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Research on modeling the relationship between agricultural informatization level and economic growth in green ecological environment
Ling Feng, Yu HuangIn order to improve the current level of agricultural informatization and the large deviation of economic growth. Combining the cost input of the green ecological…
A dynamic trust consensus model based on personalized adjustment mechanism under multi-granular probabilistic linguistic environment
Jie Guo, Xia LiangThis study aims to propose a consensus model that considers dynamic trust and the hesitation degree of the expert's evaluation, and the model can provide personalized…
Social media role in public health development: a bibliometric approach
Manoj Kumar Dash, Rajendra Sahu, Gayatri Panda, Deepa Jain, Gaurvendra Singh, Chetanya SinghWith the changing times, the role of social media has increased manifold. It acts as one of the platforms for disseminating information to the public faster. Social media…
Evaluation of the pharmaceutical distribution and warehousing companies through an integrated Fermatean fuzzy entropy-WASPAS approach
Ahmet Aytekin, Ömer Faruk Görçün, Fatih Ecer, Dragan Pamucar, Çağlar KaramaşaPharmaceutical supply chains (PSCs) need a well-operating and faultless logistics system to successfully store and distribute their medicines. Hospitals, health…
Factors affecting misinformation combating intention in Pakistan during COVID-19
Amara Malik, Talat Islam, Khalid MahmoodMisinformation on social media has become a great threat across the globe. Therefore, the authors aim to provide a comprehensive understanding of social media users'…
Benefit synergy or “fishing in troubled waters”? Economic policy uncertainty and executive perquisite consumption
Hongji Xie, Zhen Yang, Shulin XuEconomic policy uncertainty (EPU) has huge impact and harm on real economy, so the economic logic and other economic effects behind this must be further studied. By…
Climate change mitigation technologies detection and evaluation: case of buildings
Ahmet Tarık Usta, Mehmet Şahin GökThe building and construction industry has a significant potential to reduce adverse climate change effects. There are plans to improve the natural resource use and…
Acquiring supply chain agility through information technology capability: the role of demand forecasting in retail industry
Bingfeng BaiDespite the importance of demand forecasting in retail industry, its influence on supply chain agility has not been sufficiently examined. From a total information…
The mediating role of customer knowledge management on the innovative work behavior and product innovation relationship
Constantin Bratianu, Dan Florin Stănescu, Rares MocanuThe purpose of the present research is to introduce a combined framework that integrates innovative work behavior, product innovation process and customer knowledge…
Uncovering the effect of responsible leadership on employee creative behaviour: from the perspective of knowledge-based pathway
Salman Zulfiqar, Zoia Khan, Chunhui HuoThe study aims to explore ‘motivational climate', which designs the recurring patterns associated with employees' attitudes, behaviour, and feelings. If organizations…
Generalized grey information entropy weight TOPSIS model for financial performance evaluation considering differentiation
Shaoguang Zhang, Sifeng Liu, Zhigeng Fang, Qin Zhang, Jingru ZhangFinancial performance has been paid attention at an unprecedented level, which can be confirmed as a fact that the quantitative expansion of financial performance…
Foreign market selection of suppliers through a novel REF-Sort technique
Ahmet Aytekin, Ömer Faruk Görçün, Fatih Ecer, Dragan Pamucar, Çağlar KaramaşaThe present study aims to provide a practical and robust assessment technique for assessing countries' investability in global supply chains to practitioners. Thus, the…
The complexity of the tourism supply chain in the 21st century: a bibliometric analysis
Romina Alkier, Vedran Milojica, Vasja RoblekThis study aims to examine the evolution of the tourism supply chain (TSC) and its future development factors. To this end, a quantitative bibliometric analysis was…
Problem-solving style as blessing in extraversion personality and corporate entrepreneurship: evidence from automotive industry of Pakistan using Trait Activation Theory
Muhammad Zubair Alam, Muhammad Rafiq, Sobia Nasir, Chaudhary Abdul RehmanEmployees’ personalities towards occupational outcomes have significantly gained academic attention. Personality traits (PTs) of employees as the determinant of corporate…
Determinants of KMS adoption in Malaysian organizations: evidence across various industries
Fadhilah Aman, Khairul Huda YusofThis article investigates the determinants of knowledge management system (KMS) adoption, specifically with reference to Malaysian organizations across various industries.
