Purpose: The impact of network centrality on innovation performance is inconclusive. The purpose of this paper is to examine how formal and informal institutions affect the influence of network centrality on firms’ innovation performance in emerging economies by integrating social network...

Recent research has shown great interest in statistical inference methods for community detection, not only in models and algorithms but also in the detectability. In this paper we propose a fast community detection algorithm based on the degree-corrected block model. By introducing a parameter...

This paper presents a two-stage regression model for quantifying different stages of a disease progression with delayed diagnosis time and for identifying the risk factors associated with each stage. Conventional chronic disease progression studies reported replied on the assumption that the...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to guide companies in conducting benchmarking studies of their manufacturing processes by viewing across industries, locations and products. In particular, the proposed framework can help corporate decision makers in terms of production footprint and site...