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Calderon-Monge E, Ribeiro-Soriano D. The role of digitalization in business and management: a systematic literature review. Rev Manag Sci 2023. [PMCID: PMC10043855 DOI: 10.1007/s11846-023-00647-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/30/2023]
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Digitalization is a powerful engine for economic growth in the world. In 2018, digitally transformed firms represented 13.5 billion US dollars of global GDP and, towards the end of 2023, they are expected to represent 53.3 billion US dollars, over half of the general nominal GDP (Statista, Nominal GDP driven by digitally transformed and other enterprises worldwide 2018–2023. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1134766/nominal-gdp-driven-by-digitally-transformed-enterprises/, 2022). The main objective of this study is to provide information (highlighting principal research topics and research agendas) from the literature on state-of-the-art digitalization within firms through a Systematic Literature Review (SLR). In all, 119 review articles on the most mature functional areas of the firm are analyzed: management, marketing, and finance and accounting, published in the WOS over the period 2018-April 2022. In this study, key relevant tendencies are identified in the most mature areas of the firm, which are the impact of digital technologies on the analysis of consumer behavior; digitalization and green innovation within organizations; and blockchain technology applied to financial services. The main contributions of this work are as follows: (1) to provide the most complete and up-to-date review of digitalization from a global perspective, summarizing the current state of knowledge within an integrated framework; (2) to reduce the complexity of digitalization by offering structure and clarity; and (3) to offer links between digitalization and established points of view in the literature on management, marketing, finance, and accounting. The novelty of this paper is centered on a joint analysis of digitalization, digital transformation, and digital technologies, taking into account the most mature functional areas of the firm.
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- Esther Calderon-Monge
- grid.23520.360000 0000 8569 1592Department of Economics and Business Administration, Faculty of Economy and Business Studies, University of Burgos, Burgos, Spain
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Drago HF, de Moura GL, da Silva LSCV, da Veiga CP, Kaczam F, Rita LPS, da Silva WV. Reviewing the relationship between organizational performance, dynamic capabilities and strategic behavior. SN Bus Econ 2023; 3:5. [PMCID: PMC9734316 DOI: 10.1007/s43546-022-00392-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2022] [Accepted: 11/30/2022] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Current business challenges mean that understanding elements that can affect organizational performance represents a differential factor in maintaining competitiveness. In this context, the objective of this article is to conduct a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) of the relationship between dynamic capabilities, strategic behavior, and organizational performance. For this, A three-stage SLR protocol was used: (i) planning, (ii) conduct, and (iii) knowledge development. A total of 118 articles covering the publication period of 2006–2021 were included, which evidenced: (i) the grouping of words into three classes: “Knowledge Management,” “Measurement Instrument,” and “Organizational Environment”; (ii) the methodological framework; (iii) directions for future research. The findings reinforce the importance of the theoretical, methodological, and empirical relationship between the three constructs. Furthermore, the results indicate the relationship between the set of terms selected in each class, highlighting the strong connection between dynamic capabilities and competitive intensity. The main findings of the research show that organizations can expand or modify their processes by building and using dynamic capabilities as institutional factors, shaping strategic behavior to advance better performance.
