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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:
Jessie Ho, Paul L. Nesbit
The purpose of this study was to examine how culture influences the use of self-leadership strategies among Hong Kong and Australian students. Results revealed that significant cultural differences were found for some dimensions of self-leadership strategies.…
Song-Kyoo Kim
The study is based on a data set which has been corrected by the service company and analyzed using Lean Thinking tools. It provides the application of Lean Service into the actual service company. The project is intended to provide a pragmatic view of Lean a…
Jianfei Leng, Pangjing Zhao
In order to examine whether the internal control quality affects the M&A performance (stock market return and accounting return) of acquiring firms after the Chinese SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley Act) issued, we select 126 mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deals of Chines…
Wyoma vanDuinkerken, Catherine Coker, Todd Samuelson
Since the first moment librarians were granted tenured faculty status in the academic arena, questions have been raised by university and library administration, faculty members in other departments, and non-academics as to why they were given the opportunity…
Rachid Belhaj, Mohamed Tkiouat
Modeling the manpower management mainly concerns the prediction of future behavior of employees. The paper presents a predictive model of numbers of employees in a hierarchical dependent-time system of human resources, inc o rporating subsystems that each con…
Takanori Inoue, Isamu Yoshitake
Private Finance Initiative (PFI) projects aim to develop public facilities using private funds. Installment interest payments must be predominant in PFI project costs. The proportion of installment interest depends upon the business period, payment method, in…
Chunling Pan, Jie Lv
Services trade is an important component of international trade. Its importance is drawing growing academic and gov ernment attention. This paper analyzes the current development of China ’s service trade. For the transport and tourism are two of the more imp…
Trailokyanath Singh, Hadibandhu Pattnayak
In this paper, an economic order quantity (EOQ) model is developed for deteriorating items with linear demand pattern and variable deterioration rate. Shortages are allowed and partially backlogged. The backlogging rate is variable and dependent on the waitin…
Zahir Ahamed, Akira Kamoshida, Takehiro Inohara
It has been recognized that in today’s highly competitive industrial markets, servitization is one of the key strategic choices for many leading manufacturers to gain differentiation from competitors by offering value-added services. To do so, however, requir…
Yongsheng Liu, Jiayu Gao, Wenjie Ma
In order to formulate the logistics risk early warning model of listed corporations of manufacturing industry in Beijing area,40 A-stock listed companies of manufacturing enterprise in Beijing area are taken as the study samples, the prin cipal components ana…
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