Do supply chain audits have real effects? We focus on the effect of shared auditors in the supply chain on corporate cost stickiness. When a supplier shares auditors with its customers, the shared auditors provide informational advantages for suppliers' managers, thus revising their optimistic...

The import risks confronting oil consumers are influenced by transport conditions, oil prices, geopolitics, etc. This paper constructs an evaluation framework for oil import security from a perspective of supply chain process, and builds a two-phase DEA-like model to evaluate oil import...

Do supply chain audits have real effects? We focus on the effect of shared auditors in the supply chain on corporate cost stickiness. When a supplier shares auditors with its customers, the shared auditors provide informational advantages for suppliers' managers, thus revising their optimistic...