Field Of Management Science Research Articles

Preface

PrefaceSince the Doi Moi policy launched in 1986, Vietnam opened up the country’s economic liberalization over the past 3 decades. While achieving remarkable economic growth, Vietnam has faced considerable challenges in environmental and resources management. The rapid growth of urbanization and industrialization has placed an increase in pressures on the environments and available resources, through excessive exploitation and use. Further, the utilization, management and use of environment and natural resources have increasingly drawn much attention from both researchers and managers under the effects of global climate change impacts. The application of advance technologies and management practices have become a vital of concern in the age of the 4th industrial revolution with an emerging of advance technologies.We would like to welcome you to the International Conference on Environment, Resources and Earth Sciences (ICERES 2020) in associated with the National GIS Conference 2020 (GIS for Smart Cities towards Sustainable Development) which the will be held during 1 – 5 December 2020 at Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT), Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City. ICERES 2020 is co-organized by HCMUT, Nong Lam University (NLU) and Esri Vietnam in which. The Conference is financially supported by Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City, Nong Lam University and Esri Vietnam.The main objective of the conference is to provide a platform for researchers, academicians, engineers, businessmen, managers, and postgraduate students in the field of environmental and resources management, geospatial technologies, and earth sciences to present their recent studies and latest research results. In addition, this conference aims to provide a setting environment for scientists and managers to exchange new ideas, innovative thinking, and to explore applicable experiences via face-to-face discussions, as well as establishing collaborative research projects or business relations, and to enable partners for their future collaborations.The conference program was organized into ten (10) sessions covering topics of environment and natural resources management, geospatial technologies, and earth sciences, imcluding: Smart Cities, Digital Twin Cities (Cyber Cities), Smart Building; (ii) Application of GIS in State Management; (iii) Disaster Reduction and Risk Management; (iv) Environment, Natural Resources Management and Sustainable Development; (v) 3D GIS, Laser Scanning, and Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR); (vi) Digital Imagery Processing (Satellite, UAV, Air plane); (vii) IoTs, AI, and Big Data for WebGIS; (viii) Integration of Lidar and GIS; (ix) Building Information Model (BIM) Technology; and (x) Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). Overall, the conference has attracted more than 138 papers, and among them, 46 high-quality papers were recommended to submit for the IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science proceedings book for peer-reviewing. Then, the double-blind review process was carried out for the 46 papers, in which each paper has been reviewed for its merit and novelty by at least two reviewers and one editor by matching the content areas. As a result, a total of 25 papers have been finally selected for this proceedings book. We believe that this proceedings book provides a broad overview of recent advance studies in the fields of environment, natural resources, disaster reduction and risk management, sustainable development, geospatial technologies (GIS and remote sensing) and earth resources for readers.Finally, we would like to express our sincere thanks to (i) Department of Science and Technology – Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City; (ii) the Rector of HCMUT (Assoc. Prof. Mai Thanh Phong); (iii) the Rector of Nong Lam University (Prof. ) for their help and assistance in administrative works and other supports. Special thanks go to Kayleigh Parsons for always responding promptly. We would like to thank all the reviewers for their timely and rigorous reviews of the papers and thank all the authors for their submissions.Ho Chi Minh City, November 2020Armando A. ApanLe Van TrungNguyen Kim LoiVo Le PhuTanita SuepaGarik GutmanNguyen Danh ThaoLe Van ThangVo Quang MinhLam Dao Nguyen

Teaching Trade Secret Management with Threshold Concepts

Trade secret management (TSM is an emerging field of research. Teaching trade secret management requires the inclusion of several challenging topics, such as how firms use secrets in open innovation and collaboration. The threshold concepts framework is an educational lens well suited for teaching subjects such as TSM that are transformative and troublesome. We identify four such areas in trade secret management and discuss how threshold concepts can be a useful framework for teaching. We then present an outline of a curriculum suited for master’s programs and training of intellectual property (IP) managers. Our main contribution is to fields of management and educational sciences, as well as those of innovation studies and jurisprudence.

