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  • Tutorial
  • Open Access
159 Citations
55,951 Views
18 Pages

Qualitative Methods with Nvivo Software: A Practical Guide for Analyzing Qualitative Data

  • David B. Allsop,
  • Joe M. Chelladurai,
  • Elisabeth R. Kimball,
  • Loren D. Marks and
  • Justin J. Hendricks

22 March 2022

From 1995–2016, there has been a 15-fold increase in qualitative scholarship in the social sciences, but the rigor and quality of published work has ranged widely. Little scholarship provides concrete, pragmatic explanations of (and directions...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,381 Views
15 Pages

In China, the aim of integrating sports and medicine is part of a national health promotion policy. It is important to clarify the relevant policy points, policy practice distribution, and practical tools, as well as to find the weak links in the pol...

  • Commentary
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,918 Views
12 Pages

The recycling of solid waste resources can effectively alleviate resource shortages and environmental pollution and can promote the sustainable development of an ecological economy and green economy. Therefore, China has set up a series of recycling...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,249 Views
7 Pages

This study aims to analyze the sentiments of Halodoc users after the COVID-19 pandemic declined. This study uses a mixed method approach, preceded by quantitative research, to see user satisfaction from the rating. Qualitative research from Halodoc g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
97 Citations
18,014 Views
31 Pages

Due to the complexity, high-risk and conservative character of construction companies, advanced digital technologies do not become widely adopted in the short term, while vendors make determined efforts to overcome this and disseminate their technolo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,315 Views
12 Pages

11 April 2019

Due to the increasing number of intensified extreme events, post-recovery has become a serious challenge worldwide. The common issues faced during the recovery process are fragmentation and coordination problems, the lack of capacity and commitment a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
10,073 Views
26 Pages

Competitiveness of and Barriers to Indonesia’s Exports of Ornamental Fish

  • Andiga Dompak Baharaja Tarihoran,
  • Musa Hubeis,
  • Siti Jahroh and
  • Nimmi Zulbainarni

28 May 2023

Indonesia has been striving to become the world’s largest ornamental fish exporter for the past two decades, but success has been limited. This study analyzes Indonesia’s export competitiveness and identifies the barriers encountered. A t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
68 Citations
51,219 Views
34 Pages

The stock market is characterized by extreme fluctuations, non-linearity, and shifts in internal and external environmental variables. Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques can detect such non-linearity, resulting in much-improved forecast results....

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
7,171 Views
20 Pages

The object of this exploratory study is to identify the positive, neutral and negative environment factors that affect users who visit Spanish hotels in order to help the hotel managers decide how to improve the quality of the services provided. To c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,615 Views
26 Pages

9 June 2020

Air transport plays a key role especially in countries where tourism has a great impact on the economy. In Spain, the contribution made by this industry to GPD stands at EUR 119 billion, representing 11% of GDP. This case study focuses on the M&aacut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
12,212 Views
29 Pages

2 March 2022

The hospitality industry is one of the most affected by the pandemic, and because of its human close interaction and labor-intensive characteristics, it has left Human Resource Management (HRM) puzzles with organizations’ stabilization and reco...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,073 Views
17 Pages

19 February 2021

Education is a method of sharing social consciousness and social reconstruction. There is an existential crisis in business education driven by the conflict between social and financial objectives. A paradigm shift in business education requires that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,573 Views
24 Pages

Islamic Fintech Adoption Readiness in Pakistan

  • John Robert Hamilton and
  • Dil Nawaz Hakro

13 October 2025

iFintech is termed as an Islamic alternative banking and financial services approach to that of existing, Fintech digital, Western democracies banking and financial systems. This Pakistan Islamic digital banking and financial services technologies (i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
11,601 Views
21 Pages

An Analysis on Promoting Prefabrication Implementation in Construction Industry towards Sustainability

  • Zezhou Wu,
  • Lirong Luo,
  • Heng Li,
  • Ying Wang,
  • Guoqiang Bi and
  • Maxwell Fordjour Antwi-Afari

As a game-changing technology with significant environmental, economic, and social benefits, prefabricated technology has attracted attention and has been increasingly adopted in the construction industry. Although multitudinous studies have investig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
8,225 Views
26 Pages

23 August 2020

Providing conditions for health and well-being, especially for those most exposed to social and environmental inequalities, is a precondition for sustainable development. Green infrastructures in peri-urban areas have the potential to improve the qua...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,074 Views
16 Pages

22 July 2022

Research into traditional ecological knowledge has become a reference in environmental management. This is followed by ecological wisdom that has emerged and has become a new discourse in landscape planning and design. However, traditional ecological...

