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Do cultural dimensions influence management style and organizational culture in a multicultural environment? Case study of Northern Cyprus
Ibrahim Adeshola, Dokun Oluwajana, Abraham Ayobamiji Awosusi, Olukunle Samuel SogekeThis study examines how cultural dimensions' influence management style and organizational culture in a multicultural environment.
Impacts of CSR implementation and channel leadership in a socially responsible supply chain
Xinhui Cheng, Weifeng Zhao, Zhichao Zhang, Qing ZhangCorporate social responsibility (CSR) has now been paid notable attention by a large number of firms. The aim of this paper is to investigate a better way to implement CSR…
Asynchronous network-based model and algorithm for sentiment analysis of online public opinions
Chong Li, Yuling Qu, Xinping ZhuA novel asynchronous network-based model is proposed in this paper for the sentiment analysis of online public opinions. This new model provides a new approach to analyze…
Aggressive or not aggressive: the different role of ego-network dynamics and density in the international network
Feiyang Guan, Wang Tienan, Qianqian Fan, Linlin LiuThis study aims to explore the effect of competitive aggressiveness on firm performance and the moderating effect of firm 2019s ego-network structures in the international…
Intellectual capital, corporate social responsibility and sustainable competitive performance of small and medium-sized enterprises: mediating effects of organizational innovation
Maqsood Ahmad, Qiang Wu, Muhammad Sualeh KhattakThis study aims to explore the mechanism by which intellectual capital and corporate social responsibility (CSR) influence the sustainable competitive performance of small…
An XGBoost-based multivariate deep learning framework for stock index futures price forecasting
Jujie Wang, Qian Cheng, Ying DongWith the rapid development of the financial market, stock index futures have been the one of important financial instruments. Predicting stock index futures accurately can…
The entry quality threshold setting and commission rate contract selection of a peer-to-peer service sharing platform
Xue Chi, Zhi-Ping Fan, Xiaohuan WangIn recent years, some peer-to-peer (P2P) service sharing platforms have improved their service quality by setting an entry quality threshold for service providers…
The sustainable competitiveness of e-commerce development of IoT big data
Jiangnan He, Xiaoyin YinThe purpose of this paper is to analyze the sustainable development of e-commerce.
A trust-enhanced consensus reaching model based on interaction among decision-makers with incomplete preferences
Xinglian Jian, Mei Cai, Ya Wang, Yu GaoThe development of social networks enhances the interaction between people, which brings new challenges to the research of group decision-making (GDM). This study aims at…
The effect of individual perceived dissimilarity on social media fatigue: the mediating role of social anxiety
Hongjun Yang, Shengtai Zhang, Zengmao YangThe increasing social media use has been widely recognized for its adverse effects, such as social media fatigue. With the continuously increasing friends on social media…
Examining the effect of liquidity creation on banking profitability and stability: moderating role of political instability
Misbah Javid, Khurram Ejaz Chandia, Qamar Uz Zaman, Waheed AkhtarThe paper aims to test the effect of liquidity creation on profitability and stability with the moderating role of political instability and its level of implication on…
Visual social network group consensus method with improved PageRank algorithm
Tianmeng Fan, Yuhong WangThe purpose of this study is to build a consensus model of social network group decision-making (SNGDM) based on improved PageRank algorithm. By objectively and fairly…
Low-carbon eco-city development policy in China: a bibliometric analysis of policy documents
Xinping Huang, Jie Gao, Huantao ZhangThe rationality of the selection and application of policy instruments in current policy schemes for promoting the development of low-carbon eco-cities in China is…
Home health care routing and scheduling problem with different groups of patients and health workers
Elham Samadpour, Rouzbeh Ghousi, Ahmad MakuiIn this study, the authors investigate a different routing and scheduling problem in the field of home health care (HHC) management system. The purpose of this paper is to…
An extended MABAC method for multiple-attribute group decision making under probabilistic T-spherical hesitant fuzzy environment
Shahid Hussain Gurmani, Huayou Chen, Yuhang BaiThe purpose of this article is to present the idea of a T-spherical hesitant fuzzy set associated with probability and to develop an extended multi-attributive border…
Trust and knowledge sharing in project teams in construction industry of Pakistan: moderating role of perceived behavioral control
Saif Ul Haq, Kamran Aziz Khan, Hira Hafeez, Muhammad Ahsan ChughtaiThis research aims to study the relationship between trust and knowledge sharing intention. Furthermore, the overarching objective of this study also determines the…
The green effects of fund market – analysis based on institutional investors’ preference
Xiaoxia Jia, Bing Li, Zhangxin (Frank) Liu, Cong SunAs Chinese stock market develops and grows, mutual fund plays an increasingly important role for strong financial strength and good social resources. This paper aims to…
Explaining the mechanism of brand hate: a mixed-method investigation using moderated mediation in emerging markets
Mudassir Husnain, Fauzia Syed, Khalid Hussain, Qingyu Zhang, Muhammad Usman, Muzhar JavedBrand hate as a distinct phenomenon of consumer negativity has attracted considerable research attention in recent years. However, scant attention has been paid to explain…
