Kybernetes: Volume 51 Issue 2
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The international journal of cybernetics, systems and management sciencesTable of contents
A solution for the chicken and egg paradox in taxi e-hailing platforms: some evidence from the MyTaxi – FreeNow case
Mario Tani, Ciro Troise, Gianpaolo BasileThis study aims to explore the chicken and egg paradox in the taxi e-hailing business contributing to define a condition of system emergence. This paradox is a meaningful one as…
Towards viability of academic departments: the power of organizational cybernetics
Sahar Saeed Rezk, Shahinaz GamalThe purpose of this study is to use the power of organization cybernetics (OC) to design a flexible viable academic department that is at the risk of losing its viability because…
Ontology alignment evaluation for online assessment of e-learners: a new e-learning management system
Rajakumar B.R., Gokul Yenduri, Sumit Vyas, Binu D.This paper aims to propose a new assessment system module for handling the comprehensive answers written through the answer interface.
Community of practice: converting IT graduate students into specialists via professional knowledge sharing
Liana Stanca, Dan-Cristian Dabija, Elena PăcurarThe paper aims to highlight how an applied learning framework or “community of practice” (CoP) combined with a traditional theoretical course of study enables the identification…
Does cloud computing improve team performance and employees' creativity?
Jing Zou, Cheng JianThe present investigation goals to empirically test the role of expert cloud on team performance and employee creativity. Here, the expert cloud comprises cloud application, cloud…
Can customer perceived service quality fluctuations predict the performance of retail service supply chain?
Jianfei Li, Bei Li, Kun Tang, Mengxia SunBased on the analysis of the dissipative structure of the retail service supply chain (RSSC), this paper divides the system into two internal and external dissipative mechanisms…
Optimal pricing model for non-instantaneous deterioration items with price and freshness sensitive demand under the e-commerce environment in China
Weihua Xu, Shujun Zhou, Ketong Zhao, Yixuan Shi, Sun BingzhenThe purpose of this paper is to focus on determining the optimal sales price for non-instantaneous deterioration items according to consideration of freshness and demand.
Designing successful business strategies for private public partnerships: an ontological approach
Fragkoulis Papagiannis, Patrizia Gazzola, David Slavata, Daniele GrechiThe purpose of this paper is to present an innovative approach for the strategic design of public–private partnerships (PPP) and private finance initiatives (PFI) based on…
Business process management and risk-adjusted performance in SMEs
Dušan Gošnik, Igor StubeljThis paper aims to examine the relationship between business process management (BPM) and company performance. The research focuses on the instrumental aspect of core business…
Forecasting annual foreign tourist arrivals to China by incorporating firefly algorithm into fractional non-homogenous discrete Grey model
Xiaozhong Tang, Naiming Xie, Aqin HuAccurate foreign tourist arrivals forecasting can help public and private sectors to formulate scientific tourism planning and improve the allocation efficiency of tourism…
Cold chain vulnerability assessment through two-stage grey comprehensive measurement of intuitionistic fuzzy entropy
Lan Xu, Qian TangThis study aims to investigate the vulnerability of cold chain logistics through a comprehensive assessment and provide targeted control measures.
Business process reengineering in health-care sector: application for the central sterilization unit
Mehtap Dursun, S. Sirin Fındık, Nazli GokerIn a rapidly changing environment, many health-care systems are forced to survive with rising costs and the need for proper resources utilization. To address the requirements for…
Empirical nexus between financial and psychological entrepreneur characteristics and its analogy to entrepreneurship financial performance
Waqas Khan, Qasim Ali Nisar, Nadia Nasir, Sobia Nasir, Yousaf SiddiquiThis study aims to examine the key entrepreneurial roles (financial literacy, risk tolerance and competency) in the financial performance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in…
An efficient stochastic programming approach for solving integrated multi-objective transportation and inventory management problem using goodness of fit
Srikant Gupta, Sachin Chaudhary, Prasenjit Chatterjee, Morteza YazdaniLogistics is the part of the supply chain (SC) that plans, executes and handles forward and reverse movement and storage of products, services and related information, in order to…
Open innovation antecedents and its consequences on commercialization performance in small and medium-sized enterprises
Mohammad Javad Asgari, Amir Zakery, Mir Saman PishvaeeThis paper aims to investigate the impact of the factors affecting open innovation (OI) intensity, in terms of three components of cooperative innovation, resource search and…
Understanding cognitive transport mode choice structures: means-ends chains as a type of second-order cybernetics
Tomaž Kolar, Iztok KolarThis paper aims to inform the promotion of sustainable modes of transport. For this purpose, it deploys a means-ends framework as a type of second-order cybernetics and uses it to…
Evaluation of service quality using SERVQUAL scale and machine learning algorithms: a case study in healthcare
Serkan Altuntas, Türkay Dereli, Zülfiye ErdoğanThis study aims to propose a service quality evaluation model for health-care services.
Mixed frequency domain spillover effect of international economic policy uncertainty on stock market
Shuzhen Zhu, Xiaofei Wu, Zhen He, Yining HeThe purpose of this paper is to construct a frequency-domain framework to study the asymmetric spillover effects of international economic policy uncertainty on China’s stock…
Use of cloud model to evaluate corporate social responsibility of pharmaceutical companies
An Xia Wan, Zhaoqiang Zhong, Chaoyu Zheng, Xuan Zhao, Ehsan ElahiBased on the perspective of stakeholders, this paper aims to construct the corporate social responsibility (CSR) evaluation system, aiming at encouraging enterprises to actively…
Applying machine learning approach to predict students’ performance in higher educational institutions
Mohammed Nasiru Yakubu, A. Mohammed AbubakarAcademic success and failure are relevant lifelines for economic success in the knowledge-based economy. The purpose of this paper is to predict the propensity of students’…
