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Multivariate analysis methods are used to reduce the dimensionality of the vast data available. In this process, the size of available sample happens to be a great deal of concern. Principle Component Analysis (PCA) method has been implemented in various fields including psychology, sociology, economics, engineering and so on. Recommendations made in the literature about the sample adequacy vary and...
Evaluation of construction or renovation projects is necessary for the developing of distribution network. A comprehensive evaluation can contribute to find problems in the process of projects and promote scientific level of decision making for future construction or renovation. In this paper, we propose a post evaluation for distribution network. Firstly, we put forward an integrated index system...
Generally speaking, the organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) of employees and the degree of organizational socialization play significant roles in job performance and employees' feelings. In this research, an empirical tracking study was conducted. First, two OCB dimensions were measured on campus. Second, four organizational socialization dimensions were measured in the workplace. Five months...
This article introduced institutional embeddedness into the study on network power and competitive advantage. Based on the theory source, the paper built the relational model and made an empirical study on the model by taking the manufacturing enterprises in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei as the small samples, then chose SPSS and AMOS as statistic tools. The relationship of network power and competitive...
Climate change concerns mandated renewable portfolio standards, lucrative government incentives, and accelerated cost reduction in renewables, and distributed energy applications are driving steep growth in system installations. Distributed energy resources (DERs) are not commonly connected to a bulk power transmission system but are interconnected near the load in the electric power distribution...
The positive feedback of e-WOM is considered to be the higher the better. This study tries to discuss how the different positive feedbacks will affect credibility of e-WOM when fake information exists. In fact, authenticity has significant impact on customers' purchase decision and the positive feedback is not the higher the better.
Consulting to the achievement of customer loyalty in real world, we put customer E-Loyalty as the object of study, from the perspectives of customer perceived value, product value, switching costs, website technology and e-trust to explore the influencing factors of customer E-Loyalty to B2C retail website, with a view to benefit the development of B2C retail sites. We got data through questionnaires...
Contingency constrained economic dispatch has been an extensively studied research topic. However, most existing works assume that the load demands at all buses are given. Such an assumption works well for conventional power grids, where the load demands are relatively easy to predict. We can select a few representative demand profiles and perform economic dispatch over them. However, such a practice...
On-site leadership behaviors directly affect the efficiency of enterprises, and the research on the leadership behavior has focused on high-level, the on-site leadership behavior studies are relatively small. Take the state-owned enterprise H as an example, using PM theory, through the evaluation of the indicators on the spot managers of enterprise H, we analyze the spot managers belonging to which...
Customer satisfaction (CS) gains lots of attention since it is believed to bring loyalty. However, are satisfied customers always loyal? Using meta-analytical method and based on 27 studies published from 1980 to 2007, we construct the moderators of CS-loyalty relationship model in four dimensions: cultural context, economic development, industry background and research method; and then put forward...
The significance of expectation disconfirmation has been widely recognized in the field of service recovery by both managers and researchers. However, there are limited studies of the driving mechanisms of expectation disconfirmation in e-service recovery. This paper empirically explores the moderating roles of some situational factors such as perceived risk, shopping experience and education on the...
In this paper canonical correlation analysis method is used to analyze the relationship between customer satisfaction and customer loyalty, for which data is collected from 2717 customers of bank in 13 Jiangsu cities. Highlights of the findings include that customer satisfaction have a positive significant effect on customer loyalty in the banking service industry, especially with the income improving,...
Through the positive analysis of 373 employees who come from all kinds of enterprises and institutions in Wuhan and other areas, this paper examines the relationship among personality trait working attitude and turnover intention. The research shows that the locus of control significantly affects the working attitude of staff, and there is interaction between job satisfaction and organizational commitment...
How to share knowledge within the team to increase team effectiveness has become a focus in theory and business circles. Basing on the literature review, this paper starts with personal factors that affect knowledge sharing within the team, and uses questionnaires, interviews, other research methods and SPSS analysis to make a systematic analysis of individual factors that affect knowledge sharing...
The role of virtual community has become more important to consumers purchase decision. But which factors of virtual community are very important? In our study, we therefore use SEM to test three factors, such as information, member and platform. We found that professional or experiential information, ease use system are significant correlation with the purchase decisions.
In recent years, loyalty program as an important means of relationship marketing, has been highly concerned by scholars and enterprises. However, there are many problems when execute the loyalty program. The traditional loyalty program only focus on short-term economic profits is clearly needed to be improved. This paper explores the impact of loyalty programs on relationship benefits and customer...
This paper explores the relations of competitive priorities in global small, medium, and large-scale manufacturing enterprises based on the competitive priorities theory of the manufacturing strategy. This paper analyzes the six competitive priorities (quality, delivery, cost, flexibility, innovation and service) in the manufacturing enterprises with the data collected from the International Manufacturing...
The aim of this study is to examine the factor structure of the scale of Job Satisfaction Survey (JSS), and its divergent and convergent validity in Chinese population. Data were collected with JSS from 1073 urban employees in Liaoning. Four alternative models were tested with confirmatory factor analysis. The first two models are models validated in the US, while the third and fourth models are composed...
With the wanton spread of the global financial turmoil in 2008 ,the majority enterprises in China have been the impact in great degrees, including Apple industry. In this context, it is an urgent need to address many problems of Apple industry in order to obtain stable development. And organizational innovation is the effective measures to sustainable development and transforming itself.Based on the...
Till now, much research has been done on the immediate impact of human resource on technological innovation, while neglecting the role of intermediary variables. The influence path of human resource on technological innovation is not clear yet. Therefore, it is very important that we study the influence path of human resource on enterprise technological innovation. The paper uses 176 samples derived...
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