Analysis of Challenges for Blockchain Adoption in Enterprise Distributed Applications

Decentralization, auditability, smart execution, and security are four ways that blockchain technology (BCT) differs from current cutting-edge technologies based on client-server architecture. Without the need of any middlemen, blockchain technology builds trust between untrustworthy parties. By employing its distinctive properties, blockchain technology is presently used to address the problems of enterprise distributed applications (EDAs) to some extent. As a result, businesses involved in a wide range of industries have shown interest in it. Despite being praised as tool for businesses to create secure applications, BCT is still not widely used. The objective of the current study is to use an extension of the technology acceptance model (TAM2), constituted by 15 hypotheses (H1–H15), to address the factors that influence professionals' desire to adopt the BCT in the EDAs. In order to achieve the research objective, the study consists of a quantitative non-experimental correlational method with the goal of creating an empirical model to evaluate the relationship between perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, scalability, effort, performance, adaptability, maintainability, experience, and blockchain adoption in India with a focus on EDAs. Descriptive analysis, discriminant analysis, multiple linear regression, ANOVA, homoscedasticity, multicollinearity, reliability, linearity, survey question's normality, and independent errors are conducted to analyze survey data from a sample of 396 IT professionals from various firms in India. The findings show that IT professionals' desire to employ the BCT in EDAs are positively impacted by all the hypothesis except H3 and H8 that has no impact on IT professionals' desire to employ BCT

Comparative Study of Various Crowd Detection and Classification Methods for Safety Control System

A crowd is a distinct collection of people or anything that is involved in community or society. The phenomenon of a crowd is fairly well known in a wide range of academic fields, including sociology, civil engineering, and physics, amongst others. At this point in time, it has developed into the most active-oriented research and fashionable issue in the field of computer vision. Pre-processing, object detection, and event or behavior identification are the three stages of processing that are traditionally included in crowd analysis. These stages are pre-processing, object detection, and event recognition. Pre-processing, object detection, and event or behaviour identification are the three stages of processing that are traditionally included in crowd analysis. These stages are pre-processing, object detection, and event recognition. This study gives a model of crowd analysis as well as a taxonomy of the most prevalent method to crowd analysis. It may be helpful to researchers and would serve as a good introduction connected to the area of work that has been conducted

Relationship between entrepreneurial orientation, firm resources, SME branding and firm’s performance: is innovation the missing link?

Innovation is regarded as an engine for driving economic growth.Innovation is considered equally important for the large enterprises as well as the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).Role of innovation becomes of even greater importance in the context of the business environment of developing countries such as Pakistan, where most of the SMEs do not embrace rigorous innovation and at the same time there is lack of sufficient external support to encourage innovation.It has been discussed that despite of healthy economic contribution to Pakistan’s Economy, SMEs are facing a low growth trap.Innovation can come up as a potential solution specifically for Pakistani SMEs and generally for SMEs in developing countries in other parts of the world. This paper reviews the literature in a thorough manner in a bid to build a novel conceptual framework proposing that innovation has causal linkages with entrepreneurial orientation, firm resources, branding and firm performance. On the basis of literature review, four thoughtful research propositions have been presented in this paper. The proposed framework can lead to very useful insights as it proposes that branding may lead to innovation as opposed to generally believed concept of innovation leading to branding. This paper is built on the underpinning theories like Resource Based View, Dynamic Capabilities Perspective, and Theory of Economic Development. This paper also provides useful implications for the entrepreneurs as well as external institutions responsible for ensuring higher extent of innovation in SMEs in Pakistan

Empirical Investigation on the Relationship Between Strategic Orientations and SMEs Performance in Nigeria

This study examines the relationship between strategic orientations and SMEs performance in Nigeria. The debate on entrepreneurial orientation and market orientation to firm performance will for a long time remain area of research. The population of this paper consists of 3,723 of all the SMEs operating in Kaduna and Sokoto state North West Nigeria. Out of which 351 sample questionnaires were administered to respondents concerning the entrepreneurial orientation and market orientation to SMEs performance. 218 questionnaires were returned. The number of valid questionnaires is 213. The data were analyzed using Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) to determine the effect of the variables of the study. The findings of the paper indicated that entrepreneurial orientation promoting SMEs performance in Kaduna and Sokoto state North West Nigeria. Similarly, the result shows a statistically significant positive influence of entrepreneurial orientation to SMEs performance. While market orientation has no relationship with SMEs’ performance in Kaduna and Sokoto state North West Nigeria. The findings will provide the government, policy maker(s) and other SMEs’ stakeholders with the important variables of these entrepreneurial orientation and market orientation to SMEs performance in Nigeria. Implications and Suggestions for future research direction were discussed Keywords: Strategic orientation, entrepreneurial orientation and market orientation, Small and Medium Performance

Empirical Investigation on the Relationship Between Strategic Orientations and SMEs Performance in Nigeria

This study examines the relationship between strategic orientations and SMEs performance in Nigeria. The debate on entrepreneurial orientation and market orientation to firm performance will for a long time remain area of research. The population of this paper consists of 3,723 of all the SMEs operating in Kaduna and Sokoto state North West Nigeria. Out of which 351 sample questionnaires were administered to respondents concerning the entrepreneurial orientation and market orientation to SMEs performance. 218 questionnaires were returned. The number of valid questionnaires is 213. The data were analyzed using Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) to determine the effect of the variables of the study. The findings of the paper indicated that entrepreneurial orientation promoting SMEs performance in Kaduna and Sokoto state North West Nigeria. Similarly, the result shows a statistically significant positive influence of entrepreneurial orientation to SMEs performance. While market orientation has no relationship with SMEs’ performance in Kaduna and Sokoto state North West Nigeria. The findings will provide the government, policy maker(s) and other SMEs’ stakeholders with the important variables of these entrepreneurial orientation and market orientation to SMEs performance in Nigeria. Implications and Suggestions for future research direction were discussed Keywords: Strategic orientation, entrepreneurial orientation and market orientation, Small and Medium Performance

