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Methodology for Real-Time Evaluation of Geographic Health Care Resource Allocation: Iwate Prefectural Hospitals
Xinhe Li,
Kazunori Kawamura
Issue:
Volume 9, Issue 2, June 2021
Pages:
55-61
Received:
20 April 2021
Published:
24 May 2021
Abstract: The effective utilization and assessment of medical resources have become a common concern for scholars in various countries due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. This study deals with a method to monitor medical resource allocation in real-time and verify the effectiveness of the proposed method with actual data. In this work, we selected Iwate Prefecture in northeastern Japan based on the geographical characteristics and social environment. By collecting data from the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism and Welfare (MLIT), we clustered population centers in Iwate Prefecture, and found the clustering centers in densely populated areas from the k-means algorithm. Subsequently, to compare the distribution of county-level medical resources across different secondary care areas, we selected the indicators of Iwate Prefectural Hospitals from the Hospital Intelligence Agency. We classified 19 prefectural hospitals in Iwate Prefecture into four different clusters using the spectral clustering algorithm. The clustering results revealed that all hospitals close to the " clustering centers in densely populated areas" were Iwate prefectural disaster stronghold hospitals. Moreover, we found that these hospitals performed well in operational indicators. Only the Ninohe prefectural hospital in the Ninohe medical area was found not located in a population center. However, it still performs well in terms of business indicators since the Ninohe medical area has a high proportion of public hospitals and the Ninohe prefectural hospital plays an important role. Hence, the government should fully consider geographical characteristics when considering hospital restructuring. We used a real data set to demonstrate the validity of the proposed technique, providing a theoretical basis for the government's healthcare policy.
Abstract: The effective utilization and assessment of medical resources have become a common concern for scholars in various countries due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. This study deals with a method to monitor medical resource allocation in real-time and verify the effectiveness of the proposed method with actual data. In this work, we selected Iw...
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Evaluating the Effects of “One Belt, One Road” Initiative on Vietnam's Agricultural Export to China
Thi Huong Nguyen,
Hong Shu Wang,
Nho Quyet Tran
Issue:
Volume 9, Issue 2, June 2021
Pages:
62-66
Received:
20 April 2021
Published:
24 May 2021
Abstract: China is not only the world's second largest economy with a population of 1.4 billion, but also a neighbor country of Vietnam, whose demand for agricultural products is huge. Vietnam is an emerging economy in Southeast Asia. Its development has been remarkable over the past decade since the Vietnamese Government started its economic renovation policy in the late 1980s. Vietnam has been taking steps to become integrated in the region and in the world. Vietnam itself has an abundance of natural resources, which are potential for exporting agricultural products and minerals. According to statistics of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, China accounts for an average of about 28% of Vietnam's total agricultural and fishery exports to the world. In particular, vegetables, cashew nuts, coffee, rice, cassava and products from cassava, rubber, seafood witness such a large turnover. Since 2013 China has proposed the “One-belt, One-road” initiative, of which Vietnam is a part. The study uses gravity model with research’s hypotheses: Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per country, geographical distance (measured by the participation in the “One-belt, One-road” initiative – considered as a positive reason that leads to the export’s expansion of Vietnam’s agricultural products to the China’s market), population, the level of economic openness (measured by China's policy on countries participating in the “One-belt, One-road” initiative), inflation, agricultural land area. Thus, the research could deeply evaluate the positive influences from the “One-belt, One-road” initiative on the export of Vietnam’s agricultural products to China’s market.
Abstract: China is not only the world's second largest economy with a population of 1.4 billion, but also a neighbor country of Vietnam, whose demand for agricultural products is huge. Vietnam is an emerging economy in Southeast Asia. Its development has been remarkable over the past decade since the Vietnamese Government started its economic renovation poli...