Stock price prediction using improved extreme learning machine methods during the Covid-19 pandemic and selection of appropriate prediction method
Aslı Boru İpekCoronavirus disease (Covid-19) has created uncertainty in all countries around the world, resulting in enormous human suffering and global recession. Because the economic…
Research on policy diffusion mechanism of Government Procurement of Public Services based on an MFCM
Yuting Zhang, Lan Xu, Zhengnan LuThe purpose of this paper is to show that research on policy diffusion mechanism of Government Procurement of Public Services (GPPS) is beneficial to improve the…
Research on innovation features and optimization strategies of industrial clusters from the perspective of TLCN
Yongcong Luo, Jianzhuang Zheng, Jing MaThe focus of industrial cluster innovation lies in the cooperation between enterprises and universities/scientific research institutes to make a theoretical breakthrough…
A systematic approach for curriculum redesign of introductory courses in engineering: a programming course case study
Francisco Buitrago-Florez, Mario Sanchez, Vanessa Pérez Romanello, Carola Hernandez, Marcela Hernández HoyosNumerous challenges in education emerge as our technology-driven society rapidly evolves and manifests more exigent requirements from engineering professionals. Higher…
Government policies for e-commerce supply chain with fairness concerns towards sustainable remanufacturing
Yanting Huang, Sijia Liu, Yuqing LiangThis paper aims to explore the effect of fairness concerns on supply chain members' optimal decisions and profits, to compare their profits under different policies, and…
Examining the interconnectedness and early warning signals of systemic risks of shadow banks: an application to the Indian shadow bank crisis
Anurag Chaturvedi, Archana SinghThe paper models the financial interconnectedness and systemic risk of shadow banks using Granger-causal network-based measures and takes the Indian shadow bank crisis of…
Determinants of psychological empowerment and work engagement during COVID-19 pandemic
Olawole Fawehinmi, Adedapo Oluwaseyi Ojo, Yusliza Mohd YusoffExisting studies have demonstrated the significances of job, personal and social resources in stimulating work engagement (WKE). However, the role of psychological…
Construction of evaluation model of ecotourism resources in featured small towns
Kaixin Wangzhou, Chunbo Hao, Huamin WangWith the development of small towns in China, the country pays more and more attention to the protection of landscape resources. It is an urgent problem that is how to…
Disclosing opaque inventory information in a two-period sales setting: substitute products' selling strategy
Zhigang Lu, Xuehua KongThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the opaque inventory information disclosure strategy for an online retailer who sells two substitutable products to customers…
Chatbots in the frontline: drivers of acceptance
Wajeeha Aslam, Danish Ahmed Siddiqui, Imtiaz Arif, Kashif FarhatBy extending the service robot acceptance model (sRAM), this study aims to explore and enhance the acceptance of chatbots. The study considered functional, relational…
Modeling combined economic emission dispatch for renewable energy system via Levy-based glowworm swarm optimization
Srinivasa Acharya, Ganesan Sivarajan, D. Vijaya Kumar, Subramanian SrikrishnaCurrently, more renewable energy resources with advanced technology levels are incorporated in the electric power networks. Under this circumstance, the attainment of…
Understanding online shopping hate in social commerce context: antecedents and consequences of psychological reactance
Yasir Jamal, Tahir Islam, Zubair Ali ShahidThis study explores the underlying mechanism of psychological reactance that leads to online shopping hate in social commerce. Based on self-congruity and psychological…
Does fear of COVID-19 undermine career optimism? A time-lagged quantitative inquiry of non-managerial employees
Bilal Ahmad, Saba BilalThis study intends to examine the impact of a fear of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on workers' career optimism via perceived job insecurity among non-managerial…
Critical variables for assessing the effectiveness of electronic customer relationship management systems in online shopping
Zuofei Yang, Hassan BabapourNowadays, businesses globally are scrambling to keep up with the latest trend of adopting Information Technology (IT) tools like electronic customer relationship…
Organizational justice perceptions and turnover intention: a meta-analytic review
Ahmet Hakan ÖzkanThe aim of the study was to survey the relationships between organizational justice perceptions and turnover intention by using meta-analysis and to determine the possible…
Digital inclusive finance, economic growth and innovative development
Wenjing Wang, Taiyi He, Zhenhui LiThis paper aims to explore the impact of digital inclusive finance (DIF) on regional economic growth and innovation-driven development.
Multi-skilled worker assignment in seru production system for the trade-off between production efficiency and workload fairness
Shaoyu Zeng, Yinghui Wu, Yang YuThe paper formulates a bi-objective mixed-integer nonlinear programming model, aimed at minimizing the total labor hours and the workload unfairness for the multi-skilled…
Complex characteristics analysis of time-delay digital supply chain driven by cybersecurity
Daoming Dai, Xuanyu Wu, Fengshan Si, Zhenan Feng, Weishen ChuThe purpose of this study is to analyze the short-term development pattern and long-term development trend of the digital supply chain.
How do businesses achieve sustainable success and gain a competitive advantage in the green era?
