Climate change has become an increasingly serious problem that needs addressing. To effectively deal with the many negative impacts brought by climate and environmental changes, most countries around the world have reached a unanimous decision on the issue of carbon emission reduction and have adopted effective policies and actions to reduce carbon emissions.

The emergence of carbon emission issues will not only affect the growth and development of ecological populations and green vegetation in nature but also have a substantial impact on the development of human society as well as the competitive behaviour of enterprises in society. For example, the current social development affects the demand for new energy, materials and technologies, consumer demand for green products, and the transformation of the national energy structure is also needed to be resolved urgently. With these new phenomena and new backgrounds, a large number of complex problems have arisen in the supply chain system and financial system. Discrete dynamics theory and evolutionary game theory have certain applicability and advantages in studying such problems such as the long-term optimal decision, local and global stability, and bifurcation analysis in discrete-time modes. Therefore, it is thought that more scholars should conduct research and innovation in these fields.

The aim of this Special Issue is to bring together original research articles and review articles about the complex evolutionary game in enterprise carbon emission reduction. Submissions about discrete dynamic systems and theories applied in supply chain are particularly welcome.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Research on the impact of carbon emission reduction on the supply chain with evolutionary game theory
• Analysis of discrete dynamic system and its complexity in a social management system
• Economic, social, and financial complex system research and its evolution analysis in the supply chain
• Long-term game strategy with chaos theory and bifurcation theory in the supply chain
• An optimal decision in a dynamic game between supply chain enterprises
• Lyapunov stability analysis of supply chain system
• Local and global dynamics about an equilibrium point in the supply chain
• Local and global bifurcation analysis of discrete-time models in the supply chain
• Chaos and bifurcation control strategies for discrete-time models in the supply chain