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Potential and Challenges of Chinese Direct Investment into ASEAN
Issue:
Volume 9, Issue 2, June 2021
Pages:
67-73
Received:
20 April 2021
Published:
4 June 2021
Abstract: Although China’s outward direct investment (CODI) has been ranked number one for 25 years among developing countries, between 1995 and 2019, increased more than 66 times, from about US$ 2.0 billion to US$136.91 billion, and the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) is the most attractive world destination for foreign direct investment (FDI) due to its location advantages in terms of low labor cost, potential market size, CODI to ASEAN has been hovering at a very low level, accounting for only about 9.51% of China’s total outward direct investments. The relatively small CODI to ASEAN raises a question of how well the theories of FDI explain the interaction of China investors and ASEAN's location characteristics. This article tries to address the puzzle of a small share of CODI in ASEAN by investigating the determinants of CODI in ASEAN over the period 1995 to 2019. Evidence presented in this article indicates that the small CODI cannot be fully appreciated without understanding differences between CODI in ASEAN and that in EU, the latter attracting CODI at full speed. Empirical results suggest that the CODI in ASEAN was primarily motivated by natural resource and market access, and that in EU was technical and strategic assets oriented. The main purpose of Chinese investors to invest abroad is not to use their existing ownership advantages expanding overseas production, but to compensate their disadvantage and improve competitiveness to strengthen the domestic production. The small CODI in ASEAN thus is a result of China investors' strong interest in gaining raw materials, skilled labor, sale channels and potential market for its export rather than benefiting from cheap labor and ASEAN's export and employment-promotion FDI regime, poor infrastructure, containment attitude for Chinese investors, along with the political instabilities in ASEAN.
Abstract: Although China’s outward direct investment (CODI) has been ranked number one for 25 years among developing countries, between 1995 and 2019, increased more than 66 times, from about US$ 2.0 billion to US$136.91 billion, and the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) is the most attractive world destination for foreign direct investment (FD...
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Authority Delegation and Leadership Succession in Nigeria Electricity Distribution Company
Oti Nkiruka,
Ezenwakwelu Charity,
Nwanmuoh Emmanuel
Issue:
Volume 9, Issue 2, June 2021
Pages:
74-80
Received:
4 May 2021
Accepted:
24 May 2021
Published:
7 June 2021
Abstract: The paper conducted investigation on authority delegation and leadership succession in Nigerian Electricity Distribution Company. Delegation is the process of assigning to the subordinate responsibility for decisions which were formally made by the manager. Delegating authority provides a means for evaluation of employee skills and major attributes, such as leadership qualities, reliability and creativity. Authority delegation aids implementation and succession plan of an organization management. Delegation provides opportunity for training and development, and of testing the subordinate’s suitability for leadership and promotion. The study examined the relationship between authority delegation and employee understudy, assessed the extent of the relationship between authority delegation and management succession and determined the effect of authority delegation on leadership accountability. The target population included managers, supervisors and senior staff of Enugu Electricity Distribution Company headquarters, and eighteen district offices in SouthEast, Nigeria. Findings revealed that a positive relationship exists between authority delegation and employee understudy; A Positive relationship also exists between authority delegation and management succession; and authority delegation positively affected leadership accountability. The study concluded that authority delegation is crucial for management and leadership succession. The study deliberately proposed that leadership succession programmes should be fused into the training plan of companies to prevent leadership vacuum. Managers need to acquire delegation skills to enable the leader manage time effectively.
Abstract: The paper conducted investigation on authority delegation and leadership succession in Nigerian Electricity Distribution Company. Delegation is the process of assigning to the subordinate responsibility for decisions which were formally made by the manager. Delegating authority provides a means for evaluation of employee skills and major attributes...
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The Path Choice of "Family and Country Feelings" Mode of Undergraduates' Entrepreneurship in Frontier Regions
Zhan Zhimin,
Ni Jie,
Zhao Pengyao,
Zhang Zixun,
Zhan Wei
Issue:
Volume 9, Issue 2, June 2021
Pages:
81-91
Received:
6 April 2021
Accepted:
9 June 2021
Published:
10 June 2021
Abstract: With the rapid expansion of the scale of higher education, the difficulty of college students' employment occurs accordingly, which inevitably requires college students to change their concept of employment, and broaden their vision to the frontline of the construction of new socialist countryside and entrepreneurship in rural areas. What’s more, COVID-19 has intensified the employment difficulties of university students. In order to expand the employment channels of college students, we should use the sense of responsibility and mission of "family and country feelings" to guide the entrepreneurship and innovation of contemporary college students, so as to deepen our ideological identity. Through the combination of theory and practice, the innovative management of College Students' Entrepreneurship and innovation activities can realize the ideological education of "family and country feelings" in the process of College Students' entrepreneurship. The research purpose of the project is to innovate and construct a new mode of Ideological and political education for college students. It is found that strengthening the education of "family and country feelings" of college students can help them to alleviate the difficulties of employment and entrepreneurship. On the one hand, the orientation of "family and country feelings" can help college students to expand their employment choices; On the other hand, the mode and path construction of "family and country feelings" can better help college students' cognition of mode selection and path development in Entrepreneurship and employment. At the same time, the practice of College Students' Entrepreneurship and employment also helps to enhance the mass communication effect of the concept of "family and country feelings". On the basis of this model construction, further quantitative analysis of the value orientation of "family and country feelings" with the help of questionnaire data, in order to strengthen the economic and social effects of College Students' entrepreneurship.
