Supply chains are composed of distributed, heterogeneous and autonomous elements, whose relationships are dynamic. Agricultural supply chains, in particular, have a number of distinguishing features e.g., they are characterized by strict regulations to ensure safety of food products, and by the need for multi-level traceability. Contracts in such chains need sophisticated specification and mana...

Managing business process compliance is a highly important topic in the financial sector. Various scandals and last but not least the financial crisis have caused many new constraints and legal regulations that banks and financial institutions need to face. Based on a domain-specific semantic business process modeling notation, we propose a new approach to modeling and analysis of business proc...

The cost of health insurance has been the primary concern of small business owners for several decades. State small group health insurance reforms, implemented in the 1990s, aimed to control the variability of health insurance premiums and to improve access to health insurance. Small group reforms only affected firms within a specific size range, and the definition of the upper size threshold f...

Business professionals create business process models in order to get an understanding of who is involved and which resources are needed for the execution of a business process. Such business process models are required as a basis for knowledge transfer, quality purposes, regulations, communication between internal and external collaborative partners, or documentation in general. Current proces...

Tại Việt Nam, không khó tìm thấy các cửa hàng, tiệm kinh doanh dịch vụ cầmđồ trên khắp con phố, ngõ hẻm từ đô thị đến nông thôn. Trong vài năm trở lại đây,nhiều nghiệp này còn mở rộng chi nhánh, địa điểm doanhcó tính hệ thống, bao phủ tỉnh thành. Đầu 2023, xã hội đặc biệt quan tâm và đặt ranhiều vấn đề pháp lý về quản nhà nước đối với hoạt động này, khi một sốdoanh trong lĩnh vực cầm đồ công ty...

This paper examines the disparate impact of US federal regulations on small businesses. Using a two-sector dynamic general equilibrium model, we obtained two implications higher regulation firms that have yet to be empirically tested in published literature. First, as increase, firms’ share employment shrinks. Second, rise, total output falls. panel industry-specific regulatory restrictions, fo...

Business processes form the foundation for all organizations, and as such, are impacted by industry regulations. Without explicit business process definitions, flexible rules frameworks, and audit trails that provide for non-repudiation, organizations face litigation risks. This requires organizations to review their business processes and ensure that they meet the compliance standards set fort...