Abstract In the presence of heterogeneity between the randomized controlled trial (RCT) participants and the target population, evaluating the treatment effect solely based on the RCT often leads to biased quantification of the real-world treatment effect. To address the problem of lack of...

Although the literature highlights the role of ties with service intermediaries in facilitating firms' search for innovation, the relationship between these ties and exploratory versus exploitative service innovation remains unclear. In line with the innovation search perspective, we combine...

General purpose technologies (GPTs) are regarded as a major source of productivity advancement and economic growth. As a kind of platform technology, GPTs have strong knowledge spillovers, which causes a single subject to lack R&D motivation and adopt a wait-and-see strategy. Cooperation R&D is...

A practical stochastic location-inventory-delivery problem with multi-item joint replenishment is studied. Unlike the conventional location-inventory model with a continuous-review (r, Q) inventory policy, the periodic-review inventory policy is adopted with multi-item joint replenishment under...

Digitization, informatization, and Internet penetration have led to a significant rise in cross-border e-commerce (CBEC), attracting considerable interest from academia, government, and industry. This study employed a novel method combining automatic text generation technology and traditional...

China’s military-civil fusion (MCF) policy has attracted global attention. Since 2010, China has constructed over 30 MCF national demonstration bases (MCFNDBs) to optimise local industrial structure and promote local economic development. However, the evaluation of the actual economic effects...

Entrepreneurship education helps young people create their first job, typically through either experiential learning or education programs. Our study evaluated the effect of integrating both methods in a single intervention involving 40 people aged 18 to 25. Our research intervention was...

Audit practice is a team effort led by signing auditors. We examine the impact of the heterogeneity of signing auditors' audit-firm serving experiences on the disclosure of key audit matters (KAMs). Auditors with more heterogeneous serving experiences demonstrate more adequate KAM disclosure, as...

The authors report the results of a review of the Chinese-language and English-language literatures on service delivery in China, asking how well China's health care providers perform, what determines their performance, and how the government can improve it. They find current performance leaves...