31 December 2022

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing are now available here for free:
  • A reliable transmission scheme for 3D point cloud based on partial decode-and-forward relay over burst error fading channel
  • Research on multi-feature fusion entity relation extraction based on deep learning
  • Learning stereo disparity with feature consistency and confidence
  • Behaviour-based grey wolf optimiser for a wireless sensor network deployment problem
  • Two-stage adaptive weight vector design method for decomposition based many-objective evolutionary algorithm
  • Optimal dense convolutional network model for image classification in unmanned aerial vehicles based ad hoc networks
  • Auto insurance fraud identification based on a CNN-LSTM fusion deep learning model
  • A compact GBMO applied to modify DV-Hop based on layers in a wireless sensor network
  • An adaptive stochastic central force optimisation algorithm for node localisation in wireless sensor networks

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Sustainable Economy

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Sustainable Economy are now available here for free:
  • A real options approach to measuring freedom in Sen's capabilities approach
  • Corporate social responsibility and brand equity of operating telecoms: brand reputation as a mediating effect
  • Deprivation and subjective well-being: implication on health
  • Assessment of the digital transformation impact on regional sustainable development: the case study in Russia
  • Public infrastructure investment and private investment in East African community: crowding-in or crowding-out?

Special issue published: "The Structure, Properties and Application of Metal and Composite Materials"

International Journal of Materials and Product Technology 66(1) 2023

  • Synthesis and mechanical characterisation of self-lubricating Al7075/MoS2/ZrB2 hybrid composite
  • Study on damage fatigue test method of metal materials for rotating machinery
  • Leakage current detection method of electrical insulation materials based on windowed-added Fourier transform
  • Performance analysis of automotive braking friction materials based on surface roughness
  • Residual life prediction of thermal insulation material for cold chain logistics transportation vehicle
  • Synergy of wood ash on mechanical and sliding wear properties of banana/walnut-based epoxy composites and optimisation with grey relational analysis
  • Pyroelectric and hygrothermal couplings effects on dynamic active control analysis of coupled thermopiezoelastic composite plate

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Learning and Change

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Learning and Change are now available here for free:
  • Critical thinking: student-centred teaching approach and personalised learning, as well as previous education achievements, contribute to critical thinking skills of students
  • Problem-based learning model with a scientific approach to improve higher order thinking skills
  • The most important factors for employers in Latvia in the recruitment process
  • Augmented reality strategy for understanding legal literacy
  • Methods and techniques of formation of arithmetic musical competence in students
  • Environment kinesis and organisational adaptability: effects of EU's General Data Protection Regulation on the Danish software industry
  • Education quality comparing between official measurement scale and inter-counterparts' perception: a new horizon for learning assessment

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics are now available here for free:
  • A survey and analysis of different lightweight block cipher techniques for resource-constrained devices
  • myEntropy: a file type identification tool using entropy scoring
  • Credit card fraud detection using moth-flame earth worm optimisation algorithm-based deep belief neural network
  • Intrusion detection method for GPS based on deep learning for autonomous vehicle
  • Features of the conclusion of a civil transaction on the internet
  • Cybercrime in the social media of Bangladesh: an analysis of existing legal frameworks

30 December 2022

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Business and Systems Research

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Business and Systems Research are now available here for free:
  • Brand personality in cultural tourism and sustainable development by using big data analytics
  • Board characteristics and banks' foreign shareholdings: evidence on monitoring quality
  • Environmental sustainability performance: a study of the role of green human resource management and other green internal intellectual capital components
  • Analysis of young banked and unbanked customers' usage, satisfaction, trust and loyalty for mobile money services in Ghana
  • Technology entrepreneurship in the context of institutional voids: lessons from a BoP context

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Biometrics

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Biometrics are now available here for free:
  • Applications of deep learning algorithms in biomedical signal processing - pros and cons
  • A robust and efficient fingerprint minutiae extraction in post-processing algorithm
  • Identifying age group and gender based on activities on touchscreen
  • Euclidean distance versus Manhattan distance for skin detection using the SFA database
  • Experimental results on palmvein-based personal recognition by multi-snapshot fusion of textural features
  • Face detection and recognition system based on hybrid statistical, machine learning and nature-based computing

Special issue published: "Advances in Applied Science and Information Technology"

International Journal of Computer Aided Engineering and Technology 18(1/2/3) 2023

  • Performance analysis of WDM PON systems using PIN and APD photodiodes
  • A computer-aided system for monitoring quality using traceable information
  • Optimal backstepping controller for trajectory tracking of a quadrotor UAV using ant colony optimisation algorithm
  • A novel face recognition approach based on strings of minimum values and several distance metrics
  • Virtual hand skinning using volumetric shape
  • Optimised backstepping sliding mode controller with integral action for MPPT-based photovoltaic system using PSO technique
  • Computational methods in aerodynamics
  • Learn computer coding with a serious game: theoretical framework and course performance
  • Stitched image based on a real-time video conversion technique
  • Performance analysis of TDM PON system for 128 users using RZ and NRZ modulations
  • An efficient optimisation-based design of current conveyor performances
  • Twisted Hessian curves over the ring 𝔽q[∈], ∈2 = 0
  • Docking study and QSAR analysis based on the artificial neural network and multiple linear regression of novel harmine derivatives
  • Autonomous approach for moving object detection and classification in road applications

Free sample articles newly available from European Journal of Industrial Engineering

The following sample articles from the European Journal of Industrial Engineering are now available here for free:
  • Order acceptance and scheduling problem with outsourcing in seru production system considering lot-spitting
  • Solving a stochastic programming with recourse model for the stochastic electric capacitated vehicle routing problem using a hybrid genetic algorithm
  • An improved backtracking search algorithm for the flexible job shop rescheduling problem with new job insertions
  • A simulation study on CONWIP system design for bicycle chain manufacturing
  • An extension of systematic layout planning by using fuzzy AHP and fuzzy VIKOR methods: a case study

22 December 2022

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Management Practice

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Management Practice are now available here for free:
  • Mobile bank applications: antecedents and consequences of young bank customer loyalty
  • Practical strategy for maintaining organisational performance in the hospitality industry of Thailand
  • An integrated analysis of factors affecting consumers' purchase intention toward batik: a comparative study between Indonesia and Malaysia
  • Delineating investors' rationality and behavioural biases - evidence from the Indian stock market
  • The impact of corporate governance on financial performance of Indian hotels: cluster analysis
  • Service quality measures: systematic literature review and future research directions

Associate Prof. Zhenling Liu appointed as new Editor in Chief of International Journal of Vehicle Information and Communication Systems

Associate Prof. Zhenling Liu from the Henan University of Technology in China has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Vehicle Information and Communication Systems.

