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Article
Publication date: 6 February 2017

Zhe Ouyang, Jiuchang Wei, Yu Xiao and Fei Wang

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of media attention on corporate disaster relief.

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of media attention on corporate disaster relief.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors used a matched sample research design, which is considered more appropriate than a random sample design for studying events that have low-occurrence rates in general. For each donor firm in the Yushu earthquake, the authors matched the firm with a non-donor firm in the same industry and with a firm size of within ±30 percent of the total assets in the year prior to the year of the occurrence of the Yushu earthquake. Then, using the Baidu engine, which is the most popular Chinese search engine, the authors captured the online media attention to the donor firms and their disaster relief.

Findings

The authors found that media attention drove corporate disaster relief.

Research limitations/implications

Although the authors highlighted the role of the media as an important stakeholder in influencing corporate disaster relief, the authors did not fully explore the media’s influence. Future research should delve more deeply into the impact of the tenor of media coverage on corporate disaster relief.

Originality/value

This study reveals that the media, a particularly powerful stakeholder, can be a corporate disaster relief driver in China.

Details

Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal, vol. 26 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0965-3562

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Article
Publication date: 16 December 2022

Zuhui Xu, Yan Zhou, Yue Zhang, Yingying Zhang and Zhe Ouyang

Although research on entrepreneurial intentions has outlined the role of family instrumental support, little is known about the impact of family affective support. Building on…

Abstract

Purpose

Although research on entrepreneurial intentions has outlined the role of family instrumental support, little is known about the impact of family affective support. Building on social career cognitive theory, the purpose of this paper is to investigate entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE) as a mediator and work–home segmentation preferences as a moderator in the relationship between affective family–work enrichment and individuals' entrepreneurial intentions.

Design/methodology/approach

Using a sample of 202 business-oriented individuals enrolled in a Master of Business Administration (MBA) program at a large university in the east of China, this study tests the proposed theoretical framework by analyzing the first-stage moderated mediation model.

Findings

Affective family–work enrichment is positively related to entrepreneurial intentions through the mediating effect of ESE. This relationship is significantly stronger for individuals with lower levels of work–home segmentation preferences.

Originality/value

This study determines the relationship between family–work enrichment and entrepreneurial intentions, and enriches antecedents of entrepreneurial intentions from the perspective of family affective support. Moreover, our study provides novel understanding on the influence mechanisms of family–work enrichment on entrepreneurial intentions by exploring the mediating effect of ESE and the moderating effect of work–home segmentation preferences, which has rarely been explored in the extant literature.

Article
Publication date: 25 April 2020

Zhe Ouyang, Yuanyuan Zhang and Xi Hu

The exposure of recruitment discrimination often leads to negative publicity, which can substantially affect organizational attractiveness and the behavioral intentions of…

Abstract

Purpose

The exposure of recruitment discrimination often leads to negative publicity, which can substantially affect organizational attractiveness and the behavioral intentions of stakeholders. Therefore, this study aims to examine the relationship between negative publicity and intention to pursue a job, with organizational attractiveness as a mediator and perceived corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate product quality (CPQ) as two moderators.

Design/methodology/approach

A survey completed by 382 college students in three universities in Nanjing, China, was used to empirically test the research hypotheses. The respondents were asked their intention to apply for a job at Meituan after the exposure of its recruitment discrimination scandal in 2017.

Findings

Perceived negative publicity negatively influences intention to pursue employment via organizational attractiveness. In addition, moderated path analysis indicated that perceived CSR strengthens and perceived CPQ weakens the direct effect of perceived negative publicity on organizational attractiveness and its indirect effect on intention to pursue employment.

Research limitations/implications

Future research should seek to replicate these findings in other contexts and populations, including people who are not new to the job market and to control additional firm-level and contextual variables.

Originality/value

This research confirms a moderated mediation model positioning organizational attractiveness as a mediator of negative publicity's effects on intention to pursue employment and organizational image as a moderator of such effects. This study also contributes to the debate concerning the effect of corporate image by demonstrating opposing effects of its different dimensions amid a discrimination scandal.

Article
Publication date: 9 December 2020

Shengtong Wang, Ouyang Wu, Zhe Li and Bin Wang

Proposing a new type of water-lubricated thrust bearing meets the load-bearing requirements of high-power shaft-less rim driven thrusters.

