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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:
Martijn van Ooijen, Antonie van Nistelrooij, Marcel Veenswijk
This paper illuminates the way multiple narratives concerning urgency for change dynamically interact on different levels and influence change processes in healthcare organizations. It explores the processes of sensemaking and opposing urgency narratives duri…
Pannee Suanpang, Nawanun Srisuksai, Panicha Tansutichon
“Voluntourism” or volunteer tourism is a new dimension of tourism that implies that tourists offer their services or affords to change some aspect of society for a better place to live and receive value from their tourism experience. The objective of this pap…
Dan Wang, Feixian Liu
Taking the report data of 10 listed dairy companies in China in 2016 as the research sample, it is found that the disclosure subject of New Hope Group is New Hope Liuhe Co., Ltd. and its subsidiaries, and it is considered that its report hardly involves dairy…
Ruhe Xie, Sisi Han, Yuhan Jiang, Zhongren Peng
High efficient circulation of fresh agricultural products plays a significant role in national new urbanization construction. To enhance the stability and improve the efficiency of the supply of fresh agricultural products in urban, this paper constructed a s…
Makoto Shinnishi, Kunihiko Higa
This research aims to analyze the communication on trust building in virtual teams. Ten teams consisting of three workers (an editor, a designer, and a coder) were asked to create a sample web page in one week. All workers were in remote environment and a tex…
Ximin Duan, Liangtie Dai
To explore the influencing factors and action mechanism of users’ behavioral intention of making continuous contributions on Internet UGC platforms, the paper conducts a questionnaire survey among 574 users on Internet UGC platforms, analyzes and validates th…
Tianze Li, Haiying Wei
This paper gives a general thinking for service branding through the perspective of value co-creation orientation. Firstly, the paper reviews the background of service branding from service marketing and product brand. And then the paper discusses the process…
Xiaoyi Xuan, Mu Zhang
Nowadays, climate change is leading to play an increasing significant role in cities’ tourism development. Particularly, sea level rising is one of climate changes to coastal cities. This paper, focusing on the current situation Port Fairy in Melbourne is fac…
Zuhara Chavez, Takefumi Mokudai, Michiru Uyama
Through visualization, mapping techniques help manufacturing organizations prioritize and guide improvement strategies. For this reason, mapping of the value chain is applied as a method of progress toward lean manufacturing. The purpose of this paper is to i…
Linlin Zhang, Yongwei Jiang
Based on group identity and interpersonal bonds, this study constructs a theoretical framework to explain the influence mechanism of community engagement in social Q & A community users. According to the data received from 402 users of social Q & A community,…
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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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