Kybernetes: Volume 46 Issue 06

How to requisitely holistically consider internal gaps of business ethic

Zlatko Nedelko, Matjaz Mulej, Vojko Potocan

The aim of this paper is to report about a requisitely holistic examination of the business ethics, focused on internal gaps between company’s and employees’ ethics. Contribution…

Combining cognition and emotion in virtual agents

Joaquín Pérez Marco, Francisco José Serón Arbeloa, Eva Cerezo Bagdasari

The paper aims to explain the limitations of existing cognitive architectures and affective models, and propose a new cognitive-affective architecture that can be integrated in…

Analysing capital structure of spanish chemical companies using self-organizing maps

Xavier Camara-Turull, María Ángeles Fernández-Izquierdo, M. Teresa Sorrosal-Forradellas

This paper aims to analyses the capital structure of the Spanish chemical industry during the period between 1999 and 2013, with a twofold objective. First, to determine whether…

The nature and value of knowledge

Alberto Felice De Toni, Andrea Fornasier, Fabio Nonino

This paper aims to explain and discuss the complex nature and value of knowledge as an exploitable resource for business.

How does entrepreneurial opportunity affect the decision-making process of effectuation?: Evidence from China

Dan Long, Zi-yao Xia, Wang-bin Hu

The purpose of this paper is to bridge the obvious gap presented in research on antecedents of effectuation by building a research model from the perspectives of effectuation and…

Customer engagement within multiple new media and broader business ecosystem – a holistic perspective

Soe-Tsyr Daphne Yuan, Szu-Yu Chou, Wei-Cheng Yang, Cheng-An Wu, Chih-Teng Huang

Customer engagement (customers’ behavioral manifestations going beyond customer-firm purchase transactions) has been regarded as strategic imperatives for generating enhanced…

Research on social e-commerce reputation formation and state-introduced model

Chuang Wei, Zhao-Ji Yu, Xiao-Nan Chen

This paper aims to solve the problem of information overload and reduce search costs. It proposes a social e-commerce online reputation formation model and community…

Research on integrated product service system driven by customer value based on ontology technology

Haihua Zhu, Jing Li, James Gao, Weihua Lu

With the customers’ increasing expectation on the product value, manufacturing enterprises around the world have made significant efforts to provide high value-added services in…

Game-theoretic analysis of Stackelberg oligopoly with arbitrary rank reflexive behavior of agents

Mikhail Geraskin

This paper aims to consider the problem of determining the equilibriums on oligopoly market in case of Stackelberg leader (leaders) and reflexive behavior of market agents.

Modelling identity types through agency: part 1 defragmenting identity theory

Maurice Yolles, Davide Di Fatta

There is fragmentation in the academic study of identity theory, and it is dislocated from personality theory. The paper aims to develop a model that resolves both of these issues…