Kybernetes: Volume 46 Issue 3

Wiener and Luhmann on feedback: from complexity to sustainability

Vladislav Valentinov

The rise of the general systems theory in the twentieth century would not have been possible without the concept of feedback. Of special interest to the present paper is Niklas…

Results of socially responsible transformational leadership: increased holism and success

Simona Šarotar Žižek, Matjaž Mulej, Živa Veingerl Čič

The aim of this paper is to present a research on how – the extremely necessary – systemic rather than one-sided and short-term behavior can enjoy support from (corporate and…

A multiple-criteria approach to human resource management assessment in organizations with respect to industry

Vesna Čančer, Simona Šarotar Žižek

This paper aims to develop a multiple-criteria model for the assessment of human resource management (HRM), focusing on groups of organizations with respect to industry.

The four modes of coexistence in social systems

Helmut Nechansky

The paper aims to relate the four modes of coexistence of goal-orientated systems – conflict, hierarchy, the niche and cooperation – to static behavioral descriptions of social…

Trust strategy simulation of corporation–NPO cross alliance using evolutionary game theory

Yidan Chen, Lanying Sun

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the dynamics and evolution of trust in organizational cross alliances.

HRM and employees’ ability to master skills – a burning desire to make a difference that really makes a difference: A systemic perspective

Dagny Johannessen, Daniel Joh. Adriaenssen, Jon-Arild Johannessen

This paper aims to help managers gain greater insight into issues relating to employees’ sense of mastery to contribute to improved employee performance.

Quantitative analysis of information leakage in service-oriented architecture-based Web services

Kushal Anjaria, Arun Mishra

Any computing architecture cannot be designed with complete confidentiality. As a result, at any point, it may leak the information. So, it is important to decide leakage…

A group decision-making model based on distance-based VIKOR with incomplete heterogeneous information and its application to emergency supplier selection

Xiaodong Wang, Jianfeng Cai

For some specific multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problems, especially in emergency situations, because of the feature of criteria and other fuzzy factors, it is more…

User adaptation and ERP benefits: moderation analysis of user experience with ERP

Mustafa Ismail Mustafa Eid, Hani I. Abbas

The purpose of the study is to measure the impact of user adaptation of enterprise resources planning (ERP) post implementation through an appreciation of the benefits ERP…

A study of correlation between investor sentiment and stock market based on Copula model

Can Zhong Yao, Bo Yi Sun, Ji Nan Lin

This paper aims to capture tail dependence between sentiment index and Shanghai composite index (SCI) by proposing a sentiment index based on text mining.

Mining product problems from online feedback of Chinese users

Ruoyu Liang, Wei Guo, Deqing Yang

Analyzing the sentiment orientation of each product aspect/feature might be sufficient to assist the customer to make purchase/usage decisions, but such level of information…