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  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,067 Views
15 Pages

24 June 2023

In the platform economy, platform enterprises connect producers and customers, matching diverse supply with diverse demand to achieve profit goals. The big data assets and marketing relationships owned by platform enterprises are complementary assets...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,195 Views
20 Pages

12 August 2019

This paper applies grounded theory to explore the formation of platform leadership and its reputation through a single case study analysis of a Chinese energy internet platform enterprise CZB (Che Zhu Bang). Initially, CZB was a follower in China&rsq...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Business and Development II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
8,459 Views
21 Pages

23 October 2014

As the impact of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) on the environment increases, there is a need for effective environmental policies to sustain their development. Under this condition, SMEs implement innovation to meet environmental regulati...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,155 Views
25 Pages

Service platform enterprises have become a prominent economic form in China’s digital economy in the past two decades. The scope of complementary assets is expanding; for example, big data, precision marketing and user traffic conversion are am...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,963 Views
16 Pages

21 March 2025

Breakthrough innovations present both opportunities and challenges for firms navigating unpredictable technological and market dynamics, which is significant to firms’ sustainable development. However, the impact of strategic alliances on break...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovation and Strategic Management in Business)
  • Article
  • Open Access
443 Views
17 Pages

3 August 2026

Whether China’s carbon trading pilots stimulate firm-level innovation remains contested. This study investigates the conditional effect of carbon pricing on green invention patents, moderated by firms’ digital transformation capability. U...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
9,244 Views
23 Pages

The purpose of this study is to analyze how dynamic capabilities are integrated into open innovation to support firms pursuing innovation. Dynamic capabilities enable firms to adjust to emerging changes through redesigning resource configuration. Nev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
190 Views
24 Pages

16 September 2026

Rural environmental degradation is diffuse, weakly monitored, and hard to govern, and is among the most persistent obstacles to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Whether treating data as a factor of production relieves this constraint remains...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Rural Resiliences: Challenges, Resistances, and Pathways in New Processes of Rural Revitalization Around the World)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,167 Views
16 Pages

15 August 2018

Under the background of resource dependence, it is of great significance to study the emerging market multinationals’ (EMNEs) entry mode into international market. How do complementary assets and expansion opportunities in a host country market...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,405 Views
10 Pages

The discussion on the necessity of a larger volume of very highly quality liquid assets (VHQLA) in the euro area has been very extensive. The debate on expanding the pool of comparable euro area assets focuses on “safe assets”, often on v...

(This article belongs to the Section Financial Markets)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,078 Views
12 Pages

21 February 2017

This paper aims to develop a risk-free protection index model for portfolio selection based on the uncertain theory. First, the returns of risk assets are assumed as uncertain variables and subject to reputable experts’ evaluations. Second, under thi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
10,140 Views
14 Pages

2 February 2021

Losses due to strong seismic events can amount to millions or billions of US dollars and can affect regions for large periods of time, even severely undermining the economy. Earthquake early warning systems have proven to be helpful tools to mitigate...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Addressing Risk in Engineering Asset Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,388 Views
22 Pages

A Comprehensive Security Framework Proposal to Contribute to Sustainability

  • Javier Espinosa García,
  • Luis Hernández Encinas and
  • Alberto Peinado Domínguez

18 June 2021

Well-known international security frameworks try to eliminate or mitigate different kinds of risks on the assets covered by their scopes (e.g., people, goods, information, and reputation). To date, to the best of our knowledge, any of these approache...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
11,595 Views
27 Pages

28 February 2022

From an ecosystem perspective, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are one of the key paths for firms to foster complementary sectors and gain complementary assets. From the perspective of sustainable development, M&A can reallocate resources from...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,647 Views
24 Pages

30 July 2020

Information security management (ISM) has emerged as a major challenge to sustainable management of companies that highly rely on information technology (IT). To achieve organizational sustainability for managing assets, it is critical for all member...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,647 Views
8 Pages

A New Measure for Idiosyncratic Risk Based on Decomposition Method

  • Meng-Horng Lee,
  • Chee-Wooi Hooy and
  • Robert Brooks

This paper introduces an alternate measure of idiosyncratic risk leveraged from the decomposition method to further eliminate the residual systematic risk inherent in the factor asset pricing model. Combining both complementary techniques contributes...

