Kybernetes: Volume 52 Issue 1

Organizational members' use of online social networks and their job satisfaction: a social cognitive perspective

Mohammad Olfat, Sajjad Shokouhyar, Sadra Ahmadi, Seyed Mohammad Mahdi Ghaderi

This study utilized “social cognitive theory” to compare the impacts of organizational members' hedonic and work-related use of public social networks (SNs) and enterprise social…

Social media overload, gender differences and knowledge withholding

Dongming Wu, Junjun Zheng

Drawing on the stress and coping theory, conservation of resources (COR) theory and social role theory, this study aims to investigate the impact of social media overload on…

AGUTER a platform for automated generation of user acceptance tests from requirements specifications

Leandro Antonelli, Guy Camilleri, Diego Torres, Pascale Zarate

This article proposes a strategy to make the testing step easier, generating user acceptance tests (UATs) in an automatic way from requirements artifacts.

Effectiveness and policies analysis of pool testing method for COVID-19

Yang Liu, Yi Chen, Kefan Xie, Jia Liu

This research aims to figure out whether the pool testing method of SARS-CoV-2 for COVID-19 is effective and the optimal sample size is in one bunch. Additionally, since the…

A new conceptual model for assessing the role of knowledge cloud in stimulating subordinate creativity

Wen Hong Xiao, M. Wang

The knowledge cloud links people and ideas while also providing worldwide resources for putting them into action. This paper aims to see how the knowledge cloud affects the…

Workplace ostracism and employee silence: an identity-based perspective

Md Sahabuddin, Qingmei Tan, Arslan Ayub, Tehreem Fatima, Mustafa Ishaq, Ali Junaid Khan

Extant research has shown that workplace ostracism (WO) elicits counterproductive work behaviors, such as employee silence (ES), culminating in reduced job performance. However…

COVID-19 and a trade-off between health and economics: an extended inoperability model for Italy

Claudio Socci, Irfan Ahmed, Mohammed Hussein Alfify, Stefano Deriu, Clio Ciaschini, Riyaz Abdullah Sheikh

The recent COVID-19 has obliged governments to enact large-scale policies to contain it. A topic of economic debate is the quantification of the impact that these policies can…

Healthcare under pressure: modelling COVID-19 fatalities with multiscale geographically weighted regressions

Zizi Goschin, Gina Cristina Dimian

The paper aims to disentangle the factors behind territorial disparities in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) case fatality ratio, focusing on the pressure put by the…

After-hours work-related technology use and individuals' deviance: the role of interruption overload, psychological transition and task closure

Junaid Khalid, Qingxiong Derek Weng, Adeel Luqman, Muhammad Imran Rasheed, Maryam Hina

The information and communication technologies have made it progressively practical for employees to remain associated with work, even when they are not in the workplace. However…

Furthering systems theory towards social theory by revisiting critical systems thinking: connecting problem-solving and theory-building

Shih-Hui Lo, Cheng-Da Liu

The purpose is to forward systems theory one more step towards social theory and integrate problem-solving and theory-building, and search for the integration and unity of science…

A model of business intelligence on cloud for managing SMEs in COVID-19 pandemic (Case: Iranian SMEs)

Fatemeh Hamidinava, Abdolhamid Ebrahimy, Roohallah Samiee, Hosein Didehkhani

The purpose of this study was to demonstrate a cloud business intelligence model for industrial SMEs. An initial model was developed to accomplish this, followed by validation and…

Advertising strategy and contract coordination for a supply chain system: immediate and delayed effects

Hui Yu, Wei Yang, Na Xu, Yang Du

After receiving advertising messages, most consumers rarely purchase the advertised products at once, which results in a delay between advertising exposure and its effect. This…

The impact of corporate environmental responsibility on corporate cash holdings: evidence from the most polluting listed companies in China

Jia Liao, Liping Zheng, Yu Yuan

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of corporate environmental responsibility (CER) on corporate cash holdings. This paper also investigates the moderating effects…

Operation decision of logistics service supply chain: considering interruption probability in emergencies

Guangsheng Zhang, Xiao Wang, Zhiqing Meng, Qirui Zhang, Kexin Wu

To remedy the inherent defect in current research that focuses only on a single type of participants, this paper endeavors to look into the situation as an evolutionary game…

Pricing strategies of low-carbon enterprises in the Yellow River Basin considering demand information and traceability services

Pan Liu, Xiaoyan Cui, Ziran Zhang, Wenwen Zhou, Yue Long

The purpose of this paper is to solve new pricing issues faced by low-carbon companies in the Yellow River Basin, which is caused by the change of key pricing factors in the mixed…

A folksonomy-based collaborative filtering method for crowdsourcing knowledge-sharing communities

Kangqu Zhou, Chen Yang, Lvcheng Li, Cong Miao, Lijun Song, Peng Jiang, Jiafu Su

This paper proposes a recommendation method that mines the semantic relationship between resources and combine it with collaborative filtering (CF) algorithm for crowdsourcing…

Venture investment under multi-stage incentive model based on fairness concerns

Yadong Shu, Ying Dai, Zujun Ma, Zhijun Hu

This study explores the impact of EN's (venture entrepreneurs, simplified as EN) jealousy fairness concerns coefficient on two-stage venture capital decision-making in cases of…

A differential game analysis on green technology innovation in a supply chain with information sharing of dynamic demand

Junyi Wei, Chuanxu Wang

The objective of this paper is to investigate the impact of the information sharing of the dynamic demand on green technology innovation and profits in supply chain from a…

Social media users and cybersecurity awareness: predicting self-disclosure using a hybrid artificial intelligence approach

Naurin Farooq Khan, Naveed Ikram, Hajra Murtaza, Muhammad Aslam Asadi

This study aims to investigate the cybersecurity awareness manifested as protective behavior to explain self-disclosure in social networking sites. The disclosure of information…

A model to evaluate the acceptance and usefulness of enterprise architecture for digitalization of cities

Bokolo Anthony Jnr, Sobah Abbas Petersen, John Krogstie

Enterprise architecture (EA) is usually adopted as an approach for managing enterprise complexities and aligning business and information technology (IT) capabilities. Although IT…

Toward a diagnostic method of organizational health based on traditional Chinese medicine

Mario Iván Tarride, Mario Italo Contreras

The paper aims to propose a model and a comprehensive diagnostic method of organizational health status based on traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).

Analysis of sales and financing modes in a green platform supply chain with a capital-constrained manufacturer

Jun Wang, Song Yao, Xin Wang, Pengwen Hou, Qian Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the optimal operational strategies in a green platform supply chain and provide suggestions on the selection of sales and financing…