When consumers purchase imported products through cross-border e-commerce (CBEC), they actually pay for “product + import tariff”. In practice, import tariffs include ad valorem tariff and specific tariff, where the former is levied based on the price of the product, and the latter is levied...

Recently, government such as India, Canada and China have levied environment tax on production while subsidized the output of remanufactured components to promote resource-saving and pollution reduction. As a result, many original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) have collaborated with the...

Nowadays, to achieve sustainable development, many developing countries are worrying about the deteriorating lock-in issues of high carbon. Therefore, policies including tax break, consumer green education, and subsidy for green production are set out to motivate multinational firms (MNFs) to...

Remanufactured product, by definition, is the product with the same-as-new quality but a low cost because the components are usually reused and/or repaired. Consumers have doubts about the wastage status of the components so risk-aversion and quality untrust are incurred when they buy...

E-tailers such as Amazon and JD.com have long been criticized for the co-existence of copycat and genuine products sold on their platforms. Although many brands have developed blockchain-based digital manufacturing systems which can enable the traceability of the genuine products, consumers...

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) allows customers to use software over the Internet by paying a subscription fee rather than by buying shrink-wrapped software and installing it on their computers. To maintain customer interests in SaaS, the provider's dynamic quality decision is important. Thus, we...

Abstract: In practice, consumption quality refers to “production quality + category image”, where the former is determined by a contract manufacturer (CM) and the latter is promoted by an industry leader. In this paper, we explore whether the industry leader should cooperate with the CM...

AI livestream with virtual anchors enables the global brands to promote products by transcending cultural disparities. So the novel business model incorporating AI livestream in cross-border operations is worth investigating to show the tradeoffs in the global brands’ decision between AI and...