Virtual Reality (VR) holds immense potential to revolutionize the tourism industry by transforming how destinations are marketed and experienced. Research consistently emphasizes VR's ability to enhance and enrich tourist experiences, offering new dimensions of engagement. However, despite its...

Malnutrition poses significant challenges to African food systems. Addressing these challenges requires synergistic strategies informed by a comprehensive understanding of consumers' food preferences and characteristics, which necessitates the identification of more homogeneous consumer groups....

This study integrates the Logistics Performance Index (LPI), Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI), and Human Development Index (HDI) through Multiple Factor Analysis (MFA) and hierarchical clustering to create a comprehensive perspective on global development. By clustering countries based on...

Using deal-level micro data from the Dealroom database, we construct a dynamic co-investment syndication network to examine the influence of cultural proximity and geospatial proximity between investors and start-ups, as well as the network position of global VC firms on investment decisions in...

Context: Vocational teachers' professional work builds on both vocational and teaching competence, requiring vocational teachers to balance multiple identities in their professional practice. As a professional group coming to education from different vocational disciplines, vocational teachers...

This study develops a multidimensional classification of Latin American and Caribbean countries based on a multidimensional set of economic, social, technological, and environmental indicators. This study develops a multidimensional assessment of the performance of Latin American and Caribbean...

The adoption of artificial intelligence by enterprises in the EU countries increased significantly between 2021 and 2024, but the recorded values were uneven and very small. This study analyzed the main characteristics of the artificial intelligence adoption process, its dynamics and patterns...

This paper aims to identify emerging research topics related to brand activism: analyzing current research trends and providing a comprehensive overview of its various aspects. Brand activism, transcending traditional business roles, represents a strategic alignment of corporate identities with...

This research analyses, from a spatio-temporal perspective, the evolution of the behaviour and disparities of European regions in relation to information and communication technologies (ICTs) by households and individuals and socioeconomic sustainability for the period 2011-2020. Three complex...

We analyze a large panel of units grouped by shared extreme value indices (EVIs) and aim to identify these unknown groups. To achieve this, we order the Hill estimates of individual EVIs and segment them by minimizing the total squared distance between each estimate and its corresponding group...

Slovenia and other EU member states are subject to the Macroeconomic Imbalances Procedure. This article aims to evaluate the macroeconomic imbalances of the Slovenian economy and its synchronisation with other EU countries from 2013 to 2022. Eleven Scoreboard indicators are used to monitor...

The effect of digital industries (DI) on carbon emissions has drawn significant attention, however, comprehensive consideration of regional heterogeneity, industry variability, and direct and indirect impacts is still lacking in existing studies. This study uses the Input-Output method and...

The Indonesian government has implemented poverty alleviation programs, including assistance programs for the poor. Despite these efforts, the number of impoverished individuals in South Sulawesi continues to rise. To address this issue, a statistical method is necessary to cluster the poor...

The gender gap problem reflects persistent inequalities between men and women across economic participation, education, health, and political representation, driven by social, cultural, and institutional biases that restrict equal opportunities and outcomes. This paper explores the state of...

Within business management, the growing interest in work engagement stems from its recognised role in mitigating employee well-being, bolstering job satisfaction, and optimising organisational outcomes. This review comprehensively explores the knowledge structure of work engagement in business...

Understanding consumer behaviour is crucial for companies operating in the food products market, which has undergone numerous changes in recent years. Consumer typology plays a vital role in the development of effective marketing strategies and in catering to diverse consumer needs. The article...

Investigating how systemic risk originates and spreads across the financial system poses an inherently compositional question, i.e., a question concerning the joint distribution of relative risk share across several interdependent contributors. To address this question, we propose a weighted...

Agricultural and food production, particularly in the livestock sector, along with consumption, have potential impacts on several areas, such as the use of natural resources, biodiversity, and to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). Notably, methane is generated during livestock...

Agricultural and food production, particularly in the livestock sector, along with consumption, have potential impacts on several areas, such as the use of natural resources, biodiversity, and to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). Notably, methane is generated during livestock...

Spatially resolved modelling of local hydrogen ecosystems can help to identify optimal sizing and locations for plants and infrastructure along the value chain. Spatial clustering to identify the subregions can lead to a better representation of important features compared to administrative...

In this work we analyze the evolution of productivity, in terms of the convergence of per capita income, of all the Spanish provinces, based on data from the previous decade. On the one hand, a cluster analysis allows us to group the Spanish provinces according to four income levels (low,...

The interest in clusters in the economy and regional space, which has persisted for nearly three decades, has reignited the understanding of the economy as a system of interdependencies between industries. Although the concept of clusters can be traced back to contributions dating from the early...

This study analysed the determining factors of the concentration of "superstar firms" in specific economies, with a focus on the interaction between technological innovation, economic development, and market structures. Using global data from Statista on superstar firms for the year 2022,...

The estimation of age-to-age development factors is fundamental to loss reserving, with direct implications for risk management and regulatory compliance in the auto insurance sector. The precise and robust estimation of these factors underpins the credibility of case reserves and the effective...

Almost every food retailer offers them - temporary loyalty programs (TLPs). TLPs aim to enhance customer loyalty by offering enticing, product-based incentives. However, an emerging concern arises regarding the sustainability impact of these programs, and consumers have started questioning the...

Purpose - The purpose of this research is to develop a set of policies to solve the decarbonization issues of container terminal clusters. Design/methodology/approach - This research used the system dynamics approach to develop an integrated multi-issue policy model. Findings - We found that the...

Das Cluster Forst und Holz umfasst die wirtschaftlichen Aktivitäten mit Bezug zur Produktion von Rohholz und der daran anschließenden holzbasierten Wertschöpfung. Im Cluster werden traditionelle Holzverwendungen wie die Herstellung von Schnittholz, Holzwerkstoffen oder Zellstoff sowie der...

The role of setup times in production planning and control was recognised in the late 1960s. Since then, a growing number of scheduling problems have accounted for sequence-dependent setup time variables. This study aims to provide a systematic review of setup times in the short-term production...

Multi-level eco-labels, such as an eco-score, combine various environmental product attributes into one overarching label and have the potential to effectively promote sustainable consumption and business practices. This study uses an adaptive choice-based conjoint analysis based on an online...

Urban functional areas, as an important fundamental component of urban planning, hold significant importance for optimizing urban layouts, resource allocation, and the rational organization of socio-economic activities. Urban functional area division using traditional methods often has...

This research examines the role of the financial sector in advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by promoting access to financial services and leveraging Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Utilizing the k-means++ algorithm, we clustered 41 European countries based on...