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- Henrique Faverzani Drago
- grid.411239.c0000 0001 2284 6531Postgraduate Program in Administration, Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), Building 74C, 2nd Floor, Room 4209, Santa Maria, 97105-900 Brazil
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- grid.411239.c0000 0001 2284 6531Scholarship CNPq Research Productivity (Level 2) and Professor, Postgraduate Program in Administration (PPGA), Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), Building 74C, 2nd Floor, Room 4209, Santa Maria, 97105-900 Brazil
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- grid.411216.10000 0004 0397 5145Post-Doctoral Scholarship FAPESQ-PB, Postgraduate Program in Accounting, Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), Cidade Universitária, João Pessoa, PB 58051-900 Brazil
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- grid.466686.c0000 0000 9679 6146Fundação Dom Cabral (FDC), Av. Princesa Diana, 760 Alphaville, Lagoa Dos Ingleses, Nova Lima, MG 34018-006 Brazil
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- grid.411239.c0000 0001 2284 6531CAPES Scholarship, Postgraduate Program in Administration, Federal University Santa Maria (UFSM), Building 74C, 2nd Floor, Room 4209, Santa Maria, 97105-900 Brazil
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- grid.411179.b0000 0001 2154 120XFaculty of Economics, Administration and Accounting, Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL), Maceió, 57072-900 Brazil
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- grid.411179.b0000 0001 2154 120XScholarship CNPq Research Productivity (1D Level) and Professor, Faculty of Economics, Administration and Accounting, Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL), Maceió, 57072-900 Brazil
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Gimranov DO, Lucenti SB, Lavrov AV, Vakhrushev BA, Lopatin AV. Pleistocene foxes (Vulpes, Canidae, Carnivora) from the Taurida Cave, Crimea. Dokl Biol Sci 2021; 500:123-126. [PMID: 34731375 DOI: 10.1134/s0012496621050045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2021] [Revised: 06/19/2021] [Accepted: 06/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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A mandible fragment and four isolated teeth of the fossil foxes, Vulpes alopecoides (Del Campana, 1913), Vulpes cf. vulpes (Linnaeus, 1758) and Vulpes sp., are described from the Early Pleistocene locality of Taurida cave (Crimea, Late Villafranchian, 1.8-1.5 Ma). Based on the size and morphological features, a mandible fragment and two M1 are attributed to V. alopecoides. The structure of m1 of Vulpes cf. vulpes is similar to that of V. vulpes and V. alopecoides, but the size greatly exceeds the size limits for the latter species. Although m1 of Vulpes sp. fits the size of the lower carnassials of V. alopecoides, its morphology is definitely unique among the Early Pleistocene representatives of the genus Vulpes.
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- D O Gimranov
- Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg, Russia. .,Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia.
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- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.,Geology and Paleontology Section of the Natural History Museum, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- Vernadsky Crimean Federal University, Simferopol, Russia
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- Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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Gowda AS, Memon AN, Bidika E, Salib M, Rallabhandi B, Fayyaz H. Investigating the Viability of Motor Imagery as a Physical Rehabilitation Treatment for Patients With Stroke-Induced Motor Cortical Damage. Cureus 2021; 13:e14001. [PMID: 33884242 PMCID: PMC8054940 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.14001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Although around 83% of individuals survive a stroke, they usually experience a significant loss in their motor execution (ME) capabilities due to their acquired cortical infarction. The loss of significant ME capabilities due to stroke damage was previously thought to be irreversible. Active movement therapies show considerable promise but depend on motor performance, excluding many otherwise eligible patients. Motor imagery (MI), a process that involves the use of mirror neurons to imagine motor activity, has emerged as a possible avenue to re-acquire some physical abilities lost to stroke damage. This paper examines previous studies to compare the strength of brain activation and connectivity in individuals who have brain lesions and those who do not as they all attempt ME and MI tasks. This paper reviews case studies investigating the direct effect of motor imagery in conjunction with physical therapy and the limitations of motor imagery based on the location of cortical damage and other variables, such as age. The findings analyzed in this review indicate that MI would serve as a beneficial addition to physical therapy and a viable option to stimulate motor evoked potentials (MEPs) in individuals not capable of pursuing physical therapy due to severe motor impairment. Regardless of the presence of brain lesions, motor imagery has consistently had a positive impact on motor rehabilitation either in boosting treatment or stimulating neuromuscular pathways. Therefore, we have concluded that MI is a viable supplemental treatment plan for motor recovery in most patients with motor cortical atrophy.
