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Sub-title:Cube One Framework Sufficiently Resilient to Explain and Predict Organizational Performance during a COVID Environment

Research Topic: Is the Cube One Framework Sufficiently Resilient to Explain and Predict Organizational Performance during a COVID Environment? Examination of Data Collected over 18 Months

Overview:

Data are examined for three semesters during the midst of COVID: fall 2020, spring 2021, and fall 2021. Contrary to hypotheses, predictive and discriminant validity was as strong as results obtained from three prior surveys (using identical instrumentation) conducted in three countries. It had been anticipated that the sets of practices that comprise the Cube One Framework would experience declining frequency, as organizations cut back on either effort to raise motivation or ability (enterprise-directed practices); price and quality concerns for products/services (customer-directed practices); or practices designed to increase employee loyalty and satisfaction (employee-directed practices.

Written by-  Richard Kopelman, Jeffrey Augugliaro

Full Article:  https://ijbms.net/assets/files/1660411176.pdf

Probable Date of Completion: 2022-08-12

Sponsored By: International Journal of Business & Management Studies

Sub-title:Going concern, COVID and bankruptcy prediction

Research Topic: Going concern, COVID and bankruptcy prediction: in Italy identified valid forecast ratios of bankruptcy prediction

Overview:

In this paper, a theoretical and operational analysis was carried out on the issue of going concern. First of all, from a theoretical point of view, the subject of going concern has been examined in-depth to explain how the Covid-19 health emergency has impacted the companies' ability to carry out their activities shortly. It also achieves this aim by implementing operational research having as its object forty companies belonging to three macro-sectors: industrial, financial services and non-financial services, whose stocks make up the Italian stock exchange index Ftse Mib (Financial Times Stock Exchange Milan. The FTSE MIB is the benchmark stock index in Italy.

Written by-  Prof. Maria Silvia Avi, Dr. Baldassa Giulia

Full Article:  https://ijbms.net/assets/files/1660410772.pdf

Probable Date of Completion: 2022-08-12

Sponsored By: International Journal of Business & Management Studies

Sub-title:Resisting Revisionism

Research Topic: Resisting Revisionism: Toward a Georgia Reconstruction Historiography

Overview:

Even my most recent published work on the Georgia project has neglected a thorough consideration of the work of living historians on Reconstruction, in Georgia and more generally, and has tended to downplay the revisionist strain of my work, both in my reading of Reconstruction historians and in my reading of Marxist theories of revolutions and modes of production.  Here I attempt to rectify that oversight by responding directly to some of the comments of historians who have reviewed my work.

Written by-  Richard Hogan

Full Article:  https://ijahss.net/assets/files/1657718315.pdf

Probable Date of Completion: 2022-08-12

Sponsored By: International Journal of Arts, Humanities & Social Science

Sub-title:Professorial Tourism

Research Topic: Professorial Tourism: Reflections on Examples

Overview:

“Professorial Tourism:  Reflections on Examples” examines conferences that combine scholarly presentations with tourist activities that are organized by the conference itself.  These are distinct from conferences where tourist activities are simply an aspect of the city or country where the conference is held.  Particular attention is paid to the annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference (F&Y) and to the triennial meetings of the International Association of University Professors of English (IAUPE), with comments as well on the Willa Cather Conference (WCC) and the Dickens Project (DP).

 Written by-  Karl F. Zender

Full Article:  https://ijahss.net/assets/files/1657718236.pdf

Probable Date of Completion: 2022-08-12

Sponsored By: International Journal of Arts, Humanities & Social Science

Sub-title:Software Companies’ Merger and Acquisitions

Research Topic: An Empirical Study of Software Companies’ Merger and Acquisitions in the Software-as-a-Service Market

Overview:

This study examines the herding behavior of software companies when they merge and acquire (M&A) SaaS firms to compete in the market. Through an empirical analysis of 71 companies in SIC 737 industries from 2003- 2017, we find that firms try to imitate their peer competitors’ M&A activities and their imitation decisions are contingent on the resources and capabilities.

Written by-  Yihong He, Yuanyuan Chen

Full Article:  https://ijbms.net/assets/files/1660411010.pdf

Probable Date of Completion: 2022-08-12

Sponsored By: International Journal of Business & Management Studies

Sub-title:Empowering Waste Pickers in Brazil

Research Topic: Empowering Waste Pickers in Brazil: A Case Study of Reverse Logistics

Overview:

This case study explores the application of Reverse Logistics - RL in the waste pickers cooperatives in Brazil. This study also proposes a novel RL model to integrate society and recycling companies in the effort to clean up the environment and reuse the recycled products as a source of reduction in its production costs. If the government adopts changes to the relationship between the waste pickers cooperatives and manufacturing companies, that will allow municipalities to focus on issues pertinent to the local administration rather than being the "middle man" in the RL chain.

Written by-  Jose-Luis Castro Iglesias

Full Article:  https://ijbms.net/assets/files/1660411058.pdf

Probable Date of Completion: 2022-08-12

Sponsored By: International Journal of Business & Management Studies

Sub-title:Artwork, Artistic practice, Performing Arts

Research Topic: Notes on Artistic Practice

Overview:

The term ‘practice’ is used in a loose way in art theory. Using the example of the German artist Fritz Rahmann the text elaborates crucial aspects of artistic practice, taken as ‘bundles’ of different actions: clusters of similar actions, sequencing the clusters, exploring the dialogue with materials, relating them to mental models, ascribing them to social groups. In artistic practice the artwork loses its autonomy and the artist’s role as author is relativized.

Written by-  Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen

Full Article:  https://ijahss.net/assets/files/1615137564.pdf

Probable Date of Completion: 2021-03-07

Sponsored By: International Journal of Arts, Humanities & Social Science

Sub-title:History, Literature, Culture

Research Topic: HANNIBAL IN SILIUS ITALICUS

Overview:

This essay analyzes, in its entirety, the figure of Hannibal in Silius Italicus, looking at thematic, stylistic, and lexical aspects. At the very beginning, specific focus is given on Hannibal in Livy, while later there is a focus on an original aspect, not studied by Scholarship yet, which is the role of sleeplessness and dreams in the character’s building. Secondary Literature is provided.

Writer: Arianna Sacerdoti

Full Article: https://ijahss.net/assets/files/1594372950.pdf

Probable Date of Completion: 2020-09-10

Sponsored By: International Journal of Arts, Humanities & Social Science

Sub-title:Humanities & Psychology

Research Topic: Does the DNA Make the Human Person Unique?

Overview:

The concept of human nature has over the years been problematic. From the Aristotelian-Thomistic view, the human person is distinguished from any other being because of his rational nature. This view has been challenged today from different angles. The reasons for the challenge vary but the central question remains: who is the human person? What is human nature? The answer to this fundamental question provokes other areas or fields of enquiry. Today more than ever before the scientific explanation of the distinctive characteristic of the human person is interesting.

Writer: Lontum V. Charles

Full Article: https://ijahss.net/assets/files/1599773601.pdf

Probable Date of Completion: 2020-09-10

Sponsored By: International Journal of Arts, Humanities & Social Science