International Journal of Operations & Production Management
PurposeThis study proposes an integrated model to explore the relationships between dynamic capab... more PurposeThis study proposes an integrated model to explore the relationships between dynamic capability and supply chain resilience (SCRE) and the relationships' impacts on firms' financial performance with supply chains (FPwSC) during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.Design/methodology/approachBased on resource-based theory and knowledge-based theory, the dynamic capability is classified into resource-based dynamic capability (RBDC) and knowledge-based dynamic capability (KBDC). The study collects 158 useable survey samples from manufacturers in Taiwan and analyzes the samples with the structural equation model.FindingsThe results show that knowledge is power; KBDC is crucial for FPwSC, SCRE and RBDC. In addition, SCRE mediates the relationship between KBDC and FPwSC. Finally, RBDC significantly suppresses FPwSC.Research limitations/implicationsFuture researchers could replicate this study in other industries and expand this to other countries to generalize t...
The International Journal of Logistics Management, 2021
PurposeThis study aims to explore the relationships among the five components of supply chain (SC... more PurposeThis study aims to explore the relationships among the five components of supply chain (SC) resilience (SCRES): visibility, velocity, flexibility, robustness and collaboration and their impacts on the SC performance under disruption (SCPUD).Design/methodology/approachFive SCRES components are identified from the literature review and data are collected using an web survey from 113 manufacturing companies in Taiwan. The data are analyzed by structured equation modeling with the partial least square solution. Two-stage least-squares (2SLS) regression was used to test the potential endogeneity of SC collaboration (SCC).FindingsThe results reveal that SCC is an exogenous driver of SCRES; it directly affects visibility, velocity, flexibility, robustness and SCPUD. Furthermore, SC flexibility is the only component of SC agility that directly affects SCPUD; it is influenced directly by SC velocity and indirectly by SC visibility through SC velocity. SC visibility is a vital agility ...
Due to the integration of cultural tourism and digital technology, tourists are no longer passive... more Due to the integration of cultural tourism and digital technology, tourists are no longer passively content with pre-arranged tours. As a system developer, one should concern about how to embed a mobile navigation system into smart phones to increase the learning experience of tourists. This study uses the visitors of National Palace Museum as research subjects and categorizes 7 design guidelines with 38 influence factors base on review of literature and analysis of personal digital navigation systems in various domestic and foreign museums. After the use of AHP (analytic hierarchy process), this study identifies that improving information quality in the mobile navigation systems and enhancing the convenience of communication between user and the system not only improve the tourist's willingness to use the system but also enhance the user's level of knowledge. Furthermore, when users realize the potential of enhancing knowledge by the system, they will increase the system use.
The electronic marketplace is a new medium for exchanging information, goods, services, and payme... more The electronic marketplace is a new medium for exchanging information, goods, services, and payments. The marketplace houses infrastructure, facilitates transactions, and matches buyers with sellers. An agent-based marketplace allows corporate data to be maintained by local buyers and sellers and transferred to the marketplace only when orders are matched. This provides participating companies with autonomy and independence. This study proposes a framework of using the mobile agent to demonstrate autonomous behavior in the electronic marketplace.
Despite the explosive growth of CBEC, research into the phenomenon has not increased proportional... more Despite the explosive growth of CBEC, research into the phenomenon has not increased proportionally. Prior studies mainly discuss the opportunities, challenges and critical elements in CBEC on the organizational level. Little research has explored the individual consumer’s psychological processes of joining and the benefits derived from purchasing on CBEC. Filling the research gap identified above, the objective of this study is to construct the hierarchical value map (HVM) of CBEC illustrating how consumers pursue their end through the decision making process consisting the linkage from perceived attributes to desired benefits and the eventual customer value when using CBEC. For this purpose, a qualitative rather than a quantitative approach ought to substantiate prior findings by uncovering the key defining components of CBEC context. The HVM presents 4 important benefits obtaining paths marked as boldfaced, referred as economic oriented path, efficacy oriented obtaining path, cho...
