Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Benedict E. DeDominicis Title: AMERICAN ECONOMIC NATIONALISM: CORPORATIST, NEOLIBERAL AND NEOCORPORATIST POLITICAL STRATEGIC RESPONSES TO CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL SYSTEMIC CRISES Abstract: The political theory focus of this paper is the relevance of corporatism to meet the nationalist backlash against the increasing global interdependence that elites encouraged through neoliberal strategies. The paper analyzes the Trump administration’s resistance to international cooperation to counteract the negative externalities creating vulnerability to global crises. It thereby explicates the political assumptions and prescriptions underlying national strategic models of development. Great power competition for power and influence intensifies in an international political system in which the sources of power and influence increasingly depend upon sustainable development. It explores how reactionary populism emerges from perceived threat to core cultural group traditional supremacy within the national polity. This group heretofore set the institutionalized, stereotyped norm standards of individual and constituency behavior and relations. It highlights the foundational path dependency of the American state being reflected in contemporary American white populist status grievances. They utilize the language of conservative evangelical Christian identity to mobilize their social movement political resources. American foundational colonial ideologies in early modern capitalist plantation-based slavery and legacies of de facto casteism are a symbol set. Postwar emerging transnational normative authority centers reflected in international law progressively challenge the utilitarian relevance of these traditional, stereotyped norms and ethics. Classification-JEL: E12, E14, E24, E61, E71, F52, F54, H12, H44, H56, J15, J16, J61, J71, J78, K15, K32, K38, L13, L33, L43, L52, M14, N32, N34, N42, N44, N62, O19, O25, O4, P11, P41, P50, Q28, Q38, Q48, Q54 Keywords: Corporatism, Covid-10, Environmental Policy, Epistemic Community, Globalization, Interdependency, Judiciary, Neoliberalism, National Security, Political Strategy, Social Identity, Social Movements Journal: Review of Business and Finance Studies Pages: 1-30 Volume: 12 Issue: 1 Year: 2021 File-URL: http://www.theibfr2.com/RePEc/ibf/rbfstu/rbfs-v12n1-2021/RBFS-V12N1-2021-1.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:ibf:rbfstu:v:12:y:2021:i:1:p:1-30 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ahmed Bakr Khoshaim Title: A LINEAR PROGRAMMING OPTIMIZATION MODEL FOR A DIET PROGRAM Abstract: The global obesity problem has increased over the years. Weight control is a concern for the third decade generation as social media and commercials play major role in demonstrating beauty standards. This study proposes a diet program, subject to the calories needed for daily consumption, the budget for the diet, and the healthiest distribution for meals in a day. A Linear Programming modelling is used to identify the optimal diet program with defined standard limits. These standards are translated to become the constraints of the Linear Programming model and QM software program to find the solution. The solution provides a diet choice for consumers under study. The diet provides a tool for businesses to help their employees remain healthy and productive. Classification-JEL: C60, C61 Keywords: Optimal, Diet, Linear Programming Journal: Review of Business and Finance Studies Pages: 31-39 Volume: 12 Issue: 1 Year: 2021 File-URL: http://www.theibfr2.com/RePEc/ibf/rbfstu/rbfs-v12n1-2021/RBFS-V12N1-2021-2.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:ibf:rbfstu:v:12:y:2021:i:1:p:31-39 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: John Theodore Title: THE STATE OF PRIVATE GREEK ENTERPRISES DURING THE 1960-2010 PERIOD Abstract: This article examines the development of private Greek enterprises from 1960 to 2010 and detected that little progress was made during the period. This lack of progress is due to limited management and organizational knowledge by owners-managers of such organizations and the inability of the enterprises to grow internally and externally. I propose that both human and non-human areas of firms need to undergo concurrent development under the auspices of an industrialized socio-economics system to move forward in a positive way. Classification-JEL: M16, M20 Keywords: Greece Owners-Managers Private Enterprises, Economies of Scale Post-Fordism De-industrialization Organizational Development, Social Mobility Static Status Quo Journal: Review of Business and Finance Studies Pages: 41-50 Volume: 12 Issue: 1 Year: 2021 File-URL: http://www.theibfr2.com/RePEc/ibf/rbfstu/rbfs-v12n1-2021/RBFS-V12N1-2021-3.