In recent decades, online platforms that use Web 3.0 have tremendously expanded their goods, services, and values to numerous applications thanks to its inherent advantages of convenience, service speed, connectivity, etc. Although online commerce an...
There have been many discussions about the business ecosystem in order to promote the sustainable growth of firms recently. Business ecosystems have developed independently from three perspectives: business, innovation, and the platform ecosystem. Ho...
Ensuring fairness and equity in value distribution is crucial for the sustainability of platform ecosystems. However, existing approaches to distributing benefits among cooperative entities often find it difficult to accurately assess each stakeholde...
Background/Objectives: Knee osteoarthritis (OA) alters lower limb biomechanics, often leading to an asymmetric plantar pressure distribution. Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) aims to restore joint function and may normalize plantar loading, but evidence...
This study evaluates the feasibility and benefits of adopting the IEC 62034:2012 standard for Automatic Testing Systems (ATS) for emergency and escape lighting on the BorWin5 High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) offshore converter platform. The system...
As environmental concerns become increasingly central to global trade, the adoption of green packaging has emerged as a critical issue for cross-border e-commerce platforms and manufacturers. This paper investigates the strategic decisions of oversea...
E-commerce platforms have widely embraced the paid membership system as a sustainable and effective customer management method to increase repurchase rates and offer value-added services to loyal consumers. As a common means of member benefits and a...
Open data hackathons are events where the actors from an ecosystem collaborate to build platforms that will benefit the public, creating a win–win scenario for all of them. Sadly, many digital services produced in hackathons are discarded only by pro...
1 July 2025
This paper investigates the strategic interaction between an online retailer (e.g., Amazon) and a third-party retailer (3PR) under sequential and simultaneous quantity competition models. The platform and 3PR simultaneously compete and cooperate with...
Motivated by the industrial observation that the e-commerce platform marketplaces (e.g., Amazon) are increasingly launching sustainable strategies, this study aims to build an analytical framework to guide managers on making sustainable decisions. Th...
This study explores the channel preference of a platform and a green manufacturer in an online market. The platform offers both the agency channel and the reselling channel, while the manufacturer designs a green product to improve the green effort a...
Bus guidance information supplied by advanced traveler information systems provide a reference for route selection by bus passengers. This study analyzes the interaction between bus passengers’ route-choice behavior and the relationship in a ga...
With the development of internet technology, more two-sided market platforms, e.g., Tabao, Amazon and Lending Club, have emerged, and it is worth exploring the role that these two-sided market platforms can play in better serving users. This paper ex...
With the rapid development of internet technology, consumers have increasingly higher requirements for product quality. High-quality products can win consumers’ trust. Enhancing both product quality and sales in e-commerce platform transactions...
26 July 2022
Considering consumer fairness concerns, this paper investigates an e-commerce platform’s selling scheme choice when it adopts a wholesale selling scheme or an agency selling scheme to create a contract with a manufacturer. We find that the inte...
3 June 2025
This study investigates the quality information disclosure and blockchain technology adoption strategies of suppliers on a third-party e-commerce platform. Based on a Stackelberg game model, the impacts of blockchain technology adoption on the qualit...
Bike sharing facilitates the public’s daily lives and possesses substantial market demand, yet its overwhelming presence has triggered some environmental problems. To enhance resource utilization efficiency, we examine the decision-making strat...
The effective design of logistics platform business models is an important means for platform-type logistics enterprises to gain a competitive advantage. This study employs RRS Logistics as a case study to clarify the dynamic environmental mechanisms...
Digital platforms are transforming almost every industry today. To gain insight into the innovation mechanism of the industrial Internet platform-based ecosystem, combining its nature of sustainability, this paper investigates strategic factors, such...
Considering the peculiarities of logistics in the electronic commerce (e-commerce) supply chain (ESC) and e-commerce platform’s altruistic preferences, a model including an e-commerce platform, third-party logistics service provider, and manufa...
The expansion of telecommunication technologies touches almost all aspects life that we are living nowadays. Indeed, such technologies have emerged as a fourth essential utility alongside the traditional utilities of electricity, water, and gas. In t...
This paper integrates the Internet service platform with big-data marketing into the dynamic closed-loop supply chain system as an independent game subject. Considering the reference price effect of consumers, this work constructs differential games...
Delivery platforms in urban logistics connect providers with customers through distribution riders, who are usually distinguished by low incomes and limited social rights. This paper aims to compare and analyze the freelance and employment models for...
24 June 2022
In practice, several e-commerce platforms offering online channels not only act as resellers but also serve as the marketplace. However, the existing literature rarely explores the impact of the offline service effort strategy with the showrooming ef...
A system of incentives can be established to encourage several parties to unite as a community of interest and become jointly committed to the platform economic governance. The platform economy involves progressively more complex subjects of interest...
