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As a result of emerging climate change trends, businesses and organizations are becoming more concerned about environmental sustainability. In this context, green supply chain management (GSCM) approaches are expanding globally. Based on institutional and sociotechnical systems theory, the conceptual model of this research highlights a mediation of two GSCM types, namely technological and behavioral practices, as well as the moderation of organizational pressure on institutional performance. The hypotheses were evaluated using the structural equation modeling (SEM) method, obtaining data from 563 Chinese firms. This study's categorization of technological and behavioral GSCM practices and results add to the literature on GSCM. The empirical findings indicate that the technological GSCM practices considerably affect behavioral practices. Moreover, GSCM technological and behavioral practices have a substantial effect on institutional performance. GSCM behavioral practices mediate the link between technological GSCM practices and institutional performance. The outcomes also reveal that organizational pressure moderates the association between GSCM technological GSCM practices and institutional performance. These results show that companies in emerging economies should prioritize the behavioral GSCM practices to successfully apply the technological GSCM practices to achieve compelling financial, social, and environmental performance.

This paper talks about various approaches and models on customer segmentation in the insurance industry and other related sectors. In today's business world, especially the customer-centered industry, the most critical task is to find the right customers and serve the customers the way that most suits them. In this paper, we put our focus on the insurance industry for several considerations. One insurance company can possess hundreds of different policies, so it is crucial for policy issuers to find suitable policies for different customers. Considering the complexity and variability of different policies, insurance companies view customer segmentation as necessary and the key point for companies to compete well. Therefore, we select the insurance industry to study the effect of data-driven approaches on customer segmentation. In the first part, we discussed the need for a new approach to classify the customers and several advantages of the data-driven approach over the traditional method. In the second part of the paper, segmentation approaches such as K-means clustering, hybrid clustering, rule mining, and decision tree are discussed respectively about their processes and features. In the third part, we talked about the two current customer segmentation applications that are widely used today. We also talked about the segmentation systems in determining the risk of transmission of COVID-19. In the last part, we conclude the paper with the comparison of different approaches we discussed.

Under the background of high-quality development, the impact of foreign direct investment on carbon emissions has attracted increasing attention. This research studies the impact of foreign direct investment on carbon emissions under the effect of institutional quality regulation. Specifically, this study uses China’s provincial panel data from 2010 to 2019, taking political system quality, economic system quality, and legal system quality as the external environment of system quality, this research studies the threshold effect of foreign direct investment on carbon emissions. The results show that foreign direct investment can effectively restrain the increase in carbon emissions. The impact of FDI on China’s carbon emissions has an obvious economic threshold effect: with the increase of regional corruption, the political quality is gradually declining, and the inhibition effect of foreign direct investment on carbon emissions is declining. With the increase of marketization and intellectual property protection, the regional economic system and legal system have gradually improved, and the role of foreign direct investment in carbon emissions has been further increased. Therefore, China should create a good institutional environment for FDI technology spillovers.