Wenfu Wang, Dongsheng Zhang, Hongwei Wang, Qingxiang Zhu, Hakimeh Morabbi HeraviTo attain green economic efficiency, small, micro and medium-sized firms must follow environmental paradigms. This research aims to discover the relationship between green…
Are red managers greener? The relationship of communist CEOs and corporate environmental responsibility in China
Ya Su, Lu ZhangAs China's only ruling party, will the Communist Party influence corporate decisions? The purpose of this paper is to examine whether and how the political ideology of…
Turn the table around: workplace incivility, coworker deviance, turnover intentions and nurses' job performance
Muhammad Asim Faheem, Hafiz Yasir Ali, Muhammad Waheed Akhtar, Muhammad Asrar-ul-HaqThe present study aims to analyze the effect of workplace incivility and coworker deviant behavior on turnover intentions and nurses' job performance.
A novel ensemble approach based on MCC and MCDM methods for prioritizing tweets mentioning urban issues in smart city
Pranali Piyush Yenkar, Sudhirkumar D. SawarkarSocial media platform, like Twitter, has increasingly become the mode of reporting civic issues owing to their vast and fast reachability. A tremendous amount of…
Depending on the web: discussing the technological support for parties' survival
Paulo MouraoIn this article, the author discusses the influence of technological development on the survival of European parties since the Second World War.
Course complexity in engineering education using E-learner's affective-state prediction
Snehal R. Rathi, Yogesh D. DeshpandeAffective states in learning have gained immense attention in education. The precise affective-states prediction can increase the learning gain by adapting targeted…
The influence of entrepreneurial leadership on employee improvisation in new ventures: based on cognitive-affective processing system framework
Jingjing Liu, Xiaohu Zhou, Qiao WangEmployee improvisation is valuable in seizing opportunities, creating radically new ideas and dealing with unexpected events. It is increasingly important for new ventures…
Optimal service quality and pricing for App service supply chain with network externality based on four different scenarios
Peng Xing, Meixia Wang, Junzhu YaoThe paper aims to investigate the optimal service quality and pricing for a mobile application (App) service supply chain (SSC) and analyze the impact of network…
Identification of critical paths leading to cost claims for underground metro projects: a system dynamics approach
Wenbao Wang, Iwan Harsono, Chich-Jen Shieh, Vadim Samusenkov, Shahab ShoarInfrastructure projects play a vital role in the development of countries' economies. However, these projects, notably underground ones, are encountering growing claims as…
Realization path of social capital “exit from virtual to real”: evidence from China
Shulin Xu, Xue Wan, Yunfeng Li, Jingrui YanHow to realize social capital “exit from virtual to real” has become not only a hot issue that elicited economists' and the practice field's concern but also a key…
Prioritizing risk factors in sustainable supply chain using fuzzy Kano and interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy QFD
Yushi Xie, Lina He, Wei Xiang, Zhenxing Peng, Xinguo Ming, Mark GohThe purpose of the paper is to develop a hybrid method to prioritize risk factors (RFs) of sustainable supply chain (SSC) considering sustainable customer requirements…
Oilseed warehouse location selection with an integrated approach: a case of Turkey
Ramazan Eyup Gergin, Iskender Peker, Birdogan Baki, Umut Rifat Tuzkaya, Mehmet TanyasAgricultural sector not only meets the nutritional requirements of all living creatures but also generates the primary source of the raw material provided by various…
Bibliometric study on SDG 6: analysing main content aspects by using Web of Science data from 2015 to 2021
Thais Aparecida Dibbern, Izabela Simon Rampasso, Milena Pavan Serafim, Rodnei Bertazzoli, Walter Leal Filho, Rosley AnholonThe purpose of the article is to understand how the literature has been addressing the United Nations' Sixth Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) to obtain an overview of…
Knowledge-based HR practices, π-shaped skills and innovative performance in the contemporary organizations
Malek Bakheet Elayan, Jamal Abdelrahman M. Hayajneh, Mamdouh Abdallah Mohamed Abdellatif, A. Mohammed AbubakarAs technology accelerates, the pace of innovation and product and process life cycles have significantly decreased. Firms seek to leverage their employees' efforts…
From the attributes of smart tourism technologies to loyalty and WOM via user satisfaction: the moderating role of switching costs
Kenneth Shiu Pong Ng, Jose Weng Chou Wong, Dengming Xie, Jingyan ZhuThis study aims to empirically testify an integrated model, including the attributes of smart tourism technologies (STTs) (user interface [UI] design, informativeness…
Impact of big data usage on product and process innovation: the role of data diagnosticity
Tuğba Tunc-Abubakar, Adnan Kalkan, A. Mohammed AbubakarIn today's business environment, big data is viewed as the “new oil,” which is rapidly changing the traditional business models and mode of operations. According to…
The survival of bike-sharing startups in China: an empirical analysis of the influencing factors
Yan Zhou, Sangmoon Park, Qifeng Wang, Justin Zuopeng Zhang, Abhishek BehlBike-sharing is popular worldwide, and it has led to a new development direction in green transportation. However, the collapse of many bike-sharing startups and residual…
Smart grid reliability evaluation and assessment
Ibrahim MashalSmart grid is an integration between traditional electricity grid and communication systems and networks. Providing reliable services and functions is a critical challenge…
Research on the path choice behavior of donated materials under major epidemics