21 December 2022

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Management and Decision Making

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Management and Decision Making are now available here for free:
  • Hull-WEMA: a novel zero-lag approach in the moving average family, with an application to COVID-19
  • SVD-initialised K-means clustering for collaborative filtering recommender systems
  • Business value of social media adoption: a comparison between the US and Taiwan
  • How do middle managers deal with uncertainty in the strategy process?
  • Investigating managerial and fairness practices on employee turnover intentions through the mediation of affiliation quality between organisation and employee. A comprehensive study of the metropolitan society of Malaysia

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Information and Communication Technology

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Information and Communication Technology are now available here for free:
  • Automatic anti-interference control of intelligent mechanical communication terminal based on neural network
  • Dynamic fault diagnosis means of the power message system based on big data
  • The self-increasing expansion method for knowledge space based on deep learning algorithm
  • Target similarity matching algorithm of big data in remote sensing image based on Henon mapping
  • Computer threat information filtering algorithm based on fusion difference
  • Achievement management system for university students based on cloud storage technology
  • A recognition method for visual image of sports video based on fuzzy clustering algorithm

Special issue published: "Digital Markets and Consumers"

International Journal of Management Practice 16(1) 2023

  • Digital museums anyone? Consumer perceptions for digital cultural consumption in a developing country
  • Moderation effect of demographic factors in adoption of electronic payments
  • Determinants of customer experience, satisfaction and willingness to purchase from virtual tour of a retail store
  • Modelling drivers and outcomes of fashion and apparel social media brand communities engagement
  • Framework for brand positioning of automotive lubricants by using structural equation modelling
Additional paper
  • Board structure composition and financial distress likelihood of Indian firms

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital are now available here for free:
  • From a value-based knowledge economy to a worth economy. New reflections and perspectives on intellectual capital research
  • The relationship between emotional quotient and spiritual quotient affecting managerial efficiency of employees in organisations
  • Intellectual capital efficiency and financial performance in the hotel sector
  • Intellectual capital efficiency and firm performance: evidence from an emerging knowledge-economy
  • Intellectual capital in SMEs: a review and research agenda

Research pick: Send it back - "Consumer returns processing in a multi-period setting"

At this time of year, shoppers are usually out in force or logging in to buy gifts. Within days, however, there will be the inevitable need to return those gifts that ever-so-ungrateful recipients reject. How a retailer handles returns and refunds will fundamentally affect its bottom line when it comes to profit. However, research published in the International Journal of Advanced Operations Management looks into the management of customers’ returned goods, how this affects the retail supply chain and ultimately profits, and how retailers might actually benefit from customers sending goods back.

Kamil Ciftci and Yertai Tanai of the Department of Information Systems and Decision Sciences, Craig School of Business, California State University, Fresno, California, and George R. Wilson of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering in the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science, at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA, have devised a framework that acts as a responsive reverse supply chain for retailers processing returned goods from customers.

The team explains that their proposal works under a competitive full-refund policy and allows the return of goods to be handled in such a way as to perhaps paradoxically maximise profits across the business. This is achieved as goods are returned and refunded at a lower price point and then re-sold at a greater margin. The researchers point out that delays in processing returns is detrimental to the retailer and so an expeditious means to process those returns is essential, hence their framework, if the company is to minimise losses and perhaps boost profits as wholesale prices shift upwards.

Of course, retailers are probably well aware of the effects of inflation on their profits and also the loss of value as new models to replace old products enter the market. However, if they purchase stock, sell it with their profit margin applied, the customer returns the product for a refund, and the retailer then resells at the price adjusted for subsequent inflation, then provided the new customer does not also return the goods, they will make more money. This would not apply if the new customer negotiates a discount or the goods are offered at a lower, sale price.

Ciftci, K., Tanai, Y. and Wilson, G.R. (2022) ‘Consumer returns processing in a multi-period setting’, Int. J. Advanced Operations Management, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp.430–455.

Free open access article available: "Where are you from? The influence of an unfamiliar sub-national region of origin from familiar and unfamiliar countries on quality perceptions and purchase intentions"

The following paper, "Where are you from? The influence of an unfamiliar sub-national region of origin from familiar and unfamiliar countries on quality perceptions and purchase intentions" (International Journal of Export Marketing 5(1) 2022), is freely available for download as an open access article.

It can be downloaded via the full-text link available here.

20 December 2022

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Business Forecasting and Marketing Intelligence

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Business Forecasting and Marketing Intelligence are now available here for free:
  • Managing marketing mix competition dynamics
  • Application of extreme value theorem in modelling oil consumption of organisation of petroleum exporting countries
  • The chaos on US domestic airline passenger demand forecasting caused by COVID-19
  • Identification of critical success factors for mobile apps: a stakeholder-Delphi study

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Business Environment

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Business Environment are now available here for free:
  • Factors that contribute to graduates' satisfaction: does gender play a moderating role?
  • The effects of innovation activities and size on technological innovation in South American manufacturing firms
  • Country-governance quality and signals in the alliance formation process: a meta-analytic approach
  • Business strategy and industrial competition: the case of manufacturing companies
  • Events and their influence on the destination value

Dr. Pedro Cuesta Valiño appointed as new Editor in Chief of International Journal of Internet Marketing and Advertising

Dr. Pedro Cuesta Valiño from Universidad de Alcalá in Spain has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Internet Marketing and Advertising.

Research pick: Overturning overweight stereotypes - "Is being obese a crime? An examination of hiring and workplace discrimination"

Research published in the Middle East Journal of Management has looked at the discrimination and bias experienced by overweight and obese people during recruitment and in the workplace setting.

Ali Junaid Khan, Ezza Naseem, Jawad Iqbal, and Muhammad Farooq of the Institute of Business, Management and Administrative Sciences at The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, in Pakistan and Muhammad Akbar Ali Ansari of the University’s Department of Commerce found that there is a significant degree of bigotry against people with obesity.

The team surveyed employees working in the banking sector and analysed the results using structured equation modelling. They found that people who are overweight or obese experience discrimination during the hiring process and then feel less accepted than others once they are recruited into a role. They commonly report that they feel as if other people perceive them as being lazy, lacking self-discipline, and incompetent.

The team suggests that the stereotypes and negative attitudes towards overweight people they have found have several implications for policymakers in the banking sector. They suggest that there is an urgent need to “revise recruitment policies, provide equal employment opportunities, and promote a healthy environment.” This awareness is necessary to help the sector educate their employees and to eradicate harmful stereotypes.

Khan, A.J., Naseem, E., Iqbal, J., Ansari, M.A.A. and Farooq, M. (2023) ‘Is being obese a crime? An examination of hiring and workplace discrimination’, Middle East J. Management, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp.34–50.

