How Do We Get Paid for This? The Relationship Between Strategic Design Management and Pricing Power by Ian D. Parkman

“… The belief that strategic design leads to improved firm competitiveness is broadly recognised in contemporary research. …”
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Internal branding as a tool for integrated organisational alignment by Julia Scheffer, Andrea Crystal

“… Within an evolving business environment, it is central to the continuing success of organisations that internal communication be taken into consideration in the quest to increase organisational competitive advantage. This paper explores the importance of an alignment existing between internal organisational values and the external organisational image. …”
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Multichannel Speech Enhancement in Vehicle Environment Based on Interchannel Attention Mechanism by Xueli Shen, Zhenxing Liang, Shiyin Li, Yanji Jiang

“…The two-stage BiLSTM network is capable of local and global features extracting and reaches competitive results. Using scenarios and data based on car cockpit simulations, in contrast to other methods that extract the feature from multichannel data, the results show the proposed method has a significant performance in terms of all SDR, SI-SNR, PESQ, and STOI.…”
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HIGHER ECONOMIC EDUCATION IN CONCEPTS OF SYNERGETIC PARADIGM NONLINEAR THINKING by Tatiyana V. Kichkiruk

“…This will ensure that the conditions for the growth of the country's competitiveness internationally will improve the socio-economic situation in Ukraine. …”
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Development of Educational Communication Path of Journalism in Colleges and Universities in the Era of Mobile Communication by Xiaoman Xu, Chunxia Liu

“…Especially in terms of information dissemination, it not only allows people to better obtain the content they are interested in but also provides media workers with more ways to understand their own needs, meet the needs of audiences, and enhance competitiveness. Therefore, in order to enhance the development space of the journalism major, this article studies the communication development path of this major in colleges and universities in the era of mobile communications. …”
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Activities in the Context of a Network, Trust and Internal Resources as Antecedents of the Effectiveness of Network Governance: a Study of the Impact on the Performance of the Comp... by Henrique Cordeiro Martins, Lucas Araújo Bassalo de Siqueira, José Antônio Sousa Neto

“…In a competitive business environment, the role of entities capable of exercising network governance (NG) has become indispensable to the operations of the companies involved. …”
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AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO THE ANALYSIS OF RELIABILITY OF MACHINE-BUILDING ENTERPRISES IN THE INDUSTRY ENVIRONMENT by N. Arsenieva, L. Putyatina, A. Zheltenkov

“…The purpose of the article is to describe methodological approaches to the complex concept of reliability of engineering enterprises in a competitive environment. The concept of enterprise reliability is proposed to include the following areas of analysis: sustainability of economic growth, financial stability, industrial mobility and market stability. …”
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SUSTAINABLE (RE)DEVELOPMENT OF TOURISM DESTINATIONS AS A PLEDGE FOR THE FUTURE – A CASE STUDY FROM THE WESTERN BALKANS by Miroslav KNEŽEVIĆ, Renata PINDŽO, Milan ĆULIĆ, Sanja KOVAČIĆ, Milosav DUNJIĆ, Aleksandra VUJKO

“…Western Balkans countries have the potential for sustainable tourism development, but to better position themselves in the tourist market, they need to achieve a competitive advantage. Bearing in mind the changes that occurred during and after the crisis, it is necessary to have a good plan for the re(development) of tourist destinations. …”
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Advancements in End-to-End Audio Style Transformation: A Differentiable Approach for Voice Conversion and Musical Style Transfer by Shashwat Aggarwal, Shashwat Uttam, Sameer Garg, Shubham Garg, Kopal Jain, Swati Aggarwal

“…Results: Experimental results demonstrate the model’s efficacy, achieving competitive performance in both seen and unseen target scenarios. …”
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An Elite Decision Making Harmony Search Algorithm for Optimization Problem by Lipu Zhang, Yinghong Xu, Yousong Liu

“…The computational results show that the proposed new algorithm is competitive in finding solutions with the state-of-the-art harmony search variants.…”
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A Two-Stage Method for Structural Damage Prognosis in Shear Frames Based on Story Displacement Index and Modal Residual Force by Asghar Rasouli, Seyed Sina Kourehli, Gholamreza Ghodrati Amiri, Ali Kheyroddin

