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  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
12,395 Views
16 Pages

In Data Science, we are concerned with the integration of relevant sciences in observed and empirical contexts. This results in the unification of analytical methodologies, and of observed and empirical data contexts. Given the dynamic nature of conv...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Big Data and Cognitive Computing: Feature Papers 2018)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,428 Views
15 Pages

1 June 2022

The research problem addressed in this article concerns the formation of a business model in an energy company as a consequence of the European Green Deal. The paper seeks answers to three questions: (1) What is the significance of the European Green...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Strategic Management and Process Management in Energy Sector)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,796 Views
25 Pages

Because of the competitive economy, organizations today seek to rationalize, innovate, and adapt to changing environments and circumstances as part of business process improvement efforts. The strength of blockchain technology lies in its usage as an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Convergence of 5G and IoT in a Smart City Context)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,511 Views
23 Pages

Copula-Based Risk Aggregation and the Significance of Reinsurance

  • Alexandra Dias,
  • Isaudin Ismail and
  • Aihua Zhang

26 February 2025

Insurance companies need to calculate solvency capital requirements in order to ensure that they can meet their future obligations to policyholders and beneficiaries. The solvency capital requirement is a risk management tool essential for addressing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,720 Views
19 Pages

30 December 2017

Construction companies need to formulate sustainable construction business strategies to create a competitive advantage and remain in the market. This requires that construction firms incorporate sustainability into their business model. However, the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Construction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
24,136 Views
36 Pages

23 February 2016

The dynamics of change in modern business create new mechanisms for company management to determine their pursuit and the achievement of their high performance. This performance maintained over a long period of time becomes a source of ensuring busin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Business Models)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,901 Views
16 Pages

27 October 2020

In the era of expensive energy carriers and care for the climate, companies are keen to take action towards bolstering energy efficiency. Businesses often lack data on actual energy consumption to date, are rarely equipped with adequate analytical to...

(This article belongs to the Collection Energy Use Efficiency)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,695 Views
17 Pages

26 May 2024

From a sustainable development perspective, continuous industrial growth is an important issue. In recent years, it has become difficult for companies to survive in an increasingly competitive and rapidly changing business environment. To align with...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
7,642 Views
13 Pages

Business model dynamics is important, because high-tech companies, the technology that they commercialize, and the market in which they operate all change over time. We build on the dynamic capability view of the firm to explain business model evolut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
10,281 Views
19 Pages

The Fourth Industrial Revolution affects the operations of companies and results in new strategic thinking. The changes resulting from the requirements of Industry 4.0 force restructuring in many areas of management or the building of new business mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
9,044 Views
17 Pages

The simulation-based company valuation values a company on the basis of the risks actually present in the company without having to derive them from the capital market data. The simulation-based company valuation takes into account the market imperfe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Empirical Corporate Finance: Opportunities and Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
18,067 Views
24 Pages

25 March 2022

In the current era of rapidly increasing industrialization and rising environmental concerns, green investment and green marketing have become hot strategic issues to improve the business performance of companies. This study aims to examine the impac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,625 Views
16 Pages

With the changing conditions of business conduct, Industry 4.0 means a rapid development of new technologies, increased intensity of competition and evolving globalization, thus presenting enterprises with new challenges. There is a need to transform...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,354 Views
23 Pages

Collaborative Planning in Non-Hierarchical Networks—An Intelligent Negotiation-Based Framework

  • João Bastos,
  • Américo Azevedo,
  • Paulo Ávila,
  • Alzira Mota,
  • Lino Costa and
  • Hélio Castro

19 July 2023

In today’s competing business market, companies are constantly challenged to dynamically adapt to customer expectations by diminishing the time response that goes from the beginning of the business opportunity to the satisfaction of the custome...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
5,437 Views
21 Pages

Family businesses often face significant challenges while trying to develop and increase their sustainability throughout generations. This is often due to their inability to properly manage the knowledge required to develop their resources to increas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
17,195 Views
21 Pages

