Kybernetes: Volume 52 Issue 11
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The international journal of cybernetics, systems and management sciencesTable of contents
The impact of perceived organizational politics and political risk on project success through ethical leadership and the psychological contract
Jamshid Ali Turi, Muddassar SarfrazPolitical risk devastates social and economic developmental projects. Countries with political stability attract foreign direct investment (FDI) and engage domestic investment…
A production and inventory model for deteriorating items with two-level partial trade credit and stochastic demand in a supply chain
Zhuo Dai, Yiju WangThe purpose of this paper is to maximize the average profit of the supply chain by calculating the order quantity, the number of shipments during the production time of the…
Does financial awareness increase the acceptance rate for financial inclusion? An empirical examination in the era of digital transformation
Manaf Al-Okaily, Hamza Alqudah, Anas Ali Al-Qudah, Naim S. Al-Qadi, Hamzah Elrehail, Aws Al-OkailyDespite extensive discussion of this topic in the life and financial transactions of people, there is a lack of empirical evidence related to challenges and opportunities of…
Sustainable development scores using spatial information systems-analytic hierarchy process
Lazim Abdullah, Norliana Mohd NajibThis research aims to develop sustainable development scores at districts level based on weights of thirteen sub-indicators using a spatial information system.
Pricing strategies for online hotel searching: a fuzzy inference system procedure
Seyedeh Asra Ahmadi, Peiman GhasemiHotels are considered one of the keys to tourism industry, without which it is impossible to visualize this industry. Setting the proper price for hotels has always been a…
Co-creating practical wisdom through rational, spiritual and emotional capacities
Jorge Cegarra-Sánchez, Juan Gabriel Cegarra-Navarro, Agustín J. Sánchez-MedinaThis study aims to investigate the concept of “practical wisdom” which may be defined as the ability to effectively manage one’s rational knowledge and to read and respond…
Foreign market selection of suppliers through a novel REF-Sort technique
Ahmet Aytekin, Ömer Faruk Görçün, Fatih Ecer, Dragan Pamucar, Çağlar KaramaşaThe present study aims to provide a practical and robust assessment technique for assessing countries' investability in global supply chains to practitioners. Thus, the proposed…
Using social media information to predict the credit risk of listed enterprises in the supply chain
Gang Yao, Xiaojian Hu, Liangcheng Xu, Zhening WuSocial media data from financial websites contain information related to enterprise credit risk. Mining valuable new features in social media data helps to improve prediction…
Effective human–AI work design for collaborative decision-making
Ruchika Jain, Naval Garg, Shikha N. KheraWith the increase in the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI)-based decision-making, organizations are facilitating human–AI collaboration. This collaboration can occur in a…
A two level ensemble classification approach to forecast bitcoin prices
Harish Kundra, Sudhir Sharma, P. Nancy, Dasari KalyaniBitcoin has indeed been universally acknowledged as an investment asset in recent decades, after the boom-and-bust of cryptocurrency values. Because of its extreme volatility, it…
How does action-oriented personality traits impact on entrepreneurial career choices? A trait-factor theory perspective
Syeda Nimra Batool, Khawar Razzaq, Hassan ImamEarlier studies have shown that individuals with business education and the personality traits listed in the big-five model are more inclined to pursue entrepreneurial activities…
Workload balance-based dynamic two-sided matching decision-making approach for cloud manufacturing tasks and services under uncertain preferences
Xuejiao Zhang, Yu Yang, Jing WangThis paper aims to develop a dynamic two-sided stable matching method based on preference information of the matching objects in uncertain environments, so as to solve the…
Two-level cooperation and competition strategies of government and technology service platforms: considering government subsidies
Dong-lin Chen, Min Fu, Meng-Di Yao, Lei WangThe purpose of this paper is to analyze the optimal competition or cooperation decision between technology service platforms and governments in the context of fierce competition…
Graph-theoretic approach to detecting real-time intents within purchase conversion funnel using clickstream data
Hongming Gao, Hongwei Liu, Weizhen Lin, Chunfeng ChenPurchase conversion prediction aims to improve user experience and convert visitors into real buyers to drive sales of firms; however, the total conversion rate is low, especially…
Credit supervision and trading strategy of rural e-commerce based on evolutionary game
Qun Bai, Senming Tan, Zheng Yuelong, Jiafu Su, Li TingtingThis study investigates the credit supervision issue in rural e-commerce. By studying the trading strategies of buyers and sellers under different credit supervision measures and…
Determinants of KMS adoption in Malaysian organizations: evidence across various industries
Fadhilah Aman, Khairul Huda YusofThis article investigates the determinants of knowledge management system (KMS) adoption, specifically with reference to Malaysian organizations across various industries.