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Knowledge Management in Tourism and Hospitality

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Knowledge Management in Tourism and Hospitality are now available here for free:
  • Digitalising backpacker to travel vlogger
  • Current trends on food tourism approaches through a conceptual framework of food tourism management
  • The influence of service quality on tourist loyalty: a case of electric train services
  • The 'yes moments': understanding students' sense of achievement during on-the-job training program

19 December 2022

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Integrated Supply Management

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Integrated Supply Management are now available here for free:
  • Inventory routing problem categorisation considering pickup decisions in closed-loop supply chains
  • Optimal manufacturer-buyer cooperative inventory models under unequal shipment policy with emergency replacement of sub-standard items
  • Hybrid supplier selection considering reliability of criteria and importance of assessment values
  • Using integrated simulation-optimisation to optimise staffing decisions in a service supply chain

Special issue published: "Deep Neural Networks and Evolutionary Computation for Biomedical Applications"

International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations 27(2) 2022

  • A deep learning model framework for diabetic retinopathy detection
  • Application of nonlinear system identification for EEG modelling using VMD-based deep random vector functional link network
  • Evolutionary optimisation with outlier detection-based deep learning model for biomedical data classification
  • Salp swarm optimisation with deep transfer learning enabled retinal fundus image classification model

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies are now available here for free:
  • The changes of Constitution of People's Republic of China of 1982 as a tool to implement the leaders' political agenda
  • Overview of resolution of international conflicts
  • From catastrophic migration to life-long displacement and repatriation: an overview of existing Afghan refugees in Pakistan
  • Reviewing the chain remand practices and freedom of rights in Malaysia
  • Poverty alleviation and plight of migrant workers: socio-legal issues in the pandemic phase
  • Mishandling the issue of gender dysphoria in India - an analysis of the transgender persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019
  • Freedom of artistic expression in the ambit of Article 19, with special reference to communal disharmony
  • The right for freedom uniting in political parties: experience of Ukraine and the Federal Republic of Germany

International Journal of Hydromechatronics indexed by Scopus

We are pleased to announce that the International Journal of Hydromechatronics has been indexed in Elsevier's Scopus database.

Prof. Yimin Shao, the journal's Editor in Chief, said, "I am extremely happy with this wonderful news. Getting indexed by Scopus is a significant milestone showing that the journal is now being recognised for its high academic standards and international influence. I would like to thank our Executive Editors, Associate Editors, Editorial Board Members and International Review Board for their extraordinary contributions. Thanks also to Journal Manager Jenny, typesetter Vie, administrators Darren and Sarah and the rest of Inderscience's team, who have always been supportive and cooperative. I am very grateful for their great efforts."

Research pick: Cryogenic electric - "Review of power electronics converters and associated components/systems at cryogenic temperatures"

The future of electric aircraft and deep space missions will rely on our ability to develop electrical and electronic components that can operate at the very low temperatures of the upper atmosphere and the cryogenic temperatures of space. A review of such technology is presented in the International Journal of Powertrains. The review looks specifically at semiconductor devices, passive components, and superconducting devices that operate at very low temperatures.

Mustafeez Ul-Hassan, Yalda Azadeh, Asif Imran Emon, and Fang Luo of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Stony Brook University, New York, USA, point out that in terms of aeronautics and space travel there is a pressing need to usurp pneumatic, hydraulic, and mechanical systems with electrical components. In terms of aircraft, such components will operate at the low temperatures of high-altitude flight, but also benefit from being held at cryogenic temperatures in terms of improving their efficiency. Indeed, the development of superconducting technology that by necessity operates at such temperatures would not only make electric aircraft more feasible and improve space travel option but improve the generation efficiency of wind turbines. As such, developing the requisite technology for advanced transportation would as a spin-off improve the sustainability of power generation for those on the ground too. The team points out that certain components that would be desirable in various setups are yet to be developed.

Cryogenic, simply means a temperature or condition that leads to freezing. However, in the modern technical vernacular it usually refers to very low temperatures rather than the everyday temperature of freezing water for example. We commonly discuss cryogenic conditions as being achievable through the use of liquid nitrogen, which is at 77 kelvin, liquid hydrogen, 33 kelvin, or liquid helium at 4 kelvin. The Kelvin scale of temperature in absolute scale in which the coldest possible temperature is 0 kelvin and there are no negative temperatures. We do not talk of degrees on the Kelvin scale but the temperature separation between integer values is equivalent to a degree on the Celsius scale. 0 kelvin is -273.15 degrees Celsius. 0 degrees Celsius is thus 273.15 kelvin.

The team surveys devices, passive components, converters, and superconducting machines and suggests that their findings will “help to flesh out the behaviour of such components and can serve as a database for the successful design of cryogenic power conversion systems.”

Ul-Hassan, M., Azadeh, Y., Emon, A.I. and Luo, F. (2022) ‘Review of power electronics converters and associated components/systems at cryogenic temperatures’, Int. J. Powertrains, Vol. 11, Nos. 2/3, pp.243–263.

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Global Energy Issues

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Global Energy Issues are now available here for free:
  • Cheating behaviour among OPEC member-states and oil price fairness and stability: an empirical analysis
  • Examining the impact of COVID-19 on Indian energy exchange market: empirical evidence from a multi-regional panel data analysis
  • Research on energy supply chain risk prediction based on the fuzzy C-means clustering algorithm
  • Research on risk assessment method of energy system based on data mining
  • Energy consumption and CO2 emissions in the sugarcane chain in Brazil: an input-output approach (2000-2014)
  • Temperature range across Nigeria to the end of 21st century: prospects for photovoltaics based on CMIP5 and CORDEX perspectives

17 December 2022

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Education Economics and Development

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Education Economics and Development are now available here for free:
  • The influence of IFAC membership on the implementation of sustainability in accounting training programs
  • Branding higher education institutions: challenges and potential strategies
  • Intergenerational mobility in educational attainments: a comparative analysis at provincial level of Pakistan
  • Do public schemes work towards women's education in Uttar Pradesh?
  • Comparative presentation of the legislative framework for the selection of staff in the Greek educational system: a critical review

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Critical Accounting

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Critical Accounting are now available here for free:
  • Organisational politics and strategies - a socialisation into a legitimacy whirlpool
  • Increasing globalisation in accounting publications
  • The social consequences of indenture system and aftermath in Fiji: an accountability study
  • Composition of board of directors and performance: evaluating the mediating effect of innovation

Special issue published: "Entrepreneurial Internationalisation in, from and to Africa"

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business 47(4) 2022

  • Informal born regional enterprises in Ghana: an extension of internationalisation theories
  • International social ventures' resource mobilisation in Sub-Saharan Africa: a case study on effectual networking and knowledge mobilisation
  • Institutional actors, policy and internationalisation of emerging market SMEs: lessons from AGOA and the Ghanaian Textile Industry
  • Light entrepreneurship as a parallel staying strategy - insights from Tanzanian medical doctors