15 February 2023

The relevance of the problem of improving business models in the energy industry has become especially acute in recent years due to the energy transition, the emergence of new energy production and consumption technologies, and the increase in enviro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Business Model Innovation for Corporate Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,757 Views
16 Pages

13 February 2021

The plastic industry is facing increasingly growing social and political demands on plastic recycling and reuse. The resource perspective is essential for plastic production companies. Circular economy is one perspective for how industries could deal...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,480 Views
29 Pages

This article examines the requirements for the successful deployment of business analytics in industry and uses this as a framework to provide a business intelligence perspective on the demise of a case study company, drinks manufacturer HP Bulmer Lt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,634 Views
23 Pages

Identification of Educational Models That Encourage Business Participation in Higher Education Institutions

  • Angela Medina,
  • Jesus C. Hernández,
  • Emilio Muñoz-Cerón and
  • Catalina Rus-Casas

13 October 2020

In a scenario in which the labour market is increasingly competitive and there is a need to provide students with practical training, Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) must promote the labour integration of students, by building their competences...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Looking at Strategic Plans of Universities: Sustainable Education, Innovative and Collaborative Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,721 Views
19 Pages

22 March 2024

Responding to changing value creation processes in the sheet metal working sector, where the complexity and interchangeability of products challenge traditional differentiation strategies, this exploratory analysis examines the integration of service...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Transformation, Servitization, and Ecosystem Innovation for Sustainable Transition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,330 Views
12 Pages

29 June 2022

Ensuring the reliability of data gathering from every connected device is an essential issue for promoting the advancement of the next paradigm shift, i.e., Industry 4.0. Blockchain technology is becoming recognized as an advanced tool. However, data...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics – Taiwan (IEEE 2021 ICCE-TW))
  • Review
  • Open Access
164 Citations
35,177 Views
13 Pages

Business Intelligence: Business Evolution after Industry 4.0

  • Carlos Andrés Tavera Romero,
  • Jesús Hamilton Ortiz,
  • Osamah Ibrahim Khalaf and
  • Andrea Ríos Prado

7 September 2021

Industry 4.0 is a set of technologies that companies require to promote innovation strategies and obtain a rapid response in dynamic markets. It focuses mainly on interconnectivity, digital technology, predictive analytics and machine learning to rev...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Revolution in Sustainable Business Models and Finance Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
10,205 Views
14 Pages

Capital Allocation Methods under Solvency II: A Comparative Analysis

  • Pablo Durán-Santomil and
  • Luís Otero-González

19 January 2022

The objective of this document is to analyze different methods that an insurer can use to allocate capital to his or her different lines of business or business segments under Solvency II. For this analysis, a review of the main methods developed in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Mathematical Analysis and Models to Financial Economics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
10,352 Views
17 Pages

Modeling Analytical Streams for Social Business Intelligence

  • Indira Lanza-Cruz,
  • Rafael Berlanga and
  • María José Aramburu

Social Business Intelligence (SBI) enables companies to capture strategic information from public social networks. Contrary to traditional Business Intelligence (BI), SBI has to face the high dynamicity of both the social network’s contents and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,928 Views
22 Pages

Towards a Maturity Model for IoT Adoption by B2C Companies

  • Olena Klisenko and
  • Estefanía Serral Asensio

19 January 2022

The fast-growing market for the adoption of IoT technologies poses serious challenges for companies providing IoT solutions. These challenges require constant technological and managerial improvement from the companies. To select the right direction...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue IoT-Enhancing the Industrial World)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,673 Views
24 Pages

31 August 2025

The paper aims to identify areas and forms of cooperation between manufacturing companies and their business-to-business (B2B) stakeholders in CE. The paper includes a theoretical part (the literature review) and an empirical part (a survey of 200 ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,884 Views
15 Pages

5 June 2024

In the decarbonization of the steel, cement, and chemical industries in Germany, green hydrogen is expected to play a crucial role. The utilization of green hydrogen in the production processes of said industries requires organizations to modify thei...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,466 Views
21 Pages

