Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleForecasting Corporate Financial Distress Using Explainable Machine Learning: Implications for Risk Management TechnologyKanjana Hinthaw, Warawut NarkbunnumFinancial distress prediction is a critical task in financial risk management, yet it remains challenging due to class imbalance, complex financial structures, and limited model interpretability. This study develops an integrated machine learning framework that combines feature selection, class imbalance handling, threshold optimization, and Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) to improve both predictive performance and decision-making reliability. Using a dataset of … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 22, Issue 7 · 22 Jul 2026 · 1,135 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleThe Impact of Business IT Strategic Alignment on Corporate PerformanceJohanes Fernandes Andry, Aziza Chakir, Ronald Maraden Parlindungan Silalahi et al.Information technology's role is vital for a company's progress in its business management. Companies must implement differentiation and cost-reduction strategies to gain a competitive advantage in intense competition, especially among electrical appliance distributors. The implementation of cost reduction cuts business processes by streamlining IT/IS. However, business processes still have not implemented information systems, such as stock data collection, transaction problem … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 19, Issue 3 · 28 Feb 2023 · 7,923 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessEvery word in the titleDeveloping the Office of Strategic Management as a Tool to Support the Implementation of Balanced Scorecard in Bosowa CorporationMashur Razak, Muhammad HidayatThe application of balanced scorecard in the field sometimes still encounter some problems, especially in the integration of functions within the organization where in fact these functions tend to operate in the area of each duty and responsibilities and are not integrated and aligned in achieving organizational goals. The balanced scorecard as a strategic approach tries to provide solutions on … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 13, Issue 11 · 28 Nov 2016 · 7,445 accessesView PDFCite
Literature ReviewOpen accessIn the keywordsInsurTech Integration: Reshaping the Insurance Value Chain in the Digital AgeAndrea Jonathan Pagano, Antonella Cappiello, Emanuele Vannucci, Chiara D’EliaTo face the radical changes that characterized the competitive scenario over the last years, the insurance industry is turning to digital transformation, adapting innovative business models like those increasingly seen in other industries. The paper explores the impact of ongoing digitization that is greatly affecting the insurance industry and forcing radical change upon corporate culture, products and processes, customer relationships, … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 16, Issue 1 · 30 Dec 2024 · 8,876 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsEffectiveness of Business Practices Related to Climate Change as a Driver for Improving Environmental PerformanceNaciti Valeria, Centorrino GiovannaThis study explores the relationship between business practices related to climate change and environmental performance. Using an international sample of analysis from 2013 to 2017, the paper examines how managerial incentives, public policy, disclosure, and responsibilities to executives on climate change, as corporate governance factors, affect a firm's environmental performance. By employing several regression analyses, our independent variables-incentives, public policy, … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 19, Issue 1 · 7 Feb 2022 · 6,792 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsSustainability Reporting as a Tool to Improve Transparency towards Stakeholders. Exploring Reporting Practices in the Imaging IndustryLuisa Pulejo, Valeria Naciti, Nicola RappazzoThe complexity that characterizes the international competitive system has enhanced the call for transparent reporting and the dissemination of information concerning social and environmental impact being implemented by firm. Recently, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology was developed in order to respond to the specific needs to measure the environmental impact of firm’s products and processes in terms of resources consumption … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 14, Issue 12 · 2 Jan 2018 · 8,382 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsSTRATEGIC MANAGEMENT IN TIMES OF CRISISMaximilian GrohThis aim of this article is to identify unusual strategic-management matters in times of crisis. The research scope is strategic management processes, the characteristics of the processes and methods of strategic crisis management. The study reports research on the contemporary state of strategic crisis-management problems and provides an analysis of some theoretical and methodological principles. The analysis includes a classification … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 6, Issue 2 · 27 Jun 2014 · 10,722 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsEvaluation of Common Maintenance Methods for Flexible PavementsAsma T. Ibraheem, Suda M. GaniProblem statement: With the increasing use and awareness of pavement management systems and the growing emphasis on asset management of pavement infrastructure, it is important to strengthen the maintenance components of these systems and particularly the preventive maintenance component. Iraqi Roads don’t receive an effective and proper maintenance during their service life until they reach the state of major failure … …American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 4, Issue 3 · 29 Nov 2011 · 7,866 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsWheat Production and EconomicsElgilany Ahmed, Jamalludin Sulaiman, Saidatulakmal MohdProblem statement: The crop in the irrigated scheme has faced by manifold problems contributed to low level of productivity and high cost of production of wheat. The crop is commonly produced under pump irrigation from the River Nile. In River Nile State (RNS), wheat is grown under the irrigated sector, the State is considered as a suitable environment for producing … …American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Vol. 6, Issue 3 · 4 Aug 2011 · 10,574 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsDisclosure Factors of Executive Managers Remuneration: A Probit ModelThemistokles Lazarides, Elektra PitoskaProblem statement: The study contributes to the literature that argues that the convergence trend of corporate governance systems is either nominal or hasn’t the impact that the advocates of this theory hypothesize. Approach: The objective of the study was to test this hypothesis the key issue of remuneration had been chosen to illustrate that the differences of corporate governance systems … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 2, Issue 4 · 28 Nov 2010 · 7,627 accessesView PDFCite