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American Journal of Industrial and Business Management (AJIBM) is an international journal dedicated to publishing high quality, original papers, and research developments in theories and applications in all areas of industrial and business management. AJIBM covers the following topics:
Chauntelle Ong Yi Lin, Rashad Yazdanifard
Marketing is part of our daily lives; however, it has become much more sophisticated. With the advanced technology, nowadays Internet marketing is one of the most powerful marketing channel s . Google has recently come up with a new algorithm, hummingbird, fo…
Zilong Fang, Pengju Li
The growth of the network data is beyond the processing capacity of the existing IT infrastructure. At the same time, “ big data ” is also a major influence on consumer ’ s behavior. C2C e-commerce consumption pattern is experiencing a vigorous development ti…
Guangxing Wei, Yaxian Yin
This paper develops the basic model of the buy-back contract by introducing the fairness to investigate how the dominant supplier decides the wholesale price, whether the buy-back contract can achieve coordination and how the fairness influences the wholesale…
Bryan Boudreau-Trudel, Kazimierz Zaras, Sylvie Nadeau, Isabelle Deschamps
In this era of increased competition and rapid change, mining companies must remain attentive to all opportunities to gain an advantage over competitors. Acquisition of innovative equipment is often viewed as a way of decreasing operating costs, for example ,…
José Crespo de Carvalho, João Vilas-Boas, Henrique O’ Neill
Logistics and supply chain management is an area that evolved deeply in the past years, integrating developments of other areas of knowledge, both entrepreneurial and general. I n this paper, a perspective of the evolution of logistics and supply chain manage…
Sussanna Shagvaliyeva, Rashad Yazdanifard
Nowadays, flexible working hours are becoming important to the workplaces. A lot of organizations offer flexible working hours to employees due to the benefits that flexibility gives to both employee and employer. Greater employee productivity and higher orga…
Ming Piao
When to enter the first learning alliance has strategic implications for firms’ long term success. However, research on timing of the first learning alliance is rare. As one of the few empirical studies on this issue, this paper aims to fill the gap by asking…
Brajesh Kumar Tiwari
The goal of a bank merger is to increase the bank ’ s value in one way or another. The days of liberalization and globalization are in and there is a spate of mergers and acquisition which is sweeping the corporate world. Consolidation in the banking sector s…
Jamel Choukir, Mouna Baccour Hentati
The entrepreneurship option was launched in Tunisia nearly one decade ago. The firm creation process seemed to be initiated especially to absorb the increasing number of undergraduates and graduates. Therefore, the main aim of the present research is to highl…
Qing Wang, Yuanchun Huang, Yuelei He, Zhigang Liu, Hua Hu, Aiqin Sun
This paper focuses on the problem about how to efficiently process the emergency of rail transit and guarantee the lowest accident loss in a short period of time, which is the urban rail transit management policy that makers are faced with, and which develops…
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