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...
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 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...
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...
Higher-order moment risk spillovers between the carbon and energy markets under climate policy uncertainty
March 2026
Against the backdrop of increasing climate policy uncertainty, preventing cross-market risk contagion in the energy transition is crucial to ensuring energy security and effective risk management. First,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Transition from e-commerce to q-commerce: analysing the impact of hyper-local delivery on the pricing strategies of risk-averse supply chain partners
March 2026
Hyperlocal delivery (HLD) refers to a novel model for delivering goods or services to customers within a very limited geographic area, typically within a few miles of their location, in a very short...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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'...
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...
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...
Is CSR a leading indicator of corporate restructuring performance? Evidence from explainable machine learning
March 2026
Corporate social responsibility (CSR), associated with corporate reputation, has attracted considerable attention from both scholars and practitioners. However, empirical evidence concerning CSR's capacity...
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...
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...
