LMS on OBOR 2016

Session B02: Sustainability

Date: 10 May 2016
Time: 3:45 pm - 5:15 pm
Venue: R1109, R Core (Shirley Chan Building), PolyU

Session Chair: Professor Nan Liu (Zhejiang University)

This session consists of five studies related to sustainability. The OBOR strategy will awaken the major Eurasian economies with the projected levels of infrastructure, trade and investment. In considering the regions that are being involved, populations who are being affected and the lengthy time-span of the project, the impact would not only be on economic growth, foreign investment and social integration, but also on the environment. The first study therefore examines the social cost of carbon in the context of the OBOR strategy. In particular, the difference in carbon emissions from railway transportation as opposed to maritime transportation between Eastern China and Western Europe is examined as a case study when such a socio-economic project is proposed and considered. The affiliated climate issues in association with the building of infrastructures will also be discussed.

The OBOR policy not only reinforces the development of globalization, but also contributes to the improvement of global logistics and supply chain management. Drawing on the green theory, the aim of the second study is therefore to use an empirical quantitative approach to advance the literature by examining the moderating role of green perception in the relationships that link green procurement and firm sustainability (corporate social responsibility and environmental responsibility).

Academics and practitioners have been giving attention to the issue of environmentally friendly operations and shipping operations. Therefore, the contextual factors that affect the adoption of green supply chain management (GSCM) are examined in the third study. The authors of the third study have used an empirical approach to collect data from Taiwanese shipping firms to examine three contextual factors (i.e., organizational contexts, expected benefits, and environmental contexts). The next study is also focused on logistics firms in Taiwan. Based on the technology–organisation–environment (TOE) framework, the authors have developed a research model to explore the TOE factors that influence the intention of adopting the Internet of Things (IOTs). Data collected from Taiwanese logistics service firms are used to test the proposed research model by using a logistic regression analysis.

The port-hinterland container transportation network is important to economic and social development. It is also the foundation for implementing the OBOR initiative. The means of improving the resilience of the port-hinterland container transportation network so that it can recover its capacity quickly after suffering from disasters have become a critical issue. To optimize the resilience of the port-hinterland container transportation network, the authors of the final study propose bi-level programming to study the topological properties of the transportation network and the behaviours of the associated participants in the transportation network.

Title	Author(s)
The social cost of carbon in the context of One Belt and One Road strategy	Haiying Jia (Norwegian School of Economics)
Must green procurement lead to firm sustainability under the One Belt One Road (OBOR) policy? The moderating effects of green perception	Joseph L.M. Lee (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Determinants of adoption intention of green supply chain management: Evidence from Taiwanese shipping service firms	Hsiu-Fen Lin and Hsiao-Lin Hu (National Taiwan Ocean University)
Understanding the determinants of adopting Internet of Things: The case of logistics service firms	Hsiu-Fen Lin and Chung-Wei Chiu (National Taiwan Ocean University)
Bi-level programming for the resilience problem of port-hinterland container transportation networks	Song Gao and Nan Liu (Zhejiang University)