APPLICATION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) IN TELEVISION INDUSTRY MANAGEMENT STRATEGY USING GROUNDED THEORY ANALYSIS: A CASE STUDY ON TVONE

The television industry has undergone many changes over time, especially with ever-increasing technological advances. One technology that has had a significant impact on this industry is artificial intelligence (AI). The purpose of this research is to understand the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in the television industry management strategy with a case study on tvOne. This study utilised qualitative methods to understand and describe the situation that takes place in the research environment. The sample in this study were five respondents from tvOne’s top management. The analysis began with the coding stage of the data derived from the results of the interviews which had been transcribed into text using a grounded theory approach. The conclusion of this study is that the opportunity provided by AI for the television industry is content production. Opportunities for implementing AI technology at tvOne, through the integration of AI in content production, are directed at increasing the efficiency and quality of program production by utilising more sophisticated data analysis and automation. Then, the challenges faced in implementing AI in the television industry are resources. The challenge of implementing AI technology at tvOne is in terms of human resources and physical resources needed, which include the necessary technical expertise and the availability of adequate financial resources and infrastructure

Financial technology in the automobile industry

This research targets financial technology in the automobile industry. It is a prediction technology to be used in future for money transferring techniques. The aim of the research is to notify “how the blockchain is planned to make the transactions secure and reduce the transactional costs.” Observing the participants’ opinions, the research will summarise their effectiveness based on current financial methods. To change this lack of information, the researcher proposes to conduct a case study on a small business. Using a mixture of interviews and participant observation, the researcher intends to ascertain whether the most effective implementation methodology was used to implement block chain technology into the small automobile business. To clarify further, investigation into why it was done this particular way and the ramifications of that choice will be conducted. The results from the interviews will be analysed in correlation with planning and preparation, implementation and integration of the new system, training, customer expectations and changes in management. The objective of the research is to analysis the current strategy used by the automobile dealers in New Zealand for their business and the procedures they use for online transactions. Introducing blockchain technology in the automobile industry will help the business to be more efficient and effective and it will lead to centralization of car dealers and customers in New Zealand under one head

Communicating Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Indonesia; an empirical case study on Bali’s tourism industry

Diese Studie untersucht die Kommunikationspraxis der sozialen Unternehmensverantwortung in der Tourismusbranche auf Bali; (1) was ist das Ziel, die Zielgruppe, der Inhalt, der Kanal, die Integration und die Strategie, (2) die Beziehung zwischen den Unternehmensmerkmalen (Geschäftssektor, Größe, Management- und Eigentumsart sowie finanzielle Leistung) und der Kommunikation zur sozialen Unternehmensverantwortung, (3) und die Umweltfaktoren. Diese Studie testet drei Hypothesen; (1) Das Ziel ist Legitimität, das Publikum ist eine Gemeinschaft, Inhalt ist ein Beitrag zur Gesellschaft, der Kanal ist Social Media, Integration ist auf Fotos und mit Informationsstrategie, (2) es besteht ein Zusammenhang zwischen Unternehmensmerkmalen und der Kommunikation zur sozialen Unternehmensverantwortung, und (3) der Umweltfaktor ist ein kulturelles Merkmal. Diese Fallstudie wird in Bali, Indonesien mit einem Mixed-Method-Design des exploratory sequential design durchgeführt. Zunächst werden 13 halbstrukturierte qualitative Interviews mit Vertretern von 13 Unternehmen geführt. Das Ergebnis wird durch eine quantitative Umfrage unter 528 Unternehmen überprüft. Die Daten werden unter Verwendung einer one-way ANOVA mit Post-hoc-analyse, Hauptkomponentenanalyse und Pearson-Korrelationsanalyse analysiert. Das Ergebnis zeigt, dass die Kommunikationsziele der balinesischen Tourismusunternehmen in erster Linie darin bestehen, Werte zu schaffen und Werbung zu machen. Die Unternehmen kommunizieren Umwelt-, Ethik-, Mitarbeiter- und Gemeinschaftsinitiativen an das externe und interne Publikum, indem sie gedruckte, interaktive, elektronische und digitale sowie Berichtskanäle mit interaktiven und informativen Strategien verwenden, die von soziodemografischen Faktoren und Stakeholder-Drucks beeinflusst werden. Der Geschäftsbereich des Unternehmens hat eine Beziehung zu Ziel, Zielgruppe, Inhalt, Kanal und Strategie, jedoch nicht mit Integration. Die Unternehmensgröße steht in Beziehung zu Ziel, Zielgruppe, Inhalt, Kanal, Integration und Strategie. Sowohl Management- als auch Eigentumstypen haben eine Beziehung zu Ziel, Zielgruppe, Inhalt und Kanal, aber nicht zu Integration und Strategie. Die finanzielle Leistung hängt mit Ziel, Zielgruppe, Inhalt, Kanal und Integration zusammen, jedoch nicht mit der Strategie. Diese Studie hebt einige interessante Einblicke hervor. Erstens haben balinesische Tourismusunternehmen das Prinzip der Unternehmenskommunikation angewendet, indem sie Beziehungen zu internen, markt- und gesellschaftlichen Interessengruppen aufgebaut haben. Zweitens haben die Unternehmen mit dem offensichtlichen Einsatz interaktiver Kommunikationsstrategien erfolgreich das symmetrische Kommunikationsprinzip, Stakeholder-Engagement-Strategie, oder dialogische Öffentlichkeitsarbeit angewendet. Drittens wird soziale Unternehmensverantwortung als eine Form der Kommunikation betrachtet. Schließlich fungieren bestimmte Mitarbeiter (Reiseleiter, Frontliner) und lokale Mitarbeiter als Kommunikationskanäle der soziale Unternehmensverantwortung. Schlüsselwörter: Unternehmenskommunikation, Soziale Unternehmensverantwortung, Strategie, TourismusindustrieThis study investigates CSR communication practice in Bali tourism industry; (1) what is the goal, audience, content, channel, integration, and strategy, (2), the relationship between company characteristics (business sector, size, management and ownership type, and financial performance) and CSR communication, (3), and the environmental factors. This study tests three hypotheses; (1) the goal is legitimacy, audience is community, content is society contribution, channel is social media, integration is on photos, and with informing strategy, (2) there is a relationship between company characteristics and CSR communication, and (3) the environmental factor is culture characteristic. This case study is conducted in Bali, Indonesia with a mixed method approach of exploratory sequential design. First, 13 semi-structured qualitative interviews are conducted with representatives from 13 companies. The result is tested through a quantitative survey involving 528 companies. The data is analyzed by using one-way ANOVA with post hoc, main component analysis, and Pearson correlation analysis. The result indicates that Bali tourism companies’ CSR communication goal is mainly to create value and promotion. The companies communicate environment, ethical, employee, and community initiatives to the external and internal audience by using print, interactive, electronic & digital, and report channel with interactive and informative strategy influenced by socio-demographic and stakeholder pressures. Company’s business sector has a relationship with goal, audience, content, channel, and strategy but not with integration. Company size has a relationship with the goal, audience, content, channel, integration, and strategy. Both management and ownership types have a relationship with goal, audience, content, and channel but not with integration and strategy. Financial performance has a relationship with goal, audience, content, channel, and integration, but not with strategy. This study highlights some interesting insights. First, Bali tourism companies have applied the corporate communication principle by building relationships with internal, market, and society-based stakeholders. Second, with the apparent use of interactive communication strategy, the companies have successfully applied the symmetrical communication principle, stakeholder engagement strategy or dialogic Public Relations. Third, CSR is considered as a form of communication. Lastly, specific employees (tour guides, front liners) and local employees act as CSR communication channels. Keywords; corporate communication, corporate social responsibility (CSR), strategy, tourism industr

