All of the articles in this proceedings volume have been presented at the 2026 4th International Conference on Management Innovation and Economy Development (MIED 2026) during July 10 to 12, 2026 in Shenzhen, China. These articles have been peer reviewed by the members of the Scientific Committees and...

In the knowledge economy era, organizational identity serves as a critical soft power for enterprises to unite employees and enhance core competitiveness. As the nervous system connecting organizations and employees, internal communication directly determines employees’ cognitive perception and emotional...

Against the backdrop of Chinese brands going global, this paper examines the image of Chinese brands and strategies for its enhancement. A review of existing literature reveals that while the image of Chinese brands still requires improvement, product innovation and high-quality marketing serve as crucial...

In recent years, the integrated development of the internet and the financial industry has reshaped the financial landscape. While advancing the innovation of the financial sector, internet finance has brought forth risk factors distinct from those of traditional finance, posing new requirements for...

The construction team is the executor of power transmission and transformation project construction and the key force to ensure the high-quality construction of power grid projects. Scientifically measuring the carrying capacity of the power grid engineering construction team can clarify the resource...

In the digital economy era, the financing strategies and ecosystem development of technology companies are deeply intertwined, serving as the core driving force for their fundamental growth. As a benchmark enterprise in the internet industry, Tencent Holdings has evolved its financing model over its...

The urgency for AI-integrated digital education has prompted a significant transformation in teaching and learning methodologies. Originating in the late 19th century, digital education has evolved to incorporate AI technologies that personalize learning experiences, enhance educational management, and...

The development of new-generation information and digital technologies such as the Internet of Things and big data has not only brought earth-shaking changes to rural areas, but also promoted the modernization and transformation of farmers’ production capacity and way of thinking. As an emerging force...

Based on data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) between 2010 and 2018 and county-level socioeconomic indicators, this study examines the impact of county economic development on intergenerational income mobility in China and its underlying mechanisms. The findings show that: First, there is...

Against the backdrop of the deepening of the national science and technology innovation strategy, state-owned enterprise research institutes serve as the core carrier for key technological breakthroughs and achievement transformation, with talent as their core competitiveness. Currently, state-owned...

In increasingly volatile business environments, firms are expected not only to maintain stable operations but also to adapt quickly to shocks and opportunities. Whether artificial intelligence (AI) investment improves both dimensions simultaneously remains unclear. Drawing on information processing theory...

Grounded in Social Cognitive Career Theory, this research probes the psychological pathway from career exploration to career maturity in undergraduates studying within the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. The study tests a model in which commitment to one’s academic major serves as a mediator...

This study examines how lifecycle responsibility within circular Product-Service Systems (PSS) reshapes customer value. Existing research has paid limited attention to the role of lifecycle responsibility in shaping customer value perception. To address this gap, the study develops a conceptual framework...

Using panel data from 30 Chinese provinces (2012–2022), this study employs the entropy method, coupling coordination degree model, kernel density estimation, and barrier index model to analyze the spatiotemporal evolution and constraints of air logistics and new-quality productive forces. ...

Against the integration of the digital economy and energy transition, virtual power plants are emerging as important participants in the development of a unified national electricity market. From the perspective of the digital economy, this paper systematically expounds the connotation and digital economic...

Against the backdrop of the rapid development of the digital economy, the impact of corporate digital transformation on audit pricing has attracted increasing academic attention. Using A-share listed firms in China, this paper examines the relationship between digital transformation and audit fees, along...

Under the competitive environment, the investment strategy of enterprises has an important impact on the profits of supply chain members and social welfare. Aiming at the problem of investment strategy selection of farsighted manufacturer, the technological innovation strategy model and upward invasion...

Online reviews influence consumer judgment in e-commerce environments, yet most existing studies focus on isolated review features such as sentiment, ratings, or helpfulness. In practice, consumers often interpret reviews through multiple social signals that appear together, including trust cues, value-related...

Continuous upskilling is critical for maintaining operational excellence in the rapidly evolving healthcare sector. However, the training course creation process at the Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University (MEDCMU) operates on a rigid traditional workflow, causing recurring operational bottlenecks....

Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) is a key way to cut aviation carbon emissions, but its early diffusion is limited by high cost, low supply, and uncertain firm returns. To show how policy can support SAF promotion, this paper defines the costs and benefits of three bounded-rational players: government,...

Amid the rapid development of the digital economy, how digital transformation affects product quality and the role of ISO9000 certification remain underexplored. Using a sample of Chinese A-share manufacturing listed firms from 2020 to 2024, this study constructs a digital transformation index via text...

As the core driving force behind industrial transformation, artificial intelligence serves as a critical pillar for advancing the green and intelligent development of heavily polluting manufacturing sectors. Based on data from A-share heavily polluting manufacturing firms over the period 2009–2024, this...

Amid China–U.S. trade frictions and uncertain tariff policies, cross-border e-commerce and air-logistics firms face challenges in logistics-mode selection and coordination-mechanism design. This study develops a three-stage Stackelberg game to characterize multi-agent strategic interactions under tariff...

Driven by all the global climate governance and the “double carbon” goals pushing things forward, green finance, as an important tool for driving the low-carbon economic transition has increasingly attracted attention for its intrinsic connection with the development of the low-carbon economy. Employing...

This study provides a comprehensive assessment of the systemic risk potential inherent in China’s local government debt exposure to the real estate sector. Through systematic analysis of debt magnitude, composition, and transmission pathways, the findings indicate that aggregate risk levels remain manageable,...

As capital markets place greater weight on environmental governance, the role of institutional shareholders in shaping firms’ green patenting has be-come a central question in corporate finance and environmental economics. This paper develops a causal identification design for high-dimensional pan-el...

Could enterprise digital transformation mitigate the impact of uncertainty shocks on corporate innovation? Based on the data of Chinese listed companies from 2009 to 2019, this paper empirically examines the moderating effect of enterprise digital transformation on the suppression of corporate innovation...

Amid global warming and the deepening transition to new energy, the new energy vehicle (NEV) industry has emerged as a strategic sector contested by nations worldwide. As the world’s largest producer and consumer market for NEVs, China’s export performance exerts a significant influence on the configuration...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping production and daily life. This study explores how AI application affects green innovation performance of automobile manufacturers, with supply chain concentration as the moderator. It is found that AI application significantly promotes green innovation performance....

This study constructs a directed tourism flow network among nine Fujian cities using Baidu Migration big data from Spring Festival, May Day, and National Day Golden Weeks from 2023 to 2025, plus Spring Festival and May Day 2026. Social network analysis examines overall characteristics, nodal features,...

To explore the impact of the establishment of cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zones on the development of cross-border logistics, a cross-border logistics index evaluation system was constructed and the entropy value method was used to obtain the index weights, thereby obtaining the cross-border...

Against the backdrop of the imbalance between supply and demand of agricultural products, the rapid development of live-streaming e-commerce, and the increasing maturity of artificial intelligence technology, digital human live-streaming to assist farmers has become a new trend in the marketing of agricultural...

At present, cigarette manufacturing enterprises are confronted with the management challenge of disposing of waste tobacco monopoly products, with prominent management risks. Based on the cigarette manufacturing enterprise where the author works, this paper uses a combination model of the Analytic Hierarchy...

This paper introduces endogenous Asymmetric Sparse Index Tracking (eASIT), a framework for partial replication based on a single economically grounded optimization criterion. The investor minimizes an asymmetric tracking loss—penalizing shortfall more heavily than outperformance—plus an investment penalty...

Despite growing research investment, the pace of scientific innovation has slowed markedly, raising concerns among policymakers and scholars. Existing bibliometric approaches to measuring recombination-based innovation rely on static word embeddings and computationally expensive classifiers, limiting...

Bus lanes have been proven to be beneficial for improving urban traffic efficiency. This policy ensures stable public transportation services, achieves a fair distribution of urban road resources, maximizes road utilization efficiency, and reduces disadvantages faced by vulnerable groups. These factors...

As public data policies continue to be implemented, power enterprises, as public service institutions, urgently need to clarify the scope of their public data and promote the compliant utilization of such data. Based on practical needs, this article systematically reviews national, industry, and local...