Financial technology (FinTech) is the new business model and technology which aims to compete wit... more Financial technology (FinTech) is the new business model and technology which aims to compete with traditional financial services and blockchain is one of most famous technology use of FinTech. Blockchain is a type of distributed, electronic database (ledger) which can hold any information (e.g. records, events, transactions) and can set rules on how this information is updated. The most well-known application of blockchain is bitcoin, which is a kind of cryptocurrencies. But it can also be used in many other financial and commercial applications. A prominent example is smart contracts, for instance as offered in Ethereum. A contract can execute a transfer when certain events happen, such as payment of a security deposit, while the correct execution is enforced by the consensus protocol. The purpose of this paper is to explore the research and application landscape of blockchain technology acceptance by following a more comprehensive approach to address blockchain technology adoptio...
The sharing economy has evolved into a promising business concept that enables individuals to sha... more The sharing economy has evolved into a promising business concept that enables individuals to share their idle resources, improving resource utilization efficiency commercially. Recently, it has gained enormous academic attention. However, little concern has been given to the behavior of individual providers on the supply side. This paper aims to uncover the motivational and trust-based providers’ continuance intention of participation in the context of peer-to-peer ride-sharing services. Based on the survey data from 202 providers and the partial least-square analysis, we confirm the mediating effect of attitude in the relationships between participation continuance intention; trust; and three motivational dimensions: economic benefits, social–hedonic value, and sustainability. We further confirm the moderating effects of innovativeness using PROCESS. The results show that economic benefits, social–hedonic value, and sustainability significantly affect providers’ participation cont...
Congestion before the Three Gorges Dam has been an obstacle to the sustainable development of the... more Congestion before the Three Gorges Dam has been an obstacle to the sustainable development of the Yangtze River. Water–land transshipment can be a better way to alleviate congestion. Consequently, the government started to offer subsidies to evacuate ships’ traffic flow through transshipment despite that it increases environmental pollution. In this paper, we analyze the effects of subsidies on carriers’ adoption behavioral strategies, congestion and transshipment on the environment, and subsidies on pricing considering environmental emissions. Two different models are constructed, and a simulation analysis is carried out with different scenarios by varying the values of different parameters. The results show that subsidies can affect carriers’ behavioral strategies. Both lockage and transshipment modes can increase environmental emissions. Pricing under the subsidy scenario can be more competitive with profit maximization. The results offer important implications to policymakers, c...
International Journal of Operations & Production Management
PurposeThis study proposes an integrated model to explore the relationships between dynamic capab... more PurposeThis study proposes an integrated model to explore the relationships between dynamic capability and supply chain resilience (SCRE) and the relationships' impacts on firms' financial performance with supply chains (FPwSC) during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.Design/methodology/approachBased on resource-based theory and knowledge-based theory, the dynamic capability is classified into resource-based dynamic capability (RBDC) and knowledge-based dynamic capability (KBDC). The study collects 158 useable survey samples from manufacturers in Taiwan and analyzes the samples with the structural equation model.FindingsThe results show that knowledge is power; KBDC is crucial for FPwSC, SCRE and RBDC. In addition, SCRE mediates the relationship between KBDC and FPwSC. Finally, RBDC significantly suppresses FPwSC.Research limitations/implicationsFuture researchers could replicate this study in other industries and expand this to other countries to generalize t...
The International Journal of Logistics Management, 2021
PurposeThis study aims to explore the relationships among the five components of supply chain (SC... more PurposeThis study aims to explore the relationships among the five components of supply chain (SC) resilience (SCRES): visibility, velocity, flexibility, robustness and collaboration and their impacts on the SC performance under disruption (SCPUD).Design/methodology/approachFive SCRES components are identified from the literature review and data are collected using an web survey from 113 manufacturing companies in Taiwan. The data are analyzed by structured equation modeling with the partial least square solution. Two-stage least-squares (2SLS) regression was used to test the potential endogeneity of SC collaboration (SCC).FindingsThe results reveal that SCC is an exogenous driver of SCRES; it directly affects visibility, velocity, flexibility, robustness and SCPUD. Furthermore, SC flexibility is the only component of SC agility that directly affects SCPUD; it is influenced directly by SC velocity and indirectly by SC visibility through SC velocity. SC visibility is a vital agility ...
