Purpose: This paper aims to investigate if the collaboration intensity of the company with local and international stakeholders facilitates the attracting of venture capital (VC) financing. The reputation of the company was incorporated as a factor, which can potentially influence investment...

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...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate cultural and individual differences in newsvendor decision making. Design/methodology/approach: The online experiment, programmed in the PHP scripting language, had 107 participants: local managers of four large, well-known and supply...