This study examines supply chain resilience and risk management in manufacturing enterprises, focusing on single-source and regional dependency. Based on case evidence and interviews, it analyses disruptions involving nickel, imported reduction gears, and specialised packaging materials. The findings...

As a major form of extreme market risk that undermines investor interests and destabilizes capital markets, stock price crash risk has attracted extensive attention. Prior studies suggest that ESG performance mitigates such risk by improving information transparency, alleviating agency conflicts, and...

Accelerating socio-economic transitions have magnified the vital role of corporate ESG performance. This study examines the behavioral consequences of executive hubris using a sample of Chinese A-share listed firms from 2009 to 2022. Our empirical findings demonstrate that managerial overconfidence significantly...

Skilled labor is a key factor in promoting the intelligent transformation of traditional manufacturing enterprises. The research on the demand for skilled labor in the process of intelligent transformation of manufacturing enterprises is mainly based on the discussion of structural changes in the demand...

Based on panel data from Chinese A-share listed manufacturing companies from 2012 to 2022, this study empirically examines the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) levels on the technological complexity of manufacturing exports. The findings reveal a significant positive correlation between AI levels...

A century of intense mineral extraction has severely fractured local ecosystems, driving deep friction between industrial growth and landscape conservation. To decipher the evolution patterns and underlying driving factors of land use patterns in Changzhi, a major coal hub in Shanxi Province, this study...

As overweight and obesity increase, metabolism-regulating functional foods have become an important solution for weight management and metabolic health. However, consumers’ skepticism regarding efficacy and safety hinders the development of customer trust and repurchase behavior. Drawing on embedded...

Consumer-credit default models are routinely selected on discriminatory power, usually the area under the ROC curve (AUC). Yet a lender acts on a threshold, whose quality depends on whether predicted probabilities are calibrated and on the asymmetric cost of approving a defaulter versus rejecting a good...

The high-price elimination mechanism under the registration-based IPO system facilitates quote clustering by institutional investors, which may impair IPO pricing efficiency. Using a sample of firms listed on China’s STAR Market from July 2019 to June 2022, this study examines the relationship between...

Agricultural production trusteeship is an important pathway to address the challenges of “who will farm the land” and “how to farm it well,” as well as to achieve the organic connection between smallholder farmers and modern agriculture. Taking Liangshan Prefecture in Sichuan Province as the research...

Amid China’s coordinated advancement of high-quality and sustainable development, how environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance influences corporate labor hiring decisions has become a key topic in employment stability research. Using panel data of A-share listed firms from 2009 to 2024,...

The growth of digital and online consumer lending has intensified the need for accurate yet transparent default-prediction models. Black-box machine-learning models often achieve strong discrimination but are difficult to deploy under financial-regulatory regimes that demand explainability. This paper...

Original innovation is crucial for national scientific and technological self-reliance. Taking DARPA, NSF I/UCRC, Huawei and DeepSeek as cases, this paper constructs a four-dimensional framework covering organization, investment, project management and talent incentive. Combined with Python word frequency...

With the accelerated development of new power systems, artificial intelligence (AI) has been widely applied in power grid operation, maintenance and scheduling. Nevertheless, data confidentiality rules, operational safety requirements and complex on-site conditions greatly limit AI’s capacity to fully...

Driven by new power system construction and digital transformation, labor organization optimization has become an important support for power supply enterprises to realize organizational innovation and productivity improvement. This paper constructs a four-dimensional evaluation framework covering digital...

The rationality of financing structures in the artificial intelligence (AI) industry plays a crucial role in shaping firms’innovation capacity and total factor productivity (TFP). Using panel data of AI-listed companies in China, this study constructs a fixed-effects model to systematically examine the...

China’s autonomous vehicle industry is entering a new phase characterized by regulatory authorization and commercial validation. As one of the most important application domains of autonomous driving technology, mobility services are expected to play a pivotal role in translating technological advances...

Thanks to their unique functional characteristics and geographical location, ports play a vital supporting role in the high-quality development of marine economy represented by port-surrounding industries. This paper identifies the key priorities for water transport to drive the development of port-surrounding...

