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Indonesia in a Reforming World Economy: Effects on Agriculture, Trade and the Environment

Kym Anderson, Randy Stringer, ...

<p>In the mid-1990s a joint research project was established between CASER (Bogor), CIES (Adelaide), CSIS (Jakarta) and RSPAS (at ANU, Canberra) to examine interactions between agriculture, trade and the environment in Indonesia. Funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR Project No. 9449), the specific objective of the project was to assess the production, consumption, trade, income distributional, regional, environmental, and welfare effects in Indonesia of structural and policy changes at home and abroad. Particular attention was to be paid to those structural and policy changes that could aff ect Indonesia’s agricultural sector over the next 5-10 years. Th e implications of national and global economic growth, of regional and multilateral trade liberalisation initiatives, and of Indonesia’s ongoing unilateral policy reforms were the initial focus of the study. However, with the onslaught of the financial crisis that began in the latter part of 1997, the project leaders added that issue to the research agenda.</p>

The Future of Financial Systems in the Digital Age

Markus Heckel, Franz Waldenberger

<p>Despite the global nature of finance, the institutions and business of finance have until today retained national features that are clearly discernible. These are so distinct and important that financial systems are in fact often considered a key element in the characterization of national systems of capitalism (Dore, 2000; Hall &amp; Soskice, 2001). We should therefore expect that the digital transformation (DX) of finance, its speed, scope and outcome should also be strongly influenced by national contexts. This proposition provided the main motivation for publishing this edited volume. There are numerous publications about how digitalization is transforming, if not disrupting, the financial industry. However, many publications either imply a world void of institutions or presuppose that DX is naturally a global and therefore uniform phenomenon (see for example Hines, 2021; Tapscott &amp; Tapscott, 2016; McMillan, 2014). We think this leaves out at least half of the story. To fully understand the actual implications of DX, one must look at national cases.<br></p>

Training Guide on Integrated Pest Management in Tobacco

M Bateman, E Chernoh

<p>Certain circumstances and behaviours can contribute to unnecessary CPA use, selection of CPAs which are harmful and poor CPA management. For example, farmers and their workers do not always understand the risks associated with CPAs. Many lack knowledge about how to properly select, store, handle and apply CPAs.</p><p>Implementation of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) can help to address these issues. IPM is a shift in all parts of the supply chain to an eco-system approach, promoting best practices for the prevention and management of pests in tobacco and clove. IPM seeks to reduce the risk of harm to people and the environment. Attaining the objectives of IPM will depend in particular on changes in farmers’ behaviour so that they reduce unnecessary CPA use, use the least hazardous CPAs which are registered for use in tobacco, and manage CPAs appropriately.</p>

Digital Revolution in Sustainable Business Models and Finance Management

Marek Jabłonski, Adam Jabłonski

<p>At present, the digital economy is creating a new approach to sustainable development. In particular, this relates to the transformation of the traditional economy under the influence of digitalization on finance management processes. The digital economy is affecting changes in resource management processes. Dynamic digital transformation processes are currently taking place and exerting influence on the shaping of new business models. Existing business models are changing, particularly in the context of their life cycle [1]. The new economy means that social factors have greater importance in terms of creating value for people and the natural environment [2]. Trust for financial institutions, a factor in sustainable business models, is an important criterion in business research [3]. The economic model based on the irresponsible use of natural resources has been heavily criticized for years [4]. Societies are beginning to reject business models that have a negative impact on the environment. The use of natural resources should be responsible, especially in the context of investment. Digitalization in financial management processes and investments is a key challenge in theory and practice [5,6]. The impact of the digital revolution on the financial management strategies of enterprises and financial institutions has not yet been widely studied. Additionally, the phenomenon of digitalization in terms of its impact on shaping social business models should be subjected to extensive scientific research. Digitalization is changing the current order and balance of power in global business [7]. Additionally, this process means that traditional business model concepts need to be redefined [8]. The ecological aspects of the economy and their growing role in financial decisions require analysis and empirical verification. The digitalization of financial management processes, especially as it relates to sustainability, has not yet been widely analyzed and studied. Digitalization changes the current view of banking services and investment financing [9]. Additionally, it alters the current principles on which the processes of social economy are based [10]. Therefore, we believe that this topic requires extensive scientific research in order to develop a new and relevant perspective on the area. It is necessary to collect and verify the current state of scientific research in this field. The purpose of this Special Issue is to present the results of research on the current trends and challenges related to the digital revolution in financial management for sustainable development, an issue that requires extensive research and analysis.<br></p>

