Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the impact of weather index insurance on agricultural technology adoption in rural China. Design/methodology/approach: A field experiment was conducted with 344 rural households/farmers in Heilongjiang and Jiangsu Provinces,...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a framework to illustrate how network governance based on banks’ e-commerce platform reduces loan risks and mitigates credit rationing in supply chain financing (SCF). Design/methodology/approach: The authors conceptualize network governance in...