Kybernetes: Volume 53 Issue 3
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The international journal of cybernetics, systems and management sciencesTable of contents
The effects of military expenditures on labor productivity, innovation and economic growth for the most militarized countries: panel data analysis
Veysel Inal, Temel Gurdal, Tunahan Degirmenci, Mucahit AydinThere is extensive literature on the effect of military expenditure on economic growth. However, there is also a wide gap in the literature on the relationship between…
The global foreign direct investment network: evolution and influencing factors
Bing Li, Zhihui Shi, Wei GuoAs foreign direct investment (FDI) plays an important role in economic globalization. This paper examines the structural features of the global FDI network based on FDI flows data…
Leaders' role: now and then
Jamshid Ali Turi, Shahryar SorooshianThe purpose of the study is to assess the project leader's role in normal and new normal situations. This study aims to investigate the project leadership role in unforeseen…
TOTEs and trauma: a cybernetic, extended recursion schematic for hyper vigilance
Kip Errett PattersonThis conceptual article presents a schematic for use with extended cybernetic recursion in living systems and applies it to the issue of hyper vigilance as a demonstration of its…
Drivers of digital corporate social responsibility during unprecedented crises: an institutional perspective
Khaled Saleh Al-OmoushThis study explores the role of institutional pressures and top management support in digital corporate social responsibility (CSR) adoption. It also investigates the impact of…
Investment strategies and coordination for green food supply chain: a further research considering the inputs of the blockchain-based traceability system
Pan LiuTo study these issues, the authors chose a GFSC with one producer and one material supplier as research object, the supplier will offer green material to the producer and the…
Designing a multi-period and multi-product resilient mixed supply chain network under chain-to-chain competition
Mohammad Mahdi Vali-Siar, Emad RoghanianThis study addresses resilient mixed supply chain network design (SCND) and aims to minimize the expected total cost of the supply chain (SC) considering disruptions. The capacity…
The impact of relationship management on manufacturer resilience in emergencies
Jianhua Yang, Yuying Liu, Moustafa Mohamed Nazief Haggag Kotb KholaifThe purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of two typical relationship management approaches (trust relationship with suppliers and reciprocity) on manufacturer resilience…
A light robust optimization model for a hierarchical healthcare network
Amir Yaqoubi, Fatemeh Sabouhi, Ali Bozorgi-Amiri, Mohsen Sadegh AmalnickA growing body of evidence points to the influence of location and allocation decisions on the structure of healthcare networks. The authors introduced a three-level hierarchical…
Work from home amid black swan event (Covid-19): a bibliometric analysis from a social science perspective
Prinka Dogra, Aubid Hussain ParreyThis paper aims to facilitate researchers, practitioners and policymakers in understanding and managing the impact of the black swan event – COVID-19 on work from home in the…
The platform competition with multihoming on both sides in the omnichannel – —fee or subsidy?
Wentao Zhan, Minghui Jiang, Xueping Wang, Da Huo, Han JiangOmnichannel has become increasingly important with the development of e-commerce. In omnichannel, merchants expect customers to get the products and services at anytime, anywhere…
An investigation on the natural rate of crime rates with Fourier panel unit root test in selected emerging economies
Gizem Uzuner, Bünyamin Fuat Yıldız, Murat Anıl Mercan, Wing-Keung WongThe specific objective of the study is to investigate the presence of natural rate of crime rates in selected emerging economies by using panel unit roots. The majority of the…
Bi-objective optimization-based multi-criteria decision-making framework for disassembly line balancing and employee assignment problem
Nurcan Deniz, Feristah OzcelikAlthough disassembly balancing lines has been studied for over two decades, there is a gap in the robotic disassembly. Moreover, combination of problem with heterogeneous employee…
Engineering sustainable digital transformation projects immune to technical debt
Maria-Isabel Sanchez-Segura, Fuensanta Medina-Dominguez, German-Lenin Dugarte-Peña, Antonio de Amescua-Seco, Roxana González CruzThe current scenario is dominated by an urgent need for economic recovery caused by the global health emergency that has been at work since January 2020. Digital transformation…
A study on offshore wind farm site selection based on CRITIC and CPT-TOPSIS: a case study of China
Hui Zhao, Yuanyuan Ge, Weihan WangThis study aims to improve the offshore wind farm (OWF) site selection evaluation index system and establishes a decision-making model for OWF site selection. It is expected to…
Impacts of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and institutional quality (IQ) on bank risk-taking behavior
Syed Moudud-Ul-Huq, Runa AkterThe primary aim of this study is to evaluate the impacts of institutional quality (IQ) and economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on bank risk-taking behavior, especially after the…
Measurement and difference analysis of multidimensional poverty of floating population
Miraj Ahmed Bhuiyan, Zhihui Liu, Fanqiang MengAt present, the scale of China's floating population has reached 376 million people. Compared with the local inhabitants, the poverty problem of the floating population is more…
The pricing strategies under the online platform selling mode with information sharing
Xiaogang Cao, Jing Yuan, Hui Wen, Cuiwei ZhangDifferent information sharing mechanisms and online platform information sharing to different charging models are compared and analyzed.
