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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…
Qingshan Zhang, Xiang Li
International Engineering Consortium predicted that cellular manufacturing would become the main production model of manufacturing enterprises in the future. Based on elaborating the basic concepts, this paper proposes organizational forms, autonomous managem…
Ziqin Ma, Peng Lu, Zhigang Yang, Yongcai Sun, Guangwei Qi
With the rapid development of Chinese economic, enterprise cost control and management of enterprise face enormous challenges. Traditional cost control and management are almost dominated by after-costing in mainland. Prior-cost estimation is generally based…
Murad Al-Shibli
Over the last two years the world has witnessed a financial tsunami that rocked the global financial systems. This paper presents the fundamental principle of conservation of physical money of the global financial system that guarantees its equilibrium and st…
Shianghau Wu, Jiannjong Guo
Clinical decision- making needs available information to be the guidance for physicians. Nowadays, data mining method is applied in medical research in order to analyze large volume of medical data. This study attempts to use data mining method to analyze the…
Shuliang Wang, Jingru Tian, Shanshan Zou
Service exists in the service provider and the service receiver. They can produce the contractual relationship which is value and trust mutually. People can obtain the different intension of service with different knowledge background and technique. In this p…
Jing-Xin Zhou, Tao Lu
Unexpected public emergency events have occurred frequently in recent years. How to deal with these events quickly and efficiently has become an important issue. First, the paper describes the importance of information in scene management of unexpected public…
Tao Li, Min Li
The problem of information overload in management field has been receiving increasing attention, while there are less empirical researches now. This paper proposes a conceptual model and some operational variables, in which information overload is as an inter…
Shihong Zeng, Shuai Zhang
After 30 years of discussion and research, the academic community has established a complete theoretical system of real options and provided an excellent framework for the use of real options theory in the investment appraisal of high-tech projects. An option…
Yong Liu, Bingxin Liu
Cluster projects are projects of large-scale or with huge investment, such as Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and Shanghai 2010 Expo. A lot of on-site management works are involved in the process of cluster project management, especially the treatment of sudden ac…
Dong Yang
The knowledge acquisition and exploitation are becoming more and more for local vendors in offshore outsourcing cooperation. In the process of product innovation, internal knowledge sharing (IKS), external knowledge acquisition (EKA) and their interactive rel…
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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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