Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to explore impacts of financing and supplier subsidy on capital-constrained retailer and the value of returns subsidy contract under a situation where the retailer makes joint operations and finance decisions. Design/methodology/approach: This paper...

Purpose: Several manufacturing firms are facing various internal concerns such as financial and operational issues, which strongly pushed the firms to search for solutions (e.g. supply chain finance; SCF) to sustain their supply chain operations and supply chain effectiveness (SCE). In this view,...

Purpose: This paper aims to draw on the dynamic capabilities approach and aims to empirically investigate the impact of supply chain finance (SCF) on firm performance (e.g. operational risk and operational performance), the critical effect of environmental dynamism (ED) as moderator and supply...

A major concern in rewards-based crowdfunding is the inherent asymmetric information between the entrepreneur and backers, which impacts both the financing and product innovation. To address the issue of information asymmetry, crowdfunding platforms have introduced a deferred payment mechanism,...

The primary purpose of our paper is to evaluate environmental performance as well as to model some nonseparable inputs and outputs using the data envelopment analysis (DEA) model. The efficiency analysis takes emission quota into consideration with the objectives of minimizing both total...

In conventional DEA analysis, DMUs are generally treated as a black-box in the sense that internal structures are ignored, and the performance of a DMU is assumed to be a function of a set of chosen inputs and outputs. A significant body of work has been directed at problem settings where the...