“…In the second stage, by defining a new objective function, the extent of the actual damage is determined via an imperialist competitive algorithm. The performance of the proposed method is demonstrated by implementing the technique to three examples containing five-, ten-, and twenty-five-story shear frames with noises and without them in modal data. …”
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MODERN TRENDS OF FORMATION OF THE TOURISM INDUSTRY IN THE ELECTRONIC ENVIRONMENT AS A DRIVER OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE RUSSIAN ECONOMY by O. E. Pudovkina, S. V. Sharokhina

“…This evolution has radically transformed into a global tourism industry, offering new development prospects, especially in terms of increasing its competitiveness. As Russia declares itself as a country pursuing the progress of the information society, there is currently a need for an understanding of the concept of e-tourism and the introduction of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the field of tourism services. …”
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Finite element approximation of a population spatial adaptation model by Gonzalo Galiano, Julián Velasco

“…In [18], Sighesada, Kawasaki and Teramoto presented a system of partial differential equations for modeling spatial segregation of interacting species. Apart from competitive Lotka-Volterra (reaction) and population pressure (cross-diffusion) terms, a convective term modeling the populations attraction to more favorable environmental regions was included. …”
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OPTIMIZING TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS AND MITIGATING RISKS: A COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF DISTRIBUTION SUPPLY CHAIN CHALLENGES by Imane BENALLOU, Abdelah AZMANI, Monir AZMANI, Mouna ATIK EL FTOUH

“…On the one hand, the company will thus be able to differentiate itself in an often competitive market by implementing an effective shipping protocol that considers and plans risks; on the other hand, it will guarantee its customers a timely delivery, as planned. …”
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How satisfied am I with mobile wallets? Exploring the nexus between MSQual, hedonism, and satisfaction by Asad Ahmad, Dag Øivind Madsen, Swati Garg

“…Abstract The widespread use of mobile devices for banking has been revolutionary, with the rise in mobile wallet adoption turning it into a competitive space for industries like high-tech firms, banks, and other entities aiming to attract users to their platforms. …”
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Multidimensional Optimization of Signal Space Distance Parameters in WLAN Positioning by Milenko Brković, Mirjana Simić

“…Besides delivering high speed Internet, Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) can be used as an effective indoor positioning system, being competitive both in terms of accuracy and cost. Among the localization algorithms, nearest neighbor fingerprinting algorithms based on Received Signal Strength (RSS) parameter have been extensively studied as an inexpensive solution for delivering indoor Location Based Services (LBS). …”
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The effect of incentives and work environment on employee’s loyalty "Tubagus car spa" west java by Mariana Rachmawati, Maryani Maryani, Cumarna Cumarna

“…Although this is not directly related to the company's finances or income, it can indirectly affect the company's performance. The competitive advantage of the company to survive and compete with other companies is of course very dependent on human resources who have good capacity and quality, based on this, the object and purpose of this study is the Influence of Incentives and Work Environment on Employee Loyalty "Tubagus Car Spa" West Java, the results of his research, Obtained for the variable Intensive value t count 8,871 greater than t table which is 5,781 significant. …”
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Prospects for the development of white cabbage seed production in the Republic of Dagestan by K. U. Kurkiev, M. Kh. Gadjimagomedova

“…Dagestan Experiment Station of VIR has started implementing one of the tasks under an integrated research and development project entitled “Obtaining competitive mid-late and late white cabbage hybrids with the purpose of import substitution”. …”
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Detecting Anomalies in Meteorological Data Using Support Vector Regression by Min-Ki Lee, Seung-Hyun Moon, Yourim Yoon, Yong-Hyuk Kim, Byung-Ro Moon

“…In experiments using real-world data sets collected from accredited agencies, the proposed estimation method using SVR reduced the RMSE by an average of 45.44% whilst maintaining competitive computing times compared to baseline estimators.…”
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Features of financial integration of the Eurasian Economic Union member states by B. G. Khairov, V. A. Kovalev, R. Kh. Khasanov

“…This work is devoted to the study of the issue related to the deepening and expansion of integration processes within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Union for sustainable development, constant technological renewal, increasing the competitiveness of the economies of the Eurasian Economic Union member states and increasing the standard of living of their population. …”
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