Kybernetes: Volume 52 Issue 12
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The international journal of cybernetics, systems and management sciencesTable of contents
Factors affecting misinformation combating intention in Pakistan during COVID-19
Amara Malik, Talat Islam, Khalid MahmoodMisinformation on social media has become a great threat across the globe. Therefore, the authors aim to provide a comprehensive understanding of social media users'…
Price and cooperation decisions in a cooperative R&D supply chain with different licensing models
Fei Yan, Hong-Zhuan Chen, Zhichao ZhangIndustry practice has shown that technology licensing has an important effect on the R&D cooperation between firms. Different licensing methods will significantly impact a supply…
A two-step profit efficiency evaluation method based on predicted performance, with an application to Chinese commercial banks
Jie Wu, Qingsong Liu, Zhixiang ZhouThe purpose of this study is to evaluate the profit efficiency of decision-making units (DMUs) based on predicted future information to solve the lag problem of improvement…
Unravelling the mechanism between despotic leadership and psychological distress: the roles of bullying behavior and hostile attribution bias
Arooba Chaudhary, Talat IslamHealthcare workers are considered to be the most vulnerable to face mental health. Therefore, this paper aims to examine how negative leadership (despotic leadership) affects…
Promoting IT professionals’ tacit knowledge sharing through social capital and web 2.0: the moderating role of absorptive capacity
Asha ThomasThis study aims to examine the comprehensive relationship among dimensions of social capital (SC) and web 2.0 on tacit knowledge sharing (TKS). This research studies innovative…
The impact of low-carbon city pilots on carbon emission – new evidence from high-resolution carbon emission data
Pengyu ChenThe aim of this study was to investigate the impact of low-carbon city pilots (LCCPs) policy using Chinese city-level data from 2009 to 2018 and examine the mechanisms of LCCP…
Transformation and potentialization: how to extend the present and produce possibilities?
Andersen Niels Åkerstrøm, Justine Grønbæk PorsThis article explores how the Danish public sector, over time, has followed different temporal strategies in order to extend the present and handle the system's increasing…
Main challenges and best practices to be adopted in management training for Industry 4.0
Gustavo Tietz Cazeri, Luis Antonio Santa-Eulalia, Andre Ricardo Fioravanti, Milena Pavan Serafim, Izabela Simon Rampasso, Rosley AnholonThe objectives of this study are twofold: identify the main challenges in performing training on Industry 4.0 concepts to managers operating in the manufacturing sector who are…
B Corps and listed companies: empirical analysis on corporate social responsibility and innovation activity
Patrizia Gazzola, Daniele Grechi, Matteo Ferioli, David SlavataThe purpose of this article is to investigate whether the corporate social responsibility (CSR) and innovation activity of Certified B Corps® is comparable to listed companies in…
Attended home delivery under uncertain travel and response time: a case of Indian public distribution system
Sayan Chakraborty, Charandeep Singh Bagga, S.P. SarmahBeing the final end of the logistic distribution, attended home delivery (AHD) plays an important role in the distribution network. AHD typically refers to the service provided by…
Fuzzy gray clustering evaluation of green building operation effect: a case study of Shenzhen Bay One, China
Jingqi Zhang, Hui Zhao, Ziliang GuoThis paper improves the evaluation index system of green building operation effect and establishes the evaluation model of green building operation effect. It is expected to…
Impact of knowledge absorptive capacity on innovative performance in SMEs: mediating effect of cluster environment
Brou Ettien Fulgence, Xuhua Hu, Otu Larbi-Siaw, Siele Jean Tuo, Franck Edouard GnaheThis study builds on knowledge-based view (KBV) research and the natural resource-based view of the firm (NRBV) to examine the effect of knowledge absorptive capacity on…
Initial preference algorithm of industrial project portfolio
Ercan Emin Cihan, Çiğdem Alabaş-Uslu, Özgür KabakThis paper aims to develop an algorithm to pretest an industrial portfolio on a new scale. Portfolios include complex and uncertain projects at the front-end phase. The study…
Financial system and technology innovation in an emerging economy: can innovation efficiency be increased?
Qingqiu GanThis study aims to investigate the influence of the financial system (financial development and financial structure) on firms' innovation efficiency in China.
An examination of tourists’ national identity, place attachment and loyalty at a dark tourist destination
Ravi Dandotiya, Arun AggarwalThe question of whether tourist destinations established in the aftermath of a disaster will attract visitors remains unanswered. This study attempts to answer this question by…
Impact of R&D, patents and innovations disclosure on market capitalization: Russian evidence
Elena Fedorova, Pavel Drogovoz, Anna Popova, Vladimir ShiboldenkovThe paper examines whether, along with the financial performance, the disclosure of research and development (R&D) expenses, patent portfolios, patent citations and innovation…
Analysis of influencing factors of online community knowledge-sharing from the perspective of the platform environment
Renqiang Xie, Wende ZhangThe number of online communities has increased rapidly with the development of the Internet. Although these communities provide users with knowledge-sharing channels, the…
Do emotions matter in digitized workplace? Technostress and employees’ emotional well-being during the pandemic
Faiza Ali, Qasim Ali Nisar, Sobia NasirThis study aimed to examine the impact of COVID-19 concerns on employees’ well-being, considering workplace stress, aggression, and emotional outcomes, such as emotional…
Orchestration of the complex environmental context: how does strategic management affect and dynamic capabilities mediate performance?
