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Why small business owners get demotivated? Modeling unwillingness to grow using ISM approach
Purpose: Even after establishing their business successfully, many business owners get demotivated, and it leads to unwillingness to grow. This study aims to propose a comprehensive model that represents interrelationships among various personal factors affecting unwillingness to grow. Design/methodology/approach: The personal factors for unwillingness to grow were identified by extant literature, and expert interviews were conducted to establish the contextual relationships among these factors. The interrelationships among the filtered variables have been done using interpretive structural modeling (ISM) and MICMAC analysis was done to determine the importance of each factor in influencing unwillingness to grow. Findings: In total, 30 personal attributes were identified from previous literature, out of which 15 were selected for the final study. The result identifies 7 variables having a strong impact on unwillingness to grow. These attributes are absence of strong network, lack of vision, lack of proactiveness, reluctance to involve external consultants, absence of/small founding team, lack of ambition and improper attitude. Originality/value: The research attempts to create a bricolage of all the important personal factors affecting unwillingness to grow. Previous researches have used few attributes, but with the help of ISM, a graphical modeling technique, it became possible to draw interrelationship between 15 attributes. Further, with the help of MICMAC, the importance of each attribute was determined. 2024, Emerald Publishing Limited. -
Why should businesses care about the metaverse
The fourth wave of computer innovation is now being driven by virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), two spatial, immersive technologies. The resulting pervasive computing paradigm, which this wave is expected to produce, can change (online) commerce, entertainment, distant employment, and education. This new paradigm is called the Metaverse. Although the metaverse is still in its infancy, history demonstrates how swiftly new technology can advance, potentially leaving those who lag. Digital reality technologies can transform the entertainment industry, remote work, education, marketing, and economics. Additionally, these technologies are starting to create a new paradigm for information exchange. The concept of the Metaverse has given rise to a new paradigm. While it appears that it will take years for the metaverse to reach its full potential, it is currently a phenomenon marked by the activity of hundreds of entrepreneurs who are making noise but producing no noteworthy results. According to many observers, the current uptick in activity by large tech businesses is assisting in bringing some order to the market's volatility by providing startup companies with the dependable mainstream customer bases they lack. In order to provide better and more integrated business processes, metaverse will provide a far more immersive experience to an organization's whole ecosystem of clients, staff, and partners. In light of this, the study's objectives are to comprehend the business prospects in the metaverse, identify relevant business strategies, and forecast future business developments in the metaverse. The study also looks at the challenges that companies have while integrating the metaverse, taking into account different scenarios. 2024, IGI Global. All rights reserved. -
Why learning space matters: a script approach to the phenomena of learning in the emergency remote learning scenario
The study focuses on how the notion of learning space is perceived and experienced by learners in the Emergency Remote Learning (ERL) scenario. In doing so, the lived experiences of remote learners who were abruptly shifted to a completely online learning space due to the pandemic COVID-19 in the Indian higher education system are documented. Online interviews were conducted with eight undergraduate and four postgraduate students of English and Cultural Studies, enrolled at a Southern Indian university, and their responses were explicated using the Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) approach. The interviews revealed that the phenomenon of ERL is shaped by dissonance informed by the absence of a familiar learning space. Often the patterns of this dissonance were marked by (1) the perception of learning and learning space, (2) the lack of intimacy in learning and learning space, (3) the negotiations made for learning and the space of learning in ERL, and (4) the challenges to cope with the responsibilities of the ERL scenario. Further, the script approach was applied to analyse the data and the analysis revealed an expansion of the existing internal scripts that were based on previous learning experiences of the learners. The study thus establishes the centrality of space in the process of learning and points out how the lack of a familiar learning space is linked to the absence of internal scripts that considerably impact learning. The study concludes by discussing the possibilities of application of script approach to effectively incorporate the aspect of learning space in new pedagogies and learning models as Blended Learning (BL) and Online Learning (OL) become the new normal worldwide. 2021, Beijing Normal University. -
Why is the size of discouraged labour force increasing in India?
