Mapping the B2C order fulfillment process: From customer order placement to package delivery
September 2026
Business-to-consumer (B2C) online retailing, including omni-channel models, has become a dominant retail format, and effective order fulfillment has emerged as a key determinant of service quality,...
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...
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...
Climate adaptation economics: Bibliometrics, methods, and mechanisms
June 2026
Climate change poses significant challenges to ecosystems, economic development, and human health, positioning adaptation as a critical component of global climate risk management. Here we provide a...
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...
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...
Integrating market structure and supervisory efficacy: A game-theoretic model of strategic greenwashing in ESG governance
June 2026
As environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors increasingly influence capital flows and market competition, strategic greenwashing behavior by firms seeking to meet stakeholder expectations...
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...
Intelligent pricing and ordering decisions: A deep multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithm
September 2026
The dynamic pricing mechanisms of firms and search techniques for historical prices have spurred strategic behaviors and price expectations among customers. These customers predict future markdowns...
Estimating the impact of emergencies on BCI: An EEMD-based analysis method
September 2026
The Baltic Capesize Index (BCI) reflects freight rate fluctuations of major dry bulk commodities and is highly sensitive to emergency-induced shocks. These emergencies differ markedly in impact intensity...
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...
Endogenous mechanism of money creation in China's real estate market: Financial accelerator effect
December 2025
We argue that China's housing market volatility is driven by a unique institutional nexus of local government ‘land financing’ and novel central bank monetary policy tools, distinguishing it from Western...
A general equilibrium discussion of the crowding-out effect of real estate investment on local tax revenue
September 2026
This study identifies a novel form of the crowding-out effect. While real estate investment has long been considered a major contributor to local tax revenue, many rapidly growing economies, such as...
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...
Identifying and classifying data risk sources and triggering events: A conceptual two-stage method for risk-aware data governance
December 2025
In a data-intensive environment, the ability to accurately identify and manage data risks is essential for maintaining cybersecurity, preventing potential threats, supporting decision-making, and enabling...
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...
Dynamic pricing and inventory control for fresh agricultural products under dual channel
March 2026
This study investigates a joint pricing and inventory control problem for fresh agricultural products within dual channels. Considering factors such as service level, holding/lost costs, and consumer...
Fixed-price or performance-based? Contract design with renegotiation for IT outsourcing
March 2026
Renegotiation after software development is widely adopted by firms to mitigate uncertainties in IT outsourcing. This study examines the design and choice of fixed-price versus performance-based contracts...
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,...
Using supplementary reviews to improve customer requirement identification and product design development
December 2023
A clear understanding of customer needs is key to the success of new product development and customer-centric product design. Online reviews, particularly initial reviews, are commonly used as effective...
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...
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...
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...
A HEAVY model for skewed returns and fat-tailed realized covariances with dynamic shape
September 2026
We propose a new high-frequency-based volatility (HEAVY) generalized autoregressive score (GAS) model with autoregressive conditional density (ARCD) estimation for examining the joint dynamics of fat-tailed...
Factors influencing household debt structure under various credit constraints
March 2025
Household debt is a critical component of family financial management, especially considering the prevalence of credit constraints. This study investigates the determinants of Chinese household debt...
