Kybernetes: Volume 50 Issue 5
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The international journal of cybernetics, systems and management sciencesTable of contents
Transformational leadership and innovative work behaviour: the mediating role of psychological empowerment
Dan Florin Stanescu, Alexandra Zbuchea, Florina PinzaruThis study aims to explore the relationship between transformational leadership and employees’ innovative work behaviour (IWB), additionally examining the mediating effect of…
Reconsidering concept of knowledge sharing: search for quality dimensions
Dmitrii Doronin, Shen Lei, Syed Hamad Hassan ShahImportance of knowledge sharing is undeniable; however, a number of studies have shown it is not always beneficial. The purpose of this study is to breakdown existing definitions…
Temporary workers and firm performance: Empirical and systematic approaches from Eastern and Central European countries
Ilija Moric, Sanja Pekovic, Đurđica Perović, Vasja Roblek, Mirjana Pejic BachAlthough temporary work arrangements play a strategically important role in contemporary economic development, its influence on firm performance has remained elusive. In our work…
A new model for investigating the role of IT-based innovation in the pharmaceutical knowledge-sharing attitude: A study of marketing biotechnology firms
Dawei Liu, Sajjad ZeinalyThe creation of partnerships among companies, governments and universities can improve innovation and the technological development of institutions. As innovation is a…
A prediction model for the secure issuance scale of Chinese local government bonds
Bowen Jia, Jiaying Wu, Juan Du, Yun Ji, Lina ZhuThe purpose of this paper is to calculate the local guaranteed fiscal revenue with the local fiscal revenue of 31 provinces, and predict their guaranteed fiscal revenue in 2018…
Assessing the impact of enterprise resource planning on decision-making quality: An empirical study
Ahmed Ouiddad, Chafik Okar, Razane Chroqui, Imane Beqqali HassaniAn enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is commonly used for automating operational processes and enhancing their efficiency inside a company. In the recent years, the…
The role of top management support and organizational capabilities in achieving e-business entrepreneurship
Khaled Saleh Al-OmoushThe purpose of this study is to investigate the role of top management support and organizational capabilities in achieving e-business entrepreneurship.
Technological evolution of wind energy with social network analysis
Fatma Altuntas, Mehmet Şahin GökThe purpose of this paper is to analyze the wind energy technologies using the social network analysis based on patent information. Analysis of patent documents with social…
Pricing analysis of interconnected markets of housing, mortgage lending and insurance
Mikhail GeraskinThis paper aims to investigate the problem of searching for the equilibrium in the housing market, the mortgage lending market and the insurance market in the process of selling…
Emotional finance: determinants of phantasy
Selim Aren, Hatice Nayman HamamcıIn this study, scales are developed for phantasy and its determinants, which is accepted as an important variable in investment preference with an emotional finance perspective…
Using system dynamics approach to build policy scenario for reducing CO2 emission resulted from tourism travel to Karimunjawa
Aries Susanty, Nia Budi Puspitasari, Singgih Saptadi, Shinta Devi SiregarThis study aims to create the causal relationship between transportation behavior to Karimunjawa, the number of tourists and the amount of CO2 produced; calculate the reduction of…
Capacities, competences and capabilities as knowledge structures to build relational capital
Juan Gabriel Cegarra-Navarro, Eva Martínez Caro, Aurora Martínez-Martínez, Maria Dolores Aledo-Ruiz, Eusebio Martínez-ConesaThis paper aims to investigate the relationship between relational capital produced by universities and knowledge structures, which include both the capacities and competencies…
A sustainable inventory system with the advanced payment policy and trade-credit strategy for a two-warehouse inventory system
Abu Hashan Md Mashud, Hui-Ming Wee, Biswajit Sarkar, Yu-Hua Chiang LiThis paper aims to consider a sustainable inventory model with price dependent demand, non-instantaneous deterioration rate, discount facility, partially backlogged shortages and…
Weak evidence for strong pandemic interventions: a 2019 WHO warning for the current COVID-19 crisis
Steffen RothSocial distancing. Travel bans. Confinement. The purpose of this paper is to document that more than 50% of the world population is affected by World Health Organization (WHO…
Haze pollution, new-type urbanization and regional total factor productivity growth: based on a panel dataset involving all 31 provinces within the territory of China
Ruihan Zhang, Bing Sun, Mingyao Liu, Jian HouThis paper aims to analyze the spatiotemporal heterogeneity of regional total factor productivity (TFP) growth and explores how haze pollution and different levels of new-type…
The relationship among knowledge-based dynamic process capabilities, innovation processes and innovation performance: an empirical study of knowledge-based high-tech companies in Iran
Farzad Nazari, Amir Rahimipour Anaraki, Seyedeh Safiyeh Taghavi, Behzad GhasemiThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of knowledge-based dynamic process capabilities (KBDPCs) on innovation performance, considering the mediator role of…
Dynamics of small Latin American techno-scientific worlds. A view from the triple helix
Iván Manuel De la Vega HernándezThis study aims to compare the techno-scientific systems of four Latin American countries: Panama and Costa Rica for Central America and Uruguay and Paraguay for South America…
Sustainable development of the business environment in smart cities: a hierarchical framework
Mingnan Jiang, Yang Gao, Mingwei Jin, Sitong LiuThe purpose of this study is to explore a sustainable hierarchical framework for the business environment in smart cities. However, this hierarchical framework must consider…
What drives Generations Y and Z towards collaborative consumption adoption? Evidence from a post-communist environment
Rodica Ianole-Calin, Elena Druica, Geoffrey Hubona, Bingyi WuThis study aims to explore the relationship between different categories of motivation and the intention to engage in collaborative consumption (CC), using attitude as a mediator.
