Marketing Intelligence in the Era of Big Data
Published in: Technology Education Management Informatics
Aug 28, 2019
Telemarketing is a cost-effective instrument that offers products or services to customers through two-way and one-to-one communications over the phone. This research will use a real data collected from a Portuguese retail bank dataset during (May/ 2008 to June/ 2013) period, in order to sell long term deposits. The dataset comprises a total of 20 variables in a total of 41188 telephone contacts, and a binary (“yes” or “no”) response variable that describes whether or not the customer will purc...
The impact of BRICS formation on portfolio diversification : empirical evidence from pre- and post-formation eras.
Published in: The International Conference On Business And Finance
Aug 23, 2019
This paper aims at contributing to the international portfolio investment decisions among the emerging BRICS countries where individual and institutional investors seek diversification benefits and to help in advocating policy changes and implementation as a response to the changing dynamics in these countries pre-and post-BRICS formation. Therefore, the context of this paper is aimed towards examining the short term causalities and long term integration among the BRICS stock market pre-and pos...
Adapting ICT in higher education in the developing world: influencing dynamics
Published in: International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging Economies
Aug 09, 2019
The frenzy of information and digital communications marked the 21st century by modernising societies and levering living standards. Policy makers of all economic spheres in the developed world reckon that information and communication technology (ICT) investment fosters economic development and performance. Recent studies in the USA and Europe indicate that investing in ICT helps achieve high growth rates in every sector of the economy. Building on recent literature reviews, this paper argues ...
Is Trade Liberalization a hazard to Sustainable Environment? Fresh Insight from ASEAN countries
Published in: Polish Journal of Management Studies
Jul 22, 2019
The importance of trade liberalization in altering country’s ecological condition is a very important topic these days; the current examination seeks to study the empirical association between environmental degradation and trade openness in a panel of ASEAN countries. In doing so, the study seeks to analyze the influence of trade liberalization in impacting carbon dioxide emanations in the countries of Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand and Philippine by utilizing advanced methods of pane...
The impact of e-commerce in supply chain management on permanent establishment concept
Published in: Espacios
Jul 15, 2019
Information and communications technology (ICT) in supply chain management has enabled corporations to use offshore facilities for outsourcing commercial activities. This has expanded service trade significantly but poses challenges for tax authorities. This article deals with one of the important issues – the supply chain management in E-commerce and taxation industries and the Permanent Establishment rule which mean is any fixed place of business of the employer and includes a branch, a min...
Smart routing for municipal solid waste collection: a heuristic approach
Published in: Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing
Jul 08, 2019
Municipal solid waste (MSW) is considered as one of the primary factors that contribute greatly to the rising of climate change and global warming affecting sustainable development in many different ways. It is indeed necessary to investigate an efficient computerized method for the optimization of MSW collection that minimizes the environmental and other factors according to a given waste collection scenario. In this paper, we propose a heuristic-based smart routing algorithm for MSW collectio...