Leadership in the Research: Determinants of Quality, Standards and Best Practices

One of the obligatory elements of any scientific research is a methodical toolkit, the diversity of which determines the reliability of the obtained results and ability to solve the tasks set in the work. The purpose of the article is to identify the factors defining the scientific research process and affect the quality of the results. The methodological tools of the study include questionnaires and factor analysis (Bartlett’s test for sphericity, KMO test (Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin sampling adequacy measure), and MSA test (sampling adequacy measure)). The object of research is 401 scientists and 196 practitioners in the field of management and quality sciences. The questionnaire for practitioners consisted of four parts. The first part includes general issues about the research process, methods and techniques used in it; the second deals with the importance of using methods and techniques in the scientific research in the field of management and quality sciences; the third – provides questions on improving the quality of research; the fourth is demographic. The questionnaire for scientists consists of three parts. The first part addresses the importance of approaches, processes, methods and techniques in research in the field of management and quality sciences; the second – includes questions on improving the research process; the third is demographic. The results are summarized on a five-point Likert scale. Based on the generalization of practitioners’ answers, the main factor of scientific research is the “concept of the research methodology model”, defined as a measure of the scientific research process effectiveness. The results of the analysis help conclude the need to develop new research methods that can increase its effectiveness by managing, planning, organizing and verifying the research process in the field of management and quality sciences. The factors determining the research process and affecting its quality include constant changes in the market. It necessitates the use of various research methods that can form a holistic basis for empirical analysis. The research process quality means checking the degree of implementation and consistency of the objectives in the article with the research problem and the conclusions in it. For the effective functioning of the research process, it is proposed to develop an “algorithm of behavior” of the researcher, which will (after determining the appropriate gap between research methods and features of the research problem) ensure their coordination and increase the added value of the results.

The association between entrepreneurship, management, and sustainable development in the middle east: A systematic review and meta-analysis

The study of entrepreneurship continues to expand as a field of enquiry and remains one of the most attractive realms of research in the field of management science. This study follows an evidence-based research approach and conducts a systematic review and meta-analysis on the entrepreneurship, management, and sustainable development in entrepreneurial firms working in the Middle East. The study has conducted a bibliometric search for outlining the systematic and empirical evidence on entrepreneurship, management, and sustainable development, and to examine the relevant literature from the particular domain, followed by PRISMA guidelines. Total of 25 articles were extracted dated from 2006 to 2020. One of the potential aspects regarding entrepreneurship, management, and sustainable development in the region was the introduction of entrepreneurial led family businesses that unlock the potential of the region. The rapid urbanization and population growth in the Middle East have put massive pressures on their environments. Entrepreneurship had a significant and positive impact on both sustainable development and management. Influenced by the entrepreneurial ecosystem, the Middle Eastern countries showed a dynamic performance at a macro level. This systematic review and meta-analysis provide information on the current state of the empirical entrepreneurship, management, and sustainable development literature.

Control Charts for the Shape Parameter of Skewed Distribution

The weighted distributions are useful when the sampling is done using an unequal probability of the sampling units. The Weighted Power function distribution (WPFD) has applications in the fields of reliability engineering, management sciences and survival analysis. WPFD is more beneficial in Statistical process control (SPC). SPC is defined as the use of statistical techniques to control a process or production method. SPC tools and procedures can help to monitor process behaviour, discover problems in internal systems, and find solutions for production issues. To identify and remove the variation in different reliability processes and also to monitor the reliability of machines where the number of errors follows WPFD, we develop control charts to keep the process in control. A memory-based control chart like an exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) control chart and an extended exponentially weighted moving average (EEWMA) control chart are discussed and compared each other. The proposal of these control charts is based on the modified maximum likelihood estimator (MMLE) under the shape parameter of WPFD. We have presented Monte Carlo simulation technique and a real-life application to compare the proposed control charts. This study shows that an EEWMA control chart based on MMLE performs better than EWMA control chart, when the underlying distribution of the errors in process monitoring follows WPFD. These findings can be useful for researchers and practitioners in dealing with production errors and optimizing the output.

Innovation Management: A Bibliometric Analysis

Innovation Management has obtained so much consideration in functioning of management science field from the previous few years. Both Managers and academicians seem to be examining the nature of innovation and its significance for the development of an organization and competitive advantage (Lopes et al.,2016). Many research scholars have accepted positive effects of innovation towards an organization and we can find some research studies conducted on it in the past few years. Through this systematic review of past literature, this research study is an attempt to enhance the knowledge of the subject and to present the extensive analysis of the past research studies. The analysis of this study was conducted to see the trend of publications between the years 1970 to 2019; it used authors, journals, countries, universities/research institutions and different keywords related to innovation management as search words. After using multiple filters for removing irrelevant researches, 2160 research articles were examined. According to results of the study number of publications increased after 2008. Therefore, it is assumed that the annual publications will continue to increase. USA & Germany have higher rate of research publications and UK has strong international collaborations. Variables such as innovative activity, innovative management, total innovation management, management innovation and innovation development are the most common terms used in research of innovation management. Some variables with infrequent occurrences, as well as future recommendations and limitations of the study were also examined.

