Lujie Chen

Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University · IBSS

Managers and researchers are increasingly interested in the factor that logistics enterprise competitiveness (LEC) has significant effects on the development of Chinese logistics enterprises, especially in view of the enterprise life cycle. This paper investigates the contents and evolution of the composing factors of LEC in China by a survey.With...

The emergence of generative AI presents numerous potential solutions to address challenges in sustainable supply chain management (SCM). However, not all firms can effectively master the methods of using generative AI and realize potential benefits. To address this dilemma, we adopt a practice-based view (PBV) to examine generative AI usage’s effec...

Curtailing supplier opportunism is a critical concern for both business practitioners and supply chain researchers. However, ambiguity remains regarding the effective deployment of digital technologies (DTs) within supply chain practices to address this issue. Drawing on the asset orchestration perspective, we consider two DT deployment manners (i....

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 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...

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...

In the context of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) and Industry 5.0 (I5.0), a supply chain (SC) is digital and dynamic with a multi-structural framework, and should be resilient in the case of an abrupt disruption. To uncover SC characteristics under this environment, this paper proposes a five-layer interdependent supply chain network (SCN) to depict this mult...

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...

Despite widespread acknowledgment of the disruptive effects of digital technologies on firm performance, the mechanisms underlying such effects have not been adequately explained. To fill this gap, we consider two sub-components of technological opportunism (TO), that is, technology-sensing capability (TSC) and technology-responding capability (TRC...

Although the integration of metro and ride-hailing services is a promising way to handle the last-mile problem, the viability of long-term subsidies funded by municipalities with limited budgets is in doubt. We thus investigate two self-funded subsidy schemes: metro-lead subsidy scheme (MS) and ride-hailing platform-lead subsidy scheme (RS). To thi...

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...

The triple-A supply chain (SC) is characterised as agile, adaptable, and aligned that help firms achieve competitive advantage in the business environment, but few studies have examined their impact on firm performance. This meta-analysis provides a generalised overview of this relationship, based on the extant empirical evidence. Via a systematic...

Purpose Although supply chain collaboration (SCC) theoretically boosts the adoption of supply chain finance (SCF) through information sharing and cost savings, many companies with good supply chain partnerships still hesitate to engage in SCF. To disentangle this puzzle, this study aims to explore how two dimensions of information transparency (i.e...

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 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...

With the rapid development of information and internet technologies, online supply chain finance is becoming increasingly important in improving supply chain performance from many perspectives, including capital and information. To fully understand the role of online supply chain finance, it is necessary to comprehensively assess the criteria of on...

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...

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...

Although many firms are aggressively deploying diverse digital technologies (DTs) at inter- and intra-organizational levels, not all firms have achieved the anticipated resilience, especially in the face of supply chain disruptions caused by “black swan” events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. To demystify this phenomenon, we draw on the asset orches...

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...

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...

Drawing on the signalling theory and stakeholder theory, this study extends the literature on corporate social responsibility (CSR) by examining the relationship between firms’ CSR performance and their access to bank credit loans, and specifically, by hypothesising that the institutional environment (framed as the level of financial development an...

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...

This paper explores the relationship between research and development (R&D) intensity and circular supply chain management (CSCM) adoption of high-tech manufacturing companies in China to deepen our understanding of how to improve CSCM adoption in emerging economies. In particular, we examine the moderating effect of three kinds of institutional pr...

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...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine both the separate effects and the interaction effects of business process improvement (BPI) and human resource enhancement (HRE) on operational performance in manufacturing firms and to examine the moderating effect of product life cycle (PLC). Design/methodology/approach The conceptual model was bas...

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...

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...

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...

Purpose This study aims to clarify the risk management practices of banks as supply chain finance (SCF) service providers. Design/methodology/approach Using 4,014 evaluation and approval reports, this study constructed five risk management factors and examined their functions with secondary data. Two text-mining techniques (i.e. word sense inducti...

The multi-armed bandit (MAB) is a classical model for the exploration vs. exploitation trade-off. Among existing MAB models, the restless bandit model is of increasing interest because of its dynamic nature, which makes it highly applicable in practice. Like other MAB models, the traditional (risk-neutral) restless bandit model searches for the arm...

Purpose The main purpose of this paper is to investigate how social media can provide important platforms to facilitate organisational learning and innovation in new product development (NPD) process. Design/methodology/approach Using a multiple case-study approach, this study assesses qualitative data collected via 56 interviews from 13 world-lea...

Purpose This study empirically examines the impact of announcements on supply chain strategic collaboration (SCSC) on companies' shareholder value. Design/methodology/approach This study analyzes changes in shareholder value of companies listed in China based on data of 208 SCSC announcements. The signaling theory is applied to determine correlati...

