Kybernetes: Volume 49 Issue 11

Modeling critical leadership competences for junior high school principals: A hybrid MCDM model combining DEMATEL and ANP

Hui-Wen Vivian Tang

Based on generic reviews of research on school leadership, this study aims to conceptualize an emerging leadership competence model for further prioritizing school leadership…

Improving the organizational knowledge sharing through online social networks: The mediating role of employee motivation

Bo Yang, Lulu Wang, Bayan Omar Mohammed

Social technologies can offer a strong means for organizations to manage their information flows and thus make changes on the organizational knowledge sharing, which may then be…

Integrating collaborative topic modeling and diversity for movie recommendations during news browsing

Duen-Ren Liu, Yun-Cheng Chou, Ciao-Ting Jian

Online news websites provide diverse article topics, such as fashion news, entertainment and movie information, to attract more users and create more benefits. Recommending movie…

Relationship between risk aversion, risky investment intention, investment choices: Impact of personality traits and emotion

Selim Aren, Hatice Nayman Hamamci

This paper aims to examine the effects of subjective and financial literacy, big five personality traits and emotions (fear, anger, hope and sadness) on risk aversion, risky…

Information sharing in a green supply chain with promotional effort

Junfei Ding, Wenbin Wang

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the retailer’s strategy of information sharing in a green supply chain with promotional effort, and the impact of information sharing…

Impacts of high-speed railway on the industrial pollution emissions in China: Evidence from multi-period difference-in-differences models

Xiaomin Fan, Yingzhi Xu, Yongqing Nan, Baoli Li, Haiya Cai

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of high-speed railway (HSR) on industrial pollution emissions using the data for 285 prefecture-level cities in China from 2004…

Does China’s transportation infrastructure have an impact on employment in the service sector?

Hui Wang, Meiqing Zhang

The large-scale construction of China’s transportation infrastructure has driven the flow of elements between regions, which has provided convenient conditions for the…

Generational differences in technology behaviour: comparing millennials and Generation X

Cristina Calvo-Porral, Rogelio Pesqueira-Sanchez

There are differences in the motivations underlying technology behaviour in each generational group; and there may be variances in the way each generational group uses and gets…

Managing supply and transportation disruptions: a case of Indian fair price shops

Sayan Chakraborty, Sarada Prasad Sarmah

India has the largest public distribution system (PDS) in the world, working through over five million fair price shops (FPS) to distribute food grains among its beneficiaries at…

A new model for investigating the impact of urban knowledge, urban intelligent transportation systems and IT infrastructures on the success of SCM systems in the distributed organizations

Nan Jiang, Erlin Tian, Fattaneh Daneshmand Malayeri, Alireza Balali

A fundamental concept of the smart city is to get the right information at the right place to make city-related decisions easier and quicker. The main goal of supply chain…

Understanding the relationships among knowledge-oriented leadership, knowledge management capacity, innovation performance and organizational performance: A serial mediation analysis

Mert Gürlek, Murat Çemberci

Drawing on knowledge-based theory, contingency theory of leadership, social learning theory and resource-based view, this study aims to investigate the relationships among…