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Scale Development and Validation of Crowd Logistics Risk Control in Chinese Context

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This paper clarified the concept of crowd logistics risk control and explored its structure in Chinese context. Then, this study designed its primary scale by in-depth interviews and conducted a survey on a sample of crowd drivers who engaged in crowd logistics. Based on the results from Exploratory Factor Analysis and Confirmatory Factor Analysis, this paper defined crowd logistics risk control as a three-dimension construct including “monitor”, “motivation” and “online payment”. Further, this paper validated the scale in Chinese context by further analysis of reliability and construct validity. An effective instrument for future empirical research in Chinese context is provided by the scale we developed in this study.

Project financing: Major Program of The National Social Science Fund of China [No. 15ZDA022]; Major Program of The Humanity and Social Science Fund of Beijing Jiaotong University [No. 2015jbzd01]; Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [No. 2018YJS057]; National Science and Technology Support Program [No. 2014BAD13B04].

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  1. School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China

    Shuang Li, Zhuqing Xiang, Wenbing Wu, Mingyu Zhang & Wen Wu

  2. Department of Economics, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA

    Yihua Zhang

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  1. School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, Beijing, China

    Menggang Li

  2. Logistics, Business and Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Martin Dresner

  3. School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, Beijing, China

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    Guowei Hua

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    Xiaopu Shang

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Li, S., Xiang, Z., Wu, W., Zhang, M., Zhang, Y., Wu, W. (2020). Scale Development and Validation of Crowd Logistics Risk Control in Chinese Context. In: Li, M., Dresner, M., Zhang, R., Hua, G., Shang, X. (eds) IEIS2019. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5660-9_22

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