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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:
Bingqun Cui, Kejia Yang, Tingjui Chou
This article studies the influences of three different strategies of distributor price promotion, i.e. award-type price promotion, threat-type price promotion and rebate, on manufacturer’s sales performance by empirical research, and analyzes the regulatory e…
Jiangbo Zheng, Juan Wu
This paper discusses the closed-loop supply chain which is composed of a manufacturer, a retailer and the third-party recycler, the market dominated by manufacturer. Consumer conveys different preference for new products and remanufactured products. From this…
Erik Hofmann, Stephan Knébel
The purpose of this paper is to provide new evidence in the field of supply chain differentiation. It aims to combine insights of supply chain management with the service dominant logic to connect fundamental customer requirements with supply chain decision-m…
April Budd, Stephanie Lukas, Unarose Hogan, Kamugisha Priscille, Kanamugire Fann, Pauline Hill, Ndikumana Edouard, Jean Bosco Byukusenge, Ntigurirwa Placide, Mutayomba Aimable, Rex Wong
Health-care-associated infections (HCAIs) are a major global safety concern for patients, health- care professionals and public health particularly in developing countries where access to hand washing facilities is limited due to infrastructure. Alcohol-based…
Bruno G. Rüttimann, Martin T. Stöckli
Personal consulting experience has been showing that even many proven managers responsible for Lean Six Sigma Operational Excellence (OPEX) techniques have not fully understood the profound and comprehensive significance of Lean. Apart from the idealized inte…
Yongmei Xu, Ying Liu
More and more enterprises are revealed to do something about pseudo social responsibility under the guise of social responsibility; it makes the rationality of the existence of experience of social responsibility a crisis of confidence. However, this phenomen…
Lan Wang
Currently, competitions among companies are not competitions between single companies, but are competitions between networks. Hence, it is very important for companies to know how to establish an effective external resource management and coordination mechani…
Caiqiao Huo
Higher education should adapt to the local economic development and serve the local economic development, and therefore the training of foreign language talents in local colleges and universities should be based on the needs of local socio-economic developmen…
H. R. Zhang
During the constant research of internationalization, firms have been focused on as it is the main body that implements strategies. However, the role of a country in the process of internationalization has been ignored for a long time. Where does country-spec…
Jianfang Chen, Dingchang Wu
The low-income housing security policy is one important part of the current housing security policy, which is an important measure to satisfy the demand of the social low-income people. The academia and society have different evaluations on the policy. Schola…
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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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At least two independent reviewers evaluate the manuscript under single-blind review. Where revisions are required, authors respond point by point.
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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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