The Indian economy is currently passing through a critical phase of economic development as its structural transformation in employment has stalled, whilst both the youth unemployment rate and the number of youths Not in Employment, Education, and Training (NEET) have increased to an unprecedentedly high level. In the context in which the share of the youth population is continuing to rise despite the declining fertility rate to below the replacement rate, increased educated youth unemployment has caused an upsurge in the Discouraged Labour Force (DLF). This paper explores the trends, composition, and determinants of rising DLF in India using national level employment-unemployment surveys and macro-level panel data. Based on Multinomial logit and System GMM regression results, it is argued that policies aiming to enhance human capabilities through an improved base of technical education and the promotion of industry are necessary to enhance the growth of quality jobs in order to combat the problem of rising educated youth unemployment and DLF. Moreover, these measures could help in the process of harnessing the demographic dividend in India through an increased level of labour productivity in the long run. 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. -
Why haven't you bought a solar panel? Consumerism at its "Green" best with the Myers-Briggs type indicator
This research study examined the relationships between Myers-Briggs' four personality dimensions and environmentally conscious consumption patterns. The study found that different personality types have different green purchase habits. The authors also propose five strategies for businesses who plan to venture into sustainable consumption. These strategies include leveraging the power of belongingness, forming addictive healthy habits, capitalizing on the domino effect, communicating with either the heart or the head, and prioritizing having experiences above owning things. The study's findings suggest that businesses need to take a more holistic approach to promoting sustainable consumption. Authors use discriminant analysis to evaluate whether each Myers-Briggs personality type had a distinct green purchase habit. For each of the four dichotomies associated with five kinds of green buying behaviors, SPSS was used to construct discriminant analysis indicators and outputs. 2023, IGI Global. All rights reserved. -
Why Employees Need Both Recognition and Appreciation
We often use the words “recognition” and “appreciation” interchangeably, but there’s a big difference between them. The former is about giving positive feedback based on results or performance. The latter, on the other hand, is about acknowledging a person’s inherent value. This distinction matters because recognition and appreciation are given for different reasons. Even when people succeed, inevitably there will be failures and challenges along the way; depending on the project, there may not even be tangible results to point to. If you focus solely on praising positive outcomes, on recognition, you miss out on lots of opportunities to connect with and support your team members — to appreciate them. Managers should make sure they’re doing both. -
Who mourns for her? The death and Re-death of Yakshi
In the Indian cultural lexicon, the term Yakshi refers to an enigmatic supernatural entity whose disposition can oscillate between benign and malevolent. This duality underscores the ambiguity and complexity inherent in traditional Indian narratives concerning gender and paranormal beings. In regional narratives from the southern state of Kerala, Yakshi embodies both demonic and divine essence. This phenomenon reflects a complex interaction between cultural beliefs, supernatural lore, and practices aimed at controlling or neutralising perceived threats from beyond the human realm. This paper focuses on investigating and delineating the progression leading to the death of Yakshi and analysing the subsequent integration into the natural environment. By examining literary/cultural narratives alongside gender and environmental symbolism, this study seeks to understand the transformation of Yakshi from a mythical figure to an intrinsic part of nature, particularly in the ambiguities surrounding Yakshis death, burial and mourning. 2026 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. -
White Light Emission from Dy3+-Activated CaY2O4 Phosphor
Synthesis and characterization of a Dy3+-activated calcium yttrium oxide (CaY2O4) phosphor are reported. The CaY2O4:Dy3+ (1.5 mol%) phosphor is synthesized using a modified solid-state reaction technique for calcination and sintering. The cubic structure is revealed by the X-ray diffraction technique. The morphology and particle size distribution of the prepared phosphor are investigated by the FEGSEM technique. The chemical bonds and functional group analysis are confirmed by the FTIR. A photoluminescence analysis of the CaY2O4:Dy3+ phosphor shows dual excitation wavelengths at 285 and 348 nm, especially in the ultraviolet region. At 383 nm, three distinct emission peaks are found at the wavelengths 238, 485, and 571 nm. The spectroscopic parameters are calculated using the CIE chromaticity coordinates. The CIE coordinates of the Dysprosium ion-activated CaY2O4 phosphor (1.5 mol%) show an emission near the white light region of the chromaticity diagram, suggesting that it is suitable for W-LED applications. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzlerland AG 2024. -
White LED Light-Mediated Eosin Y-Photocatalyzed One-Pot Synthesis of Novel 1,2,4-Triazol-3-Amines By Sequential Addition
Abstract: A facile and proficient, eco-friendly multicomponent synthesis of 12 novel biologically essential 1,2,4-triazol-3-amines via the sequential addition of substituted phenacyl bromide, aromatic aldehyde, hydrazinecarbothioamide, and urea under white LED with eosin Y as a photocatalyst has been developed. The intrinsic advantages are methodology is cost-effective, non-toxic, generates a high yield of product, is column chromatography free and does not need the use of a specific instrument. Surprisingly, our methodology uses moderate conditions and can count the tolerance of a wide variety of electron-donating and electron-withdrawing groups. The analysis and early conclusions give more value and context for the future development of organic synthesis using photocatalysts. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2022. -
