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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:
Lingling Zhang, Xiuyu Zheng, Jun Li, Guangli Nie, Guoqing Huo, Yong Shi
Knowledge is the most important resource in an organization, and the knowledge transfer and sharing between employees is of vital importance for organizations. “Prisoner’s dilemma” exists in the process of the organizational knowledge transfer and sharing whe…
Roberto Napoli
The paper analyses innovation features in the German financial sector. The first topic is persistence of innovation. Our research question is: Do innovators plan further innovation for the subsequent year? In addition, since the sector is so far poorly resear…
Xiangzhi Bu, Lei Xu, Li Su
Reference effect influences the shippers’ purchase behavior to some extent, and it makes shippers’ behavior more mys-terious. Furthermore, it leads to complex to coordinate procurement and pricing of forwarder and carrier. Firstly, we introduce the reference…
Kai Wang
Throughout the IT communities, it has been acknowledged that ontology plays a key role in representation and reuse of knowledge. This paper discusses some issues of ontology construction for engineering data management, such as knowledge discovery, knowledge…
Liz Breen
The effective management of pharmaceuticals in the National Health Service (NHS) is critical to patient welfare thus any risks attached to this must be identified and controlled. At a very basic level, risks in the pharmaceutical supply chain are associated w…
Beniamino Moro
An endogenous growth model of the revenue maximizing firm is here presented. It is demonstrated that, in a static analysis, a revenue maximizing firm in equilibrium equates the average product of labor to the wage rate. In a dynamic analysis, the maximization…
Chang-jun Zheng, Zhou Yan, Li Wei
With the development of reform of stock system among Chinese commercial banks, more and more listed banks are coming forth to the market, so it is important to analyze the relationship between the equity structure and its perform-ance of Chinese listed bank.…
Li-Li Cao, Xiang-Dong Chen
It is widely regarded that the pharmaceutical sector is quite different from other manufactures for its character in inno-vation activities. This paper analyzed the nature of innovation activities by multinational companies (MNCs), which stand for foreign cap…
Feng Liang
Logistics information system should be reconfigurable, open and extensible to support the total supply chain. Soft com-ponent technology is introduced to design and build the logistics information system oriented to the business demand of kinds of supply chai…
Shaobo Ji, Shawn Smith Chao, Qing-Fei Min
The Internet has made it easier for individuals and organizations to communicate and conduct business online. At the same time, personal, commercial, and government information has become a target for identity theft. The incidences of identity theft have incr…
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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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