E-commerce supply chain finance for SMEs: the role of green innovation

Jiguang Guo; Fu Jia; Fangxu Yan; Lujie Chen

doi:10.1080/13675567.2023.2167959

E-commerce supply chain finance for SMEs: the role of green innovation

Jiguang Guo
, Fu Jia^*
, Fangxu Yan
, Lujie Chen

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Intelligent Operations and Marketing

University of Bristol
Capital University of Economics and Business
University of York
Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

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This paper investigates the impacts of e-commerce supply chain finance (SCF) on small and medium enterprises’ (SMEs) financing performance. Using the 423 observations panel dataset of Chinese technology-based SMEs for the period from 2011 to 2020, the descriptive, correlation statistics and regression analysis are conducted. The findings indicate that e-commerce SCF platforms facilitate SME financing by increasing the coverage breadth and usage depth. Particularly, we found that comparing to e-commerce SCF usage depth, the coverage breadth has more positive impacts on SMEs’ financing performance. In addition, this research also reveals the positive moderating effects of green innovation on this relation. The results of the study empirically demonstrate how SCF platforms could better help SME satisfy their financing needs.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1596-1615
Number of pages	20
Journal	International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications
Volume	27
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/13675567.2023.2167959
Publication status	Published - 14 Jan 2024

UN SDGs

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SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

Keywords

SME
coverage breadth
e-commerce
green innovation
supply chain finance
usage depth

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