Free sample articles newly available from Electronic Government, an International Journal

The following sample articles from Electronic Government, an International Journal are now available here for free:
  • The impact of e-government on transparency in the European Union: a multivariate analysis
  • The linkage between information quality and e-government adoption: is gender a moderating factor?
  • A case study of the 'Digital Agenda of the City of Vienna': e-participation design and enabling factors
  • Electronic government maturity index: proposal to evaluate the maturity of local government portals
  • Arab cultural dimensions model for e-government services adoption in public sector organisations: an empirical examination
  • E-government and corruption control: the mediating effect of law enforcement

Inderscience journals increasing issue frequency in 2023

Inderscience is pleased to announce that the following journals are increasing their issue frequency from 2023:

Electronic Government, an International Journal
Increasing from 4 to 6 issues per year

European Journal of International Management
Increasing from 8 to 12 issues per year

International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems
Increasing from 4 to 6 issues per year

International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics
Increasing from 4 to 6 issues per year

International Journal of Biometrics
Increasing from 4 to 6 issues per year

International Journal of Critical Infrastructures
Increasing from 4 to 6 issues per year

International Journal of Mobile Communications
Increasing from 6 to 8 issues per year

International Journal of Procurement Management
Increasing from 6 to 12 issues per year

International Journal of Process Management and Benchmarking
Increasing from 6 to 12 issues per year

International Journal of Tourism Policy
Increasing from 4 to 6 issues per year

16 December 2022

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Renewable Energy Technology

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Renewable Energy Technology are now available here for free:
  • Architectural integration of photovoltaics in the building façade: a framework for architects' design process
  • Investigation of net metering as a tool for increasing electricity access in Malawi
  • Rural area electrification with variable speed diesel generator and lithium-ion battery hybrid system
  • Cascaded controller for single-phase shunt active power filter and STATCOM
  • Calculate optimum insulation thickness to all over Indian city and compare it with the degree day method

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Power Electronics

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Power Electronics are now available here for free:
  • A new high step-up soft switching converter for photovoltaic system
  • Design of linear and nonlinear controller for DC-DC boost converter with right-half plane zero
  • A multi-port non-isolated bidirectional DC-DC converter
  • Capabilities and incapabilities of unity power factor control algorithm for DSTATCOM under abnormal grid and load conditions
  • HIL implementation of an islanding detection and an automatic mode switching for droop-based microgrid
  • Induction motor sliding mode estimators with known fluxes

Special issue published: "Bio-Inspired Evolutionary Computations and their Applications"

International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation 23(3) 2022

  • Brushless direct current motor design using a self-adaptive JAYA optimisation algorithm
  • Genetic regulatory network-based optimisation of master production scheduling and mixed-model sequencing in assembly lines
  • A parallel algorithm to solve the multiple travelling salesmen problem based on molecular computing model
  • Techno-economic analysis of novel multi-objective soft computing technique
  • Filter-based feature selection: a comparison among binary and continuous Cuckoo optimisation algorithms along with multi-objective optimisation algorithms using gain ratio-based entropy
Additional paper
  • Optimised coordinated control of hybrid AC/DC microgrids along PV-wind-battery: a hybrid based model

Free sample articles newly available from Global Business and Economics Review

The following sample articles from the Global Business and Economics Review are now available here for free:
  • Credit default prediction for micro-enterprise financing in India using ensemble models
  • Volatility dynamics and diversification benefits of Bitcoin under asymmetric and long memory effects
  • Integration of stock markets using autoregressive distributed lag bounds test approach
  • Directors' reports cosmetic treatment: impact of earnings management on financial report readability
  • Board political influence and corporate social responsibility: evidence from Jordan

15 December 2022

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Sustainable Agricultural Management and Informatics

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Sustainable Agricultural Management and Informatics are now available here for free:
  • Cultural heritage protection against floods using the business object relation modelling
  • Application of an integrated methodology for spatial classification of the environmental flow in the Bulgarian-Greek Rhodope Mountain Range
  • The new Italian web database to support irrigation investment policies: DANIA
  • Evaluation of a satellite drought indicator approach and its potential for agricultural drought prediction and crop loss assessment. The case of BEACON project
  • The concept for an integrated IoT-based traceability platform
  • Commodification vs. patrimonialisation? A community capitals framework for assessing digital technologies. The case of Southern Rural Manitoba, Canada

Free open access article available: "Mapping and visualisation of audit quality research trends"

The following paper, "Mapping and visualisation of audit quality research trends" (International Journal of Economics and Business Research 25(1) 2023), is freely available for download as an open access article.

It can be downloaded via the full-text link available here.


Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Managerial and Financial Accounting

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Managerial and Financial Accounting are now available here for free:
  • Inventory management and financial sustainability: insight from quoted manufacturing firms in Nigeria
  • Two minds of credit professionals: accrual vs. cash accounting information
  • Managerial compensation, family firms and firms' innovation: evidence from Indonesia
  • Conventional vs. Islamic debt-equity portfolio swaps
  • Managing SMEs' internationalisation process. A Delphi approach for identifying antecedent factors

Research pick: Food delivery apps - "From eating out to online food ordering amid COVID-19: a case of food delivery apps"

A case study of university students in the International Journal of Knowledge Management in Tourism and Hospitality has looked at how COVID-19 affected dining out and food home delivery. The team found that in Bangladesh where app-based food delivery services are becoming increasingly popular, price value and convenience were more important to customers choosing online food delivery rather than service quality, delivery experience, and ease of use during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Shahedul Hasan, Md. Imran Hossain Shohag, Imtiaz Uddin Chowdhury, Rubab Miswar, and Md. Ashaduzzaman of the Universities of Dhaka and Chittagong in Bangladesh, suggest that their work offers new insights into how food suppliers might make better use of the apps they offer or are associated with to improve their access to this growing student market.

The team explains that price value is the degree to which consumers perceive the cost of using the system as being reasonable. Service quality is defined as the degree to which the customer is satisfied with using the platform to browse and order and then to receive their food. Delivery service focuses on the latter aspect of service quality and reflects the customer’s experience with the receipt of their food being timely and to the right address. Ease of use refers to how little extra effort the customer must put in to make use of an app, place their order, and receive their food. Finally, convenience is simply defined as the benefit in terms of accessibility to food delivery.

As the team found it was the first, price value, and convenience, that are the main drivers for the university students surveyed in this research, and their inclination to use a food delivery app or not.

They point out that their analysis showed that just over three-quarters of the survey respondents were male, 90% were aged between 21 and 30 years old, and more than three-quarters had used food delivery app services previously.

Hasan, S., Shohag, M.I.H., Chowdhury, I.U., Miswar, R. and Ashaduzzaman, M. (2023) ‘From eating out to online food ordering amid COVID-19: a case of food delivery apps’, Int. J. Knowledge Management in Tourism and Hospitality, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp.50–68.