Due to the integration of cultural tourism and digital technology, tourists are no longer passive... more Due to the integration of cultural tourism and digital technology, tourists are no longer passively content with pre-arranged tours. As a system developer, one should concern about how to embed a mobile navigation system into smart phones to increase the learning experience of tourists. This study uses the visitors of National Palace Museum as research subjects and categorizes 7 design guidelines with 38 influence factors base on review of literature and analysis of personal digital navigation systems in various domestic and foreign museums. After the use of AHP (analytic hierarchy process), this study identifies that improving information quality in the mobile navigation systems and enhancing the convenience of communication between user and the system not only improve the tourist's willingness to use the system but also enhance the user's level of knowledge. Furthermore, when users realize the potential of enhancing knowledge by the system, they will increase the system use.
The electronic marketplace is a new medium for exchanging information, goods, services, and payme... more The electronic marketplace is a new medium for exchanging information, goods, services, and payments. The marketplace houses infrastructure, facilitates transactions, and matches buyers with sellers. An agent-based marketplace allows corporate data to be maintained by local buyers and sellers and transferred to the marketplace only when orders are matched. This provides participating companies with autonomy and independence. This study proposes a framework of using the mobile agent to demonstrate autonomous behavior in the electronic marketplace.
Despite the explosive growth of CBEC, research into the phenomenon has not increased proportional... more Despite the explosive growth of CBEC, research into the phenomenon has not increased proportionally. Prior studies mainly discuss the opportunities, challenges and critical elements in CBEC on the organizational level. Little research has explored the individual consumer’s psychological processes of joining and the benefits derived from purchasing on CBEC. Filling the research gap identified above, the objective of this study is to construct the hierarchical value map (HVM) of CBEC illustrating how consumers pursue their end through the decision making process consisting the linkage from perceived attributes to desired benefits and the eventual customer value when using CBEC. For this purpose, a qualitative rather than a quantitative approach ought to substantiate prior findings by uncovering the key defining components of CBEC context. The HVM presents 4 important benefits obtaining paths marked as boldfaced, referred as economic oriented path, efficacy oriented obtaining path, cho...
Financial technology (FinTech) is the new business model and technology which aims to compete wit... more Financial technology (FinTech) is the new business model and technology which aims to compete with traditional financial services and blockchain is one of most famous technology use of FinTech. Blockchain is a type of distributed, electronic database (ledger) which can hold any information (e.g. records, events, transactions) and can set rules on how this information is updated. The most well-known application of blockchain is bitcoin, which is a kind of cryptocurrencies. But it can also be used in many other financial and commercial applications. A prominent example is smart contracts, for instance as offered in Ethereum. A contract can execute a transfer when certain events happen, such as payment of a security deposit, while the correct execution is enforced by the consensus protocol. The purpose of this paper is to explore the research and application landscape of blockchain technology acceptance by following a more comprehensive approach to address blockchain technology adoptio...
The sharing economy has evolved into a promising business concept that enables individuals to sha... more The sharing economy has evolved into a promising business concept that enables individuals to share their idle resources, improving resource utilization efficiency commercially. Recently, it has gained enormous academic attention. However, little concern has been given to the behavior of individual providers on the supply side. This paper aims to uncover the motivational and trust-based providers’ continuance intention of participation in the context of peer-to-peer ride-sharing services. Based on the survey data from 202 providers and the partial least-square analysis, we confirm the mediating effect of attitude in the relationships between participation continuance intention; trust; and three motivational dimensions: economic benefits, social–hedonic value, and sustainability. We further confirm the moderating effects of innovativeness using PROCESS. The results show that economic benefits, social–hedonic value, and sustainability significantly affect providers’ participation cont...
Congestion before the Three Gorges Dam has been an obstacle to the sustainable development of the... more Congestion before the Three Gorges Dam has been an obstacle to the sustainable development of the Yangtze River. Water–land transshipment can be a better way to alleviate congestion. Consequently, the government started to offer subsidies to evacuate ships’ traffic flow through transshipment despite that it increases environmental pollution. In this paper, we analyze the effects of subsidies on carriers’ adoption behavioral strategies, congestion and transshipment on the environment, and subsidies on pricing considering environmental emissions. Two different models are constructed, and a simulation analysis is carried out with different scenarios by varying the values of different parameters. The results show that subsidies can affect carriers’ behavioral strategies. Both lockage and transshipment modes can increase environmental emissions. Pricing under the subsidy scenario can be more competitive with profit maximization. The results offer important implications to policymakers, c...
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