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Towards the Supply Chain Sustainability and Urban Sustainable Development: Risk, Assessment and Technological Advance in Digital Age

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 3448

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Bo Li

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Guest Editor
School of Management, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin 300384, China
Interests: resources policy; environmental economics; urban sustainable development; regional economics; sustainable development of resources-based cities
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Dr. Qian Liu

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Guest Editor
School of Public Health, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin 300070, China
Interests: environmental economics; urban sustainable development; regional economics; public health; public administration

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Maintaining supply chain sustainability and urban sustainable development is one of the greatest challenges faced by economies worldwide. Recently, the global supply chain has faced unprecedented difficulties, resulting in a downward trend of the manufacturing industry, sharp fluctuation of total world trade volume, and an imbalance in the supply of international logistics services. These issues expose the vulnerability of the global supply chain. In order to adapt to the new environmental developments, the global supply chain should establish a new development model and embrace future technological advances, as well as the growing digital economy. Therefore, the relationship between supply chain sustainability and urban sustainable development, along with the related health, social and economic consequences of the digital economy and corresponding policies and measures, needs to be further identified in the perspective and process of global urbanization in order to explore sustainable development paths worldwide, which is of paramount importance for the development of mining towns, resources-based cities, and other resource-dependent regions.

Original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to):

  1. Relationship among supply chain sustainability, urban sustainable development, and digital economy.
  2. Measurement of coupling coordination among the manufacturing industry, the logistics industry and the supply chain.
  3. The influence of the digital economy on rural labour
  4. Restructure and reallocation of enterprises and supply chain under market integration and the environment impact.
  5. Influencing factors of urban industry agglomeration for supply chain and logistics.
  6. Assessment of environmental and health consequences of urban supply chain and logistics
  7. Assessment of measures and policies for supply chain sustainability, urban sustainable development, and digital economy

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Bo Li
Dr. Qian Liu
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • supply chain sustainability
  • urban sustainable development
  • digital economics, risk, assessment and technological advances
  • coupling coordination
  • digital economy and rural labor supply
  • urban industry agglomeration
  • assessment of measures and policies

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Intellectual Property Pledge Financing and Enterprise Innovation: Based on the Perspective of Signal Incentive
by Weixiu Li and Bo Li
Sustainability 2023, 15(13), 10448; https://doi.org/10.3390/su151310448 - 03 Jul 2023
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As a driving force behind urban sustainable development, enterprise innovation has become an increasingly important issue in the digital economy. In this context, a financing model called intellectual property pledge financing (IPPF) has been widely implemented, potentially promoting innovation output in developed countries. [...] Read more.
As a driving force behind urban sustainable development, enterprise innovation has become an increasingly important issue in the digital economy. In this context, a financing model called intellectual property pledge financing (IPPF) has been widely implemented, potentially promoting innovation output in developed countries. However, for countries with relatively low levels of intellectual property (IP) protection, the impact of IPPF on enterprise innovation is divergent, as it may lead to patent signal failure. China’s implementation of IPPF since 2008 provides an ideal quasi-natural experiment for researching IPPF in such countries. Using panel data of China’s listed companies from 2007 to 2017, we employ the staggered Difference-in-Differences (DID) method to examine the impact of IPPF on enterprise innovation. The results demonstrate a significantly positive impact overall, with a more pronounced effect in urban areas characterized by high intellectual property protection and digitalization. Various robust tests, including event study, Bacon decomposition, and propensity score matching (PSM), were conducted. Additionally, our findings suggest that IPPF facilitates enterprise innovation by expanding external credit resources and optimizing internal management from the perspective of open innovation (OI). It signals banks and investors to provide favorable credit support externally, helps alleviate managerial myopia, and increases manager risk preference internally. These results offer empirical evidence and suggestions for promoting IPPF as a means to stimulate enterprise innovation and achieve urban economic sustainable development. Full article
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Restructure or Misallocation? Enterprises’ Carbon Emission Intensity under Market Integration
by Jiayuan Zhou, Yunxia Li and Bo Li
Sustainability 2022, 14(24), 16859; https://doi.org/10.3390/su142416859 - 15 Dec 2022
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Incorporating urbanization with carbon efficiency into one analytical framework could be a new method for formulating the regional carbon emission reduction path. Based on the panel data from 2001 to 2014, the two-way fixed effects (TWFE) and continuous differences-in-differences (DID) methods are adopted [...] Read more.
Incorporating urbanization with carbon efficiency into one analytical framework could be a new method for formulating the regional carbon emission reduction path. Based on the panel data from 2001 to 2014, the two-way fixed effects (TWFE) and continuous differences-in-differences (DID) methods are adopted to examine how the county-to-district upgrading policy (CDUP) affects the efficiency of an enterprise’s carbon emissions. The results show that the CDUP will significantly decrease the efficiency of an enterprise’s carbon emissions. The average carbon emissions of enterprises increased by 0.886 per unit of output by the CDUP, which remains significant after controlling for endogeneity. Heterogeneity analysis shows that the impact of the CDUP is significant for enterprises in low-level cities, but not in high-level cities, which is closely connected with regional governance and enterprise productivity. Moreover, market integration, regional carbon carrying capacity and industrial agglomeration is introduced to explain the phenomenon. The results suggest that the urbanization policy should coordinate the characteristics of industries and areas. Furthermore, the results can provide suggestions for enterprise production and local governance toward sustainable development. Full article
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