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The software industry presents dissatisfaction in relation to the level of recently graduated professionals. Consequently, software companies end up investing in the training of these professionals in order to develop skills related to the software development process. This paper presents an experience report of an adaptation of industry training practices in a course of Software Engineering (SE)...
The worldwide market for luxury and fashion goods is dominated today by a handful of multinational corporations (MNCs). The way MNCs access foreign markets and organize distribution, however, remains unclear. In this paper, based on an analysis of foreign trade statistics, we take the example of watches and provide a model to highlight the most important flows as well as regional hubs in this global...
According to a report online [34], more than 200 million unique users search for jobs online every month. This incredibly large and fast growing demand has enticed software giants such as Google and Facebook to enter this space, which was previously dominated by companies such as LinkedIn, Indeed, Dice and CareerBuilder. Recently, Google released their “AIpowered Jobs Search Engine”, “Google For Jobs”...
When analyzing competition in telecommunication markets it is fundamental to take into account their specific characteristics. Moreover, it is important to understand the temporal evolution of competition as a result of multiple contextual factors. For these reasons the present study analyzes competition in mobile telecommunications, measured through the Lerner Index, and explains its evolution through...
Since China launched the national silk road economic belt and formulate action plans, Xinjiang as the core of the land of the silk road economic belt looks remarkably, build Urumqi as the central Asia regional financial center. This is of great significance to the development of the west and to the outside world. In this paper, by analyzing the financial current situation of Urumqi, and will be in...
Social media serves as a unified platform for users to express their thoughts on subjects ranging from their daily lives to their opinion on consumer brands and products. These users wield an enormous influence in shaping the opinions of other consumers and influence brand perception, brand loyalty and brand advocacy. In this paper, we analyze the opinion of 19M Twitter users towards 62 popular industries,...
This paper discusses the existing approaches of competitiveness' management of small and medium enterprises. Porter's diamond approach is analyzed. The way of building competitive advantages is discussed and case study about Indian companies is provided.
The research identifies the priority of the improvement in Boards of Directors in the Russian power companies to enhance their corporate governance in the interests of investors. This is caused by numerous inconsistencies between the responsibility in the framework of the Boards of Directors in the current corporate practice and the principles and recommendations of the Code of Corporate Governance...
Processes of technological transformations allow moving to a qualitatively new level of technology business. This makes it possible to speak about occurrence of so-called cognitive era. In these circumstances, new management technologies and approaches are developing, in particular, the cognitive technologies in management. The paper describes the application of cognitive technologies in business...
The Rising Sophomore Abroad Program (RSAP) is a program for first-year engineering students that combines a spring semester global engineering course with a two-week international module in May immediately following the semester. RSAP has been running for 10 years, and a variety of assessments have demonstrated benefits for students participating in the program. However, the goals of RSAP extend beyond...
Specifications for a software system are usually verified using test cases in the testing phase. As is code coverage, specification coverage is expected to help comprehend how many specifications to be implemented are tested. In this study, we apply a visualization process for specification coverage to a web application development project in industry. This process provides two views for visualization...
This article provides a general conceptual description of the stages of activity and society digital transformation. The description is supported by the examples from media and retail.
This paper presents a few current difficulties in organizing and executing internships for engineering students, when the national industry is in transition. Until this day, a number of large national enterprises do not show an interest in supporting the higher technical education, also including the lack of internship offers. On the other hand, small and medium entrepreneurial sector show a great...
The EU's GDPR is expected to come into force on May 25, 2018. By this regulation, it will be possible to enforce even stronger legislation than the existing Directive. In particular, GDPR is expected to have a major impact on IoT industry, which uses diverse and vast amounts of personal information. This paper first examines why the IoT industry is affected by GDPR. Then, the paper describes how the...
The advent of the internet of things and industry 4.0 bring new paradigms that tend to affect the way of organizing several human activities, among them the production processes that are ruled by production and human work on a large scale in the production lines. Therefore, it is inevitable to think of how to prepare students for this new, oncoming reality, since these students will have to deal with...
The revolution caused by the advancement of technology, globalization and internet-enabled manufacturing is rapidly changing the manufacturing industry and requires engineers with different and more diverse knowledge than provided by traditionally-based curricula. In order to fill the emerging gap in engineering education we, educators, have to start thinking about preparing students for the future...
Rapid transformation of technologies and markets challenge organizations to build structures and norms that promote learning and innovation. Up until now, however, knowledge management has not been a common subject for investigation of university-industry collaboration in innovation projects. The few known studies have concentrated on the numbers of patents, spillovers and publications, or institutional...
Based on the unfolding model of voluntary employee turnover, this paper has investigated the influence of coworker turnover (CT) on stayer turnover intention (TI), the mediating effect of job satisfaction (JS) and the moderating effect of Self-perceived Employability (SPE) for stayer. Data has been collected from 259 employees came from 21 regions. By using hierarchical regression and bootstrapping,...
Value chain examination of tertiary education institutions is centered on the dynamics of inter-connection within the education sector, most especially the way in which tertiary education providers such as universities, polytechnics, institutes and the likes are universally integrated, this entails conventional systems of economic, social analysis and much more. This research work is centered on the...
It is said by a famous Chinese entrepreneur Jack Ma that which understands yourself the most is not your own but the computer. It is not difficult to find that the computers will always automatically recommend something for you. How do these things come from? It is the computer system which does the statistical analysis to your Internet habits, sorts out the content you may want to browse, and finally...
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