2025 May - 92 articles
As digital platforms reshape the commercial landscape, brands increasingly collaborate with these platforms to enhance product sales. Many adopt livestream as a strategic tool to attract more traffic, typically choosing between Artificial Intelligenc...
In an era of rapid digital transformation, organisations must cultivate dynamic capabilities that promote innovation and continuous learning. This study examines how self-determined motivation and innovation adoption are crucial enablers in developin...
Decarbonizing production activities is a critical task in the transition towards carbon neutrality. Traditional carbon footprint accounting tools, such as life-cycle assessment (LCA) and the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, primarily quantify direct and indi...
In the context of global efforts to address climate change and pursue sustainable development, green finance (GF) and energy efficiency (EE) have become key issues of focus for academics and policymakers. This study explores the spatiotemporal coupli...
The current research presents an extension of the Pit-Stop Manufacturing framework. It addresses the challenges of managing complexity and uncertainty in the production ramp-up phase of manufacturing systems, bridging the gap in existing approaches t...
The digital economy is a key area for nurturing new productivity and a strategic high ground for innovative development and international competitiveness. This paper innovatively constructs the PCT (Policy–Coordination–Talent) analysis fr...
China is presently placing significant emphasis on sustainable urbanization as a means to facilitate the shift towards high-quality economic development. The concept of sustainable urbanization has gained added intricacy and depth within the framewor...
The inherent uncertainty and information asymmetry in financial markets create significant challenges for accurate price forecasting. Although investor sentiment analysis has gained traction in recent research, the temporal dimension of sentiment dyn...
The manufacturing industry serves as critical carrier for the empowerment of digital technologies and is the cornerstone of digital innovation and development. Smart transformation (ST), propelled by technological advancements, has become a prominent...
Green supply chain integration (GSCI) has emerged as a significant technique for improving sustainable performance by promoting collaboration with supply chain partners and breaking down organizational barriers to utilize complementary resources. Thi...
The industrial landscape has undergone rapid conceptual evolution in recent years, marked by the successive emergence of Industry 4.0, Industry 5.0, and the nascent Industry 6.0. This study explores the emergence of Industry 6.0 as a prospective indu...
University innovation plays an increasingly significant role in regional industrial development. In this paper, we study how local industrial initiatives affect the university innovation activities. We link preferred initiatives from Chinese provinci...
For mobile agent path planning, traditional path planning algorithms frequently induce abrupt variations in path curvature and steering angles, increasing the risk of lateral tire slippage and undermining operational safety. Concurrently, conventiona...
The term “safety climate” describes how workers perceive and observe safety within an organization. Workers are typically on the front lines, where they are immediately exposed to safety procedures and working hazards. Their thoughts offe...
Sustainable development initiatives are essential for enhancing the social economy and environmental preservation in marginalised rural areas of Tanzania. This study examines the impact of an IoT micro-factory on sustainable development, addressing i...
Digital technology drives global industrial transformation. The synchronized development of organizational digital transformation and innovation systems is pivotal in corporate strategy and governmental governance. The dynamic interaction mechanisms...
A LoRaWAN application architecture comprises three functional components: (i) nodes, which convert and wirelessly transmit data as LoRaWAN messages; (ii) gateways, which receive and forward these transmissions; and (iii) network servers, which proces...
Basic public service (BPS) serves as a crucial connection between governments and citizens, impacting the standard of living and well-being of the populace. Can High-Speed Rail (HSR) service incentivize local governments to improve the fiscal competi...
Digital technologies are reshaping how firms create, deliver, and capture value, prompting growing interest in digital business model innovation (DBMI). Despite increasing scholarly attention, the existing research remains fragmented and often assume...
Business model innovation (BMI) is a topic that has attracted significant interest from both researchers and academics. While research has suggested that there are associations between BMI and corporate social responsibility (CSR), as well as between...
Under the growing threat of global warming, green bonds have become a pivotal financial instrument to deal with climate change and promote sustainable development. However, the research on the affecting factors of green bond issuance remains scarce i...
Agent-based modelling (ABM) has revolutionised the simulation of complex systems, finding applications in diverse fields such as economic markets and traffic management. By modelling individuals as autonomous agents within a dynamic environment, ABM...
Global manufacturing economies have faced logistics performance challenges in recent decades. This study investigates the influence of industrialization, environmental technology, trade openness, foreign direct investment, and economic growth on the...
The increasing digitalization of the world underscores the critical importance of both social and technical aspects in software engineering practice. While prior research links socio-technical congruence (STC) to positive workstream outcomes, the cur...
In product development, costs play a major role in making design decisions. As such, it is desirable to have this information as early as possible in the product development process (PDP). The development of systems changes in the direction of Model-...