A Diagnosis of Supply Chain Integration in Healthcare

abstract: Despite significant growth in research about supply chain integration, many questions remain unanswered regarding the path to integration and the benefits that can be accrued. This dissertation examines three aspects of supply chain integration in the health sector, leveraging the healthcare context to extend the theoretical boundaries, as well as applying supply chain knowledge to an industry known to be immature in terms of its supply chain practices. In the first chapter, a supply chain operating model that breaks away from the traditional healthcare supply chain structures is examined. Consolidated Service Centers (CSCs) embody a shared services strategy, consolidating supply chain functions across multiple hospitals (i.e. horizontal integration) and disintermediating several key roles in healthcare supply chains such as the group purchasing organizations and national distributors. Through case studies, key characteristics of CSCs that enable them to reduce the level of supply chain complexity are examined. The second chapter investigates buyer-supplier relationships in healthcare (i.e. supplier integration), where a high level of distrust exists between hospitals and their suppliers. This context is leveraged to study both enablers and barriers to buyer-supplier trust. The results suggest that contracting counteracts the negative effects of dependence on trust. Furthermore, the study reveals that hospital buyers may, in some situations, perceive dedicated resource investments made by suppliers as trust barriers, associating such investments with supplier upselling and entrenchment tactics. This runs contrary to how dedicated investments are perceived in most other industries. In the third chapter, the triadic relationship between the hospital, supplier, and physician is taken into consideration. Given their professional autonomy and power, physicians commonly undermine hospital efforts in supply base rationalization and standardization. This study examines whether physician-hospital integration (i.e. customer integration) can drive physicians towards supply selection practices that align with the hospital’s sourcing strategies and ultimately result in better supply chain performance. This study utilizes theory on agency triads and professionalism and tests hypotheses through a random effects regression model applied to data about hospital financial performance and physician-hospital arrangements.Dissertation/ThesisDoctoral Dissertation Business Administration 201

Mergers and acquisitions transactions strategies in diffusion - type financial systems in highly volatile global capital markets with nonlinearities