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- Asavari S Gowda
- Medicine, California Institute of Behavioral Neurosciences & Psychology, Fairfield, USA
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- Internal Medicine, California Institute of Behavioral Neurosciences & Psychology, Fairfield, USA
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- Internal Medicine, California Institute of Behavioral Neurosciences & Psychology, Fairfield, USA
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- Internal Medicine, California Institute of Behavioral Neurosciences & Psychology, Fairfield, USA
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- Neurology, California Institute of Behavioral Neurosciences & Psychology, Fairfield, USA
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- Internal Medicine, California Institute of Behavioral Neurosciences & Psychology, Fairfield, USA
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The last decade has seen a growing interest in adjuvant treatments that synergistically influence mechanisms underlying rehabilitation of paretic upper limb in stroke. One such approach is invasive neurostimulation of spared cortices at the periphery of a lesion. Studies in animals have shown that during training of paretic limb, adjuvant stimulation targeting the peri-infarct circuitry enhances mechanisms of its reorganization, generating functional advantage. Success of early animal studies and clinical reports, however, failed to translate to a phase III clinical trial. As lesions in humans are diffuse, unlike many animal models, peri-infarct circuitry may not be a feasible, or consistent target across most. Instead, alternate mechanisms, such as changing transcallosal inhibition between hemispheres, or reorganization of other viable regions in motor control, may hold greater potential. Here, we review comprehensive mechanisms of clinical recovery and factors that govern which mechanism(s) become operative when. We suggest novel approaches that take into account a patient's initial clinical-functional state, and findings from neuroimaging and neurophysiology to guide to their most suitable mechanism for ideal targeting. Further, we suggest new localization schemes, and bypass strategies that indirectly target peri-lesional circuitry, and methods that serve to counter technical and theoretical challenge in identifying and stimulating such targets at the periphery of infarcts in humans. Last, we describe how stimulation may modulate mechanisms differentially across varying phases of recovery- a temporal effect that may explain missed advantage in clinical trials and help plan for the next stage. With information presented here, future trials would effectively be able to target patient's specific mechanism(s) with invasive (or noninvasive) neurostimulation for the greatest, most consistent benefit.
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- Ela B Plow
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Ave, ND20, Cleveland, OH, 44195, USA,
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Pradere JP, Kluwe J, De Minicis S, Jiao JJ, Gwak GY, Dapito DH, Jang MK, Guenther ND, Mederacke I, Friedman R, Dragomir AC, Aloman C, Schwabe RF. Hepatic macrophages but not dendritic cells contribute to liver fibrosis by promoting the survival of activated hepatic stellate cells in mice. Hepatology 2013; 58:1461-73. [PMID: 23553591 PMCID: PMC3848418 DOI: 10.1002/hep.26429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 402] [Impact Index Per Article: 36.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2013] [Accepted: 03/25/2013] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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UNLABELLED Although it is well established that hepatic macrophages play a crucial role in the development of liver fibrosis, the underlying mechanisms remain largely elusive. Moreover, it is not known whether other mononuclear phagocytes such as dendritic cells (DCs) contribute to hepatic stellate cell (HSC) activation and liver fibrosis. We show for the first time that hepatic macrophages enhance myofibroblast survival in a nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB)-dependent manner and thereby promote liver fibrosis. Microarray and pathway analysis revealed no induction of HSC activation pathways by hepatic macrophages but a profound activation of the NF-κB pathway in HSCs. Conversely, depletion of mononuclear phagocytes during fibrogenesis in vivo resulted in suppressed NF-κB activation in HSCs. Macrophage-induced activation of NF-κB in HSCs in vitro and in vivo was mediated by interleukin (IL)-1 and tumor necrosis factor (TNF). Notably, IL-1 and TNF did not promote HSC activation but promoted survival of activated HSCs in vitro and in vivo and thereby increased liver fibrosis, as demonstrated by neutralization in coculture experiments and genetic ablation of IL-1 and TNF receptor in vivo. Coculture and in vivo ablation experiments revealed only a minor contribution to NF-κB activation in HSCs by DCs, and no contribution of DCs to liver fibrosis development, respectively. CONCLUSION Promotion of NF-κB-dependent myofibroblast survival by macrophages but not DCs provides a novel link between inflammation and fibrosis.
