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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:
Zhengping DING, Keyi WANG
A supply chain system is studied, in which the information about the retailer’s storage cost is usually asymmetric. This paper studies the inventory control in the system and presents a quantity discount pricing model for inventory coordination based on the s…
Shouming CHEN, Jie LI, Meijuan JIA
Previous studies suggested that the development of producer service resulted from manufacturing outsourcing. On the other hand, competitive producer service can promote the progress of manufacturing industry. Theoretically, correlation may exist between them.…
Jianguo CHE
Multi-item and low-volume process is a production system with multi-input source, interactions between input variables, and frequently changes of system state, etc. Strong interactions between input variables and time-varying of input variables cause poor rob…
Rafia NAZ
Using ICT in the form of e-governance could yield great benefits in the reform and modernization of the public sector. The experience of e-governance in a number of developed and developing countries has shown that ICT can be a tool for greater service delive…
Huisong ZHENG, Lei CAI
Push mail is popular to business users in the world. It has been two years since push mail was introduced into China. In order to find out the status of its development and utilization, investigation to push mail users is made. The results indicate that the e…
Derong LIN, Zongqing ZHOU, Xiaolin GUO
Recent developments in information technologies (ITs), in particular the popularity of the Internet in the early 1990s, have changed the way that tourism businesses communicate with its customers and the way that promotion and sales of tourism products are co…
Changping HU, Yang ZHAO, Mingjing GUO
Web portal is a useful way for high-tech information center providing information services for high-tech enterprises. The importance of evaluating the information service quality of the web portal has been recognized by both information service researchers an…
Songsheng CHEN, Lingbing LIU
ERP (Enterprise Resources Planning) users often refuse to pay off the balance of payment because they think the software vendors fail to complete the targets, for which the true reason is that the boundaries or standards on the effectiveness and economic bene…
Guangxing WEI, Yanhong QIN
The standard contract theory adopts the traditional hypothesis of pure self-interest. However, a series of game experiments have proven that people are not any self-interest but also inequity averse. Then, how will the inequity aversion influence the optimal…
Samuel MENDLINGER, Masaki MIYAKE, Robert BILLINGTON
The Blackstone Valley Tourism Council (BVTC), a state designated council to promote tourism in the Blackstone Valley, Rhode Island, has led tourism development efforts for two decades to revitalize the economics and livability of place. This study examines th…
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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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