  • Article
  • Open Access
308 Views
23 Pages

22 December 2025

Improving alignment between timber sawmilling and prefabrication, defined as the coordination of information, materials, and decision-making across the supply chain, is critical for sustainable construction. This study examined integration through se...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,773 Views
16 Pages

Adolescents and Trust in Online Social Interactions: A Qualitative Exploratory Study

  • Elisa Colì,
  • Marinella Paciello,
  • Ernestina Lamponi,
  • Rubina Calella and
  • Rino Falcone

18 August 2023

Social media have become increasingly embedded in adolescents’ daily lives. Although these contexts have been widely studied, how trust in online relationships is built among adolescents is still an unexplored issue. By adopting the theoretical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,439 Views
16 Pages

National Planning Strategies for Agro-based Industrial Development in Secondary Cities of Sindh Province, Pakistan

  • Saima Kalwar,
  • Noman Sahito,
  • Irfan Ahmed Memon,
  • Jinsoo Hwang,
  • Muhammad Yousif Mangi and
  • Zulfiqar Ali Lashari

10 December 2019

The aim of this study was to critically investigate the planning policy loopholes in five-year (7th and 8th) plans of Pakistan to develop agricultural-based industrial sectors in secondary cities of the Sindh Province, Pakistan. The study had conduct...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
20,681 Views
36 Pages

SME Internationalization and Export Performance: A Systematic Review with Bibliometric Analysis

  • Nuno Calheiros-Lobo,
  • José Vasconcelos Ferreira and
  • Manuel Au-Yong-Oliveira

23 May 2023

Building from the authors’ plan to conceptualize an artificial intelligence (AI) solution that allows SME owners to make more sustainable choices in foreign-market-entry decisions, this systematic literature review (SLR) researches the state-of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,710 Views
22 Pages

Determining Cost and Causes of Overruns in Infrastructure Projects in South Asia

  • Jelena M. Andrić,
  • Shuangyu Lin,
  • Yuan Cheng and
  • Bin Sun

19 December 2024

Sustainable development is supported by infrastructure projects that have a long-term impact on economic development, societies, and the environment. In this paper, the aim is to estimate the cost performance, investigate the best-fit function for mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
936 Views
24 Pages

21 October 2025

With the growth of digital economies, data quality forms a key factor in enabling use and delivering value. Existing research defines quality through technical benchmarks or provider-led frameworks. Our study shifts the focus to actual users. Thirty-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,119 Views
26 Pages

Among urban public transport systems, light rail, mass transit, and tram systems offer sustainable travel options. However, many of these systems, particularly in developed countries, fail to meet user needs and the expectations of transport authorit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,697 Views
24 Pages

18 March 2021

An increasing number of natural disasters and deficiencies in recovery projects have emerged recently and necessitated the creation of versatile guidelines to achieve successful Post-Natural Disaster Recovery (PNDR) projects. Although some criteria h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
9,628 Views
26 Pages

Identification of Various Execution Modes and Their Respective Risks for Public–Private Partnership (PPP) Infrastructure Projects

  • Muhammad Akhtar,
  • Nadeem Ahmad Mufti,
  • Sajjad Mubin,
  • Muhammad Qaiser Saleem,
  • Sadaf Zahoor and
  • Sanna Ullah

The public–private partnership (PPP) based model for the execution of infrastructure projects originated from Anglo-Saxon countries and was initially used in 1977 by the United Kingdom (U.K). Since then, its popularity has increased worldwide....