Abstract

Purpose

Proposing a new type of water-lubricated thrust bearing meets the load-bearing requirements of high-power shaft-less rim driven thrusters.

Design/methodology/approach

The designs were tested by establishing a bearing thermal-fluid-magnetic comprehensive simulation model and developing bearing fluid film force and magnetic simulation. Lubrication performance tests were carried out on the bearing test rig.

Findings

The Halbach array of magnet blocks is able to reach the maximum magnetic force. The material of sheath can help increase the magnetism. The magnetism is able to reduce wear during low-speed and the start-stop phase, while the eddy current loss at high speeds will lead to a decrease in magnetic force. The experiment found that the bearing was more stable at low speeds and would not demagnetize due to the temperature rise, but it is necessary to pay attention to the running stability at high speeds to prevent rubbing and impact.

Originality/value

An innovative combination of hydrodynamic pressure and permanent magnetic repulsion was observed to form a magnetic-liquid double suspension bearing with large bearing capacity.

Peer review

The peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/ILT-08-2020-0295

Details

Industrial Lubrication and Tribology, vol. 73 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0036-8792

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Book part
Publication date: 25 September 2020

Yan Zhu

Friendships, an important form of people’s everyday relationships with others, have been studied by many scholars from different disciplines. However, there is limited research on…

Abstract

Friendships, an important form of people’s everyday relationships with others, have been studied by many scholars from different disciplines. However, there is limited research on friendship in the context of childhood, particularly that of Chinese rural children. This chapter presents findings from an in-depth study on Chinese children’s understandings and experiences of friendships with peers in the context of a rural primary boarding school. Data for this research were collected through an intensive five-month study, using an ethnographic approach, in a rural primary boarding school (given the pseudonym ‘Central Primary School’) in the western area of China in 2016. This chapter discusses parents’ influences on children’s selection of friends, particularly their ‘good’ friends, and their understandings of the functions of making friends in the context of rural China. It unpacks parents’ interventions on children’s friendships by discussing the moralised hierarchical relationship between children and their parents – children are expected to show obedience to parents. Then, it argues that the Confucian-collectivist values construct a relationship between a child’s individual achievement and their family’s collective good, which makes friendship not only an individual issue but also a collective one too.

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Bringing Children Back into the Family: Relationality, Connectedness and Home
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-83867-197-6

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Article
Publication date: 14 June 2011

Guo Cai‐fen and Jing Ran‐zhe

The purpose of this paper is to apply the proportional integral (PI) control algorithm in discrete manufacturing enterprises to maintain lower and steadier work in progress so as…

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to apply the proportional integral (PI) control algorithm in discrete manufacturing enterprises to maintain lower and steadier work in progress so as to improve on‐time delivery.

Design/methodology/approach

A sensitivity constrained optimization model is designed on the frequency domain, whose optimum algebraic solutions are then obtained easily. Two controllers, a backlog controller and an input‐rate controller, are devised, which correspond to the integral control and the proportional control of PI controllers, respectively. Interacting with each other, these controllers have made the engineering implementation of PI controllers a reality.

Findings

Simulation is carried out in certain motorcycle production lines. Results confirm that PI controllers also possess good control effects in the discrete manufacturing industry, as well as in the process industry.

Research limitations/implications

A continued departure from the nominal may happen repeatedly if the root causes of changing are not detected and identified. Moreover, PI controllers can mask process defects, failures, and drifts, and this may lead to eventual catastrophic failures. So, statistical process control should be utilized in PI controlled processes to detect significant changes for long‐term process improvement.

Practical implications

PI controllers possess potential in discrete enterprises.

Originality/value

PI controllers are tried for process improvement in discrete manufacturing enterprises.

Details

Kybernetes, vol. 40 no. 5/6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0368-492X

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Article
Publication date: 2 December 2020

Zhe Zhang, Limin Jia and Yong Qin

This paper aims to investigate the reliability, availability, maintenance and safety analysis method for railway network operation.

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Abstract

Purpose

This paper aims to investigate the reliability, availability, maintenance and safety analysis method for railway network operation.