In practice, platforms are likely to target popular or niche product markets to introduce store brands (SBs). However, existing studies on horizontal SB positioning mainly focus on product similarity or attribute differentiation and do not clarify ho...
Industrial symbiosis (IS) can contribute to achieving a win-win situation between industry and environment for local and regional circular economies. Many authors have recognized that a variety of barriers can hinder the implementation of IS. However...
Rapid growth in the e-commerce market, caused by COVID-19, has led to fierce competition. The intense competition in e-commerce market triggers firms to strengthen their competitiveness by providing logistics services. Furthermore, as sustainability...
This paper analyzes how consumer preferences for eco-friendly private labels affect platform selling formats and manufacturer channel strategies. We construct a game-theoretic model that encompasses both an e-commerce platform and a manufacturer. In...
In this paper, we study a restaurant’s take-out model choice and the coordination of an online take-out supply chain. To this end, we first derive the restaurant’s optimal price and/or platform’s commission rate under the restaurant...
The development of many intelligent technologies, such as artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things, has brought new opportunities for water industry intelligence. Based on intelligent pressure regulation technology, this paper built an inte...
With the rise of sustainable innovation, digital platforms have emerged as key facilitators in the second-hand e-commerce recycling market. This study investigates the entry strategies of profit-oriented and ESG-driven platforms, focusing on their su...
Cultivated land resources are important natural resource assets that are related to food security and sustainable development. Due to the many restrictive factors of the karst landform on agricultural production, the quantity and quality of cultivate...
14 June 2016
The paper discusses the necessity to bring environmental equity within the Pata Rât Roma community in Northwest Romania, relying on the answers to three questions: “Does environmental equity exist in Pata Rât?”, “How can it be attained?”, and “To wha...
Value-added services (VASs) are widely used to incentivize user adoption in the platform economy. While considering the symmetry of cross-network externalities of a platform, i.e., suppliers and manufacturers exert balanced and mutually reinforcing i...
This paper considers a sales mode selection problem between resale and agency modes on e-commerce platforms for a manufacturer with traditional retail channel, direct selling channel, and e-commerce platform channel. By considering the factors price...
1 December 2025
Live-streaming e-commerce is a popular promotional method for attracting more customers in the era of the platform economy. This study investigates a better strategy for live-streaming sales for a manufacturer in an e-platform-based supply chain. Spe...
The implementation of community power generation technology not only increases the flexibility of electricity use but also improves the power system’s load distribution, increases the overall system efficiency, and optimizes energy allocation....
For cross-border e-commerce companies with high shipping costs, the existing retailer and the new entrant retailer on the platform are usually concerned with information sharing and free shipping due to the uncertainty of market demand. For this, by...
The shipping industry, a cornerstone of global trade, faces emissions reduction challenges amid tightening environmental policies. Blockchain technology, leveraging distributed symmetric architectures, enhances supply chain transparency by reducing i...
Trade-in programs have become a vital mechanism for promoting sustainable consumption and reducing negative impacts on the environment, gaining substantial support from branders, e-platforms, and consumers in recent years. Concurrently, the emergence...
Subscription services have become popular in recent years, breaking the traditional business model of one-time payment and prompting operators to build long-term loyal relationships with their customers. As smartphones are popular in Taiwan and the T...
4 December 2025
With the rapid development of live streaming e-commerce, opening live streaming sales channels for online product sales has become an important strategic priority for enterprises. This paper examines information technology-driven operational decision...
Mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) apps provide a single platform for journey planning, booking, payment and ticketing, and are proposed as a medium for encouraging sustainable travel behaviour. Generating sustainable-vehicle-based journey alternatives can...
9 February 2023
Government subsidies have played an important role in the development of green agriculture. In addition, the Internet platform is becoming a new channel to realize green traceability and promote the sale of agricultural products. In this context, we...
The sharing economy is considered to be a potentially efficacious approach for promoting sustainable production and consumption (SPC). This study utilizes dockless bike sharing (DBS) in Beijing as a case study to examine how sharing economy policies...
In 2019, Sri Lanka introduced two policies that referred to food waste and the need to reduce it. To understand key stakeholders’ readiness in this context, this study analyzed the food waste perceptions of private and public sectors in Colombo...
29 January 2023
Blockchain technology (BCT) provides a new way to mitigate the default risks of lease contracts resulting from the information asymmetry in leasing. The conceptual architecture of a consortium blockchain-based leasing platform (CBLP) is first propose...
We build two multiple-stage game-theoretical models to capture how a ride-hailing platform’s ex-ante and ex-post pricing strategies induce show-up drivers’ strategic inter-area relocations. In both models, the platform operates its ride-h...
The development of China’s sharing economy has slowed down significantly after experiencing the savage growth since the beginning of 2018 and has entered the turning point of structural adjustment. Factors including homogeneous and single profi...
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