The leadership style is highly correlated with the organizational performance, and the appropriate leadership style is essential for the enterprises to handle dynamic changes of management environment. In this paper, microblogs of entrepreneurs in the real estate industry are selected as...

During the construction of new socialist countryside, rural tourism has presented its irreplaceable strategic significance in balancing urban and rural development, and in building a socialist harmonious society. It, therefore, has drawn sustained attention both from the government and the...

Failure recovery in Internet of Vehicles (IoVs) is critical to high quality service provisioning. The main challenge is how to achieve fast rerouting without introducing high complexity and resource usage due to the dynamic topology and the constraints on bandwidth. In this paper, we propose a...

Purpose: This paper aims to explore what factors influence the possibility of internal and external risk propagation in R&D networks and investigate how government intervention moderates the associations between the influencing factors and risk propagation. Design/methodology/approach: The...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to enhance the comprehensive understanding of the roles of resource investments, explicit contracts and three components ofguanxi(i.e.renqing,ganqingandmianzi) in asymmetric research and development (R&D) partnerships. Treating dependence asymmetry as a...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to explore how the number of structural holes influences the possibility of risk propagation in R&D networks; and second, to investigate how the specific context of tie strength and common cognition moderate the association between...

NK model describes a system of N elements. The complexity of the system is modeled as the interdependency among its elements. Such interdependency is represented by parameter K, which denotes the number of elements that affect the function of a particular element. NK model can be used to...

A new routing problem is introduced and named as the probabilistic profitable tour problem in this paper. The problem is defined on a complete graph where profits are associated with the vertices and travel costs are associated with the edges. Each vertex (customer) has a probability of...

In this paper, the authors study the capacity decision problem in an express delivery supply chain consisting of an online retailer and an express delivery provider where products sold by the online retailer are delivered by the express delivery provider to end customers. Unlike the case of the...

Purpose: This study aims to investigate the impact of both physical and personality-related anthropomorphic features of an artificial intelligence service robot on the cognitive and affective appraisals and acceptance of consumers during service delivery. Design/methodology/approach: The...