Prof. Yue Guo appointed as new Editor in Chief of International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management

Prof. Yue Guo from the Southern University of Science and Technology in China has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management.

14 December 2022

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Electronic Business

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Electronic Business are now available here for free:
  • Determinants of MSA adoption intentions and usage behaviour of internet savvy and younger consumers: insights from an emerging market
  • Significant factors affecting m-banking adoption case study: higher education institutions in Tehran
  • Antecedent and consequences of consumers' satisfaction in online grocery shopping
  • Factors influencing trust in social commerce: the case of Qatar
  • Predicting P2P lenders' decisions: the prospect theory approach

Special issue published: "Technology Adoption Over the Stages of Entrepreneurship"

International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing 14(4/5) 2022

  • Relationship between firm total factor productivity and performance: the case of the Czech high-tech industry
  • Equipment as a service and the role of technology: the transition towards usage-based business models
  • Information technology and high-impact entrepreneurship
  • The importance of team diversity for academic spinoff performance
  • An exploratory study of high-performance computing technology adoption over the stages of entrepreneurship
  • The indication of creativity and its effect on the probability of success of crowdfunding projects
  • Corporate social responsibility as a driver of digital innovation in SMEs: the mediation effect of absorptive capacity
  • Crowdfunding and entrepreneurial failure: Why do overfunded startups collapse?

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Business Performance Management

The following sample articles from the International Journal of Business Performance Management are now available here for free:
  • Exploring the correlation between diversity and financial performance: an empirical study
  • Predictors of turnover intention among multinational corporation employees
  • Designing online communication mix for machinery manufacturers
  • The inter-relationship between foreign direct investments and unemployment: case study of China, India and Singapore
  • The impact of political connections on the level of cash holdings: evidence from Tunisian listed firms
  • The impact of the Dubai International Airport's activity volume on the Emirati stock market
  • Relationship and causality between cryptocurrencies, commodities, currencies, indexes and web search results during and prior to the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Impact of authentic leadership on employee engagement in the banking sector of Karachi
  • Cultural distance or cultural similarity? A study of academic expatriates in the UAE
  • The readiness of workforce for the world of work in 2030: perceptions of university students
  • Micro-foundations as a grounding for readiness-for change in knowledge sharing initiatives
  • Towards a new model of productive Islamic financial mechanisms
  • Market perception of efficient light source technologies: a case study on sustainable energy transitions in Sri Lanka

Research pick: A prescription for online pharmacies - "Adoption of online pharmacies in India: an empirical study"

An empirical study of online pharmacy use in India published in the International Journal of Business Innovation and Research reveals that the perception of associated risk deters many users of such services. As such, there is a pressing need for online pharmacies to understand this issue and to develop strategies to improve the outlook for their business by building customer trust.

Brinda Sampat of NMIMS – Global Access School for Continuing Education (NGA-SCE) at NMIMS University in Mumbai and Kali Charan Sabat of GD Goenka University in Gurugram, India, discuss the recent growth in online pharmacies and the website and mobile phone applications they utilise to market and sell medicinal and healthcare products to the public. It is, they suggest quite common now for such retailers not to have a traditional physical presence but to exist wholly in the digital realm in terms of outlets.

There are many benefits to using an online pharmacy such as rapid home delivery for those who are housebound or those who live a considerable distance from a conventional bricks-and-mortar store. There are numerous online pharmacies in India, including Netmeds, PharmEasy, AppolloPharmacy, Healthsaverz, Buydrug, 1mg, Medplusmart, Merapharmacy, and CareOnGo, all of them offering a service to what is after all one of the biggest potential markets for the products they offer.

The team points out that the rise of e-commerce and, in this context, online pharmacies is driven by the rapid and recent development in India, the growing middle class, and rising income and concomitant standard of living for a proportion of the population. The market value in 2019 was equivalent to almost ten billion dollars. Forecasts suggest that this figure will double for 2023.

Of course, two-thirds of the population of India lives in rural areas. This could be a double-edged sword in the sense that those living remotely from the facilities offered by city life could best benefit from e-commerce, but the converse is that their very remoteness leaves many of those people disconnected from the requisite infrastructure including high-speed internet access and a network of couriers to fulfil orders.

In a developing nation, of course, improvements in such infrastructure are high on the agenda. However, technical improvements need to be accompanied by education so that those who might benefit learn about what is on offer and how to make use of it.

Other obstacles that are perhaps not present in the USA or northern Europe are the burden of somewhat opaque and complex rules and regulations that slow the emergence of online pharmacies that would in the USA and Europe be entirely legitimate but are restricted to some degree by red tape in India. That is not to say that the USA and Europe have a lackadaisical stance on health and safety, security and privacy. Quite the opposite, but the more transparent and streamlined regulations in those regions have allowed online pharmacies to thrive.

Sampat, B. and Sabat, K.C. (2022) ‘Adoption of online pharmacies in India: an empirical study’, Int. J. Business Innovation and Research, Vol. 29, No. 4, pp.449–478.

Prof. Wei Song appointed as new Editor in Chief of International Journal of Cultural Management

Prof. Wei Song from Black Hills State University in the USA has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Cultural Management. The journal's previous Editor in Chief, Prof. David Schein, will remain on the board as Emeritus Editor.

13 December 2022

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Systems, Control and Communications

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  • Performance comparison of multipath routing protocols for mobile ad hoc network
  • Narrowband internet of things: analysis of frame structure, NPSS sequence generation and detection
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  • Development of a preliminary design tool for rotary wing aircrafts
  • Comparative study of piston vs. electric single-seat tandem helicopter

Special issue published: "Advancing Concepts in Risk, Malign Policy and Policy Volatility"

International Journal of Public Policy 16(5/6) 2022

  • Policy volatility and the propensity of policies to fail: dealing with uncertainty, maliciousness and compliance in public policy-making
  • Bureaucratic gaming: causes and consequences for policy-making
  • Whither Energiewende? Strategies to manufacture uncertainty and unknowing to redirect Germany's renewable energy law
  • The smartphone and the coup: how Myanmar's conflicts are entangled with digital technologies, policies and violence
  • Non-compete provision: implications for stakeholders of public private partnerships in the energy sector of a developing country
  • Bureaucratic bastardry: robodebt/debt recovery, AI and the stigmatisation of citizens by machines and systems
  • Trends in the management of policy volatility: managing internal policy risk in three OECD countries
  • Managing policy risks using big data analytics in the pandemic era: VUCA and wicked policy problems

Research pick: Push the button - "Enabling smartphone push notifications: the effect of a framed opt-in request"

Push notifications from the applications on one’s smart device can be very useful. They can also be rather intrusive in some instances. As such, within the European Union, there is a requirement for applications, apps, to request permissions from users as to whether they opt-in to such notifications. Research in the International Journal of Mobile Communications looks at how app providers might frame this opt-in request to better serve their own needs, provide a useful service for their users, but also keep within the legal requirements for such apps.

