Firm sustainable innovation (FSI) plays an importing role in China’s high-tech manufacturing sector, which raises scholar’s attention to investigate the building of cross-level alliance innovation networks among manufacturing firms and how it affects FSI. Based on secondary data from China,...

We consider a risk-averse firm’s decision problem of investing in Industry 4.0 under supply chain risk. Industry 4.0 yields to the firm the advantages of competence and capability building for managing supply chain risk. Using a mean-variance decision-theoretic model, we examine the...

We consider a risk-averse firm’s decision problem of investing in Industry 4.0 under supply chain risk. Industry 4.0 yields to the firm the advantages of competence and capability building for managing supply chain risk. Using a mean-variance decision-theoretic model, we examine the...

As the pandemic accelerates the tectonic shift in global trade, many businesses face the questions of whether and where to reposition their upstream global supply chain. It is highly challenging to restructure global purchase orders and production capacity in a context rife with uncertainties....

Both professional and amateur manufacturers, subsidized by the governments, have joined the emergency production of personal protective equipment (PPE) to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper we examine the impacts of government financial subsidies on the pricing decisions of professional...