Network relations interpretation issues in the context of management disciplines classification

The main purpose of the paper is to present and comment about word interpretation issues in the field of management science. In the first part of the ongoing paper, the authors focus on describing characteristic meanings and classifications of relations within the network concept, at the same time expressing critical views of some common interpretations and misunderstandings. Subsequently they analyze and critique the new classification system of scientific fields and managerial disciplines, implemented on the 1st of October 2018 in Poland.

Opening Science and Innovation: Opportunities for Emerging Economies

Open innovation allows partnerships between business through knowledge sharing. The mission of open science is to encourage information sharing about academic research. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the relevance of open science to open innovation and vice versa, especially in the context of emerging economies. Furthermore, it aims to show the results of the intersection between university and innovation companies. The methodology was based on a systematic literature review to understand how researchers have been studying the subject. It also focuses on the relevance of open innovation and open science to business management and information science fields. Therefore, the connection between open science and open innovation is fundamental to encourage partnership between business and university. This kind of partnership contributes to the economy of developing countries, so business can become more competitive.

Personality Traits Composition and Team Performance

Research Question: This paper investigates a relationship between the composition of personality traits of team members and teamwork performance as well as team behavioural competences. Motivation: Our primary motivation was to link and integrate organizational psychology and the field of management science. The study builds on existing literature that highlights the influence of personality factors and their composition on group processes. As stated in the literature, personality traits determine individual behaviour in work environment and therefore influence group processes and group performance (Barric, Steward, Neubert, & Mount, 1998). According to that, if we can determine such combinations of personality traits of team members that contribute to better or worse team performance, we can raise the team’s efficiency to a maximum. Idea: The main idea of ​​the research was to examine whether there is a combination of personality traits in a team that influences team performance. The importance of this topic is reflected in the increasing attention paid by organizations to working teams and their formation in order to increase productivity, so the adequate selection criteria of team members is of great importance. Data: The research was conducted in one Telecommunication Company. The final sample consisted of 20 teams formed by 87 subjects (42 male and 45 female). Every team consisted of 4-6 members and the team supervisor. The teams were generally similar in terms of education. Tools: Personality traits of team members were measured with the instrument based on the Big five model. We used the average values of the team member’s personality traits as the predictors, and team work performance as criteria. Beside descriptive statistics, we used correlation analysis and canonical and quasi canonical correlation analyses. Findings: Our findings mostly agree with similar studies in other countries - the average group result of Extraversion and Openness proved to be very important for the teamwork performance. The results strongly support the existence of one general personality factor which is connected to the teamwork performance. It therefore confirms a hypothesis that adequately formed teams contribute considerably to the success of an organization. Contribution: Perhaps the most important contribution of this paper lies in the fact that there are very few similar studies in our area and including our population, and the practical implications for management are huge.

When international academic conferences go virtual

This study investigates the extent to which international academic conferences changes format to virtual when faced by sudden Covid-19 related immobility. Data on 587 conferences in the fields of business, economics, information technology, management and other social sciences that were planned to be held between March and August 2020 are retrieved from authorised conference listings. Approximately 28% of the conferences changed to virtual format during the period of time studied. Probit estimations reveal that the probability of changing format to virtual increases with the country of location (United States), planning horizon and the available quality of broadband infrastructure in the scheduled conference country. However, the role of planning horizon differs across fields and location of the conference. The probability of virtual conferences is highest in the United States and for academic conferences in the field of information technology.

Operations Research/Management Science Research in Europe: A Bibliometric Overview

This paper provides a bibliometric analysis of the articles in the field of operations research or management science (OR/MS) published in the years 1980–2018 by European researchers. The analysis’s objective is to identify and examine the current state of OR/MS studies in Europe, which publishes about 38% of the papers published worldwide. The analysis was based on the data from the Web of Science (WoS) databases. We found a total of 65,352 papers in 148 different journals in the OR/MS field. The results provide a general picture of the studies, which are classified according to the most influential authors, institutions, papers, and journals. The study revealed that the ratio of OR/MS studies having at least one European author has steadily increased over the decades from 28.27% in the 1980 s to 41.29% in the 2010 s. The analysis also provides citation statistics of the European OR/MS articles. The study concluded that the impact of European publications is less than the impact of U.S. publications. The bibliometric analysis of the studies showed that only a small portion of the countries/regions, institutions, and even authors published a substantial portion of the papers, as indicated by the Pareto rule. The research trends have been identified through an analysis of keyword usage over the years. In keyword analysis, which subcategories are studied together is also identified. In the paper, collaboration among countries and institutions is also identified and depicted by using VOS viewer.

