Purpose This study aims to identify mechanisms manage conflicts that occur when organizations with different cultures, habits and experiences try coordinate effectively in international joint ventures (IJV). proposes partners can promote their venture performance the extent they rely on cooperative rather than competitive conflict management. further hypothesizes adopting collectivist values strengthens relationships thereby provides a foundation for Design/methodology/approach The authors...

Low-light images, which are usually taken in dark or back-lighting conditions, hard to perceive due the low visibility and contrast. To improve viewers' Quality of Experience (QoE) support application vision-based systems, various low-light image enhancement algorithms (LIEAs) have been proposed lighten images. However, some LIEAs may amplify hidden distortions like noise even further, introduce new such as structural damage, color shift, etc, severely affect quality light-enhanced images...

To support the application scenarios where high-resolution (HR) images are urgently needed, various single image super-resolution (SISR) algorithms developed. However, SISR is an ill-posed inverse problem, which may bring artifacts like texture shift, blur, etc. to reconstructed images, thus it necessary evaluate quality of (SRIs). Note that most existing assessment (IQA) methods were developed for synthetically distorted not work SRIs since their distortions more diverse and complicated....

Health information technology has been widely implemented to ensure travel safety in the current normalization stage of COVID-19. However, levels public trust and acceptance toward health QR codes are low many countries, impeding tourism recovery after outbreak. Thus, this study aims explore psychological mechanisms underpinning tourist trust, confidence, behaviors traveling with codes. Using a quota sampling, 1089 respondents were collected across mainland China. Results identify that...

Purpose Funding small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) may be especially valuable in China to stimulate innovation its emerging market economy. These firms have been advised build on the Chinese value of guanxi manage conflicts develop relationships with banks. This study aims explore nature that help SMEs inform banks convince them provide credit. Design/methodology/approach As this study’s theorizing is about whether their for mutual benefit set foundation bank’s confidence extending...

ABSTRACT This research explores the determinants of probability having credit debt, as well severity card debt. Credit debt includes revolving and petty installment loan. The was measured by duration amount loans. Analysis behavioral data from a Chinese commercial bank showed significant difference between Specifically, limit, gender, length ownership card, total expenditure were closely related to likelihood However, age, square ranking, risk ranking significantly correlated with rather...

To improve the viewers' quality of experience (QoE) in computer graphics applications, visual assessment (VQA) 3D meshes is becoming a popular task multimedia area. Since are quite sensitive to processing operations like simplification and compression, many studies concerning VQA have been carried out measure caused degradations. However, previous mostly utilize full-reference metrics focus mainly on geometry attributes. While some application scenarios such as reconstruction, digital...

Compressed image quality assessment (IQA) has been a crucial part of wide range services such as storage and transmission. Due to the effect different bit rates compression methods, compressed images usually have levels quality. Nowadays, mainstream full-reference (FR) metrics are effective predict at coarse-grained levels, however, they may perform poorly when differences quite subtle. To better improve Quality Experience (QoE) provide useful guidance for algorithms, we propose an FR-IQA...

Purpose – This study aims to examine the conditions that help businesses develop confidence in their government regulators. Businesses are dependent upon governments and subject regulations. proposes confirm each other’s social face have relationship helps become confident It also uses theory of cooperation competition identify when they face. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected Shanghai, China, from bodies business organizations diverse industries. One hundred forty-six pairs...

Guanxi has long been thought to play a critical role in understanding and practicing leadership, teamwork, organizational partnerships China. Researchers have argued that guanxi can be usefully understood as kind of close relationship obliges partners assist each other. This study proposes the theory cooperation competition developed West help us understand how affects partner relationships. Findings from data on between banks small or medium enterprises Shanghai support argument strengthens...