White LED Light-Mediated Eosin Y-Photocatalyzed One-Pot Synthesis of Novel 1,2,4-Triazol-3-Amines By Sequential Addition
Abstract: A facile and proficient, eco-friendly multicomponent synthesis of 12 novel biologically essential 1,2,4-triazol-3-amines via the sequential addition of substituted phenacyl bromide, aromatic aldehyde, hydrazinecarbothioamide, and urea under white LED with eosin Y as a photocatalyst has been developed. The intrinsic advantages are methodology is cost-effective, non-toxic, generates a high yield of product, is column chromatography free and does not need the use of a specific instrument. Surprisingly, our methodology uses moderate conditions and can count the tolerance of a wide variety of electron-donating and electron-withdrawing groups. The analysis and early conclusions give more value and context for the future development of organic synthesis using photocatalysts. Graphical Abstract: [Figure not available: see fulltext.] 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. -
Whispered speech emotion recognition with gender detection using hybridopti-gendernet
The Whispered Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) presents special challenges because it does not involve the vibration of vocal folds and less acoustic information, which makes it more difficult to identify the nuances of emotions and gender-related peculiarities than in normal speech. The research presents a new system, HybridOpti-GenderNet, of concurrent whispered speech emotion and gender recognition. It is a framework of six stages are data collection, pre-processing, feature extraction, feature selection, gender detection, and emotion recognition (ER). A Red Butterfly Optimization Algorithm (RBOA), which uses Butterfly Optimization Algorithm (BOA) and Red Kite Optimization Algorithm (ROA) by adjusting the weight to achieve optimal feature selection, is proposed to achieve a better balance between exploration and exploitation. Gender identification is carried out with the proposed HybridOpti-GenderNet, a new hybridization of Bi-LSTM and DCNN, and ER is accomplished with the help of the Attention-Enhanced Hybrid Belief Network (AHBN) that incorporates Deep Belief Network (DBN), Feedforward Neural Network (FNN) & a tailor-made attention mechanism to detect delicate emotional signals. The innovativeness of the given work is that the gender-informed recognition is combined with a high-level optimization and a hybrid deep learning pipeline that enhances the robustness of the analysis of whispered speech significantly. The system was tested in Python and tested on the GeWEC and EMO-DB data, showing superior performance in cases of privacy preservation, noisy conditions, and real-life human-computer interaction. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2026. -
Whispered Speech Emotion Recognition with Gender Detection using BiLSTM and DCNN
Emotions are human mental states at a particular instance in time concerning ones circumstances, mood, and relationships with others. Identifying emotions from the whispered speech is complicated as the conversation might be confidential. The representation of the speech relies on the magnitude of its information. Whispered speech is intelligible, a low-intensity signal, and varies from normal speech. Emotion identification is quite tricky from whispered speech. Both prosodic and spectral speech features help to identify emotions. The emotion identification in a whispered speech happens using prosodic speech features such as zero-crossing rate (ZCR), pitch, and spectral features that include spectral centroid, chroma STFT, Mel scale spectrogram, Mel-frequency cepstral coefficient (MFCC), Shifted Delta Cepstrum (SDC), and Spectral Flux. There are two parts to the proposed implementation. Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM) helps to identify the gender from the speech sample in the first step with SDC and pitch. The Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN) model helps to identify the emotions in the second step. This implementation is evaluated using the wTIMIT data corpus and gives 98.54% accuracy. Emotions have a dynamic effect on genders, so this implementation performs better than traditional approaches. This approach helps to design online learning management systems, different applications for mobile devices, checking cyber-criminal activities, emotion detection for older people, automatic speaker identification and authentication, forensics, and surveillance. (2023), (Iranian Academic Center for Education). All Rights Reserved. -
Which is the green generation? Amultigroup analysis of millennials and Generation Zs green consumerism
Purpose This study aimed to investigate how components of green marketing mix (GMM), green product (GPD), green price (GPC), green place (GPL) and green promotion (GPM) influence consumer attitudes (ATT), subjective norms (SNM), perceived behavioural control (PBC) and purchase intention (PI) and finally green consumerism (GCM). Design/methodology/approach Using Smart PLS 4 software and PLS-SEM approach, data were analysed for structural relationships among the components of GMM, ATT, SNM, PBC, PI and GCM. The model evaluates hypotheses linking GPD, GPC, GPL and GPM to ATT, SNM and PBC and examines how ATT, SNM and PBC affect PI and GCM. Findings The study revealed that GMM, as a higher-order construct, positively impacts ATT, SNM and PBC, while ATT, SNM and PBC partially mediate the relation between GMM and PI. PI then ultimately results in GCM. The multigroup analysis indicated there is no significant difference between the age groups examined. Research limitations/implications The study may not generalize to all industries or regions. Future research could explore additional factors like cultural or technological influences, and longitudinal studies may be conducted. Practical implications As environmental concerns grow, marketers should focus on consumer attitudes towards green products. Aligning green attributes with consumer values, transparent pricing and multi-channel communication can enhance ATT, SNM and PBC over green purchases, fostering acceptance and intention. Social implications While the findings promote GCM, their broader impact is contingent on genuine environmental practices. Without systemic changes in production and policy, GCM risks perpetuating superficial sustainability narratives. Originality/value This study advances the field by investigating how GMM influences purchase intentions (PI) among Indias urban Millennials and Generation Z, two generations pivotal to shaping sustainable consumption trends in a high-pollution economy. 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited -
