Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate new hypotheses regarding potential correlates and underpinnings of emotional dissonance experienced in call centre work. It is argued that prior attempts to measure emotional dissonance are incomplete because such measures often do not...

This article proposes a randomized framework that estimates image saliency through sparse signal reconstruction. The authors simulate the measuring process of ground-truth saliency and assume that an image is free-viewed by several subjects. In the free-viewing process, each subject attends to a...

Information overload is one of the major challenges for online shoppers. One possible solution to this aforementioned problem is to take advantage of the interactive decision aids (IDAs). Prior studies on IDAs have mainly focused on information overload problems caused by the products (e.g.,...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to choose a optimal routing in fourth party logistics (4PL) with the objective of transportation cost minimization under reliability level constraint. Design/methodology/approach: Reliability theory is applied to routing optimization problem. A mathematical...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of product market competition on the risk of stock price crash based on the degree of industry competition and the competitive position of enterprises. Design/methodology/approach: This paper chooses the data of Shanghai and Shenzhen...