Ping Gui, Zufeng Yang, Jun CheIn the face of major disasters, the Chinese people's willingness to donate has increased and the result is that the donation paths have increased. However, there are…
ICT – a surviving tool for economy in the phase of social distancing: a systematic literature review
Swati Gupta, Shubham Gupta, Shifali Kataria, Sanjay GuptaThe purpose of this study is to recognise the role of information and communication technology (ICT) tools in different sectors like Education, Health Care, Business, FMCG…
Assessing the impact of ICT adoption on residents' self-rated health: evidence from China
Shunbin Zhong, Xiaohua Shen, Weiteng Shen, Chongchong XinUtilizing data from the 2017 Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS2017), the paper aims to investigate the impact of information and communication technology (ICT) adoption…
Analysing the impact of high-tech industry on regional competitiveness with principal component analysis method based on the new development concept
Shuaijie Deng, Baosheng Li, Ke WuThis study explores how to develop high-tech industries in Hunan province and enhance regional competitiveness. Through the comprehensive quantitative analysis of the…
Generating destination brand awareness and image through the firm's social media
Davood Ghorbanzadeh, Rafina Rafkatovna Zakieva, Mariya Kuznetsova, Aras Masood Ismael, Alim Al Ayub AhmedThe role of social media in the tourism industry growth cannot be ignored, because today the internet and social media platforms are one of the most popular information…
A participative system methodology to model pest dynamics in an agricultural setting
Martha Blanco, Felipe Montes, Felipe Borrero-Echeverry, Alfaima L. Solano-Blanco, Camilo Gomez, Paola Zuluaga, Hugo Fernando Rivera-Trujillo, Diego F. RinconThis study aims to identify the most relevant causal factors and the feedback loops of the dynamics between Tuta absoluta incidence in tomato crops and farmers' reactions…
Deep learning based loan eligibility prediction with Social Border Collie Optimization
G.L. Infant Cyril, J.P. AnanthThe bank is termed as an imperative part of the marketing economy. The failure or success of an institution relies on the ability of industries to compute the credit risk…
Impact assessment of country risk on logistics performance using a Bayesian Belief Network model
Abroon Qazi, Mecit Can Emre Simsekler, Steven FormaneckThis paper aims to assess the impact of different drivers of country risk, including business environment, corruption, economic, environmental, financial, health and…
Emergency plan selection for epidemic prevention and control based on cumulative prospect theory and hybrid-information MADM
Qinghua Mao, Jinjin Chen, Jian Lv, Shudong ChenDecision-making problems in emergency plan selection for epidemic prevention and control (EPAC) are generally characterized by risky and uncertainty due to multiple…
The interplay of authentic leadership and social capital on team leader performance in public and private sector universities
Muhammad Waheed Akhtar, Muhammad Kashif Aslam, Chunhui Huo, Minhas Akbar, Muhammad Usman Afzal, Muhammad Hasan RafiqThis study aims to investigate the impact of authentic leaders on the performance of educational leaders in public and private universities in Pakistan. The study further…
Do leaders have an influence on strengthening entrepreneurial orientation? Empirical evidence from SMEs of Turkish techno-parks
Birol Baysak, Serdar Bozkurt, Ayşe GünselIn this study, the authors aim to test the reflections of two so-called universal leadership styles -paternalistic leadership (PL) and transformational leadership (TL)- on…
The value of probabilistic forecasting in emergency medical resource planning under uncertainty
Zhen-Yu ChenMost epidemic transmission forecasting methods can only provide deterministic outputs. This study aims to show that probabilistic forecasting, in contrast, is suitable for…
Linking online voice to workplace cyberbullying: roles of job strain and moral efficacy
Mingshu Lyu, Baiqing Sun, Zhenduo ZhangWith the spread of information communication technologies (ICTs) at work, online voice has become an emerging form of employee voice. Online voice is a double-edged…
Optimization of virtual closed-loop supply chain under uncertainty: application of IoT
Hanieh Shambayati, Mohsen Shafiei Nikabadi, Seyed Mohammad Ali Khatami Firouzabadi, Mohammad Rahmanimanesh, Sara SaberiSupply chains (SCs) have been growingly virtualized in response to the market challenges and opportunities that are presented by new and cost-effective internet-based…
The optimal buyback promotion strategy considering consumers' multichannel psychological acquisition
Yuqian Zhou, Gongbing Bi, Jiancheng Lv, Hongping LiThis paper aims to develop an optimal buyback promotion strategy for enterprises, including multibuyback strategy and self-buyback strategy, taking both the consumer's…
Cybercrime's tendencies of the teenagers in the COVID-19 era: assessing the influence of mobile games, social networks and religious attitudes
Yang Li, Jiaze Li, Qi Fan, Zhihong WangThe teenager community is the most affected community by cybercrime in the COVID-19 era. Increasing social networks and facilitating teenager access to the Internet have…
An integrated decision-making approach for global supplier selection and order allocation to create an environment-friendly supply chain
Hassan Ali, Jingwen Zhang, Sheng Liu, Muhammad ShoaibDue to the fierce market competition, many organizations seek global suppliers because of lower procurement costs and better product quality. However, selecting suitable…
Organizational memory: a qualitative research study on a multi-cultural organization
Cem Sen, Korhan Arun, Olcay OkunThis paper articulates a multi-contextual and dynamic system for memory research in relation to multi-cultural organizations (MCOs) by a qualitative research method.