Abstract: With the rapid expansion of the scale of higher education, the difficulty of college students' employment occurs accordingly, which inevitably requires college students to change their concept of employment, and broaden their vision to the frontline of the construction of new socialist countryside and entrepreneurship in rural areas. What’s more, C...
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The Incubation Mechanism and Incubation Performance Evaluation of "Co-creation Space" in Colleges and Universities
Wei Yaping,
Liu Shuangyan
Issue:
Volume 9, Issue 2, June 2021
Pages:
92-102
Received:
15 May 2021
Accepted:
30 May 2021
Published:
21 June 2021
Abstract: The construction of "co-creation space" in colleges and universities has created a comprehensive support platform for their students to start their own businesses, and plays an important role in implementing the innovation-driven development strategy of the country. However, china's " co-creation space " in colleges and universities started relatively late, the law of business incubation has not yet been clarified, the entrepreneurship incubation mechanism, performance evaluation and other research is relatively weak, indirectly affecting the practice of innovation and entrepreneurship guidance. The purpose of this paper is, through the study of the incubation mechanism and performance evaluation of the university's co-creation space, to provide some reference for better use of the superior resources of colleges and universities to improve the incubation efficiency and improve the quality of the incubation of the “co-creation space”. This paper analyzes the meaning of " co-creation space " and the function of incubation service in colleges and universities, and expounds the mechanism of the incubation capacity of the university's creation space, that is, the cultivation mechanism of the spirit of creation, the nesting mechanism of the entrepreneurial network, the mechanism of heterogeneous synergy of entrepreneurship, the mechanism of upgrading the incubation capacity and the interrelated role between them. Based on the meaning of the incubation mechanism of "university co-creation space", the influence factors of incubation performance are extracted, and the evaluation index system of incubation performance of "creation space" in colleges and universities is constructed on this basis. And designed a set of operational evaluation procedures. Data sources are obtained by means of questionnaires and interviews, respectively. using the scoring method of Licht's five-point scale, the incubation performance of selected case universities was tested and evaluated, the evaluation scores were obtained, and the corresponding evaluation results were determined by reference to other evaluation criteria. Reasonable suggestions are put forward for the problems found in the evaluation.
Abstract: The construction of "co-creation space" in colleges and universities has created a comprehensive support platform for their students to start their own businesses, and plays an important role in implementing the innovation-driven development strategy of the country. However, china's " co-creation space " in colleges and universities started relativ...
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Collective Intelligence and University Entrepreneurial Performance: An Exploratory Study Among Teacher Researchers and Students from Chadian Universities
Issue:
Volume 9, Issue 2, June 2021
Pages:
103-118
Received:
25 May 2021
Accepted:
9 June 2021
Published:
21 June 2021
Abstract: The research on intellectual capital carried out so far for the academic entrepreneurial development is few but has clearly shown its importance. However, the overall contribution of intellectual capital to the performance of academic entrepreneurial projects of both technologies, social and environmental or university spin-offs remains little studied. Even studies carried out on this subject, often, focus only on a single component and favor, for the most part, the quantitative approach. This posture does not allow us to understand which of the three components of intellectual capital is the best predictor of academic entrepreneurial performance. Thus, the results of these previous studies provide little information on how to increase entrepreneurship by mobilizing intellectual capital. To fill these gray areas and facilitate an understanding of the causal link between intellectual capital and academic entrepreneurial performance, a semi-structured interview of eleven entrepreneurs and a survey of 278 researchers and students from four Chadian universities were conducted. The research process was mixed. We used an approach that focused on both economic/financial entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship (which is part of the obligations of Chadian universities) and societal/environmental entrepreneurship. During data production, we have put forward the criterion of participation of the actor (researcher-student-practitioner) in the various phases of activities in the process of implementation of entrepreneurship. Our results have shown that human capital (R2 = 0.21) and relational capital (R2= 0.29) are the best predictors of academic entrepreneurial performance. It is mainly relational capital that contributes mainly (b = 31%) academic entrepreneurial performance. These results are explained by the fact that human capital and relational capital are deployed for the purposes of creativity, contact, creation of business networks, etc., while structural capital plays an essential role in the credibility and influence of universities. Finally, it is the combination of the three components of intellectual capital that plays a decisive role (R2 = 0.85) in achieving academic entrepreneurial performance. Thus, universities are invited to revitalize their network of actors, to promote collaborative research, to advocate the agile approach and to enrich their human capital so that it fulfills its mission as an open innovation subject, without neglecting their capital structure for its undeniable support role.
