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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:
Haixia Wang, Lin Wang, Yunxian Hou
The sudden disasters often cause serious consequences; the research on emergency decision becomes a focus, and emergency collaborative decision-making is becoming a hot spot. Sudden disasters emergency behavior usually involves many departments, so it is nece…
Zuqiu Wen
Irrational growth in the real estate market of first-tier cities once again triggered a discussion on the relationship between housing price and land price. This paper uses the quarterly data of housing price and land price of Shenzhen from 2003 to 2015 to es…
Wei Wei, Haiying Wei, Yaxuan Ran, Hongyan Liu
Companies will provide overcompensation for some reasons in brand crisis, which means that companies have to consider how to frame the information of overcompensation. Is punishing offenders or compensate victims better? Based on the Interactive Ritual Chain…
Dongli Miao, Jianjun Lu, Guangying Xie
Behind the fast development of online shopping market in China, there are the risk of bankruptcy and development dilemma caused by huge loss. This paper suggests that they should take improving logistics service quality as short-term goal, and appearing on th…
Bruno G. Rüttimann, Martin T. Stöckli
Although Lean manufacturing techniques are not yet in place in every shop floor production, the so-called Smart Factory with the very promising German-coined label “Industry 4.0” is already making its tour. While the Toyota Production System (TPS) has shown t…
Yanhong Liu
Improvement of service quality in cold chain logistics of fresh electricity suppliers has great significance to reduce logistics costs, get access to vast number of customer groups and enhance core competitiveness. This paper uses SIPOC (Suppliers, Input, Pro…
Linhai Mei, Zhihao Chen
This paper develops a biennial Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index, in which it takes resources and the environment into account, and use a spatial econometric analysis to measure the Chinese provincial spatial convergence of the total factor productivity…
Yingyao Shi
With the development of science and technology, the Internet is growing increasingly popular with the Chinese people. Accompany with the increment of online consumers groups, an increasing number of traditional enterprises have introduced the electronic comme…
Kiran Shehzadi, Muhammad Ahmad-ur-Rehman, Anam Mehmood Cheema, Alishba Ahkam
The prime purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between personality traits and compulsive buying behavior with mediating role of impulsive buying. By using quantitative research approach, convenience sampling method is selected. Data are co…
Quan Qu, Lina Fang, Yu Hou
Under the environment of supply chain, enterprises not only put forward higher request to the product itself, but also focus more on the supplier selection criteria. In the early stage of the supply chain construction enterprises, we will find that there are…
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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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