Research on pricing strategy of online education products considering consumers' matching degree and price comparison behavior
Xiaonan Zhang, Xiubin Gu, Yi QuThe uncertainty of consumers' perceived value makes online education enterprises face great challenge in developing the pricing strategy. So the purpose of this paper is…
Physical Internet-enabled automobile production–distribution joint optimisation with multistage workshop
Shoufeng Ji, Yaoting Xue, Guosong ZhuThe Physical Internet (PI) application in a supply chain is explored by automakers to achieve a digital supply chain to challenge timely delivery while maintaining high…
Knowledge retention in oil and gas industry – the case of contract workforce
M. Saleem Ullah Khan Sumbal, Irfan Irfan, Susanne Durst, Umar Farooq Sahibzada, Muhammad Adnan Waseem, Eric TsuiThe purpose of this article is to investigate how organization retain the knowledge of Contract Workforce (CWF) and to understand the associated challenges in this regard.
Designing a knowledge-based system (KBS) to study consumer purchase intention: the impact of digital influencers in Pakistan
Sherbaz Khan, Aamir Rashid, Rizwana Rasheed, Noor Aina AmirahThe purpose of this study is to present a complete framework that defines the link between choices and decision criteria based on existing research on digital influencers…
Distributed assembly permutation flow-shop scheduling problem with non-identical factories and considering budget constraints
Seyed Mohammad Hassan HosseiniThis paper aims to address a distributed assembly permutation flow-shop scheduling problem (DAPFSP) considering budget constraints and factory eligibility. The first stage…
A sustainable redesign model for the water/wastewater supply network: a water–energy nexus approach
Hani Gilani, Sahar Shobeiry, Mohammad Biglari Kami, Hadi SahebiA sustainable selection method for facility location of the water treatment is formulated by best–worst method. In addition, the model addresses the selection of…
Positive reframing as a mediator between gratitude and technostress amongst Indian students during the COVID-19 pandemic
Naval Garg, Shivangi Verma, Jason Timothy PalframanThe aim of the current study was to examine the previously unexplored relationship between positive reframing as a mediator between gratitude and technostress in Indian…
Does social media usage boost career prospects of women: an exploratory study in the academia
Ambreen Sarwar, Muhammad Kashif Imran, Nadeem Akhtar, Tehreem FatimaThis paper draws on the affordance perspective, to explore the social media (SM) usage experiences that might render valuable for academic women professionals, for…
Exploring AI-healthcare innovation: natural language processing-based patents analysis for technology-driven roadmapping
Yu-Hui Wang, Guan-Yu LinThe purposes of this paper are (1) to explore the overall development of AI technologies and applications that have been demonstrated to be fundamentally important in the…
Pricing research for automotive supply chains considering low-carbon consumer preferences under a dual policy
Aijun Liu, Yun Yang, Jie Miao, Zengxian Li, Hui Lu, Feng LiThe promotion of new energy vehicles (EVs) is an effective way to achieve low carbon emission reduction. This paper aims to investigate the optimal pricing of automotive…
The contemporary state of big data analytics and artificial intelligence towards intelligent supply chain risk management: a comprehensive review
Harsh M. Shah, Bhaskar B. Gardas, Vaibhav S. Narwane, Hitansh S. MehtaThis paper aims to conduct a systematic literature review of the research in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data Analytics (BDA) in Supply Chain Risk…
Wholesale-price vs cost-sharing contracts in a green supply chain with reference price effect under different power structures
Ranran Zhang, Jinjin Liu, Yu QianThis research aims to examine which cooperative contract (wholesale-price contract or cost-sharing contract) can more effectively upgrade the green degree of product and…
The stochastic evolutionary game analysis of public prevention and control strategies in public health emergencies
Fangju Jia, Dong-dong Wang, Lianshui LiThe COVID-19 epidemic is still spreading globally and will not be completely over in a short time. Wearing a mask is an effective means to combat the spread of COVID-19…
A new group decision-making method with incomplete intuitionistic multiplicative preference relations
Xiao Yun Lu, Hecheng Li, Qiong HaoConsistency and consensus are two important research issues in group decision-making (GDM). Considering some drawbacks associated with these two issues in existing GDM…
A closed-loop power battery supply chain differential game model considering echelon utilization under a cost subsidy
Shan Yu, Qiang HouThis study considered the dynamic equilibrium decision-making problem in a three-level supply chain comprising a manufacturer, a recycler and an echelon utilization (EchU…
Innovation ambidexterity effects on product innovation performance: the mediating role of decentralization
Sebastian Ion Ceptureanu, Eduard Gabriel CeptureanuThe purpose of the study was to analyse the impact of innovation ambidexterity represented by explorative and exploitative innovation capabilities and their combined…
Critical success factors of strategic information systems planning: a Delphi approach
