Qingyu Zhang

• Chinese Academy of Sciences

Growing evidence underscores the influence of several interactive factors on impulse buying in social commerce. However, the potential impact of situational and cognitive factors, such as immersion, serendipity, perceived scarcity, and deal proneness, is rarely studied within the emerging context of the Facebook second‐hand marketplace. Hence, this...

Sustainable tourism initiatives depend heavily on tourists' environmental behavior, with their willingness to adopt sustainable practices being crucial for the success of destination marketing campaigns. Grounded on the cognitive dissonance theory and the norm activation model, an integrated framework was built to investigate the influence of green...

This study provides a comprehensive perspective on the integration of Environmental Management Accounting (EMA) in translating environmental management strategies into corporate outcomes, both at the firm and supply chain levels. Grounded in legitimacy theory and agency theory, we introduce a conceptual framework to comprehensively investigate the...

The use of blockchain technology (BT) is transforming consumer behavior and enhancing business values, but its role in the context of mobile food delivery applications (MFDAs) is underexplored. Therefore, this study utilizes stimulus-organism-response theory to determine consumers' willingness to pay more (WPM) and behavioral intention to use BT-en...

This study examines the influence of Blockchain technology utilization (BTU), industrial internet-of-things (IoT), and resource-based management initiatives (RBMI) on innovation performance with the mediating role of organizational resilience in light of the resource-based view (RBV). Moreover, risk-taking tolerance is used as a moderator between o...

This research observes the relationship between industry 4.0 technologies (i.e., Internet of Things or IoT, machine learning, blockchain technology, and big data) and supply chain performance (SCP) with the mediating role of technological intensity in manufacturing firms using a resource-based view (RBV). Marketing strategy alignment is used as a m...

This study offers new insights into organizational inclusion and corporate sustainable development in the Japanese context. Specifically, we aim to explore organizational inclusion in the antecedents of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) inclusion and its effects on corporate outcomes, such as corporate market performance (CMP) and corp...

Many firms have established formal carbon neutrality (CN) targets in response to the increasing climate risk and related regulatory requirements. Subsequently, they have implemented various measures and adopted multiple approaches to attain these goals. Academic research has given due attention to firms' efforts in this direction. However, past stu...

Blockchain technology (BT) provides secure, fast, and confidential distributed systems that can solve many complex issues in supply chain management (SCM). Drawing on the technology, organization, and environment framework, institutional theory, and information system success model, this study proposes a pre-to post-adoption framework for BT in SCM...

Businesses have started to green-transform linear production operations by adopting innovative, responsive, and disruptive approaches under the circular economy. This transition requires appreciation and high acceptance by consumers to promote circular products for steady sustainable production and societies. The current study proposes dynamic soci...

Realizing the role of their consumers in mitigating environmental problems, companies have started leveraging gamification technology with persuasive interventions to induce consumers’ behavioral changes. Ant Forest—a gamified initiative launched by a prominent Chinese fintech company—empowers users to manage their ecological footprint and promote...

The working pattern of the food industry has entirely changed with the emergence of mobile food delivery apps (MFDAs), which deliver an innovative method to interact with and offer high-quality services to customers. This study pinpoints the imperative factors affecting the customer's attitude and continued intention in light of the task technology...

Drones in food delivery (DFD) have been getting significant attention in recent years owing to their ability to deliver food quickly without being affected by traffic, enhancing business practices. Therefore, this study attempts to understand consumer desires and intentions to adopt DFD in the shed of behavioral reasoning theory. The proposed frame...

Digital transformation has brought substantial innovation to traditional industries. As a new driving force for enhancing experiential environments, it has led to the symbiotic development of human and technical aspects on a new developmental journey. In the current discussion on digital transformation, scholars mainly focus on the internal logic o...

Many countries have recognized the urgent need to address environmental problems, such as air pollution, waste disposal, global warming, and natural resource depletion, through the application of green technology. ANT Forest is one such technological initiative that has gained academic attention for its potential to minimize adverse environmental i...

