Many scholars and activists favor banning illicit businesses, especially given that such businesses constitute a large part of the global economy. But these businesses are commonly operated as if they are subject only to the ethical norms their management chooses to recognize, and as a result they sometimes harm innocent people. This can happen in part because there are no effective legal const...

OBJECTIVE To assess the evidence regarding the adoption and efficacy of worksite health promotion programs (WHPPs) in small businesses. METHODS Peer-reviewed research articles were identified from a database search. Included articles were published before July 2013, described a study that used an experimental or quasiexperimental design and either assessed adoption of WHPPs or conducted inter...

We investigate the relationship between the language consumers use when reviewing businesses to the socioeconomic level of those businesses’ areas by predicting a zip code’s median household income bracket from the language used in reviews of those businesses. We use a stochastic gradient descent model with modified Huber loss and L1 regularization and find roughly 39% accuracy in predicting in...

Communication processes between governments and businesses are increasingly networked. This paper increases our understanding of the information seeking behavior of businesses in the Government-to-Business domain. We conducted a quantitative study among Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in the Netherlands to discover source-channel interaction. The results provided several interactions regardi...

Millions of user reviews have been posted through Yelp. Automatic extraction of useful information from these reviews can be very beneficial for both users and businesses. Recent success in understanding the meaning of a word within the context of natural language processing (NLP) has shed a light on such a practice. Word2vec, an implementation of neural network based wordembedding approaches, ...

The profit and loss system is an integral part of a dynamic market economy. Losses eliminate businesses that are inefficiently managed or whose products no longer provide sufficient value. Almost a dozen popular TV shows feature entertaining expert hosts claiming to “save” failing businesses with injections of physical and human capital. We undertake the first comprehensive analysis of these sh...

Objectives The study considers how online home-based businesses offer opportunities for ethnic entrepreneurs to ‘break out’ of the traditional highly competitive and low margin sectors they are often associated with. Prior Work Previous studies have found a positive association between ethnic minorities high levels of entrepreneurship (Levie, 2007) and between home computer use and entrepreneur...

Getting consumers to disclose their personal information is an essential first step for Internet businesses that choose to pursue a niche marketing strategy. Previous research has examined how the reward preferences and privacy concerns of consumers may affect their disclosure tendency. However, it is not known how key characteristics pertaining to Internet businesses, such as consumer trust, m...

All businesses, big and small, manage many interactions with different communities each day. The enterprise interacts with employees, consumers, small businesses, mid-size businesses, and large businesses (see figure 1). These interactions are critical to the daily operation of the business. Inefficiencies that exist in the interactive processes of the enterprise create several business problem...

Small enterprises are facing significant challenges to become suppliers of bigger customers due to the excessive costs associated with accessing a vast market of potential customers. It is essential for small businesses to adopt an ERP system to maintain control of their operations and to compete globally. An ERP implementation is expensive and risky for all businesses, but it is still more cha...