Multinational firms (MNFs) that outsource production in the developing countries have been identified as the main contributors to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. These MNFs are therefore required to uphold sustainability goals, which propels the manufacturers in developing countries to make...

Consider a remanufacturing system consisting of a brand, a new component supplier (Supplier N), and a remanufactured component supplier (Supplier R). The brand priorly purchases remanufactured components and then assembles them into final products, while Supplier R collects the end-of-life...

The lack of harmonized carbon regulations across regions poses a significant obstacle to achieving effective carbon emission reduction, thereby underscoring the necessity for interregional carbon market connections. By employing a game-theoretical optimization model, this study examines the...

Turbulent events such as the COVID-19 pandemic have caused severe disruptions to direct-delivery trade in cross-border e-commerce. For the e-tailers operating both bonded-warehouse and direct-delivery channels, self-reliant shipping will undoubtedly avoid the loss of control of logistics...

Non-saturated markets such as high-tech markets are attracting more and more eco-conscious consumers. Their utility can be increased by firms’ investment in carbon reduction, so the overall demand can be expanded without intensifying the market competition too much. In this paper, we build a...

Global sourcing is popular due to its ability to provide high-quality products from a global pool of suppliers. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a high risk of delivery delays. Once such delay occurs, the overseas supplier and the buyer usually execute the purchasing contract at a...

Imported agricultural product is not necessarily of higher quality than local product (e.g., pork containing ractopamine). Therefore, to improve brand image and increase market share, many overseas suppliers have adopted or are planning to adopt blockchain, where the production process without...

Confronting COVID-19 pandemic, many cross-border food companies adopt AI-based decision support systems (IDSSs) to predict the outbreaks, which not only rebuilds their buyer trust but also supports their disinfection preparation decisions based on accurate outbreak information. However, one...

Humans tend to make time-inconsistent intertemporal choices and exhibit naivete about their self-control in the future, a human tendency identified and confirmed in behavioral economics and marketing literature as “present-biased preferences”. New service operations business models betting...

Many U.S. IT companies began to realize the important role of tax planning in recent years and started strategically establishing retail subsidiaries in favorable tax jurisdictions. Significant increase of after-tax profits can be achieved by internally trading their own intellectual properties,...