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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Xin Huang
Summary: This paper studies a dual-market low-carbon supply chain operation in urban and rural markets, involving one manufacturer and two retailers. The research finds that government intervention can increase technology innovation efforts and decrease advertising efforts, and joint store promotion under government intervention can further improve the profits of the manufacturer and retailers. Furthermore, the manufacturer's technological innovation strategy relies more on the price and promotion preferences of urban consumers. The research results provide valuable suggestions for improving the economic and environmental performance of the low-carbon supply chain in the dual market.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2023)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Ehsan Shekarian, Ahmadreza Marandi, Jukka Majava
Summary: The study examines the impacts of various factors in a closed-loop supply chain system with a dual-channel, introducing a new demand function format and considering the effects of different collection settings. Consumers' willingness to choose remanufactured products is found to have a more significant influence on prices and profits than their sensitivity to the carbon footprint.
SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION
(2021)
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Environmental Sciences
Yongchang Jiang, Chang Liu
Summary: This study constructs a Stackelberg game model dominated by the manufacturer to analyze the joint strategies of low-carbon emission reduction and blockchain investment in different dual-channel models of the supply chain. The research findings reveal that the optimal emission reduction and blockchain investment vary among different dual-channel models, with manufacturers achieving the highest emission reduction in the direct online sales dual-channel model and the highest profit in the traditional retailer dual-channel model. Additionally, there are specific blockchain investment thresholds in different dual-channel modes, and increasing the threshold value improves the emission reduction.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2022)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Mingyun Gao, Lixin Xia, Qinzi Xiao, Mark Goh
Summary: With the increasing climate disasters, consumers have a growing interest in low-carbon products. This paper analyzes incentive strategies for low-carbon supply chains considering the updating of low-carbon preferences. It describes information updating in low-carbon supply chains and analyzes the response decisions of the supply chain under the given incentive strategies. An optimal model of carbon reduction is designed for the government based on these decisions, and the best incentive strategies are optimized using a heuristic algorithm. The results show that cooperation among profit-driven supply chain members improves both their profits and carbon reduction efficiency.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2023)
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Environmental Sciences
Mei-lian Liu, Zong-huo Li, Sajid Anwar, Yun Zhang
Summary: With increasing global concerns about environmental degradation, firms are pursuing carbon emission reduction targets, and the shift in consumer preferences towards low-carbon products can benefit both supply chain enterprises. Collaboration through carbon emission reduction cost-sharing can increase retailer's order quantity and profit, providing an incentive for cooperation between the two parties.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2021)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Dharmendra Yadav, Rachna Kumari, Narendra Kumar, Biswajit Sarkar
Summary: The study examines the effects of carbon emissions on global warming and the ecosystem, as well as how to establish a sustainable supply chain. By optimizing production rate, batch size, shipment frequency, and preservation investment, the total profit of the system is increased. Experimental results show that profitable product combinations, preservation technology investment, and waste reduction all have a positive impact on the environment and finances.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2021)
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Management
Simin An, Bo Li, Dongping Song, Xue Chen
Summary: Green credit financing (GCF) is a financial service provided by banks to encourage green investment, where manufacturers can seek GCF from banks for green upgrades. The study investigates a supply chain system involving a capital-constrained manufacturer and a well-funded supplier, and compares the effectiveness of GCF with traditional trade credit financing (TCF).
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
(2021)
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Management
Zhe Zhang, Huaming Song, Victor Shi, Shilei Yang
Summary: This paper investigates the optimal distribution strategy of a manufacturer in a dual-channel supply chain based on the product type. Depending on whether the product is demand-type or cost-type, the manufacturer may choose to sell its premium product through direct or traditional channels for maximum efficiency.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
(2021)
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Management
Yumeng Zhang, Behzad Hezarkhani
Summary: This study examines the role of different channel strategies in competitive environments by analyzing a manufacturer's channel selection decision model. The results show that a manufacturer's channel preference is influenced by consumers' channel preferences, channel operating costs, and the actions of competitors.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
(2021)
Review
Construction & Building Technology
Husnain Arshad, Tarek Zayed
Summary: This paper conducts a systematic review across multiple supply chain research domains to identify the critical influencing factors of modular integrated construction (MiC) supply chain operations, and studies their interrelationships. It is found that assembling-related factors dominate and dynamically control the MiC supply chain performance.
