The paper proposes a model to investigate the influences of agglomeration on heterogeneous firms' exporting behaviors. In the model, firms are heterogeneous in productivity. Selection effect and agglomeration economies caused by agglomeration increase firms' productivity and decreases industrial...

As a stark contrast to the diminishing media profile of the UN climate change talks, the global manufacturers appear to have become more carbon aware than ever before. Carbon audits have been carried out within many corporations to assess the carbon intensity of production processes. This is...

Digitalization in supply chains is an arising topic. Screening recent publications in this field delivers no application-oriented classification of potential Industry 4.0 technologies for supply chain processes. The purpose of this paper is to present an application-oriented Technology-Framework...