Abstract: The research on intellectual capital carried out so far for the academic entrepreneurial development is few but has clearly shown its importance. However, the overall contribution of intellectual capital to the performance of academic entrepreneurial projects of both technologies, social and environmental or university spin-offs remains little stud...
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Effect of Corporate Governance on the Performance of Financial Institutions in Nigeria
Issue:
Volume 9, Issue 2, June 2021
Pages:
119-125
Received:
8 June 2021
Accepted:
24 June 2021
Published:
29 June 2021
Abstract: This study investigated the relationship between corporate governance and the performance of some selected commercial banks in Nigeria. The purpose of the study is to ascertain the causal relationship between these two variables – corporate governance and financial performance. The study employed cross sectional survey research design, capturing 12 commercial banks studied over the period of 5 years (2015-2020). The matrixes of corporate governance that was used are size of the board, accountability of the board, diversity of the Board. Financial performance indicator is return on investment. Data was collected for the both independent and dependent variables. The independent variables which are board accountability, board size and board diversity were investigated against the financial performance of the selected banks. This is to underscore the causal relationship between these variables and Return on Investment (ROI). Return on Investment (ROI) is our indicator of financial performance. The sample size of the study is 15 financial institutions (commercial banks) using purposive sampling techniques. The study utilized secondary source of data, which include the financial reports of these banks and the corporate governance internal documents of these banks. The data collected was analyzed using multi linear regression data analysis techniques. The population for the study was derived from the Nigerian stock exchange which are 22 in number. The study therefore used census sampling to select all the 22 banks. However, data was only collected for 12 due to incomplete data for the remaining 10. The finding revealed that there is no significant relationship between board size and ROI, there is no significant relationship between board diversity and ROI, and finally, there is also no significant relationship between board accountability and ROI. The study provides an in-depth relationship between the board size, board diversity, board accountability and ROI of commercial banks.
Abstract: This study investigated the relationship between corporate governance and the performance of some selected commercial banks in Nigeria. The purpose of the study is to ascertain the causal relationship between these two variables – corporate governance and financial performance. The study employed cross sectional survey research design, capturing 12...
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Customer Satisfaction Analysis of Banks: The Role of Market Segmentation
Francis Osei,
Gloria Ampomah,
Collins Kankam-Kwarteng,
Daniel Opoku Bediako,
Reagan Mensah
Issue:
Volume 9, Issue 2, June 2021
Pages:
126-138
Received:
3 June 2021
Accepted:
18 June 2021
Published:
30 June 2021
Abstract: In today’s competitive banking industry, market segmentation as a serious strategic alternative is very important if players in the banking industry are to achieve customer satisfaction which can influence customer loyalty and profitability. In the study of Ghana Commercial Bank, the investigation focused on how market segmentation has affected customer satisfaction in the Ghana banking industry. The study evaluates the effects of market segmentation on customer satisfaction in the banking industry in Ghana. To achieve the purpose of the study a descriptive research design was adopted. The target population was 200 respondents from five banks (branch) in Kumasi metropolis in Ghana. The primary source of data and secondary source of data was utilized in the entirety of the study. Data collected were analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Scientists (SPSS) and Smart PLS software. The results proved that there was a positive relationship between geographical segmentation, demographic segmentation, behavioral segmentation on customer satisfaction. The nature of behavioral segmentation provides the opportunity for real-time communication across a wide range of marketing channels including direct mail, email, point-of-sale devices, and mobile channels as well as personal contact at the branch or call center level. The downside of using behavioral data as a marketing driver is that it does require detailed, in-depth data sets, models, and market testing. Also, prices, distribution, and advertising can all be tailored to control variables that are problematic for customers, because today's customers demand simple, convenient, flexible, and timely products and services. The recommendations are intended to represent as a framework for banking industries as they try to provide improved service to their customers.
Abstract: In today’s competitive banking industry, market segmentation as a serious strategic alternative is very important if players in the banking industry are to achieve customer satisfaction which can influence customer loyalty and profitability. In the study of Ghana Commercial Bank, the investigation focused on how market segmentation has affected cus...
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