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The other article by Chen and Sheu mainly looks into an effectiveness problem in the
enactment of environmental policies aimed at profitless recycling of economically-
disadvantaged recycled materials. Their arguments are established from a closed-loop supply
chain model in a multiplayer hierarchical Stackelberg game, manifesting interactions
between competing manufacturers, suppliers of virgin and recycled materials, and the
government. The analytical results show that a tax-subsidy system is effective because this
policy improves the profits of all parties involved in the recycling system. They suggest that
governments should engage in the recycling practice of profitless materials.
For the one article in the field of information management (IM) by Chang, Chang, Ho,
Li, and Cheng, it discusses the service quality assessment issues in the new cloud computing
services and technologies. Authors develop and establish the embryo of cloud computing
service quality assessment mechanism with Information Technology Infrastructure Library
(ITIL) as the research foundation. Initially, Delphi method is employed to determine the
services suitable for measuring the quality of cloud computing. Finally, Analytic Hierarchy
Process is adopted to confirm the relative weight of measurement items for diverse cloud
computing service suppliers. Their results reveal that different cloud computing service users
focus on different aspects of cloud computing service quality. Therefore, different cloud
computing service suppliers should clearly define their positions in the market and enhance
their competitive advantages.
For the one article in the field of organizational behavior by Chi, Lo, Liang, Lai, and
Chu, its aim is to conduct a review of research on deviant behavior in organizations which
used Asian respondents. The authors included all journals listed in the management and
psychology category of the Taiwan Social Science Citation Index (TSSCI) and 15 top tier
Western journals. Overall, their findings suggest that deviant workplace behavior has a
negative impact on both companies’ financial performance and employees’ psychological
well-being. In addition, cultural contexts were found to be a significant factor affecting
individuals’ exhibition of deviant workplace behavior. The authors suggest that the construct
domain of deviant workplace behavior should be reconstructed to include newly developed
concepts and that both positive and negative behavior should be incorporated into the overall
workplace deviance model.