Smart Management of Conservative, Organic and Integrated Agriculture

Andrea Peruzzi, Christian Frasconi

<p>Sustainable agriculture is targeted towards achieve food security, while maximizing the socio-economic benefits and minimizing environmental drawbacks. Among sustainable farming practices, organic and integrated farming systems are widely recognized as effective farming systems, in terms of global warming mitigation and contrast to soil desertification. As a matter of fact, certified organic land in Europe has increased by almost 75% in the last decade.</p><p>Globally, the increasing demand for environmental sustainability, safety and food quality surely encourage farmers to change their agricultural strategies moving from “conventional” (i.e., intensive, market-oriented, agro-industrial systems) to integrated and organic farming. The first step of this transaction is a reduction in the use of external chemical inputs (e.g. mineral fertilizers, synthetic pesticides). However, both organic and integrated farming require a complete shift in the agricultural management approach, to fully express their potential.</p>

The Future of Consumption

Kristina Bäckström, Carys Egan-Wyer

<p>It is often said that we live in a consumer society. This does not just mean that we buy things regularly but also that consumption is an integral part of our daily lives. We have learned to think of ourselves as consumers, rather than citizens, in a variety of situations. We are not only consumers of clothes and food but also of healthcare, wellness, and education. And we expect to be treated as such, safe in the knowledge that we can take our custom elsewhere if we are not. We increasingly exercise our political preferences as consumers, actively choosing to buy from producers whose views align with our own on topics such as environmental sustainability, human rights, privacy, and personal autonomy, and boycotting those who do not.<br></p>

Craftspeople and Designer Makers in the Contemporary Creative Economy

Susan Luckman, Jane Andrew

<p>This book is the culmination of four years of research undertaken across Australia into the experience of running a craft or design craft microenterprise. In many ways it, and the study it is based on, is the logical follow-up to the earlier book Craft and the Creative Economy (Luckman 2015a), which sought to capture and understand on a more theoretical level why we were witnessing rising interest across the Global North in craft and the handmade and what is at stake in terms of craft’s location within larger debates around what counts in the cultural and creative industries. Within this larger scholarly and practice context, that book also started to ask questions about what kinds of new work patterns and identities were emerging for creative workers—craftspeople in particular—in the face of the perfect storm of increasing casualisation, expectations of self-enterprise, portfolio careers, the rise of social media and internet ‘long tail’ distribution and desires for ‘good work’ (Hesmondhalgh and Baker 2011).</p>

SHARING: Culture and the Economy in the Internet Age

Philippe Aigrain

<p>This book is about file sharing for creative, expressive or informative works in all media. More specifically, it is about file sharing between individuals and without profit motive. File sharing is the act of making a file available to other individuals by putting it on-line, by sending a copy, or by rendering it accessible through a file sharing software. We defend the view that sharing without direct or indirect monetary transaction - or "non-market" sharing - is legitimate. We also claim that sharing is socially and culturally valuable and will play a key role in the future of our culture and the creative economies. Furthermore, this book proposes a means to strengthen and exploit the synergy between file sharing and creativity, for the general benefit of society and the enrichment of the cultural economy.<br></p><p>Underlying the entire book is an exercise in modeling and empirically studying the popularity of different works in different conditions. How much is this atten- tion concentrated on a limited set of works, or spread over many? We use this analysis to demonstrate the positive impact of non-market sharing for cultural diversity, to reflect on different reward and financing models, to estimate their initial global scope and speculate about their evolution, and to understand how precise the measurement of usage must be for rewards to be fair and respectful of diversity. The analysis and the related models are meant to provide a toolkit for cultural and media studies, usable regardless of whether one agrees with our pro- posals. Three appendices provide an introduction to these models, explaining their mathematical basis in simple terms, presenting our assumptions, and the empirical studies that support some of our claims.</p>

Private Label Brands Awareness: Advances and Prospects

Sbonelo Gift Ndlovu, Makhosazane Faith Vezi-Magigaba

<p>Over the past decades, private label brands and private label research have come under the spotlight. The chapter aims to explore and integrate the literature on the advances by grocery retailers in creating and enhancing brand awareness for their private label branded products. A foundation is created to understand a brand, and branding and brand awareness are discussed. The chapter then discusses private label branding decisions and the types of brand decisions available for grocery retailers for their private label brand tiers, where light is shed on when best to adopt the type of branding decision and under what consumer-level awareness circumstances. More importantly, the chapter presents an overview of the advances by grocery retailers in their brand awareness practices; the varying successes and effectiveness were highlighted. Moreover, the chapter presents an overview of prospects that grocery retailers can consider in enhancing their existing or halting and formulating new creative private label brand awareness strategies and practices to achieve “top-of-mind” brand awareness status among consumers.</p>

Serious Games Development and Impact for Business Education

Dario Liberona, Aravind Kumaresan, ...