Navigating the Complexity of HRM Practice: A Multiple-Criteria Decision-Making Framework

  • Vuk Mirčetić,
  • Gabrijela Popović,
  • Svetlana Vukotić,
  • Marko Mihić,
  • Ivana Kovačević,
  • Aleksandar Đoković and
  • Marko Slavković

29 November 2024

A myriad of diverse factors affect the contemporary business environment and all business areas, causing organisations to innovate new business models, or to use innovations to navigate the complexity of contemporary HRM practice successfully. Despit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Applications of Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Methods in Operational Research)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,599 Views
15 Pages

26 March 2019

A community benefit agreement (CBA) that provides tax breaks to a company often has provisions to help uplift the area where the business resides. A number of San Francisco companies, especially those in the technology sector, have received tax relie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,968 Views
30 Pages

30 November 2022

Considering the time dimension in big data analytics allows for a more complete insight into the analyzed phenomena and thus for gaining a competitive advantage on the market. The entrepreneurs also reported the need for temporal big data analytics,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Big Data: Advanced Methods, Interdisciplinary Study and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,116 Views
14 Pages

20 October 2020

This work considered the economic security of an enterprise with regard to the valuation of intangible assets according to the International Valuation Standards (IVS). This study is essential due to a growing number of companies with intangible asset...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantitative Methods in Economics and Finance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
11,426 Views
21 Pages

Motivations and Challenges for Food Companies in Using IoT Sensors for Reducing Food Waste: Some Insights and a Road Map for the Future

  • Ramakrishnan Ramanathan,
  • Yanqing Duan,
  • Tahmina Ajmal,
  • Katarzyna Pelc,
  • James Gillespie,
  • Sahar Ahmadzadeh,
  • Joan Condell,
  • Imke Hermens and
  • Usha Ramanathan

15 January 2023

Food waste is a serious problem worldwide, including in Europe. Research efforts are being carried out to reduce food waste. In this paper, we focus on using modern digital technologies (also known as Industry 4.0 technologies) to reduce waste in foo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Multidisciplinary Approaches for Reducing Food Waste in Agribusiness Supply Chains)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
9,713 Views
33 Pages

Self-Assessment Framework for Corporate Environmental Sustainability in the Era of Digitalization

  • Eduard Eisner,
  • Cadence Hsien,
  • Mark Mennenga,
  • Zi-Yu Khoo,
  • Jasmin Dönmez,
  • Christoph Herrmann and
  • Jonathan Sze Choong Low

17 February 2022

The shift towards a climate-neutral economy will affect businesses in the upcoming decades. Companies will need to increase their transformation towards environmentally sustainable businesses in the following years, in which digitalization might be a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Transformation and Its Opportunities for Sustainable Manufacturing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,009 Views
21 Pages

21 December 2023

This study aimed to create a loyalty program for a private security company’s most valuable customers using clustering techniques on a dataset from the company. K-means was employed as an unsupervised machine learning algorithm to segment custo...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,989 Views
10 Pages

Deriving vehicle-to-grid business models from consumer preferences

  • René Bohnsack,
  • Robert Van den Hoed and
  • Hugo Oude Reimer

28 December 2015

Combining electric cars with utility services seems to be a natural fit and holds the promise to tackle various mobility as well as electricity challenges at the same time. So far no viable business model for vehicle-to-grid technology has emerged, r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,204 Views
24 Pages

23 May 2023

Modern management requires the highest level of analytics and the optimisation of business processes with a low risk of poor management decisions. These are essential since rapid changes in the financial world and the external environment can have cr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,335 Views
17 Pages

26 July 2022

This paper proposes a tool for objective evaluation of organisations’ information and communication technologies (ICT) infrastructure development level: Composite Indicator of the Organisational Information and Communication Infrastructure&mdas...