AUTOMATION IN CONSTRUCTION
(2022)
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Mathematics
Ying Shi, Xin Li
Summary: This paper examines a fresh food supply chain involving a supplier responsible for the cold chain and a retailer tasked with reprocessing the fresh food. The study analyzes the optimal market prices based on carbon emission reduction levels (CERLs) and investigates the responses of the supplier and retailer to their CERLs. The research identifies 25 equilibrium CERLs and finds that, in most cases, the supplier and retailer either take no action or make significant efforts to reduce carbon emissions.
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Engineering, Industrial
Biswajit Sarkar, Mitali Sarkar, Baishakhi Ganguly, Leopoldo Eduardo Cardenas-Barron
Summary: The cleaning of waste in a production system under sustainable supply chain management is crucial for industries, with a focus on improving product quality and controlling carbon emissions. This study presents a three-echelon sustainable supply chain model, aiming to reduce costs and enhance sustainability through reducing defective products and carbon emissions. Numerical experiments and sensitivity analysis validate the model's effectiveness in achieving global optimum solutions and reducing carbon emissions.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS
(2021)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Zheng Liu, Lingling Lang, Bin Hu, Lihua Shi, Bangtong Huang, Yuanjun Zhao
Summary: The study found that when manufacturers cooperate with retailers, increasing the investment in emission reduction leads to higher carbon emission reduction, market demand, manufacturer's profit, and retail price, while the retailer's profit decreases. However, forming a centralized supply chain between manufacturers and retailers can improve the overall profit of the supply chain. Therefore, optimizing the supply chain by forming a centralized supply chain with manufacturers and retailers can achieve the dual objectives of protecting the environment and increasing profits.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2021)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Bing Wang, Liting He, Xiao-Chen Yuan, Zhen-Ming Sun, Pengshuai Liu
Summary: Reduction of carbon emissions should be considered from both physical and economic perspectives, with measures such as reducing coal consumption, promoting gas capture technology, implementing coal-to-natural gas transition policies, and developing heat recovery technology effectively reducing carbon emissions in the coal supply chain.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Xiaojiao Qiao, Shimeng Xu, Dan Shi, Xiukun Zhao
Summary: Low-carbon production is crucial for addressing environmental problems, while consumer consciousness about carbon and cooperation between partners play important roles. This study investigated decision-making scenarios and compared decentralized, centralized, and cost-sharing contracts in a two-echelon supply chain. The results showed that environmental performance improvement is positively correlated with cooperation and consumers' low-carbon awareness. Additionally, cost-sharing contracts improved the overall supply chain performance compared to decentralized cases. Numerical experiments were conducted to validate the modeling results. Therefore, this study provides theoretical support for sustainable operations in supply chains considering low-carbon awareness.
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Engineering, Industrial
Vipul Jain, Sameer Kumar, Anirban Kundu, Charu Chandra
JOURNAL OF MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS
(2016)
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Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Avinash Samvedi, Vipul Jain, F. T. S. Chan, S. H. Chung
NEURAL COMPUTING & APPLICATIONS
(2018)
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Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Vipul Jain, Arun Kumar Sangaiah, Sumit Sakhuja, Nittin Thoduka, Rahul Aggarwal
NEURAL COMPUTING & APPLICATIONS
(2018)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Vipul Jain, Sameer Kumar, Umang Soni, Charu Chandra
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION RESEARCH
(2017)
Article
Operations Research & Management Science
Surya Prakash, Sameer Kumar, Gunjan Soni, Vipul Jain, Ajay Pal Singh Rathore
ANNALS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
(2020)
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Operations Research & Management Science
Mojtaba Arab Momeni, Amirhossein Mostofi, Vipul Jain, Gunjan Soni
Summary: The allocation of medical resources becomes more complex and significantly affects the efficiency of healthcare systems during the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper studies the activation of operating rooms, their assignment to different types of patients, and the scheduling of surgeries while considering the protective and preventive guidelines.
ANNALS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Management
Hardik Shah, Shilpa Jain, Vipul Jain
Summary: Teams have become a dominant mode of work in contemporary organizations and are critical for successful completion of various tasks. This research examines the impact of organizational team culture on team effectiveness in a power sector organization. The findings suggest that team culture contributes to team effectiveness and the framework can be used for diagnosing team weaknesses and designing effective HR interventions.
