Results 61 to 70 of about 2,076 (178)
BMIT: A Blockchain-Based Medical Insurance Transaction System
Applied SciencesThe Blockchain-Based Medical Insurance Transaction System (BMIT) developed in this study addresses key issues in traditional medical insurance—information silos, data tampering, and privacy breaches—through innovative blockchain architectural design and ...
Jun Fei, Li Ling
doaj +1 more source
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The FAO's “blue transformation” roadmap necessitates a fundamental shift towards precision aquaculture to meet global food security targets while minimizing environmental footprints. This review provides a comprehensive overview of how artificial intelligence (AI) and decision support systems (DSS) serve as pivotal enablers for the “better ...
Mustafa Öz, Enes Üstüner
wiley +1 more source
Symbols of Climate Action: Audit Labor and the Production of Carbon Credits
Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Voluntary carbon markets (VCMs) are promoted as tools for financing climate mitigation, yet their effectiveness and credibility remain contested. This article examines how carbon credits are produced and destabilized as symbols of climate action, emphasizing the forms of ecological and audit labor that sustain their legitimacy.
Diego Silva Garzón
wiley +1 more source
Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) face significant institutional barriers when expanding across borders, including regulatory constraints, financial accessibility issues, and market entry challenges. Institutional theory provides a useful framework for understanding how external regulative, normative, and cognitive institutional forces
Sharmin Nahar, Muntasir Alam
wiley +1 more source
PoV: An Efficient Voting-Based Consensus Algorithm for Consortium Blockchains
Frontiers in Blockchain, 2020 The blockchain has a great vogue in recent years, and its core consensus algorithms also become the focus of research. At present, most of the research on consensus mechanisms are oriented to the public blockchain and based on existing consensus ...
Kejiao Li +9 more
doaj +1 more source
British Journal of Management, EarlyView.Abstract The circular economy (CE) is often treated as a technological or system‐design challenge. We argue that it is also a managerial transition that remains under‐theorized. Rather than assuming that CE requires wholly new managerial frameworks, we revisit Fayol's functions of planning, organizing, leading and controlling as enduring managerial ...
Kerry Hudson, Roberta De Angelis
wiley +1 more source
European Management Review, EarlyView.Abstract In the digital era, established organizations face significant challenges in adapting to unfolding changes. This study explores the reciprocal relationship between prospective sensemaking and corporate foresight within a large European bank engaged in digital transformation through its corporate accelerator program.
Anna‐Sofia Yanson +2 more
wiley +1 more source
Homomorphic Consortium Blockchain for Smart Home System Sensitive Data Privacy Preserving
IEEE Access, 2019 The relative low level of smart home system (SHS) device information security may threaten the privacy of users. In this paper, we propose a homomorphic consortium blockchain for SHS sensitive data privacy preserving (HCB-SDPP), which is based on the ...
Wei She +5 more
doaj +1 more source
Energy Conversion and Economics, 2020 Transnational power trading can promote the development of global energy Internet, which can enable various countries and regions to optimize the allocation of resources on a larger scale.
Yingchun Feng +5 more
doaj +1 more source
Crossing the Valley of Death: Why Some EU Technology Initiatives Fail Before Operationalisation
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines why some European Union (EU) technology initiatives fail to transition from policy announcement or pilot launch to durable operationalisation. Existing scholarship disproportionately focuses on successful or fully institutionalised initiatives, overlooking a substantial number of projects that stall after announcement or ...
Antonio Calcara
wiley +1 more source