Kybernetes: Volume 51 Issue 1

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The international journal of cybernetics, systems and management sciences
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Table of contents

A new technology acceptance model: a mixed-method of grounded theory and system dynamics

Mahdi Bastan, Masoumeh Zarei, Reza Tavakkoli-Moghaddam, Hamed Shakouri G.

The Iranian construction industry has been grappling with numerous problems in recent years, including rework, high costs and design errors. Engineers in this field have always…

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The optimal pricing model of online knowledge payment goods in C2C sharing economy

Yi Qu, Zhengkui Lin, Xiaonan Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to research the price strategies of online knowledge payment product by considering network externality in the C2C sharing economy.

The prisoner’s dilemma in the workplace: how cooperative behavior of managers influence organizational performance and stress

Josef Spurný, Ivan Kopeček, Radek Ošlejšek, Jaromír Plhák, Francesco Caputo

The aim of the paper is to analyze the impact of cooperativeness of managers who occupy central positions in interaction networks on the performance and stress levels of a whole…

A new model for assessing the role of IT-based systems, public policies and business intelligence on the export competitiveness’s efficiency

Jiahua Li, Ali Lakzi

By using some tools such as business intelligence (BI) and exploring data stored in data warehousing systems, it is possible to increase export competition efficiency. Efficiency…

Epistemological considerations about mathematical concepts

José Luis Usó Doménech, Josué Antonio Nescolarde-Selva, Hugh Gash

Categories (particular (P) and general (V)) constitute a bipole with epistemological implications. The mutual categorical implication of this bipole is embodied in ordinary…

The role of motivation theories in knowledge sharing: an integrative theoretical reviews and future research agenda

Asha Thomas, Vikas Gupta

The purpose of this study is to identify and explain the role of motivation in facilitating knowledge sharing (KS). This study explains the connection between “motivation” and…

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The impact of financial defence mechanisms and phantasy on risky investment intention

Selim Aren, Hatice Nayman Hamamcı

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between defence mechanisms, one of the unconscious processes, and phantasy. In addition, the scale of financial…

Effect of weather on online food ordering

Da Liu, Wenbo Wang, Yinchuan Zhao

Weather affects consumer decision-making. However, academic research on how weather factors affect specific takeaway foods is limited. This paper aims to fill in the gap and…

Can tasks and learning be balanced? A dual-pathway model of cloud-based e-learning continuance intention and performance outcomes

Yung-Ming Cheng

The purpose of this paper is to examine the roles of task-technology fit (TTF), learning-technology fit (LTF) and cognitive absorption (CA) in determining medical professionals’…

Digital analysis of a form

André Oksas

This paper aims to show how a sociological description – a swarm analysis of the Nazi dictatorship – initially made with the means borrowed from George Spencer-Brown’s Calculus of…

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Design of Fazl-Tash novel method for sustainable resilient comprehensive supplier selection problem

Hamed Fazlollahtabar, Navid Kazemitash

However, due to the huge number of studies and on the other hand to be new and creative, the represented models and methods – as the two main parts of this field – have been got…

Modelling offline expansion strategies of online companies

Heng Xu, Xuliang Wu, Yatian Liu

This paper aims to theoretically investigate an online company’s optimal decision on its offline expansion strategy. In the past five years, many large online retailers and…

Systematic literature review on the security challenges of blockchain in IoT-based smart cities

Zhihao Yu, Liang Song, Linhua Jiang, Omid Khold Sharafi

Security is the most important issue in Internet of Things (IoT)-based smart cities and blockchain (BC). So, the present paper aims to detect and organize the literature regarding…

Sentiment analysis on newspaper article reviews: contribution towards improved rider optimization-based hybrid classifier

Pandiaraj A., Sundar C., Pavalarajan S.

Up to date development in sentiment analysis has resulted in a symbolic growth in the volume of study, especially on more subjective text types, namely, product or movie reviews…

Politics and new media in ex/communist states – the example of Montenegro

Radenko Scekic, Slobodan Lakic, Ana Pejanovic

This study aims to explore the use of evolutionary and institutionalization models to understand the technical progression of sustainability in political organizations and their…

Analyzing a community worker’s stress during the COVID-19 pandemic in China

Ping Gui, Xiaotong Ji, Yanlan Mei, Zhicheng Quan

Community governance plays an important role in the prevention and control of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in China. Community workers, the main executors in…

Impact of knowledge-based HRM, business analytics and agility on innovative performance: linear and FsQCA findings from the hotel industry

Rawan Enad Al-Qaralleh, Tarik Atan

The emergence of the knowledge economy and Industry 4.0 has prompted many firms to invest considerable resources into knowledge-based human resource management (HRM) practices and…

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Sustainable optimal ordering quantity for non-instantaneous deteriorating items under joint replenishment with substitution and carbon emission

Ranu Singh, Vinod Kumar Mishra

Carbon emission is a significant issue for the current business market and global warming. Nowadays, most countries have focused to reduce the environmental impact of business…

The influence of foreign direct investment on the urban–rural income gap: evidence from China

Ying Song, Yi Zhang, Yafei Wang, Bowen Zhang, Jiafu Su

Taking 30 provincial samples from 2001 to 2017 in mainland China as the research objects, this paper aims to evaluate the impact and effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) on…

Quality factors and performance outcome of cloud-based marketing system

Ying Liu, Tang Wang

This study aims to propose an integrated model based on the DeLone and McLean Information System Success Model (DMISS) to examine whether quality factors (system, service and…

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ISSN:

0368-492X

Online date, start – end:

1972

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof. Dr. Gandolfo Dominici