Dear Colleagues,

The Special Issue examines a new approach to defining digital ecosystems, the discussion of which could cover some exciting topics. Within the digital economy of ecosystems, competition is transforming into a new cooperative form, while organizations start forming unions and alliances cooperating to reach a common goal. The scope covers the theoretical foundations for developing digital ecosystems based on literary reviews. The Special Issue’s purpose is to consider common characteristics in biological, economic, and digital ecosystems to substantiate the possibility of using the same approaches for research and modeling such systems (e.g., smart cities, and smart territories for sustainable development).

The scientific scope of the Special Issue relates to a wide range of questions.

The real business goals in the context of digital transformation of international logistics networks and marketing channels have necessitated applying a scientifically based theoretical approach to developing innovative financial models, enhancing the sustainability of business interaction within consumer value chains. This Special Issue covers the concept of integrated solutions to facilitate logistics financing for capital-constrained SMEs in e-commerce retail and the development of both financial flow management models and logistics methodology to improve the process of planning the balance of funds and increasing the efficiency of the allocation of funds in the international logistics network.

An interesting debate could arise about financial logistics in the broader sense as a systematic approach that comprises both the theory of financial management and models of optimal order size in supply chain management.

The challenge is to investigate the logistics approach based on the search for a compromise between the fixed costs of transactions (for example, the sale of securities) and the costs of maintaining a cash balance and raising borrowed funds in international supply chains.

We are pleased to inform all our authors that this Special Issue will be free of charge for scholars to submit and publish.

Prof. Dr. Sergey E. Barykin
Dr. Sergei Mikhailovich Sergeev
Guest Editors

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