Winfred Yaokumah, Boasiako B. Omane-Antwi, Kwame Okwabi Asante-OffeiStrategic information systems planning (SISP) has been identified as a key strategy underpinning an effective utilization of information systems (IS) to achieve the core…
The impact of government procurement and anti-poverty efforts on sales format selection in a supply chain
Qingyu Zhang, Tianlong LuoIn the presence of government procurement, one important driving force behind a poor farmer entering into sales format agreements is to improve profits. In this study, the…
Impact of government subsidy on the optimal strategies of improving water use efficiency for a high-water-consumption manufacturer
Weimin Ma, Xiaona LiIn order to encourage the high-water-consumption (HWC) manufacturers to carry out water-saving transformation relying on self-strength or outsourcing to a water-saving…
A study of player behavior and motivation to purchase Dota 2 virtual in game items
Ezlika M. Ghazali, Hussam Al Halbusi, Fadi Abdel Muniem Abdel Fattah, Md. Uzir Hossain Uzir, Dilip S. Mutum, Foon-Lip TanThe goal of this study is to examine the factors (e.g. enjoyment, skills, challenge, telepresence and flow) that influence players’ purchase intention toward Dota 2…
Feasibility of implementing the human resource payroll management system based on cloud computing
Min Zhao, Kamran RabieiThe present study is descriptive research in terms of purpose, descriptive analysis in terms of nature and cross-sectional research in terms of time. The study’s…
Ambiguity-incorporated opinion formation model for multi-risk large-group emergency decision-making in social networks
Jing Cao, Xuanhua Xu, Bin PanVarious decision opinions comprise the foundation of emergency decision-making. However, decision-makers have difficulty establishing trust relationships within a short…
Optimal production and financing strategies for capital-constrained closed-loop supply chain under risk aversion
Xiaodong Xia, Weida Chen, Biyu LiuThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the optimal production and financing strategies for the closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) composed of a capital-constrained…
Antecedents and consequences of telecommuting on public organizations in Iran: the case of west Azerbaijan province
Ramin Bashir Khodaparasti, Hooshmand Bagheri GarbollaghTelecommuting can reduce traffic congestion, energy consumption, prevalence and a death toll of COVID-19 among employees due to less transportation and fewer physical…
Quality disclosure in sharing economy platform with network externality under consumer risk aversion
Haowen Fan, Yulin ZhangThis work aims to examine the quality disclosure strategy of sharing economy platforms with network externality, considering consumer risk aversion.
Effects of feedback on individual creativity in social learning: an experimental study
Manli WuThe study aims to develop a comprehensive theoretical model to understand the relationship between feedback and individual creativity in a social learning context. To…
Exploring intergenerational differences in technology-oriented ethical behavior
Shivangi Verma, Naval GargThe proliferation of information technology (IT) and IT-enabled devices has brought various challenges for modern organizations. These challenges are aggravated by the…
Study on the quality improvement on black land in Northeast China under the environment of sustainable agricultural development
Yun Teng, Boyuan Pang, Xiangyu GuoThe authors are committed to providing the Chinese government with a foundation for making decisions that will protect black land and ensure long-term agricultural development.
Risk assessment on drug production safety based on Grey-Analytic Network Process
Jiaojiao Ge, Benhong Peng, Guo Wei, Anxia WanTo strengthen the correlation analysis on risk factors of drug production safety and reduce the influence due to fuzzy judgments, a safety risk assessment method based on…
Operation decision of logistics service supply chain: considering interruption probability in emergencies
Guangsheng Zhang, Xiao Wang, Zhiqing Meng, Qirui Zhang, Kexin WuTo remedy the inherent defect in current research that focuses only on a single type of participants, this paper endeavors to look into the situation as an evolutionary…
Ecological well-being performance and influencing factors in China: from the perspective of income inequality
Lijun Zhou, Zongqing ZhangChina's increasing income inequality might cause a series of problems, such as the slowdown of economic growth, social and economic tension, the decline of the ecological…
Research on risk management of medical and health care integration projects based on fuzzy WINGS-G1
Yu Zhang, Lan XuThis study establishes a risk management system for medical and health care integration projects to address the problem of high-risk potential and a strong correlation…
Optimal versioning strategy of enterprise software considering the customer cost-acceptance level
Zhu-Jun Wang, Yang-Yang Sun, Zhen‐Song Chen, Geng‐Zhong Feng, Qin SuThe emergence of the Software-as-a-service (SaaS) licensing model dramatically changes how enterprise software is released. Especially, it is favored by small and medium…
Risk measurement in Bitcoin market by fusing LSTM with the joint-regression-combined forecasting model
Xunfa Lu, Cheng Liu, Kin Keung Lai, Hairong CuiThe purpose of the paper is to better measure the risks and volatility of the Bitcoin market by using the proposed novel risk measurement model.
