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Call for papersThe 2026 special issue on Climate & Health is open for submissions.Learn more
All manuscripts must be prepared in English and are subject to a rigorous and fair peer-review process. Accepted papers will appear online within 3 weeks followed by printed in hard copy. The journal publishes the highest quality, original papers included but not limited to the fields:
Suzy Shrem Cohen, Rami Yosef
This article examines how the use of bonds to finance municipal activities affects the efficiency of municipalities. We posit that the sale of municipal bonds affects cities directly by reducing their financing expenses and indirectly by improving their opera…
Jian Zhang, Jinlong Cai, Zhongchen He, Chuan Pu, Guizhong Tang
Objective: To analyze the status and differences of health resources allocation in undeveloped areas of Chongqing, China, and to provide empirical evidence for health planning and further optimization of health resources allocation. Methods: The comprehensive…
Jing Shi
This paper investigates a vertical supply chain consisting of an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and a contract manufacturer, who performs production function for the OEM. The contract manufacturer decides whether to encroach the OEM’s market and build…
Bahaudin G. Mujtaba, Tipakorn Senathip
Downsizing or laying off employees is usually the strategically planned elimination of large numbers of personnel or workforce to enhance organizational effectiveness and economic outlook. Downsizing has some temporary or immediate advantages such as boosting…
Daniel E. Meeroff, P. D. Scarlatos, Frederick Bloetscher, Lanette Sobel
The hospitality sector is becoming keenly aware of the benefits associated with implementing sustainability initiatives and optimizing its operations to encourage the tourism industry to conserve and protect natural resources, while at the same time maintaini…
Qian Liu, Haiying Wei
Although service rituals are widely used in service practice, theory researches on them have not received enough attention. Service rituals are a series of process-based, repeatable, symbolic actions that occur during the service contact process and are usual…
Phay Som
The purpose of this study was to determine good governance for public management in Cambodia with a focus in all Ministries. Specifically, this study sought to: 1) identify factors that might have effect on good governance based on literature reviews, 2) dete…
Xiaodong Li
The research on executive compensation has always been a hot topic in the East and West. Based on the literature published in Chinese and English academic journals from 2015 to 2017, this paper analyzes the research status of executive compensation in the Eas…
Chaohua Ma
The vigorous development of China’s economy and the rapid growth of foreign trade are inseparable from the huge energy consumption. In this paper, the decomposition analysis method is used to decompose the energy consumption growth of 285 prefecture-level and…
Chunfeng Li, Peng Ju
Under the background of cultural and tourism integration, this paper sorts out the coupling and coordination mechanism of cultural and creative industries and tourism industries, and then takes Shenzhen as the research area to explore the coupling and coordin…
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All manuscripts must be prepared in English and are subject to a rigorous and fair peer-review process. Accepted papers will appear online within 3 weeks followed by printed in hard copy. The journal publishes the highest quality, original papers included but not limited to the fields: All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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Manuscripts must be original and not under consideration elsewhere. Submit in Microsoft Word or LaTeX with figures at 300 dpi minimum. Structure research articles as Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, and References.
Use the journal's numbered (Vancouver) reference style. Cite sources consecutively in the order they appear, and ensure every reference is complete and retrievable.
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