Review
Environmental Sciences
Khairun Tumu, Keith Vorst, Greg Curtzwiler
Summary: This study aims to discuss the role of global Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) policies in addressing plastic recycling challenges. By analyzing global EPR and recycling laws, it is found that EPR laws can increase producers' responsibility and promote plastic recycling, thereby reducing waste generation. Countries with EPR regulations and landfill bans usually have higher recycling rates.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Cailou Jiang, Yue Zhang
Summary: China's extended producer responsibility (EPR) system, implemented in 2016, has significantly promoted green technological innovation in power battery enterprises. This system has led to an increase in the quantity and quality of green invention patents. The EPR system stimulates green innovation in power battery enterprises through government subsidies and executives' environmental awareness.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Yinyin Zhao, Benhong Peng, Ehsan Elahi, Anxia Wan
Summary: Based on data from Chinese manufacturing industries, this study confirms the significant impact of the EPR system on corporate green technological innovation. Results show that the implementation of the EPR system increased the number of green patents, with a more pronounced effect on non-state-owned enterprises and non-high-tech enterprises.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2021)
Article
Social Issues
Yong Xu, Xin Zhao, Jian Wang, Peijun Xie
Summary: Although both corporate social responsibility (CSR) and green technological innovation (GTI) are beneficial to firm development, this study reveals that CSR has a negative impact on the quantity and quality of GTI due to reduced R&D investment and increased internal control. Furthermore, this hindrance is particularly significant among state-owned enterprises, high-tech firms, and non-high polluting firms.
TECHNOLOGY IN SOCIETY
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Chiara Giosue, Daniele Marchese, Matteo Cavalletti, Robertino Isidori, Massimo Conti, Simone Orcioni, Maria Letizia Ruello, Pierluigi Stipa
Summary: European self-sufficiency in the battery sector is a major need, with the increasing demand for key lithium-ion battery materials. Efforts are being made to improve legislation on battery recycling and to explore the possibility of circular economy principles. While specific regulations are needed for LIBs, there are ongoing industrial examples and European projects that demonstrate the feasibility and importance of reusing and recycling LIBs.
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Reid Lifset, Harri Kalimo, Antti Jukka, Petrus Kautto, Mirella Miettinen
Summary: Extended producer responsibility (EPR) makes producers responsible for waste management and eco-modulation is an additional component to incentivize eco-design.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Yongxi Yi, Shiyang Liu, Chunyan Fu, Yuqiong Li
Summary: This study proposes a new Extended Producer Responsibility system (FEPR) that can simultaneously save resources, reduce waste pollution, and improve social welfare. Through game analysis and data example analysis, it is found that the optimal joint tax-subsidy policy and market competition can drive the development and efficiency of the FEPR system.
SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Haniyeh Jalalipour, Masoud Ahmadi, Neematollah Jaafarzadeh, Gert Morscheck, Satyanarayana Narra, Michael Nelles
Summary: The study aims to analyze the obstacles in developing EPR system for product packaging and evaluates the current solid waste management systems through four frameworks (legal, institutional, financial and technical). Despite the potential of the new financing mechanism to promote resource efficiency and sustainable waste treatment, poor source-separation of wet/dry waste, informal sector activities, exclusive focus on the economic aspect of waste management, lack of expertise and public awareness campaigns are identified as barriers to this development.
WASTE MANAGEMENT & RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Yanni Liu, Yufen Chen, Yi Ren, Bixia Jin
Summary: Drawing on social capital and stakeholder theories, this study explores the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on technological innovation performance, with a focus on the mediating role of corporate social capital (CSC) and the moderating effect of market competition intensity. Findings suggest that CSR has an inverted U-shaped impact on technological innovation performance, with a critical threshold for optimal effect; CSC mediates the relationship between CSR and technological innovation performance, while market competition intensity moderates this relationship. The study also highlights the importance of environmental CSR in promoting sustainable technological innovation.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Xinyuan Wang, Zhenyang Zhang, Dongphil Chun
Summary: The study found that internal control effectiveness has a positive impact on technological innovation, and improving internal control effectiveness contributes to fulfilling corporate social responsibility. Corporate social responsibility acts as a mediating variable in the process of internal control effectiveness on technological innovation.
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Robert Enriquez-Reyes, Susana Cadena-Vela, Andres Fuster-Guillo, Jose-Norberto Mazon, Luis Daniel Ibanez, Elena Simperl
Summary: This paper aims to classify and analyze all research on open data in the scientific community from a technological viewpoint, providing a detailed exploration based on six key facets. The research shows that open data research grew slowly from 2006 but significantly increased from 2009, with a slight decrease in research interest in 2019 from a technological perspective. Key findings include increasing efforts in researching Semantic Web technologies, proposing software systems to solve technical problems in open data, and the importance of considering technological aspects of legislation and standardization for wide introduction of open data in society.
Article
Economics
Weiwei Wu, Li Yu
Summary: This study examines the impact of environmental corporate social responsibility on firms' process and product innovations and explores the mediating role of green entrepreneurial orientation and the moderating role of green intellectual capital. It finds that environmental corporate social responsibility has a positive effect on process and product innovations, and this effect is mediated by green entrepreneurial orientation. Moreover, green intellectual capital positively moderates the mediating effects of green entrepreneurial orientation. The findings contribute to a better understanding of the role of environmental corporate social responsibility in promoting technological innovation, and offer practical implications for managing firms' environmental behaviors to foster innovation and gain competitive advantage.
JOURNAL OF THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY
(2023)
Article
Business
Mathijs Verhagen, Mark de Reuver, Harry Bouwman
Summary: This article examines the performance implications of business model (BM) experimentation and finds that the implementation of BMs plays a mediating role in firm performance. It suggests that business model innovation requires aligning BMs with operations and enterprise architectures, in addition to strategic thinking and experimentation.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Economics
Yan Li, Junkai Wang, Zi Mu, Lingxiao Li
Summary: This study confirms the nonlinear relationship between corporate environmental responsibility and green technological innovation through analysis of Chinese listed companies, and finds that mediating effects play an important role in the relationship between the two.
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS AND POLICY
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Xiuping Li, Ye Yang
Summary: This study establishes a green finance indicator system using the entropy method and finds that green finance significantly enhances corporate technological innovation, with corporate social responsibility strengthening this relationship. Results indicate that the positive impact of green finance on technological innovation is more significant in larger companies and economically developed eastern regions.
Article
Management
Tsan-Ming Choi, Ting Zhang
Summary: This paper explores the impact of altruistic behaviors of a newsvendor in a two-echelon supply chain on the upstream manufacturer and the system performance. It finds that altruistic behavior of a risk-neutral or risk-seeking newsvendor benefits the manufacturer and the supply chain, while altruistic behavior of a risk-averse newsvendor harms them. The study also shows that the altruistic behavior of the manufacturer can increase the expected profit of the whole supply chain.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Yadong Xu, Guowei Hua, T. C. E. Cheng, Tsan-Ming Choi, Yisong Li, Shuai Liu
Summary: Consumer behavior has changed in the e-commerce age, with more consumers tending to purchase multiple versions of apparel products and return those that do not meet their requirements. This paper explores how retailers should handle these bracketing consumers and provides managerial insights.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Management
Jiaxin Lin, Tsan-Ming Choi, Yong-Hong Kuo
Summary: Dual-channel e-commerce retailers commonly offer return freight insurance (RFI) to resolve disputes regarding product returns, but not all retailers provide it. By building consumer-utility-based analytical models, we find that retailers who purchase RFI for consumers do not necessarily charge higher prices. The study highlights the importance of the RFI premium and its impact on consumer surplus and social welfare.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Manufacturing
Xiaoyan Xu, Suresh P. Sethi, Sai-Ho Chung, Tsan-Ming Choi
Summary: The recent outbreak of COVID-19 has significantly impacted global supply chain management, calling for the rethinking of operational strategies and the setting of global supply chains. This research paper combines literature review and real-world case studies to examine the effects and challenges brought about by the pandemic. The proposed GREAT-3Rs framework provides critical issues and measures for reforming GSCM under different pandemic stages, aiming to achieve responsiveness, resilience, and restoration.
PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Management
Xiaoping Xu, Luling Yan, Tsan-Ming Choi, T. C. E. Cheng
Summary: Blockchain technology has been widely applied in various industries, including remanufacturing. This paper explores the combination of remanufacturing and blockchain and proposes a supply chain model involving a manufacturer, a third-party firm, and an online platform. Through a game analysis, it is found that the optimal production quantities and collection rates increase with the allocated cap and platform-enabled power. Additionally, the adoption of blockchain depends on the emissions intensity.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Manufacturing
Jiuh-Biing Sheu, Tsan-Ming Choi
Summary: This work addresses the issue of intelligent robot-human coordinated parts-to-picker order fulfillment in a human-friendly manner. Through integrating a real-time data-driven stochastic-dynamic model with a fatigue accumulation function, the proposed approach achieves coordination between human pickers and robots, considering their efficiency and fatigue conditions.
PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Economics
Sunil Tiwari, Pankaj Sharma, Tsan-Ming Choi, Andrew Lim
Summary: In global supply chains, 3PL services play a crucial role in assisting supply chain agents with distribution tasks, allowing them to focus on product development and manufacturing. However, current supply chains face inadequacies that impact the effectiveness of 3PL, leading to the need for digital transformation. Digitization improves supply chain performance through enhanced information sharing and visibility, but raises challenges in cybersecurity and data quality. Blockchain technology offers solutions with its high security and distribution features. This paper examines the challenges and potential of using blockchain in 3PL, based on literature and interviews with innovation/project managers from established logistics companies.
TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART E-LOGISTICS AND TRANSPORTATION REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Operations Research & Management Science
Hau-Ling Chan, Ting-Ting Cheung, Tsan-Ming Choi, Jiuh-Biing Sheu
Summary: Third-party food delivery operations are popular in the digital era, but achieving sustainable operation is a challenge. This study conducts a literature review to identify how to achieve sustainable operation and highlights recent advances in this area through real-world practices. The review classifies prior studies into economic, social, environmental, and multi-dimensional sustainability. Three research gaps are identified, such as inadequate investigation on restaurant preferences and decisions, limited understanding of environmental performance, and insufficient examination of multi-dimensional sustainability. Five future areas for in-depth investigation are proposed based on the literature and observed practices, including digital technology applications, restaurant behaviors and decisions, risk management, triple bottom line perspective, and post-pandemic considerations.
ANNALS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Manufacturing
Xuanming Bai, Tsan-Ming Choi, Yongjian Li, Xiaochen Sun
Summary: This study uses game-theoretical models to investigate how firms should adjust their trade-in strategies in response to the emergence of resale platforms. The study finds that the trade-in-for-upgrade (TU) mode encourages consumer repurchases, while the trade-in-for-upgrade-and-cash (TUC) mode has a greater promotion effect on consumers' first purchases. The presence of a resale platform does not affect the amount of the trade-in rebate in the TUC mode, but in the TU mode, the firm should provide a more generous trade-in rebate depending on the unit product cost. The firm should choose the TU mode to take advantage of the platform's promotion effect if the unit product cost is high and choose the TUC mode to avoid the platform's cannibalization effect if the unit product cost is low.
PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Shu Guo, Tsan-Ming Choi
Summary: This article aims to explore the design of sterilization legislation for second-hand clothing supply chains in Least Developed Countries (LDCs). The popular import of second-hand clothing in LDCs, along with the associated social health risks and lack of relevant legislations, pose significant challenges.
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Xiaoyan Xu, Suresh P. Sethi, Sai-Ho Chung, Tsan-Ming Choi
Summary: In the digital age, governments can improve their operations by making wise use of information and technological tools. This article explores a two-stage vaccine ordering problem for governments during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using dynamic programming, the optimal vaccine ordering policy is derived based on the disease's infection rate in society.
Article
Management
Guowei Dou, Tsan-Ming Choi
Summary: This study investigates the impact of channel relationships between manufacturers on government policies and explores the effectiveness of positive incentives versus taxes in increasing social welfare. The findings suggest that competition may be more effective in improving sustainability and social welfare. Additionally, government incentives for green technology may not necessarily enhance sustainability.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Management
Fei Tang, Ying Dai, Zu-Jun Ma, Tsan-Ming Choi
Summary: Trade-in promotions are recognized as effective strategies in retail operations to boost sales. This study examines the impact of brand loyalty on exclusive and nonexclusive trade-in programs and finds that an exclusive trade-in program effectively retains consumers when brand loyalty is weak, while a nonexclusive trade-in program is more likely to attract competitors' consumers. An exclusive trade-in program is the dominant strategy for both firms compared to no trade-in, but a nonexclusive program is better when brand loyalty is strong.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Management
Aasheesh Dixit, Tsan-Ming Choi, Patanjal Kumar, Suresh K. Jakhar
Summary: This paper examines the impacts of reciprocity and fairness concerns on environmental sustainability in a single-airport two-airlines system through the analysis of mathematical models. The results show that reciprocity from the airport towards an airline improves the greening level, and the presence of fairness concerns affects revenue-sharing fraction. Enhancing passengers' environmental awareness is favorable for enhancing environmental sustainability.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Management
Ting Zhang, Tsan-Ming Choi, Tai-Chiu (Edwin) Cheng
Summary: Social comparisons during the purchase of public products can affect firms' pricing, quality, and product-line strategies. Greater social-comparison benefit reduces price competition and increases profits, while higher social-comparison cost intensifies price competition and decreases profits. Product quality differences and product-line extension strategies are also influenced by social comparisons.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
(2024)
