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The emergent events exert a significant impact on the corporate production, social stability, and economic prosperity. As the direct result of various emergent events, supply chain disruption brings multiple influences to the node enterprises in the supply chain and the supply chain as a whole. This study investigates the complexity of supply chain disruption risk conduction route, and introduces the small world network to qualitatively evaluate the applicability of the method of the small world network. Then, it is concerned with the impact of supply chain disruption risk conduction route on the speed, breadth and stability of supply chain disruption risk conduction, together with the numerical simulation analysis, which verifies the nature of the small world network relating to the supply chain disruption risk conduction route. Research has shown that the shorter disruption risk conduction route and larger aggregated coefficients are able to increase the speed of disruption risk conduction in the supply chain network. It has also shown that the stability of key node enterprises plays a pivotal role in stabilizing the whole supply chain network in the process of supply chain disruption risk conduction. The findings of this study could benefit the node enterprises on the supply chain and the supply chain as a whole in terms of the management of the disruption risks and the improvement of the operation efficiency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Foreign direct investment (FDI) plays a crucial role in supply chain links. This paper aims to expound the status quo of FDI in China and the policies and measures adopted by Chinese government to attract foreign direct investment. On such a basis, extreme bounds analysis (EBA) is applied, three core variables and five conditional variables are selected in the light of the relevant data analysis and the estimation in regression, an empirical study shows the relationship between FDI in China and China's economic growth. It has been found that FDI stimulates China's economic growth to some extent in the long term, but this function is limited. In each stage, the effects of FDI on China's economic growth are indefinite. To be more specific, in the initiative and slow progressive stages, FDI plays a limited role in China's economic growth. In the period of fast development, FDI promotes China's economic growth significantly. This inconsistency shows that the effects of FDI on China's economic growth are closely associated with China's domestic situations and the development of FDI in China, which is time-oriented. The short-term analysis can precisely describe the dynamic changes regarding the relationship between FDI and China's economic growth; however, the long-term analysis may eliminate the effects of abnormal data in the short term, and hence the dynamic long-term tendency can be demonstrated. As a result, it is significant to integrate the short-term and long-term analyses of the effects of FDI on China's economic growth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]