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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:
Jiaye Huang
This paper makes multi-dimensional big data analysis on the membership data of a well-known women’s bag fashion brand in China. We use a combination of data cleaning, data visualization, data classification, correlation analysis and data prediction. Based on…
Xingcun Hu, Xiaohui Sun
Based on the data of A-share listed companies from 1996 to 2016, the paper uses the panel double fixed model to study the impact of the company’s transition to a larger proportion of independent directors on corporate innovation behavior. It is concluded that…
Binbin He
The industrial cluster brand is the carrier of the regional economic development. The Zhejiang economy is characterized by industrial clusters. At the same time of rapid economic development, some cluster brands featuring local industries have emerged. This p…
Michael Barth, Oliver Baldus
While traditional Discount IP Management focuses on the economic management of a large number of patents, novel Lean IP Management focuses on a handful of valuable ones. Discount IP Management primarily faces the question of how a high number of patents can b…
Ding Chen, 1 1, 1 1, Umar Muhammad Gummi, 1 1, Abdulhamid Sillah Umar
The long established link between food and oil prices in the global market is still uncertain in cross-country, regional and domestic analyses. In this paper, we review theoretical and empirical submissions on the nexus between food and oil market. Qualitativ…
Mohammed Saud Alzahrani
This study sought mainly to examine the effect of Emotional intelligence (EI) and readiness for organizational change (RFC). Additionally, the study sought to explore the association between EI, RFC and demographic variables. The data were collected from empl…
Mostafa Sargolzaei, Mohammad Mahdi Bahrololoum
Considering the effect of inflation on financial development and economic growth, in this paper we investigate the role of inflation in the effect of financial development on the economic growth in OPEC economies for the period of 1970 to 2015. For this purpo…
Ning Kang
Cross-boundary, which is the key word of IT industry in 2010, swept down from upstream industries to downstream terminals, PC, software, internet… no exception in all areas. With the combination of mobile and internet, a revolutionary change has been brought…
Shanta R. Yapa, R. Senathiraja, Jurgen Poesche, Ilkka Kauranen
Despite its popularity as a strategy to accelerate innovations there is evidence that open innovation does not always increase innovation performance. Extant literature provides inconsistent and inconclusive arguments in respect of the relationship between op…
Minjing Xu
With the development of the knowledge economy society, the key of the enterprise success lies in the cultivation and exploration of talents. The traditional enterprise employee development training model fails to meet the efficient knowledge sharing and trans…
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