<p>Learning methodologies and experiences have changed over the recent years thanks to the incorporation of digital technology, among many of these technologies are Serious Games, that has a better opportunity to be used during recent pandemic times, the process of designing and incorporating games technologies is not easy and there are very few available development tools, this paper focus on basic guidelines and a practical experience. Review the process of developing a serious game and address some of the challenges of making a serious game from scratch. The objective is also to understand the challenges of developing and implementing gaming mechanics in Serious Games and the impact and results of the experience of using it with students’samples from Latin America and Europe. The results of this study is that gaming has a very positive impact in the learning process of higher educations students, whom value the use of this technologies in their education, however in general these technologies are not being use in higher education, there is more simulation type implementations, especially in marketing and logistic areas. There is a need to train teachers and create pedagogical departments that will enhance and develop this experiential learning tools.</p>

Japanese Media Cultures in Japan and Abroad

Manuel Hernandez-Perez

<p>This article introduces the special issue dedicated to global industries around anime, its theoretical commentary and its cross-cultural consumption. The concepts "anime" and "anime studies" are evaluated critically, involving current debates such as those presented in this volume. This discussion will employ the concepts of "manga media" as well as the "popular global", giving an account of the transmedia and transcultural character of these creative industries. The conclusion critiques the irregular presence of Cultural Studies in the study of Japanese visual culture and advocates for constructing an updated dialogue with this tradition in order to readdress the study of these media as a form of global popular culture.<br></p>

Augmented Reality E-Commerce: How the Technology Benefits People's Lives

Yuzhu Lu, Shana Smith

<p>Augmented Reality (AR), an emerging Human-Computer Interaction technology, which aims to mix or overlap computer-generated 2D or 3D virtual objects and other feedback with real world scenes, shows great potential for enhancing e-commerce systems. Unlike VR, which replaces the physical world, AR enhances physical reality by integrating virtual objects into the physical world. The virtual object becomes, in a sense, an equal part of the natural environment.</p><p>This chapter presents a new type of e-commerce system, AR e-commerce, which visually brings virtual products into real physical environments for user interaction. The new approach gives customers a chance to “try" a product at home or in another use environment.</p>

The Financial Industry 4.0

Thanh Ngo, Dominique Guegan

<p>Technology has been introducing and enabling new paradigms in different industries. In the financial sector, the rapid growth of technology-based financial firms (e.g., Fintech and InsurTech) has put incumbent financial institutions (e.g., banking, insurance, and credit institutions) under pressure to transform their business strategies and operations to cope with these changes. The main emphasis of this book is on The Financial Industry 4.0 to provide insightful understanding about the benefits as well as the challenges that financial institutions are facing.<br></p><p>We extend our thanks to the authors of the book's chapters for their dedicated efforts in delving into the presented topics. We appreciate the time and effort they invested in exploring the presented topics, and we trust that their work will enhance our comprehension of the financial sector under the emerge of the Industry 4.0.</p>

Music Creators’ Earnings in the Digital Era

David Hesmondhalgh, Richard Osborne, ...

<p>Not only has digital technology revolutionised the way we access music, it has also transformed how artists earn money from music. These changes have been rapid, meaning that there has been limited evidence and data that would show how money is made and distributed. This has in no small part led to a high profile and highly polarised public debate, with this lack of evidence and data contributing to misunderstandings and confusion.</p><p>Intellectual property (IP), especially copyright, trade marks and brands, provides creators with the tools to allow them to make money and protect their creativity. The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has a role to play in understanding how those IP rights support the creative value chain. As such, the IPO has led the way by working in partnership with the UK music industry to commission this study to deliver robust and independent evidence. The following report is the most comprehensive piece of research on this topic, to date.</p>

Esports and the Media

Angel Torres-Toukoumidis

<p>The debate is open. In the last decade the opinions and criteria in favor of its recognition as a sport discipline has meant the upcoming inclusion in the 2022 Asian Games, the development of an official event around Paris 2024 Olympic Games and a possible inclusion in the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games (Álvarez, 2019). E-sports have been subjected to an analysis on the relevance of their conceptual definition by the academic community and experts, in terms of whether their characteristics agree or are comparable with the characteristics of other sports. Specifically, critics of e-sports emphasize the absence of the physicality that defines the semantic nature of the term and its relationship with physical exercise (Coakley, 2008). Undoubtedly, like chess, e-sports require fine motor skills that allow the fast and precise use of muscles (Haibach et al., 2017; Jenny et al., 2016), and involve a brain effort capable of assuming 20% of a person's energy, even more so when he or she is a professional (Álvarez, 2019). Also, they are charac- terized by the competitive level of their events, the formal organization of leagues and collegiate bodies, as well as their operation in relation to an industrial, commercial and economic system very similar to tra- ditional sports (Hou et al., 2020). Finally, it is not an individual sport, and its projection to competition has resulted in the highest revenues for professional players, organizations and sponsors (Newzoo, 2021).<br></p>

