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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…
Vassilis Polimenis
Lepto-regression is defined as the machine learning process of constructing a Regression Tree of a target feature on itself. It is a novel, model-free method potentially revealing information on important sample structure properties. But it is yet not clear w…
Robert Kihoro Kibe, Nancy Muthoni, Alice Omariba
In an era where public sector institutions worldwide are under increasing pressure to demonstrate efficiency, transparency, and results, performance management frameworks such as target setting have become essential tools for driving organizational effectiven…
Simin Latifi
In a marketplace where consumer attention is fragmented across platforms and devices, single-channel advertising strategies have become increasingly ineffective. This paper presents a case-based framework for designing and executing multichannel campaigns tha…
Rennie Cowan
The model of supply-and-demand evaluates streaming content business as a phenomenon within the “the most widely used economic model” in order to illustrate affordable consumption that offers more at lower prices ( Perloff, 2024: p. 10 ). Netflix’s broad catal…
Samson Poon
This paper investigates the financial impacts of the Global Financial Crisis and the 2008 Financial Crisis on firm level financial performance in Hong Kong SAR using regression analysis and two sample t-tests. This study focuses on key financial indicators su…
Chikashi Tsuji
This paper explores contemporary trends in cross-border M&As in Japan and examines whether they have truly become globalized. The key findings are as follows. Firstly, we reveal that cross-border M&A transactions where Japan is the buyer have recently decreas…
Ramil Abbasov
Budget transparency—the open disclosure of government financial information—is increasingly recognized as essential to democratic governance and legitimacy. Empirical research indicates that jurisdictions with well‐implemented transparency measures often expe…
Françoise Delphine Ngo Omam
The Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) is an organization weakly endowed with intangible resources, however essential for its functioning. To optimize its performance, it must acquire information, which is a strategic intangible resource. This one is ava…
Zetai Kong
Entrepreneurship is widely acknowledged as a fundamental driver and also a key mechanism to transfer knowledge, promote innovation, and foster economic growth. Entering the era of the knowledge economy, entrepreneurial education and training have received sub…
Armand Gilbert Noula, Ruth Dzokou Petnga
The objective of this work is to explore the complex links between the informal economy, income inequality and the role of state political will in 32 African countries by analyzing secondary panel data from 1995 to 2018. Using econometric models based on the…
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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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