“I didn’t want to do, but I am happy to now!” Affect, voice and in-role performance
Zhenduo Zhang, Huan Xiao, Xueqin Gou, Miaomiao Li, Junwei ZhengPrevious research has examined the effects of discrete affects on voice; however, the role of trait and state affects in voice literature has received little attention. This study…
Lean production of ship-pipe parts based on lot-sizing optimization and PFB control strategy
Fuli Zhou, Panpan Ma, Yandong He, Saurabh Pratap, Peng Yu, Biyu YangWith an increasingly fierce competition of the shipbuilding industry, advanced technologies and excellent management philosophies in the manufacturing industry are gradually…
The impact of knowledge on e-health: a systematic literature review of the advanced systems
Mehdi Hosseinzadeh, Omed Hassan Ahmed, Ali Ehsani, Aram Mahmood Ahmed, Hawkar Kamaran Hama, Bay VoEconomists have recognized knowledge management as a promising tool regarding all aspects of the economy, including health care. The volume of biomedical literature is currently…
Employees’ perceptions of organizational learning: the role of knowledge and trust
Eunjee Kim, Sunyoung ParkThis paper aims to investigate the roles of employees’ perceived knowledge sharing and trust on organizational learning.
Can Husserl’s phenomenology provide the intellectual framework of soft systems? (Part one)
Frank StowellThe purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between Husserl’s phenomenology and soft systems. An important idea arising from the action research programme at the…
Part two: the challenges of a soft systems inquiry. Integrating Husserl and Gadamer
Frank StowellThis study aims to explore the ideas of Husserl and Gadamer as a possible basis of future soft systems methods of enquiry.
Biology and personality: a mathematical approach to the body-mind problem
Joan Carles Mico, Salvador Amigó, Antonio Caselles, Pantaleón D. RomeroThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the body-mind problem from a mathematical invariance principle in relation to personality dynamics in the psychological and the…
Integration of online and offline channels in retail: feasibility of BOPS?
Qinyi Zhang, Wen Cao, Yongmei Liu, Zhichao ZhangAs one of the omnichannel sales models, “buy online and pick up in store” (BOPS) not only is used in the commercial field but also has gradually attracted many scholars’…
COVID-19. Scenarios of a superfluous crisis
Steffen Roth, Lars Clausen, Sören MöllerThis study aims to highlight the critical role case fatality rates (CFR) have played in the emergence and the management of particularly the early phases of the current…
Analysis of public reactions to the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak on Twitter
Saleha Noor, Yi Guo, Syed Hamad Hassan Shah, Philippe Fournier-Viger, M. Saqib NawazThe novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, which started in late December 2019, has spread to more than 200 countries. As no vaccine is yet available for this pandemic, government…
COVID-19 and the administrative concepts neglected: reflections for leaders to enhance organizational development
Rosley Anholon, Dirceu Silva, Jefferson Souza Pinto, Izabela Simon Rampasso, Maria L.C. Domingos, Janice H.O. DiasThe purpose of this paper is to discuss how COVID-19 pandemic forced several companies to reflect on their activities. Many organizational changes have been conducted and others…
A way of developing collaboration between universities and businesses in a time of COVID-19
Rusudan Seturidze, Nino TopuriaCentral to problems affecting effective university–business collaboration (UBC) is the lack of intensive communication in addition to some administrative issues. This paper aims…
COVID-19 and the targets of SDG 8: reflections on Brazilian scenario
Rosley Anholon, Izabela Simon Rampasso, Vitor W.B. Martins, Milena P. Serafim, Walter Leal Filho, Osvaldo L.G. QuelhasThis paper aims to present reflections on the COVID-19 pandemic impacts in the search for the targets of Sustainable Development Goal 8 (SDG 8) disseminated by the United Nations…
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