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:ibf:rbfstu:v:12:y:2021:i:1:p:41-50 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Federico Colombo Author-Name: Martin Grandes Title: GOING DIGITAL AND FINTECH: THE CASE OF BULL MARKET BROKERS Abstract: This paper shows how a stock market broker of Argentina, Bull Market Brokers, underwent a digital transformation and became a financial market leader, an innovative Fintech and financial educator. This company is a unique case in which a Latin American, stock market, non-native digital company based in Argentina advances its structure, processes and products to modernize and successfully compete within the new Fintech landscape while strengthening and moving forward its leadership in the Buenos Aires Stock Market, the largest in Argentina by capitalization, listed firms and turnover. Using the case-study methodology, the main results this paper finds are that: 1) the extent of the change and adaptation to the new conditions demanded by the stock market participants are complex and multidimensional; 2) stock market intermediaries are undergoing a paradigm shift that forces them to fully digitalize their operations; 3) this shift occurs through innovation in products and processes, strategic objectives, organizational design, product development and even the target clientele; and 4) incidentally, the case finds that the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic crisis offers a window of opportunity to accelerate digital transformation in financial intermediation, forcing companies and organizations to further adapt and ultimately survive the change in the business model. Classification-JEL: E44, G23, G24, O16, O31, O54 Keywords: Brokerage Firm, Fintech, Digital Transformation, Financial Inclusion, Commercial Digitalization Journal: Review of Business and Finance Studies Pages: 51-68 Volume: 12 Issue: 1 Year: 2021 File-URL: http://www.theibfr2.com/RePEc/ibf/rbfstu/rbfs-v12n1-2021/RBFS-V12N1-2021-4.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:ibf:rbfstu:v:12:y:2021:i:1:p:51-68 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: James Henry Dunne Author-Name: Peter Harris Author-Name: Terrance Jalbert Title: MITIGATING RISK AMIDST CATASTROPHIC EVENTS: A FOCUS ON SHAREHOLDER AND OPERATING AGREEMENTS Abstract: Risk management has traditionally encompassed the systematic identification, analysis, strategy and response to a myriad of factors that impact the sustainability of a business. Effective risk management strategies attempt to foresee and manipulate future outcomes by proactively, rather than reactively, addressing variables that may adversely impact the profitability of an organization. Responses to possible risks necessitate the creation of contingencies that outline the execution of pre-determined action plans that would be triggered if the anticipated risks were, in fact, to arise. This paper provides a discussion of risk reduction techniques which can mitigate catastrophic macro risk events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Classification-JEL: K10, K12, K15, K19, M20 Keywords: Risk Management, COVID-19, Business Liability Journal: Review of Business and Finance Studies Pages: 69-78 Volume: 12 Issue: 1 Year: 2021 File-URL: http://www.theibfr2.com/RePEc/ibf/rbfstu/rbfs-v12n1-2021/RBFS-V12N1-2021-5.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:ibf:rbfstu:v:12:y:2021:i:1:p:69-78 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Yanfu Li Title: IMPROVING THE ACCURACY OF ESTIMATED INTRINSIC VALUE THROUGH INDUSTRY-SPECIFIC VALUATION MODELS Abstract: This study aims to improve the accuracy of estimated intrinsic value by the industry-specific valuation model. Different industries have unique characteristics. As such, they should be valued by different valuation models. This study offers a comprehensive overview of the characteristics of financial and information technology industries and identifies the appropriate industry-specific valuation models for each industry. As the features of firms may still vary greatly even within the same industry, this study further classifies each industry into several sectors according to the Industry Classification Benchmark. After that, a series of corresponding valuation models for each sector are recommended. Detailed explanations for the recommendations are provided for each sector. This study contributes to the literature of valuation methodology by identifying the corresponding valuation models for different sectors/industries. More accurate estimation of intrinsic value can be expected as a result of more compatible valuation model. Classification-JEL: G12, G14, C10 Keywords: Industry Characteristic, Industry-Specific Valuation Method Journal: Review of Business and Finance Studies Pages: 79-89 Volume: 12 Issue: 1 Year: 2021 File-URL: http://www.theibfr2.com/RePEc/ibf/rbfstu/rbfs-v12n1-2021/RBFS-V12N1-2021-6.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEc:ibf:rbfstu:v:12:y:2021:i:1:p:79-89