Kybernetes: Volume 52 Issue 4

Exploring AI-healthcare innovation: natural language processing-based patents analysis for technology-driven roadmapping

Yu-Hui Wang, Guan-Yu Lin

The purposes of this paper are (1) to explore the overall development of AI technologies and applications that have been demonstrated to be fundamentally important in the…

Operational decisions and game analysis in the agricultural supply chain: invest or not?

Qinyi Zhang, Wen Cao, Zhichao Zhang

With the rapid growth of the economy, people have increasingly higher living standards, and although people simply pursued material wealth in the past, they now pay more attention…

How users' perceived prosumption activities influence co-creation experiences and co-creation intentions?

Lei Shen, Yuhong Zhu, Chenglong Li, Syed Hamad Hassan Shah

The paper aims to explore how perceived prosumer content quality (PPCQ) and perceived interaction quality (PIQ) improve users' co-creation experiences and subsequently influence…

Feasibility of implementing the human resource payroll management system based on cloud computing

Min Zhao, Kamran Rabiei

The present study is descriptive research in terms of purpose, descriptive analysis in terms of nature and cross-sectional research in terms of time. The study’s statistical…

Ecological well-being performance and influencing factors in China: from the perspective of income inequality

Lijun Zhou, Zongqing Zhang

China's increasing income inequality might cause a series of problems, such as the slowdown of economic growth, social and economic tension, the decline of the ecological…

Joint pricing and ordering decisions for a loss-averse retailer with quantity-oriented reference point effect and demand uncertainty: a distribution-free approach

Yue Yu, Ruozhen Qiu, Minghe Sun

This work examines the joint pricing and ordering (JPO) decisions for a loss-averse retailer with quantity-oriented reference point (RP) effect under demand uncertainty.

Drifting the goals archetype: a systemic study

Virupaxi Bagodi, Biswajit Mahanty

Managerial decision-making is an area of interest to both academia and practitioners. Researchers found that managers often fail to manage complex decision-making tasks and system…

Diagnose the viability of separation of power in Egypt: a cybernetics perspective

Nahed T. Zeini

The aim of this study is to diagnose the Egyptian political system from the perspective of the viable system model (VSM). That in turn gives us significant insights on how to…

Associated probabilities aggregations in multistage investment decision-making

Gia Sirbiladze, Harish Garg, Irina Khutsishvili, Bezhan Ghvaberidze, Bidzina Midodashvili

The attributes that influence the selection of applicants and the relevant crediting decisions are naturally distinguished by interactions and interdependencies. A new method of…

A multi-criterion group decision-making method based on regret theory under 2-tuple linguistic environment

Xiang Jia, Yingming Wang

The purpose of this paper is to develop a multi-criterion group decision-making (MCGDM) method by combining the regret theory and the Choquet integral under 2-tuple linguistic…

Blockchain in supply chain management: a grounded theory-based analysis

Eladian Batista Rodrigues, Wagner Luiz Lourenzani, Eduardo Guilherme Satolo, Sergio Silva Braga Júnior, Rosley Anholon, Izabela Simon Rampasso

This study aims to present consolidated information on blockchain, which seeks to better clarify the concept of blockchain and the associated implications and characteristics.

Predictors of third-person perceptions about media's influence on vaccination against COVID-19

Raluca Buturoiu, Loredana Vladu, Flavia Durach, Alexandru Dumitrache

The present study aims to unveil the main predictors of perceived media influence (the third-person effect (TPE)) on people's opinions towards COVID-19 vaccination. While the TPE…

The impact of customer knowledge on the organizational performance: a system dynamics approach

Seyed Danial Bidgoli, Mohammad Saleh Owlia, Mohammad Taghi Isaai

The purpose of this research was to model the impact of customer knowledge on the performance of organization with a focus on information technology industry. Furthermore, it is…

Risk measurement in Bitcoin market by fusing LSTM with the joint-regression-combined forecasting model

Xunfa Lu, Cheng Liu, Kin Keung Lai, Hairong Cui

The purpose of the paper is to better measure the risks and volatility of the Bitcoin market by using the proposed novel risk measurement model.

Vehicle routing problem for humanitarian relief distribution under hybrid uncertainty

Sara Nodoust, Mir Saman Pishvaee, Seyed Mohammad Seyedhosseini

Given the importance of estimating the demand for relief items in earthquake disaster, this research studies the complex nature of demand uncertainty in a vehicle routing problem…

Organizational memory: a qualitative research study on a multi-cultural organization

Cem Sen, Korhan Arun, Olcay Okun

This paper articulates a multi-contextual and dynamic system for memory research in relation to multi-cultural organizations (MCOs) by a qualitative research method.

Knowledge retention in oil and gas industry – the case of contract workforce

M. Saleem Ullah Khan Sumbal, Irfan Irfan, Susanne Durst, Umar Farooq Sahibzada, Muhammad Adnan Waseem, Eric Tsui

The purpose of this article is to investigate how organization retain the knowledge of Contract Workforce (CWF) and to understand the associated challenges in this regard.