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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:
Francisco J. Miranda, Antonio Chamorro, Luis R. Murillo, Juan Vega
Using importance-performance analysis (IPA), this paper examines the perceptions of patients and managers of health centres of several health care quality services attributes. IPA is an approach to the measurement of customer/user satisfaction which allows fo…
Jiawen Shen, Heng Li
The global service outsourcing industry has developed rapidly; but how about the software service outsourcing industry in China? Employing the combination research methodologies of field survey, literature research and analysis of the collected data from the…
Helena M. Nobre, Kip Becker, Carlos Brito
The authors investigated the relationship between brand personality and brand relationships. The conceptual model was based on the hypothesis that brand personality may nurture specific consumer-brand relationships and that these relationships may influence t…
Mohammad Saidi-Mehrabad, Ebrahim Teimory, Ali Pahlavani
This paper reviews classic approaches for modeling customers’ choice behavior in competitive facility planning problems. They are either deterministic or probabilistic and work by a utility function based on some factors whether customer-independent or depend…
Zhe Yin, Yunfei Guo, Maosheng Lai
Enterprises use IT system in business sector/information management sector and production management sector on purpose of the operation, which, of course, is inseparable from risk management. Two non-independent risk estimates functions are hence founded in o…
Changping Hu, Xueqin Zhao
The paper first introduces the background of Martin Trow’s theory of how to develop mass higher education and then brings up the necessity of Chinese course teaching reform. It introduces the current situation of the construction of the National High-quality…
Qingren Cao, Xiaobing Yang
To control coal miner’s unsafe behavior, miner and manager behaviors were analyzed, and a behavior control system model was constructed. The necessity conditions of optimal management behavior of coalmine manager in both complete information and incomplete in…
Jing Liu
Knowledge and culture are indissolubly linked together in organizations. Considerable evidence supports the importance of culture in the success or failure of knowledge management. Then, the effectiveness of knowledge transfer needs both cultural understandin…
Belal A. Kaifi, Bahaudin G Mujtaba
Afghans and Americans have been exposed to different leadership styles which may have influenced their orientation on leading others. Age, gender, and/or culture are possible factors for such differences in leadership orientations. This research surveyed the…
Peng Liu, Yaohua Wu, Na Xu
International Financial Crisis has made the less-than-truckload (LTL) industry face with severe challenges of survival and development. More and more small and medium-sized LTL carriers choose to collaborate as the potential savings are large, often in the ra…
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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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