📈 economics

Navigating the Mobile E-Commerce Consumer Journey: An Empirical Investigation of the Sequential ISMAS Behavioral Mechanism in Visual Marketing Contexts

This study empirically investigates how mobile e-commerce visual marketing influences purchase intentions through a sequential ISMAS behavioral mechanism (Interest, Search, Word-of-Mouth, Action, Sharing) grounded in the S-O-R framework, revealing that these stages form a chain mediation path where age moderates specific transitions, thereby offering strategic insights for optimizing visual marketing and enhancing conversion rates.

Long Sun, You-Yu Dai, Ning Zhang, Xinyao Tang2026-09-14
📈 economics

The Effect of Digital Technology on Educational Inequality in Ghana: Evidence from Three Rounds of the Ghana Living Standards Survey

Despite a dramatic rise in mobile phone and internet ownership in Ghana between 2005 and 2017, aggregate educational inequality increased because digital access alone was insufficient to offset broader structural barriers, although the equalizing effect of these technologies has strengthened over time and now depends on the joint adoption of both devices.

Nicholas Palma, Abbam Anthony, Isaac Ampah, Kwame Ofori-Mensah2026-09-14
📈 economics

Sustainability Report Disclosure Moderates the Relationship between Credit Growth and Bank Profitability in Vietnamese Commercial Banks

This study analyzes panel data from 26 Vietnamese commercial banks (2011–2025) to demonstrate that sustainability report disclosure not only influences profitability but also moderates the relationship between credit growth and profits, revealing a trade-off where credit expansion becomes less efficient in generating returns as banks prioritize sustainable development, with this effect varying significantly by bank size.

Thi Hoai Linh Truong2026-09-14
📈 economics

Digital entrepreneurship education as a necessary condition for digital entrepreneurial intention among university students in an emerging digital economy

This study of 793 Vietnamese university students demonstrates that digital entrepreneurship education is a necessary condition for fostering digital entrepreneurial intention, primarily by enhancing perceived behavioral control, motivation, and passion, while also revealing discipline-specific pathways and the moderating role of entrepreneurial resilience.

Dang Thien Tam, Nguyen Thi Thu Hang, Nguyen Thuy Anh, Nguyen Thi Hoai Oanh, Tran Truong Dang, Dang Thanh Dung, Nguyen Hu (…)2026-09-14
📈 economics

Digitalising Is Not Digitalising for Sustainability: Decomposing the Digital Transformation–ESG Relationship in African Listed Firms

This study of 80 African listed firms rejects the hypothesis that digital transformation has a nonlinear U-shaped relationship with ESG performance, demonstrating instead that only digital capabilities explicitly directed toward sustainability processes drive ESG improvements, while general digital intensity alone has no significant effect.

Osman Issah, Mutala Zubeiru, Richard Kwadzo Doe-Dartey, Alhassan Iddi Abdulai, Mohammed Fuseini, Abdulai Mubarik2026-09-14
📈 economics

Trust Propagation in Blockchain-Powered Multi-Tier Networks: A Credit Transfer Token Framework for Supply Chain Finance

This paper proposes a blockchain-based Credit Transfer Token (CTT) framework on the Polygon network that tokenizes core enterprise credit to enable verifiable trust propagation across multi-tier supply chains, significantly reducing financing costs and processing times for small and medium-sized enterprises while overcoming traditional information asymmetry barriers.

Zengkui Zhao, Soodamani Ramalingam, Alexios Mylonas2026-09-14
📈 economics

Digital and Green Synergistic Transformation Reshapes Factor Income Distribution through Labor Market Power in Chinese Manufacturing Firms

Using data from Chinese A-share listed manufacturing firms (2007–2023), this paper demonstrates that the digital–green synergistic transformation reshapes factor income distribution by significantly reducing firms' labor market power and improving labor-capital relations, primarily through expanded labor demand, production scale, and investment, with effects being more pronounced in state-owned and larger enterprises.

Zhang Haitao, Zhang Xiyue, Guo Xu2026-09-14
📈 economics

Women’s Entrepreneurship after Widowhood: Entrepreneurial Capital, Innovation and Sustainable Livelihood in Indonesia

This study demonstrates that entrepreneurial capital and innovation, bolstered by social support and mediated by business success, enable widowed female household heads in East Java, Indonesia, to achieve sustainable livelihoods, thereby advocating for post-claim empowerment programs that extend beyond financial aid to include comprehensive business and social support systems.

Nurhayati Saridewi, Andriyanto Andriyanto, Nuri Herachwati, Ian Firstian Aldhi, Noor Fareen Abdul Rahim2026-09-14