Using a survey of 324 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) of the Yangtze River Delta in China, this study discusses the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation, absorptive capacity, environmental dynamism, and corporate technological innovation performance. The results based on a moderated moderation model show that the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and innovation performance is significantly positive. The absorptive capacity can positively moderate this relationship. When the external environment is in high dynamism, the moderating effect of absorptive capacity will be stronger than when the environment is in low dynamism.
The method by which high-technology product manufacturers balance profits and environmental performance is of crucial concern for governments and enterprises. To examine the environmental performance of manufacturers, the present study applied Fuzzy-DEMATEL model to examine environmental performance of the PCB industry in Taiwan. Fuzzy theory was employed to examine the environmental performance criteria of manufacturers and analyse fuzzy linguistics. The fuzzy-DEMATEL model was then employed to assess the direction and level of interaction between environmental performance criteria. The core environmental performance criteria which were critical for enhancing environmental performance of the PCB industry in Taiwan were identified and presented. The present study revealed that green design (a1), green material procurement (a2), and energy consumption (b3) constitute crucial reason criteria, the core criteria influencing other criteria, and the driving factors for resolving problems.
Combining social exchange and inducement-contribution theory as our overarching theoretical framework, we examine innovative climate as a boundary condition and organizational trust as a mediating mechanism to explain when and how the employee-organization relationship (EOR) is associated with workplace innovative behavior. We conducted a field study using multi-source data to test our hypotheses. The results indicated that creativity positively predicted innovative behavior through organizational trust, and an innovative climate moderated the indirect effect of EOR on innovative behavior via organizational trust. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings and directions for future research are discussed.
25 June 2020 in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Internet of Vehicles (IoV) supports multiple traffic services by processing abundant data from sensors and video surveillance devices. With edge computing, video surveillance services can be certainly improved due to the handy resource provision for video storage and processing. Generally, to reduce the hardware and maintenance investment, it is a popular manner to deploy the limited amount of edge nodes along with the surveillance devices. However such edge node layout leads to the unstable service distribution and complicated data transmission across the surveillance devices and edge nodes, which consequently decreases the quality of the surveillance services. In addition, the service trustworthiness is suspected since the privacy information may be revealed to some extent during the data transmission. To combat these challenges, a trust-aware task offloading method (TOM) for video surveillance in edge computing enabled IoV is presented for minimizing the response time of the services, achieving the load balance of the edge nodes and realizing privacy protection. Technically, SPEA2 (improving the strength Pareto evolutionary algorithm) is employed to acquire balanced task offloading solutions. Then, TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) and MCDM (Multiple Criteria Decision Making) are exercised to ascertain the optimal solution. Finally, the experimental simulation demonstrates that TOM performs efficient and trust.
1 January 2018 in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews