Prioritising the enablers for the successful implementation of Kaizen in China: a Fuzzy AHP study (2017)
Journal Article
Ma, J., Lin, Z., & Lau, C. (2017). Prioritising the enablers for the successful implementation of Kaizen in China: a Fuzzy AHP study. International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management, 34(4), 549-568. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijqrm-12-2015-0173

Purpose – The main purpose of this study is to develop a better understanding of how Sino- Japanese joint ventures implemented the three Japanese improvement methods, i.e. Kaizen, Kaikaku and Kaizen Blitz. The specific objectives of this study are: (... Read More about Prioritising the enablers for the successful implementation of Kaizen in China: a Fuzzy AHP study.

Employability and job search behavior: A six-wave longitudinal study of Chinese university graduates (2017)
Journal Article
Xie, Y., Lin, Z., Baranchenko, Y., Lau, C., Yukhanaev, A., & Lu, H. (2017). Employability and job search behavior: A six-wave longitudinal study of Chinese university graduates. Employee Relations, 39(2), 223-239. https://doi.org/10.1108/er-02-2016-0042

Graduate employability is a key concern for many observers particularly at a time when education is increasingly available for the masses. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of graduate perceived employability on job search by integr... Read More about Employability and job search behavior: A six-wave longitudinal study of Chinese university graduates.

Factors Driving Firms from Emerging Countries into the Global Market: The Case of Chinese SMEs Entering the North East of England. (2017)
Book Chapter
Quan, R., & Lin, Z. (2017). Factors Driving Firms from Emerging Countries into the Global Market: The Case of Chinese SMEs Entering the North East of England. In T. Dorożyński, & A. Kuna-Marszałek (Eds.), Outward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Emerging Market Economies (311-328). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2345-1.ch016

The purpose of this chapter is to identify the key factors that explain the decision of Chinese small and medium sized enterprises' (CSMEs) investment into the North East of England. The authors conducted 23 semi-structured interviews with key decisi... Read More about Factors Driving Firms from Emerging Countries into the Global Market: The Case of Chinese SMEs Entering the North East of England..

Highway Passenger Transport Based Express Parcel Service Network Design: Model and Algorithm (2017)
Journal Article
Jiang, Y., Sun, B., Li, G., Lin, Z., Zheng, C., & Shen, X. (2017). Highway Passenger Transport Based Express Parcel Service Network Design: Model and Algorithm. Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2017, Article 1712325. https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/1712325

Highway Passenger Transport based Express Parcel Service (HPTB-EPS) is an emerging business which uses unutilised room of coach trunk to ship parcels between major cities. While it is reaping more and more express market, the managers are facing diff... Read More about Highway Passenger Transport Based Express Parcel Service Network Design: Model and Algorithm.

Predicting Urban Medical Services Demand in China: An Improved Grey Markov Chain Model by Taylor Approximation (2017)
Journal Article
Duan, J., Jiao, F., Zhang, Q., & Lin, Z. (2017). Predicting Urban Medical Services Demand in China: An Improved Grey Markov Chain Model by Taylor Approximation. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 14(8), Article 883. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14080883

The sharp increase of the aging population has raised the pressure on the current limited medical resources in China. To better allocate resources, a more accurate prediction on medical service demand is very urgently needed. This study aims to impro... Read More about Predicting Urban Medical Services Demand in China: An Improved Grey Markov Chain Model by Taylor Approximation.

Tourist post-visit attitude towards products associated with the destination country (2017)
Journal Article
Xu, Y., Jin, W., & Lin, Z. (2018). Tourist post-visit attitude towards products associated with the destination country. Journal of Destination Marketing and Management, 8, 179-184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdmm.2017.03.006

Post-visit attitude towards products or brands associated with destination countries is an important outcome variable overlooked in the tourism literature. Drawing upon associative network theory of memory, this study aims to contribute to the extant... Read More about Tourist post-visit attitude towards products associated with the destination country.

Resident-tourist value co-creation: The role of residents’ perceived tourism impacts and life satisfaction (2017)
Journal Article
Lin, Z., Chen, Y., & Filieri, R. (2017). Resident-tourist value co-creation: The role of residents’ perceived tourism impacts and life satisfaction. Tourism Management, 61, 436-442. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2017.02.013

This study aims to expand tourism value co-creation to include resident-tourist social interactions. Specifically, we aim to empirically verify the effects of residents' life satisfaction and their perceived benefits and costs of tourism development... Read More about Resident-tourist value co-creation: The role of residents’ perceived tourism impacts and life satisfaction.