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Boosting Regional Socioeconomic Development through Logistics Activities: A Conceptual Model 物流活动促进区域社会经济发展:一个概念模型

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Business Systems Research Journal Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.2478/bsrj-2022-0025

Tiago L. Vieira, Ângela Silva, Jorge Esparteiro Garcia, W. Alves

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A Machine Learning Approach to Forecast International Trade: The Case of Croatia 预测国际贸易的机器学习方法:克罗地亚的案例

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Business Systems Research Journal Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.2478/bsrj-2022-0030

Hrvoje Jošić, Berislav Žmuk

{"title":"A Machine Learning Approach to Forecast International Trade: The Case of Croatia","authors":"Hrvoje Jošić, Berislav Žmuk","doi":"10.2478/bsrj-2022-0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/bsrj-2022-0030","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Background: This paper presents a machine learning approach to forecast Croatia’s international bilateral trade. Objectives: The goal of this paper is to evaluate the performance of machine learning algorithms in predicting international bilateral trade flows related to imports and exports in the case of Croatia. Methods/Approach: The dataset on Croatian bilateral trade with over 180 countries worldwide from 2001 to 2019 is assembled using main variables from the gravity trade model. To forecast values of Croatian bilateral exports and imports for a horizon of one year (the year 2020), machine learning algorithms (Gaussian processes, Linear regression, and Multilayer perceptron) have been used. Each forecasting algorithm is evaluated by calculating mean absolute percentage errors (MAPE). Results: It was found that machine learning algorithms have a very good predicting ability in forecasting Croatian bilateral trade, with neural network Multilayer perceptron having the best performance among the other machine learning algorithms. Conclusions Main findings from this paper can be important for economic policymakers and other subjects in this field of research. Timely information about the changes in trends and projections of future trade flows can significantly affect decision-making related to international bilateral trade flows.","PeriodicalId":43772,"journal":{"name":"Business Systems Research Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76658751","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}

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Dashboard for the Management and Acceptance of Customer Orders 管理和接受客户订单的仪表板

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Business Systems Research Journal Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.2478/bsrj-2022-0028

Joana Nascimento, Nuno M. Frazão, Senhorinha F. C. F. Teixeira, Ana Cecília Ribeiro

{"title":"Dashboard for the Management and Acceptance of Customer Orders","authors":"Joana Nascimento, Nuno M. Frazão, Senhorinha F. C. F. Teixeira, Ana Cecília Ribeiro","doi":"10.2478/bsrj-2022-0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/bsrj-2022-0028","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Background: This paper focuses on activities related to Customer Orders Management withing an auto components plant in the Automotive Industry. The main challenge was highlighted: customers don’t always regard the flexibility rules agreed with the company. Hence, planners must decide if variation in ordered quantity can be accepted in the forecast period or if adjusting is necessary. Objectives: The purpose was not only to streamline the decision-making process in the planning team but also to provide essential tools for the execution of their daily tasks – a visual and interactive dashboard to assess whether variations in customer orders were within the limits agreed with the company. Methods/Approach: Following Lean information management and business intelligence principles, a thorough process analysis was carried out, centralized and standardized reports were created that served as databases, and the dashboard was developed. Results: The proposed tool allowed reductions from 3,5h per week, spent mainly on collecting data, calculating variations, and selecting and adjusting the flexibility limits, to 0,2h a day per planner. Conclusions: Besides streamlining planners’ daily activities, main contributions regard the promotion of digital transformation, data-driven decision-making, and an automated record of customer order variations that could easily be adapted to suppliers.","PeriodicalId":43772,"journal":{"name":"Business Systems Research Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79923605","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}

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Circular Economy and Consumer’s Engagement: An Exploratory Study on Higher Education 循环经济与消费者参与:高等教育的探索性研究

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Business Systems Research Journal Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.2478/bsrj-2022-0026

W. Alves, Ângela Silva, Helena Rodrigues

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Using EPP Boxes in a Dark Store: A New Approach to Simplify Food Retail E-Commerce Deliveries 在黑暗的商店中使用EPP盒子:简化食品零售电子商务交付的新方法

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Business Systems Research Journal Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.2478/bsrj-2022-0029

