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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…
Zhongguo Shi, Jing Li
Since 1980s, China has made great performance at economic growth, and greatly improved its innovation level. As one of the most important aspect of emerging technology industry, biotechnology industry has also gotten great development. And, as the most import…
Jeaneth Johansson, Malin Malmström, Diana Chroneer, Maria Ek Styven, Anne Engström, Birgitta Bergvall-Kåreborn
This paper aims to enhance the knowledge of business models in the mobile service sector by exploring their key mechanisms and underlying components. By combining the business model literature with empirical interview-based case studies of 69 business models…
Wei Zhuo, Xiujuan Zhao, Zhou Zhou, Shouyang Wang
Based on 1 minute high frequency data, this paper constructs no-arbitrage band for CSI300 index futures, and empirically studies the futures-spot arbitrage. Furthermore, the mean reversion and its time effect are analyzed by ADF model for the first time in Ch…
Haiqing Hu, Jianyuan Yan
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) realizes the transformation from product to Service through put the software into “clouds”. SaaS supply chain is composed of a SaaS ISV (Independent Software Vender) who sells from internet channel and a SaaS dealer. According to…
Bo Zhao, Junguang Qu
This paper reconstructed the framework of distribution of income and expenditure for the purpose of discussion of forms about social expenditure cycle driven by human cultural elements from new view. Then analyzed the relations between spiritual expenditure g…
Xiaoping Xu
Since 1993, American trade deficit with China is expanding and the gap is becoming increasingly bigger. The widening bilateral trade imbalance has caused growing concerns. This paper, by using empirical method and adjusting the data of trade from 1989 to 2005…
Rich C. Lee
Monitoring the system resources against numerous virtual machines in a cloud computing environment is a challenging task to system administrators. They rely on the system management tools to collect and reveal the utilization of various performance counters o…
Hong Wang, Shuntian Yao, Sanxi Li
In this paper we consider the high-tech equipment import market in a developing country. We discuss the behaviors of the foreign supplier, the domestic user, the new domestic supplier, and the role that the government can play in such a bi-oligopoly market. W…
Liang Xu, Shankun Wang
Based on the review of the relevant researches on logistics capability in domestic and oversea, this paper analyses theories of chain store logistics capability and summarizes the structure of the chain store logistics capability. It puts forward that chain s…
Abdullah Al Rubaish, Lade Wosornu, Sada Nand Dwivedi
Academic institutions preparing for quality and academic accreditation adopt a range of evaluations. Each of such evaluations involves closed items, a mixture of individual items on various aspects, followed by global item which is the overall satisfaction of…
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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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