The dyadic utility space and the interaction – utility matrix: how individual goal-setting determines realizable utilities in dyadic relations
Helmut NechanskyThe paper analyzes how the goal-setting of two individuals or social units A and B determines the utilities, which the two parties can gain in a dyadic interaction.
A production and inventory model for deteriorating items with two-level partial trade credit and stochastic demand in a supply chain
Zhuo Dai, Yiju WangThe purpose of this paper is to maximize the average profit of the supply chain by calculating the order quantity, the number of shipments during the production time of…
New mobility technologies as incentive to location decisions: relocation strategy in the automotive industry
Javier Turienzo, Jesús F. LampónThe purpose of this paper is to analyze the new technologies that condition location strategy and enable the reindustrialization of European countries involved in the…
How CSR influences young Chinese consumers' purchase decisions towards Western brands: the moderating effect of consumer ethnocentrism
Fei Long, Miraj Ahmed Bhuiyan, Muhammad Khalilur Rahman, Norzalita Abd AzizThe objectives of this study are to examine the impacts of CSR on purchase intentions either directly or indirectly and to investigate the moderating effects of consumer…
The effect of creating shared value on enterprise image: focusing on mediating effects of environmental involvement
Chenglin Qing, Xiu Jin, Yonghui XuThe global business environment has brought about great innovation according to the advent of the fourth industrial revolution era. Most of the enterprises are focusing on…
Pricing strategies for online hotel searching: a fuzzy inference system procedure
Seyedeh Asra Ahmadi, Peiman GhasemiHotels are considered one of the keys to tourism industry, without which it is impossible to visualize this industry. Setting the proper price for hotels has always been a…
How to select employees to participate in interactive innovation: analysis of the relationship between personality, social networks and innovation behavior
Xiaoyan Jiang, Jie Lin, Lixin Zhou, Chao WangEmployees play an essential role in interactive innovation activities in Open Innovation Communities (OICs). Nevertheless, the factors influencing employees' innovation…
Social media user-generated content, online search traffic and offline car sales
Shutian Wang, Yan Lin, Yejin Yan, Guoqing ZhuThis study explores the direct relationship between social media user-generated content (UGC), online search traffic and offline light vehicle sales of different models.
Co-creating practical wisdom through rational, spiritual and emotional capacities
Jorge Cegarra-Sánchez, Juan Gabriel Cegarra-Navarro, Agustín J. Sánchez-MedinaThis study aims to investigate the concept of “practical wisdom” which may be defined as the ability to effectively manage one’s rational knowledge and to read and respond…
How does action-oriented personality traits impact on entrepreneurial career choices? A trait-factor theory perspective
Syeda Nimra Batool, Khawar Razzaq, Hassan ImamEarlier studies have shown that individuals with business education and the personality traits listed in the big-five model are more inclined to pursue entrepreneurial…
Economic growth, industrial structure upgrading and environmental pollution: evidence from China
Bin Xi, Pengyue ZhaiThe purpose of this study is to explore the impact of environmental pollution and industrial structure upgrading on environmental pollution in different stages based on…
Workload balance-based dynamic two-sided matching decision-making approach for cloud manufacturing tasks and services under uncertain preferences
Xuejiao Zhang, Yu Yang, Jing WangThis paper aims to develop a dynamic two-sided stable matching method based on preference information of the matching objects in uncertain environments, so as to solve the…
Does financial awareness increase the acceptance rate for financial inclusion? An empirical examination in the era of digital transformation
Manaf Al-Okaily, Hamza Alqudah, Anas Ali Al-Qudah, Naim S. Al-Qadi, Hamzah Elrehail, Aws Al-OkailyDespite extensive discussion of this topic in the life and financial transactions of people, there is a lack of empirical evidence related to challenges and opportunities…
Two-level cooperation and competition strategies of government and technology service platforms: considering government subsidies
Dong-lin Chen, Min Fu, Meng-Di Yao, Lei WangThe purpose of this paper is to analyze the optimal competition or cooperation decision between technology service platforms and governments in the context of fierce…
Effective human–AI work design for collaborative decision-making
Ruchika Jain, Naval Garg, Shikha N. KheraWith the increase in the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI)-based decision-making, organizations are facilitating human–AI collaboration. This collaboration can…
A two level ensemble classification approach to forecast bitcoin prices