Diana Gavilan of the Research Unit – ESIC University in the Facultad de Ciencias de la Información and Maria Avello of the Department of Marketing in the Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales both at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, have looked at the two ways in which such opt-in requests might be framed. The researchers analyse those requests from a personal and a social perspective.

Fundamentally, their work reveals that developers and providers hoping to achieve greater opt-in rates for push notifications from their apps need to improve the quality of information that they provide in those requests. This ultimately will lead to a greater number of people choosing to opt-in. The team suggests that their work improves our understanding of the consumer decision-making process on such matters. The team suggests that opt-in requests must inform users of the value added by opting-in in terms of their experience of using the app as well as demonstrating a so-called social proof.

Given that push notifications are often about marketing, the work also offers new insight on how the consumer decision-making process affects response to mobile advertising. The way in which users respond to particular types of opt-in requests also suggests how the wording of a marketing campaign might also be optimised to encourage an improved response. The team also offers a warning to those companies and providers that might follow their advice in terms of opt-in requests. If the request is couched in such a way that it makes promises, such as offering a better experience than a rival app, then the company must be able to live up to those promises or else risk losing consumer trust altogether.

Gavilan, D. and Avello, M. (2023) ‘Enabling smartphone push notifications: the effect of a framed opt-in request’, Int. J. Mobile Communications, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp.1–18.

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12 December 2022

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Special issue published: "Emerging Technologies for Internet of Vehicles"

International Journal of Vehicle Information and Communication Systems 7(3) 2022

  • Effectiveness evaluation method for traffic data acquisition based on vehicle-borne network
  • A new prediction method of short-term traffic flow at intersection based on internet of vehicles
  • Research on data forwarding delay estimation of intelligent transportation system based on internet of vehicles technology
  • Path planning method of automatic driving for directional navigation based on particle swarm optimisation
  • Moving target tracking method in intelligent transportation system based on vehicle networking environment
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  • An experimental analysis of quad wheel autonomous robot location and path planning using Borahsid algorithm with GPS and ZigBee
  • IoT-based smart parking system in smart city

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Environment and Sustainable Development

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  • Enhancement of quality of polypropylene by optimisation of injection moulding parameters with genetic algorithm
  • A building bio-climatic design tool incorporating passive strategies in residential dwellings design of composite climate of India
  • Forest waste to energy in the Himalayan region: technical and economic evaluation
  • Study on physico-chemical treatment of effluents from biomass gasifier power generation system
  • A review of different configuration of hybrid energy systems with case study analysis
  • A review on hybrid nanofluid: current research and sustainable development for turning operation
  • A review on production processes, performance and emissions analysis of hydrogen as a fuel in I.C. engines
  • Grid tied inverters for renewable energy systems - a review
  • A comparative analysis of game theory techniques for study of energy interactions in interconnected microgrids
  • Design of four-bar mechanism for vibratory tillage cultivator using five precision position method for path generation problem

International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital indexed by Clarivate's Emerging Sources Citation Index

Inderscience's Editorial Office is delighted to announce that the International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital has been indexed by Clarivate's Emerging Sources Citation Index.

The journal's Editor in Chief, Prof. Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos, says, "As Editor in Chief of the journal since its launch, I am extremely proud of this great achievement. I would like to thank our Associate Editors, Editorial Advisory Board, Editorial Board Members and International Review Board for their continuous support and collaboration. Thanks also to the authors who chose the International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital as their target journal for submitting their research output. Finally, I cannot neglect to mention the extraordinary work from Inderscience's staff, including Journal Manager Alexandra, typesetter Vie, and the rest of the Inderscience team."

Research pick: Insect identification - "Automatic insect identification system based on SE-ResNeXt"

The accurate identification of insects is critical in research of ecosystems and in pest control in agriculture and forestry. Writing in the International Journal of Systems, Control and Communications, a team from China has focused on the identification of insects in the Wudalianchi Scenic Area in Heilongjiang Province. This region of China is considered one of the most useful for studying species adaption and the evolution of biological communities. In such studies, rapid and accurate insect identification in the field is critical.

Yao Xiao, Aocheng Zhou, Lin Zhou, and Yue Zhao of The School of Technology at Beijing Forestry University have developed an automatic insect identification system based on the SE-ResNeXt convolutional neural network, which they suggest could reduce the researchers’ workload as well as reducing the incorrect assignment to species. The team demonstrated 98 percent accuracy with their system, which coupled with field expertise could improve such studies in a meaningful way. The development of a website and app using the neural network will improve data storage and visualisation. Such efforts will ultimately supplant the archaic storage of insect specimens, especially given that such specimens do not represent the currency of ecosystems.

Research in locations such as the Wudalianchi Scenic Area is vital for conservation efforts especially given the rapid and widespread decline in biodiversity being seen the world over and in particular with respect to insects and other invertebrates as well as birds, fish and many other types of organism.

The team suggests that their app is particularly suited to research in the forest environment. However, in terms of what one might refer to as the bigger picture, the app and the associated website could find use in education, public understanding, and the broadening of conservation awareness.

Xiao, Y., Zhou, A., Zhou, L. and Zhao, Y. (2023) ‘Automatic insect identification system based on SE-ResNeXt’, Int. J. Systems, Control and Communications, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp.81–98.

10 December 2022

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  • A hybrid blockchain proposal to improve value added tax recovery
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Special issue published: "The Circular Economy and Sustainable Development: People, Planet and Policy Today"

International Journal of Competitiveness 2(3) 2022

  • From the fair trade concept to a symbiotic sustainability business model: the case of Unilever and the Lipton-Rainforest Alliance partnership
  • Applying the circular economy concept to a sustainable business model for large retailers: the case of IKEA
  • An integrative literature review of sustainable luxury fashion consumption through a circular economy business model
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  • African public leadership on technology readiness and diffusing the circular economy in sub-Saharan Africa
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  • Evaluating sustainable green development through advanced production techniques by using the MDEMATEL technique

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  • A literature survey of automated detection of cervical cancer cell in Pap smear images
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  • An analysis of a secure communication for healthcare system using wearable devices based on elliptic curve cryptography
  • XSS attack prevention using machine learning
  • Adaptive channel allocation for spectrum sharing based on ACO algorithm
  • An efficient data mining process on temporal data using relevance feedback method
  • Low-complexity particle swarm optimisation-based adaptive user clustering for downlink non-orthogonal multiple access deployed for 5G systems
  • Coplanar wave guide fed circular fractal antenna using wireless applications

Dr. Say Keat Ooi appointed as new Editor in Chief of International Journal of Sustainable Strategic Management

Dr. Say Keat Ooi from Universiti Sains Malaysia has been appointed to take over editorship of the International Journal of Sustainable Strategic Management.

