Enhancing the economic resilience of agriculture is essential for promoting sustainable and high-quality agricultural development. The emergence of digital technology has created new opportunities in this field. However, existing research predominantly focuses on traditional agricultural factors...

Problem definition: We introduce and formalize a concept termed as conditional leadtime flexibility (CLF), which refers to the industry practice where a manufacturer requests its upstream suppliers to dynamically adjust the leadtimes. We consider an assemble-to-order (ATO) manufacturer's...

Using the unique combined dataset of three previous surveys, this paper examines the effects of corporate governance on the performance of large private interprises in Vietnam. Five measures of corporate governance and three variable proxies for performance are employed to investigate effects of...

How does bank capital affect the relationship between bank concentration and risk taking? I develop a tractable dynamic model with heterogeneous financially constrained entrepreneurs and an imperfectly competitive banking sector. Based on the model, when the bank capital ratio exceeds the...

During the last thirty years, U.S. bank concentration has been growing over time, as has bank capital ratio, which has been rising and already well above the minimum capital requirement. To explain these findings, I develop a tractable dynamic model with two key elements: financial constrained...

This paper investigates whether investments in lean agile software development training increase software development productivity and produce commensurate improvements in financial performance of the software development firm. Two experiments involving software development teams were conducted...

This paper investigates whether investments in lean agile software development via training, specifically retraining and coaching, increase software development productivity and produce commensurate improvements in financial performance of the software development firm. Two experiments involving...