Harish Kundra, Sudhir Sharma, P. Nancy, Dasari KalyaniBitcoin has indeed been universally acknowledged as an investment asset in recent decades, after the boom-and-bust of cryptocurrency values. Because of its extreme…
Common delivery or fast delivery: optimal pricing decisions of online retailers with rebate policy
Lei Yu, Yang Bai, Yi HeThe confirmation of receipt of orders by consumers means that the online retailer actually receives the payments on many retail platforms (e.g. Taobao). In order to recoup…
A new interval-valued fuzzy multi-objective approach for project time–cost–quality trade-off problem with activity crashing and overlapping under uncertainty
Pouyan Mahdavi-Roshan, Seyed Meysam MousaviMost projects are facing delays, and accelerating the pace of project progress is a necessity. Project managers are responsible for completing the project on time with…
Credit supervision and trading strategy of rural e-commerce based on evolutionary game
Qun Bai, Senming Tan, Zheng Yuelong, Jiafu Su, Li TingtingThis study investigates the credit supervision issue in rural e-commerce. By studying the trading strategies of buyers and sellers under different credit supervision…
Graph-theoretic approach to detecting real-time intents within purchase conversion funnel using clickstream data
Hongming Gao, Hongwei Liu, Weizhen Lin, Chunfeng ChenPurchase conversion prediction aims to improve user experience and convert visitors into real buyers to drive sales of firms; however, the total conversion rate is low…
Structure, thermodynamics and information in complex systems
José Luis Usó Doménech, Josué Antonio Nescolarde-Selva, Miguel Lloret-Climent, Hugh Gash, Lorena Segura-AbadThe purpose of this paper is to show that transmission of information and information storage or registration depends on structures. Structures emerge from coordinated…
Vehicle-type strategies for manufacturer's car sharing
Zhenfeng Liu, Yujie Wang, Jian FengThis paper aims to study vehicle-type strategies for the manufacturer's car sharing by accounting for consumers' behavior and the subsidy.
Unravelling the relationship between trust in government and voluntary adoption of preventative behaviour through health belief model: a cross-culture study
Farhan Sarwar, Hassan Imam, Hafiz Tahir Jameel, Siti Aisyah Panatik, Donald E. BrannenDespite the established relationship between the public's trust in government and their adoption of preventive behaviour, lesser is known about the underlying mechanism…
Self-supporting or third-party? The optimal delivery strategy selection decision for e-tailers under competition
Jing Yu, Zonghui Song, Chi ZhouWith the vigorous development of the e-commerce delivery service industry, delivery service has become an important factor for e-tailers to obtain the market competitive…
Industry convergence and value innovation: a bibliometric analysis and systematic review
Ye Chen, Lei Shen, Xi Zhang, Yutao ChenThe purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to present a bibliometric analysis and systematic literature review of industry convergence and value innovation to understand…
Effect of household's financial literacy on pension decision making: evidence from China's new rural pension program
Shulin Xu, Syed Tauseef Ali, Zhen Yang, Yunfeng LiChina's New Rural Pension Program (NRPP) has been implemented for a decade, but the factors that facilitate rural residents' participation have received little attention…
Data-based modeling and identification for general nonlinear dynamical systems by the multidimensional Taylor network
Hong-Sen Yan, Zhong-Tian Bi, Bo Zhou, Xiao-Qin Wan, Jiao-Jun Zhang, Guo-Biao WangThe present study is intended to develop an effective approach to the real-time modeling of general dynamic nonlinear systems based on the multidimensional Taylor network (MTN).
Study on the continuance intention in using virtual shoe-try-on function in mobile online shopping
Qianling Jiang, Chao Gu, Yan Feng, Wei Wei, Wang-Chin TsaiMobile e-commerce has brought convenience to consumers. But for goods such as shoes, mobile e-commerce has failed to provide the same experience as consumers would have in…
Adaptive capacity constraint buffer monitoring of the multi-project system based on the relevance of drum activities
Junguang Zhang, Qing HanThe activities using drum resources restrict the operation of multi-project systems. However, existing monitoring methods are not suitable for the characteristics of drum…
Sustainable development scores using spatial information systems-analytic hierarchy process
Lazim Abdullah, Norliana Mohd NajibThis research aims to develop sustainable development scores at districts level based on weights of thirteen sub-indicators using a spatial information system.
Research on the mechanism of knowledge coupling affecting firms' innovation results driven by digitization——based on system dynamics methodology
Zhou Huiping, Yang YuxinThe purpose of this paper is to build a System Dynamics model to reveal the structure and dynamics of knowledge coupling affecting firms' innovation results in the digital context.
