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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…
Alexander Rannacher, Robert Stranzenbach, Flavius Sturm, Susanne Mütze-Niewöhner, Christopher M. Schlick
This paper presents an approach to develop a system dynamics model for the evaluation of the productivity of knowledge-intensive services. This model is based on the results of a case study as well as on literature research. At first, this paper gives a short…
Jiangyu Li, Haibo Yu
In mature marketing, general perception towards AIDA is that most enterprises will lay emphasis directly on value proposition of a product or services, and encourage clients going to each step of AIDA layers, finally to increase the total number of final step…
Guodong Liu, Xiuli Tang
With the increasing of construction of logistics parks, it is essential for commercial real estate project to study on risk decision to avoid redundant and blind construction. Based on risk essence, the paper analyses the attitude of investment decision-maker…
Andreas Petz, Sönke Duckwitz, Susanne Mütze-Niewöhner, Christopher M. Schlick
Although services play a crucial role in developed countries, service productivity management is not as much researched as productivity management in production systems. Especially complex, knowledge intensive service systems have specific characteristics tha…
Yuting Qiu, Yiyang Fan
The rise of emerging markets is restructuring the global economic and social landscape. It requires a new paradigm of global innovation strategy to meet this challenge. After reviewing possible trends in today’s world, it is suggested that the objective of in…
Weiwei Wu, Yexin Zhu, Chunyan Zhang
The development of the ice-snow tourism needs a scientific and effective method to assess the value of ice-snow tourism resource and its realization degree effectively and reasonability. Based on the analysis of expectation value and realization value of ice-…
Wenlin Bai
Much research has been done on evaluating the performance of e-government in China , but comprehensive pictures of research done on evaluation of performance of e-government can hardly be found in the Chinese literature. Besides, there are few theories to sup…
Zefang Liao, Jianpeng Zhang, Bing Li
Based on the intertemporal theoretical framework of Gourinchas and Rey ( 2005), using Vector Error Correction Model and time-varying Space State Model, the paper estimates the return and factors of China ’s net foreign assets. The results show that significan…
Olaf Gaus, Bernd Neutschel, Matthias G. Raith, Sándor Vajna
Design is communication. In a traditional sense of design theory this idea is based on a product related perspective, stating that good design must speak a language that is understood by the recipient. The aesthetics of the design catches his interest and ope…
Lan Fu
The purpose of this essay is to design a framework of a performance evaluation system which is subject to the characteristics of China technology enterprises. It based on the analyzing the principles and significance of the performance evaluation system of te…
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