AUTHOR=Wang Hanxiao , Liu Bei 

TITLE=A Role of Production on E-Commerce and Foreign Policy Influencing One Belt One Road: Mediating Effects of International Relations and International Trade

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=Volume 12 - 2021

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.793383

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2021.793383

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT= One Road One Belt has made a drastic change not only to the lives of people but also to the minds and future prospective as well. This initiative has connected not only the countries but has consolidated the trading patterns as well. It has not only impacted the physical trade but has also boosted the e-commerce of China. Therefore, this study has tried to find the major patterns of trading across the globe and digital commerce considering the factors of production. China being the cheapest country for manufacturing has excelled in the e-commerce as well. The targeted population for this study was the contractors, marketers, logistic service providers and the engineers. The sample size in this study was 329. Data collection was done through a survey developed on the Likert-scale. The software used for the data analysis is Smart-PLS for structural equation modeling. Findings of the study show that factors of production and international trade have an impact on e- commerce. Moreover, the foreign policy and international relations have also been found to have a significant role in e-commerce (digital entrepreneurship).