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Does Supply Chain Digitalization Enhance Firm Resilience?

Using a sample of Chinese A-share listed firms from 2008 to 2023, this study demonstrates that supply chain digitalization significantly enhances firm resilience by alleviating financing constraints and fostering value co-creation, with effects that are amplified under environmental uncertainty, information transparency, and a U-shaped influence of artificial intelligence application.

Bin Mo, Jiaoting Yi, Liuyang Li, Hanzi Chen2026-07-27
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Institutional opening and regional entrepreneurial activity: Evidence from cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zones in China

This study utilizes a staggered difference-in-differences approach to demonstrate that China's Cross-Border E-Commerce Comprehensive Pilot Zones significantly boost regional entrepreneurial activity by fostering digital talent agglomeration, alleviating fiscal pressure, and developing new digital infrastructure, with effects being more pronounced in eastern regions and among non-state-owned enterprises.

Wei Ma, zhenchang Shi2026-07-27
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Environmental Sustainability Through Lense of Digitalization and Banking Sector

Using the STIRPAT model on World Development Indicators from 1990 to 2023, this study demonstrates that digitalization, gender inclusion, and the banking sector significantly enhance environmental sustainability, thereby urging policymakers to integrate these factors into frameworks that balance economic growth with ecological conservation.

JAUHAR ABBAS, Zia Ur Rehman, Haroon Hussain, Hammad Hassan Mirza, Ahmed Hussein Al Rassas2026-07-27
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When One Child Is Enough: Employment Security and Fertility Decisions Across Countries

Using a global panel of 176 countries from 2000 to 2024, this study demonstrates that stronger multidimensional employment security significantly promotes higher fertility rates, particularly in upper-middle- and high-income nations, thereby challenging the prevalence of one-child family formation by establishing labor market stability as a crucial economic foundation for reproductive decisions.

Rasyidi Faiz Akbar, Muhammad Husain, Fiona Niska Dinda Nadia, Fenza Gusti Naufal Paleva2026-07-27
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Factors Affecting Employee Turnover Intention in Ethiopian Higher Education Institutions: The Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction (Evidence from Raya University)

This study utilizes structural equation modeling on data from 200 respondents at Raya University to demonstrate that compensation, career development, and perceived organizational support significantly influence employee turnover intention in Ethiopian higher education institutions, both directly and indirectly through the mediating role of job satisfaction.

Chekole Negassi2026-07-27
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Institutional Trust and Perceived Environmental Benefits Influence Willingness to Participate in Restoration of Illegal Mining-Affected Degraded Sites

This study of 435 residents in Ghana's mining-affected communities reveals that while institutional trust and perceived environmental benefits significantly drive willingness to participate in illegal mining site restoration, financial contributions remain limited by income constraints and low trust, highlighting the need for governance strategies that integrate credibility with livelihood-sensitive compensation.

Prince Owusu, Lawrence Damnyag, Michael Ansong, Elizabeth Asantewaa Obeng, Joana Akua Serwaa Ameyaw, Jewel Andoh, Kofi E (…)2026-07-27
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How digital transformation reshapes organisational governance for sustainability: a socio-technical case study of Haier Smart Home

This socio-technical case study of Haier Smart Home demonstrates that sustainable organisational governance through digital transformation relies not merely on infrastructure adoption, but on the joint redesign of authority, resource allocation, and incentives via four interdependent mechanisms—dynamic strategic alignment, resource reconfiguration, user-value-based rewards, and platform governance—within specific boundary conditions.

Yin Linghu, Guangsheng Peng, Yao Wang, Chengyuan Yin2026-07-27
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A Spatial Overlapping Generations Model with Environmental and Human Capital Externalities: Evidence from European Regions (1995–2025)

This paper develops and empirically validates a spatial overlapping generations model to demonstrate that inter-regional knowledge spillovers and environmental externalities significantly shape European regional growth, revealing that human capital diffusion drives convergence while transboundary pollution hinders welfare, thereby supporting integrated policies that boost human capital and environmental quality.

Sid Ahmed ZENAGUI2026-07-27