Early Predictions of Movie Success: The Who, What, and When of Profitability

Early Prediction of Movie Success - What, Who, and When

Leveraging historical data from the movie industry, this study built a predictive model for movie success, deviating from past studies by predicting profit (as opposed to revenue) at early stages of production (as opposed to just prior to release) to increase investor certainty. Our work derived several groups of novel features for each movie, based on the cast and collaboration network (who’),...

Perception of Students on Business Social Responsibility (BSR) with Regards to Profitability, Long Term and Short Term Success of Firms in Nigerian (SEM Approach)

This study identifies and compares the antecedent of Nigerian students’ perception on business social responsibility. Part of its objectives is to examine the perception of business students in terms of importance of business social responsibility with respect to profitability, and the effectiveness of social responsibility in both long and short terms. The study reviews the related literature ...

An Exploratory Study of Genuine Criticism Realization and Mitigation Strategies a Case of Movie Interactants

Genuine Criticism (GC) is an evaluative expression of annoyance with an attribute in the interlocutor, whose realization may threaten the positive image of both interlocutors. The current study investigates facework and politeness in performing GCsin different contexts and for interlocutors with low social distance and high status in terms of GC realization strategies and mitigation devices tha...

The Why, Who, What, How, and When of Patient Engagement in Healthcare Organizations: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Dual Punitiveness- Tolerant Approaches to Response to Drugs and Psychotropic Crimes: Discourse Analysis of “Metri Shisho Nim” movie

Extended Abstract Introduction: Although there has been a deep consensus among criminal science scholars about the necessity of applying punishment per se in response to the most severe criminal behaviors, human beings still tend to instinctively respond to criminal behavior with repressive measures. While there is no denial of the necessity of applying penalties in the fight against criminal ...