BENCHMARKING-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
(2023)
Article
Management
Surya Prakash, Sameer Kumar, Gunjan Soni, Vipul Jain, Saty Dev, Charu Chandra
Summary: This study addresses the challenge of selecting the most appropriate collaboration method from a given set of strategies by integrating the Grey theory with the TOPSIS method. The results show that technology and resource-sharing-centered collaboration strategies are the prominent option for horizontal collaboration, while information sharing is crucial for impactful collaboration in vertical collaboration deployment.
BENCHMARKING-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
(2022)
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Business
Amirhossein Mostofi, Sameer Kumar, Vipul Jain, Charu Chandra, Mojtaba Arab Momeni
Summary: In most multicriteria decision-making methods, determining the importance weight of criteria is crucial. This article proposes a new decision-making method based on Shapley's value that extracts importance weights of criteria at different levels by considering the consistency between subcriteria. Additionally, an interactive top-down decision-making approach is presented to handle compatible judgments.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Mojtaba Arab Momeni, Vipul Jain, Kannan Govindan, Amirhossein Mostofi, Soheil Javaheri Fazel
Summary: This paper proposes a new strategy that integrates technological capabilities and supply chain management initiatives to address the challenge of deteriorative products expiring. The strategy aligns with the zero-waste concept in the circular economy era and circular supply chain. The research focuses on integrating a supply chain and developing a buy-back coordination mechanism to incentivize cooperation among members and encourage participation in regenerative operations. The study demonstrates the economic feasibility of the proposed strategy and shows that an integrated supply chain equipped with the mentioned technology can achieve higher profits.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2022)
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Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Gaurav Kabra, Anbanandam Ramesh, Vipul Jain, Pervaiz Akhtar
Summary: This study identifies and prioritizes the barriers to information and digital technology (IDT) adoption in organizations involved in humanitarian supply chains (HSCs). The findings indicate that strategic barriers are of greatest importance, followed by organizational, technological, financial, and human barriers. These findings are significant in improving the adoption of IDTs in HSCs.
JOURNAL OF ENTERPRISE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Operations Research & Management Science
Amirhossein Mostofi, Vipul Jain, Sameer Kumar, Yi Mei, Charu Chandra
Summary: This paper explores the issue of deterioration of imported pharmaceutical items and presents a cooperative strategy to reduce costs. The strategy involves establishing a partnership alliance between the foreign patent holder and a domestic manufacturer through an exclusive license contract. The supply chain management techniques in the strategy provide motivation for implementation by fair profit-sharing among all members.
ANNALS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Dheeraj Chandra, Vipul Jain, Felix T. S. Chan
Summary: The importance of vaccine supply chain management has been emphasized due to the increasing prevalence of infectious diseases and the underwhelming results of vaccination rates. This study focuses on improving the performance of the vaccine supply chain in India by proposing supply contracts under demand uncertainty. The findings indicate that the incentive mechanism contract is capable of coordinating the supply chain and improving overall efficiency.
INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT & DATA SYSTEMS
(2023)
Review
Environmental Studies
Swayam Sampurna Panigrahi, Bikram Bahinipati, Vipul Jain
MANAGEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
(2019)
Article
Business, Finance
Gajanan Panchal, Vipul Jain, Naoufel Cheikhrouhou, Matthias Gurtner
JOURNAL OF REVENUE AND PRICING MANAGEMENT
(2017)
Article
Management
Hengyu Liu, Kai Zheng
Summary: Since August 2018, African swine fever (ASF) has caused over one million pig deaths in China and led to a surge in pork prices. To address this issue, the Chinese government has implemented two farm subsidies: the compulsory culling subsidy (CCS) and the large-scale breeding subsidy (LBS). Through a game-theoretic model, the study explores the optimal design of these subsidy programs and their impacts on different stakeholders.
OMEGA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2024)
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Management
Reza Azad Gholami, Leif Kristoffer Sandal, Jan Uboe
Summary: This paper investigates a decentralized supply channel where a manufacturer and a retailer compete in a multi-period discrete time setting, addressing uncertain demand through dynamic channel optimization. The paper proposes solution algorithms and theorems that highlight the benefits of postponement strategies for the follower and potential harm for the manufacturer in a decentralized channel.
OMEGA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2024)
Article
Management
Anne G. Balter, Ki Wai Chau, Nikolaus Schweizer
Summary: This study examines whether the threshold parameter in the Omega ratio represents risk aversion by analyzing the asymptotic expansions for risk premia. The results suggest that the threshold in the Omega ratio represents risk aversion when the variance of the additional risk decreases with the background risk and when the density of the background risk is log-concave. Comparisons with expected utility criteria indicate that the conditions for the Omega threshold to represent risk aversion are comparable to those for exponential utility functions.