The impact of perceived organizational politics and political risk on project success through ethical leadership and the psychological contract
Jamshid Ali Turi, Muddassar SarfrazPolitical risk devastates social and economic developmental projects. Countries with political stability attract foreign direct investment (FDI) and engage domestic…
Probing the impact of recognition-based heuristic biases on investment decision-making and performance
Maqsood Ahmad, Qiang Wu, Yasar AbbassThis study aims to explore and clarify the mechanism by which recognition-based heuristic biases influence the investment decision-making and performance of individual…
How organizational identity relates to knowledge sharing and creativity: moderating effect of perceived organizational support
Salih Zeki Imamoglu, Serhat Erat, Hulya TurkcanThis study aims to broaden the current literature by examining the relationships between organizational identity, knowledge sharing and creativity with moderating role of…
Business environment distance, absorptive capacity and innovation performance of EMNEs: evidence from China
Yun Zhan, Changjun YiThis paper investigates the effect of business environment distance on innovation performance of emerging market multinational enterprises (EMNEs) and explores the…
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…
User value identification based on an improved consumer value segmentation algorithm
Jianfang Qi, Yue Li, Haibin Jin, Jianying Feng, Weisong MuThe purpose of this study is to propose a new consumer value segmentation method for low-dimensional dense market datasets to quickly detect and cluster the most…
Entrepreneurial responsible orientation in small and medium businesses: the case of Pakistan
Hafiz Muhammad Usman Khizar, Jawad IqbalThe identification of a successful mix of strategic orientations is a big challenge for corporate sustainability and management research. To this end, the purpose of this…
Evaluation of greenness of green buildings based on carbon emissions
Jingqi Zhang, Hui Zhao, Zhijie Li, Ziliang GuoThe purpose of this paper is to evaluate green buildings from the angle of greenness and improve the evaluation system. And the matter-element extension method is used to…
Women in travel and tourism: does fear of COVID-19 affect Women's turnover intentions?
Orhan Uludag, Zainab Omolola Olufunmi, Taiwo Temitope Lasisi, Kayode Kolawole EluwoleThe purpose of this study was to examine the role of fear of COVID-19 and job stress on women's turnover intentions in the hospitality industry (travel agencies). Also…
Using social media information to predict the credit risk of listed enterprises in the supply chain
Gang Yao, Xiaojian Hu, Liangcheng Xu, Zhening WuSocial media data from financial websites contain information related to enterprise credit risk. Mining valuable new features in social media data helps to improve…
The moderating role of organizational culture on the relationship between workers' attitudes towards telework and happiness
Ana Junça Silva, Neuza CoelhoThe COVID-19 pandemic forced organizations to adopt telework, many of the organizations without any prior preparation, influencing not only daily organizational routines…
Finding the right shade of embeddedness: the effect of political embeddedness on green innovation
Fei Tang, Lu ZhangFew efforts have considered political embeddedness heterogeneity and examined whether different types of political embeddedness can pose different valuation effect on…
VIKOR approach for bi-level multi-criteria nonlinear fractional programming problems: new insights
Harish Garg, Dang Ngoc Hoang Thanh, Rizk M. Rizk-AllahThe paper aims to introduce a novel concept to solve the bi-level multi-criteria nonlinear fractional programming (BL-MCNFP) problems. Bi-level programming problem (BLPP…
A three-stage grey evaluation method for assessing the performance of interdisciplinary organizations
Yang Yi, Jianjun Zhu, Huagang TongThis study constructs a three-stage evaluation model for interdisciplinary organizations to solve their ranking problems effectively.
The impact of income gap on regional green economic growth – evidence from 283 prefecture-level cities in China
Shiying Hou, Liangrong Song, Wanrui DaiThis paper aims to research the relationship between income gap (IG) and green economic growth based on the perspective of economic inequality.
Battery R&D decision of electric vehicle manufacturer considering government subsidy
Hua Ke, Xingyue ChenIn this paper, the authors aim to consider the manufacturer's battery research and development (R&D) decision under subsidy. The supply chain includes two manufacturers…
An empirical study of knowledge environment and suitability of performance measures of a civil organization for a knowledge-based military force
Mukesh Kumar Singh, Vikas GuptaThis study aims to empirically analyze the significance of various knowledge management (KM) elements to the environment in a military organization and establish the…
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…
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.
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 AkhterThe 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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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.
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…