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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…
Tom Connor
It is the purpose of this article to suggest a structured approach to internal resource audit, which, whilst of necessity general-purpose in design, would be capable of adaptation to particular company cases. Consequently this paper does not aim at theory dev…
Kaiji Liao, Huihui Xiong
Based on social network perspective, we developed a model about the knowledge sharing of communities of practice (CoPs), analyzed the knowledge sharing of CoPs from the view of the network density, network centrality, network structure. And we found out that…
Chen Yu
Purpose: the purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of career values and perceived organizational support on career success and to examine what career values are. Design/Methodology: survey data were collected from a sample of 151 Chinese knowle…
Vesa Puhakka, Sakari Sipola
In this paper we conduct a review on the studies on firm growth and suggest some criticism towards growth research so far. We address that it could be time to approach firm growth from processual and cross-disciplinary starting point. Based on this assumption…
Tibin Liu, Jiao Lu, Yingjin Lu
The problems of e-commerce investment have been a chronic painful agony, due to its large investment, low profits and long payback periods, etc. In this work, we deeply study e-commerce profits, analyze the investment patterns and establish investment recover…
Antonio Luigi Paolilli, Fabio Pollice
In the last few decades we have witnessed a marked process of economic globalization (that is the growing interrelation and integration of the economic systems of the whole world), accompanied and favoured by what is called financialization (whose definition…
Ken-Ichiro Oohama, Yoshihiro Asai
Economic theory traditionally supports the viewpoint that government ownership is inefficient and that privatization invariably leads to efficiency improvements. However, there is often frequent opposition to privatization activity because it is difficult to…
Jiangping Wan, Hui Zhang
The influencing factors on Web 3D User Experience are studied for online pavilion of Shanghai World Expo with grounded theory method. We discover the four influencing factors as follow: web site quality, external environmental factor, user internal factor and…
Lida Tafaghodi Khajavi, Seyed-Mohammad Seyed-Hosseini, Ahmad Makui
In this study, the integrated forward/reverse logistics network is investigated, and a capacitated multi-stage logistics network design is proposed by formulating a generalized logistics network problem into a bi-objective mixed-integer programming model (MIP…
Abdullah Al Rubaish, Lade Wosornu, Sada Nand Dwivedi
The regular evaluation of ongoing activities under academic programs is required evidence towards academic development. Indeed, such evaluations generally involve data collection on a Likert type item as one (strongly disagree) to five (strongly agree). While…
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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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