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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:
Matthias S. Fifka
The concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been controversially discussed for over 50 years. Consequently, a wide variety of definitions and understandings of CSR have been developed throughout the decades. That has made it increasingly hard, or…
Julia Hein, Thomas Weber
Several policy options have been discussed to mitigate the current subprime mortgage crisis. This paper analyses an interest rate freeze on adjustable rate mortgages as one possible reaction. In particular, the implications on Residential Mortgage Backed Secu…
Lin LI, Pengfei ZHOU, Zhenghe LI
In the course of rapid economic development, high-tech small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are gradually playing an important role, which become important support to regional economic growth and science and technology development. So SMEs growth becomes a uni…
Donghong YANG, Yujie TAN, Yanbin SUN
In this article, through analyzing the inner and external environments of the manufacture enterprise, the hierarchy model of the market opportunity has been constructed. Based on the AHP, the mathematics evaluation model of the market opportunity has been est…
Min HU
This paper studies the route, steps and measures of the implementation of the emissions trading system in China. It combines desk research and case study. The desk research aims to explore the inherent discipline of emissions trading system, so as to disclose…
Mikihiko Hiraiwa, Koichi Nakade
A U-shaped production line with multiple machines and multiple workers is considered under carousel allocation in which all workers take charge of all machines in the same order. Nakade and Ohno (2003) show that, when the processing, operation and walking tim…
Jue CHEN, Yunhong HAO
The paper examines the key issues on system decoupling in service operations of mass customization by conducting a case study in catering services. It firstly justifies the effectiveness of applying concept of mass customization into service system decoupling…
Stephen A. Leybourne
This paper considers certain aspects of a four-year program of research, and addresses the changing cultural requirements to support the rise of improvisational working practices within the UK financial services sector. Specifically, it reports on some of the…
Xianjin ZHA, Minghong CHEN
Competitive Intelligence plays an increasingly important role in the risk prevention of SMEs, however, there is an ob-vious phenomenon—the absence of competitive intelligence in the field of Chinese SMEs. In this paper, the author firstly pointed out how many…
Yuhui GE, Weizhong YANG
Top management team (TMT) play key roles in many industries and firms. Human resources is continuously developed and considered to be a competitive advantage. Traditional research on TMT has, however, paid scant attention to the human capital capabilities of…
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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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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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