9 December 2022

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  • The politics of recognition in multi-ethnic regions of Ethiopia and its implication to land rights of 'non-titular' nationalities: evidences from Benishangul-Gumuz regional state
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Special issue published: "Women’s Empowerment"

World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development 19(1/2) 2023

  • Gender issues faced by women and its impact on job satisfaction across sectors
  • Competency as an enabler for entrepreneurial intention among female post-graduates
  • Fashion clothing: retailers' perspective and business strategies focusing on market segmentation
  • A study on impact of ageing population on Singapore healthcare systems using machine learning algorithms
  • Challenges faced by educators in adopting online technology
  • Online learning during Covid-19 pandemic: issues and challenges
  • Work-life happiness among non-academic staff of institutions of higher learning: a demographic study
  • Organisational politics and turnover intention: challenges faced by women in leadership positions
  • Technology readiness of micro, small and medium enterprises
  • Evidence of moral hazard in employee performance: an empirical analysis of contract theory
  • Impact of goods and service tax on micro, small and medium enterprises in India
  • Female entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance: with special reference to Sri Lanka

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  • Analysing and visualising the trends in knowledge management: towards a normative knowledge management framework

Research pick: An app for rice disease ID - "Rice plant diseases detection using convolutional neural networks"

Rice is one of the most important food crops for billions of people but the plants are susceptible to a wide variety of diseases that are not always easy to identify in the field. New work in the International Journal of Engineering Systems Modelling and Simulation has investigated whether an application based on a convolution neural network algorithm could be used to quickly and effectively determine what is afflicting a crop, especially in the early stages when signs and symptoms may well be ambiguous.

Manoj Agrawal and Shweta Agrawal of Sage University in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, suggest that an automated method for rice disease identification is much needed. They have now trained various machine learning tools with more than 4000 images of healthy and diseased rice and tested them against disease data from different sources. They demonstrated that the ResNet50 architecture offers the greatest accuracy at 97.5 percent.

The system can determine from a photograph of a sample of the crop whether or not it is diseased and if so, can then identify which of the following common diseases that affect rice the plant has: Leaf Blast, Brown Spot, Sheath Blight, Leaf Scald, Bacterial Leaf Blight, Rice Blast, Neck Blast, False Smut, Tungro, Stem Borer, Hispa, and Sheath Rot.

Overall, the team’s approach is 98.2 percent accurate on independent test images. Such accuracy is sufficient to guide farmers to make an appropriate response to a given infection in their crop and thus save both their crop and their resources rather than wasting produce or money on ineffective treatments. The team emphasises that the system works well irrespective of the lighting conditions when the photograph is taken or the background in the photograph. They add that accuracy might still be improved by adding more images to the training dataset to help the application make predictions from photos taken in disparate conditions.

Agrawal, M. and Agrawal, S. (2023) ‘Rice plant diseases detection using convolutional neural networks’, Int. J. Engineering Systems Modelling and Simulation, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp.30–42.

8 December 2022

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Knowledge and Learning

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  • Analytical methods as a source of value in human resource management in consulting companies
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  • Not everyone is an entrepreneur, but entrepreneurs are everywhere
  • New architecture of enterprise social networks for knowledge sharing within engineering school
  • Online courses quality and distance education amid COVID-19 pandemic: Al-Balqa applied university-IT faculty students' perceptions

Special issue published: "Digital Technologies and Computational Intelligence for a Sustainable Future"

International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining 22(1/2) 2023

  • Performance evaluation of oversampling algorithm: MAHAKIL using ensemble classifiers
  • Hybrid automation of student activity records in virtual learning environments in semi-dark scenarios
  • Approaches to parallelise Eclat algorithm and analysing its performance for K length prefix-based equivalence classes
  • Effect of IT integration on firm performance
  • Forecasting with information extracted from the residuals of ARIMA in financial time series using continuous wavelet transform
  • A deep regression convolutional neural network using whole image-based inferencing for dynamic visual crowd estimation
  • DAMIAN – data accrual machine intelligence with augmented networks for contextually coherent creative story generation
  • A survey on adoption of blockchain in healthcare
  • Identification of authorship and prevention of fraudulent transactions/cybercrime using efficient high performance machine learning techniques
  • Building a hybridised meta-heuristic optimisation algorithm for efficient cluster analysis
  • A widespread survey on machine learning techniques and user substantiation methods for credit card fraud detection
Additional papers
  • Using unstructured logs generated in complex large-scale micro-service-based architecture for data analysis
  • Application of a record linkage software to identify mortality of enrolees of large integrated healthcare organisations

Free open access article available: "Stock volatility reactions to violations subject to investigation by the SEC"

The following paper, "Stock volatility reactions to violations subject to investigation by the SEC" (International Journal of Economics and Business Research 25(1) 2023), is freely available for download as an open access article.

It can be downloaded via the full-text link available here.

Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Intelligent Enterprise

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  • A formal design in the generation of an array PIN using a Petri net model and implementation for secure transactions
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Research pick: The downside of overfunding - "Crowdfunding and entrepreneurial failure: Why do overfunded startups collapse?"

As means to raise capital for a business venture, crowd-funding has come increasingly to the fore since the advent of social media. A good campaign that goes viral can quickly bring adequate funds for an adventurous start-up. Writing in the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing, a team from Germany suggests that this alternative to venture capital and angel investment might actually lead to overfunding of a startup and that this in itself can lead to the failure of the company.

Crowdfunding has been around a lot longer than the internet, of course, many entrepreneurs, activists, authors, and even leaders have sought money from the general public to help them finance their ventures. The advent of the world wide web in the 1990s and the subsequent arrival of Web 2.0 and social media opened up many more avenues along which an innovative entrepreneur might meet putative backers. Occasionally, those who donate to ventures through crowd-funding campaigns do so out of a sense of altruism, perhaps to finance a worthy venture that might benefit society or an individual in need. More often, the crowd-funding is driven by the potential for reward, a signed copy of that author’s book or a discount on the product to be manufactured by a startup, for instance.

There are many potential benefits for the crowd-funder and from the entrepreneur’s point of view, their success in such a campaign can often act as a test of the future market. It is now well-known that perhaps half of the ventures seeking crowd-funding fail to reach their funding goal and fall at this first hurdle. However, of those that are successful around half receive more than their initial funding call. A small percentage end up being massively overfunded based on their initial needs. This phenomenon was largely unknown in the era of venture capitalists and angel investors when the investment was made in a much more steady, slower, and considered manner.

