Zhan Su

Laval University | ULAVAL · Department of Management

Impact of quality of big data marketing analytics (BDMA) was analyzed, with special attention to the BDMA dimensions of technology and information quality, and the level of deployment on perceived market and financial performance. The sample was collected with Canadian and U.S. marketing respondents with experience in big data (BD) deployment (N=23...

This study analyzes the knowledge value chain of a center for continuing education that offers skill development programs for adult learners. It analyzes how the center can improve efficiency and capacity by effective knowledge sharing (KS) that requires both information and communication technologies (ICT) and the conducive organizational cultures...

Employees working under conscientious leadership perceive their leaders as ethical leaders. This study investigates the conscientiousness of leaders as an essential trait of ethical leadership and the relationship between ethical leadership and employee-turnover intention. Additionally, we study the potential mediating roles of the individual-level...

In this paper, we proposed an analytical framework based on the institutional theory to analyze the effect of institutional context on the impact of entrepreneurship education (EE). The influence of institutional environment was captured through three variables, namely perceived government support, perceived cultural norms, and social legitimacy of...

The role of organizational attitude for an effective knowledge sharing (KS) in IT outsourcing (ITO) relationships has not been adequately addressed. In this paper, the authors investigate the relationship between KS and ITO success as well as the potential moderating effect of organizational attitude on the relationship between KS and partnership q...

L'intelligence artificielle (IA) est de plus en plus présente dans toutes les sphères de la société. Elle est d’ailleurs sur le point de bouleverser radicalement les milieux de travail et la vie quotidienne. Cette évolution imminente suscite cependant de nombreuses inquiétudes, notamment sur le marché du travail. Le déploiement de l'IA pourrait sup...

One of the current major trends in the media industry is customer value co-creation. User participation can significantly affect news media organisations. This study examines the impact of value co-creation on the loyalty, satisfaction, and behavioural tendencies of media consumers, using a survey of users of My Fars news platform. The conceptual m...

These days, doing business in Africa is a necessity. But in view of the difficulties involved, knowing and understanding the current factors that govern Africa’s business environment and impact firms’ behaviour becomes an imperative for businesses to succeed on the continent. This study is therefore useful as it sheds light on those factors, in ord...

Purpose The study explores African partners' experiences regarding Chinese expatriates' knowledge control practices in 29 Sino-African joint ventures in 12 countries. It provides insights into power dynamics and knowledge transfer (KT) from African partners' perspective. Design/methodology/approach The qualitative paper mobilized semi-structured i...

Microcredit for poverty alleviation program got huge success in many parts of the world in reducing income-poverty and human-poverty. The progress on human poverty reduction was faster than the income-poverty. There are insignificant researches of financial efficiency of microcredit delivery programs undertaken by the Microfinance Institutions (MFI...

With the growing number of Africans living in China for education and business engagements, it is timely and relevant to study how they are influenced by Chinese cultural values. Applying the theory of acculturation, this article analyses the influence of Chinese culture on the entrepre-neurial skills of Africans trained in China. Several reports i...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is not just a simple tool to replace skilled labour but one that is equally capable of creating many other jobs in line with its development. It is even expected that there will be a surge in skilled jobs to provide support services for the new technologies. Occupations that are inimitable to AI are characterized by the...

In recent years, China has become Africa’s most important economic partner Chinese companies of all sizes and sectors bring investments, managerial know-how and entrepreneurial energy to all 54 African countries China also plays host to the largest population of African migrants seeking business opportunities as well as African students in search o...

Micro‐entrepreneurial activities in small‐scale trading in an urban context generate incomes and reduce poverty of marginal city dwellers. They are viable but need to adapt to the socio‐economic system where they operate. The types of micro‐entrepreneurial activities vary between rural and urban contexts. The delivery cost of microfinance services...

Through the prism of soft power theory, this paper examines the influence of Chinese managerial soft power on the development of management skills by Africans who had previously studied in China before returning to Africa to run their own businesses. From a thematic analysis of semi-structured interview data, we identify themes emerging from the co...

This article presents a direct RF-to-digital converter (RDC) for polar receivers, in which the amplitude information of the received signal is detected by a reconfigurable analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and its phase is digitized using a time-to-digital converter (TDC). The RDC prototype also includes a multi-phase reference generator and an ADC...

In recent years, China has become Africa’s most important economic partner. Chinese companies of all sizes and sectors bring investments, managerial know-how and entrepreneurial energy to all 54 African countries. China also plays host to the larg­est population of African migrants seeking business opportunities as well as African students in searc...

This policy review describes the efforts to develop an ecosystem to boost innovation in creative industries. Since the 2017 reimposition of the US-led sanctions on Iran, creative industries in the country emerged as a competitive advantage which could help lessen reliance on foreign countries and generate revenues through self-sufficiency. Accordin...

In this study, we analyzed the drivers of tax evasion occurring through international trade between Benin and its major import partners, namely France - a Western country - and China, a non-Western country. To this end, we scrutinized the co-movement between tax rates and tax evasion, and investigated whether tax evasion in Benin is driven by miscl...

