Fu Jia

• PhD
• Chair at University of York

The significance of the supply chain finance (SCF) ecosystem has been acknowledged by both scholars and practitioners, with platforms playing a pivotal role in its development. However, the platform-centric SCF ecosystem formation process remains ambiguous. Adopting an inter-organizational network perspective, this study investigates how third-part...

This study aims to examine sustainability practices in healthcare supply chains by identifying drivers, key practices, barriers, and their outcomes. Based on comprehensive literature review of 78 articles (1996–2023), grounded in institutional theory and the Technology-Organisation-Environment (TOE) framework, this study developed Dynamic Sustainab...

Purpose This study aims to systematically review the current academic literature on supply chain transparency (SCT) to explore the impact of SCT on firm performance and identify factors that influencing SCT-related practices. Design/methodology/approach This review follows the six steps and 14 decisions of conducting a systematic literature review...

Purpose This systematic literature review (SLR) aims to critically analyze the current academic research on the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in supply chain management (SCM) and develop a theoretical framework and future research agenda. Design/methodology/approach Through a comprehensive review of 68 relevant papers, this study synthe...

Semiconductor materials are strategic materials in global manufacturing. Affected by supply chain risks, semiconductor supply shortages have brought unprecedented pressure on global supply chain security, such as car manufacturers and electrical and electronic production stopping production among others, resulting in economic losses. When supply...

Purpose Within the current institutional landscape, characterized by increased societal and governmental emphasis on environmental preservation, there is growing interest in the potential of digital transformation (DT) to advance the circular economy (CE). Nonetheless, the empirical substantiation of the connection between DT and CE remains limited...

As diseases, natural disasters, and man-made disruptions become more frequent and severe, enhancing the resilience of agri-food supply chain operations poses an increasing challenge.This study aims to identify and analyze the key capabilities and impact factors contributing to agri-food supply chain resilience (AFSCRE). By conducting a comprehensiv...

As a departure from previous research that takes social ventures as a distinct organizational type, this study investigates the relationship between the pro‐market institutions in a country and the degree of hybridity in social ventures, focusing on the dimension of organizational goals. Additionally, it examines the contingent effects of organizat...

Purpose Sustainability is of growing significance in the contemporary business landscape as organizations strive to minimize their environmental impact and optimize supply chain (SC) operations. Gaining insights into the influence of Triple A SC practices on sustainable performance can offer valuable perspectives for practitioners and policymakers....

Purpose Despite its crucial role in ensuring food safety, traceability remains underutilized by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), a vital component of China’s agricultural supply chain, thereby compromising the integrity of the supply chain traceability system. Therefore, this study sets out to explore the factors influencing SMEs’ adoptio...

Despite acknowledging employees’ significance in implementing CSR strategies, a common deficiency lies in comprehending the fundamental incentives driving their participation in CSR initiatives. Drawing from cognitive consistency theory, this research strives to construct a moderated mediation framework elucidating the mechanisms and circumstances...

Despite acknowledging employees' significance in implementing CSR strategies, a common deficiency lies in comprehending the fundamental incentives driving their participation in CSR initiatives. Drawing from cognitive consistency theory, this research strives to construct a moderated mediation framework elucidating the mechanisms and circumstances...

Despite acknowledging employees’ significance in implementing CSR strategies, a common deficiency lies in comprehending the fundamental incentives driving their participation in CSR initiatives. Drawing from cognitive consistency theory, this research strives to construct a moderated mediation framework elucidating the mechanisms and circumstances...

Financial technology, or fintech, is used to describe disruptive new technologies that help firms manage their financial operations and improve the cost effectiveness of customer services. However, the role of fintech adoption in sustainable supply chain management performance is unclear. Using panel data from Chinese A-share listed companies from...

Purpose Despite the increasing interest in the role of supply chain concentration (SCC) in improving performance, its influence on firms' sustainability performance remains unexplored, as do the underlying mechanisms of this relationship. Drawing on resource dependence theory, the authors investigate the relationship between SCC and manufacturing f...

Tens of millions of people worldwide-at a minimum-are victims of modern slavery (MS), including various forms of human trafficking, forced labor, and child labor. In the current digitization era, digital technology may be used to recruit or control MS victims, but it also has the potential to mitigate MS risks in supply chains. However, although sc...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate which of the two carbon allowance allocation methods (CAAMs), i.e. grandfathered system carbon allowance allocation (GCAA) and baseline system carbon allowance allocation (BCAA), is more beneficial to capital-constrained supply chains under the carbon emission allowance repurchase strategy (CEARS)...

