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IB, a quarterly journal, is dedicated to the latest advancements of Internet and Business, and the intersection of Economics with business applications. The goal of this journal is to publish cutting edge research and promote the research work in these fast moving areas. All manuscripts submitted to IB must be previou…
Xidong Deng, Lingyan He
With the rapid development of biotechnology, ethical issues of scientific activities are more and more serious, while the ethical review as the main means of suppressing research ethics problems, it also has many problems in the process of practice. This arti…
Guiliang Tian, Huixiangzi Zheng
April 16, 2010, China ’s first four Index Future contracts have been listed for trading in the stock exchange. Stock index futures are the world's fastest growing financial derivative products currently, and the research of them is of significance to the deve…
Yujuan Zhao
In this paper, we have tested the relationship between the stock returns, corporate performance and investment risks with the sample of listed companies in the agricultural, construction and financial industries in the A-share stock market. Descriptive statis…
Jihong Zeng, John Zhang
Lean methodologies are increasingly deployed by healthcare providers to improve billing and collection process in revenue cycle management. Measurement on key performance metrics generates large amount of data. Traditional tabular and spreadsheet form analyti…
Min Li, Yue-ying Ren, Zhu Zhu
Based on consumer’s perspective, according to Microsoft Usability Guidelines (MUG), evaluation system of independent-sales B 2C fashion website usability was established . Six independent-sales B 2C fashion websites were selected to be tested. The questionnai…
Huabo Zhu, Jiafu Tang, Jun Gong
A general multi-stage queuing system model with patients’ feedback flow is developed to address the behavior of patients’ flow in an Outpatient Department (OD) in a hospital. The whole process includes registration, diagnosis, chemical examination, payment, a…
Zhengzheng Xu, Jiafu Tang
This paper studies the vehicle scheduling problem in cities for the pickup and delivery service. Considering customer point as vehicle collaboration point, we propose a two-stage algorithm based on customer point collaboration through the theory of optimizati…
Zhizhi Huang, Yue Zhuang, Chao Kong
Nowadays, the rapid development of technology research and the trend of increasingly fierce competition change the market economy organization form of enterprise. In order to survive and develop, many companies have started to cooperate with each other. As th…
Xingang Wang
This article introduces portfolio selection model proposed by Markowitz in 1952, as well as research of model promoted continually by subsequent researchers, and then introduces a more classic pricing model CAPM in stock market, and discusses difficulties in…
Xingang Wang, Shangzhi Yue
The thesis analy z es the role of transform risks caused by innovation tools, the extent to which financial innovation tools have an influence on risks of financial system, the extent to which financial innovation has an influence on financial statement and m…
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IB, a quarterly journal, is dedicated to the latest advancements of Internet and Business, and the intersection of Economics with business applications. The goal of this journal is to publish cutting edge research and promote the research work in these fast moving areas. All manuscripts submitted to IB must be previou… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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