Kybernetes: Volume 46 Issue 5

Openness and information technology: a bibliometric analysis of literature production

Helena Blažun Vošner, Samo Bobek, Simona Sternad Zabukovšek, Peter Kokol

Research in the field of openness has become very broad and, unfortunately, also opaque. Thus, the purpose of this paper was to analyse and map the trends by applying bibliometric…

The economies (and diseconomies) of distributed technologies: The increasing tension among hierarchy and p2p

Sergio Barile, Cristina Simone, Mario Calabrese

This paper aims to focus on distributed technologies with the aim of highlighting their economic-organizational dimensions. In particular, the contribution first presents a deeper…

Grass-mud horse: Luhmannian systems theory and internet censorship in China

Carlton Clark, Lei Zhang

This paper aims to elucidate the systemic processes underlying the enhanced information-control measures taken by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) under the leadership of…

The influence of local government decision-making competition on enterprise innovation investment under information asymmetry and multiple risk appetite type

Shaoyu Wu, Dong Wang

This paper aims to analyze the impact of the degree of local government decision-making competition on the optimal investment amount, investment location and investment failure of…

A knowledge structures exploration on social network sites

Manuel J. Sánchez-Franco, Mirian Muñoz-Expósito, Ángel F. Villarejo-Ramos

This paper aims to describe a method for combining perceived community support, relationship quality and the extended technology acceptance model in the same empirically derived…

Consumer attitudes toward online video advertisement: YouTube as a platform

Keng-Chieh Yang, Chia-Hui Huang, Conna Yang, Su Yu Yang

Online video advertisement is a wide-ranging phenomenon on the internet that provides huge opportunities for business enterprises. The revenues of website service providers come…

An approach to the match between panels of experts and groups of demanders in fuzzy linguistic environments

Ming Li, Jun Wang, Yingcheng Xu

Consulting experts is an effective way to utilize tacit resource. The purpose of the paper is to optimize the matching between panels of experts and groups of demanders to improve…

Human resources ranking in a cloud-based knowledge sharing framework using the quality control criteria

Parisa Fouladi, Nima Jafari Navimipour

This paper aims to propose a new method for evaluating the quality and prioritizing of the human resources (HRs) based on trust, reputation, agility, expertise and cost criteria…

Platform investment strategy on reducing transaction costs

Shanshan Zhang, Ping He

This paper aims to investigate the investment strategy of a two-sided platform on reducing transaction costs of two user sides and to study the pricing problem of the platform.