Kybernetes: Volume 47 Issue 4

Modelling multiples identity types through agency: Part 3 – mindsets and the Trump election

Davide Di Fatta, Maurice Yolles

Building on theory in Part 2 of this paper, a relationship is developed between the strategic multiple identities considered there. Personality analytic pathologies arise when…

Factors facilitating user projects success in co-innovation communities

Qing Zheng, Wei Guo, Weijin An, Lei Wang, Ruoyu Liang

Many users build personal projects in co-innovation community to accomplish their innovations. However, very few projects from such communities are successful and understanding of…

Updating technology forecasting models using statistical control charts

Alptekin Durmusoglu

The purpose of this paper is to develop an approach that can detect abnormal deviations in the time series models for technology forecasting. The detected modifications provide a…

Supporting the purchase decisions of consumers: A comprehensive method for selecting desirable online products

Zhi-Ping Fan, Yang Xi, Yongli Li

Online product ratings play an important role in the decision-making process of consumers, which are not only sources of information used by consumers to understand the function…

Contract design on digital platform for the risk-averse retailer with moral hazard: Wholesale price vs two-part tariff

Zhenhong Li, Bo Li, Yanfei Lan

The advent of e-commerce has prompted the proliferation of digital platforms for virtual products. This reinforces the importance of the contract design problem between the…

Examining intention to adopt to internet of things in healthcare technology products

Adem Karahoca, Dilek Karahoca, Merve Aksöz

The purpose of the study is to investigate critical factors affecting individuals’ intention to adopt internet of things (IoT) products in healthcare.

Modeling the dynamics of technological innovation system in the oil and gas sector

Sayyed Mohsen Azad, Seyed Hassan Ghodsypour

The purpose of this paper is to model the relationship between “innovation systems” players and markets to indicate the “innovation functions” behavior during the petrochemical…

A new two-stage grey evaluation decision-making method for interval grey numbers

Peng Li, Cuiping Wei

In multi-criteria decision-making with interval grey number information, decision makers usually take a risk to rank or choose some very similar alternatives. Additionally, when…

Research on three-dimensional digital process planning based on MBD

Haihua Zhu, Jing Li

Three-dimensional digital design and manufacturing technology are changing the current manufacturing pattern and have become the core of enterprise competition. However, the…

Heuristic algorithms for the Internet shopping optimization problem with price sensitivity discounts

Jerzy Józefczyk, Mirosław Ławrynowicz

Rapid advancements in internet technology have made it possible to develop electronic commerce in general and internet shopping in particular. Easy access to a vast number of…