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International Journal of Business Studies and Innovation
ISSN:2737-5331
Frequency: Quarterly Published by lIKll

Vol.2, Iss.3, September 2022

Logistics plays a significant role in the economy with its main contribution to the gross domestic product (GDP) of many countries. In highly developed countries, logistics costs compared to their GDP range between 8 and 10%. As globalization of trade develops, the importance of improving logistics’ active efficiency is essential for any business enterprise to gain a competitive advantage. Many scholars have so far made great efforts to study logistics functionality, and a large number of relative literature on basic logistics activities of transportation, warehousing, and inventory have been published. Unfortunately, past studies on logistics operational activities are mostly categorized as single research themes of basic logistics activities. Few studies comprehensively considered basic and value-adding activities with entire logistics operational activities. Therefore, for typical multi-criterion decision-making (MCDM), the F-DEMATEL technique is adopted for evaluating the crucial performance indicators of time, cost, quality, service, and innovation to improve the reliability of expert evaluations under uncertain environments in this study. Also, the F-TOPSIS technology is used to calculate all alternatives to help decision-makers develop appropriate operational activities of logistics management. The study result identifies 13 important operational activities of logistics functionality. Besides, the data from a case study of the elite interview is used for validation. The F-DEMATEL is used to obtain the weights of the core criteria. The importance of critical weighted indicators from the F-DEMATEL calculation show “Service” > “Cost” > “Quality” > “Time” > “Innovation”. In addition, the F-TOPSIS is used to prioritize critical activities in logistics functionality. The ranking of the critical basic activities demonstrates that “Transportation/ Distribution” is the most critical logistic activity, followed by “Information” and “Pick and Pack”. Also, the ranking result of the critical value-adding activities shows that “Consignment Stock” is the most critical value-adding activity, followed by “Returns and Quality Control” and “Repair and Maintenance”. Therefore, the logistics managers give priority to the formulation of improvement management based on these ranks. The proposed suggestions of evaluating methods of F-DEMATEL and F-TOPSIS, important 13 crucial activities of logistics, evaluating indicators of logistics activity, and ranks of crucial activities in logistics functionality, thus, make up for a deficiency in previous research that lacks an empirical analysis of the crucial operational activities in logistics functionality.
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    by Guo Menghan and Zhao Xiaokang*
    IJBSI 2022, Vol 2, Issue 3, 1-9, https://doi.org/10.35745/ijbsi2022v02.03.0001 - Published on September 30, 2022

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    From the results of China's "13th Five-Year Plan". Scientific and technological innovation has achieved remarkable results, and the textile industry has achieved the development of the entire industrial chain. Therefore, this article analyzed the international competitiveness of China's textile industry by comparing China's textile industry with the countries related to the world's three major textile centers. Firstly, based on the niche theory and the Michael Porter Diamon model, an evaluation ...

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    Research on Mechanism of Work Interruption on Knowledge-sharing Behavior Based on Conservation of Resources Theory

    by Yue-Zhang Qiu, Xiao-Kang Zhao* and Xiao Pan
    IJBSI 2022, Vol 2, Issue 3, 10-21, https://doi.org/10.35745/ijbsi2022v02.03.0002 - Published on September 30, 2022

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    Knowledge-sharing behavior has always been the focus of knowledge management. With the development of technology and the promotion of open offices, work interruption has gradually become the norm at work, and its impact on knowledge-sharing behavior is worth paying attention to. Based on the theory of resource conservation, situational experiments (study 1 and study 2) and a questionnaire survey (study 3) were conducted to explore the impact of work interruption on individual knowledge-sharing b...

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    Performance Evaluation of Operational Activities in Logistics Functionality Using F-DEMATEL and F-TOPSIS Approach

    by Po Heng Tsou, Ming Hon Hwang, Dennis Bumsoo Kim and Hsin Yao Hsu*
    IJBSI 2022, Vol 2, Issue 3, 22-37, https://doi.org/10.35745/ijbsi2022v02.03.0003 - Published on September 30, 2022

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    Logistics plays a significant role in the economy with its main contribution to the gross domestic product (GDP) of many countries. In highly developed countries, logistics costs compared to their GDP range between 8 and 10%. As globalization of trade develops, the importance of improving logistics’ active efficiency is essential for any business enterprise to gain a competitive advantage. Many scholars have so far made great efforts to study logistics functionality, and a large number of relati...

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    by Dawei Liu
    IJBSI 2022, Vol 2, Issue 3, 38-48, https://doi.org/10.35745/ijbsi2022v02.03.0004 - Published on September 30, 2022

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    This research is conducted to propose a conceptual model for the adoption of digital government services based on an extended technology acceptance model. Through a survey of 359 users of digital government services, how to operationalize and test emerging variables is investigated to understand citizens' acceptance intentions. The results indicate that perceived social influence and trust are key factors in the acceptance of online government services and intention for adoption. Familiarity and...

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    IJBSI 2022, Vol 2, Issue 3, 49-55, https://doi.org/10.35745/ijbsi2022v02.03.0005 - Published on September 30, 2022

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    Video game, as an emerging media, has developed by leaps and bounds in recent years. As one of the most popular forms of leisure and entertainment today, it is referred to as the “ninth art”. Its commercial and cultural values have influenced people in a new generation. The translation of names in video games (simplified as ‘game’ hereinafter) has become an important topic for many people nowadays. In current game development, most of the games are packaged with the names of source languages, wh...

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    Evolving Music Industry in China

    by Luo-Xiao Zhang* and Min-Tsai Lai
    IJBSI 2022, Vol 2, Issue 3, 56-63, https://doi.org/10.35745/ijbsi2022v02.03.0006 - Published on September 30, 2022

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    With the introduction of ITunes by Apple in 2003, the music industry has brought the service provider major changes. With the development of the mobile Internet and the arrival of the streaming media era, the vertical integration of the record industry chain, which has the largest share among the three sub-chains of the music industry, has disintegrated. The offline sales channels that used CD as the medium gradually declined, while the online channels that used iTunes and streaming media as the...