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,886 Views
25 Pages

9 August 2022

The population density in Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) area was 242.28 per square meter in 2019, and Bulmer suggests that, due to the high birth rate in Asia, cities such as Chittagong can be considered high density. Contextually, this ‘hi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
133 Citations
14,121 Views
18 Pages

The main objective of this exploratory study is to identify the social, economic, environmental and cultural factors related to the sustainable care of both environment and public health that most concern Twitter users. With 336 million active users...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,631 Views
19 Pages

6 October 2022

The extensive use of cloud computing influences changes in managing information technology and communication systems. The term “Cloud Computing” refers to a new management information system that emphasizes the distribution of various com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
7,132 Views
17 Pages

6 December 2022

With the expansion of the digital environment and the metaverse, and the intervention of artificial intelligence, interaction in the virtual world is becoming more active. Humans are discussing the social reality of the user experience in this virtua...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,531 Views
23 Pages

8 September 2023

Black soybeans are a necessary raw material for the soy sauce industry in Indonesia, with the reason being that they are preferred because they have a natural black color and a delicious and savory taste. As a source of raw material for soy sauce, th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,458 Views
11 Pages

Background: Public health interventions for COVID-19 forced families to adopt changes in daily routines that affected children’s and adolescents’ psychological well-being. In youth with type 1 diabetes (T1D), psychological symptoms may co...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
33 Citations
13,253 Views
28 Pages

Assessing the Role of Autonomous Vehicles in Urban Areas: A Systematic Review of Literature

  • Hisham Y. Makahleh,
  • Emma Jayne Sakamoto Ferranti and
  • Dilum Dissanayake

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) aim to improve safety and comfort of road users while contributing to the reduction of traffic congestion, air pollution, fuel consumption, and enabling mobility and accessibility of disabled and older people. As AV technolo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,872 Views
15 Pages

Exploring the Hotel Experience in a Cultural City through a UGC Analysis

  • Elena Sánchez-Vargas,
  • Ana María Campón-Cerro,
  • Elvira Prado-Recio,
  • Bárbara Sofía Pasaco-González and
  • Ana Moreno-Lobato

25 November 2022

A large amount of information is generated on social platforms linked to tourism activity. It is necessary to explore this information using analysis techniques based on Big Data since the result greatly values decision-making. This paper aims to eva...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,500 Views
33 Pages

Walking and cycling, as active modes of transportation, play a vital role in advancing sustainable urban mobility by reducing emissions and improving public health. However, widespread adoption faces challenges such as inadequate infrastructure, safe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,329 Views
24 Pages

18 August 2024

Ghana Tamale’s current waste management system is overwhelmed by the growing waste crisis, necessitating the exploration of Waste-to-Energy technologies (WtE) as an innovative solution. This study explores challenges and opportunities for integ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,267 Views
18 Pages

The study provides evidence of the governance and its context according to the introduction of the New Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRGs)-based payment system in Korea. In-depth interviews with 14 core policy elites from four health areas were conducted...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,476 Views
22 Pages

23 September 2020

In 2015, the 2030 Agenda was formally adopted by the United Nations, establishing a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). SDG 3 seeks to promote Global Health and the quality of public health systems in developing countries. The achievement...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,587 Views
17 Pages

Tourists’ Perception of Tourist Destinations: The Case Study of Nazaré (Portugal)

  • Rita Teles,
  • Hugo Martins,
  • António Pinheiro and
  • Eduardo Gonçalves

6 February 2024

Although Destination Image is a relevant investigation topic in the literature, few studies pay attention to Destination Image as reflected in tourists’ evaluations and reviews on social networks. Given the importance of social media and the re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,231 Views
19 Pages

21 January 2025

Ecotourism is increasingly recognized as a vital component of sustainable development within national parks, yet its potential within China’s emerging national park system remains underexplored. Focusing on the Shanxi Province section of the Ta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,202 Views
14 Pages

26 June 2018

This paper is the first to describe the structure and content of the English language social science literature on food safety in China. To do this research we systematically searched Web of Science and Scopus, the most comprehensive indexes, using t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
10,100 Views
17 Pages

Core Values that Influence the Patient—Healthcare Professional Power Dynamic: Steering Interaction towards Partnership