(This article belongs to the Section Financial Markets)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
14,331 Views
28 Pages

‘Financial crisis’ is sometimes regarded as synonymous with ‘economic crisis’, but this is an oversimplification and risks missing the feedback loops between the financial and real economies. In this paper, the role of money is revisited in the conte...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Monetary Plurality and Crisis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
14,075 Views
23 Pages

Reliability and Risk Centered Maintenance: A Novel Method for Supporting Maintenance Management

  • Renan Favarão da Silva,
  • Arthur Henrique de Andrade Melani,
  • Miguel Angelo de Carvalho Michalski and
  • Gilberto Francisco Martha de Souza

23 September 2023

Proper maintenance planning is critical for maintenance management to contribute to increasing availability, ensuring quality requirements, and controlling the safety and environmental risks associated with physical assets. As supporting tools for de...

(This article belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,121 Views
13 Pages

12 June 2019

This study introduces an approach using Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) to consider hydraulic resilience and economic consequence resilience of a water distribution system (WDS) to identify critical assets. ECLIPS (Economic Consequence Linked to Interr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Resilient and Robust Water Distribution Systems: State-of-the-Art and Research Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,159 Views
23 Pages

Refining Open-Source Asset Management Tools: AI-Driven Innovations for Enhanced Reliability and Resilience of Power Systems

  • Gopal Lal Rajora,
  • Miguel A. Sanz-Bobi,
  • Lina Bertling Tjernberg and
  • Pablo Calvo-Bascones

Traditional methods of asset management in electric power systems rely upon fixed schedules and reactive measurements, leading to challenges in the transparent prioritization of maintenance under evolving operating conditions and incomplete data. In...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI for Smart Engineering Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
743 Views
23 Pages

Military conflict generates a qualitatively distinct category of market shock that is sudden, geographically concentrated, and channeled directly through physical energy supply routes. This paper examines investor herding and cross-sectional return d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,636 Views
16 Pages

Investment in risky financial assets plays a crucial role in individual wealth accumulation and broader financial market development. However, existing research has primarily emphasized financial literacy while giving limited attention to behavioral...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Behavioral Insights into Financial Decision Making)
  • Article
  • Open Access
709 Views
31 Pages

Field-Validated UAV-Based Deep Learning Framework for Automated Inspection of Power Transmission and Distribution Infrastructure

  • Gabriel Miguel Castro Martins,
  • Murillo Ferreira dos Santos,
  • Mathaus Ferreira da Silva,
  • Juliano Emir Nunes Masson,
  • Pedro Mendes Rocha Alves and
  • Gabriela Ribeiro Cabral Chain

14 July 2026

The reliable inspection of power transmission and distribution infrastructure is essential for ensuring energy security, operational continuity, and asset reliability. Conventional inspection procedures are labor-intensive, costly, and often expose m...

(This article belongs to the Section Electronic Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,661 Views
20 Pages

Valuation of the Vocationality of Cultural Heritage: The Vesuvian Villas

  • Fabiana Forte,
  • Vincenzo Del Giudice,
  • Pierfrancesco De Paola and
  • Federica Troisi

28 January 2020

The Vesuvian Villas are a system of architectural assets that, due to important artistic, historical and typological characteristics, have relevance that is not only local. However, due to ineffective management policies and insufficient financial re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Enhancement of Public Real-estate Assets and Cultural Heritage: Management Plans and Models, Innovative Practices and Tools in Supporting the Local Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
180 Views
20 Pages

7 October 2026

Enterprise vulnerability management increasingly relies on heterogeneous security platforms that provide complementary but fragmented views of the organizational security posture. Transforming this information into coordinated security assessment act...