This paper empirically examines the impact of CSR reports released by platform-enterprises on the company's market value with the method of event study in the context of platform economy. We select 285 CSR reports from 147 listed platform companies in China in 2018 as the research samples, reveal whether and how CSR reports released by platform-ent...

Over the past few decades, sustainable supply chain management practices have been developed to incorporate ecological issues into business by decreasing unintentional destructive effects on the environment in the process of manufacturing and purchasing. At the same time, circular economies push the boundaries of environmental sustainability by hig...

Purpose The accounts receivable pool (ARP) is an e-invoice management system that provides suppliers with easy access to financial service. The purpose of this paper is to focus on the strength and weakness of ARP mechanism and suggest efficient methods to identify creditworthy borrowers. Design/methodology/approach By decomposing the sales record...

To accelerate the diffusion of battery electric vehicles (BEVs), consumer preferences for different products and policy attributes must be determined. Although previous studies have investigated consumer preferences for some product attributes, including purchase price, operation cost, driving range, and charging time, limited studies have discusse...

Purpose Cloud computing is a major enabling technology for Industry 4.0 and the Big Data era. However, cloud-based firms, who establish their businesses on cloud platforms, have received scant attention in the extant operations management (OM) literature. To narrow this gap, the purpose of this paper is to investigate cloud-based firms from an oper...

Purpose-This paper aims to set out the development, based on the extant literature, an integrated conceptual framework for the emergent field of sustainable global sourcing (GS) that synthesizes its antecedents, GS practices and sustainable performance. Design/methodology/approach-Conceptual theory building combined with content analysis is used to...

Supply chain finance (SCF) as an effective method for improving supply chain (SC) financial performance has attracted attention from both academics and industries in recent years. In the development of SCF research and practice, there is growing interest in how SCF solutions help to promote SC sustainability performance. However, the research on su...

Purpose This paper aims to set out the development, based on the extant literature, an integrated conceptual framework for the emergent field of sustainable global sourcing (GS) that synthesizes its antecedents, GS practices and sustainable performance. Design/methodology/approach Conceptual theory building combined with content analysis is used t...

Cross-border e-commerce is becoming increasingly popular around the world. With the development of technology, competition has gradually shifted from commodity-based attributes, such as cost and quality, to a supply chain’s service capacity for e-commerce. Within this context, the present paper delineates how cross-border e-commerce firms can gener...

Agri-food industries have consumed the most water among all industries, placing great pressure on water resources; therefore, academics tend to focus on exploring the ‘integrated’ method of managing water in the agricultural production system. Based on a systematic literature review of 105 articles related to water stewardship in agri-food supply c...

In this study, we aim to explore the role of the involvement of suppliers while firms execute sustainable initiatives. We have based the entire study on a survey covering 101 Swedish manufacturers. The structural equation models of partial least squares are adopted to analyse their responses, examining the relationship among the constructs, stakeho...

This paper adopts a developmental perspective to review articles and reports published in the past decade on the application of big data to the optimization of logistics. First, the evolution and features of both logistics and big data are reviewed using the systematic review method. This is followed by discussions on the implementation of big data...

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...

Innovation is vital for the logistics industry. This paper develops a Daoism-based conceptual model for logistics innovation in China. It identifies research gaps in this area and provides directions for future research. Following a content-based literature review methodology, 45 studies were selected. We identified five research themes: interpreta...

In recent years, circular economy (CE) is receiving increasing attention worldwide and is intended to integrate economic activity and environmental wellbeing in a sustainable way. The CE mainly focuses on both the front (eco-design, ECO) and back ends (reverse activities, RA) of operations and production at the firm level. However, what is missing...

The performance of the logistics service supply chain (LSSC) is not only affected by external demand changes, but also by the decision-making behaviours of LSSC members, including logistics service integrators (LSI) and functional logistics service providers (FLSP). This paper establishes a structural equation model for assessing the relationships...

New technology is altering business strategies and innovation capabilities while increasing the possibilities of production and process innovation. Supply chain collaboration undertaken for the sake of sustainability is currently speeding up this process of change; a growing pool of research is exploring the links between sustainability collaborati...

Supply chain disruptions can occur at any node if there is a vast array of triggers. A common trigger for manufacturing disruptions is supply interruptions. This paper considers a single-stage supply chain with single manufacturer sourcing from a single supplier, where supply disruptions lead to a production pause and the demand is deterministic. I...

In complex and competitive business environment, there have been many examples of supply chain members fighting for power. Therefore, researchers have begun focusing on the impact of control power allocation on the supply chain. This paper examines the allocation of power in different service supply chain relationships, analyzing the impact of serv...