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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
How does credit-based financial policy affect technological innovation? Evidence from bond issuance in China
June 2026
This study examines the impact of credit-based financial policy on corporate technological innovation. The 2007 corporate bond issuance policy of the Chinese government allowed firms with higher market...
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...
Portfolio optimization based on network centralities: Which centrality is better for asset selection during global crises?
September 2024
We construct correlation-based networks linking 86 assets (stock indices, bond indices, foreign exchange rates, commodity futures, and cryptocurrencies) and analyze the impact of asset selection on...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
