Volume 8 of Advances in global leadership includes timely and impactful chapters on various concepts and processes associated with leading across cultures and other boundaries. Amidst accelerating complexity and global inter-connectedness, a deeper understanding of the variables associated with...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to estimate the effectiveness of the credit evaluation system using the borrowing data from China’s leading P2P lending platform, Renrendai.com. Design/methodology/approach The current credit valuation systems are classified into the forward-looking...

This research paper is to use a method of Evolutionary Game to investigate the relationship between a large supplier and a franchised supermarket in China. The authors would like to go through their empirical study with their filtered answers from the survey using SPSS software on agricultural...

Objectives This study examines the availability of electronic prescription and the utilization of e-prescribing by physicians in the US.Methods Nationally representative data from the 2004-2005 Community Tracking Study Physician Survey were used to identify which subgroups of physicians have...

Mutation operator is one of the mechanisms of evolutionary algorithms (EAs) and it can provide diversity in the search and help to explore the undiscovered search place. Quantum-behaved particle swarm optimization (QPSO), which is inspired by fundamental theory of PSO algorithm and quantum...