Social media user-generated content, online search traffic and offline car sales
Shutian Wang, Yan Lin, Yejin Yan, Guoqing ZhuThis study explores the direct relationship between social media user-generated content (UGC), online search traffic and offline light vehicle sales of different models.
A dynamic trust consensus model based on personalized adjustment mechanism under multi-granular probabilistic linguistic environment
Jie Guo, Xia LiangThis study aims to propose a consensus model that considers dynamic trust and the hesitation degree of the expert's evaluation, and the model can provide personalized adjustment…
How CSR influences young Chinese consumers' purchase decisions towards Western brands: the moderating effect of consumer ethnocentrism
Fei Long, Miraj Ahmed Bhuiyan, Muhammad Khalilur Rahman, Norzalita Abd AzizThe objectives of this study are to examine the impacts of CSR on purchase intentions either directly or indirectly and to investigate the moderating effects of consumer…
Transfusions or hematopoiesis? How government subsidies and extended warranties feed decision-making about low-quality recycled used products in closed-loop supply chains
Xiaogang Cao, Yuan Li, Kai HuangThis paper studies how government subsidies (GS) and extended warranties (EW) feed decision-making about low-quality recycled used products (RUP) in closed-loop supply chains…
Structure, thermodynamics and information in complex systems
José Luis Usó Doménech, Josué Antonio Nescolarde-Selva, Miguel Lloret-Climent, Hugh Gash, Lorena Segura-AbadThe purpose of this paper is to show that transmission of information and information storage or registration depends on structures. Structures emerge from coordinated sets of…
Dynamic pricing for the successive-generation products in the presence of strategic customers and limited trade-in duration
Xigang Yuan, Zujun Ma, Xiaoqing ZhangThis paper investigates the dynamic pricing strategy of a firm for the successive-generation products under the conditions of the limited trade-in duration and strategic…
The mediating role of customer knowledge management on the innovative work behavior and product innovation relationship
Constantin Bratianu, Dan Florin Stănescu, Rares MocanuThe purpose of the present research is to introduce a combined framework that integrates innovative work behavior, product innovation process and customer knowledge management;…
Climate change mitigation technologies detection and evaluation: case of buildings
Ahmet Tarık Usta, Mehmet Şahin GökThe building and construction industry has a significant potential to reduce adverse climate change effects. There are plans to improve the natural resource use and greenhouse gas…
Generalized grey information entropy weight TOPSIS model for financial performance evaluation considering differentiation
Shaoguang Zhang, Sifeng Liu, Zhigeng Fang, Qin Zhang, Jingru ZhangFinancial performance has been paid attention at an unprecedented level, which can be confirmed as a fact that the quantitative expansion of financial performance evaluation work…
Problem-solving style as blessing in extraversion personality and corporate entrepreneurship: evidence from automotive industry of Pakistan using Trait Activation Theory
Muhammad Zubair Alam, Muhammad Rafiq, Sobia Nasir, Chaudhary Abdul RehmanEmployees’ personalities towards occupational outcomes have significantly gained academic attention. Personality traits (PTs) of employees as the determinant of corporate…
New mobility technologies as incentive to location decisions: relocation strategy in the automotive industry
Javier Turienzo, Jesús F. LampónThe purpose of this paper is to analyze the new technologies that condition location strategy and enable the reindustrialization of European countries involved in the automotive…
Social media role in public health development: a bibliometric approach