Digital intelligence is reshaping the operation of power grid core teams amid new power system construction. Targeting problems like incomplete evaluation dimensions and strong subjectivity in current maturity assessment, this paper constructs a comprehensive evaluation system. This study adopts two-round...

This paper examines how unemployment protection and collective bargaining coverage are associated with lower-tail wage inequality across OECD countries. Lower-tail wage inequality is measured by the D5/D1 earnings ratio, which compares median earnings with earnings at the 10th percentile of the earnings...

The Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning (LEAP) model is widely used for carbon emission forecasting, but its application in regions with limited statistical data remains challenging. This study proposes a hybrid modeling framework that integrates a grey rolling model GM (1,1) with LEAP to improve...

Driven by the thriving low‑altitude economy, UAV hoisting is widely used for material transportation in photovoltaic projects, easing logistics troubles in hilly mountainous areas. Unfortunately, the photovoltaic industry has no unified standards for UAV hoisting operations. Fragmented supervision and...

Using a sample of 58440 firm-year observations from 1965 to 1998 in the United States, this study investigates the relation between wrongful discharge laws and financial leverage. By using Difference-in-Difference model, this study reaches the results that show a negative impact of the adoption of the...

In China, many retail chains continue to rely on traditional, unsystematic business strategies, leaving them ill-equipped to address issues such as excess inventory, declining revenue, and customer attrition. To meet these challenges, retail chains must transform their business strategies to align with...

The Maritime Code of the People’s Republic of China revised in 2025 introduces landmark legislative reforms to the actual carrier regime. It breaks the traditional identification criterion based on actual transport conduct, and classifies port operators who perform statutory cargo care obligations as...

Driven by the rapid development of the digital economy and intelligent technologies, enterprises have accumulated massive volumes of heterogeneous data, making data mining a critical tool for data-driven decision-making and digital transformation. This paper adopts a systematic literature review approach...

Comprehensive passenger transport hubs are key nodes in comprehensive transportation systems and important places for public travel and transfers. As China’s economy and society transition toward high-quality development, public demand for high-quality services at comprehensive passenger transport hubs...

Small and micro enterprises (SMEs) have long faced challenges including insufficient credit supply, unbalanced financing structure and high financing costs. Information asymmetry and structural flaws in the traditional credit reporting system are the core causes. Traditional credit reporting features...

Against the policy background of national digital transformation, carbon peaking and neutrality goals, and the high-quality development of ice and snow economy, traditional ice and snow landscape design faces many industrial problems such as low design accuracy, high material loss, insufficient cultural...

Chinese high-net-worth (HNW) families face an urgent need for structured wealth succession as the first generation of entrepreneurs enters retirement. This paper examines family trusts as a solution through comparative case analysis. The Rockefeller Family Trust—an irrevocable trust with a dedicated...

Against the backdrop of profound empowerment of the financial industry by the digital economy and artificial intelligence (AI) technology, the transformation of state-owned banks has entered a new phase of digitalization and intelligentization. This article examines the Industrial and Commercial Bank...

The global green transition has introduced complex macroeconomic shocks to energy markets, requiring a re-examination of the relationship between gold and energy assets. This paper employs a wavelet analysis framework and quantile Granger causality test to study the linkage characteristics and co-movement...

This study constructs a five-dimensional trade facilitation measurement system that extends the conventional Wilson-Otsuki framework with a policy-responsive “Smart Ports and Interconnectivity” dimension, reflecting China’s 2026 Cross-border Trade Facilitation Special Action. Using panel data from 38...

Against the backdrop of the rapid development of the low-altitude economy and instant retailing, whether drone-based last-mile delivery can gain consumer acceptance has become a key issue for its commercial promotion. Based on an extended UTAUT model, this study constructs a structural equation model...

The industrial heritage of the Third Front Construction represents a unique stock asset in central and western China, and its adaptive reuse holds strategic value for the economic transformation of resource-based regions. Taking Leshan—a typical median-GDP prefecture-level city—as a case study, this...

Based on prefecture-level city data from a southern provincial region from 2013 to 2023, this paper constructed a comprehensive measurement system for regional coordinated development and examined the mechanism through which power grid enterprise performance affects regional coordinated development....