  • Angela Odero,
  • Manon Pongy,
  • Louis Chauvel,
  • Bernard Voz,
  • Elisabeth Spitz,
  • Benoit Pétré and
  • Michèle Baumann

Healthcare has long been marked by the authoritative-physician–passive-patient interaction, with patients seeking help and physicians seeking to restore patients back to health. However, globalisation, social movements, and technological advanc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,234 Views
24 Pages

Rethinking the Governance of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the COVID-19 Era

  • Francisco Santos-Carrillo,
  • Luis A. Fernández-Portillo and
  • Antonio Sianes

17 September 2020

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has been criticized for its institutional weakness. It assumed that governance commitments and the multilateral order would remain unchanged until 2030. The COVID-19 has challenged both assumptions. The res...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,916 Views
11 Pages

14 February 2021

In recent years, there has been growing interest in insects as an alternative to soybean meal as laying hen feed due to nutrition, sustainability, and animal welfare benefits. Although some studies have investigated consumer acceptance and intentions...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,354 Views
11 Pages

27 September 2019

Sustainable and energy efficient (SEE) attributes in the housing market have become a focus in Canada. Similarly, understanding the consumer’s decision-making process of this high-involvement ethical product has become a burgeoning area for res...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,500 Views
15 Pages

Experience of General Practice Residents Caring for Dependent Elderly during the First COVID-19 Lockdown—A Qualitative Study

  • Johann Augros,
  • Frédéric Dutheil,
  • Amanda C. Benson,
  • Marie-Pierre Sauvant-Rochat,
  • Gil Boudet,
  • Catherine Laporte,
  • Benoit Cambon and
  • Guillaume T. Vallet

Background: Understanding the experiences of general practice (GP) residents caring for dependent elderly people during the first lockdown as part of the countries COVID-19 pandemic strategy. The aim was to explore themes that could explain the gap b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
970 Views
12 Pages

Perceived Barriers and Facilitators in Cardiovascular Risk Management in Colombia: A Qualitative Analysis of the RE-HOPE Study

  • Jose P. Lopez-Lopez,
  • Yesica Giraldo-Castrillon,
  • Johanna Otero,
  • Claudia Torres,
  • Alvaro Castañeda-Hernandez,
  • Daniel Martinez-Bello,
  • Claudia Garcia,
  • Marianne Lopez-Cabrera and
  • Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo

Introduction: Low medication adherence and low hypertension control are a public health challenge, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Healthcare system- and patient-related barriers hinder the successful management of hypertens...

  • Review
  • Open Access
99 Citations
14,325 Views
17 Pages

African countries continue to be prone to drought, caused mainly by unfavorable weather patterns and climatic variations which have an adverse impact on rural households and agricultural production. This literature review article accounted for the af...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,580 Views
13 Pages

23 March 2023

This study seeks to analyse which factors in the work environments of students undergoing virtual in-service ICT teacher training facilitate the initial transfer of learning. Deductive categories were first defined based on previous studies. A qualit...

  • Review
  • Open Access
70 Citations
14,499 Views
17 Pages

Sustainable Business Model Innovation: An Umbrella Review

  • Noemi Sinkovics,
  • Denanjalee Gunaratne,
  • Rudolf R. Sinkovics and
  • Francisco-Jose Molina-Castillo

29 June 2021

The purpose of this paper is to conduct an umbrella review of systematic literature reviews of sustainable business model innovation. Despite its relative novelty, sustainable business model innovation is a multifaceted phenomenon. Our aim is to capt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,217 Views
33 Pages

Attitudes and Perceptions of Health Leaders for the Quality Enhancement of Workforce in Saudi Arabia

  • Majid M. Hejazi,
  • Shayma S. Al-Rubaki,
  • Othman M. Bawajeeh,
  • Ziad Nakshabandi,
  • Basim Alsaywid,
  • Eman M. Almutairi,
  • Miltiadis D. Lytras,
  • Manal H. Almehdar,
  • Maha Abuzenada and
  • Halla Badawood

Background and Aim: Besides the unique exposure and experience of health leaders in facing challenges and overcoming them, and the relatively fewer articles relating to the perception of health leaders in workforce quality enhancement, health leaders...

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