Investigating the Effect of Entrepreneurship Development on the Relationship between Market Orientation, Total Quality Management and SMEs Performance in Kano

This paper investigates the effect of entrepreneurship development on the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) performance in Kano. The issue of Market Orientation (MO), Total Quality Management (TQM) on the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) performance in Kano state will be an interesting area of research as a centre of commerce in Nigeria. The paper sample consists of 8,286 of all the SMEs operating in Kano state. Out of which 367 questionnaires were administered to respondents concerning the MO and TQM to SMEs performance, 297 were returned. The numbers of the valid questionnaires are 291. The data were analyzed using Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) to determining the effect of the variables of the study. The findings of the paper indicated that entrepreneurship development factors: MO and TQM promoting SMEs performance in Kano state. The results showed a statistically significant positive influence of both MO and TQM to SMEs performance. The finding provides the government, policy maker, SMEDAN and SMEs owners/ managers with the important variables of this MO and TQM to SMEs performance in Nigeria. This paper also made some recommendations for future research

The interplay of innovation, TQM practices and SMES performance in Pakistan: Moderating effects of knowledge inertia and external environment

This paper acknowledges the increasing importance of entrepreneurial activities for the promising and developing economies like Pakistan, where the lack of understanding of the dynamics and significance of the interplay between Knowledge Inertia, External Environment, Innovation and Total Quality Management (TQM) practices is hampering the entrepreneurial businesses’ success at large. The objective of the paper is to examine the moderating effects of entrepreneurs’ knowledge inertia, external environment and the relationship between innovation, TQM practices and Small and Medium Enterprises’ (SMEs) performance. This paper is conceptual in nature.It is base on thorough literature review relevant to the variables discussed in the paper.The paper is based on the theoretical foundations such as Resource Based View, Dynamic Capabilities Theory and Theory of the Growth of the Firm.The findings provide insights about how the new as well as existing ventures should achieve higher performance and sustainable competitiveness through the interplay of the variables discussed in the paper

Is Women’s Empowerment a Thucydides’ Trap for Patriarchy in Pakistan? The Aurat (Woman) March-2020 and Bina Shah’s Before She Sleeps

The Aurat (literal meaning, “woman” in Hindi) March, first organized in Pakistan on International Women’s Day in 2018, fanned the fire of feminist struggle in Pakistan. Since its inception, Pakistan’s patriarchy has tried to supress rising feminist voices. Last year (2020), the effort to supress these voices reached an exceptional level. Feminists faced a storm of opposition in the form of counter-marches and counter-narratives which were motivated mainly by the patriarchal agency of the country. This situation provides the basis for a critical examination of the deeply rooted patriarchal mind set, with reference to the prevailing gender politics of Pakistan. However, this paper studies this recent development of Pakistani feminism by contextualizing it within Greenblatt’s constructs of power, subversion, and containment, with particular reference to Bina Shah’s novel Before She Sleeps. By contextualizing the selected novel within the recent feminist development, this paper unmasks the way patriarchy responds to it and tries to contain it. This paper relies on the New Historicist approach to examine the feminist voices in the selected novel. For this purpose, the novel has been read in the backdrop of the feminist narrative of The Aurat March as manifested in different slogans of the march. By doing so, the paper highlights the containment strategies that were employed by the patriarchal agency in Pakistan as well as its manifestation in the contemporary Pakistani Anglophone literature. However, the study finds that the patriarchal agency in Pakistan employs various containment strategies—in the form of narratives of honour and domesticity—to contain the subversion it faces in the form of The Aurat March, and Shah’s novel textualizes the situation with utmost clarity. And instead of surrendering to the normative patriarchal structure, it offers the possibility of negotiation and change

‘Texts’ Battling COVID-19: A New Historicist Reading of My Hero Is You Published by UNICEF

New Historicist approach assumes power to be using texts and co-texts as tools to build as well as retain a certain set of ideology. Since the pandemic has re-defined the personal space of individuals as a precaution to avoid the containment and the spread of COVID-19, the world has come across an ideology of restraint, to live and survive. In other words, social distancing is about to become a new normative structure throughout the world. The study strives to view, how texts and co-texts are being used by the world powers to fashion selves those comply with the new normative, i-e., social distancing and personal care. It also shows the representation of COVID-19 in the literary discourse produced during this pandemic and re-validates Stephen Greenblatt’s constructs of power, subversion and containment in this particular context. The essay, having analysed the child fiction My Hero is You published by UNICEF, finds that this pandemic has changed the dynamics of world politics by bringing all the world governments on one page to fight with COVID-19 and that they are relying heavily on literary as well as non-literary discourses to introduce and implement the new normative of social distancing and personal care. The study also suggests that this pandemic has also accorded the draconian image of power a new form, as this time power is trying to inculcate the ideology that favours humanity; and with the help of these ‘texts’, power wants to construct selves those comply with this new normative.   &nbsp