Purpose Constant or decreasing returns and increasing returns to scale are two kinds of mechanism in economic growth. The goal of supply-side structural reform is to promote the establishment of the mechanism with increasing returns to scale. The paper aims to discuss this issue....

Traditional online shopping has been a solitary activity, but technology advances are challenging this norm. Collaborative online shopping (i.e., co-shopping) stimulates more purchases than solo shopping does, and it embraces the innate human need to socialize. Thus, it represents a growing form...

Many e-marketplaces use national brand sellers' contract manufacturers to produce their e-commerce brand products, and some of the e-marketplaces also advertise that their e-commerce brand products have the same contract manufacturers as excellent national brand products to take advantage of the...

RFID (Radio frequency identification) is an emerging technology that attracts attention of supply chain participants. However, most Chinese firms just adopt this innovation without fully utilizing its benefits. Extant IS research also only focuses on factors that impact its adoption rather than...

Deoxynivalenol (DON) is a type B trichothecene mycotoxin widely existed in cereal. Herein a portable photoelectrochemical (PEC)/visualization dual-mode sensor chip was successfully developed for DON detection. By laser etching technology, different functional areas, including the photoanode, the...

In this paper, MnO 2 nanosheets were prepared by decorating with ZIF-8-derived template grown on Ni foam to obtain a novel binder-free highly conductive electrode with a uniform flower-liked morphology. The abundant groups on PDA-pretreatment Ni foam promote the highly dispersed of assembled...

RFID (Radio frequency identification) is an emerging technology that attracts much attention of supply chain participants recently. However, most Chinese supply chain participants just adopt this innovation without making further steps to fully utilize its benefits. Extant IS research on this...

This paper provides novel evidence of information asymmetry in Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) markets, focusing on the informativeness of ETF flows. By decomposing daily ETF flows into three components, we find that certain ETF shares are created or redeemed in anticipation of forthcoming news,...

This paper develops a novel approach to information-based securities trading by characterizing the hidden state of the market, which varies following a Markov process. Extensive simulation demonstrates that the approach can successfully identify market states and generate measures of...