Recent decades have witnessed the thriving of platform economics. More small-and-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are selling products via these E-platforms, e.g., Amazon and Alibaba. These SMEs are usually short of funds and the E-platforms can step up to offer financing services due to...

The majority of studies on idiosyncratic employment arrangements (“i-deals”) are based on social exchange theory. The authors suggest that self-enhancement theory, in addition to social exchange, can be used to explain the effects of i-deals. Using a multisource sample including 230...

With rapid urbanization, land use change has shown a close negative relationship with ecosystem services, especially in urban agglomerations. Thus, rational urban planning involving key ecosystem services (ESs) in highly urbanized areas has become urgent and crucial in urban ecology and urban...

This study envisions a future of operating shared autonomous vehicles (SAVs) to provide mobility services in 374 small and medium-sized urban areas (population 375,000) in the United States. Specifically, this study 1) generates large-scale synthetic commuting trip data for 374 urban areas, 2)...