Purpose The authors examined the impact of environmental concerns, knowledge of organic/novel food, food neophobia, food neophilia, health consciousness and social norms on satisfaction toward organic food leading to the intention to purchase organic food (IPOF). Moreover, perceived barriers are used as a moderator between satisfaction toward organ...

Purpose Given the limited literature on depression as a contributing factor to compulsive social media use, the present research examines the role of perceived depressive mood (PDM) in developing compulsive social media use behavior. The authors also identify and hypothesize channels such as contingent self-esteem (CSE), social interaction anxiety...

The protection of the ecological landscape and the development of ecological resources are vital in the development of the global green economy, Their win-win coordinated development is influenced by factors such as nature, culture, and economy , and more attention should be placed on tourist perception and sustainable resource development. Previou...

This study investigates the impact of social interaction anxiety on compulsive chat with a social chatbot named Xiaoice. To provide insights into the limited literature, the authors explore the role of fear of negative evaluation (FONE) and fear of rejection (FOR) as mediators in this relationship. By applying a variance-based structural equation m...

Irrefutable evidence attributes environmental challenges, such as air and noise pollution, to unsustainable transportation, especially in urban settings. In this context, urban public transport is a sustainable mobility system with ecological benefits. However, limited research focuses on understanding the factors that promote urban public transpor...

Purpose-This study pinpoints the critical factors influencing the acceptance of blockchain technology in supply chain management in the light of the extended unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT2) with additional factors personal innovativeness in technology and user's self-efficacy. Design/methodology/approach-The questionnai...

Every pair of denim jeans produced contributes 33.4 kg of CO2 into the atmosphere, consumes 3781 L of water, and occupies 12 m² of land to support its production. The consumption patterns and consumption behaviour of consumers are both vital determinants of their environmental performance and impact. This paper examines the environmental concerns,...

An extensive work has been done on corporate social responsibly practices (CSRPs) that mainly emphasized the larger firms within developed nations. Nonetheless, still work is needed to observe the importance of CSRPs’ and ethical cultural practices (ECL) in terms of sustainable competitive performance (SACP) that garnered far less attention by the...

Purpose Technology has emerged as a leading tool to address concerns regarding climate change in the recent era. As a result, the green mobile application – Ant Forest – was developed, and it has considerable potential to reduce negative environmental impacts by encouraging its users to become involved in eco-friendly activities. Ant Forest is a no...

The environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) explains the dynamics associated with income and environmental quality. This study utilizes bibliometric analysis and data visualization techniques and empirically determines the tendencies and patterns in the EKC literature. Furthermore, the study explains intellectual structure, construct development, evoluti...

The United Nations proposed the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to foster sustainable development, including tackling environmental challenges and adopting cleaner production practices worldwide. Green technology is crucial for the implementation of the SDGs. Currently, there is an urgent need to form a long-term sustainable investment mechani...

Purpose This study investigates the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on organizational performance, especially competitive performance (CP) along with moderating role of the organizational culture (OC) from the banking sector of China. Drawing on the stakeholder theory, the first goal is to examine the relationships between CSR and o...

The International Organization for Standardization and the Global Reporting Initiative promote their alignment with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. This convergence of standards and information is causing the selection of a certification body to register these sustainability standards to become more complicated. Therefore, this s...

Growing green plants can enrich the natural environment and benefit society in many ways. With this in mind, a new Ant Forest mobile gaming application was launched in China by Ant Financial Group in coordination with Alipay. Since Ant Forest is entirely a new green behavior phenomenon—of a type rarely studied in the literature—we explore users’ at...

Although crowdsourcing is ubiquitous, it is unclear what factors affect the quality of contributions by participants in crowdsourcing activities. This study attempts to understand the mechanism of how perceived intellectual property rights (IPR) protection influences participant's contribution effort in crowdsourcing contests by analyzing the media...

In the 21st century, climate change is a severe threat to the survival of the planet and humanity; to counter this threat, the significant role of renewable energy cannot be denied for sustainable development worldwide. The motive of this study to examine the threshold level and asymmetric relationship between renewable energy and economic developm...

