Kybernetes: Volume 50 Issue 9

Corporate social responsibility and access to bank loan: how much and how to give both matter

Qiang Li, Jin-Xiu Sun, Chia-Huei Wu, Wei Liu

This paper aims to investigate the inverse U-shape relationship between DM and accessing loans from the banks and explore the moderating effect of donation mode diversity.

Method for product selection considering consumer’s expectations and online reviews

Ming-Yang Li, Xiao-Jie Zhao, Lei Zhang, Xin Ye, Bo Li

In recent years, the updating speed of products has been significantly accelerated, which not only provides diversified styles for consumers to select from but also makes…

A new risk evaluation methodology based on FMEA, MULTIMOORA, TPOP, and interval-valued hesitant fuzzy linguistic sets with an application to healthcare industry

Samaneh Zolfaghari, Seyed Meysam Mousavi

The healthcare system is regarded as one of the most critical service industries. The surgical unit is the heart of hospitals in that any failures directly affect the safety of…

Analysis of patent documents with utility mining: a case study of wind energy technology

Fatma Altuntas, Mehmet Şahin Gök

This study aims to propose a novel approach based on utility mining to find the associations among wind energy technologies.

Mathematical modeling of systems, its nature and limits of applicability

Evgeny Volchenkov

The purpose of this paper is to establish the nature of mathematical modeling of systems within the framework of the object-semantic methodology.

The impacts of CEO’s knowledge structure on corporate innovation strategy

Qing Qiu, Dengke Yu

This study aims to explore the impacts of the knowledge structure of CEO on corporate innovation strategy in the background of China’s national policy of innovation-driven…

Troubled IS/IT projects: searching for the root causes

Paolo Rocchi, Stefano Za

For decades, troubled information systems (IS)/information technology (IT) projects have continued to lose billions of dollars all over the world. The purpose of this paper is to…

Stochastic optimization for transportation planning in disaster relief under disruption and uncertainty

Fatemeh Sabouhi, Ali Bozorgi-Amiri, Parinaz Vaez

This study aims to minimize the expected arrival time of relief vehicles to the affected areas, considering the destruction of potential routes and disruptions due to disasters…

Corporate social responsibility and the nonprofit sector: exploring the common ground

Vladislav Valentinov

Many nonprofit missions and the goals of socially responsible corporations are often found to refer to similar moral ideals related to improving the quality of human life. To take…

A systemic analysis of green computing adoption using genetically evolved fuzzy cognitive map: a Philippine scenario

Dharyll Prince Mariscal Abellana

This paper aims to propose a new genetically evolved fuzzy cognitive mapping approach as a decision-making framework for analyzing the relationships between the drivers and…