Background: Cargo-handling equipment (CHE) plays a vital role in maintaining the efficiency of a highly-worked container terminal. Methods: This study is aimed to analyze the CHEs' performance, which is conducted based on a contextual application of the overall equipment-effectiveness (OEE)...

Independent Component Analysis (ICA) is a statistical method that linearly transforms a random vector. Under the assumption that the observed data are mixtures of non-Gaussian and independent processes, ICA is able to recover the underlying components, but at scale and order indeterminacy. Its...

Web-Commerce applications are now an indispensable aspect of businesses around the world. More businesses are now migrating from outdated applications to a new type of combined e-business designs. With such large volumes of applications that need to be put online, there is now a dire need for...

In this article, we use a meta-analysis to examine the performance of socially responsible investing (SRI). After a thorough literature search, we review 153 empirical studies containing 1,047 observations of SRI performance. We find that, on average, SRI neither outperforms nor underperforms...

The study has examined the role of big data analytics powered by artificial intelligence (BDA-AI) to improve sustainable performance through sustainable supply chain practices. Data was collected from 249 supply chain professionals. Hypotheses were tested through a quantitative method using...

A multi-national company specialising in the manufacturing and retail of its unique homeware products, is experiencing high levels of employee turnover. The cost of recruitment, induction training, placement, and further attrition, due to ‘mis’-placement, has become a major risk for the...

In the wake of New Public Management (NPM), the concern for performance management and measurement in the government organizations including the local government has received significant attention. Whether to ensure the civilization and efficiency or to cope with the demand of donor agencies,...

The purpose - A critical analysis of the main literature contributions dealing with the digital transformation of social subsystems in COVID-19, focusing on digital government system innovations. According to the current research, the following research questions have been prepared: What...

Personal values have long been considered an important variable in understanding consumer purchasing behaviors. Although research on values has been performed in a wide range of social disciplines, this variable has never been operationalized in the service management ontext. In this paper we...

We study the effect of bank reliance on CLO funding on bank risk. We document that an exogenous increase in CLO funding significantly decreases bank expected default frequency, with a 1.6% reduction one quarter from the shock for the average bank in response to a standard funding shock. Changes...