Lijun Zeng, Xiaoxia Yao, Juanjuan Liu and Qiang Zhu
The purpose of this paper is to provide a detailed overview of the China Academic Library and Information system (CALIS) document supply service platform (CDSSP) – its historical…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to provide a detailed overview of the China Academic Library and Information system (CALIS) document supply service platform (CDSSP) – its historical development, network structure and future development plans – and discuss how its members make use of and benefit from its various components.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors provide a first-person account based on their professional positions at the CALIS Administrative Center.
Findings
CDSSP comprises five application systems including a unified authentication system, Saas-based interlibrary loan (ILL) and document delivery (DD) service system, ILL central scheduling and settlement system, File Transfer Protocol (FTP) service system and a service integration interface system. These systems work together to meet the needs of member libraries, other information service institutions, and their end users. CDSSP is widely used by more than 1,100 libraries based on a cloud service strategy. Each year more than 100,000 ILL and DD transactions are processed by this platform.
Originality/value
The development of CDSSP makes it becomes true for CALIS to provide one stop information retrieval and supply service. At the same time, it promotes the resource sharing among member libraries to a great degree.
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Jintao Xu, Yu Fang, Weiwei Gao, Xintian Liu, Juanjuan Shi and Hao Yang
The purpose of this study is to address the low localization accuracy and frequent tracking failures of traditional visual SLAM methods in low-light and weak-texture situations…
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The purpose of this study is to address the low localization accuracy and frequent tracking failures of traditional visual SLAM methods in low-light and weak-texture situations, and we propose a mobile robot visual-inertial localization method based on the improved point-line features VINS-mono algorithm.
Design/methodology/approach
First, the line feature information is introduced into VINS-mono. Subsequently, the EDlines line feature extraction algorithm is optimized with a short line merging strategy and a dynamic length suppression strategy to reduce redundant short lines and fragmented segments. In the back-end sliding window optimization, line feature reprojection errors are incorporated, and Huber kernel functions are added to the inertial measurement unit residuals, point-line feature residuals and loop closure constraints to reduce the impact of outliers on the optimization results.
Findings
Comparison and verification experiments are carried out on the EuRoC MAV Data set and real weakly textured environment. In the real low-light and weak-texture scenarios, the improved mobile robot localization system achieves over 40% higher accuracy compared to VINS-mono.
Originality/value
The main contribution of this study is to propose a new visual-inertial SLAM method combining point-line features, which can achieve good localization effect in low-light and weak-texture scenes, with higher accuracy and robustness.
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Taiye Luo, Juanjuan Qu and Shuo Cheng
Innovation resilience, which refers to firms’ ability to consistently innovate and recover from disruptions, has recently gained increasing attention. Digital transformation plays…
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Innovation resilience, which refers to firms’ ability to consistently innovate and recover from disruptions, has recently gained increasing attention. Digital transformation plays a crucial role in the innovation of manufacturing firms. This paper aims to investigate the impact mechanisms of manufacturing firms’ innovation resilience in the context of digital transformation.
Design/methodology/approach
Using panel data from Chinese A-share listed manufacturing firms spanning from 2017 to 2022 as an example, this research examines the impact of digital transformation on innovation resilience. It also tests the moderating effect of innovation network embeddedness and the mediation effect of absorptive capacity.
Findings
It is found that digital transformation can enhance the innovation resilience of manufacturing firms. Furthermore, the structural embeddedness and relational embeddedness of manufacturing firms within innovation networks moderate the relationship between digital transformation and innovation resilience. The absorptive capacity of manufacturing firms acts as a mediator in the relationship between digital transformation and innovation resilience.
Originality/value
This paper is one of the first studies that investigates the impact mechanisms of digital transformation on the innovation resilience of manufacturing firms based on network embeddedness theory and dynamic capability theory.
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Taiye Luo, Juanjuan Qu and Shuo Cheng
Enhancing total factor productivity through digital transformation is a crucial pathway for the high-quality development of manufacturing enterprises. This research aims to…
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Purpose
Enhancing total factor productivity through digital transformation is a crucial pathway for the high-quality development of manufacturing enterprises. This research aims to investigate the impact mechanisms of manufacturing enterprises’ total factor productivity in the context of digital transformation.
Design/methodology/approach
Using the data from 536 Chinese listed manufacturing enterprises from 2018 to 2021, this research divides digital transformation into two dimensions (i.e. digital transformation breadth and digital transformation depth) and examines their impacts on total factor productivity as well as the mediation effects of innovation capability and reconfiguration capacity.
Findings
It is found that digital transformation breadth, digital transformation depth and their interaction can positively affect manufacturing enterprises’ total factor productivity. The innovation capability and reconfiguration capacity of manufacturing enterprises act as mediators between digital transformation breadth and total factor productivity, as well as between digital transformation depth and total factor productivity.
Originality/value
This study is one of the first attempts to investigate the impact mechanisms of manufacturing enterprises’ total factor productivity from the perspective of digital transformation breadth and depth.
