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IB, a quarterly journal, is dedicated to the latest advancements of Internet and Business, and the intersection of Economics with business applications. The goal of this journal is to publish cutting edge research and promote the research work in these fast moving areas. All manuscripts submitted to IB must be previou…
Oyunbileg Pagjii, Suvdaa Damiran
The primary goal of this study is to assess practices and services provided by tax agencies from an ethical standpoint, to research and evaluate the impact of the ethical problems on supporting businesses, to compare the findings with practices in other publi…
Ibtisam M. Arrafi, Fahad M. Ghabban
E-commerce has been growing rapidly worldwide, and with the current COVID pandemic, consumers are relying on it. In Saudi Arabia, the online shopping has been improving but it has not reached its full potential. That is why the concept of Impulse buying is es…
Lovemore Mwale, Gorden Moyo
This think piece discusses the proposed policy on garrison shops designed for the members of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces to purchase subsidised groceries in their barracks, camps and cantonments. In mulling this policy intervention , the ruling executive-mili…
Gorden Moyo, Kucaca Ivumile Phulu
This article sets out to examine the legal and extra-legal instruments deployed by the ruling executive-military alliance in the fight against the scourge of the COVID-19 pandemic in Zimbabwe. The ruling executive-military alliance led by President Emmerson M…
Jun Zhou, Zaohua Liu
Based on the sample of A-share listed companies from 2011 to 2018, this paper analyzes the relationship between the performance of independent directors and corporate performance, and the moderating effect of independent directors’ human capital on the above…
Mounir El Khatib, Mariam Almteiri, Shaikha Aysha Al Qasemi
As the number of projects increase in diverse fields, so the demand for effective project managers increases. In the United Arab Emirates, the recent exponential growth has resulted in increased projects. However, determining an individual who would make an e…
Mounir El Khatib, Ahmed Al Jaberi, Ahmed Al Mahri
This paper aims to benchmark the Lessons Learned (LL) and Knowledge Management (KM) systems at X Oil Company. In order to do so, interviews were conducted with project managers from the company in order to assess their understanding of LL and KM use and appli…
Hans W. Gottinger
From a perspective of network economics , we look into the dynamics of competition, innovation and growth. This view relates theories, models and policy implications in a framework to approach the impacts of innovation and market dynamics on scale and scope o…
WanSup Um, Young Hun Kim, Jun Cheul Park
In recent years, the healthcare information system based on big data has been growing rapidly and is being adapted to medical information to derive important health trends and support timely preventive care. This study analyzes patents to grasp the latest tec…
Darkhijav Bayanjargal, Batsukh Davaasuren
It is very important for a company to determine spending for acquisition and retention of customers which affect the Customer lifetime value of the company. In this paper, we formulate the Customer lifetime value model as an optimal control problem. The obtai…
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IB, a quarterly journal, is dedicated to the latest advancements of Internet and Business, and the intersection of Economics with business applications. The goal of this journal is to publish cutting edge research and promote the research work in these fast moving areas. All manuscripts submitted to IB must be previou… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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