Purpose Corporate social responsibility (CSR) decoupling indicates a misalignment between how firms report CSR and what firms actually practice with respect to CSR. The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between CSR decoupling and financial performance and the factors affecting this relationship. Design/methodology/approach This...

This paper aims to investigate the relationship between circular economy (CE) practices and enterprise performance based on existing empirical studies adopting a meta-analysis method. By systematically reviewing the literature, we identify 41 papers published on this topic between 2005 and 2021. The key finding supports that CE practice has benefit...

Purpose This study aims to systematically review the current academic literature on the role of technologies in low-carbon supply chain management (SCM), identify and analyse critical themes and propose an integrated conceptual model. Design/methodology/approach A systematic literature review of 48 papers published between 2010 and 2022 was conduc...

This paper investigates the impacts of e-commerce supply chain finance (SCF) on small and medium enterprises’ (SMEs) financing performance. Using the 423 observations panel dataset of Chinese technology-based SMEs for the period from 2011 to 2020, the descriptive, correlation statistics and regression analysis are conducted. The findings indicate t...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore an under-researched topic of supply chain followership (SCF) in the context of recycling chains. Design/methodology/approach Following a multiple case study approach, the authors conducted interviews with Tetra Pak senior managers and recyclers who recycle used beverage cartons (UBCs) in China. Find...

Purpose This paper aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the supply chain learning (SCL)–performance relationship based on the existing empirical evidence. Design/methodology/approach We sampled 54 empirical studies on the SCL–performance relationship. We proposed a conceptual research framework and adopted a meta-analytical approach to...

Purpose Supply chain integration (SCI) has been considered an antecedent of sustainability performance (SP) by some studies; however, empirical findings on the nexus between SCI and SP in the existing literature are inconsistent. The study aims to provide an extensive literature review on the SCI–SP relationship. Design/methodology/approach We pro...

Climate change is the greatest global challenge faced by mankind today. With a rise in intelligent shared logistics and public awareness of environmental protection, implicit problems in intracity logistics, such as environmental pollution, resource waste, high carbon energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, should be solved urgently to ach...

Biopesticides have been recognized as viable alternatives to chemical pesticides in controlling agricultural pests for plants and reducing harmful chemical residues. However, small and marginal farmers are facing challenges while adopting biopesticides, namely, high cost and complicated application techniques, resulting in a low level of farmer acc...

The objective of “low-carbon supply chain” and the development of e-commerce platforms (as e-platform) has boosted the production and sales of low-carbon products. Although the e-platform’s involvement promotes the efficiency of low-carbon products circulation, it leads to channel competition and double marginalization. To mitigate these negative e...

Modern slavery is a complex and challenging phenomenon that may hinder the sustainable development of the global supply chain. However, there is no existing academic review on modern slavery in supply chains. This study conducts a systematic literature review to synthesise this body of literature. We searched keywords in the Scopus database and ide...

This paper seeks to provide insights into the sustainability report assurance process by exploring how reporting firms and assurance providers work together to produce high-quality and credible assurance outcomes. In this literature review, the assurance process is conceptualised as a systematic procedure that incorporates the detail of assurance w...

Managing corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the supply chain context requires companies to consider complex issues embedded in their supply chains, one of which is the complexity caused by unstable suppliers. However, prior studies have focused primarily on how supplier instability affects a firm's operational or financial performance. Ground...

Purpose This paper aims to systematically review the literature on quality management in agri-food supply chains (SCs) and propose an integrated conceptual framework. Design/methodology/approach A systematic literature review that analyses 93 papers in peer-reviewed academic journals published from 1996 to November 2021 is conducted. A conceptual...

This paper aims to investigate the impacts of a platform-based servitization process on system complexity and how the characters of internal complexity further affects system adaptability. We adopt complex adaptive system (CAS) theory as a theoretical lens to address these two issues by conducting a multiple case study. Three leading enterprises wi...

The emerging new energy vehicles (NEV) industry is strategically important for China. How to capture its operating characteristics is a challenging but meaningful work. Considering that physical network (e.g. buyer–supplier) or correlation network (e.g. financial contagion) can provide the effective market information for enterprises in the operati...

