Kybernetes: Volume 48 Issue 6

Analysing the high-tech industry with a multivariable grey forecasting model based on fractional order accumulation

Liang Zeng

High-tech industries play an important role in promoting economic and social development. The purpose of this paper is to accurately predict and analyze the output value of…

Coordination through cooperative advertising in a two-period supply chain with retail competition

Qingyun Xu, Bing Xu, Qiushi Bo, Yi He

Most firms in the fashion industry frequently design and promote new products, which leads to a two-period phenomenon in product sales. This study aims to examine the optimal…

HHI-based evaluation of the European banking sector using an integrated fuzzy approach

Hasan Dincer

This paper aims to evaluate the market concentration and competition in the European Banking Sector using an integrated multi-criteria decision-making approach under the fuzzy…

A system dynamics model to forecast the population aging in Iran

Hossein Vahidi Monfared, Alireza Moini

The last reformation in Iran’s population policy was announced inside “General Population Policy” (GPP) in 2013. One of the main objectives of the GPP is controlling population…

Using online reviews to explore consumer purchasing behaviour in different cultural settings

Qiuyan Zhong, Shuyuan Liang, Li Cui, Hing Kai Chan, Yue Qiu

The purpose of this paper is to analyse consumer purchasing behaviour in different cultural settings by exploring the value of consumer reviews from various countries.

Integrative propositional analysis for understanding and reducing poverty

Steven E. Wallis, Bernadette Wright

Current approaches to understanding and resolving the problem of poverty have not proved effective. This paper aims to provide a new explanation of why we have failed and what…

Evaluating the role of gamification and flow in e-consumers: millennials versus generation X

Alejandro García-Jurado, Pilar Castro-González, Mercedes Torres-Jiménez, Antonio L. Leal-Rodríguez

This research has three main objectives. First, it examines influence of gamification on the behavioral intention to use an e-commerce platform. Second, it analyzes the role of…

The ghost in the production machine: the laws of production networks

Piero Mella

Any kind of production flow is obtained not from individual production organizations but from a more or less widespread Production Network of interconnected production modules…

The complexity continuum, Part 1: hard and soft theories

Maurice Yolles

Complex systems adapt to survive, but little comparative literature exists on various approaches. Adaptive complex systems are generic, this referring to propositions concerning…

A novel product recommendation model consolidating price, trust and online reviews

Ying Huang, Nu-nu Wang, Hongyu Zhang, Jianqiang Wang

The purpose of this paper is to propose a model for product recommendation to improve the accuracy of recommendation based on the current search engines used in e-commerce…