Kybernetes: Volume 51 Issue 11

Multiple criteria sorting of tourist sites for perceived COVID-19 exposure: the use of VIKORSORT

Lanndon Ocampo, Kafferine Yamagishi

Travel interests of tourists during pandemics and outbreaks are reduced due to the prevalence of fear. It induces lifestyle changes, which may hinder efforts to recover the…

A comprehensive literature review on the medical learning systems in the developing countries

Mahdi Bohlouli, Omed Hassan Ahmed, Ali Ehsani, Marwan Yassin Ghafour, Hawkar Kamaran Hama, Mehdi Hosseinzadeh, Aram Mahmood Ahmed

Many people have been dying as a result of medical errors. Offering clinical learning can lead to better medical care. Clinics have conventionally incorporated direct modality to…

How do IT affordances support behavioral intention in charitable crowdfunding? The mediating effects of donor perceptions and motivations

Huifang Jiao, Wenzhi Tang, Tianzhuo Liu, Xuan Wang, Lijun Ma

Social media technology has changed donors' decision-making process in online philanthropy compared with traditional charity. How do IT affordances support donor perceptions and…

Dynamic pricing and coupon promotion strategies in a dual-channel supply chain based on differential game

Zonghuo Li, Wensheng Yang, Yinyuan Si

This paper investigates a dual-channel supply chain in which a manufacturer offers coupons in the online channel and the retailer in the offline channel. The optimal pricing and…

Toward customer-centric mobile phone reverse logistics: using the DEMATEL approach and social media data

Sajjad Shokouhyar, Amirhosein Dehkhodaei, Bahar Amiri

Recently, reverse logistics (RL) has become more prominent due to growing environmental concerns, social responsibility, competitive advantages and high efficiency by customers…

Multi-level nursing workforce planning considering talent management in healthcare with a dynamic quantitative approach

Shila Monazam Ebrahimpour, Fariborz Rahimnia, Alireza Pooya, Morteza Pakdaman

Workforce planning must answer how many workforces, in which positions, and talents, and when each organization is needed. To find the requirements workforce, organizations need…

Human resources and Industry 4.0: an exploratory study in the Brazilian business context

Pedro Carmona Pio, Izabela Simon Rampasso, Gustavo Tietz Cazeri, Luis Antonio Santa-Eulalia, Milena Pavan Serafim, Rosley Anholon

The present study aimed to evaluate how Brazilian companies from different sectors are developing human resources practices in the context of Industry 4.0 and which of these…

The knowledge hiding loop: exploring the boundary conditions

Yunpeng Sun, Arslan Ayub, Tehreem Fatima, Hassan Danial Aslam, Salman Bahoo

Using norms of reciprocity, this study explores how employees' exposure to workplace ostracism (WO) affects their task performance through the mediating role of knowledge hiding…

To determine the critical factors for the adoption of cloud computing in the educational sector in developing countries – a fuzzy DEMATEL approach

Riddhi Rajendra Thavi, Vaibhav S. Narwane, Rujuta Hemal Jhaveri, Rakesh D. Raut

The paper focuses on reviewing and theorizing the factors that affect the adoption of cloud computing in the education sector narrowing the focus to developing countries such as…

Carbon emission reduction and coordination in a closed-loop supply chain with outsourcing remanufacturing

Na Wang, Yulin Zhang, Jing Li

Outsourcing remanufacturing is a major form of remanufacturing, and emission reduction is an important part of a manufacturer's production. This paper aims to investigate carbon…

Exploring key enablers of sustainable transportation in small-and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises

Koppiahraj Karuppiah, Bathrinath Sankaranarayanan, Syed Mithun Ali

The transportation sector is frequently criticized for its adverse environmental impacts. Industrial managers and decision-makers in the transportation sector have difficulty…

How to develop ASOs of China? Answers from the academic entrepreneurs

Xingteng Li, Cong Zhu, Feng Feng

Why do academic spin-offs (ASOs) have different growth performance? What makes ASOs grow better? Based on the perspective of academic entrepreneurs, this study systematically…