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Juanjuan Wu, Bo Ra Joo, Ahmad Saquib Sina, Sanga Song and Claire Haesung Whang
The authors conducted an action research study with the aim of understanding current commercial offerings in modular designs in virtual environments and to explore modularity…
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The authors conducted an action research study with the aim of understanding current commercial offerings in modular designs in virtual environments and to explore modularity development based on consumer input for the purpose of personalizing three-dimensional (3D) virtual fashion stores.
Design/methodology/approach
Through five phases of diagnosing, action planning, action taking, evaluating and specifying learning, the authors attempted to diagnose the current commercial offerings of modular designs in virtual spaces and to identify the right type and the number of modules and modular options for personalizing 3D virtual stores based on consumers' actual designs and focus group input. The authors then further conceptualized modules to serve as an example for developing modularity in 3D virtual reality (VR) stores.
Findings
In the diagnosing phase, the authors investigated the modularity structure of cocreating a retail store in two popular virtual worlds: Second Life and The Sims 4. In the evaluation phase, the authors identified modules and modular options for personalizing 3D virtual stores based on a content analysis of consumers' post-design focus group discussions. In the last phase (specifying learning), the authors conceptualized a total of nine modules and 38 modular options for personalizing 3D virtual stores, including style, price point, product category, color, presence of avatar, virtual product try-on, music, product recommendation and product customization.
Originality/value
The significance of this study lies in the pioneering methodological work of identifying, creating and visualizing 3D VR modular store options based on consumer input and in improving the authors’ understanding of current commercial offerings. This study also enriches design theories on cocreation systems. The authors’ suggested modules for personalizing 3D virtual stores could inspire future evidence-based designs to be readily used by VR retailers as well extend the application of mass customization theory from the realm of product development to retail environments.
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Juanjuan Yan, Biao Luo and Tanruiling Zhang
As artificial intelligence technology empowers service robots, they increasingly communicate with consumers in a human-like manner. This study aims to investigate the effect of…
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As artificial intelligence technology empowers service robots, they increasingly communicate with consumers in a human-like manner. This study aims to investigate the effect of service robots’ different conversational styles (competent conversational style vs. cute conversational style) on consumer service acceptance and demonstrate the moderating role of consumers’ technology anxiety.
Design/methodology/approach
Based on anthropomorphism theory and social presence theory, the authors conducted two scenario-based experiments (restaurant scenario and hotel scenario) to investigate this issue.
Findings
The results indicate that service robots’ conversational styles impact consumers’ willingness to accept the use of service robots through perceived social presence and positive emotion. Moreover, consumers perceived social presence and positive emotion play a serial mechanism. In addition, the effect of competent conversational style on consumers perceived social presence is less effective than that of cute conversational style. Finally, the authors demonstrate the moderating role of consumer technology anxiety in the relationship between conversational styles and perceived social presence.
Practical implications
To provide consumers with a positive human–robot interaction experience at the service front line, managers need to make better use of the conversational styles of service robots by comprehensively considering the characteristics of consumer technology anxiety.
Originality/value
This research extends the literature on service robots by integrating consumer characteristics and robots’ conversational styles. These findings highlight the effectiveness of cute conversational style in alleviating consumer technology anxiety.
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Pamila Wijewantha and Udayangani Kulatunga
Infrastructure projects play a significant role in community development. Infrastructure consists of many subcategories such as roads, bridges, railways, airports, communication…
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Infrastructure projects play a significant role in community development. Infrastructure consists of many subcategories such as roads, bridges, railways, airports, communication infrastructure and harbors. The expressway is an essential part of modern transportation infrastructure. Due to its span and complexity, expressway construction results in several environmental impacts comparatively higher than typical road construction. In that event, environmental sustainability assessment in expressway construction and determining environmental measures to address those impacts is essential. Therefore, this research intends to investigate the environmental measures applicable to expressway projects in Sri Lanka.
Design/methodology/approach
This study involves a comparative analysis of different environmental impacts validated through expert interviews. The data required to perform the analysis were extracted through expert interviews and the Battelle method.
Findings
The findings revealed the importance of environmental indicators for expressway projects in Sri Lanka by assigning weightages. The Construction Phase received the highest weightage among three themes indicating that the construction phase causes greater environmental impact in expressway construction. Furthermore, the Site Maintenance Plan and Tree Compensating received the highest weightages under indicators.
Originality/value
The study makes an original contribution through the identification of indicators that lead to the improvement of environmental sustainability in expressway projects in Sri Lanka. Furthermore, the use of the Battelle method within the context of measuring environmental sustainability of expressways projects in general — and within the context of Sri Lanka — is a novel research approach.
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Juanjuan Wang, Xiao Zhang and Yu Chi
This study aims to analyze the paths and mechanisms of firms’ sustainable high growth. Firms’ high growth is susceptible to interruption, stagnation or reversal. Thus, how firms…
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This study aims to analyze the paths and mechanisms of firms’ sustainable high growth. Firms’ high growth is susceptible to interruption, stagnation or reversal. Thus, how firms can achieve sustainable high growth is an important topic that requires urgent discussion and has significant implications for sustainable economic development and employment.