Strategic orientations (SOs) and absorptive capacity can significantly enhance innovation capacity in manufacturing Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). This study explores the relationship of SOs i.e., Market Orientations (MOs), Entrepreneurial Orientations (EOs) and Customer Orientations (COs) to absorptive capacity on the one hand, and to innova...

Socio-ecological consequences emanating from inadequate compliance of environmental standards by the business firms' operations in institutionally weak developing countries must be included in the research on organizations and their relationship with the natural environment. Business firms should be held accountable for the socio-ecological degrada...

The pooled effect value of PVT1 on (A) LNM, (B) DOI, (C) DM, (D) DIF, and (E) LI. Abbreviations: DIF, differentiation; DM, distant metastasis; DOI, depth of invasive; IV, inverse variance methods; LI, lymphatic invasion; LNM, lymph node metastasis; SE, standard error.

The pooled effect value of PVT1 on OS. Abbreviations: IV, inverse variance methods; OS, overall survival; SE, standard error; ACC, adrenocortical cancer; BLCA, bladder cancer; BRCA, breast cancer; CESC, cervical cancer; CHOL, bile duct cancer; COAD, colon cancer; DLBC, large B-cell lymphoma; ESCA, esophageal cancer; GBM, glioblastoma; HNSC, head an...

The flow chart of meta-analysis.

The pooled effect value of PVT1 on TNM. Abbreviations: IV, inverse variance methods; SE, standard error; UVM, ocular melanoma; SKCM, melanoma; STAD, stomach cancer; TGCT, testicular cancer; THCA, thyroid cancer; READ, rectal cancer; LUSC, lung squamous cell carcinoma; MESO, mesothelioma; LIHC, liver cancer; LUAD, lung adenocarcinoma; LUSC, lung squ...

The pooled effect value of PVT1 on (A) DFS and (B) PFS. Abbreviations: DFS, disease-free survival; IV, inverse variance methods; PFS, progression-free survival; SE, standard error.

Purpose Long noncoding RNA PVT1 is dysregulated in some human tumors and has been found to increase the risk of tumor progression and poor prognosis. This study aimed to reanalyze the effect of PVT1 on tumorous prognosis. Materials and methods The effect of PVT1 on metastasis and survival were analyzed by univariate logistic regression and Cox pro...

Environmental awareness and changing attitudes toward "green consumption" are becoming evident in emerging countries' markets. Using an extended theory of planned behavior, this paper aims to examine emerging countries' business students' intentions to purchase green vehicles. Stratified random sampling was used to select study participants, and da...

Offshore outsourcing is mainly the flow of tasks from developed to emerging country firms in search of low cost production facilities. Many of these firms are now shifting their outsourcing activities from emerging to least developing countries. This paper shed light on determinants of firms based in emerging countries’ decision on shifting their o...

Microcredit for poverty alleviation program got huge success in many parts of the world in reducing income-poverty and human-poverty. The progress on human poverty reduction was faster than the income-poverty. There are insignificant researches of financial efficiency of microcredit delivery programs undertaken by the Microfinance Institutions (MFI...

With this systematic review, we intend to achieve three aims: (1) to take an inventory of what have been done so far in the field of Chinese investments in Africa; (2) to critically analyze the actors, motivations, mode of entry, impacts and management challenges, in the light of international business theories; and (3) to identify research gaps fo...

This article provides an analytical synthesis of the literature on the determinants of SME growth. It proposes an update on known theories and highlights these determinants by categorizing them. The writing also highlights the convergent and divergent points of view of the authors in relation to the determinants and nuances the respective contribut...

Offshore outsourcing has evolved from cost-only strategy to growth strategy in knowledge-intensive industries (KIIs) such as the pharmaceutical industry. This paper explores the case of offshore outsourcing of pharmaceutical manufacturing to India. An extensive literature review shows that firms do engage in offshore outsourcing to India have acces...

Because previous empirical research offers inconclusive evidence of the induced impact of tourism expenditure in Malaysia, this study utilizes a closed input–output model to analyze the total economy-wide impact of international tourist expenditure in Malaysia. The results reveal that international tourist expenditure has both a direct primary impa...

Purpose: Circulating miR-31 was found to be associated with cancers detection and prognosis. The present meta-analysis aimed to explore the effect of circulating miR-31 on cancer detection and prognosis. Method: The studies were accessed using multiple databases. RevMan5.3, Meta-DiSc 1.4, and STATA14.0 were used to estimate the pooled effects, h...

Purpose High expression of highly upregulated in iver cancer (HULC) has been found associated with increased metastasis and poor prognosis with cancer. This meta-analysis aimed to determine the pooled effect of HULC on metastasis and prognosis of cancers. Method The studies were accessed using multiple databases. RevMan5.3 and STATA14.0 were used...

