Purpose: This paper describes a benchmarking framework applied to medium-sized urban public bus agencies in the United States, which has overcome the challenges of data quality, comparability, and understanding. Design/methodology/approach: The benchmarking methodology described in this paper...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to appraise the impact of mobile shopping platform characteristics on consumer’s emotions, the relationship between emotions and their impact on impulsive buying. Design/methodology/approach: Mobile shopping platform characteristics were grouped into five...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of bank ownership structure and ownership concentration on credit risk. Design/methodology/approach: Using panel data on a sample of 88 Chinese commercial banks, with 826 observations over a period of 2003–2018, this study has...

The dynamic texture (DT) which treats the transient video process a sample from the spatiotemporal model, has shown the surprising performance for moving objects detection in the scenes with the background motions (e.g., swaying branches, falling snow, waving water). However, DT parameters...

Purpose: In the process of discussing the relationship between volume and price in the stock market, the purpose of this paper is to consider how to take the flow of foreign capital into consideration, to determine whether the inclusion of volume information really contributes to the prediction...

Purpose: This paper aims to examine the effect of new product launch actions and firm reputation on firm performance in the Chinese auto industry. Design/methodology/approach: This analysis adopts empirical data from 66 auto firms in China’s auto market from 2007 to 2012 to explore how new...

Purpose: Internationalization has emerged as a vital catch-up strategy for firms in emerging markets. Although external knowledge search has been widely acknowledged as an important way within the internationalization process, there appear to be opposing views as to whether local or...