Abstract: Firm performance is a crucial concept in business domains. However, an implicit understanding of firm performance may undermine the knowledge derived from quantitative organizational studies because the construct of firm ...

Abstract: In management literature, a fundamental research question is why some companies succeed while others fail. The contingency-based approach proposes that organizational performance is a consequence of the fit between a set ...

Abstract: The competitiveness of the construction industry is significantly affected by various factors, such as abundant manpower, integrated performance of supporting industries, and government support. The construction industry ...

Abstract: The temporal-spatial focusing effect of the time-reversal method on the guided wave inspection in pipes was investigated theoretically in the current research with a transfer function. The amplitude ...

Abstract: Fixed convolution kernels, leading to rich local contexts, restrict the adaptive spatial aggregation of a crack detection network. To solve this problem, we introduce a structure design that makes the Transformer-based ...

Abstract: The internationalization of construction companies has become of significant interest as the global construction market continues to be integrated into a more competitive and turbulent business environment. However, due ...

Abstract: In cold and arid saline areas, the mechanical properties of soils are usually significantly affected by some complicated conditions, especially the coupled effects of the freeze–thaw–dry–wet (F–T–D–W) cycles and soil ...