Purpose – Many Chinese libraries have limited budget to buy foreign language books. The purpose of this paper is to introduce an available and cheaper suggestion for the budgets of small libraries' foreign language books acquisition. Design/methodology/approach – This paper discusses the...

Purpose: Omnichannel retail are catching increasing attention from multiple research area, due to its widespread and essential application in retailing industry. The principal object of this paper is to systematically review current studies on omnichannel retail in information systems,...

The dynamic texture (DT) which treats the transient video process a sample from the spatiotemporal model, has shown the surprising performance for moving objects detection in the scenes with the background motions (e.g., swaying branches, falling snow, waving water). However, DT parameters...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of long horizon institutional ownership on CEO career concerns to meet the short-term earnings benchmark. Design/methodology/approach: Using a sample of 10,565 firm-year observations in the USA, the paper examines the extent to...

Purpose: It is widely accepted that business excellence comes from firm-specific factors. However, it is still unclear how institutional relatedness – the degree of embeddedness with the dominant institutions that confer resources and legitimacy, influences the business excellence of the...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to examine how informed traders, i.e. transient institutional investors that actively trade on information to maximize investment profits, use insider trading signals in addition to accounting numbers to mitigate future abnormal returns....

This study implies the causality-in-variance test newly developed by Hafner and Herwartz (2006) to investigate the volatility spillovers between domestic equity and bond markets in the G7 and BRICS countries. The empirical result shows that there is ethier unidirectional or bidirectional...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the role of renewable energy technologies (RETs) such as biogas, improved cooking stoves (ICSs), micro hydro (MH) and solar power (SP) in helping rural communities in Nepal to adapt to climate change. The analysis considers the energy efficiency of different...

It is well-known that individual diversity is a typical feature within the collective population. To model this kind of characteristics, we propose an evolutionary model of public goods game with two types of players (named as A and B), where players are located on the sites of a square lattice...