From the Confucian perspective, a sage should possess three characteristics: a noble moral character; profound knowledge, and a remarkable ability to put his ideals into practice. Sages are born out of the circumstances of their times, they are the inheritors and promulgators of worthy...

This article describes a field study investigating the impact on user experience of personalisation of content provided on a mobile device. The target population was Chinese spectators and the application was large sports events. A field-based experiment showed that provision of personalised...

The Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) is a useful framework that helps explain people's behavior across a wide range of settings. The present study adopted the TPB to investigate factors that affect the complexity of the learning intention of workers involved with a lean manufacturing training...

Purpose: Based on the conservation of resources (COR) theory, this paper aims to explore the potential influence of perceived subordinates’ negative workplace gossip on abusive supervision in China. Moreover, the COR theory helps in examining the mediating role of self-esteem threat and...

We develop a dynamic model of interbank borrowing and lending activities in which banks are organized into clusters, and adjust their monetary reserve levels to meet prescribed capital requirements. Each bank has its own initial monetary reserve level and faces idiosyncratic risks characterized...

This paper considers a drone delivery system that delivers packages to multiple locations, using a model that captures three distinctive features of interest: first, a battery-operated drone that can fly a limited number of distance units on a fully charged battery; second, a set of demand...

Scheduling in the context of many-server queues has received a lot of attention. When there are many servers and multiple customer classes, it is common practice to make simplifying assumptions, resulting in a ``low-fidelity" model, hence potential model misspecification. Real-world data...