The big data revolution has created data center sustainability problems, whose solutions require the consideration of environmental factors. The purpose of this study is to establish a big data center sustainability evaluation index and provide guidance for sustainable data center construction. This research formulated a big data center sustainabil...

Regarded as one of the most effective tools to guide quality systems management, ISO 9001 is a valuable certification. Yet, the growth observed throughout the world by this standard provides a strong polarisation of interest in this practice by the companies. Our research goals are to analyze and forecast trends involving ISO 9001 certification of...

The implementation of Integrated Management Systems (IMS) has become a prerequisite for any organization looking to transform itself into a competitive and more sustainable enterprise. However, these efforts are not successful for some organizations, and there is an opportunity to explore what it takes to have an effective IMS implementation. Prior...

In recent years, many researchers have attempted to determine the mechanisms of how corporate social responsibility (CSR) brings financial benefits to a firm. However, many chief financial officers (CFOs) throughout the world are uncertain about the strategic value of CSR, and no consensus has been reached on defining how CSR creates value. Drawing...

For the decades, firms have endeavored to collaboratively communicate and jointly create knowledge with supply chain partners, and further achieve efficient and responsive supply chain. The objective of the study is to explore the impact of power symmetry on communication and knowledge creation, and further on process efficiency and offering flexib...

To achieve content validity, the measurement items are created through rigorous and extensive review of literature to cover the domain of the constructs. To pre-assess the reliability, convergent validity, and discriminant validity of the scales, the common pool of items is reviewed and evaluated by practitioners. Structured interviews are conducte...

In the extant literature, different perspectives and theories have been taken in explaining supply chain collaboration . In this chapter, we examine supply chain collaboration using the following ten theories: uncertainty reduction theory, transaction cost economics, resource based view, relational view, extended resource based view , resource depe...

Collecting large-scale data and testing the hypotheses in the framework are challenging. In this chapter, we describe the large-scale web survey method and present the analysis procedure and results. Data collection process includes sampling design, purchasing executive email list, web survey design, and managing waves of survey. Confirmatory facto...

Supply chain collaboration is rooted in a paradigm of collaborative advantage rather than competitive advantage. Collaborative advantage comes from relational rents that produce common benefits for bilateral rent-seeking behaviors while competitive advantage encourages individual rent-seeking behaviors that maximize a firm’s own benefits. The persp...

While individual success stories of supply chain collaboration have been reported, mainstream implementation has been much less successful than expected. Many collaborative relationships fail to meet the participants’ expectations and few firms have truly capitalized on the potential of supply chain collaboration . In the literature, the exact natu...

In researching the antecedents or the conditions that lead to or affect supply chain collaboration , prior studies focus on IT capability and the use of interorganizational systems (IOS) but simplify or ignore its context (e.g., culture and trust). Although IT capability and IOS use are necessary for supply chain collaboration to succeed, organizat...

The preceding chapters have developed a framework of supply chain collaboration, its antecedents, and consequences, and presented methods for measuring these constructs and empirically testing relationships among them. In this chapter, we provide additional insights on the moderation effect of firm size on the relationship between supply chain coll...

Facing uncertain environments, firms have strived to achieve greater supply chain collaboration to leverage the resources and knowledge of their suppliers and customers. The objective of the study is to uncover the nature of supply chain collaboration and explore its impact on firm performance based on a paradigm of collaborative advantage. Reliabl...

Facing intensified global competition, firms strive for greater supply chain collaboration by leveraging the resources and knowledge of key suppliers and valued customers to reduce uncertainty, lower transaction costs, build core competence, capitalise on opportunities for learning and knowledge creation, and improve competitive position. This stud...

Increasing global competition, accelerating technological change and expanding customer expectations are creating a turbulent environment. Flexibility is a mechanism that enables firms to cope with this increasing uncertainty because it facilitates a quick response, which is strategically important as an order-winning criterion. To meet customer ne...