Manoj Kumar Dash, Rajendra Sahu, Gayatri Panda, Deepa Jain, Gaurvendra Singh, Chetanya SinghWith the changing times, the role of social media has increased manifold. It acts as one of the platforms for disseminating information to the public faster. Social media enables…
The complexity of the tourism supply chain in the 21st century: a bibliometric analysis
Romina Alkier, Vedran Milojica, Vasja RoblekThis study aims to examine the evolution of the tourism supply chain (TSC) and its future development factors. To this end, a quantitative bibliometric analysis was conducted to…
Uncovering the effect of responsible leadership on employee creative behaviour: from the perspective of knowledge-based pathway
Salman Zulfiqar, Zoia Khan, Chunhui HuoThe study aims to explore ‘motivational climate', which designs the recurring patterns associated with employees' attitudes, behaviour, and feelings. If organizations successfully…
Distinguishing the most valuable consumers in social commerce using graphical evaluation and review technique – in the view of incentives
Xu Chen, Yingliang Wu, Junfeng Liao, Wenming Zuo, Rujie ZhongThe incentive cost of enterprises increases significantly with the rapid growth of the social commerce (SC) market. In this context, enterprises need to develop the optimal…
Evaluation of the pharmaceutical distribution and warehousing companies through an integrated Fermatean fuzzy entropy-WASPAS approach
Ahmet Aytekin, Ömer Faruk Görçün, Fatih Ecer, Dragan Pamucar, Çağlar KaramaşaPharmaceutical supply chains (PSCs) need a well-operating and faultless logistics system to successfully store and distribute their medicines. Hospitals, health institutes, and…
Coordinating a reverse supply chain under stochastic demand and uncertain quality of returned products
Bibhas Chandra Giri, Sushil Kumar DeyThe purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of greening and promotional effort dependent stochastic market demand on the remanufacturer's and the collector's profits…
Do career adaptability and employee–employer fit relate to career resilience? A collaborative effort to depart from the state of “silos” to “mutuality” in academia
Bilal Ahmad, Sobia Nasir, Mahnoor Hai, Saba BilalThe purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between career adaptability and career resilience. Alongside, the mediating role of career-management fit was also tested…
Benefit synergy or “fishing in troubled waters”? Economic policy uncertainty and executive perquisite consumption
Hongji Xie, Zhen Yang, Shulin XuEconomic policy uncertainty (EPU) has huge impact and harm on real economy, so the economic logic and other economic effects behind this must be further studied. By constructing…
Impact factors to reduce carbon emissions. Evidences from Latin America
Mirela Panait, Laeeq Razzak Janjua, Simona Andreea Apostu, Constanta MihăescuCarbon dioxide emissions affect the environment, presenting major implications for sustainable development and consequently model climate change policies. The main aim of the…
Impact of job insecurity during COVID-19 on green entrepreneurial intention of Pakistani entrepreneurs: a moderated mediation model
Uzma Noor, Sajeela Rabbani, Ghulam DastgeerThe study aimed at identifying job insecurity during COVID-19 as a determinant of green entrepreneurial intentions under the mediating role of entrepreneurial passion. Further…
Nexus between green human resource management and environmental performance: a green approach for higher education institutes
Qazi Muhammad Ali, Qasim Ali NisarThis study examined the role of green human resource management (GHRM) in the environmental performance of higher education institutes (HEIs). The study also examined the…
The impact of supply chain integration on reverse supply chain adoption
Mohd Rizaimy Shaharudin, Mohammad Iranmanesh, Suhaiza Zailani, Keah Choon Tan, Morteza GhobakhlooThe aim of this study is to investigate the impact of integration capabilities on reverse supply chain (RSC) adoption and, consequently, RSCs' effectiveness. Thus, supply chain…
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