Psychological Flexibility for University Students: Scale Development Employing Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analyses

The objective of the study was to develop and validate an instrument to measure psychological flexibility in university students. There has been a lack of relevant existing tools that provides the expressions from the local context of Pakistani culture among the study population. The data was collected from a private university in Lahore Pakistan. A pool of 43 items was generated with the help of 73 undergraduate students. The items were administered to (N=538) students, males (28%), and females (72%) with the mean age of 21.5years, (SD=3.64). The responses were equally divided to perform exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis. The results arrived at a five-factor solution of 42 items and a three-factor solution of 29 items. Among the two competing solutions, the three-factor model of 29 items was chosen as the final scale based on confirmatory factor analysis results which measures (a) compassion and moral values, (b) social adjustment, and (c) self-management in university students belong to the fields of natural, social or management sciences. The scale is named the "Psychological Flexibility Scale for University students (PFS-US)". This suggests that the tool would provide future directions for advancement in this area of assessment and prevention of mental health in university students.

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Intelligent analysis framework for healthy environment spatial model of BIM horticultural therapy based on complex network information model

With the continuous development of modern life, people have paid more and more attention to the needs of healthy and comfortable outdoor activities. The traditional static recuperation mode has been impacted, and the modern dynamic leisure agricultural tourism health care mode is more and more popular. Horticultural therapy improves people’s cognitive, psychological and physiological functions and provides people with positive values through plant-related sensory activities and horticultural operations. Therefore, horticultural therapy has become a product of the idea that designers have been exploring new forms of landscape architecture, trying to create a more comfortable environment and maximize the benefits of people in landscape architecture. In recent years, the theoretical and empirical studies of complex networks provide an important means to reveal the complexity of complex systems. As a new and active field of scientific research, complex networks have been introduced into the empirical research of real-world networks for a long time. At present, more and more people pay attention to computer science, social science, biological science, management science and many other fields. This paper constructs a BIM horticultural therapy health environment analysis system based on complex network model. The experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively analyze the application of BIM horticultural therapy in healthy environment.

HEALTH-PRENEURSHIP: MENGAPA ILMU KESEHATAN MASYARAKAT MEMBUTUHKAN SEORANG ENTREPRENEUR?

Pendahuluan: Dunia bisnis dalam beberapa tahun terakhir banyak diminati oleh generasi muda dari berbagai latar belakang pendidikan. Dunia medis pun harus berhadapan dengan persaingan bisnis dalam penyediaan layanan kesehatan. Pada hakikatnya, mahasiswa kedokteran mendapatkan pembelajaran tentang bisnis dalam kurikulum Ilmu Kesehatan Masyarakat lewat materi teori manajemen. Hal tersebut tidak dapat sepenuhnya terlaksana karena keterbatasan kurikulum pembelajaran. Bisnis dalam dunia kesehatan selayaknya linear dengan pelayanan kesehatan holistik dan berkualitas, komunikasi dokter-pasien yang efektif, sehingga perjalanan proses terapeutik berlangsung efektif dan terhindar dari berbagai hal negatif seperti ketidakpuasan pasien yang berujung pada tuntutan medis.Tujuan: Artikel ini digunakan sebagai bahan ajar perkuliahan health-entrepreneurship yang bertujuan untuk mengeksplorasi potensi entrepreneurship dalam bidang kesehatan, mengidentifikasi peran ilmu kesehatan masyarakat yang potensial dalam dunia bisnis untuk pembelajaran mahasiswa kedokteran dan merangsang adanya ide baru untuk berinovasi agar terwujud suatu kreativitas dan karya yang berkualitas.
 Metode: Penulisan artikel ini menggunakan metode tinjauan naratif sebagai bagian dari studi literatur.
 Diskusi: Materi entrepreneurship dalam bidang kedokteran tidak jauh dari ilmu kesehatan masyarakat. Mahasiswa belajar mengenai pemasaran, khususnya komunikasi dalam konteks promosi kesehatan yang berfokus kepada permintaan pasar dalam kurikulum entrepreneurship yang diajarkan. Seorang entrepreneur kesehatan diharapkan dapat menjaga kaidah pemasaran dalam etis kedokteran, dapat menjadi praktisi, problem solver, serta turut berkontribusi dalam bidang epidemiologi, kesehatan lingkungan, biostatistik, kebijakan kesehatan, manajemen pelayanan kesehatan, serta ilmu perilaku dan sosial.

