This study was conducted to advance methodology of utilizing leading indicators in prediction of occupational health and safety losses. The qualitative association between leading and lagging indicators is not well documented in the literature. A method was proposed to link leading indicators to...

Ni-based superalloys fabricated by laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) have shown great potentials in various industrial sectors with demanding environment, but limited understanding in the microstructure-property relationship of the LPBF fabricated alloys hinders their practical applications. In...

Despite the rapid global shift towards local involvement in protected areas, studies on Community-based Co-management (CBCM) in China’s top-down protected area system is rather limited. To fill this gap, our research focused on the empowerment level, the core of CBCM, to disclose the temporal...

Based on data from the Chinese Family Panel Survey (CFPS), this paper measures the rural households’ vulnerability to expected poverty (VEP) in China during 2012-2018 and investigates the impact of digital financial inclusion (DFI) on rural households’ poverty vulnerability using a logit...

The province of Alberta, Canada hosts an estimated 170 billion barrels of crude bitumen reserves in the Athabasca, Cold Lake and Peace River deposits. These reserves are commercially recovered through surface mining or in situ recovery methods. Most of the produced bitumen is converted in...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to verify the relationship between the features of social media and knowledge sharing, and to examine how ambient awareness mediates this relationship. Design/methodology/approach: An experiment is designed to stimulate the knowledge work in a famous...

Emerging market multinational enterprises (EMNEs) play a vital role in global economic development and usually adopt aggressive internationalization strategies. However, the volatile global environment has caused EMNEs to face various risks in their overseas expansion. To maximize the...