Purpose: Building on organizational support theory and social exchange theory, the purpose of this paper is to study the impact of organizational support on employee performance (EP) in the context of flexible manufacturing. In particular, the authors aimed to investigate the mediating role of...

Purpose: This study investigates why and when undermined employees exhibit deviant behavior toward coworkers. Drawing upon social exchange theory, coworker undermining reduces employee organization-based self-esteem (OBSE), which in turn, fosters employee negative reciprocal behavior in the...

A novel effective method to realize the synergistic NO reduction during thecarbonation step by biomass-modified calcium-based sorbents is proposed. Coconutshell, a waste from the coconut industry, and calcined limestone were used as biomasssources and calcium sources, respectively. The volatile...

As a significant factor in urban planning, traffic forecasting and prediction of epidemics, modeling patterns of human mobility draws intensive attention from researchers for decades. Power-law distribution and its variations are observed from quite a few real-world human mobility datasets such...

Currently, the international economic transactions are regularly occurring. The statistics of imports and exports were published by the General Administration of Customs that the total turnover of the country's imports in year of 2012 was 228.37 billion U.S. dollars, increased by 12.1 % in...

Activity-Based Costing (ABC) was developed by Robert S. Kaplan in the mid-1980s and up to now the academics, researchers as well as accounting practitioners have perceived it as the normative appropriate cost system. It has been considered as a method to overcome the shortcomings of the...