The outbreak of COVID-19 has significantly affected the development of enterprises. In the post-pandemic era, blockchain technology has become one of the important technologies to help enterprises quickly gain market competitiveness. The heavy investment required of supply chain stakeholders to employ blockchain technology has hindered its adoption and application. To tackle this issue, this study aims to facilitate the adoption of blockchain technology in a supply chain consisting of a core enterprise and a small/medium-sized enterprise through an effective supply chain contract. We analyze the performance of a cost-sharing (CS) contract and a revenue-sharing (RS) contract and propose a new hybrid CS-RS contract for better performance. We conduct comparative analyses of the three contracts and find that the hybrid CS-RS contract can more effectively incentivize both parties to reach the highest level of blockchain technology adoption and achieve supply chain coordination.

This study empirically examines the impact of the intelligent logistics transformation (ILT) announcement on companies' shareholder value. The market model is used to estimate abnormal return. ILT inspires a significantly positive average (median) market response on the announcement day. There is a strong relationship between the announcing firm features like industry features and abnormal returns. The announcement features like investment direction of ILT also affect the market response. In addition, an interesting finding is that firms with worse prior financial performance than the industry level will receive a more positive market response when they conduct ILT by establishing an information platform.

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