Purpose: Drawing on and extending the push-pull-mooring (PPM) framework, this paper aims to empirically explore the influencing mechanism of traveler switching intention from the hotel reservation platforms to the sharing accommodation platforms (SAPs). Design/methodology/approach: This study...

Purpose The e-business platform has become a major driver for economic growth and development. The economic success of an e-marketplace greatly depends on the extent to which buyers and sellers are attracted to enter and actively participate in the e-business platform. Existing literature lacks...

This article describes how economic development has had a significant impact on the environment. County eco-environment coordinated development has contributed to regional coordinated development in China. A support vector machine (SVM) model was constructed to classify and predict coordinated...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the contradictory effect of coldness in advertisement and brand logo design. Design/methodology/approach: The authors conduct four experiments to test the influences of coldness on consumers’ attitude. In the first two experiments, the...

Background: After revenue-sharing system reform, the proportion of tax refund in fiscal transfer payments continued to decline, and the proportion of categorical grant and condition grant is increased. The paper studies how transfer payment structure effect fiscal efficiency from the perspective...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of biased technology on employment distribution and labor status in income distribution of China. It also testifies a threshold effect of the capital per labor and employment distribution on labor status from biased technology....

Purpose: China has experienced a fast economic growth and shown a significant rise in income inequality in the past decades. During the same period, fluid milk consumption in urban areas has rapidly expanded. The objective of this paper is to analyze and simulate the influence of income...

Purpose: This paper aims to apply blockchains (BCs) for trade clearing and settlement in a realistic clearinghouse. The purpose is to demonstrate the feasibility and scalability of this approach. Design/methodology/approach: The study uses account BCs and trading BCs as building blocks for...