The sharing economy is a relatively recent phenomenon that aims to promote environmentally friendly practices. The sharing economy is characterized by the convergence of information, marketing and technology to create a new paradigm in which customers value access above ownership, allowing them...

Across the globe, companies increasingly use social media-based brand communities (SMBBC) to facilitate customer engagement (CE). This study clarifies the relationship between brand trust and CE in SMBBC, which is often inconsistent in previous literature. Drawing on the uses and gratifications...

Although technical trading rules have been widely used by practitioners in financial markets, their profitability still remains controversial. We here investigate the profitability of moving average (MA) and trading range break (TRB) rules by using the Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index...

The rural two-lane highway in the Southeastern United States is frequently associated with a disproportionate number of serious and fatal crashes and as such remains a focus of considerable safety research. The Georgia Department of Transportation spearheaded a regional fatal crash analysis to...

Lithium-stuffed garnets, one of the most promising solid electrolytes for all-solid-state lithium batteries (ASSLBs), are typically vulnerable to water or moisture. In this work, a novel type of Li 6.5 La 3 Zr 1.5 Ta 0.5 O 12 (LLZT) with ionic conductivity of 7.36 ×10 −4 S cm -1 at room...

Inconclusive findings about the effect of national cultural differences on post-acquisition performance may be created by the failure to distinguish among the different cultural dimensions and the asymmetry of cultural differences. To demonstrate a different approach, this study focuses on one...

One striking finding from recent natural environmental management research is that family firms are more likely to engage in environmentally friendly practices than non-family firms. However, the source of such difference is not clear. The primary objective of our research is to investigate if...

It is important for IPO firms to establish legitimacy in the eyes of investors through signaling. The objective of this research is to examine the relationship between signals including governance and management practices and the performance of family firms IPOs. Using IPO data of 129 family...