The team offers that one of the explanations in many cases is quite obvious: a good marketing campaign to reap crowdfunding that is not underpinned by a solid offering from the company itself in terms of its product development, production, and sales. Ultimately, it is often the case that “this phenomenon leads to the dominance of startups with great marketing campaigns but with little potential to fulfil their promises,” the team writes.

They add that their analysis of failed start-ups reveals that there are other factors at play: entrepreneur, misconduct, poor product features, a failure in the product development process, organisational problems, delays, financial resources, poor market conditions, and failures with partners.

Moritz T. Bruckner and Daniel J. Veit of the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Augsburg in Augsburg, Dennis M. Steininger of the Faculty of Business Studies and Economics at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern in Kaiserslautern, and Mark Bertleff, Lead Business Analyst at Capgemini in Munich, explain that the research literature lacks explanations as to why start-ups with adequate funding might be prone to failure and why the seemingly paradoxical notion of too much capital investment might underlie the demise of some companies.

The team’s findings challenge the received wisdom regarding the financial backing of a startup and subsequent entrepreneurial success or failure. The framework they have developed regarding backing could be used to guide those who wish to invest through crowdfunding and to help startups avoid the common pitfalls of overfunding.

Bruckner, M.T., Steininger, D.M., Bertleff, M. and Veit, D.J. (2022) ‘Crowdfunding and entrepreneurial failure: Why do overfunded startups collapse?’, Int. J. Entrepreneurial Venturing, Vol. 14, Nos. 4/5, pp.602–644.

7 December 2022

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Free sample articles newly available from International Journal of Electronic Marketing and Retailing

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International Journal of Internet Marketing and Advertising indexed by Clarivate's Emerging Sources Citation Index

Inderscience's Editorial Office is pleased to report that the International Journal of Internet Marketing and Advertising has been indexed by Clarivate's Emerging Sources Citation Index.

Prof. Jesús Garcia-Madariaga, the journal's Editor in Chief, says, "IJIMA's inclusion in ESCI is a quality marker for “editorial rigor and best practice at a journal level”, and also an important milestone on the way to being added to the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) and receiving an impact factor. I would like to thank IJIMA's authors and readers for the trust they have placed in the journal. Congratulations and thanks also go to IJIMA's editorial board, led by its executive and associate editors, for their hard work in getting IJIMA off the ground and publishing the high-quality issues that have led to this significant milestone."

Research pick: Clicks and mortar - "Adding bricks to clicks: Which characteristic of a showroom affects consumers when they shop online?"

When the world wide web was opened up to the commercial world in the 1990s, there was a suggestion that it would not become popular and so-called “bricks and mortar” sellers with shops on the high streets and in the shopping centres would outlive the online fad. The so-called dot com bubble burst at the dawn of the 21st Century, but more than two decades later we can safely say online shopping is now ubiquitous while many shop fronts are now boarded up and many of the large department stores and chains have disappeared.

Writing in the EuroMed Journal of Management, a team from Egypt discusses an emerging trend that sees the reversal of the original paradigm whereby online retailers are now opening shops and encouraging customers to walk through their doors rather than browse online.

Abeer A. Mahrous and Ola Tarek of the Faculty of Commerce, Business Administration Department at Cairo University and Wael Kortam of the Faculty of Business Administration, Economics & Political Science at The British University in Egypt in Sherouk City, suggest that this move is driven by the consumer’s obvious desire to have more certainty when buying, which can be achieved by touching and feeling the goods in a bricks-and-mortar store. However, once the online retailers have hooked customers offline in this way, the hope is that those customers will then opt for the online option with subsequent and repeat purchases.

The team discusses the cognitive attributes that initially draw a shopper to an offline store and how their loyalty to the outlet is transferred to the online shopping experience. Fundamentally, it seems that a goal-oriented shopper drawn to the offline shop is more likely to make further purchases from the online outlet. The research suggests that the design of the offline store and salesperson style and communication within the store is important in persuading new customers to make purchases there initially and then to transfer their loyalty seamlessly to the online store.

Mahrous, A.A., Tarek, O. and Kortam, W. (2022) ‘Adding bricks to clicks: Which characteristic of a showroom affects consumers when they shop online?’, EuroMed J. Management, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp.332–344.

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Free open access article available: "Enabling smartphone push notifications: the effect of a framed opt-in request"

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Research pick: ASMR alerts for older adults - "Autonomous sensory meridian response as an alert trigger for older users"

Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) is a neurological phenomenon experienced in different ways by different people exposed to various stimuli. It is commonly perceived as a pleasant, almost euphoric, feeling. Often described simply as a tingling sensation, paresthesia, it can be much more subtle. Indeed, it is often referred to as “the tingles”. The experience of this pleasurable feeling often leaves the person feeling relaxed or alert, depending on the specific stimulus.

Commonly it is felt in the scalp and is often perceived as travelling down the back of the neck and the upper spine. These pleasant feelings are often triggered by certain types of sound, such as a person whispering very closely in one’s ear or when seeing certain images. However, it can also be triggered by realizations or epiphanies or when one recognizes pleasure in others, sometimes even when one recognizes one has done a good deed, for instance.

ASMR is a complex phenomenon and in recent years has been used in millions of videos or music where the creator produces content intended to trigger ASMR in the viewer or listener. Indeed, people do often describe music as giving them “the chills”, but in the pleasurable sense as opposed to the edgier notion of fear and anxiety associated with a “shiver down the spine”. One has to wonder whether these are two faces of the same coin in terms of neurology, however. There is overlap with the concept of frisson, goose bumps and related phenomena. And, of course, goosebumps can also be triggered by pleasure or fear, and perhaps other emotions arising in response to particular stimuli.

Superficially, the phenomenon may seem frivolous, but it perhaps points to how bonding in mammals and other animal groups is reinforced by interactions undertaken in close proximity such as grooming and petting between social contacts, family members, and mates. In the context of interactions between mates, the putatively erotic nature of particular kinds of ASMR triggers is certainly well-known to researchers and those on the internet who might utilize this phenomenon.

Writing in the International Journal of Human Factors and Ergonomics, a team from Thailand has looked at whether ASMR can have a practical use in helping older people, particularly those with age-related hearing loss. Nattanit Buaban and Sakol Teeravarunyou of King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi in Bangkok, suggest ASMR might be used to grab the attention of someone to alert them to a notification from a device, whether doorbell, smartphone, kettle, washing machine, or alarm, that they otherwise might not notice or hear. In their experiments, an earphone device was used to trigger ASMR, but they added that a touch, haptic, device might also be used. It is early stages, but the team’s practical concept for ASMR holds much promise for older people with hearing loss who could, with appropriate smart devices, be notified in this novel way to changes requiring their attention.

Buaban, N. and Teeravarunyou, S. (2022) ‘Autonomous sensory meridian response as an alert trigger for older users’, Int. J. Human Factors and Ergonomics, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp.389–401.