Industrial symbiosis (IS) can contribute to achieving a win-win situation between industry and environment for local regional circular economies. Many authors have recognized that variety of barriers hinder the implementation IS. However, there is very limited research on quantitatively evaluating IS barriers. In this paper, we propose model which combines Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) Techn...

COVID-19 put unprecedented external pressure on small businesses to adopt or increase use of social media while not all are internally ready for this rapid change. This study investigated the roles pressures and organizational culture openness learning in driving retail business owners'/managers' decisions by impacting their perceived usefulness barriers, based innovation-decision process model...

In an environment where managers’ability to generate pro…ts changes stochastically over time, we characterize the optimal turnover policy for a …rm hiring a succession of managers. The focus is on the interaction between the compensation scheme used to incentivize the managers’e¤ort and the retention policy used to screen the managers’types and induce the desired turnover. Our key positive resu...

Cultural competence (CC) for professionals and organizations has been recognized as a key strategy to reduce health care inequalities for migrants and to promote responsiveness to diversity. For decades its main aim has been matching health services to the cultural needs of migrant users. Otherwise literature highlighted the need to find a pragmatic middle way between the 'static' and the 'dyna...

BACKGROUND Government agencies in the United States are creating mobile health (mHealth) apps as part of recent policy changes initiated by the White House's Digital Government Strategy. OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to understand the institutional and managerial barriers for the implementation of mHealth, as well as the resulting adoption pathways of mHealth. METHODS This articl...

The purpose of this study is to identify the barriers of application of precision farming in the view of agricultural researchers in Khouzestan province. The research method was survey. Agricultural researchers in Khouzestan province considered as statistical population (N=136). All researchers considered as sample size by census method.  After designing and validating the questionnaire, the qu...

We examine the role of managerial talent and its interaction with practices in determining firm performance. build a matched firm-director panel dataset for universe limited liability companies Italy, tracking individuals across different firms over time. define as management's capacity to boost firms' total factor productivity, estimated using two-way fixed effects model. Combining data survey...