In the past decades, firms have strived to achieve greater collaborative advantages with their supply chain partners. The objective of the study is to uncover the nature and characteristics of supply chain collaborative advantage from a focal firm’s perspective. Collaborative advantage is defined as strategic benefits gained over competitors in the...

The objective of the study is to explore the impact of IOS appropriation on supply chain collaboration and collaborative advantage. Reliable and valid instruments of these constructs were developed through rigorous empirical analysis including structured interviews, Q-sort, and a large-scale study. Data were collected through a Web survey of U.S. m...

A rapidly changing competitive landscape and dynamic customer expectations require manufacturing firms to seek flexibility in product development. Product concept flexibility (i.e., developing design options) and product prototype flexibility (i.e., creating working models) emerge as effective ways to quickly develop new products that meet competit...

To cope with an increasingly turbulent environment, manufacturing firms increasingly implement integration practices to enhance flexibility in the production process. This research develops a framework to explore the relationships among organizational integration practices, manufacturing flexibility, and competitive advantage. The study develops va...

Web sites are being widely deployed commercially; however, the factors that affect the customer’s perception on the quality and acceptance of Web sites are unclear. Through a literature review on information systems success, ServQual, and trust, this chapter examines and integrates four sets of factors to capture the quality of e-commerce Web sites...

Purpose – To respond to an increasingly uncertain environment, firms are seeking to enhance flexibility across the value chain. Spanning flexibility, a critical dimension of value chain flexibility, is the ability of a firm to provide horizontal information connections across the value chain to meet a variety of customer needs. This research organi...

Purpose To respond to increasing environmental uncertainty, manufacturers are enhancing flexible manufacturing competence (FMC) as a source of competitive advantage. This study aims to extend research on FMC to its antecedent variables by investigating the impacts of advanced manufacturing technology and operations improvement practices (OIP) on FM...

Purpose To identify what constitutes web site quality or what makes a web site effective. Design/methodology/approach This article examines and integrates four sets of factors that capture e‐commerce web site quality using an IS success model: system quality, information quality, service quality, and attractiveness. A questionnaire survey was cond...

Purpose To succeed in an uncertain environment, firms must respond to changing customer needs, and logistics flexibility is an important part of the response. This paper defines logistics flexibility, creates a framework to understand it, and shows how it relates to customer satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach The study uses a large sample s...

This paper develops a conceptual framework that incorporates three innovation strategies and three learning activities through the mechanism of four conversion processes in new product development. Also included is the impact of the three learning activities on performance. The framework can provide a tool for systematically examining the effective...

In order to measure the extent to which the organisation learns and accumulates knowledge in product development, the construct ''Learning And Knowledge Creation'' (LAKC) in product development was put into operation based on Nonaka and Takeuchi's (1995) knowledge creation theory. A national survey gathered data from 239 top managers regarding lear...

Fast and dramatic changes in customer expectations, competition, and technology are creating an increasingly uncertain environment. To respond, manufacturers are seeking to enhance flexibility across the value chain. Manufacturing flexibility, a critical dimension of value chain flexibility, is the ability to produce a variety of products in the qu...

Fast and dramatic changes in customer expectations, competition, and technology are creating an increasingly uncertain environment. To respond, manufacturers are seeking to enhance flexibility across the value chain. Manufacturing flexibility, a critical dimension of value chain flexibility, is the ability to produce a variety of products in the qu...

Web technology is revolutionising the information transfer and delivery modes of physical products. In the field of consumer-oriented business, most online merchant-consumer interactions require direct manipulation of interface. Thus, the design of human-machine web interface is a critical factor to determining whether e-commerce can succeed in sup...

In response to an increasingly global and competitive environment, the flexibility to adapt to changing market needs and develop innovative cross-functional processes is quintessential to success. Emphasizes that, in order to succeed in BPR, the firm must make the organizational structure change from a hierarchical to a flat form, management goals...

Facing uncertain environments, firms have strived to achieve greater supply chain collaboration to leverage the resources and knowledge of suppliers and customers. The objective of the study is to uncover the nature of supply chain collaboration and explore its impact on collaborative advantage and firm performance. Reliable and valid instruments w...