Design/methodology/approach
This study applies a longitudinal case study approach to portray the process by which Jiashu orchestrated digital elements with traditional resources to continuously fulfill their user demands and ultimately achieve sustainable high growth.
Findings
This study reveals three resource orchestration strategies: trust-oriented, demand-oriented and efficiency-oriented. These strategies are adopted in an organization’s startup, expansion and maturity periods, respectively. By dynamically integrating and orchestrating digital elements with traditional resources, firms implement a growth strategy with expanding and stacking dimensions, leading to sustainable high growth. The replicability and connectivity resulting from orchestrating digital elements and traditional resources encourage firms to expand their dimensions of growth and achieve sustainable high growth in multiple dimensions.
Research limitations/implications
This study conducts a preliminary exploration of the relationship between the integration of digital and traditional elements and the sustainable high growth of enterprises. A more stable theoretical relationship between the two requires further multi-case studies and empirical analysis for substantiation.
Originality/value
This study first clarifies the concept of sustainable high growth and reveals a unique nonlinear path characterized by growth with expanding and stacking dimensions. The findings contribute to deepening the theories of sustainable high growth and resource orchestration in the digital economy era and offer practical implications for the sustainable high-growth practices of firms.
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Juanjuan Wu, Angella Kim and Jayoung Koo
The purpose of this paper is to discover user-generated visual merchandising (VM) directives that could guide VM in physical stores as well as shed light on future development of…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to discover user-generated visual merchandising (VM) directives that could guide VM in physical stores as well as shed light on future development of customizable virtual stores for online retailing.
Design/methodology/approach
Applying a facet theory approach, our research involved consumers (n=145) in co-designing VM directives in a 3D virtual store in collaboration with target corporation. In total, 67 virtual shops in three product categories, i.e., women’s ready-to-wear, boy’s Cherokee, and men’s swim wear, were content analysed, along with written reports.
Findings
The research findings focused on the three facets of VM: merchandising presentation (fixturing, product density, manner of presentation, and product adjacency), in-store environment (layout and interior), and in-store promotion (signage). The research revealed the elements that these facets contain and the relationships between the elements. The findings suggest that retailers should design an ecological instead of a merely utilitarian environment; clear section identity helps shoppers find a sense of ownership and boundaries; and stores should also present a lifestyle solution instead of a merchandise selection.
Originality/value
The research contributes both original creations of VM directives and a methodical framework that moves the subject of VM from the physical to the virtual environment and shifts the traditional in-house function of VM to an open innovation in which consumers participate.
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Li Zhou, Ying Lu, Hu Yu, Lin Lu, Dianting Wu and Juanjuan Zhao
While the economic benefits of the exhibition industry for the hotel sector have been addressed, the impact of exhibitions on individual hotels is unknown, especially when…
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While the economic benefits of the exhibition industry for the hotel sector have been addressed, the impact of exhibitions on individual hotels is unknown, especially when individual hotels’ star classification and locations are considered. This study aims to provide a better understanding of how room rates of different hotels change during different stages of the Canton Fair in China from a spatial-temporal perspective.
Design/methodology/approach
Room rates of 681 star-hotels within the city of Guangzhou before, during and after the Fair were extracted from websites. Through spatial interpolation and autocorrelation analysis and geographical detector (GeoDetector) technique, spatial and temporal patterns of hotel room rates and the interdependence between the convention center and the hotels with different star classification and locations were examined.
Findings
An inverse-U shape of room rate change was identified before, during and after the Fair, and the five-star hotels had the sharpest increase. Moreover, the distribution of hotel room rates followed the law of distance decay. The variation of hotel rates became larger when the distance to the convention center was larger. Spatial high-high clusters varied among hotels with different star classification.
Originality/value
This study contributed to the hotel literature by providing empirical evidence regarding how hotels with different star classification and locations were affected by events. This study also advanced the event literature by introducing GeoDetector. The findings of this study offered insights into the hotel location selection, pricing strategies and hotel collaboration with events.
研究目的
虽然展览业对酒店业的经济效益已经得到解决, 但展览对单个酒店的影响尚不清楚, 尤其是在考虑单个酒店的星级和位置时。本研究旨在从时空角度更好地了解中国广交会不同阶段不同酒店的房价变化情况。
研究方法
网站提取了广交会前、中、后广州市内681家星级酒店的房价。通过空间插值和自相关分析以及地理探测器(GeoDetector)技术, 研究了酒店房价的时空格局以及会议中心与不同星级和位置的酒店之间的相互依赖关系。
研究发现
会前、会中、会后房价变化呈倒U型, 其中五星级酒店涨幅最大。此外, 酒店房价的分布遵循距离衰减规律。到会展中心的距离越远, 酒店价格的变化就越大。不同星级酒店的空间高-高集群存在差异。
研究原创性
该研究通过提供关于不同星级和位置的酒店如何受到事件影响的经验证据, 为酒店文献做出了贡献。这项研究还通过引入 GeoDetector 推进了事件文献。研究结果为酒店选址、定价策略和酒店与活动的合作提供了见解。