The impact of supply chain resilience on customer satisfaction and financial performance: A combination of contingency and configuration approaches
March 2024
Supply chain resilience (SCR) refers to a supply chain's (SC's) ability to recover from disruptions timely and effectively. This study uses a combination of contingency and configuration approaches...
A systematic review of a digital twin city: A new pattern of urban governance toward smart cities
June 2021
Many countries and governments consider smart cities a solution to global warming, population growth, and resource depletion. Numerous challenges arise while creating a smart city. Digital twins, along...
Systemic financial risk analysis of the U.S. based on the complex network
September 2025
This paper proposes a new framework for measuring systemic financial risk, which combines the Diebold and Yilmaz spillover index model, complex network, and dimensionality reduction method. This framework...
The spillover effect of US monetary policy on the international financial market: Evidence from network analysis
March 2025
The dominant role of the US dollar as a global currency allows the Federal Reserve's monetary policy to significantly influence economic and financial dynamics in other countries through mechanisms...
The peer effects of corporate social responsibility performance on innovation outputs: Evidence from China
September 2025
This study investigates the influence of corporate social responsibility performance by industry peers on innovation outputs of focal firms, along with the underlying mechanism that drives the peer...
Forecasting the value at risk of the crude oil futures market: Do high-frequency data help?
September 2025
This paper presents the first formal comparison of Value at risk (VaR) forecasting performance across various high-frequency volatility models and conventional benchmarks using daily data in the crude...
Climate policy uncertainty and dynamic volatility spillovers in Chinese stock market: Based on sectoral evaluation
September 2025
This study examines volatility spillovers among climate-policy-relevant sectors in the Chinese stock market across both time and frequency domains. It further explores the impact of climate policy uncertainty...
Regression-based estimators in difference-in-differences with time-varying covariates
September 2025
This study proposes a regression-based estimation method in difference-in-differences settings in the presence of time-varying covariates – a scenario commonly encountered in applications. We impose...
Improving supply chain Transparency: The role of blockchain technology and its impact on return shipping insurance
September 2025
Using return shipping insurance (RSI) to address product returns is common in e-commerce, while adopting blockchain technology (BCT) for product traceability not only significantly reduces the inspection...
Spatial effects of transport on healthcare efficiency: Evidence from China
September 2025
Concerns have been raised regarding the equity and efficiency of Chinese healthcare systems, where improved transportation is expected to be a significant factor. The positive externalities of transport...
Navigating the tightrope:The art of balancing for better performance
September 2025
Effective supervisory mechanisms enable both monitoring and regulation of employee behavior, ensuring behavioral compliance and performance stability. However, continuous supervision can increase employees'...
Economic forecasting with big data: A literature review
June 2024
Big data technology has revolutionized the research paradigm of economic forecasting regardless of the data source, forecasting method, or forecasting result. This study evaluates the current literature...
Credit risk prediction for small and medium enterprises utilizing adjacent enterprise data and a relational graph attention network
June 2024
Credit risk prediction for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) has long posed a complex research challenge. Traditional approaches have primarily focused on enterprise-specific variables, but these...
Online platform algorithmic control and gig workers’ turnover intention in China: The mediating role of relative deprivation
March 2025
Based on the job demands-resources (JD-R) model, this study aims to investigate how algorithmic behavioral constraint and algorithmic tracking evaluation affect gig workers’ turnover intention by increasing...
Individualism/collectivism and charitable donations: An empirical analysis at the national, regional, and personal levels
June 2025
Online donation platforms are instrumental in facilitating individual charitable giving by leveraging the confluence of financial technology and mobile social networks. Despite the impact of these technological...
Structural analysis and forecast of gold price returns
June 2021
Gold has multiple attributes and its price is affected by various factors in the market. This paper studies the dynamic relationship between the gold price returns and its affecting factors. Then we...
Pricing strategy in the product and service market
June 2021
Existing studies have mainly focused on pricing in either primary markets or aftermarkets. However, in practice, prices in primary markets and aftermarkets are closely correlated. This study examines...
Portfolio optimization based on network centralities: Which centrality is better for asset selection during global crises?
September 2024
We construct correlation-based networks linking 86 assets (stock indices, bond indices, foreign exchange rates, commodity futures, and cryptocurrencies) and analyze the impact of asset selection on...
The effect of high-involvement human resource management practices on supply chain resilience and operational performance
June 2023
Supply chain (SC) resilience is an increasingly important topic for practitioners and academics because it is a competitive weapon for firms to cope with SC disruptive risks. This study examines the...
Comparing the costs and benefits of virgin and urban mining
March 2022
Resource and environmental management are shaping our society and economy. Virgin mining is rapidly becoming unsustainable as primary resources are in increasingly short supply and energy consumption...
Climate bonds toward achieving net zero emissions and carbon neutrality: Evidence from machine learning technique
March 2024
The Conference of the Parties (COP26 and 27) placed significant emphasis on climate financing policies with the objective of achieving net zero emissions and carbon neutrality. However, studies on the...
Supply chain and logistics innovations with the Belt and Road Initiative
June 2020
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a massive, ambitious, long-term project initiated by the Chinese government, with participation from many other countries, to facilitate trade and improve logistics...
Evaluating service quality of express logistics service based on online reviews using LDA-LSTM
September 2024
The quality of logistics services affects the performance and competitiveness of express logistics companies. Conventional evaluation methods of service quality are based on constructing a rating index...
Social responsibility portfolio optimization incorporating ESG criteria
March 2021
Social responsibility investment (SRI) has attracted worldwide attention for its potential in promoting investment sustainability and stability. We developed a three-step framework by incorporating...
When more is less: The other side of artificial intelligence recommendation
June 2022
Based on consumers' preferences, AI (artificial intelligence) recommendation automatically filters information, which provokes scholars' debate. Supporters believe that by analyzing the consumers' preferences,...