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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:
Huifen Wang, Haiyan Fang, Qiuhong Tang
For this paper, we’d like to explore the role of the technical features on the users’ continuous intention to share contents in the social commerce platform based on social cognition theory. The social commerce is an emerging e-commerce platform along with th…
Chengcheng Zhang
As mergers and acquisitions (M&A) become more and more frequent around the world, the phenomenon of the extreme premium in mergers and acquisitions has begun to expose to the public and attract the widespread attention of scholars. In particular, in recent ye…
Xianzan Yin
This paper studies the influence of government subsidies and financing structure on corporate R&D investments by using the empirical data of Chinese enterprises listed in SME board. The study finds that: 1) Internal financing has the greatest effect on R&D in…
Lihong Lai
Based on the new development of the transformational leadership theory, namely differentiated transformational leadership, this paper sorts out the related concepts, structures and measurements of individual-focused transformational leadership and team-focuse…
Sujuan Zhang
This paper discusses the introduction of MOOC resources into the teaching of information literacy education, and designs the teaching practice of information literacy education course under the participation of MOOC with the cross mode of the relationship bet…
Lixia Zhang
The vulnerability evaluation index system of Tianjin urban economic system was established; entropy method was used to determine the weight of each evaluation index. Then, the vulnerability of Tianjin urban economic system was measured from the perspectives o…
Carlo Alessandro Sirianni, Pierpaolo Singer, Parisa Sabbagh
The primary purpose of this study is to use the principles of service science as a foundation approach to provide a path for innovation and transformation service business models (SBMs) through the power of cloud technology within the service ecosystem. In ad…
Aurelio Tommasetti, Valerio Antonelli, Raffaele D’Alessio, Carlo Torre
The work, in fact, starting from the study conducted by some scholars, aims to understand how the strategic decisions of the company management affect the company’s performance and, ultimately, the motivation of the employees. More specifically, the paper see…
Marco Pellicano, Mario Calabrese, Francesca Loia, Gennaro Maione
Starting from the definition of smart cities, characterized by flexible information processes, innovation facilitation mechanisms, smart and sustainable solutions and platforms, the new urban scenario highlights the creation of value as the core purpose and t…
Aurelio Tommasetti, Massimiliano Vesci, Mara Grimaldi, Antonella Monda
Purpose: The work analyzes the concept of emergence according to ecosystems view. Therefore, the study proposes an integrated framework based on the combination of Viable Systems Approach (VSA) and Service-Dominant logic (S-D logic). The concept of service ec…
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