WHETHER STUDENTS CONSIDER PLAGAIRISM AS AN ETHICAL ISSUE
New media play an important role in the spreading of plagiarism in the modern world. The facilities that are provided by new media like websites; blogs etc provide information to the knowledge seeker which may cause for plagiarism in many cases. Plagiarism is an issue faced by academic field and researcher due to the influence of new media. This paper is studying whether students consider plagiarism as ethical issue. Study is analyzing students attitude towards plagiarism especially students attitude toward online plagiarism. This is a study conducted using both qualitative and quantitative methods. The study is very much important in the contemporary time due the changing treads in the concept of academic due to the impact of new media and information flow. The paper evaluates the understanding of student regarding plagiarism. The study is also evaluating the factors that force students to do plagiarism in their works. The study uses the techniques like survey, in-depth interview and focus group discussion to reach conclusion. -
Whether shoppers of tier I city are aware about multi-brand outlets? /
Asian Journal Of Management, Vol.7, Issue 3, ISSN: 0976-495X (Print), 2321-5763 (Online). -
Whether CSR is internalized in corporate India? An empirical study
Purpose: The purpose of this research paper is to examine whether Corporate Social Responsibility is internalized in Corporate India?. Design/Methodology/Approach: The primary data were used to meet this papers main objective. The structured questionnaires were sent to 2100 managerial people in different sectors of corporate through email and finally 318 responses were received. These figures represent an acceptable response rate of 15 %. The collected were analysed and identified the findings with the help of appropriate statistical tools. Findings: The results demonstrate that there is significant difference among senior and top managers of the corporate India towards internalisation of CSR practices. Further, there is no difference between the managers personal profile and their perceptions CSR practices. The identified results are having managerial implications in the Corporate in India. Originality/Value: The authors main contributions are: Theoretical approach particularly stakeholder model of CSR has been discussed and made it link to the present days CSR practices of corporate India. Secondly the identified results are having managerial implications towards successful CSR strategy for the corporate India. 2019, Institute of Advanced Scientific Research, Inc.. All rights reserved. -
Where to Check Homework? The Emphasis on Supportive Feedback via Social Media by Teachers in CALL and Its Consequences on EFL Learners' Self-assessment, Academic Success, Academic Enjoyment
This study investigates the impact of Facebook-mediated supportive feedback on English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners' self-assessment, academic enjoyment, and academic success in a Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) context. Using a sequential exploratory methodology, this study holistically investigates the research objectives using qualitative and quantitative approaches. Two intact classrooms of lower-intermediate EFL students in an Iraqi language institute were selected; one class was designated as the experimental group receiving Facebook-mediated tasks and the other as the control group using conventional teaching strategies. Among the tools for data collecting were a teacher-made test, semi-structured interviews, and observation. Compared to the control group, the experimental groupwhich received extra Facebook-mediated tasks and conventional course materialsshowcased notably greater degrees of self-assessment, academic enjoyment, and academic success. Positive perceptions of Facebook-mediated interactions were found through the qualitative analyses of observations and interviews, thereby stressing learners' higher motivation, collaboration, and sense of community. The implications of the study are discussed. 2024, The Pacific Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning (PacCALL). All rights reserved. -
Where is the Ground? Cultural Transmission and Psychological Adaptation of Sri Lankan-Tamil Ethnic Repatriates
This qualitative study aimed to explore the cultural transmission and psychological adaptation of the Indian-origin Sri Lankan Tamil ethnic repatriates (SLTER) in the context of life in repatriation (LIR). Participants were SLTER living in the northern interior regions of Kerala. Thematic analysis derived two major themes, Psychological consequences and expectations of repatriation and Mechanisms for coping with the aftermath of repatriation. Desire for settlements in Sri Lanka despite not holding Sri Lankan citizenship, psychological consequences of repatriation, including longing for the land of origin, manifestations of cultural and emotional shock, and the adoption of food styles analogous to Sri Lankan Tamil Culture (SLTC) were highlighted in the study. Gender and generational differences in psychosomatic symptoms upon arrival were observed. The coping mechanisms included rationalization and language internalization. Participants used ostensive and pointing gestures as initial steps to internalize Indian culture. They are also connected with their Sri Lankan Tamil culture and transmitted that culture to subsequent generations through various socially acceptable forms. They try to find a middle ground between citizenship and refugee status, often feeling torn between their Indian culture and their connection to Sri Lanka due to limited social and economic rights and experiences of marginalization in both countries. Although these aspects have been little investigated, they warrant significant scholarly attention in the context of ethnic repatriation. The Author(s) 2025 -