This study investigates the impact of the Chinese government's Level I emergency response policy on manufacturers' stock market values. We empirically examine the roles of human resource dependence (labor intensity) and operational slack within the context of supply chain resilience. Through an event study of 1357 Chinese manufacturing companies, w...

As a global manufacturing sector, the leather industry has been a critical player in the international commerce market. With growing concerns about its sustainability, there tends to be an increasing number of studies in academic literature as well as grey literature (e.g. industry reports) focusing on leather supply chain management. However, ther...

This study examines how platforms within sharing economy-based service triads (SESTs) can improve their social capital through information processing and knowledge management mechanisms, with the objective to provide better platform services to both service suppliers and end customers. Data were collected through multiple case studies, primarily re...

In recent years, there has been a phenomenal growth in procurement research towards a circular economy (CE). However, to date, there is a lack of systematic synthesis of this body of knowledge hindering theoretical development. This work aims to investigate the current state of circular procurement (CP) in both the public and private sectors throug...

The rapid development of the supply chain of the IoT industry may trigger financial risk contagion among IoT manufacturers. This paper collects data on listed IoT companies in the Chinese market from 2010 to 2019 and explores the development of the environment for the IoT industry. Two dynamic time wrapping (DTW) networks are created to analyze the...

Farmers’ collective action via cooperatives is critical to achieving a wide range of economic and social benefits that lead to sustainable development and enhance the welfare of rural communities. Adopting a qualitative case study method, the paper compares the development and governance attributes of two cooperatives and seeks to identify how non-...

Purpose This paper aims to empirically explore the evolution of servitization and how platforms affect the transition between the stages of servitization. Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted an in-depth case study of a Chinese manufacturer (i.e. Haier) using a longitudinal design. Three rounds of data collection were conducted betwee...

Purpose This study aims to explore the impact of blockchain announcements on enterprises' stock market value. Design/methodology/approach Based on resource-based theory, this study constructs a complete framework of the impact mechanism of blockchain announcements on the stock price of the announcing firm using the data of 143 blockchain announcem...

The sustainable development of cooperatives is essential to agricultural sustainability and is determined mainly by cooperation longevity. The risk sharing and benefit distribution mechanisms are important governance arrangements that affect cooperation longevity in member-heterogeneous cooperatives. However, the relationship between cooperatives’...

This study explores the interactional effects and fit of internal and external collaboration on supply chain performance based on the fit theory. Data collected from 205 firms located in China was used to test the hypotheses via partial least squares structural equation modelling, polynomial regression and response surface methodology. The results...

This paper aims to synthesize two emerging streams of literature in tourism, i.e., service design and destination ecosystem, and develops a conceptual framework for service design for the destination tourism service ecosystem (DTSE). We first collected and evaluated 103 articles in 48 journals to construct a conceptual framework. Three core themes...

Behaviour-based pricing (BBP) fully considers the willingness to pay, behavioural characteristics and rational expectations of new and old customers and can dynamically adjust pricing strategies based on purchase histories. Therefore, compared with uniform pricing, BBP can promote the development of green products in the market. Additionally, BBP g...

Exploring the value of multi-source information fusion to predict small and medium-sized enterprises’ (SMEs) credit risk in supply chain finance (SCF) is a popular yet challenging task, as two issues of key variable selection and imbalanced class must be addressed simultaneously. To this end, we develop new forecast models adopting an imbalance sam...

As a typical social good product, COVID-19 vaccine demonstrates the vaccine manufacturing enterprises’ social responsibility. This article thus aims to empirically test whether the event of the COVID-19 outbreak provides an opportunity for vaccine manufacturing enterprises to achieve social good, contributing to the social good stream of the new pr...

The industry of cross-border electronic commerce (CBEC) has experienced rapid development in recent years, however it has also faced severe challenges concerning the managerial risks taking place across national borders. The aims of the study are two folds: first examine the effects of applying different risk mitigation strategies on the market per...

With the progress of urbanization, rural communities in Zhejiang Province of China have demonstrated a pattern of commercial and residential combinations, which resulted in increased household carbon emissions. Hence, the realization of the sustainable development of the economy, society, and environment has become an important issue facing these m...

E-commerce is gaining traction in academia, industry, and with policymakers. Along with this development, the intersection of supply chain management and e-commerce research has become increasingly important. This study explored Osell, a cross-border e-commerce company in China, through a resource orchestration perspective to understand how supply...

