Motivated by the growing significance of contingent free shipping (CFS) policies in the e-commerce industry, we investigate the optimal CFS and pricing decisions for online retailers. Under a CFS policy, consumers enjoy free shipping for orders exceeding a certain threshold value; otherwise, they...

We use panel data to examine consumer purchasing and retail management of an essential product, hand sanitizer, during eight seasonal flu epidemics and the 2009-2010 swine flu pandemic. Data are gathered on the severity and spread of flu symptoms across the United States and on sales,...

According to the actual situation of sweet potato industry development in Ziyun County, we use SWOT analysis method to conduct strategic analysis on strengths and weaknesses of the internal environment and the opportunities and challenges of the external environment of the sweet potato industry,...

In this paper, we take Guizhou Province (the heart of southwestern Karst region in China) as the research object. By establishing gray forecasting model and time series forecasting model, we conduct the accuracy test on the actual production capacity of land and the forecasted production...

This study investigates the determinants of the cross-border-related party (CBRP) transactions of Chinese firms. Our empirical analysis of companies listed on China's stock exchanges provides insightful findings. First, the size of CBRP transactions is positively associated with concentrated...

This paper investigates model predictive control (MPC) of a single sea wave energy converter (WEC). By using control schemes which constrain certain quantities, such as the maximum size of the feedback force, the energy storage for actuators and relative heave motion, it is possible for control...