Eduardo Pintado, Lia Coelho de Oliveira, Jorge Esparteiro Garcia

{"title":"Using EPP Boxes in a Dark Store: A New Approach to Simplify Food Retail E-Commerce Deliveries","authors":"Eduardo Pintado, Lia Coelho de Oliveira, Jorge Esparteiro Garcia","doi":"10.2478/bsrj-2022-0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/bsrj-2022-0029","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Background: E-commerce has emerged as a good response to the pandemic of COVID-19. However, the costs of providing a service, which includes a driver and a vehicle, in a regular vehicle that can transport goods that need positive cold (0° to 5°C) are very high. Objectives: This paper aims to investigate how a big Portuguese retailer company can reduce its dependence on refrigerated vehicles, simplifying operations and reducing the costs of transporting positive and negative cold food. Methods/Approach: This research was carried out in a food retailer Portuguese company, more precisely in a Dark Store dedicated to the online channel. The study was developed based on the AS-IS/TO-BE process analysis methodology, starting with the analysis of the current situation, giving rise to the so-called AS-IS model. Results: It was possible to reduce costs associated with transporting positive cold goods. As a result, there are 30% fewer costs associated with order transportation. With an additional 10% in space optimization with the gain of space within the galley of each vehicle. Conclusions: The costs of transporting positive and negative cold foods were decreased, and substituting vehicles with room temperature transport reduced the need for refrigerated vehicles.","PeriodicalId":43772,"journal":{"name":"Business Systems Research Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89260575","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}

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Editorial for the Special Issue: “Novel Solutions and Novel Approaches in Operational Research”: co-published with the Slovenian Society INFORMATIKA – Section for Operational Research (SSI-SOR) 特刊社论:“运筹学中的新解决方案和新方法”:与斯洛文尼亚信息学会运筹学分会(SSI-SOR)联合出版

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Business Systems Research Journal Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.2478/bsrj-2022-0020

S. Drobne, L. Stirn, Berislav Žmuk

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Conflict and Corporate Social Responsibility in Duopoly 双头垄断中的冲突与企业社会责任

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Business Systems Research Journal Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.2478/bsrj-2022-0023

Ilko Vrankic

{"title":"Conflict and Corporate Social Responsibility in Duopoly","authors":"Ilko Vrankic","doi":"10.2478/bsrj-2022-0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/bsrj-2022-0023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Background: Recent scientific research explains corporate social responsibility as an economic activity. This paper interprets social responsibility as a means of power to increase firms’ market share in a duopoly. Objectives: This paper analyses the duopoly model in which firms decide on optimal social investments and production in two phases. The basic research question is how the significance of the conflict affects social investments, market shares, production quantities, profits, and social welfare. Methods / Approach: Conflict technology is described by contest success functions determining market shares. Game theory, optimization, and comparative statics are used in the analysis. Results: The conditions of equilibrium existence and its characteristics are described. Conflict adversely affects the profit of the inefficient firm while it favourably affects social welfare. Conflict’s impact on an efficient firm’s profit depends on the marginal cost difference. Conclusions: If there is no significant cost difference, it is more favourable for firms not to invest in socially responsible activities by agreement, which hurts social welfare. When marginal cost difference is significant, corporate social responsibility increases an efficient firm’s profit, positively impacting social welfare.","PeriodicalId":43772,"journal":{"name":"Business Systems Research Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86580853","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}

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The Risk and Return of Traditional and Alternative Investments Under the Impact of COVID-19 新冠肺炎影响下传统与另类投资的风险与回报

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Business Systems Research Journal Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.2478/bsrj-2022-0021