This paper takes the manufacturing industry in Wanzhou District, Chongqing Municipality as the research object, and uses a combination of grey relational analysis and benchmark regression models to establish a two-stage method and build an empirical analysis model. Based on this, three paths are proposed:...

Algorithmic recommendation systems have become the dominant mechanism shaping consumer behavior on Chinese e-commerce content platforms such as Taobao, Douyin, and Xiaohongshu. While these systems offer personalized convenience, they also raise concerns about covert manipulation of consumer choices....

Using the authenticity dispute over Guerlain products sold during a celebrity’s live-stream as a case study, this paper integrates information asymmetry and platform governance theories to examine prevalent counterfeit disputes and consumer protection challenges in live-stream e-commerce. Analyzing incident...

Digital economy is accelerating the reshaping of regional production mode, factor allocation and innovation ecology. Whether digital economy development can be translated into stronger regional innovation capacity is crucial for evaluating the quality of digital transformation. Using panel data for 30...

Under China’s “dual carbon” goals, AI has become an important driver of manufacturing firms’ green transformation. Based on Chinese A-share listed manufacturing firms from 2012 to 2023, this study employs a two-way fixed-effects model and a mediation model to examine the effect and mechanisms of AI on...

The urban scaling law establishes that denser social interactions within cities drive the superlinear scaling of economic output with population size. However, the role of exogenous intercity population flows in shaping this relationship remains poorly understood. Using 409 U.S. Metropolitan Statistical...

Against the background of digital economy construction and capital market high-quality development in China, this paper takes Shanghai and Shenzhen A-share listed companies from 2018 to 2023 as research samples, and empirically explores the impact of corporate digital transformation on secondary market...

Based on complex system theory, self-organization theory and ecology theory, this paper constructs a theoretical model for the Carbon Peaking-Carbon Neutrality, Economy and Society (CES) system. Adopting the Haken model in synergetics, this paper establishes the analytical framework of the CES system,...

How to overcome individual resource constraints and achieve a transition from “independent operation” to “collaborative innovation” is a critical challenge for rural tourism development. Drawing upon resource orchestration theory, this paper adopts an inductive case study approach with Dayu Yashan in...

This study examines whether AI-related disclosure in annual reports is associated with overall ESG rating divergence among Chinese A-share listed firms from 2014 to 2024. AI disclosure is measured as the natural logarithm of one plus the frequency of AI-related terms in annual reports, while rating divergence...

Against the backdrop of the accelerated restructuring of global digital trade rules and the high-quality development of China’s digital services trade, this paper selects 26 economies that have signed regional trade agreements with China containing digital trade provisions from 2012 to 2024 as research...

Under the comprehensive registration system, how heterogeneous firm-level innovation influences Initial Public Offering (IPO) pricing efficiency has become an important issue. This study uses nonfinancial firms listed on the A-share market from 2019 to 2025 as the sample and classifies patents along...

Based on panel data from China’s 31 provincial-level regions for the period 2020–2024, this paper constructs a synergistic analysis framework for “industrial structure–employment structure.” By comprehensively employing Pearson correlation analysis, regression models, two-way fixed-effects models, linear...

Corporate disclosure of climate risk is required to build supply chain resilience against rising climate uncertainty. Using a sample of Chinese A-share listed companies from 2010 to 2024, we analyze the impact of corporate climate risk disclosure on supply chain resilience. Results suggest that higher...

This paper investigates the international transmission of monetary policy shocks using daily changes in 10-year government bond yields for the G7 economies and China from 2015 to 2025. A Vector Autoregression (VAR) model combined with Granger causality tests is employed to examine dynamic interdependencies...

Digital transformation, within the digital economy, has turned into a key strategic initiative for enterprises to boost their operational performance and competitive advantage. However, whether digital transformation indeed improves supply chain stability calls for further in-depth research. Using data...

With the digital transformation of China-Africa economic communication, e-commerce platforms have become a crucial interface for intercultural brand promotion. Based on web crawler data, this research discusses how English digital narratives affect brand construction by building and reinforcing brand...