Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the antecedents of demand-side search in service strategy of manufacturing firms. In particular, this study examines whether service-oriented human resource management (HRM) practices promote demand-side search by enhancing firms’ market...

Purpose Changes in regulation systems make professional organizations more likely to undergo rapid, profound and radical change. The issue of how micro-institutional change in professional organizations can be carried out is somewhat ignored. Design/methodology/approach We conducted a process...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to solve the common problems of outer phenomenon and stress concentration among pneumatic networks soft actuators. Design/methodology/approach: On the basis of imitating the caterpillar structure, the new soft actuator adopts the integral circular ladder...