Design/methodology/approach

The reliability of the railway network is proposed based on the accident frequency and the topology of the railway network. Network efficiency and capacity are proposed to evaluate the availability of the railway network. The maintenance of the railway network is analyzed from the perspective of accident recovery time. The safety index of the railway network is proposed to measure the safety of railway stations and sections and the K-means method is proposed to find the safety critical stations and sections. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed method is illustrated through a real-world case study.

Findings

The case study shows that the proposed model can produce a big-picture averaged view of the network-wide safety level and help us identify the safety critical stations and sections by considering both the expected reduction of network efficiency and capacity.

Practical implications

The potential application of the proposed model is to help the safety managers determine the investments in safety management of each section and station and then increase the safety and robustness of railway network operation.

Originality/value

The safety analysis of the railway network should consider the reliability, availability and maintenance of the railway network. In this paper, the reliability of the railway network is proposed based on the accident frequency and the topology of the railway network. Network efficiency and capacity are proposed to evaluate the availability of the railway network. The maintenance of the railway network is analyzed from the perspective of recovery time. Finally, the safety index of the railway network is proposed to analyze the safety critical stations and sections.

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Smart and Resilient Transportation, vol. 3 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2632-0487

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Article
Publication date: 21 May 2024

Zhe Dai, Yazhen Gong, Shashi Kant and Guodong Ma

This article aims to explore the impact of climate disasters on small-scale farmers’ willingness to cooperate and explore the mediating effect of social capital.

Abstract

Purpose

This article aims to explore the impact of climate disasters on small-scale farmers’ willingness to cooperate and explore the mediating effect of social capital.

Design/methodology/approach

The study investigates farmers’ willingness to cooperate through a framed field approach and surveys the information of individuals and villages, including climate disasters and social capital, using a structured questionnaire from rural communities in Jiangxi and Sichuan, China.

Findings

The results show that climate disasters and social capital are significant and positive determinants of farmers’ willingness to cooperate. In specific types of climate disasters, drought is positively associated with farmers’ cooperation willingness. Moreover, the mediation effect of drought on farmers’ willingness to cooperate through social capital has been demonstrated to be significant although negative, whereas the mediation effect of flood on farmers’ willingness to cooperate through social capital is significant and positive.

Originality/value

First, given the limited studies focusing on the impact of climate disasters on small-scale farmers’ willingness to cooperate, the authors complement the existing literature through a framed field experiment approach by designing a scenario that every farmer may encounter in their production activities. Second, the study figures out the roles of drought and flood as different kinds of climate disasters in farmers’ decision-making of cooperation and sheds light on the positive impact of climate disasters on small-scale farmers. Finally, this paper provides empirical evidence of social capital as a potential channel through which climate disasters could possibly affect farmers’ willingness to cooperate.

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China Agricultural Economic Review, vol. 16 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1756-137X

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Chinese Social Media
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-83909-136-0

Article
Publication date: 6 June 2008

Hu Shaolin, Sun Guoji, Ouyang Huajiang and Chen Rushan

The purpose of this paper is to present research in detecting and identifying abrupt faults in controlled auto‐regressive (CAR) processes.

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to present research in detecting and identifying abrupt faults in controlled auto‐regressive (CAR) processes.

Design/methodology/approach

Model‐based approach is adopted in this paper. Two series of fault‐tolerant iterative estimators are set up to estimate online the coefficients in a CAR process. Based on these fault‐tolerant estimators, the detailed detecting and identifying algorithms are obtained for not only the pulse‐type faults but also the step‐type faults in CAR process.

Findings

This paper illustrates the useful information that can be obtained from residuals and that can be used to detect pulse‐type faults as well as step‐type faults. A fault‐tolerant recursive estimator for the coefficients of the CAR process is put forward. Using a simple transformation from step‐ to pulse‐type faults, all kinds of diagnosis methods to detect and identify step‐type faults can be used.

Research limitations/implications

Fault‐tolerant estimators and fault detection and identification algorithms are aimed at abrupt faults in CAR processes.

Practical implications

Most of the algorithms given in this paper can be used in many different fields, such as process monitoring, safety control and change detection, etc.

Originality/value

This paper contributes to research of abrupt faults and abrupt changes in a CAR process and emphasizes identification of magnitudes of abrupt faults. The fault‐tolerant estimators are effective not only to detect faults but also to identify safely the coefficients CAR model.

Details

International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics, vol. 1 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1756-378X

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