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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Climate bonds toward achieving net zero emissions and carbon neutrality: Evidence from machine learning technique
March 2024
The Conference of the Parties (COP26 and 27) placed significant emphasis on climate financing policies with the objective of achieving net zero emissions and carbon neutrality. However, studies on the...
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Internet-of-things enabled supply chain planning and coordination with big data services: Certain theoretic implications
March 2020
Recent advances in information technology have led to profound changes in global manufacturing. This study focuses on the theoretical and practical challenges and opportunities arising from the Internet...
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Pricing strategy in the product and service market
June 2021
Existing studies have mainly focused on pricing in either primary markets or aftermarkets. However, in practice, prices in primary markets and aftermarkets are closely correlated. This study examines...
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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...
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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...
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How can manufacturers make decisions on product appearance design? A research on optimal design based on customers’ emotional satisfaction
June 2021
With changing customer attitudes toward consumption and function homogenization, product appearance designs have an increasing influence on the purchase decision. Customer characteristics and emotional...
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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,...
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Versatile HAR model for realized volatility: A least square model averaging perspective
March 2019
A rapidly growing body of literature has documented improvements in forecasting financial return volatility measurement using various heterogeneous autoregression (HAR) type models. Most HAR-type models...
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A combined machine learning algorithms and DEA method for measuring and predicting the efficiency of Chinese manufacturing listed companies
December 2021
Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a linear programming methodology for measuring the efficiency of Decision Making Units (DMUs) to improve organizational performance in the private and public sectors....
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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...
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Economic uncertainty, central bank digital currency, and negative interest rate policy
December 2023
The COVID-19 outbreak has brought unprecedented social attention to economic uncertainty and negative interest rate policy (NIRP). How does uncertainty affect economic activity, and how effective is...
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Rumor recognition behavior of social media users in emergencies
March 2022
Social media rumors not only affect the health of online social networks, but also reduce the quality of information accessed by its users. In the case of emergencies, the rapid spread of rumors often...
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Application of quantum computing in discrete portfolio optimization
December 2023
This study proposes a novel and more efficient quantum algorithm for portfolio optimization using quantum combinatorial optimization (QCO) techniques. A recent construction developed in 2021 has sparked...
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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...
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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...
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Digital Influencer's choice of product endorsement: A perspective of congruence
September 2023
To infer product fitness information, consumers often consult digital influencers who exert effort to learn and evaluate product features and then propagate information to their followers. However,...
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Research on the impact of mega-projects on carrying capacity of cities taking the first-line project of the West-East gas pipeline as an example
September 2020
With the acceleration of China’s urbanization, the functions and benefits of mega-projects are required higher. With the deepening of “the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-Century Maritime Silk...
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Production quality and pricing strategy for substitutable products under comparison effects
December 2023
Comparison effects have been studied extensively in many fields. In particular, existing operations management articles have discussed the impact of comparison effects on enterprises' production and...
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Does political propaganda matter in mitigating climate change? Insights from the United States of America
September 2023
Some research on climate change has been the basis of climate change denialism (hereafter, CCD is used to refer to denial, denialism, and deniers). There is formative knowledge about the role of political...
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Financial reporting fraud and CEO pay-performance incentives
June 2021
Because prior studies find mixed results on the relation between CEOs’ pay performance incentives and a firm’s likelihood of financial reporting fraud, we restudy their relationship using innovative...
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Dynamic appointment scheduling for outpatient clinics with multiple physicians and patient choice
March 2022
Mitigating the adverse effects of uncertainty in appointment systems, arising from heterogeneous patient needs and preferences, is critical to the effective use of scarce medical resources and patient...
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