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Business and Management
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Open AccessDoes the height to entrepreneurship nexus have two stages? New evidence from 27 nations
We examine the association between height and entrepreneurship in 27 nations, finding that the relationship between height and entrepreneurship can be considered to be a two-stage process. During the first sta...
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Social capital in China: a systematic literature review
Viewed as a nonfinancial resource residing in social relations, the concept of social capital has universal appeal. Given China’s distinct culture and tradition, however, whether and how social capital in Chin...
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Group Decision Making with Transitive Preferences Under Ordinal and Cardinal Consistencies: An Optimization Approach
With the ubiquity of preference relations used in group decision making (GDM), controlling the transitivity of preferences characterized by individual consistency has attracted much attention. However, few pre...
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Interlocking directorates and dynamic corporate performance: the roles of centrality, structural holes and number of connections in social networks
This study investigates how interlocking directorates affect dynamic corporate performance among 187 Taiwanese electronics companies during a 3 year sampling period (2013–2015). This study consists of two stag...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Impact of Industrial and Residential Land Supply Ratio on Economic Growth
The purpose of this paper is to optimize and adjust the proportion of industrial and residential land supply to promote sustainable economic growth in China under the condition that the total scale of industri...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Trends of Research on Cost Overruns in Public Projects: A Review Based on Content Analysis
Cost overruns in public projects is a common phenomenon that have been concerned by project stakeholders. In order to understand the current research and identify research gap on cost overruns in public projec...
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Scheduling Periodical Deliveries from a Distribution Centre to Minimize the Fleet Size
This chapter studies the delivery problem in which a distribution center delivers goods to customers periodically. Each customer has a specified delivery frequency. The deliveries to the same customer must be ...
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Subdivided or aggregated online review systems: Which is better for online takeaway vendors?
This paper examines the role of a subdivided or aggregated online review system to help online takeaway vendors select the most appropriate information strategy. First, we develop two models to depict the inte...
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A novel road network change detection algorithm based on floating car tracking data
Road network changes constantly and rapidly. Traditional road network change detection methods cannot meet the needs of modern applications. This paper proposes a novel detection algorithm that uses the floati...
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A privacy protection method for health care big data management based on risk access control
With the rapid development of modern information technology, the health care industry is entering a critical stage of intelligence. Faced with the growing health care big data, information security issues are ...
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Pricing Strategy for GM Food: Impact of Consumer Attitude Heterogeneity and GMO Food Labelling
We consider how a marketer of a GM food product should price it in response to the requirement of GMO food label in the near future and its effect on consumers’ heterogenous attitude. We examine how the GM foo...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Think versus Feel: Two Dimensions of Brand Anthropomorphism: An Abstract
Past research and practice often focus on brand anthropomorphization along a single dimension. In spite of being parsimonious and rigorous, the single dimension model may not fully capture variation in consume...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Distribution of the Profit in Used Mobile Phone Recovery Based on EPR
In 2018, more than 300 million used mobile phones were produced, but the recovery rate of regular channels was less than 5%. Most of the recyclers were unwilling to recycle low-value used mobile phones, which ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Emergency Evacuation Model for Large Multistory Buildings with Usual Entrances and Emergency Exits
When emergencies such as fires, earthquakes or terrorist attacks occur, the effective evacuation of all personnel from buildings is the primary objective. Sometimes, in order to further reduce the losses, we s...
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A two-sided matching model in the context of B2B export cross-border e-commerce
Cross-border electronic commerce plays an increasingly key role in international trades, which has become the focus of concern in both academia and industry. However, how to better match overseas demanders and...
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Do Management Innovations of Indigenous Firms Benefit from Managerial Spillovers from Multinational Enterprises?
Integrating research on foreign direct investment spillover and management innovation literature, this study develops and tests a spillover–management innovation–performance process model. The model posits tha...
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The China-West divide on social capital: A meta-analysis
The mixed empirical results on the impact of social capital call for a better understanding of the conditioning effect of contextual differences. We conducted a meta-analysis to assess whether and how social c...
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The development of a hybrid firefly algorithm for multi-pass grinding process optimization
Industrial grinding processes always involve multiple sequential passes, such as rough, semi-rough, semi-finish, finish, and spark-out, for the surface and geometrical accuracy generation. The design of multi-...
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Syndication through social embeddedness: A comparison of foreign, private and state-owned venture capital (VC) firms
This paper explores the different syndication behavior in various types of Chinese venture capitals (VC), in particular it focuses on foreign, private-owned and state-owned VC firms and these firms’ behavior w...
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Adapting and sustaining operations in weak institutional environments: A business ecosystem assessment of a Chinese MNE in Central Africa
Multinational enterprises (MNEs) sometimes pursue opportunities in largely uncharted, distinctive institutional environments. How do these firms sustain operations in such settings? We explore how MNEs tailor ...
