Emissions from transportation fuel vehicles are polluting the environment more than ever before. Currently, autonomous delivery vehicles (ADVs) are welcomed by logistics service providers and lots of consumers in general for their significant contribution in reducing environmental pollution and increasing delivery efficiency. However, there is a lack of in-depth research on consumers' willingness to adopt ADVs, despite the fact that ADVs are innovative delivery method in the field of last-mile delivery. The purpose of the study is to expand the existing knowledge of consumers' adoption behaviors by developing and testing the extended Value-Belief-Norm (VBN) theory in autonomous delivery literature. In particular, the study adds subjective norms and COVID-19 risk into the original VBN model as a theoretical framework to gain a comprehensive understanding of the consumer decision-making processes with respect to their intentions to use ADVs. Structural equation modeling is conducted using data from a web-based survey of 561 consumers through an online sample platform. The results of the study demonstrated that both subjective norms and COVID-19 risk are all related with consumers’ intention to use ADVs. The casual chain hypotheses of the extend VBN theory mentioned in our study are all supported. The results of the study make significant theoretical and managerial contributions to the field of last-mile delivery and the adoption behaviors of emerging technologies.

Purpose: This paper aims to examine how situational factors with social support affecting purchase intention in social commerce (SC). In Taiwan’s SC, the relationship between trust belief and purchase intention has always been a key issue.Design/methodology/approach: This study presents a research model that comprises five hypothesis with five constructs, including situational factors, social support, senses, trust belief and purchase intention. The model is tested on data collected from 532 valid samples in Taiwan, using structural equation modeling. The results show that, in order of importance, control senses and raise mediation trust belief reach the better purchase intention.Findings: The findings of the study provide practical insights in understanding how seller should notice consumer’s trust belief, in order to enhance purchase intention for the SC as a whole.Originality/value: Much existing consumer behavior research is focused on decision making rather than the trust belief themselves. Accordingly, analyzing how senses influence trust belief and purchase intention is an important issue in SC.

The purpose of this study was to discuss the impact of the extent of internationalization on firm performance measured for firms with a high Tobin’s Q (firms with good operating performance), a median Tobin’s Q (firms with average operating performance), and a low Tobin’s Q (firms with poor operating performance). In addition to discussion on the impact of internationalization on firm performance, this study also discussed the impact of corporate proprietary assets (using assets, R&D, marketing, and management-related variables as moderating variables) and control variables (scale of company, debt-asset ratio, firm age, board structure, and proportion of pledged shares by directors) on firm performance. The research results showed that there is an S-shaped relationship between extent of internationalization and firm performance. However, further discussion found that there is an S-shaped relationship between extent of internationalization and performance for firms with a high Tobin’s Q but a slight decline in the middle of the S-shaped curve, as well as a general linear negative correlation between extent of internationalization and performance for firms with a median Tobin’s Q and an inverted U-shaped correlation between extent of internationalization and performance for firms with a low Tobin’s Q.

Purpose. The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors influencing intelligent capital on enterprise performance. Design/Methodology/Approach. Based on dynamic panel data of listed companies in the Taiwan electronics industry from 2006 to 2017, we used the GMM estimation method. Findings. The findings of this study indicate that human capital, innovation capital, process capital, and customer capital all significantly improve enterprise performance through the mechanism of organizational learning. Research Limitations/Implications. Future research on cross-country studies of various forms of electronics industry would be worth conducting to determine regional differences in the development of electronics industry activities. Originality/Value. The empirical results demonstrate that human capital, process capital, and customer capital exert a significant promoting effect on enterprise performance, while innovation capital significantly inhibits improvement of enterprise performance.

This research examined how to estimate performance in China’s e‐commerce industry, by taking 2013–2019 e‐commerce listed companies as the research samples and using an empirical research method to study the relationship between capital structure and firm performance. The empirical results show that the debt‐to‐asset ratio and the long‐term interest‐bearing debt ratio have a negative impact on firm performance, but the impact of the long‐term interest‐bearing debt ratio is not significant. Moreover, the short‐term interest‐bearing debt ratio and the total asset turnover ratio have a positive impact on firm performance, while the impacts of the current assets ratio and intangible assets ratio on firm performance are not significant. The following suggestions are drawn from the results in order of importance. (1) Enterprises should maintain a reasonable debt‐to‐assets ratio and a stable capital structure and appropriately increase the proportion of short‐term liabilities. (2) Firms should moderately invest to expand their scale and improve their profitability, so as to increase retained earnings and develop internal financing channels.