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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…
Lawrence Southwick
The purpose of this paper is to determine whether larger or smaller municipalities are more efficient in their levels of overhead costs. The operative measure is per capita annual costs for these services. In addition, the issue of market structure as a facto…
Zhi Gao, Jinfu Ye, Yi Huang
Enterprise quality culture is an important part of corporate culture, but it is often overlooked by enterprise, thus restricting quality level and quality image improvement to a large extent. In this paper, the construction of enterprise quality culture is de…
Yi Huang, Jinfu Ye, Zhi Gao
Based on the knowledge potential, we analyze the stability of team. Using Logistic rule simulation knowledge of alliance competition process, we draw stable solution of knowledge shift in the team; through the system MATLAB simulation, it shows that stability…
Nayeli Manzano, Luis Rivas, George Bonilla
This work describes consumer behavior models that present sustainable empirical evidence on consumer behavior with social marketing applications given in the state of art. For this research, the most important and relevant databases were consulted in order to…
Vahid Nabavi, Majid Azizi, Nemat Allah Mohebbi
In cycle of attraction and keeping the customers, fulfilling the customer satisfaction via identifying of their needs is very important. So, identifying the amount of customer satisfaction and informed of the field of strength and weakness in this regard, hel…
Yutaka Kurihara, Kei Tomimura
This article reports on the results of an empirical examination of whether consumption in the United States and Japan is too much or too little relative to productivity in these countries (1993-2011). Findings reveal some clear and common characteristics of b…
Li Luo, Hongyan Yang, Xuhui Li
Social security data management is an important topic both in application of information management and in social security management. In the Web 2.0 era, more and more human information and healthcare information is released to the Internet through various a…
Hasan Hosseini-Nasab, Leila Emami
The single row facility layout problem (SRFLP) is an important combinatorial optimization problem where a given set of facilities have to be arranged in a single row to minimize the weighted sum of the distances between all pairs of facil-ities. In this paper…
Donghong Ding, Haiyan Lu, Yi Song, Qing Lu
There is a growing concern about the relationship of servant leadership and employee loyalty recent years, but few are focusing on the intervening mechanisms between them. Especially in China, research on such mediating variables is nearly blank. In this pape…
Biao Luo, Jie-Jie Yu, Hong-Mei Ji
Due to the increasingly complex business environment and the principal-agent relationship, the enterprise group should establish a control system to prevent agency risk. Besides traditional system control, the parent company tends to adopt an interactive cont…
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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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