Industrial Management & Data Systems: Volume 114 Issue 3

Data-driven optimized vehicle-level engineering specifications

Kilmo Kang, Changmuk Kang, Yoo S. Hong

The purpose of this paper is to propose a methodology that determines vehicle-level specifications for new-car program by balancing market environments and engineering feasibility…

Top management demographic characteristics and company performance

María Carmen Díaz-Fernández, María Rosario González-Rodríguez, Marek Pawlak

The importance of the performance of a firm and the essential role played by the management in their accomplishment has been discussed and recognised by many researchers from…

Building loyalty through functional and hedonic quality

Maria Del Mar Alonso-Almeida, Merce Bernardo, Josep Llach, Frederic Marimon

The purpose of this paper is to propose and test an e-quality model for leisure products purchased online. Two dimensions are considered in order to configure the scale…

Supply chain planning and trust: two sides of the same coin

Ely Laureano Paiva, Rafael Teixeira, Luciana Marques Vieira, Andrew Beheregaray Finger

– The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between supply planning, trust and integration, and the influence of them on operational performance.

E-leadership effectiveness in virtual teams: motivating language perspective

Kai-Tang Fan, Yuan-Ho Chen, Ching-Wen Wang, Minder Chen

Virtual teams are becoming a norm in current knowledge-based society and offer a wide range of organizational benefits. This paper aims to investigate the effects of leaders’…

Cooperation with suppliers, firm size and product innovation

Beatriz Minguela-Rata, Jose Fernández-Menéndez, Marta Fossas-Olalla

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effect of technological cooperation with suppliers (TCS) and the firm size on propensity to develop product innovations and on…

Emotions and ERP information sourcing: the moderating role of expertise

Pierre-Majorique Leger, René Riedl, Jan vom Brocke

The purpose of this paper is to report on a laboratory experiment in which the paper investigated how expert and novice users differ in their emotional responses during use of an…

Review of threats on trust and reputation models

Po-Ling Sun, Cheng-Yuan Ku

As the number of available services increases on the web, it becomes greatly vital in service-oriented computing to discover a trustworthy service for a service composition so as…

Age-group differences in Near Field Communication smartphone

Pei-Lee Teh, Pervaiz K. Ahmed, Soon-Nyean Cheong, Wen-Jiun Yap

The purpose of this paper are twofold: first, develop a novel concept of a mobiquitous home application (Near Field Communication Smartphone Entertainment Systems (NFC SES)) with…