The environmental cost of cryptocurrency: Assessing carbon emissions from bitcoin mining in China
December 2023
This study estimates the environmental impacts of Bitcoin mining. Employing a top-down measurement approach, this paper assesses the carbon footprint of Bitcoin mining in China from 2017 to 2021. The...
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A SEED model for constructing the data factor market: Evidence from Guiyang Global Big Data Exchange (GBDEx) in China
December 2022
In the era of digital economy, the data has increasingly become one important production factor. Taking Guiyang Global Big Data Exchange (GBDEx) as an empirical case, this paper first proposes a SEED...
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An improved FMEA quality risk assessment framework for enterprise data assets
December 2022
Analyzing and assessing the quality risks is essential to leverage the value of data assets. In this paper, a framework for proactively assessing the quality risks of data assets based on an improved...
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Entrepreneurial ecosystem and urban economic growth-from the knowledge-based view
December 2022
The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between the development of entrepreneurial ecosystems and economic growth at the urban level from the knowledge-based view. This paper also scrutinizes...
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Comparative analysis of digital trade development strategies and governance approaches
December 2022
With the process of digitalization, digital trade has become the primary pattern of international trade, and digital platforms and data have become two essential ingredients in digital trade. Meanwhile,...
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Supply chain finance: What are the challenges in the adoption of blockchain technology?
December 2022
As an emerging information technology, blockchain has aroused extensive discussions around the world and been suggested as a solution to address current issues in supply chain finance (SCF). The Chinese...
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The digital economy and the growth dynamics of sharing platforms: A transaction cost economics assessment
December 2022
Despite their growing significance in the digital economy, some sharing platforms struggle to achieve sufficient scale, while others fail entirely. By extending the focus beyond network effects and...
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How to realize the full potentials of artificial intelligence (AI) in digital economy? A literature review
December 2022
Artificial intelligence (hereafter AI) is widely considered as a driving force in the current digital economy, with many firms having already invested in AI. Since AI is unconstrainted by humans' cognitive...
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Bilateral free trade agreements in a four-country model with a digital technology perspective
December 2022
Using a four-country North-South trade model with two identical countries in each region, this paper studies two types of bilateral free trade agreements: symmetric free trade agreements between countries...
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Patent system in the digital era - Opportunities and new challenges
December 2022
The patent system is instrumental in contributing to firms' innovation and nations’ economic growth. However, the system has been plagued by a series of persistent problems that prevent it from playing...
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Why do platform multinational companies struggle abroad? A multi-method study of the role of informal institutional distance
December 2022
Firms providing virtual platforms that connect buyers with sellers of goods and services are increasingly venturing abroad, sometimes from or near inception. However, these platform multinational companies...
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Can digital economic attention spillover to financial markets? Evidence from the time-varying Granger test
September 2022
The digital economy is pervasive, all-encompassing, and a pan-industrial revolution. This paper pioneers constructing a digital economy concern index by extracting the web search volumes of keywords...
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Customers as knowledge partners in a digital business ecosystem: From customer analytics towards knowledge partnerships
September 2022
Analyzing data of your customers and providing them with the best product or service is no longer sufficient within the digital economy to make your customers satisfied or even enthusiastic about your...
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Costs or signals: The role of “Social insurance and housing fund” in the labor market — Evidence from recruitment platforms
September 2022
In China's labor market, enterprises are allowed for some flexibility in deciding whether to provide “social insurance and housing fund” to laborers. This paper uses micro-data from two leading Internet...
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Determinants of consumers' adoption intention for blockchain technology in E-commerce
September 2022
While blockchain is considered to have many unprecedented characteristics, and its application is recognized as another new opportunity for the development of e-commerce, there is limited evidence on...
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Using social media big data for tourist demand forecasting: A new machine learning analytical approach
June 2022
This study explores the possibility of using a machine learning approach to analysing social media big data for tourism demand forecasting. We demonstrate how to extract the main topics discussed on...
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Digital transformation, data architecture, and legacy systems
June 2022
The benefits to data analytics and machine learning have been distributed unevenly across firms around the world. Research on IT productivity points to intangible capital as a key driver of value creation...
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The human ecosystem
June 2022
The authors report on the Haier Group, a multinational business that primarily produces and markets manufactured goods and whose multiple business ecosystems are based not on traditional management...
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Research agenda for the digital economy
June 2022
In this study, a research agenda is proposed to understand the current development and future landscape of the digital economy. The shift from the industrial economy to a digital economy brings tremendous...
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Fusions of industrialisation and digitalisation (FID) in the digital economy: Industrial system digitalisation, digital technology industrialisation, and beyond
June 2022
This paper starts with exploring the nature of industrialisation, combined with the current hot research topic in the field of technology - digitization, and it seeks to reveal the fusion process of...
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Ethical governance of artificial intelligence: An integrated analytical framework
June 2022
Emerging technologies have faced ethical challenges, and ethical governance has changed over time managing these technologies. The governance paradigm has gradually changed from scientific rationality...
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