Purpose: Drawing on conservation of resources (COR) theory and the motivation-opportunity-ability (MOA) framework, this study examines how salespersons' self-monitoring and psychological capital influence sales performance. Design/methodology/approach: This study uses survey data from 293...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between leader humility and employee well-being. Based on social information processing (SIP) theory and previous literature concerning leader humility, this paper identifies employee humility as the mediator and suggests that...

Purpose: This meta-analysis aims to explore the true effect sizes of major channel performance drivers from different theoretical perspectives and how these true effects are organized in a theoretically integrated structural analysis to predict performance. Design/methodology/approach: First,...

Purpose: This study aims to help resolve some of the inconsistencies of the relationships between franchisor growth and its drivers in prior literature. Design/methodology/approach: First, this study provides a meta-analysis with bivariate correlation analysis and moderation analysis. It then...

Default correlation is the key point for the pricing of multi-name credit derivatives. In this paper, we apply copulas to characterize the dependence structure of defaults, determine the joint default distribution, and give the price for a specific kind of multi-name credit derivative —...

In terms of stochastic orders, the purpose of this paper is to show how the random environment can affect the number of working components of a system with heterogeneous components sharing a common random environment. Applications to a class of semiparametric mixture models, stress-strength...

In this paper, a new method is presented to analyze the linear stability of the synchronized state in arbitrarily coupled complex dynamical systems with time delays. The coupling configurations are not restricted to the symmetric and irreducible connections or the non-negative off-diagonal...

We select gross national happiness (GNH), per capita GDP, the number of tourists received in rural areas, waste gas emission and other indicators that are closely related to harmonious economic development. Using the indicator data, we establish the multiple linear regression model that is in...

Gongbo Nature Reserve, located in Nyingchi of Tibet, is by far the largest construction project of forest reserves that China approves and invests in. This article adopts the shadow project method, and estimates the water conservation function of forest ecosystem of Gongbo Nature Reserve based...