Zdravka Aljinović, B. Marasović, T. Milićević

{"title":"The Risk and Return of Traditional and Alternative Investments Under the Impact of COVID-19","authors":"Zdravka Aljinović, B. Marasović, T. Milićević","doi":"10.2478/bsrj-2022-0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/bsrj-2022-0021","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Background: In making investment decisions, asset risk and return are two crucial criteria on which investors base their decision. Objectives: This paper provides risk and return analysis and compares different traditional and alternative investments with special emphasis on the COVID-19 crisis. Assets included in the analysis are stocks, bonds, commodities, real estate, foreign exchange, cryptocurrencies, renewable energy sources, gold, and oil. Methods/Approach: The risk measures of standard deviation, Value at Risk (VaR), Conditional Value at Risk (CVaR), and Sharpe ratio are used to compare the representatives of each asset class. Results: The crisis had the highest impact on the risk of crude oil, renewable energy sources, real estate, and stocks, a slightly lower impact on the risk of commodities and gold, and a very low impact on the risk of bonds, foreign exchange, and cryptocurrencies. The order of assets regarding earning potential during the crisis, compared to the period before the crisis, changed significantly for commodities in a positive way and for gold and bonds in a negative way. Conclusions: This research shows that stocks won against all other assets, including gold and cryptocurrencies, during the COVID-19 crisis. The good features of a new alternative investment – renewable energy sources – with excellent earning potential are shown.","PeriodicalId":43772,"journal":{"name":"Business Systems Research Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77272417","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}

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Employers’ Revelation of Decision-making Keys for Employing People with Visual Impairment: Mixed-method Analysis of Employers’ Motivations 雇主对聘用视障人士决策关键的启示:雇主动机的混合方法分析

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Business Systems Research Journal Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/bsrj-2022-0007

Eyal Eckhaus

{"title":"Employers’ Revelation of Decision-making Keys for Employing People with Visual Impairment: Mixed-method Analysis of Employers’ Motivations","authors":"Eyal Eckhaus","doi":"10.2478/bsrj-2022-0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/bsrj-2022-0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Background: People with visual impairment or blindness (PWVIB) face many barriers related to employment. Although literature explores employers’ concerns regarding the employment of PWVIB, stating the concern and developing a solution are different. Objectives: Employers’ solutions to concerns regarding hiring PWVIB have not been surveyed. This study addresses the gap by surveying employers to determine practical solutions and developing the Solutions for Improving Employment of People with Visual Disabilities (SIEPVD) model. Methods: We employed a mixed-method design based on the 975 completed surveys from employers with hiring authority. We also identified and tagged major themes and developed an empirical model. Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) was employed to test the model’s goodness of fit. Results: Findings highlight the need for evidence of job capabilities such as financial incentives, information provision, and adequate job vacancies. Evidence or financial incentives directly and positively affect employers’ attitudes toward hiring PWVIB. Financial incentives also mediate information provision and job match with employers’ attitudes toward hiring PWVIB. Conclusions: This is the first study to perform employers’ integration by creating solutions to increase PWVIB’s employment rate. Results may help PWVIB in its employment efforts. Thus, the approach when applying for jobs or attending interviews should be reviewed. Practical contributions are discussed.","PeriodicalId":43772,"journal":{"name":"Business Systems Research Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91013952","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}

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Public Support for Innovation: Changes in Turnover of Granted Companies 公众对创新的支持:获批公司营业额的变化

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Business Systems Research Journal Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/bsrj-2022-0008

Viktorie Klímová, Vladimír Žítek, Tereza Lelková

{"title":"Public Support for Innovation: Changes in Turnover of Granted Companies","authors":"Viktorie Klímová, Vladimír Žítek, Tereza Lelková","doi":"10.2478/bsrj-2022-0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/bsrj-2022-0008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Background: Innovation policy supports innovation in companies, as it is crucial for economic, social and environmental development. Objectives: The research aims to verify whether companies that have received public support for innovation are experiencing turnover growth. Methods/Approach: The research is carried out on the example of the Czech Innovation Programme, and the analysis included 276 projects in the manufacturing industry. The study compares the turnover of enterprises one year before receiving the aid and two years after the granting. The analysis is performed regarding the size of companies, industries and regions. Results: When the companies are assessed at the median level, the largest turnover growth was found in the category of small enterprises. Regarding industry, the largest increase was recorded in NACE sections 22, 27, 26, 29 and 30. The lowest increase in turnover was recorded for enterprises in sections 21, 23, 24 and 28. Differences in turnover growth were also observed across regions. Conclusions: Providing support for innovation contributes to the growth of turnover. A larger share of public aid should be allocated to the category of small and medium-sized enterprises and knowledge-intensive industries.","PeriodicalId":43772,"journal":{"name":"Business Systems Research Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80427861","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}

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