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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…
Xiaoning LV, Yang LIU
This paper applies principal-agent theory to research into the incentive compatibility problems of the independent directors (IDs). The traditional fixed-pay system could preserve the independence of IDs, however, lacking of in-centives, the performance-relat…
Xiaoyan LIU, Xin WEI
This paper mainly studies on the relationships between the contents of staff psychological contract, job satisfaction level and occupation satisfaction level by surveying, combining research methods of literature, academic and empirical research. The research…
Yu CHEN
This paper studied the knowledge staff’s career commitment factor structure. The datas from 123 knowledge employees were examined by factor analysis, descriptive analysis and so on. The results showed: a)The career commitment of knowledge staff consists of fo…
Houming FAN, Lihong SHI, Tong ZHAO, Guosong DONG, Pingquan GAO, Hanyu ZHANG
With the influx of world well-known management consulting enterprises after China’s joining WTO and the weakness of Chinese management consulting enterprises, it has become an urgent issue for the local enterprises on how to survive and develop under such int…
Xueying TIAN
Under the circumstances of globalization, collaboration between organizations becomes an important topic in the field of strategy management. With an increase of nonprofit organization in scale and number, it has been a new choice that enterprise builds colla…
Cuixiao FU, Xingsan QIAN
With the development of network technology and the theory of mass customization for manufacturing, the knowledge production industry was impacted. On the driving of modern knowledge production characteristics and the drawing of the environment demand, a new k…
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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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