Nankai Business Review International: Volume 14 Issue 2

Organizational governance in the smart era: the implications of blockchain

Runhui Lin, Lun Wang, Biting Li, Yanhong Lu, Zhiqiang Qi, Linyu Xie

Blockchain is a technical solution integrating multiple technologies, with the potential to overcome the drawbacks of organizational governance. Given the emergence and prevalence…

Blockchain empowers supply chains: challenges, opportunities and prospects

Yongjian Li, Ting Chen

The advantages of blockchain technology are being widely discussed by academics, the business community and government, because blockchain can promote data sharing, optimise…

Enhancing customer satisfaction with chatbots: the influence of anthropomorphic communication styles and anthropomorphised roles

Ying Xu, Jianyu Zhang, Rui Chi, Guangkuan Deng

Chatbots are increasingly used in online retail settings and are becoming a powerful tool for brands to engage customers. However, consumers’ satisfaction with these chatbots is…

Synergetic mechanism of agricultural logistics ecosphere –the case study based on Jiangxi Taoxin

Yi Hu, Hui Shu

As the saying goes, “food is heaven of people” the development of agriculture is not only related to the quality of human life but also profoundly affects the efficiency of…

Predicting financial distress using the worst-practice-frontier data envelopment analysis model and artificial neural network

Mohammad Reza Fathi, Hamid Rahimi, Mehrzad Minouei

The main purpose of this paper is to predicate financial distress using the worst-practice-frontier data envelopment analysis (WPF-DEA) model and artificial neural network.

Innovation underperformance, socioemotional wealth and de-familization in family firms

Xi Zhong, Liuyang Ren, Ge Ren

The phenomenon of defamilization of family firms is gradually increasing for the growth of family firms, that is, nonfamily executives are increasingly present in the executive…

Transformational leadership, job enrichment and recognition as predictors of job satisfaction in non-profit organizations

Md. Lazim Mohd Zin, Hadziroh Ibrahim, Attia Aman-Ullah, Norsuhainy Ibrahim

This study aims to examine the influences of transformational leadership, job enrichment and recognition on employee job satisfaction in non-profit organizations.

Research of the influence of automobile purchase restriction policy on the pricing of motor vehicles in judicial appraisal enterprises

Xuying Wang, Jiabao Lin

The purpose of this paper is to take second-hand vehicles at judicial auctions in China as the primary research direction and to explore the impact of purchasing restriction…