Archive of "Business Sciences and Management Journal (BSMJ)"
Volume 2, Issue 1
Jan 2017

Business models and innovation in agritourism

Business Sciences and Management Journal (BSMJ), Volume 2, Jan 2017

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Agritourism is a significant part of the tourism sector, especially in rural areas, and is a context which represents some particular opportunities as well as some challenges. However, tourism industry is so different from the primary agricultural production that combining traditional agriculture and tourism will inevitably involve introduction of a new business model. In the same vein, tourism is an extremely competitive sector and, therefore, tourism firms competitiveness depends on their innovativeness (Sundbo, Orfila?Sintes and SOrensen, 2007). Furthermore, the amount of conceptual and empirical studies on the development of tourism?oriented businesses in the farm sector is limited. The purpose of this paper is to study agritourism firms to find out how farmers incorporate tourism business into their activities, i.e what kinds of business models farmers do within agritourism use and what is the importance of these models for innovation?

Author(s): Einar Lier Madsen, Evgueni Vinogradov

GOING GREEN IS NOT ENOUGH: IR IN 21ST CENTURY ASIA

Business Sciences and Management Journal (BSMJ), Volume 2, Jan 2017

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In order to tackle three critical issues, namely, high unemployment, a worsening income distribution and global warming, simultaneously, many governments around the world have adopted the strategy of promoting a green economy. Recently, many businesses have also been turning themselves into green businesses to strengthen their competitiveness. In view of the consistent decline in trade union membership worldwide, some have argued that trade unions should also go green by helping their employers become green businesses and therefore helping their members to get green jobs which are more stable, better paid and that provide better working conditions than traditional jobs. However, there is no guarantee that green jobs are more stable and better paid than traditional jobs. Therefore, there has also arisen an argument that Asian countries should look to their own culture and search for a different type of IR system which is a better fit for their own culture and able to provide more stable and better jobs.

Author(s): DR. JOSEPH S. LEE

INTERFACING INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT THEORY

Business Sciences and Management Journal (BSMJ), Volume 2, Jan 2017

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The growing complexity of information systems and temporal limitations to their development period have contributed to reduce the probability of success with the final product. The dynamic of these systems is marked by rapid change and constant alterations. A result of that is the fact that it is not always possible to apply correct development methodologies. This contributes to increase risk factors associated with systems development. Results of research into New Product Development have nonetheless established a connection between reduction in development cycle time and success with the final product. This paper addresses information systems development from the viewpoint of new product development theory. Factors such as clarity of project objectives or adequate requirement specification contribute to reduce both new product development cycle time and information system development risks.

Author(s): Dulce Magalhaes de Sa

Functionalities of machining optimizer system in relation to the decision support system

Business Sciences and Management Journal (BSMJ), Volume 2, Jan 2017

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Currently, the authors see different approaches to developing optimization of machining processes. The procedures created or modi ed, based on the appropriateness of cutting parameters according to the binomial cost/productivity. Alongside this, the authors developed, a system called Machining System Optimizer (MOS), which was developed to assist the complicated task of optimization of machining processes. The aim of this paper is to present the features of MOS for decision support system and how it helps in the process of machining to make the most correct decision for the production line.

Author(s): Elesandro Baptista