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- Jean-Philippe Pradere
- Department of Medicine, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10032, USA
,Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20246 Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Gastroenterology, University of Ancona, 60121 Ancona, Italy
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- Division of Liver Diseases, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10032, USA
,Institute of Human Nutrition, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20246 Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
,Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Division of Liver Diseases, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Division of Liver Diseases, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10032, USA
,Institute of Human Nutrition, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
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Agrawal A, Manchester M. Differential uptake of chemically modified cowpea mosaic virus nanoparticles in macrophage subpopulations present in inflammatory and tumor microenvironments. Biomacromolecules 2012; 13:3320-6. [PMID: 22963597 PMCID: PMC3590107 DOI: 10.1021/bm3010885] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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There remains a tremendous need to develop targeted therapeutics that can both image and localize the toxic effects of chemotherapeutics and antagonists on diseased tissue while reducing adverse systemic effects. These needs have fostered the development of a nanotechnology-based approach that can combine targeting and toxicity potential. In this study, CPMV nanoparticles were chemically modified with the dye Alexa Flour 488 and were also tandemly modified with PEG1000 followed by AF488; and the derivatized nanoparticles were subsequently added to macrophages stimulated with either LPS (M1) or IL-4 (M2). Previously published studies have shown that M1/M2 macrophages are both present in an inflammatory microenvironment (such as a tumor microenvironment and atherosclerosis) and play opposing yet balancing roles; M2 macrophages have a delayed and progressive onset in the tumor microenvironment (concomitant with an immunosuppression of M1 macrophages). In this study, we show higher uptake of CPMV-AF488 and CPMV-PEG-AF488 by M2 macrophages compared to M1 macrophages. M1 macrophages showed no uptake of CPMV-PEG-AF488. More specifically, M2 macrophages are known to be up-regulated in early atherosclerosis plaque. Indeed, previous work showed that M2 macrophages in plaque also correlate with CPMV internalization. These studies emphasize the potential effectiveness of CPMV as a tailored vehicle for targeting tumor macrophages involved in cancer metastasis or vascular inflammation and further highlight the potential of CPMV in targeted therapeutics against other diseases.
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- Arpita Agrawal
- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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Fox PT, Narayana S, Tandon N, Fox SP, Sandoval H, Kochunov P, Capaday C, Lancaster JL. Intensity modulation of TMS-induced cortical excitation: primary motor cortex. Hum Brain Mapp 2006; 27:478-87. [PMID: 16161021 PMCID: PMC6871298 DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2004] [Accepted: 12/07/2004] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The intensity dependence of the local and remote effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) on human motor cortex was characterized using positron-emission tomography (PET) measurements of regional blood flow (BF) and concurrent electromyographic (EMG) measurements of the motor-evoked potential (MEP). Twelve normal volunteers were studied by applying 3 Hz TMS to the hand region of primary motor cortex (M1(hand)). Three stimulation intensities were used: 75%, 100%, and 125% of the motor threshold (MT). MEP amplitude increased nonlinearly with increasing stimulus intensity. The rate of rise in MEP amplitude was greater above MT than below. The hemodynamic response in M1(hand) was an increase in BF. Hemodynamic variables quantified for M1(hand) included value-normalized counts (VNC), intensity (z-score), and extent (mm(3)). All three hemodynamic response variables increased nonlinearly with stimulus intensity, closely mirroring the MEP intensity-response function. VNC was the hemodynamic response variable which showed the most significant effect of TMS intensity. VNC correlated strongly with MEP amplitude, both within and between subjects. Remote regions showed varying patterns of intensity response, which we interpret as reflecting varying levels of neuronal excitability and/or functional coupling in the conditions studied.
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- Peter T Fox
- Research Imaging Center, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 78284, USA.
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