Customer e-satisfaction as a mediator between e-service quality, brand image, and e-loyalty: Insights from Ethiopian digital banking technology
2025
This study investigates the mediating role of customer e-satisfaction in the relationships between e-service quality, brand image, and e-loyalty within Ethiopia's digital banking sector, with a specific...
Committed random double blinded coalition-proofed sampling
2025
The digital economy, including data trading, auditing, and trust, is an essential and rapidly growing field. A secure and committed data sampling process is necessary for those processes. We introduce...
Manufacturing workers or platform gig workers? The impact of digital transformation in manufacturing and service sectors on job quality and labor allocation
2025
This paper addresses an important research gap by examining how digital transformation in the manufacturing and service sectors affects job quality and labor allocation across industries. Using micro-level...
An ‘EDGES’ framework for navigating MNE strategy in a fragmented world: A systematic literature review on anti-globalization and deglobalization
2025
Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are navigating a new landscape due to disruptions in global supply chains and escalating geopolitical tensions in various regions. These challenges arose from a worldwide...
Research on the impact and mechanism of China's digital infrastructure construction on air pollution
2025
Reducing air pollution is a major goal of digital infrastructure construction, which is the embodiment of the “new infrastructure construction” strategy in the era of smart economy. This paper systematically...
Stablecoin Market Growth and Sensitivity to Interbank Lending Rates: Projections for Wholesale CBDC Adoption
Available online 2 September 2025
This paper investigates the sensitivities of the stablecoin market by analysing daily data using a set of widely recognised financial indicators. Focusing on Tether and USD Coin (USDC), which together...
Extending the IBCDE Framework to Explore Barriers and Drivers in Indonesia’s Digital Economy
Available online 22 August 2025
This study extends the IBCDE framework to explore the multifaceted barriers and drivers shaping the digital economy (DE), with a specific focus on Indonesia as Southeast Asia’s largest and most dynamic...
Logistics 4.0 and Emerging Technologies: A Scientometric Perspective on Innovation in Supply Chains
Available online 18 August 2025
Logistics 4.0 and emerging technologies have transformed supply chain management, fostering innovation, operational efficiency, and sustainability. This study conducts a scientometric analysis of 698...
A Study on the Knowledge Networks in Digital Finance through Bibliometric Alchemy
Available online 16 August 2025
This study employs bibliometric alchemy to explore the knowledge networks in the space of digital finance research between 2013 and 2025. It begins with 15,776 articles and finally through the process...
The Gig Economy and the Evolving Nature of Work in India: Employment, Policy, and Platform Realities in the Age of Convenience
Available online 6 August 2025
The purpose of this research is to explore the dynamic relationship between the gig economy and economic growth, with a particular focus on employment opportunities, work-related challenges, and policy...
Are English “Social Media Influencers” and Chinese “Wanghong” equivalent? A bibliometric analysis using CiteSpace
Available online 30 July 2025
This study presents a comparative analysis of influencer marketing research in China and the West since 2016. Using bibliometric methods and knowledge mapping techniques, we analyzed 1,808 papers from...
Gig Labour Regulation Thresholds and Youth Unemployment: A Dynamic Panel Threshold Model Analysis
Available online 17 July 2025
Youth unemployment remains a persistent global challenge, clouded by the uncertainties surrounding the expanding digital and gig economies. As governments now turn their attention to regulating the...
Exploring AI Adoption and SME Performance in Resource-Constrained Environments: A TOE–RBV Perspective with Mediation and Moderation Effects
Available online 16 July 2025
This study examines the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its impact on the performance of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in resource-constrained environments, with a focus on Pakistan’s...
Synergizing Social, Technical, and Customer Value Elements: A Configuration-Based Analysis of Customer Engagement Behavior in E-Commerce Live Streaming
Available online 7 July 2025
E-commerce live streaming is reshaping online retail by combining real-time interaction, social connectivity, and personalization, yet most prior work isolates these drivers. Addressing that limitation,...
Unveiling the Digital Tapestry: A Review of Chinese and International Digital Economy Research
Available online 30 June 2025
In recent years, the digital economy has seen rapid global growth and has garnered increasing attention in economic research. This paper systematically reviews Chinese and international digital economy...
Bridging the Digital–Environmental Nexus: An Empirical Panel Analysis of ICT, CO2 Emissions, and Growth in Developing Nations
Available online 20 June 2025
In recent decades, the rapid expansion of information and communication technologies (ICT) has reshaped both economic structures and environmental dynamics globally. This study explores the relationship...
A Machine Learning Approach to Inventory Stockout Prediction
Available online 16 June 2025
The retail industry continues to experience frequent stockouts, driven by the rise of e-commerce and disruptive events such as the COVID-19 pandemic, which have significantly impacted both profitability...
Digital Transformations of Supply Chain Management via RFID Technology: A Systematic Literature Review
Available online 10 June 2025
This paper conducts a systematic literature review of 109 peer-reviewed articles to examine the socio-technical factors shaping the implementation of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in supply...
The impact of digital governance on tourism development
December 2024
This paper examines the impact of digital governance on inbound tourism using the panel dataset from 151 countries from 2000 to 2019. Fixed-effects and System Generalised Method of Moments estimations...
Improve the prediction in the digital Era: Causal feature selection with minimum redundancy
December 2024
Effective decision-making in complex environments requires discerning the relevant from the irrelevant, a challenge that becomes pronounced with large multivariate time-series data. However, existing...
From screen to reality: How AR drives consumer engagement and purchase intention
December 2024
This study examines the critical role of telepresence in augmented reality (AR) retail, focusing on the key attributes of interactivity and vividness, and their impact on online marketing effectiveness....
Does digital economy promote regional green innovation? An empirical study based on the transmission effect and threshold effect of marketization
December 2024
Exploring the green innovation effect of the digital economy under the condition of socialist market economy with Chinese characteristics is of great contemporary value. In this paper, we incorporate...
Internet infrastructure, digital development and urban energy efficiency
December 2024
China exhibits suboptimal energy efficiency levels in comparison to developed countries, while the advancement of internet infrastructure might lead to a notable enhancement in energy efficiency. We...
A systematic literature review on the digital platform and its role in the circular economy: State-of-the-art and future research directions
December 2024
A digital platform is an extensible codebase built on programmable systems that facilitates interoperation between software systems through a shared module and an interactive interface (Tiwana et al.,...
