# Global Trade, Supply Chains and Business Sustainability
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Global trade, supply chains, and sustainability are deeply intertwined with how businesses operate in today’s interconnected world economy. Our research investigates the systems and strategies that drive cross-border commerce, resource distribution, and responsible development. We examine the roles of supply chain design, process re-engineering, and new technologies in shaping business decisions, resource allocation, and sustainable development.
AUGUSTINE, Grace
HEDBERG, Leanne
[CHOI, Tae-Ung](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/choi-tae-ung)
LOUNSBURY, Michael
[Wasted? The Downstream Effects of Social Movement-Backed Occupations](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2026/02/wasted-downstream-effects-social-movement-backed-occupations)
Studies examining the impact of social movements on organizations have focused primarily on what leads to initial concessions in response to movement targeting. A key remaining question is what comes next, or how do movement priorities become institutionalized within organizations and across fields via downstream processes? We argue that central actors in
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[ [Global Trade, Supply Chains and Business Sustainability](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/global-trade-supply-chains-and-business-sustainability "Global Trade, Supply Chains and Business Sustainability") ]
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[COOK, David E](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/cook-david-e)
PATEL, Nikhil
[Dollar invoicing, global value chains, and the business cycle dynamics of international trade](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2026/01/dollar-invoicing-global-value-chains-and-business-cycle-dynamics-international)
This paper reexamines the relationship between monetary policy, exchange rates and international trade in a world characterized by the dominant currency paradigm and global value chains. Using a three-country dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model, it documents key differences between the response of gross and value added trade flows to interest
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[ [Global Trade, Supply Chains and Business Sustainability](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/global-trade-supply-chains-and-business-sustainability "Global Trade, Supply Chains and Business Sustainability") ]
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YANG, Luyi
[YU, Man](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/yu-man)
[Too Good To Go: Combating Food Waste with Surprise Clearance](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2026/01/too-good-go-combating-food-waste-surprise-clearance)
This paper studies surprise clearance as an innovative business model to increase store profit and reduce food waste. A store holding surprise clearance sells “surprise bags” composed of surplus food that would otherwise go to waste. At the time of ordering, consumers are uncertain about the quantity of food items included in a surprise bag. We model
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[ [Global Trade, Supply Chains and Business Sustainability](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/global-trade-supply-chains-and-business-sustainability "Global Trade, Supply Chains and Business Sustainability") ]
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WANG, Quanmeng
[LYU, Guodong](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/lyu-guodong)
HE, Long
TEO, Chung-Piaw
[Does Locker Alliance Network Improve Last Mile Delivery Efficiency?](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2026/01/does-locker-alliance-network-improve-last-mile-delivery-efficiency)
The Locker Alliance Network (LAN), a cutting-edge initiative under Singapore's Smart Nation vision, aims to revolutionize parcel pickup processes. This government-led project seeks to implement two major changes in Singapore’s urban logistics: (i) establishing an open-access facility for all Logistic Service Providers (LSPs), and (ii) enhancing the last mile
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[PARK, Eunyoung](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/park-eunyoung)
LANGE, Donald
JEON, Chunhu
[How Shareholder Litigation Risk Influences Firm Orientation Toward Stakeholders](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2026/01/how-shareholder-litigation-risk-influences-firm-orientation-toward-stakeholders)
Research Summary: This study examines whether U.S. corporate executives would adopt a stronger stakeholder orientation if constraints imposed by shareholder litigation risk were relaxed. Leveraging the staggered adoption of Universal Demand (UD) laws across states as a quasi-experimental setting, we test whether reduced litigation risk leads to managers
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LANGE, Donald
BUNDY, Jonathan
[PARK, Eunyoung](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/park-eunyoung)
[How Worldviews Influence Stakeholder Utility](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2023/07/how-worldviews-influence-stakeholder-utility-0)
Understanding the factors that drive stakeholders’ sense of fulfillment and satisfaction (known as their “utility”) can help businesses maintain good relationships. Traditionally, stakeholder utility was believed to be based merely on the direct benefits derived from the relationship. More recently, scholars have taken a more socialized perspective on how
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[ [BizStudies](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/bizstudies "BizStudies") ]
[ [Global Trade, Supply Chains and Business Sustainability](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/global-trade-supply-chains-and-business-sustainability "Global Trade, Supply Chains and Business Sustainability") ]
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LUO, Xiaowei Rose
[WANG, Danqing](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/wang-danqing)
[Being Responsible](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2022/09/being-responsible)
[Corporate Social Responsibility](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/corporate-social-responsibility)
[Policy and Regulation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/policy-and-regulation)
[Policy Implication](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/policy-implication)
[Firm Behavior](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/firm-behavior)
In recent decades, corporate social responsibility, or CSR, has become an increasingly important aspect of firms’ operations. For companies in emerging and transitional markets, where market-based institutions are relatively weak, governments have played a key role in driving CSR. A case in point is China, where the government has pushed CSR as a way of
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[ [Global Trade, Supply Chains and Business Sustainability](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/global-trade-supply-chains-and-business-sustainability "Global Trade, Supply Chains and Business Sustainability") ]
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[WANG, Danqing](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/wang-danqing)
LUO, Xiaowei Rose
[Retire in Peace: Officials’ Political Incentives and Corporate Diversification in China](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2022/04/retire-peace-officials-political-incentives-and-corporate-diversification-china)
[Political Economy](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/political-economy)
[Corporate Diversification](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/corporate-diversification)
[Market Transition](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/market-transition)
[China](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/china)
Since the market reform of 1978, China has seen phenomenal economic growth; however, this has come at the cost of significant environmental damage and rising social inequality. As such, the 2004 campaign of “Building a Harmonious Socialist Society” has become a key party resolution and government objective. Ultimately, China places maintaining social
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[ [Global Trade, Supply Chains and Business Sustainability](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/global-trade-supply-chains-and-business-sustainability "Global Trade, Supply Chains and Business Sustainability") ]
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LUO, Xiaowei Rose
[WANG, Danqing](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/wang-danqing)
ZHANG, Jianjun
[CSR Reportings under Institutional Conflict](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2021/07/csr-reportings-under-institutional-conflict)
[Corporate Social Responsibility](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/corporate-social-responsibility)
[Organizational Behavior](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/organizational-behavior)
[China](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/china)
[Information Disclosure](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/information-disclosure)
[Policy and Regulation](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/policy-and-regulation)
The authors in this study develop a theoretical framework in which the disclosure of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities is viewed as an organizational response to institutional complexity which exists between the demands of the central government and provincial governments in China. The study aims at revealing how firms with institutional
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[ [Global Trade, Supply Chains and Business Sustainability](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/global-trade-supply-chains-and-business-sustainability "Global Trade, Supply Chains and Business Sustainability") ]
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