Abstract Sustainability encompasses social, economic and environmental issues with the primary aim to fulfil needs of present society without compromising potential future generations. Product design has been identified greatly influence sustainability New Development. This study aims identify review fundamental factors in which product ability improve overall a product. A comprehensive literat...

This short discussion paper addresses how controversy is monetized online by reflecting on a new iteration of the shock value in media production, identified social as ‘clout chasing’ phenomenon. We first exemplify controversial behavior, and subsequently proceed to defining clout chasing, which we discuss this concept relation existing frameworks for understanding media. then outline what chas...

This research explores the argument that developing countries (DC) need effective and good quality communications and information technology (C&IT) policies as a strategy for socio-economic growth. It focuses on Venezuela and attempts to gain an understanding of the current and potential impact of national C&IT policies and strategies in the C&IT diffusion process and globalisation arena. It is...

This paper studies poverty as a dynamic phenomenon, motivated by the recurring economic crises that affect developing countries and the incidence of income fluctuations on household welfare. While the increasing availability of household panel data has been exploited in theoretical analysis and empirical applications, the methodological and applied literatures still lack a unified framework. Ec...

Competing theories argue, respectively, that more trade reduces, increases, or does not affect interstate military conflict. We offer a new general theory on how trade affects conflict, which encompasses the liberal logic and the neo-Marxist/neo-mercantilist mechanism of asymmetric dependence and offers alternative explanations to the effects predicted by the bargaining and classical realist ap...

The Thai government’s project called “Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC)” was announced in 2016 to stimulate economic development and help the country escape from middle-income trap. provides investment incentives for private sector infrastructure of land, rail, water, air transportation. EEC encompasses three provinces eastern region Thailand because their strategic locations near deep seaports n...

Open Science policies encourage researchers to disclose a wide range of outputs from their work, thus codifying openness as a specific set of research practices and guidelines that can be interpreted and applied consistently across disciplines and geographical settings. In this paper, we argue that this "one-size-fits-all" view of openness sidesteps key questions about the forms, implications, ...