  • Review
  • Open Access
615 Views
44 Pages

19 September 2026

Bridge infrastructure worldwide is under increasing pressure from ageing assets, growing traffic demand, environmental deterioration, and the need for more effective lifecycle management. Although bridge-monitoring technologies have developed rapidly...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors and Sensing Technologies for Structural Health Monitoring in Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,794 Views
23 Pages

22 November 2016

The Energy Performance Certification (EPC) of existing residential buildings has been designed to introduce energy efficiency as a comparative criterion for real-estate purchase choices, which should influence real-estate market value and stimulate e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Energy Regions—Drivers and Barriers to the Implementation of Low Carbon Technologies at a Regional Scale)
  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
10,266 Views
25 Pages

5 September 2017

Real estate capital is in constant competition with other capital assets due to its different and complementary economic functions such as direct use, productive investment, and speculative investment. These features and the resulting opportunities c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Real Estate Economics, Management and Investments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
929 Views
20 Pages

This study examines whether stablecoin and Bitcoin transaction volumes in Brazil are associated with domestic macroeconomic conditions. Using monthly data from August 2019 to December 2025, the analysis compares the association of domestic economic a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cryptocurrency and Digital Cash)
  • Article
  • Open Access
815 Views
23 Pages

14 May 2026

This study investigates the optimal service life of urban Electric Multiple Units (EMUs) by integrating two complementary evaluation methods: economic service life and maintenance limit life. Using a comprehensive dataset from Seoul Metro—inclu...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,288 Views
21 Pages

18 May 2021

The major focus of this paper is on the sovereign–banks relationship following the COVID-19 pandemic crisis outbreak, with a view to gaining an insight into banks’ exposure to the sovereign. We rely on a series of complementary research approaches, s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,620 Views
15 Pages

In this paper, we investigate the numerical valuation of European and American options under the time fractional Black-Scholes model. We first apply a coordinate stretching transformation to the asset price so that the spatial region can focus on the...

  • Review
  • Open Access
88 Citations
36,118 Views
20 Pages

Essential Oils, Phytoncides, Aromachology, and Aromatherapy—A Review

  • Subramanian Thangaleela,
  • Bhagavathi Sundaram Sivamaruthi,
  • Periyanaina Kesika,
  • Muruganantham Bharathi,
  • Wipada Kunaviktikul,
  • Areewan Klunklin,
  • Chatnithit Chanthapoon and
  • Chaiyavat Chaiyasut

28 April 2022

Chemical compounds from plants have been used as a medicinal source for various diseases. Aromachology is a unique field that studies the olfactory effects after inhaling aromatic compounds. Aromatherapy is a complementary treatment methodology invol...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Industry – Promoting Human Performance and Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,970 Views
14 Pages

13 April 2020

Investment in every type of asset increases GDP and net employment differently. This paper compares the effect produced by a permanent unitary shock in Sustainable Knowledge for the Primary Sector (SKPS) on the Spanish employment and GDP growth with...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability in the Global-Knowledge Economy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
8,426 Views
14 Pages

Geocoding historical addresses is a primary yet nontrivial application of spatial analysis in historical geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial humanities. We demonstrate our endeavours of geo-referencing and visualising historical census a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Historical GIS and Digital Humanities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,109 Views
17 Pages

11 September 2024

Malware attacks have a cascading effect, causing financial harm, compromising privacy, operations and interrupting. By preventing these attacks, individuals and organizations can safeguard the valuable assets of their operations, and gain more trust....

(This article belongs to the Collection Deep Learning for Computer Vision: Algorithms, Theory and Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,011 Views
22 Pages

8 June 2020

The quality of company asset management is significantly dependent on the quality of a system for asset wear margin identification. A pipeline–machine subsystem may be an essential part of assets in many production companies. It is necessary to...

(This article belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)
  • Case Report
  • Open Access
66 Citations
6,667 Views
16 Pages

25 May 2021

Green bonds have increasingly been utilized around the world as a source of financing for renewable energy development, designed with compliance requirements and measurable economic returns to investors, while mitigating climate change. However, the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Finance in Energy Sectors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,989 Views
19 Pages

Accurate, scalable pavement condition monitoring is essential for effective asset management, yet traditional methods of collecting metrics like the International Roughness Index (IRI), Pavement Condition Index (PCI), and Pavement Surface Evaluation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,977 Views
12 Pages

This article examines the expansion of short-term rentals in Valparaíso, Chile, through the Airbnb platform. The study addresses the broader context of digital platforms transforming housing markets, with a focus on Latin American cities, wher...

