As an emerging technology, blockchain has recently gained attention in both aca‑ demic and economic fields, but its adoption is not yet widespread in the banking sector in Taiwan. As academics have paid scant attention to this topic, this study determines the critical factors affecting...

The purpose of this paper is to propose a hybrid model which combines locally linear embedding (LLE) algorithm and support vector machines (SVM) to predict the failure of firms based on past financial performance data. By making use of the LLE algorithm to perform dimension reduction for feature...

Purpose – Despite the growing importance of online word-of-mouth (WOM) with regard to television (TV) ratings, it is usually excluded from early prediction models. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of online WOM in TV ratings predictions, focussing on whether the...

Supplier selection is a good strategy for firms that can reduce operating costs and improve competitiveness for computer, communication and consumer electronics (3C) industry. The major aim of this research is to build a systematic approach for establishing a supplier selection model, and then...