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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…
Yang Hu, Xinrong Yang
In 21st century, the enterprise competition is a comprehensive competition based on talent, capital, technology and energy. Especially, among all these elements, talent is the most important one. How to culture and set up the enterprise's own personnel traini…
Yang Wang
Logistics Industry is regarded as the artery and basal industry of country economic development. Its degree of the development is one of the symbols of modernization and comprehensive national strength, and is described as the accelerator on promoting economi…
Jingxian Chen, Jianxin Lu
Considering the supply chain consists of one supplier and two retailers, we construct the system’s dynamic models which face stochastic demand in the case of non-lateral transshipment (NLT), unidirectional lateral transshipment (ULT) and bidirectional lateral…
Zhixiong Xiao, Yuanjian Qin
The modern service industry is an important force of promoting economic growth and social sustainable development. By analyzing the importance of modern service industry to the construction of “Two-oriented Society” and the advantages and disadvantages of the…
Janaina Macke, Rolando Vargas Vallejos, Eduardo Dalpiccoli Toss
This paper presents the development process of an inter-organizational social capital survey to evaluate collaborative networks. The survey instrument construction was based on three main sources. The first one, was a deep literature research that covered soc…
Renata C. Tourinho, Perambur S. Neelakanta
Time-evolution and hence, forecasting the growth profiles of business-centric technoeconomics are ascertained. As an example, the vast telecommunication (telco)-specific business is considered as a complex enterprise depicting a cyberspace of digital ecology…
Huan Cao, Yongjian Li
The paper analyzes the limitation of the method to study the competencies. The differences between competencies of knowledge workers exist in the “therbligs” used in information process. Based on 191 questionnaires, advance the 9 common mental operations: met…
Takashi Mihara
Newcomb’s problem is a game between two players, one of who has an ability to predict the future: let Bob have an ability to predict Alice’s will. Now, Bob prepares two boxes, Box1 and Box2, and Alice can select either Box2 or both boxes. Box1 contains $1. Bo…
Ren-Jung Chang, Yu-Tsang Hsieh, Eric Chang
A systematic framework for the maintenance and service of equipment is developed and proposed. The framework consists of a system of equipment failure analysis, methods, process, and activities, and a procedure in maintenance and service. With axiomatic desig…
P. E. Petrakis
This article is about the role of entrepreneurial perception of time and risk vis à vis structural change and growth. Entrepreneurship is a basic constituent element of social capital which in turn is a productive lubricant of the growth process. Different st…
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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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