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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…
Wei Shan, Hengwen Liu, Yichao Pan, Hengqing Tong
A quantitative method to evaluate social risk using structural equation model (SEM) is developed. Evaluation of social risk is the essential step in early warning of social risk. On the basic of the society stability, a scientific and applicable index system…
Yuhong Li, Zhongwen Chen, Xiaoyin Wang
In open economy, development of foreign trade greatly impacts on GDP growth. Adapting simple regression for researching the relationship between foreign trade including total export and total import and GDP growth of Jiangxi province, with the collected 30-ye…
Hengqing Tong, Yang Ye, Yichao Pan, Shudan Lu, Jie Zhang
Evaluation the core competence reasonably plays an important role in the insurance company, it is related to whether the insurance can maintain a stable long-term competitive advantage or not, and whether obtain a stable long-term excess profits or not. In th…
Chandragiri Narashimhamurthy Vijeyamurthy, Ramasamy Panneerselvam
This paper discusses the comparison of two different heuristics for total covering problem. The total covering problem is a facility location problem in which the objective is to identify the minimum number of sites among the potential sites to locate facilit…
Muthuswamy Shanmugaraja, Muthusamy Nataraj, Nallasamy Gunasekaran
Purpose – This paper describes a model for Customer care management in an automotive service industry. Design/ methodology/approach – Customer care management (CCM) model is developed using TQM techniques, Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and Six Sigma. The…
Hoang Linh Nguyen, Cher-Min Fong, Cheng-Ter Ho
This paper uses Saaty’s Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) to formulate the strategy framework for Vietnam’s State Securities Commission (SSC). In the first step, a questionnaire was designed to find Key Success Factors (KSFs) of the strategy of Taiwan Financ…
Lanre Olu-Adeyemi, Tomola Marshal Obamuyi
The paper focuses on the conspiratorial relationship between Accounting Officers and Political Appointees in Nigeria and how this merge has affected public accountability. The conspiratorial relationship has led to flagrant and deliberate abuse of best practi…
Kazuhiro Ohnishi
This paper considers a two-period mixed market model in which a state-owned firm and a labor-managed firm are allowed to hold inventories as a strategic device. The paper then shows that the equilibrium in the second period occurs at the Stackelberg point whe…
Bernhard Hirsch, Anne Paefgen, Sven Schaier
This paper focuses on the design of management reports. Based on theoretical considerations concerning the personal information demand, hypotheses were developed and tested in a field study in German major enterprises. The findings from the field study show a…
Conceicao Rego, Antonio Caleiro
Many studies, provided by diverse authors and institutions, demonstrate that, at a territorial level, development is directly related to the level of education and R & D. Territories with higher development levels are, generally, those that have a higher leve…
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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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