Timely information and decision making are vital for success of agricultural supply chain management, which is possible through capturing information by using wireless sensor networks. The Internet... Show More

Timely information and decision making are vital for success of agricultural supply chain management, which is possible through capturing information by using wireless sensor networks. The Internet of Things comprises of such devices, which are laid in the form of communicating network around the agricultural setting for obtaining information. The current study aims to review prior studies based on the usage of IoT in sustainable agricultural supply chain management. A literature review has been conducted by using selected studies from reputed journals. It has been found that IoT applications in the sustainable agricultural supply chain and is currently under a nascent stage in developing countries. This is due to influence of multiple barriers, which poses serious problems, and therefore it is imperative for agricultural scientists and managers to understand the interrelationships. Farm managers, research scientists, and policy makers must aim to remove the barriers for achieving sustainability in agricultural supply chain management. The study is unique, first, in terms of scope of study; second, it identifies and categorizes the barriers to IoT application in agricultural supply chain; and third, it proposes a conceptual framework with research propositions and finally provides food for thought to the research community.

Entrepreneurship has become an important component for the development of productivity and economic growth. The contribution of the entrepreneurship and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to the... Show More

Entrepreneurship has become an important component for the development of productivity and economic growth. The contribution of the entrepreneurship and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to the economy has attracted the attention of researchers and policy makers in both developed and transition economies. With this in consideration, based on the literature review, the authors have tried to explore and summarize criteria of entrepreneurship success measure. Understanding of these success measures will help organizations to adopt appropriate implementation strategies leading to success of entrepreneurship and SMEs. This article also presents a review of some popular models of entrepreneurship and SME success. An attempt is made here to highlight the factors consider in various models. Based on the factors identified authors have developed conceptual study model which will ultimately help to understand unique characteristics of the model.

It is observed that the pollution of hospitals is escalated due to the propagation of diseases across the world. The medicine production companies are known as pharmaceutical companies; reserve the... Show More

It is observed that the pollution of hospitals is escalated due to the propagation of diseases across the world. The medicine production companies are known as pharmaceutical companies; reserve the different kinds of drug stocks to be supplied to their partners. It is investigated that presently, the patient deaths are hiked due to the delay in drug delivery to hospitals by pharmaceutical companies. It became necessary for pharmaceutical companies to map own supply chain practices, so that the death cases of patients can be eliminated. Pharmaceutical companies are seeking the decision support model with computing technique, which can improve their future performance. The authors propose a model which includes sustainable practices i.e., green, agile, resilient, flexible delivery of medicines. This proposal model is value-added with a weak and strong sustainable practices identification technique. This research deals with an application of a fuzzy-based Incentre of Centroid technique on proposed sustainability and is an assessment model for identifying the ill and strong chief indices, so that pharmaceutical companies can improve performance. An empirical research case of a pharmaceutical firm is presented to exhibit the real-life application of the research work.

E-entrepreneurship refers to the process of creating, managing and continuously improving an e-firm or online venture for making money by utilizing information technology (IT) and digital network.... Show More

E-entrepreneurship refers to the process of creating, managing and continuously improving an e-firm or online venture for making money by utilizing information technology (IT) and digital network. There are several barriers and challenges are incurred with the e-entrepreneurship. Thus, it is essential to study and investigate the various perspectives and challenges associated with the e-entrepreneurship. The main objectives of this article are: to determine and elaborate the primal perspectives of e-entrepreneurship depending upon the comprehensive review of prospering literature, to discuss the significant aspects of startups established as a key pillar of e-entrepreneurship, to elucidate the theories and influential role of information and communication technology for the development of flourishing e-entrepreneurship, to study the crucial impact of innovation, creativity and, technology for the establishment and growth of e-entrepreneurship. In this paper, various flourishing and novel literature has been critically overviewed for the sake of fulfilling the research objectives.