Kybernetes: Volume 49 Issue 3
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The international journal of cybernetics, systems and management sciencesTable of contents
ERP issues and challenges: a research synthesis
Faisal Mahmood, Abdul Zahid Khan, Rahat Hussain BokhariDespite more than two decades of experience regarding the adoption and implementation of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems in organizations, ERPs success is questionable…
Managing service capacity with boundedly rational consumers under social interactions: A chaos perspective
Chengzhang Li, Minghui Jiang, Xuchuan YuanConsumers are inclined to join longer queues due to social interactions in service consumptions. This purchase behavior brings in operational challenges in terms of capacity…
Identifying the optimal initial adopters and adoption paths of the internet-based intangible network goods
Li Wang, Qingpu ZhangInternet-based intangible network good (IING) has undergone rapid developments, even revolutionized multiple industries in recent years. IING is highly dependent on the rapid…
Managing new and remanufactured products with remanufacturing degree under patent protection
Xiaogang Cao, Xianjia Wang, Hui WenThis paper aims to propose a two-period model, including an original manufacturer, a retailer and a third-party remanufacturer, in which the products manufactured by the original…
Interrelationship among resilience, robustness, and bullwhip effect in an inventory and order based production control system
A.V. Thomas, Biswajit MahantyThis study aims to examine the interrelationship between resilience, robustness and bullwhip effect using an inventory- and order-based production control system being subjected…
A novel GM(1,N) model based on interval gray number and its application to research on smog pollution
Pingping Xiong, Zhiqing He, Shiting Chen, Mao PengIn recent years, domestic smog has become increasingly frequent and the adverse effects of smog have increasingly become the focus of public attention. It is a way to analyze such…
Human resource allocation in an emergency department: A metamodel-based simulation optimization
Milad Yousefi, Moslem YousefiThe complexity and interdisciplinarity of healthcare industry problems make this industry one of the attention centers of computer-based simulation studies to provide a proper…
How would the managementof human behavior variables influence customer-oriented management?
Leslier M. Valenzuela-Fernández, Francisco-Javier Arroyo-Cañada, Francisco Javier Villegas PinuerSalesperson’s actions are critical in helping the firm develop customer value orientation and long-term relationship with profitable customers to achieve sustainable sales growth…
Resource allocation based on overall equipment effectiveness using cooperative game
Seyed Hadi Mousavi-Nasab, Jalal Safari, Ashkan HafezalkotobResource allocation has always been a critical problem with significant economic relevance. Many industries allocate the resources based on classical methods such as overall…
Measurement of innovation resource allocation efficiency in civil–military integration enterprises
Zilong Wang, Zhiwen Zhang, Ng Choon Yeong JhonyAs a transition economy, China is interested in allocating its limited innovation resources economically, reasonably and efficiently to produce as many outputs as possible with…
Pricing on monopoly online trading platform with heterogeneous trading behavior and the long tail
Yang Geng, Yulin ZhangThis paper aims to study the pricing strategies of an online trading platform with indirect network externalities by considering heterogeneous trading behavior in the downstream…
Who drives successful online conversations? Unveiling the role of first user response
Ye-Eun Won, Jiwon Kang, Daejin Choi, Eunil Park, Jinyoung HanWith the rapidly improving communication technologies, a growing number of people communicate with each other in online environments. In particular, social networking services…
Revisiting ranking accuracy within WASPAS method
Adil Baykasoğlu, İlker GölcükThe purpose of this paper is to analyze previous models of the concept of ranking accuracy within the weighted aggregated sum product assessment (WASPAS) method and make necessary…
A supply chain model for Medicare of impoverished people with the policy of targeted poverty alleviation of China
Ketong Zhao, Bingzhen SunThe purpose of this paper is to present a new method and model for constructing a new decision-making paradigm of Medicare, which can not only satisfy the needs of the sick people…
Risk assessment for the industrial network based on interval type-2 fuzzy sets
Chao Ren, Xiaoxing Liu, Zongqing ZhangThe purpose of this paper is to develop a risk evaluation method for the industrial network under high uncertain environment.
A dialectical vision of mathematical models of complex systems
José Luis Usó Doménech, Josué Antonio Nescolarde-Selva, Lorena Segura-Abad, Hugh GashMathematical models are constructed at the interface between practice, experience and theories. The function of models puts us on guard against the privilege granted to what is…
Government intervention policies in competition of financial chains: a game theory approach
Raziyeh Reza-Gharehbagh, Ashkan Hafezalkotob, Ahmad Makui, Mohammad Kazem SayadiThis study aims to analyze the competition of two financial chains (FCs) when the government intervenes in the financial market to prohibit the excessively high-interest rate by…
Structural equation modeling in cloud computing studies: a systematic literature review
Erhan Pişirir, Erkan Uçar, Oumout Chouseinoglou, Cüneyt SevgiThis study aims to examine the current state of literature on structural equation modeling (SEM) studies in “cloud computing” domain with respect to study domains of research…
Prosumption: bibliometric analysis using HistCite and VOSviewer
Syed Hamad Hassan Shah, Shen Lei, Muhammad Ali, Dmitrii Doronin, Syed Talib HussainOver the past decade, the term prosumption (denoting simultaneous consumption and production) has exhibited a dramatic increase in frequency of use in publications in the social…
Bubble to panopticon: dark undercurrents of the big data torrent
Mathew MaavakBig data are indispensable in scientific endeavours ranging from nuclear research to climate studies. However, there is a growing misperception that congeries of data can be…
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