In certain newly established or niche e-commerce platforms, user–item interactions are often exceedingly sparse due to limited user bases or specialized product lines, posing significant obstacles to accurate personalized recommendations. To ad...
This paper utilizes AIS (Automatic Identification System) data to study the micro-level features of the international container capacity correlation network and their impact on shipping freight rates. It proposes, for the first time, constructing a c...
In the digital economy era, firms pursue innovation while also considering their environmental impact to ensure alignment with sustainability. However, existing research offers limited insights into how corporate environmental ethics influence the re...
Research on the effects of digital transformation in micro and small enterprises (MSEs) is growing, yet remains underdeveloped, particularly in the context of emerging economies. While previous studies highlight the performance benefits of digital re...
Future systems of systems (SoSs) must adapt rapidly to evolving environments and stakeholder needs, yet conventional system engineering approaches often lack the flexibility to accommodate such change without costly re-engineering. Addressing this ga...
The high-quality development of foreign trade is both an inherent need for China’s economic transformation and upgrading and a vital driver for global economic recovery and sustainable development. Analyzing how new quality productive forces em...
Based on the relevant framework of evolutionary geography, this article explores the direct effect of industrial diversification on urban economic resilience and its indirect effect on urban economic resilience through entrepreneurial spirit. The res...
The cyclic process of the circular supply chain (CSC) involves many stakeholders, and how to synergistically promote the active participation of different entities in CSC practices in the complex context of interacting factors is an important conditi...
Watersheds are threatened by numerous issues, such as climate change, population growth, urban expansion, and industrial development. These issues are complex and interconnected, and effectively addressing them requires integrating the values, knowle...
In the digital era, technological catch-up is inevitable for firms confronted with intensified competition, rapid technological advancements, and customers’ upgrade requirements. By strengthening their cooperation with external parties and inte...
Nowadays, the security and stability of the global industrial chain are facing unprecedented challenges. In this context, understanding how industrial robots affect chain resilience is key to promoting high-quality economic development. This study fo...
This paper examines the spatial and temporal evolution of the global industrial robot trade network (GIRTN) from 2000 to 2023 using complex network analysis, and it systematically evaluates China’s position in the GIRTN and its evolutionary tre...
This paper explores how to reduce supply-demand conflicts in supply chains by utilizing complementary products’ unique relationships and shared objectives. Also, it considers the service level concerns of consumers. Primarily employing game the...
This study explores integrating Bitcoin mining with lignocellulosic biorefineries to create an additional revenue stream. Profits from mining can help offset internal costs, reduce business expenses, or lower consumer prices. Using sensitivity analys...
As the digital economy progresses aggressively in the UAE, the ways in which different players in the economy interact with each other are changing. Therefore, strategic orientations that enable successful interactions have become a necessity. This s...
Industrial Internet Platforms (IIPs) provide critical value for supply chain management. The motivation for value creation and capture by supplier firms increasingly depends on acquiring and processing customer-oriented information, with geographical...
Everything as a Service (XaaS) is commonly understood as the general tendency to replace sales contracts with service contracts. Most research in this area agrees that XaaS is a trend, but it points to many drivers. It could be strategies improving c...
Business model innovation represents a critical pathway for firms to create value and enhance competitiveness, yet innovation processes are frequently constrained by resource limitations. To explore the determinants of business model innovation, we d...
Pakistan’s banking sector faces a critical juncture as rising competition intersects with uneven efficiency, jeopardizing financial stability. This study employs a two-stage empirical framework: (1) evaluating cost-efficiency (CE) evolution via...
Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) serve as digital twins (DTs), visually and behaviorally mirroring human counterparts in various roles, including healthcare coaching. While existing research primarily focuses on single-coach ECAs, our work explo...
Existing research on the vulnerability of knowledge innovation networks (KINs) primarily falls into two categories: random attacks and deliberate attacks. This study introduces a novel centrality-based attack framework for the deliberate attack group...
This paper selects the relevant data of 30 provinces and cities in China from 2010 to 2022 as samples. By constructing a digital innovation ecosystem (DIES) niche suitability model, the overall and regional differences in China’s DIES niche sui...
Workplace integration in hierarchical collectivist societies is shaped by structured social mechanisms rather than collectivist values alone. While collectivism is often assumed to foster inclusiveness, its structural manifestations regulate workplac...
Aiming at the robustness problem of the extreme learning machine (ELM) in noisy and nonuniform data scenarios, this paper proposes an improved algorithm (BFGS-URWELM) that integrates uniform residual weighting and Broyden–Fletcher–Goldfar...
The warehouse picking process is one of the most critical components of logistics operations. Human–robot collaboration (HRC) is seen as an important trend in warehouse picking, as it combines the strengths of both humans and robots in the pick...
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