Saniye Yıldırım Özmutlu, Korhan ArunThis paper aims to understand better how strategic management (SM) affects organizational and operational performance by examining the mediating role of dynamic capabilities (DCs…
A paradigm of blockchain and supply chain performance: a mediated model using structural equation modeling
Aamir Rashid, Syed Baber Ali, Rizwana Rasheed, Noor Aina Amirah, Abdul Hafaz NgahThis paper aims to find the impact of blockchain supply chain on supply chain performance with a mediating role of supplier trust, traceability and transparency.
Association between the benefits and barriers perceived by the users in smart home services implementation
Débora Rosa Nascimento, Guilherme Luz Tortorella, Diego FettermannThe article aims to identify the association between each smart home service category's benefits and barriers to their adoption. The results seek to identify efficient approaches…
Evaluation of investment preference with phantasy, emotional intelligence, confidence, trust, financial literacy and risk preference
Selim Aren, Hatice Nayman HamamciThere is strong excitement during Ponzi schemes and financial bubble periods. This emotion causes investors to turn to “unknown and new investment instruments”. This study, the…
Examining the effect of consumption values on mobile banking adoption in Bangladesh: the moderating role of perceived security
Md. HafezThe objective of this study is to investigate the effect of consumption values (functional, social, epistemic, and emotional value) on mobile banking (m-banking) usage intention…
Personality traits and conflict management styles: building the relationship through leadership effectiveness
Bahadur Ali Soomro, Ummi Naiemah Saraih, Tunku Salha Tunku AhmadThe present study examines the relationship between personality traits (PTs) and conflict management styles (CMSs) directly and indirectly through leadership effectiveness (LE) in…
Connecting reverse logistics with circular economy in the context of Industry 4.0
Sharfuddin Ahmed Khan, Wafaa Laalaoui, Fatma Hokal, Mariam Tareq, Laila AhmadReverse logistics (RL) has become integral in modern supply chains, with many companies investing in circular economy (CE), a recuperative and effective industrial economy. The…
Investigation of cinematic genre diversity based on social network analysis: the lost ring of the Iranian cinema industry
Ali Noroozian, Babak Amiri, Mehrdad Agha Mohammad Ali KermaniMovies critics believe that the diversity of Iranian cinematic genres has decreased over time. The paper aims to answer the following questions: What is the impact of the…
Nexus of knowledge management and organizational performance: a cross-country study of China and Pakistan higher educational institutes
Umar Farooq Sahibzada, Asha Thomas, M. Saleem Ullah Khan Sumbal, Mehwish MalikThe study explores the impact of knowledge management (KM) enablers, i.e. trust and organizational climate, on KM processes. The study further observes the indirect relationship…
A new cross-efficiency DEA approach for measuring the safety efficiency of China's construction industry
Li-Huan Liao, Lei Chen, Yu ChangSafety efficiency is the key to balance safety and production in construction industry; but the existing safety efficiency evaluation methods have the limitations of…
System dynamics model for sports entrepreneurship ecosystem (case study: Iran)
Nahid Darooghe Arefi, Hassan Bahrololoum, Reza Andam, Aliakbar HasaniSustainable development of entrepreneurship could be comprehensively analyzed using a simulation model for entrepreneurship ecosystem based on the system dynamics approach. Thus…
Applying an improved three-stage DEA model to evaluate the innovation resource allocation efficiency in industrial enterprises
Yongfeng Zhu, Zilong Wang, Jie YangThe existing three-stage network Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models with shared input are self-assessment model that are prone to extreme efficiency scores in pursuit of…
An optimal strategy of advertising and electronic word-of-mouth with considering rebates
Jizi Li, Yue Yu, Chunling Liu, Xudong DengThis paper aims to examine the optimal promotion strategy of an e-retailer, who may advertise, or launch rebates initiative to encourage consumers' disseminating electronic…
Evolutionary game analysis on live streaming commerce considering brand awareness and anchor influence
Xiaofen Jiang, Gao Guangkuo, Yang XuezhengThis paper considers the brand awareness and anchor influence on consumers' live-streaming purchases, and explores the existence of “free-riding” behavior, the comparison of brand…
A systematic model of stable seller–buyer matching with true preference induction in E-commerce platform
Tai-Guang Gao, Qiang Ye, Min Huang, Qing WangThis paper mainly focuses on how to induce all members to represent members' true preferences for supply and demand matching of E-commerce platform in order to generate stable…
Extended belief rule-based method for the assessment of matching between rescue tasks and volunteers
Li Chen, Sheng-Qun Chen, Long-Hao YangThis paper aims to solve the major assessment problem in matching the satisfaction of psychological gratification and mission accomplishment pertaining to volunteers with the…
The mechanism of knowledge management processes toward knowledge workers operational performance under green technology implementation: an empirical analysis
Sajjad Alam, Jianhua Zhang, Muhammad Usman ShehzadThis study aims to examine the relationship between green technology implementation (GTI), knowledge management (KM) process and knowledge workers' operational performance (KWOP)…
The crowding-out effect of shareholder value-based CEO compensation on R&D investment in the European context: a new interpretation
Ömer Tuğsal DorukIn the present study, using a novel fractional logit model, the link between R&D (Research & Development) investment and shareholder value-based CEO (Chief Executive Officer…
Harnessing technological innovation capabilities by the mediating effect of willingness to share tacit knowledge: a case from Pakistani software SMEs
Sherani, Jianhua Zhang, Muhammad Riaz, Fredrick Ahenkora Boamah, Sher AliThe study aims to explore the impact of tacit knowledge sharing (TKS) factors and its consequences in the form of technological innovation capabilities (TICs) within Pakistani…
