Kybernetes: Volume 53 Issue 4

Effectiveness of leader-member exchange on employee outcomes in cross-cultural environment of China–Pakistan economic corridor

Hafiz Muhammad Arshad, Muhammad Waheed Akhtar, Muhammad Imran, Irem Batool, Muhammad Asrar-ul-Haq, Minhas Akbar

China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a framework of regional connectivity in which employees have to work in a cross-cultural environment. This study has extended the…

Modelling and simulation of crowd evacuation in terrorist attacks

Yu Song, Bingrui Liu, Lejia Li, Jia Liu

In recent years, terrorist attacks have gradually become one of the important factors endangering social security. In this context, this research aims to propose methods and…

Climate neutrality through economic growth, digitalisation, eco-innovation and renewable energy in European countries

Alina-Petronela Haller, Mirela Ștefănică, Gina Ionela Butnaru, Rodica Cristina Butnaru

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the influence of economic growth, digitalisation, eco-innovation, energy consumption and patents on environmental technologies on the…

The influence of collaborative innovation network characteristics on firm innovation performance from the perspective of innovation ecosystem

Fenglian Wang, Qing Su, Zongming Zhang

This study is aimed at making an inspection of the effects of collaborative innovation network characteristics on firm innovation performance, and the intermediary roles of…

Which is better? Business models of partial and cross ownership in an NEV supply chain

Xiaoxi Zhu, Juan Liu, Meifei Gu, Changhui Yang

To examine how shareholding affects optimal profits, R&D innovation, NEV market scale and social welfare in two supply chain models with partial and cross ownership patterns.

Optimal contracting with asymmetric belief and complementarity

Jia Jia Chang, Zhi Jun Hu, Changxiu Liu

In this study, a dynamic contracting model is developed between a venture capitalist (VC) and an entrepreneur (EN) to explore the influence of asymmetric beliefs regarding…

Digital technology use of SMEs during the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey: mobile applications’ role on motivation and job performance

Cevahir Uzkurt, Emre Burak Ekmekcioglu, Semih Ceyhan, Muhammed Bugrahan Hatiboglu

The purpose of this article is to examine the impact of digital technology (specifically mobile applications) use on employees' perceptions of motivation at work (MW) and job…

Which complexity? A review of typologies and a framework proposal for characterizing complexity-based approaches

Tiago F.A.C. Sigahi, Laerte Idal Sznelwar

The purpose of this paper is twofold: (1) to map and analyze existing complexity typologies and (2) to develop a framework for characterizing complexity-based approaches.

The impact of social pension scheme on the quality of labor supply: empirical evidence based on health human capital

Shulin Xu, Zefeng Tong, Cheng Li, Shuoqi Chen

High-quality labor supply is inevitable to maintain sustainable and steady economic growth. This study mainly explores the impact of the social pension system on the health of…

Joint optimization decision of service provider selection and CODP positioning based on mass customization in a cloud logistics environment

Guanxiong Wang, Xiaojian Hu, Ting Wang

By introducing the mass customization service mode into the cloud logistics environment, this paper studies the joint optimization of service provider selection and customer order…

Contextual analysis of scholarly communications to identify the source of disinformation on digital scholarly platforms

Mitali Desai, Rupa G. Mehta, Dipti P. Rana

Scholarly communications, particularly, questions and answers (Q&A) present on digital scholarly platforms provide a new avenue to gain knowledge. However, several studies have…

Analysis of procurement strategies in a two-period fresh product supply chain

Guoli Wang, Chenxin Ma

Motivated by the wide application of procurement strategies in retailing, this paper aims to examine the effect of procurement strategies on decisions and profits and strategic…

Going green with the green market and green innovation: building the connection between green entrepreneurship and sustainable development

Bahadur Ali Soomro, Nisren Farouk Moawad, Ummi Naiemah Saraih, Nadia A. Abdelmageed Abedelwahed, Naimatullah Shah

This study aims to explore the role of the green market (GM) and green innovation (GI) towards green entrepreneurship (GE) and sustainable development (SD).

Skyscraper height and urban development in developing countries: economy and trade

Xiaoyang Zhao, Xia Mao, Yuxiu Lu

This study aims to investigate the factors affecting urban economic development in emerging economic market countries and to provide a new research perspective on urban skyscraper…

Predicting factors affecting business operations during pandemic COVID-19

Talib Hussain, Shahid Hussain

The global COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly overwhelmed our societies, shocked the global economy and disturbed normal business operations. While such impacts of COVID-19 are…

A new proposed model for tourists' destination image formation: the moderate effect of tourists' experiences

Ahmed Hamdy, Jian Zhang, Riyad Eid

This study's goal is to look at how visitors' experiences affect the indirect links between the destination's extrinsic motivations (DEMs) and tourists' intrinsic motives (TIMs)…

Contributions to anarchist-cybernetics, identifying committee directorates in Errico Malatesta's theory: content analysis using dynamic causal diagrams and viable system modelling

Camilo Osejo-Bucheli

The purpose of this research is to increase academic understanding of the relationship between systems' political identity and their viability, and to contribute to…