Designing the Music Business

Guy Morrow

<p>Music business research is a new multidisciplinary field that puts a number of different analytical approaches into mutual dialogue. It is located at the intersection of economic, artistic, musical, cultural, social, legal, and technological understandings of this cultural industry and it aims to generate a better understanding of the creation, distribution and consumption of music as a cultural good. As a field it is therefore characterised by methodological diversity and involves linking academic research with music business practices. The book series welcomes monographs and edited volumes that feature groundbreaking research into this dynamic and exciting field.</p>

Search Engine Optimization

Andreas Veglis, Dimitrios Giomelakis

<p>The introduction of the World Wide Web (WWW), 25 years ago, has considerably altered the manner in which people obtain information. Soon after the introduction of the WWW, it was evident that traditional browsing was totally insufficient for internet users to locate the information that interests them. This need was covered with the development of search engines. Today, search engines play one of the most important roles in disseminating content. Search engine optimization (SEO) is a collection of strategies that improves a website's presence and visibility on a search engine's results page (SERP). In other words, the higher and more frequently a site appears in search results, the more visitors it will receive through the use of search engines. The importance of SEO can be understood by the fact that many web sites today receive the majority of their web traffic through a search engine's organic results.<br></p><p>The methods that SEO includes can be divided into four major categories: keyword research/selection, search engine indexing, on-page optimization, and off-page optimization. On-page optimization includes the management of all factors associated directly with someone's website (e.g., keywords, appropriate content, and internal link structure), while off-page optimization includes all the efforts made away from the website such as link building or social signal strategy. Undeniably, the world of search engine optimization has changed and evolved drastically over the years with a shift away from traditional ranking factors towards deeper analysis, and factors such as quality, multi-form content, and social signals. However, even though SEO has changed a lot, it remains an important part of any digital marketing strategy.</p>

AGRIBISNIS GUAVA

Tim Redaksi

Agribisnis Labu Siam

Arief Prahasta Soedarya

Rethinking the Music Business

Guy Morrow

<p>In this chapter, we introduce the book by first outlining the challenges of designing, writing and editing a research-based book during the COVID-19 pandemic. We explain why Part 1 features six chapters that concern the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the music business, while Part 2 is comprised of six chapters that present original insights into the music business in general. We edited this book in solidarity with the various authors who managed to contribute chapters to this volume despite COVID-19-related disruptions and time out from work due to illness. We also edited this book in solidarity with all the participants who contributed to our own research projects that feature in this book and with the participants who took part in our contributing authors’ research projects. Our aim in this book was to provide as holistic a picture of the music business as we could at this time by gathering contributions from authors who were in the United Kingdom, Austria, Zimbabwe, Germany, India, Australia, Norway and the Philippines during the COVID-19 pandemic.</p>

SECURITY TECHNOLOGIES AND METHODS FOR ADVANCED CYBER THREAT INTELLIGENCE, DETECTION AND MITIGATION

GOHAR SARGSYAN, DIMITRIOS KAVALLIEROS, ...

<p>The "Security Technologies and Methods for Advanced for Advanced Cyber Threat Intelligence, Detection and Mitigation" book builds on the experience of the Cyber- Trust EU project's (grant agreement 786698) methods, use cases, technology development, testing and validation and extends into a broader science, lead IT industry market and applied research with practical cases. Cybersecurity is gaining momentum and is scaling up in very many areas, as this publication will show. We provide new perspectives on advanced (cyber) security innovation (eco) systems covering key different perspectives. How to build and run them from the process and skills perspective is of great importance when developing, applying and scaling up innovative security systems.<br></p><p>This book is comprised of 12 chapters, consisting of independent parts, which provide complete view both on their own and interconnected with relevant parts within the book. Below we briefly summarise the contents of each chapter.</p>

Agribisnis CABAI

Tim Redaksi

E-Journal of International and Comparative LABOUR STUDIES

Laurence D. Dubuc

<p>Artists have traditionally been depicted in academic literature as younger and more educated workers who gain less economic returns from their human capital investment and earn significantly lower self-employment income than workers showing similar human capital features on more traditional labour markets. Filling an important gap in the literature relating to Canadian artists and their financial situation on the labour market, this article estimates the effect of human capital features and other socio-demographic variables on self employment income of 9 categories of artists using data drawn from the Canadian census of 2006.</p>

Arts and creative industries

Justin O’Connor

<p>This study by Professor Justin O’Connor was commissioned by the Australia Council as part of a long-running and productive relationship between the council and the ARC Centre of Excellence on Creative Industries and Innovation at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Our previous collaborations have looked at the contribution of creative activities to health care and, more recently, an analysis of census data on artists’ employment, What’s your other job?, as part of our Artist Careers research. The council is also a partner with QUT in two current Linkage research projects supported by the Australian Research Council.</p><p>Our impetus is to add constructively to the long-running discussion about the relationship between the arts and the relatively newly termed creative industries.</p>