The ESTIA project aims to provide the means for mass adoption of Business-to-Consumer (B2C) E-Commerce in the tourism sector. Its main objective is to exploit emerging infrastructures and access devices, and develop advanced applications in order to provide innovative services to all parties involved in the Tourism sector with emphasis on tourists and SME providers. ESTIA introduces a new innov...

The study reviews the current sorghum and maize production, processing and utilization in Botswana. Most of the grains produced in Botswana are used for home consumption, while processing of commercial and export commodities are limited both in terms of quantity and extent of processing. The major processing activity by both small scale and large scale firms is grain milling into maize and sorg...

When measuring the importance of the energy sector in a country’s nonfinancial business economy total (Graph 1), and among the 21 Member States with data available, Slovakia was the most specialised – in terms of both value added and employment – with the industry representing 14.8 % and 3.4% respectively of its non-financial business economy. By contrast, in terms of value added, the least spe...

Purpose: (i) Analyze and test CEO Narcissism Against Corporate Value Earnings Management; (ii) Analyzing testing the effect of Intervening on Company Management in Manufacturing Companies Industrial Sector Listed Indonesia Stock Exchange for period 2016-2020 Methodology: This study uses descriptive analysis, a type quantitative research, which, when viewed from data analysis method The techniqu...

This paper integrates two lines of research into a unified conceptual framework: trade in global value chains and embodied emissions. This allows both value added and emissions to be systematically traced at the country, sector, and bilateral levels through various routes in global production networks. By combining value-added and emissions accounting in a consistent way, the potential environm...

The present study explores the impact exerted by a series of factors and processes including creativity, IPR activities, new business formation and the provision of amenities on economic growth for 103 Italian provinces (NUTS 3) over the period between 2001 and 2006. Provincial growth rates are measured alternatively by value added growth and employment growth. Findings show a positive effect o...

In this paper, we develop a model to measure the effects of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) on the labor market, aiming to settle down its net effect on employment creation. The main findings are: 1) Related with the sector services, where the regions with worse evolution of the industrial employment showed growth in the information society sector services, being it intensive i...

This study investigates the responsiveness of manufacturing sector performance to major macroeconomic determinants in Nigeria, covering the period between 1981 and 2018. It contributes to attendant literature by examining the asymmetric impact of each of the macroeconomic variables, including GDP per capita, exchange rate, inflation rate, interest rate proxied by prime lending rate, and gross f...