Parallel and distributed architecture of genetic algorithm on Apache Hadoop and Spark

The genetic algorithm (GA), one of the best-known metaheuristic algorithms, has been extensively utilized in various fields of management science, operational research, and industrial engineering. The efficiency of GAs in solving large-scale optimization problems would be enhanced if the iterative processes required by the genetic operators can be implemented in a parallel and distributed computing architecture. Apache Hadoop has recently been one of the most popular systems for distributed storage and parallel processing of big data. By integrating the GA highly into Apache Hadoop, this study proposes an advanced GA parallel and distributed computing architecture that achieves the effectiveness and efficiency of GA evolution. Characterized by the sophisticated mechanism of dispatching the GA core operators into Apache Hadoop, the developed computing framework fits well with the cloud computing model. The presented GA parallelization architecture outperforms the state-of-the-art reference architectures according to the computational experiments where the testing instances of traveling salesman problems are employed. Our numerical experiments also demonstrate that the proposed architecture can readily be extended to Apache Spark.

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Scientists' Research Topic Evolution Analysis Based on LDA Topic Model

Based on the LDA topic model, we focus on the topic evolution of scientists' scientific research. Utilizing the published papers of authors in members of Society of Management Science and Engineering, we find that there are some phenomena such as evolution, expansion and disappearance in the selection of research topics of scientists in the field. The application of LDA theme model in the field of management science and engineering and the discussion of the evolution of research themes in the past 20 years will help researchers accurately grasp the competitive situation and main trends in the frontier fields and effectively plan research topics.

Towards the « Digital Project Integration »: contributions of an analogical approach with the Supply Chain Integration

ABSTRACT User Experience ‘UX’ Design is an emerging discipline that facilitates digital project creation. To date, this new discipline lacks an explanatory theoretical framework in the field of design and management sciences. This article addresses the research question: How can an analogical approach to SCI be used to study the relationship between UX designers and other digital players? Following an abductive reasoning, we designed iterative loops between theory and practice. The study focuses on patterns observed in data collected through semi-directive UX Designer interviews. Thus, we formulated a hypothesis: the SCI theoretical framework can serve as an analogical analysis framework to better understand the relationships between UX designers and other players in a digital project. We present the empirical results using the SCI framework. Our results enabled us to propose a theoretical framework ‘Digital Project Integration’ following an analogy with SCI and suggest a future research agenda based on this framework.

Assess Teachers and Students’ Interaction in Campus

There are 3 combinations of teacher-student interaction in school, for the purpose to understand what Interactional deficiency happened in campus, we examined these 3 combinations, 358 college students joined the investigated to find out what they want and what bother them most. We found that there really problems between teachers and students. Besides, from co- authorship network analysis, we found there are also quite a few gaps among college teachers. We collected co-authorship data from 85 journal papers in the field of industrial and management science (IMS) with a time span of twenty years (1997-2016). A bibliometric network is constructed and UCINET 6 applied to calculate three centrality measures (out-degree, in-degree, and betweenness) for individual authors in this network. Also discussed the two subjects I taught to find out students’ learning effectiveness. The results confirm our argument and the mechanism is discussed.

Modelling and outcome analysis of a competitive environment – A probabilistic approach

Competition is one of the underlining phenomena in the world that has been continuously deforming the life and history of human beings, animals, plants and even microorganisms. The results of different competitions are fascinating from explanation of evolution to the dramatic industrial revolution. The article proposes a mathematical model to estimate the outcome probability of different competitors in a competition system on account of the number of failure gates associated. The article includes special cases like the tournament model considering the number of failure gates which are likely at various levels of competition. The study additionally gives the idea of identical probability curves on account of eight member competitions which is highly relevant in strategy and decision making process and there by sustainability of an individual competitor gets ensured. The concept of identical probability utilised here will help to understand the different scenarios in a competitive environment, with similar chance for occurrence. The model developed will definitely be a more practically relevant substitute for conventional probabilistic tools, including Bayesian approaches and whilst the character of considering bulk of competitors all together, enabling the model itself to find further extensions in the dimension of modern game theory as well. The time-dependent behaviour of number of failure gate envisaged provides more practical scope for the mathematical model presented. The model is applicable to analyse the trust related issues in supply chain with huge number of suppliers participating and also in the areas of decision making in the field of industrial management and completion science as a whole.