Approach: This comparative study would be based on an equal number of participants of 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th standard groups of children who are sighted and visually impaired.\u0000Findings/Result: This study aims to determine the difference and relationship between curiosity levels of sighted and visually impaired school students. \u0000Originality/Value: Curiosity trait among visually impaired children compared to those of sighted children in an Indian context is being explored in this study. \u0000Paper Type: Comparative analysis based paper.","PeriodicalId":319077,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Management, Technology, and Social Sciences","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123505140","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":"Impact of Information Technology on the Banking Sector","authors":"Megha D. Shetty, Nikhitha M. K.","doi":"10.47992/ijmts.2581.6012.0241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47992/ijmts.2581.6012.0241","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: This paper presents a brief overview which is linked to the bank network and its role in IT. It is also about the study of the role of the Government which has also played a proactive role in this by formulating policies and providing infrastructure, there are some advantages and disadvantages too, which need to be examined, and challenges faced by banking sectors and a few key positive and negative opinions on basis of SWOT analysis. \u0000Methodology: The data has been collected from a variety of sources, including newspapers, research papers, websites, and journals. The information has been analyzed and synthesized to provide a comprehensive overview of the topic.\u0000Findings: This research aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the extant research on the impact of information technology (IT) on banking. The findings suggest that IT has had a positive impact on banking in terms of efficiency, profitability, and customer service. However, the findings also reveal that IT has harmed employment in the banking sector. The banking sector in India is passing through tectonic changes with the onslaught of digital technologies. Traditional banks, which were dependent on human interaction and paperwork, are today struggling to keep pace with the new-age disruptors such as mobile payments, peer-to-peer lending, etc. They can now easily switch between banks depending on their needs and requirements. At the same time, banks are also looking to partner with FinTech to gain a competitive edge. \u0000Originality: A robust banking system makes the lives of the average individual easier, its real impact is felt in the smooth functioning of businesses. The smooth flow of credit and mobilizing of savings are the hallmarks of an economy with an effective banking system. \u0000Research Type: Descriptive Study.","PeriodicalId":319077,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Management, Technology, and Social Sciences","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133127058","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 Systematic Review on the Role of Parental Bonding in Adolescent Psychosocial Development","authors":"Vincy Joseph, Suphala S Kotian","doi":"10.47992/ijmts.2581.6012.0240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47992/ijmts.2581.6012.0240","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: A solid foundation for the area on which the research is intended can be built by reviewing the numerous works and literature in the suggested areas. Parent-child relationships and adolescent development are always important topics. Children typically spend more time with their classmates and considerably less time with their parents. However, parents continue to have a big influence on their adolescent's development. There are clear connections between parental attachment and children's cognitive, social, and emotional health. Parental ties and adolescent psychosocial development being the areas of study, the most recent literature review is undertaken because it is crucial.\u0000Objective: The research is done to assess role of parental bonding on adolescents’ Development. The research field's gaps are addressed.\u0000Design/Methodology/Approach: The literature for this study was compiled using a variety of secondary sources, including journals, book chapters, conference proceedings and other online sites. The entire body of research has been thoroughly examined and condensed. It is also used to identify research goals and gaps in the field.\u0000Findings/Results: The results and limitations of every recent research have been thoroughly examined. The cause of the gap has also been thoroughly investigated, and each work's outcomes have been carefully examined.\u0000Originality/Value: This paper intends to examine the pertinent literature that already exists and includes secondary data that was acquired from a number of online sources, including research journals, technical book chapters, conference papers, and a few websites. All of the papers chosen were current and from reputable publishers, and they were all pertinent to the planned work. A sincere effort is made to choose a study topic and conduct the research.\u0000Paper type: Review paper.","PeriodicalId":319077,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Management, Technology, and Social Sciences","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131401391","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":"Role of University Faculty Member’s ICT skills in Informatization of Society through Openness Movement in Higher Education","authors":"M. Kamath, Anil Kumar","doi":"10.47992/ijmts.2581.6012.0239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47992/ijmts.2581.6012.0239","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: The aim of this paper is to emphasise the relevance and importance of Information and Communication Technology(ICT) skills of University Faculty community/people in educational institutions/universities, and how they can matter in complete change/transition in the Teaching/Learning process(Learning 3.0) and help Faculty in informatization of students(society) through Openness movement in Higher Education.\u0000Methodology: The paper uses secondary data gathered from case studies, journals, reputed magazines, and the internet for its preparation.\u0000Findings: ICT (web 2.0) has immensely contributed to changing the education scenario from obsolete and boring classroom learning to an innovative teaching /learning process.\u0000Research limitations/implications: ICT Skill is a topic too vast for academics to consider researching on. Anything and everything related to Computers and the Internet is the result of some sort of ICT skill usage by some individual. Heavy cost of ICT infrastructure is also a limiting factor.\u0000Originality/value: This paper is based on findings collected from reputed journal data, reputed books, report from reputed and authorized institutions and Ph.D Thesis from reputed websites that is accepted worldwide.\u0000Paper type: A Review Paper.","PeriodicalId":319077,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Management, Technology, and Social Sciences","volume":"665 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133398046","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}