The future of the food supply chain: A systematic literature review and research directions towards sustainability, resilience, and technology adoption
Available online 19 March 2024
In recent years, our food supply chain facing various disruptions shows a need for higher resilience and sustainability. To better prepare for future uncertainties the food supply chain may encounter,...
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Situating Artificial Intelligence in Organization: A Human-machine Relationship Perspective
Available online 7 January 2024
The increasing advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) technology have resulted in greater adoption of intelligent devices, such as industrial and service robots. Such context substantially influences...
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Conceptualizing social media analytics in digital economy: An evidence from bibliometric analysis
December 2023
The present study intends to provide a comprehensive overview based on existing literature related to social media analytics and digital economy using bibliometric analysis from Scopus database, particularly...
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Network externalities in the long-term performance of ICOs
December 2023
This study examines the impact of technology and network externalities on exchange-listed Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). Utilising an online database comprising of self-reported ICO characteristics,...
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Digital technologies and product-service systems: A synergistic approach for manufacturing firms under a circular economy
December 2023
The product-service system (PSS), in which customers pay for a product's functionality, is the common business model in a circular economy (CE). Digital technology (DT) is considered to be a crucial...
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Land rent theory and rent research of digital platform enterprises
December 2023
Marxist land rent theory has unveiled the nature and source of land rent, providing the rationale for discussing the distribution of total social products among wages, profits, and land rents. This...
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The influence factors of innovation networking formation based on ERGM: Evidence from the smart medical industry
December 2023
With the growth of the social economy and technology, innovation networks have emerged as one of the most significant methods for analyzing the evolution of industrial innovation. Yet, there is a shortage...
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Role of next generation access networks on COVID-19 propagation: Empirical assessment with a dynamic multinomial discrete choice model framework
December 2023
Through the application of discrete choice and machine learning models, the primary objective of this study is to assess the impact of NGA networks coverage on reducing the risk of contagion during...
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Sponsorship disclosure and consumer engagement: Evidence from Bilibili video platform
December 2023
With the rapid advancement of mobile internet, UGC video platforms have become integral to the daily lives of young generations. For content creators on these platforms, sharing videos sponsored by...
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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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Digital transformation and enterprise inefficient investment: Under the view of financing constraints and earnings management
December 2023
In the context of the digital age, digital transformation provides new inspiration and direction for enterprise investment. This paper examines the potential mechanisms through which digital transformation...
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Evaluation of smart scenic spot construction in China
December 2023
The arrival of “Internet Plus” and the 5G era has brought rapid digital transformation. Many scenic spots in China are conforming to trends of the times by embarking on this transformation and beginning...
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Digital global value chains: An analysis from the perspective of a value-added decomposition
December 2023
Digital technologies reshape the distribution of value added through global value chains (GVCs). Based on the GVC decomposition method, we calculate the digital technology-related value added implied...
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Digital transformation, intelligent device utilization, and carbon emission reduction
December 2023
In the context of China's rapidly growing digital economy, exploring the potential to reduce carbon emissions from the perspective of enterprise digitization is of vital practical significance for achieving...
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Covid-19 and digital inclusion: Impact on employment
December 2023
The employment sector has suffered an abrupt decline in labour force participation since COVID-19 started. Digital platforms offer virtual workspace, enable remote working, and thus remain the only...
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Influences of industrial internet platform firms' ESG performance and digital leadership on user firms' innovation performance: The mediating role of inter-firm trust
December 2023
In the era of digitalization, market dynamics are ever more intense, prompting firms to accelerate their innovation efforts. This paper analyzes the relationships between industrial internet platform...
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How SMEs respond to an exogenous shock: Diversification, servitization and digitalization
December 2023
COVID-19 has been an exogenous shock for several businesses. Pandemic pushed firms to operate in an uncharted territory. Firms had to adapt quickly to survive in an unpredictable market and in conditions...
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Exploring the current status and future opportunities of blockchain technology adoption and application in supply chain management
December 2023
This study comprises a systematic literature review that offers a thorough analysis of the present state-of-the-art knowledge regarding the adoption and application of blockchain technology within the...
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Building supply chain resilience through collaborative innovation: An information processing theory perspective
December 2023
COVID-19 has brought unprecedented impacts on global logistics and left supply chain management on the verge of collapse, which highlights the research importance of supply chain resilience (SCRE)....
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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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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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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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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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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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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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