(This article belongs to the Section D1: Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,856 Views
25 Pages

8 November 2022

This paper aims to identify the dynamic capabilities required for electrical energy service providers to transform toward a digital and platform-based business models in the context of the current energy transition. The paper contributes to two field...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Digitalisation and Data)
  • Review
  • Open Access
64 Citations
32,854 Views
15 Pages

28 March 2022

Sustainability as a growing trend in the 21st century has encompassed almost the entire world economy, including the automotive industry. As a result of this trend, automotive companies are adjusting their strategies and operations to contribute to t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
9,881 Views
12 Pages

Data migration is required to run data-intensive applications. Legacy data storage systems are not capable of accommodating the changing nature of data. In many companies, data migration projects fail because their importance and complexity are not t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Educational Data Mining and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,346 Views
24 Pages

5 June 2024

EIMIs face the challenge of adapting to the Paris Agreement and the European Green Deal to achieve carbon neutrality. Driven by consumer interest in low-carbon products, regulatory requirements, and investor priorities, companies are pressured to int...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,585 Views
18 Pages

Key Corporate Sustainability Assessment Methods for Coal Companies

  • Ekaterina Blinova,
  • Tatyana Ponomarenko and
  • Sofiya Tesovskaya

26 March 2023

Many businesses view sustainability issues as important and design corporate sustainability strategies. However, creating such a strategy does not mean the company will progress in sustainable development because the factors influencing businesses re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Corporate Sustainability and Sustainable Management in Changing Environments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
645 Views
15 Pages

2 April 2026

Circular economy development is about a system-level change towards significantly enhanced circularity and sustainability encompassing both biological and technical cycles. CE business models can be applied by companies to enhance the circularity of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Business Model Innovation, Circular Bioeconomy and Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,795 Views
17 Pages

7 December 2019

The sustainable development of business requires adjustments in corporate governance to assure the economic, social and environmental aspects of a firm’s responsibility are managed according to the triple bottom line approach. For this purpose,...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,108 Views
19 Pages

Strategic Decisions in Corporate Travel: Optimization Through Decision Trees

  • Jose-Mario Zarate-Carbajal,
  • Riemann Ruiz-Cruz and
  • Juan Diego Sánchez-Torres

28 November 2024

Global corporations frequently grapple with a dilemma between fulfilling business needs and adhering to travel policies to mitigate excessive fare expenditures. This research examines the multifaceted nature of business travel, delving into its key c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,283 Views
23 Pages

In the context of economic integration and the global trend of sustainable development, sustainability information disclosure is increasingly becoming an essential requirement for businesses. For the listed wine, beer, and soft drink industry in Viet...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainability and Finance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,246 Views
16 Pages

Digitalization is boosting the manufacturing industry’s shift to smart manufacturing systems, which will efficiently utilize the potential of new technologies for their business outcomes and value. However, the literature shows that manufacturing com...

(This article belongs to the Section Smart System Infrastructure and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
10,001 Views
19 Pages

Management of Risk Factors in the Rental Car Market

  • Aldona Jarašūnienė,
  • Nijolė Batarlienė and
  • Benediktas Šidlauskis

2 December 2024

The car rental sector is a dynamic and rapidly growing business sector, which is important for both the development of the automotive industry and consumer mobility needs. In the rental car market, risk management becomes an essential factor determin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
16,203 Views
22 Pages

Sustainable Development Model for the Automotive Industry

  • Lucian-Ionel Cioca,
  • Larisa Ivascu,
  • Attila Turi,
  • Alin Artene and
  • George Artur Găman

15 November 2019

The relationship between sustainability and business has become one of the central debates at the national and international level in both industrialized and emerging countries. A series of existing business models lack some critical aspects. The aut...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Engineering and Science)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,739 Views
6 Pages

19 November 2024

Small and micro-businesses often struggle with poor data accuracy due to a lack of dedicated labor force for non-core business functions. The required efforts and costs associated with improving data accuracy, such as setting up and operating an adeq...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The Sustainable Mobility and Transportation Symposium 2024)

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