Workplace ostracism and employee silence: an identity-based perspective
Md Sahabuddin, Tan Qingmei, Arslan Ayub, Tehreem Fatima, Mustafa Ishaq, Khan Ali JunaidExtant research has shown that workplace ostracism (WO) elicits counterproductive work behaviors, such as employee silence (ES), culminating in reduced job performance…
Exploring destination image through online reviews: an augmented mining model using latent Dirichlet allocation combined with probabilistic hesitant fuzzy algorithm
Yuyan Luo, Tao Tong, Xiaoxu Zhang, Zheng Yang, Ling LiIn the era of information overload, the density of tourism information and the increasingly sophisticated information needs of consumers have created information confusion…
A fuzzy quantitative model for assessing the performance of pharmaceutical supply chain under uncertainty
Firoz Ahmad, Boby JohnThis study aims to investigate a reliability-level demand-oriented pharmaceutical supply chain design with maximal anticipated demand coverage. Different hospitals with…
Associated probabilities aggregations in multistage investment decision-making
Gia Sirbiladze, Harish Garg, Irina Khutsishvili, Bezhan Ghvaberidze, Bidzina MidodashviliThe attributes that influence the selection of applicants and the relevant crediting decisions are naturally distinguished by interactions and interdependencies. A new…
Advertising strategy and contract coordination for a supply chain system: immediate and delayed effects
Hui Yu, Wei Yang, Na Xu, Yang DuAfter receiving advertising messages, most consumers rarely purchase the advertised products at once, which results in a delay between advertising exposure and its effect…
The vital-immaterial-mediocre multi-criteria decision-making method
Shervin Zakeri, Fatih Ecer, Dimitri Konstantas, Naoufel CheikhrouhouThis paper proposes a new multi-criteria decision-making method, called the vital-immaterial-mediocre method (VIMM), to determine the weight of multiple conflicting and…
Vehicle routing problem for humanitarian relief distribution under hybrid uncertainty
Sara Nodoust, Mir Saman Pishvaee, Seyed Mohammad SeyedhosseiniGiven the importance of estimating the demand for relief items in earthquake disaster, this research studies the complex nature of demand uncertainty in a vehicle routing…
Pricing strategies of low-carbon enterprises in the Yellow River Basin considering demand information and traceability services
Pan Liu, Xiaoyan Cui, Ziran Zhang, Wenwen Zhou, Yue LongThe purpose of this paper is to solve new pricing issues faced by low-carbon companies in the Yellow River Basin, which is caused by the change of key pricing factors in…
The impact of applying knowledge in the technological pillars of Industry 4.0 on supply chain performance
Anurak Sawangwong, Poti ChaopaisarnThe purpose of the study is to investigate the impact of technological pillars of Industry 4.0 based on knowledge to adopt the supply chain performance of Thai small and…
Collecting channel selection and information value of a closed-loop supply chain with corporate social responsibility
Kebing Chen, Qi Wang, Shengbin WangThe paper aims to explore how the participants in the closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) select collecting strategies under the scenarios of information symmetry and…
A model of business intelligence on cloud for managing SMEs in COVID-19 pandemic (Case: Iranian SMEs)
Fatemeh Hamidinava, Abdolhamid Ebrahimy, Roohallah Samiee, Hosein DidehkhaniThe purpose of this study was to demonstrate a cloud business intelligence model for industrial SMEs. An initial model was developed to accomplish this, followed by…
International cluster research progress on strategic niche management: a bibliometric citation big data computing analysis
Yingying Ding, Xi Xi, Yao HeTime analysis and institution analysis as well as journal analysis allow the study to show literature distribution in this research area. Research hotspots and trending…
The impact of customer knowledge on the organizational performance: a system dynamics approach
Seyed Danial Bidgoli, Mohammad Saleh Owlia, Mohammad Taghi IsaaiThe purpose of this research was to model the impact of customer knowledge on the performance of organization with a focus on information technology industry. Furthermore…
Social media users and cybersecurity awareness: predicting self-disclosure using a hybrid artificial intelligence approach
Naurin Farooq Khan, Naveed Ikram, Hajra Murtaza, Muhammad Aslam AsadiThis study aims to investigate the cybersecurity awareness manifested as protective behavior to explain self-disclosure in social networking sites. The disclosure of…
A model to evaluate the acceptance and usefulness of enterprise architecture for digitalization of cities
Bokolo Anthony Jnr, Sobah Abbas Petersen, John KrogstieEnterprise architecture (EA) is usually adopted as an approach for managing enterprise complexities and aligning business and information technology (IT) capabilities…
A differential game analysis on green technology innovation in a supply chain with information sharing of dynamic demand
Junyi Wei, Chuanxu WangThe objective of this paper is to investigate the impact of the information sharing of the dynamic demand on green technology innovation and profits in supply chain from a…
