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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Innovation is essential for competitiveness in agribusiness facing dynamic environments. This study examines how market orientation, marketing, relational, and social capabilities influence innovation performance. Using data from 751 Spanish firms and a multi‐method approach that integrates Structural Equation Modeling (PLS‐SEM), Necessary ...
Beatriz Corchuelo Martínez‐Azúa +1 more
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Crisis in Nicaraguan Microfinance: Between the Scylla of Business for Profit and the Charybdis of Clientelism [PDF]
From the being a poster child of microfinance development, Nicaragua became one of the nightmares for the industry. The negative influence on the countries' repayment culture of the Non-Payment Movement, ambiguously related to the new Sandinista ...
Bastiaensen, Johan, Marchetti, Peter
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The Geography of Success: A Spatial Analysis of Export Intensity in the Italian Wine Industry
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates the paradox of how Italy's fragmented, SME‐dominated wine industry achieves global export success. Moving beyond purely firm‐centric explanations, we test whether export intensity is spatially dependent, clustering geographically in regional ecosystems.
Nicolas Depetris Chauvin, Jonas Di Vita
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Will microfinance continue to evolve into a mainstream asset class? Indications in favor and against [PDF]
The microfinance sector has been going through profound changes in the last decades: It evolved from a donor-based community, driven by philanthropic objectives, to a high growth market that is today attracting commercial investors who seek social impact
Kirchstein, Katja, Welvers, Kathleen
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The regulation of consumer credit information systems: Is the EU missing a chance? [PDF]
, 2007 This article examines the legal framework of consumer credit information systems in the EU in view of a single retail credit market. It puts forward the proposition that positive law is inadequate to strike a balance between legitimate concerns over ...
Ferretti, F
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AI in chemical engineering: From promise to practice
AIChE Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) in chemical engineering has moved from promise to practice: physics‐aware (gray‐box) models are gaining traction, reinforcement learning complements model predictive control (MPC), and generative AI powers documentation, digitization, and safety workflows.
Jia Wei Chew +4 more
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Modelling Digital Technology Addiction for Individual Over-Indebtedness
The International Journal of Science & Technoledge, 2019 Technology had become an essential part of our daily routine, which we cannot live without. It becomes a useful communications tools where people communicate with each other’s in many ways via digital technology. However, the developments in the digital software had caused to the new types of behavioural addiction to arise, such as digital game ...
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Large Language Model‐Based Chatbots in Higher Education
Advanced Intelligent Systems, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2025.The use of large language models (LLMs) in higher education can facilitate personalized learning experiences, advance asynchronized learning, and support instructors, students, and researchers across diverse fields. The development of regulations and guidelines that address ethical and legal issues is essential to ensure safe and responsible adaptation
Defne Yigci +4 more
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping autonomous mobile robot navigation beyond classical pipelines. This review analyzes how AI techniques are integrated into core navigation tasks, including path planning and control, localization and mapping, perception, and context‐aware decision‐making. Learning‐based, probabilistic, and soft‐computing methods
Giovanna Guaragnella +5 more
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Endettement et parentalité intensive : les difficultés de remboursement chez les parents du Québec
Enfances, Familles, GénérationsResearch Framework: Although indebtedness can promote socioeconomic mobility, for example by facilitating the purchase of a home, it can also lead to over-indebtedness, resulting in stress, social isolation, and precariousness.
Maude Pugliese, Magalie Quintal-Marineau
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