  • Article
  • Open Access
453 Views
31 Pages

9 August 2026

Public sector organizations face mounting pressure to improve employee performance while pursuing sustainable management practices, yet evidence on how sustainability-oriented leadership relates to tangible performance outcomes remains scarce, partic...

  • Review
  • Open Access
404 Views
43 Pages

From Crowdsourcing to TLS–BIM/HBIM Workflows for Cultural Heritage Documentation and Structural Assessment: A Review

  • Elias Christoforou,
  • Theoklitos Klitou,
  • Ourania Douni,
  • Eleni Apostolidou,
  • Nicholas Afxentiou,
  • Nikolaos Schetakis,
  • Georgios Xekalakis,
  • Petros Christou,
  • Alessio Di Iorio and
  • Paris Fokaides
  • + 1 author

2 August 2026

The integration of advanced terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) techniques into building information modelling (BIM) workflows has significantly enhanced the digitization and preservation of cultural heritage sites. In this context, crowdsourcing can op...

(This article belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,516 Views
17 Pages

This study aimed to uncover the impact of COVID-19 on the leading cryptocurrency (Bitcoin) and on sustainable finance with specific attention to their potential long memory properties. In this article, the application of the selected methodologies is...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractal and Multifractal Analysis in Financial Markets)
  • Article
  • Open Access
903 Views
22 Pages

Does the pricing of uncertainty in cryptocurrency markets depend on where in the return distribution one looks, and does investor attention carry information beyond uncertainty itself? We address these questions for ten cryptocurrencies spanning domi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Future of Money: Central Bank Digital Currencies, Cryptocurrencies and Stablecoins, 2nd Edition)
  • Review
  • Open Access
123 Citations
18,408 Views
21 Pages

Honey: Another Alternative in the Fight against Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria?

  • Patricia Combarros-Fuertes,
  • José M. Fresno,
  • Maria Manuela Estevinho,
  • Mário Sousa-Pimenta,
  • M. Eugenia Tornadijo and
  • Leticia M. Estevinho

Antibacterial resistance has become a challenging situation worldwide. The increasing emergence of multidrug-resistant pathogens stresses the need for developing alternative or complementary antimicrobial strategies, which has led the scientific comm...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Honey Bee Products as an Alternative or Complement to Classical Antibiotics)
  • Review
  • Open Access
41 Citations
17,653 Views
21 Pages

Augmented Reality and the Digital Twin: State-of-the-Art and Perspectives for Cybersecurity

  • Fabian Böhm,
  • Marietheres Dietz,
  • Tobias Preindl and
  • Günther Pernul

9 September 2021

The rapid advancements of technology related to the Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems mark an ongoing industrial revolution. Digital Twins and Augmented Reality play a significant role in this technological advancement. They are highly co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cyber Situational Awareness Techniques and Human Factors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,963 Views
13 Pages

15 June 2021

This study’s objective was to understand how chief executive officers’ (CEOs) gender affects hotel businesses’ survival. Female managers’ influence has already been examined in other sectors, but researchers have not studied women CEOs’ role in hotel...

(This article belongs to the Collection Sustainable Hospitality Management and Marketing: From Theory to Survival Reality)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,194 Views
12 Pages

Building Oral Health Literacy in Adolescence: A Qualitative Exploration of Knowledge and Behaviours in Spain

  • Olabarrieta-Zaro Elena,
  • Bernardo-Vilamitjana Natàlia,
  • Figueroa-Marcé Laura,
  • Bastardo-López Zoila,
  • Reig-Garcia Glòria and
  • Pujiula-Blanch Montserrat

17 March 2026

Background: Oral health during adolescence is a key determinant of long-term well-being and health equity. Despite widespread recognition of its importance, disparities in knowledge, motivation, and access to care persist. This study was conducted in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
373 Views
47 Pages

10 June 2026

This study examines whether conventional and Islamic real estate indices are associated with different patterns of financial connectedness and long-memory behavior in selected eco-resource sectors. The analysis focuses on four resource-related financ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Climate and Energy Economics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
647 Views
12 Pages

19 March 2026

In the classical non-life insurance models, the capital reserve of an insurance company increases at a constant rate and decreases by downward jumps. We consider a generalization of this model by supposing that a fixed portion of the capital reserve...

(This article belongs to the Section E5: Financial Mathematics)

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