Developing green logistic services management to achieve sustainable development in Vietnam: the role of green construction practices, green social awareness and green innovation.

The selection of suitable logistic service providers is essential while making strategic decision for sustainable business. Green logistic service management is the one that incorporates sustainable practices in whole operation cycle in order to maintain product quality, timely deliveries and satisfied customers. This also helps in the prevention of products from further waste that is quite necessary in the context of emerging economies. Thus, in order to assess its effectiveness, the study proposes a framework which emphasizes that the simultaneous role of green logistic services management, green construction, green innovation, and green social awareness helps in achieving sustainable development in Vietnamese context. The outcomes revealed that the green logistic services management, green construction practices, and green innovation helps to achieve sustainability in transportation industry of Vietnam due to positive linkage. The results also exposed that the green social awareness significantly moderates among green logistic services management, green construction practices, green innovation, and sustainable development of transportation industry in Vietnam.

The impact of environmental knowledge and green supply chain practices in improving sustainable energy production: the moderating role of green behavior and green leadership.

Global warming and the dreadful climate condition in China demands the sustainable energy transition and production that must be far away from coal-based energy production. The present article, thereby, intends to assess the effectiveness of environmental knowledge and green supply chain practices on sustainable energy production. The study also introduces green behavior and green leadership as a moderator to evaluate the proposed relationship. Primary data has been collected and assessed by PLS-SEM. The findings reveal that environmental knowledge, green purchases, and internal environmental management (IEM) have a positive association with sustainable energy production (SEP) in China. The outcomes also indicate that green behavior significantly moderates among environmental knowledge, green purchases, and SEP, and green leadership significantly moderates among IEM and SEP in China. The research guides the policymakers in establishing policies related to SEP using green behavior, GSC practices, and environmental knowledge.

The moderating role of leadership on the relationship between green supply chain management, technological advancement, and knowledge management in sustainable performance.

The escalation of regulatory obligations in order to reshape and implement eco-friendly operations make it essential for firms to execute the related strategies and enhance their position in a competitive market. Scholars and practitioners, thereby, have aligned their search in the area of sustainability to get to know regarding activities that might improve the outcomes of business practices. To contribute in a particular area, the study attempts to explore the critical role of knowledge management, technological advancement, and green supply chain (SC) management on SBP in the presence of a moderator-leadership. China is used as a study sample, and the study model was evaluated through structural equation modelling. Statistical findings indicate that knowledge management, technological advancement, and green SC management have a positive influence on SBP in China. The findings reveal that leadership support significantly moderates knowledge management, technological advancement, green SC management, and SBP in China. These outcomes guide regulators in making regulations related to sustainable performance using the best practice of SC, technology advancement, and knowledge management.

Merger and Acquisitions Integration, Implementation as Innovative Approach Toward Sustainable Competitive Advantage: A Case Analysis From Chinese Sports Brands.

Brand M&A has long been an extremely common strategy for expanding the scale of an organization and entering new business areas, but various signs show that many brand mergers and acquisitions (M&As) do not add value. They often lose money and fail. This research explores the value, scarcity, and non-replicability of resources in corporate M&A, as well as organizational resource management, innovation resource management, and implementation of the combination of resource utilization and brand strategy that incorporate M&As. Taking 03 of China's sporting shoe industry cases, this study uses the literature to collect, analyze, and organize the conversations of high-level managers to compare and integrate the motivations of corporate M&As to conduct confirmatory analysis. Using case studies and cross-border M&A related secondary data from 2014 to 2021 and supplemented by senior executives' conversations, 1,836 articles were collected as analysis units. The research results show that Chinese companies' cross-border M&A's main corporate strategic motives have four key elements: accelerated expansion, integration of resources, brand integration, rapid entry into the international market, and obstacles to the construction of new entrants. The research results also show that integrating resources and brand execution strategies after M&As correlates to their success or failure. The purpose of the research was first to discuss brand M&As and corporate strategies in the Taiwanese context. Secondly, it discusses the issue of the use of resources by the acquired party in specific to emerging trends in consumer resistance to innovation and acceptance of technological innovativeness in the sports industry brands. Third, it analyzes the effectiveness of brand strategy integration and implementation. Finally, it provides a strategic reference for brand M&As in the industry.

Association between comorbidities and dementia in diabetes mellitus patients: population-based retrospective cohort study.

AIMS: Most diabetes mellitus (DM) patients have several comorbidities; the correlation of these comorbidities with dementia in DM requires clarification. METHODS: Using claims data from Taiwan National Health Insurance, we identified 33,709 DM adults before the year 2000 and randomly selected 67,066 non-DM patients matched by sex and age. Subjects were followed until diagnosis with dementia, excluded due to death/withdrawal from the insurance program, or followed until 2011. We compared the incidence and hazard ratio (HR) for dementia in both cohorts. RESULTS: Comorbidities were more prevalent in DM patients, including hypertension, hyperlipidemia, stroke, coronary artery and/or kidney disease. The HR was higher for the DM cohort with comorbidities than those without: 1.88 vs. 1.46 with hypertension; 1.56 vs. 1.39 with hyperlipidemia; 1.73 vs. 1.37 with coronary artery disease; 2.36 vs. 2.29 with stroke and 1.88 vs. 1.50 with kidney disease. The HR for dementia in diabetics rose from 1.41 in those without comorbidities to 2.49 in those with ≥4 comorbidities. In the DM cohort, HR was 1.22 for non-insulin-users and 1.41 for insulin-users, and 1.49 for type 1 DM and 1.23 for type 2 DM. CONCLUSION: Diabetic patients have an elevated risk of dementia, and comorbidity increases this risk.