Kybernetes: Volume 47 Issue 7

Agency, personality, and multiple identity types: understanding Theresa May

Maurice Yolles, Davide Di Fatta

This paper aims to use the cultural agency theory (CAT) formulated to represent a personality in which multiple identities reside. Dynamic identity theory is used to explain the…

Selection of Six Sigma project with interval data: common weight DEA model

Yao Wen, Qingxian An, Xuanhua Xu, Ya Chen

This paper aims to prioritize the most efficient Six Sigma project that can generate the greatest benefit to the organization, according to the relative performance among a set of…

New online recommendation approach based on unbalanced linguistic label with integrated cloud

Meng-Xian Wang, Jian-qiang Wang

Online reviews increasingly present the characteristic of bidirectional communication with the advent of Web 2.0 era and tend to be asymmetrical and individualized in linguistic…

Analyzing Big Data through the lens of customer knowledge management: Evidence from a set of regional tourism experiences

Pasquale Del Vecchio, Giustina Secundo, Giuseppina Passiante

This paper aims to demonstrate how customer knowledge management (CKM) can opportunely support the process of value creation from Big Data. Focusing on tourism as a…

Differences between adaptors and innovators in the context of entrepreneurial potential dimensions

Mladen Subotic, Mia Maric, Slavica Mitrovic, Maja Mesko

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the differences between adaptive behaviour and innovative behaviour of individuals according to Kirton adaptation-innovation (KAI…

A model for examining the factors impacting the near field communication technology adoption in the organizations

Amir Museli, Nima Jafari Navimipour

Organizations are social entities comprising multiple people that are goal-directed and have coordinated activities that are also linked to the external environment. As…

A developed genetic algorithm for solving the multi-objective supply chain scheduling problem

Ali Borumand, Mohammad Ali Beheshtinia

Proper management of supplies and their delivery greatly affects the competitiveness of companies. This paper aims to propose an integrated decision-making approach for integrated…

Expected discounted penalty function for a phase-type risk model with stochastic return on investment and random observation periods

Wenyan Zhuo, Honglin Yang, Xu Chen

The purpose of this paper is to build a phase-type risk model with stochastic return on investment and random observation periods to characterize the ruin quantities under which…

Designing an inference engine for assessment of researchers’ maturity using rough set theory

Tooraj Karimi, Mohammad Reza Sadeghi Moghadam, Amirhosein Mardani

This paper aims to design an expert system that gets data from researchers and determines their maturity level. This system can be used for determining researchers’ support…

Knowledge sharing mechanisms in the education: A systematic review of the state of the art literature and recommendations for future research

Yeganeh Charband, Nima Jafari Navimipour

The aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive and detailed review of the state-of-the-art mechanisms of knowledge sharing in the education field as well as directions for…