OMEGA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2024)
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Management
Baozhuang Niu, Fengfeng Xie, Lei Chen
Summary: This paper examines the strategic sourcing decisions of a local brand (BOP) when purchasing remanufactured components from a local supplier (LSP). The study finds that the BOP tends to decrease its purchasing orders from the LSP when the probability of overseas supply disruption is high, while the LSP is willing to sell components to the BOP when the probability is in a moderate range.
OMEGA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2024)
Article
Management
Chiang Kao
Summary: This study develops a model to calculate the maximum SBM efficiency for general network production systems, and applies it to a garment manufacturing company. The results show that the sewing operation contributes more to the system efficiency than the cutting operation does.
OMEGA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2024)
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Management
Baozhuang Niu, Jiayun Liu, Jianhua Zhang, Kanglin Chen
Summary: This study examines a brand's decision on reselling through a platform by using game-theoretical analysis and big data validation based on transaction-level data from JD.com. The study finds that the platform's channel advantage and high logistics service level encourage brands to choose the reselling mode, and the impact of the platform's private label competition is non-monotonic.
OMEGA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2024)
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Management
Ali Fereydooni, Sasan Barak, Seyed Mehrzad Asaad Sajadi
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OMEGA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2024)
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Management
Sally Giuseppe Arcidiacono, Salvatore Corrente, Salvatore Greco
Summary: This paper introduces a method to handle multiple compatible value functions in multi-criteria decision making by building a probability distribution. Stochastic multicriteria acceptability analysis provides statistical information based on the decision maker's preferences. Extensive simulations and sensitivity analysis have been conducted to demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method.
OMEGA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2024)
Article
Management
Junlin Chen, Zewu Jiang, Xiaobo Zhao, Wanshan Zhu, Jinxing Xie
Summary: In this study, we investigate a supply chain system consisting of a retailer and a supplier. We examine the threshold problem in contract design and take into account the risk preference of the retailer and the fairness concern of the supplier. The experiment shows that the behavior of the retailer affects the threshold of the optimal contract design, while the behavior of the supplier only affects the optimal wholesale price. These findings suggest that the behavior of retailers and suppliers play a crucial role in the mechanism design of supply chains.
OMEGA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2024)
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Management
Shuxia Peng, Bo Li, Wei Zheng
Summary: This study examines the impact of consumers' valuation updating on optimal pricing decisions and market structure in a competitive software market. The results show that with consumers' valuation updating, the incumbent can maximize profits through market segmentation, dominance, or entry deterrence strategies, and is willing to share the market with the entrant, achieving a win-win situation.
OMEGA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2024)
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Management
Victor Gimenez, Diego Prior, Claudio Thieme, Emili Tortosa-Ausina
Summary: This study proposes a nonparametric activity analysis methodology to assess the effectiveness of pandemic management in 61 countries nine months into the COVID-19 pandemic. The results show that effectiveness is strongly influenced by socioeconomic and cultural factors and reveal three main groups of countries based on their management level. This highlights the importance of operations research methods in accurately assessing pandemic management.
OMEGA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2024)
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Management
Narges Sereshti, Yossiri Adulyasak, Raf Jans
Summary: This paper investigates the stochastic multi-level lot sizing problem with a service level and explores the value of adding flexibility in such context. By modeling the problem as a two-stage stochastic program with uncertain demand and considering different demand scenarios, the study shows that adding flexibility to the system can result in cost savings, even with a small degree of flexibility.
OMEGA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2024)
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Management
Jafar Chaab, Georges Zaccour
Summary: This paper examines the pricing of a new product in the presence of sophisticated consumer behaviors. The study finds that forward-looking consumer behavior can either strengthen or weaken the effectiveness of a penetration pricing strategy, while the superiority of committed pricing in terms of firm's profit heavily depends on consumer behaviors.
OMEGA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2024)
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Management
Amelia Bilbao-Terol, Celia Bilbao-Terol
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OMEGA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2024)
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Management
Hui Li, Dongdong Wu
Summary: This study aims to investigate the impact of scale effects from restructuring on performance in tourism firms, and examine the influence of investor attention on restructuring performance. The findings reveal that restructuring activities can enhance scale effects, but the benefits decrease over time, and investor attention online also plays a role in determining restructuring performance.
OMEGA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2024)