The M and A transactions represent a wide range of unique business optimization opportunities in the corporate transformation deals, which are usually characterized by the high level of total risk. The M and A transactions can be successfully implemented by taking to an account the size of investments, purchase price, direction of transaction, type of transaction, and using the modern comparable transactions analysis and the business valuation techniques in the diffusion type financial systems in the finances. We developed the MicroMA software program with the embedded optimized near-real-time artificial intelligence algorithm to create the winning virtuous M and A strategies, using the financial performance characteristics of the involved firms, and to estimate the probability of the M and A transaction completion success. We believe that the fluctuating dependence of M and A transactions number over the certain time period is quasi periodic. We think that there are many factors, which can generate the quasi periodic oscillations of the M and A transactions number in the time domain, for example: the stock market bubble effects. We performed the research of the nonlinearities in the M and A transactions number quasi-periodic oscillations in Matlab, including the ideal, linear, quadratic, and exponential dependences. We discovered that the average of a sum of random numbers in the M and A transactions time series represents a time series with the quasi periodic systematic oscillations, which can be finely approximated by the polynomial numbers. We think that, in the course of the M and A transaction implementation, the ability by the companies to absorb the newly acquired knowledge and to create the new innovative knowledge bases, is a key predeterminant of the M and A deal completion success as in Switzerland.Comment: 160 pages, 9 figures, 37 table

European integration and complementarities driven network alignment: the case of ABB in Central and Eastern Europe

The depth of industry integration between European ‘West’ and ‘East’ depends on the simultaneous existence of several factors, which, through mutual complementarities, align global and local networks. This paper takes the case of Asea Brown Bowery (ABB), one of the first large investors in central and eastern Europe (CEE), to show that the successful penetration of this company into CEE was the result of the simultaneous occurrence of several factors, which had mutually reinforcing complementarities. Changes in the strategy of ABB towards knowledge-based services may be weakening these complementarities and dis-aligning local and global networks in CEE. By integrating the insights of Milgrom and Roberts (1995) on complementarities the paper further develops the ‘network alignment’ perspective (Kim and von Tunzelmann, 1998) on growth

Testing for convergence in stock markets: A non-linear factor approach

This paper applies the Phillips and Sul (2007) method to test for convergence in stock returns to an extensive dataset including monthly stock price indices for five EU countries (Germany, France, the Netherlands, Ireland and the UK) as well as the US over the period 1973-2008. We carry out the analysis on both sectors and individual industries within sectors. As a first step, we use the Stock and Watson (1998) procedure to filter the data in order to extract the long-run component of the series; then, following Phillips and Sul (2007), we estimate the relative transition parameters. In the case of sectoral indices we find convergence in the middle of the sample period, followed by divergence, and detect four (two large and two small) clusters. The analysis at a disaggregate, industry level again points to convergence in the middle of the sample, and subsequent divergence, but a much larger number of clusters is now found. Splitting the cross-section into two subgroups including Euro area countries, the UK and the US respectively, provides evidence of a global convergence/divergence process not obviously influenced by EU policies

Trends and regional patterns of cross-border mergers and acquisitions: A case of Malaysian and Indonesian acquirers

Progress of cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in Asian region demonstrates an upstream pattern although the economy in Europe is unhealthy.In fact, many cross-border deals in Europe are dominated by Asian and US acquirers.In 2010, Asia Pacific countries had completed over 8,300 M&A deals that involved an Asian company reported by Dealogic. Countries such as China, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand are among Asian countries that are active in cross-border M&A.However, M&A trends in Malaysia and Indonesia have not received due attention of the researchers.Present study attempts to explore this phenomenon with the specific idea of identifying the background of Malaysian and Indonesian industries that involved in cross-border M&A.Present paper also reveals the integration trends involved when engaging in cross-border M&A. An opinion survey was conducted of the firms involved in M&A deals; the companies were identified from the Thomson One Banker main database which covers cross border M&A cases completed in Malaysian and Indonesia. Results show that engineering, software and telecommunication industries are among the leading industries engaged in cross-border M&A.Results also reflect that in terms of nationality of the acquired firms, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Singapore are among favourites to Malaysian and Indonesian acquirers.The study highlights higher success compared to failures in cross-border M&A in the countries under reference

Integration of multi-channel distribution and its impact on profit of fast fashion companies

Objectives The main objective of this study is to make a comparison between multi-channel distribution and single-channel distribution companies in terms of profit growth. The comparison enables companies to select the type of distribution system suitable for their businesses. Moreover, this paper strives for an effective framework of multi-channel distribution integration, which guides the companies to integrate their distribution channels in the case they choose to apply multi-channel distribution system. Summary Based on data from a survey, the paper explores customer behaviors related to the multi-channel distribution of fast fashion companies and points out that the system helps to enhance customer attraction and brand awareness. It also analyzes the financial performance of five fast fashion companies during a five-year period from 2012 to 2016. Aiming to instruct companies operating in the industry to integrate multiple distribution channels, a framework is proposed based on the original six-stage multi-channel strategy model of Sharma and Mehrotra (2007). Conclusions Integration of multi-channel distribution positively influences customer attraction and brand awareness of fast fashion companies. Nevertheless, e-commerce distribution only fast fashion retailers are having higher net income growth than multi-channel distribution retailers in the recent five years. The single-channel retailers may take into consideration applying the framework proposed in this paper to integrate retail stores with e-commerce channels effectively