This study examines how maturity mismatched behavior influence firms’ digital orientation, and the moderate effect of digital financial inclusion (DFI) on maturity mismatched behavior. We use a sample of over 3,000 Chinese listed firms for the period 2011-2020, we provide new evidence on the...

The conventional rough-and-tumble pattern of industrial development in the northeast has severely affected China's sustainable development in recent years. As a result, the industrial park emerged and prospered with the advantages of clear industrial positioning, optimized functional layout and...

Purpose: To find out ships' optimum operating speed under low-carbon economy. Approach: First, it analyzes the relations between ship's carbon emission and the operating speed, gets the optimum speed under which the entire fleet emit minimum carbon, then establishes the relations between the...

This paper investigates a platform service supply chain composed of a single supplier and a service platform that not only resells products but also may serve as an intermediary that connects the supplier to consumers directly. The service platform can improve the performance of the retail...

As distributing centres of trade and transportation network, ports play an important role in the development of the national economy. With the changing of the global business environment, the port enterprise operation environment is continuously changing, and growing problems are becoming...

This study investigates the strategic effect of return policies in a dual-channel supply chain, in which a manufacturer can sell products directly to end customers and indirectly via an independent retailer. The manufacturer decides whether to implement a return policy in either the direct or...