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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:
Hang Liu
To solve the challenge of deciding which modules should be chosen when developing new products, a new methodology has been proposes. This module selection method combines Kano model into a QFD framework to get the final importance of modules. The QFD approach…
Zhengping Li, Wei He, Cheng Hwee Sim, Chong Chuan Chen
Crossdocking is defined as an operational strategy that moves items through consolidation centers or cross docks without putting them into storage. As the need to move inventory faster increases, more logistics managers are turning to crossdocking but the abi…
Santi Novani, Kyoichi Kijima
One of the foundational of service science and of study of value-creation in service systems is service-dominant logic (S-D logic). S-D logic especially emphasizes the role of customers; that is, each customer is recognized as an active co-creator of knowledg…
Zhiyong Fan, Sheng Zhong, Wei Zhang
This study tested the structural equation model between harmonious tourism environment perception and tourists’ loy- alty. In this paper, a model is erected to indicate the relationship between harmonious tourism environment perception and tourists’ loyalty.…
Junyi Shen
This study applies data from a web-based survey conducted in mainland China to examine the determinants of consumers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for seven different product categories awarded with China Environmental Label and com- pare the mean WTP estimates a…
Amir Heiman, Jacob Hornik, Oded Lowengart
Advertising campaigns carried out by firms post-health crises have been well documented in the literature, but the results, in terms of their effectiveness in recovering demand, are mixed. This paper examines the effect of risk-framed message appeal (aimed at…
Johan Magnusson, Håkan Enquist, Gustaf Juell-Skielse, Elin Uppström
With a shift in the architecture for the design and delivery of information systems (IS), new business models are emerging. Professional analysts predict that by the end of 2012, a majority of all enterprise-wide information systems will be delivered by a bus…
Fufa S. Bulitta, Girma Gebresenbet, Techane Bosona
In the agricultural sector, it is important to appropriately develop livestock resources in of developing countries in order to reduce poverty. The aim of this study was to investigate the animal handling and welfare issues during transport for marketing with…
Danyang Shen
Speed economy, proposed by Japanese scholars Masaki Tamura, refers to get the cost savings flow by accelerating the transaction process [1], which brings the a large market space to the cargo/express delivery industry [2]. Due to the rapidly growth of China a…
Marcel Veenswijk, Alfons van Marrewijk
In this paper, based on a case study regarding the institutional privatization of a former French public sector ferry liner, new concepts in cross-cultural research are developed and explored. We argue that the ability to influence the direction of the change…
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