Willingness-to-cede (WTC) profit behaviours for the purpose of effective cooperation have increasingly emerged as a best practice in competitive supply chain environments; however, this has been complicated by sustainability issues. Inspired by this fact, we study normative prescriptions and models that can be used to coordinate sustainable supply...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to develop a synthesized conceptual framework for artificial intelligence (AI) adoption in the field of business-to-business (B2B) marketing. Design/methodology/approach A conceptual development approach has been adopted, based on a content analysis of 59 papers in peer-reviewed academic journals, to identify d...

The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) guidelines have emerged as an important instrument used by firms to structure the content of sustainability reporting (SR). This development has led to the question of whether the elaboration of GRI SR is beneficial to a firm’s financial performance. In this study, building on signaling theory, we carry out an...

This study aims to explore how cross-border e-commerce (CBEC) enterprises achieve a desired balance state of supply chain resilience and vulnerability. This study proposes the concept of the balance state of supply chain resilience and vulnerability, which refers to the proximity of the current balance state of the supply chain to the ideal one and...

This paper makes an initial attempt to develop a theory of supply chain resilience through ambidexterity in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted a single-case analysis focusing on Zong-Teng Group, one of the biggest cross-border e-commerce enterprises in China, as our sample. Data were mainly collected from interviews with Zong-Teng m...

Willingness-to-cede (WTC) profit behaviours for the purpose of effective cooperation have increasingly emerged as a best practice in competitive supply chain environments; however, this has been complicated by sustainability issues. Inspired by this fact, we study normative prescriptions and models that can be used to coordinate sustainable supply...

Purpose-The purpose of this paper is to systematically review the academic literature on non-governmental organizations' (NGOs) role in sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) to develop a conceptual framework. Design/methodology/approach-This paper conducts a systematic literature review through an analysis of 47 papers identified from peer-rev...

A multi-tier supply chain is a complex system as it covers a focal company and multiple tiers of suppliers in a complex supply chain network. This study explores the complexity in multi-tier sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) through a social systems theory perspective. We carried out a case study on IKEA China’s sustainable cotton initiati...

Global supply chains (GoSCs) have become common for industries. However, relatively little research has emphasized products’ complex supply chain environmental assessments. Against this background, this paper maps key environmental issues in the GoSCs of the West Africa cashew industry. The initial-oriented green design and supply chain-wide assess...

The effect of transformational vis-à-vis transactional supply chain leadership on firm performance has been studied in the existing literature, but results remain mixed. Therefore, it is important to provide a meta-analysis literature review to investigate this relationship. In this study, 32 empirical journal articles published over the past 10 ye...

This research explores how focal tea companies facilitate supply chain business model innovation (SCBMI) to meet consumer demands and achieve sustainable development. By applying a case study method and dynamic capability theory, we find that: (1) the end‐user innovation‐driven is the precondition for tea SCBMI; (2) the user‐driven innovation leads...

This study aims to explain what is and why the operational challenge of bike-sharing companies exits and how it can be overcome for bike-sharing platform companies to achieve the expected outcomes. This study finds that operational challenges exist for these companies because the reciprocity norm is not obeyed by some customers, who immorally damag...

Replacing combustion vehicles with electric vehicles has been promoted by the Chinese government as a viable policy to reduce fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. The purpose of this study is to examine factors that influence Chinese taxi drivers’ adoption of electric vehicles for living. This study takes the Unified Theory of Acceptance...

Purpose This study aims to explore the dependence structure among Chinese firms across the emerging 5G industry at different stages and to provide some strategic insights for market participants. Design/methodology/approach This study adopt macroeconomic fundamentals and the log-returns of 45 listed firms in the Chinese 5G industry to construct th...

Previous studies have shed light on the effects of the adoption of OHSAS (Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series) 18,001 certification on performance. One important factor that has been neglected so far is the adoption timing. The question of whether early OHSAS 18001 adopters achieve better financial performance and operational performan...

Co-operatives play a vital role in supplying various goods and services in the UK, as well as in other parts of the world. In the past twenty years co-operatives have become important players in modern organic food supply chains, providing small-scale farmers with access to knowledge and markets, alongside opportunities to scale up their production...

Social sustainability issues such as labor rights concern in the agricultural sector receive significant attention from several stakeholders. The role of small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) that dominate the sector’s supply chain in developing countries remains critical in implementing initiatives to address these issues. Through a four-phase...