Funnel plot with pseudo 95% confidence limits. (PNG)

PRISMA 2009 checklist (HULC). (DOC)

Forest plot of the pooled HRs for OS for in Chinese under the fixed-effects model. (PNG)

a). Forest plot of pooled hazard ratios (HRs) for overall survival (OS) with highly upregulated in liver cancer (HULC) detected in tissue under the random-effects model. b). Forest plot of the pooled HRs for OS with HULC detected in serum under the fixed-effects model. Abbreviations: SE, standard error; IV, inverse variance methods; CI, confidence...

This paper examines how sub-Saharan Africans do business in China, particularly in the province of Guangdong. Through a qualitative approach, the paper analyzes data obtained from twenty interviews with sub-Saharan Africans. It's a descriptive study that explores the strategies, tactics and attitudes adopted by those sub-Saharan Africans to cope wi...

This study examines 29 Africa-China JVs from 12 African countries to explore the ways in which African partners gain knowledge and learn from their Chinese counterparts. Based on the perspectives of social capital, cultural difference, and informalities, we analyze the strategies, behaviors, and tactics employed by Africans both at the individual a...

Purpose It has been suggested that to be successful in the current global economy with increased competition and ever changing markets, especially in the post-crisis context, firms need to focus more on innovation in exploring new ideas and designing new products to develop new markets than on cost-cutting strategies to maintain cost leadership in...

Traditional bipolar differential amplifiers have only a ±5-mV operational range with nonlinear distortion below 0.1 dB. In this paper, a linearization technique based on neural-network training algorithm is proposed to expand this 0.1-dB linear region to a much wider ±200-mV range. Compared with the traditional and recent state-of-the-art technique...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to critically assess the major contributions to the academic literature on China’s increased focus on Africa, from 2001 to 2011. It discusses the key trends concerning China’s presence in Africa and draws conclusions on the significance of the studies by emphasizing and contrasting the prevailing positions....

This study conducts a systematic review of the researches on Chinese investments in Africa, publishing in major journals of business administration and international business over these last 10 years. It studies the motivational factors for Chinese firm’s presence in Africa, the modes of entry of Chinese investment, the management issues, and the...

This paper proposes a wideband low-noise down converter with operational frequency ranging from 0.8–3GHz in 0.18µm SiGe technology. The down converter is based on a double balanced Gilbert cell configuration with folded structure to lower the supply voltage. The folded structure also allows separate bias for the mixer and the gm stages to optimizin...

This paper analyzes the effects of capital inflows on domestic investment in the Economic and Monetary Union of West Africa (WAEMU). In this respect, there are three types of foreign capital to be taken into account namely FDI, Official Development Assistance (ODA) and migrant remittances (MR). The empirical study is conducted based on the theoreti...

Purpose Long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) PVT1 was detected all types of cancer from Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) project; however, the role of PVT1 in cancer is not clear. This study aimed to reanalyze and determine the effect of PVT1 on cancer diagnosis, especially detection in serum. Materials and Methods Differential expression of PVT1 between cancers...

This paper presents the adaptive analog hardware implementation of a MLP (multilayer perceptron architecture) ANN (artificial neural networks) for online nonlinear system operation. Neurons are implemented by bipolar differential pairs with tangent hyperbolic activation function. A bipolar current multiplier and a linearized differential amplifier...

This paper implements a 'multi-tanh principle' to linearize the bipolar differential amplifiers by offsetting the transfer function of the differential pairs and connection them in parallel. The principle is analyzed in detail and the optimum 3.75 and 2.9 offset ratio is found for a double and a 4-cell linearized differential amplifier. The resulte...

The objective of this study is to identify and understand the process and factors that influence the 'second-order' outsourcing decision in context of manufacturing firms in low cost developing countries. Usually, big manufacturing suppliers receive more foreign manufacturing orders than they can handle with their existing infrastructure, and then,...

This research is an analytical synthesis of managerial strategies for attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Canada. It establishes from a literature review different strategies devoted to the issues and benefits of FDI relative to the capitalization of FDI in Canada. In terms of contributions of the study, we propose a theoretical basis tha...

Multinational firms from emerging economies have been steadily climbing up the success ladder and have emerged as challenging and strong global contenders. They have proved to be facilitators of globalization and several of them have hailed from emerging regions, including India and China, which have become important parts of today’s globalized eco...

Purpose The purpose of the paper is (i) to measure total productivity, capital productivity and labor productivity of the sample pharmaceutical enterprises; and (ii) to analyze capital-labor relationship for better understanding of productivity performance. Methodology The main feature of the study is the extensive use of secondary data and the...

Offshore outsourcing is mainly the flow of tasks from developed to emerging countries in search of low cost production base. Recently, however, many emerging countries firms (ECF) are shifting their outsourcing activities to least developing countries (LDC). The objective of this paper is to shed light on determinants that firms from South Korea an...

Changing economic epi-centre from the west towards the east is accompanying the luxury goods markets and the emerging Chinese market is becoming impossible to overlook for the luxury goods brands. Potential purchasers buying process of conspicuous and hedonic values enabled Luxury goods differ from the buyers of usual consumer products. In conseque...