We examine the relationship between environmental trust and supply chain behaviour in this study. We find that environmental trust measured by endemic population at the county level matters in the formation and maintenance of supply chains. In normal times, the environmental trust distance between supply chain partners matters in supply chain relationship retention, in accordance with economic matching theory by Gary Becker. Upon facing exogenous/endogenous disruptions, a focal firm’s environmental trust level matters more than distance of the partners. This is a joint work with Volodymyr Babich, Gilles Hilary, and MS PhD student Zi’ang Wang, who is the talk presenter.
Jing WU is an assistant professor at City University of Hong Kong College of Business. He received his PhD (major in operations, minor in economics & finance) and MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and his bachelor degree in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University. Professor WU's primary research fields are operations and finance, economic networks, quantitative investment, and machine learning applications. His work appears in several INFORMS and IEEE conferences and journals. He teaches PhD course "Machine Learning for Business Research" at College of Business, and serves as the Deputy Programme Leader of BSc Computational Finance. Prior to joining CityU, he worked at Deutsche Bank New York as a quantitative strategist.