A folksonomy-based collaborative filtering method for crowdsourcing knowledge-sharing communities
Kangqu Zhou, Chen Yang, Lvcheng Li, Cong Miao, Lijun Song, Peng Jiang, Jiafu SuThis paper proposes a recommendation method that mines the semantic relationship between resources and combine it with collaborative filtering (CF) algorithm for…
Venture investment under multi-stage incentive model based on fairness concerns
Yadong Shu, Ying Dai, Zujun Ma, Zhijun HuThis study explores the impact of EN's (venture entrepreneurs, simplified as EN) jealousy fairness concerns coefficient on two-stage venture capital decision-making in…
Drifting the goals archetype: a systemic study
Virupaxi Bagodi, Biswajit MahantyManagerial decision-making is an area of interest to both academia and practitioners. Researchers found that managers often fail to manage complex decision-making tasks…
“Reporting the wrong to the right”: the mediated moderation model of whistleblowing education and the whistleblowing intentions
Muhammad Kashif Aslam, Muhammad Saeed Akhtar, Muhammad Waheed Akhtar, Muhammad Asrar-ul-Haq, Jawad Iqbal, Muhammad UsmanThe purpose of this paper is to elucidate the social information processing theory, which is extended by the (1) effect of whistleblowing education on whistleblowing…
Analysis of the socioeconomic barriers in implementing public health measures to contain COVID-19 transmission in Pakistan: a DELPHI–DEMATEL-based approach
Sharafat Ali, Bushra Faizi, Hamid Waqas, Waqas Ahmed, Syed Ahsan Ali ShahThe present study aims to identify and evaluate the socioeconomic barriers to effective COVID-19 pandemic transmission control in Pakistan.
Operational decisions and game analysis in the agricultural supply chain: invest or not?
Qinyi Zhang, Wen Cao, Zhichao ZhangWith the rapid growth of the economy, people have increasingly higher living standards, and although people simply pursued material wealth in the past, they now pay more…
Socioeconomic spillovers of COVID-19: case of Saudi Arabia
Irfan Ahmed, Ali Mohammad Medabesh, Khadija H. Mehrez, Nedra Shili, Claudio Socci, Stefano DeriuWith the global outbreak of COVID-19 that has made the economic activities standstill, countries have taken immediate measures to safeguard not only the human lives but…
Combined deep learning classifiers for stock market prediction: integrating stock price and news sentiments
Shilpa B L, Shambhavi B RStock market forecasters are focusing to create a positive approach for predicting the stock price. The fundamental principle of an effective stock market prediction is…
How to develop ASOs of China? Answers from the academic entrepreneurs
Xingteng Li, Cong Zhu, Feng FengWhy do academic spin-offs (ASOs) have different growth performance? What makes ASOs grow better? Based on the perspective of academic entrepreneurs, this study…
Toward a diagnostic method of organizational health based on traditional Chinese medicine
Mario Iván Tarride, Mario Italo ContrerasThe paper aims to propose a model and a comprehensive diagnostic method of organizational health status based on traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).
An integrated approach based on the decision-theoretic rough set for resilient-sustainable supplier selection and order allocation
Pengyun Zhao, Shoufeng Ji, Yaoting XueThe purpose of this paper is to propose an innovative integration method based on decision-theoretic rough set and the extended VlseKriterijuska Optimizacija I Komoromisno…
How users' perceived prosumption activities influence co-creation experiences and co-creation intentions?
Lei Shen, Yuhong Zhu, Chenglong Li, Syed Hamad Hassan ShahThe paper aims to explore how perceived prosumer content quality (PPCQ) and perceived interaction quality (PIQ) improve users' co-creation experiences and subsequently…
A multi-criterion group decision-making method based on regret theory under 2-tuple linguistic environment
Xiang Jia, Yingming WangThe purpose of this paper is to develop a multi-criterion group decision-making (MCGDM) method by combining the regret theory and the Choquet integral under 2-tuple…
Product recommendation using online reviews with emotional preferences
Limei Hu, Chunqia Tan, Hepu DengThe purpose of this paper is to develop a novel recommendation method using online reviews with emotional preferences for facilitating online purchase decisions. This…
Predictors of third-person perceptions about media's influence on vaccination against COVID-19
Raluca Buturoiu, Loredana Vladu, Flavia Durach, Alexandru DumitracheThe present study aims to unveil the main predictors of perceived media influence (the third-person effect (TPE)) on people's opinions towards COVID-19 vaccination. While…
Joint pricing and ordering decisions for a loss-averse retailer with quantity-oriented reference point effect and demand uncertainty: a distribution-free approach
Yue Yu, Ruozhen Qiu, Minghe SunThis work examines the joint pricing and ordering (JPO) decisions for a loss-averse retailer with quantity-oriented reference point (RP) effect under demand uncertainty.
Cyber-physical-social-information-thinking hyperspace: a manifold of cyberspatial entities
Anas Maazu Kademi, Ahmet Hasan KoltuksuzThis paper aims to establish a theoretic framework to provide a fundamental understanding of cyberspatial objects, their existence and their identification scheme while…