International Journal of Production Economics

1991 - 2025

Continuation of Engineering Costs and Production Economics.

Current editor(s): Stefan Minner

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Volume 242, issue C, 2021

Right information at the right time: Reevaluating the attitude–behavior gap in environmental technology adoption

Shadi Goodarzi, Andrea Masini, Sam Aflaki and Behnam Fahimnia

A valid and reliable scale for measuring middle managers’ trustworthiness in continuous improvement

A. Lleo, Pablo Ruiz-Palomino, E. Viles and A.F. Muñoz-Villamizar

Dynamic lot-sizing with short-term financing and external deposits for a capital-constrained manufacturer

Oussama Kajjoune, Tarik Aouam, Tarik Zouadi and Meriem Dairi

Pricing strategies for blockchain payment service under customer heterogeneity

Yuze Li, Shangrong Jiang, Jianming Shi and Yunjie Wei

Platform supply chain pricing and financing: Who benefits from e-commerce consumer credit?

Jiaping Xie, Lihong Wei, Weijun Zhu and Weisi Zhang

Evaluation of “innovation chain + supply chain” fusion driven by blockchain technology under typical scenario

Guangyuan Xing, Zhe Duan, Wenjun Yan and Melike Baykal-Gürsoy

One too many: Product proliferation and the financial performance in manufacturing

Mozart B.C. Menezes, Hamed Jalali and Alejandro Lamas

Buyer’s strategic demand information sharing with an upstream echelon for entry promotion

Kenji Matsui

Comparison of three E-Waste take-back policies

Feifei Shan, Wenli Xiao and Feng Yang

Reconciling integration and reconfiguration management approaches in the supply chain

Neil Chueh-An Lee

Food supply chain coordination for growing items: A trade-off between market coverage and cost-efficiency

Nadia Pourmohammad-Zia, Behrooz Karimi and Jafar Rezaei

The value of target sales rebate contracts in a supply chain with downstream competition

Guitian Liang and Chaocheng Gu

Quality investment in a decentralized assembly system with backward shareholding

Wei Xiao, Kai Li and Hong Fu

An analysis of task assignment and cycle times when robots are added to human-operated assembly lines, using mathematical programming models

Tamás Koltai, Imre Dimény, Viola Gallina, Alexander Gaal and Chiara Sepe

Study on early warnings of strategic risk during the process of firms’ sustainable innovation based on an optimized genetic BP neural networks model: Evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms

Yunlong Duan, Chang Mu, Meng Yang, Zhiqing Deng, Tachia Chin, Li Zhou and Qifeng Fang

Committed or contingent? The retailer’s information acquisition and sharing strategies when confronting manufacturer encroachment

Huaqing Hu, Shuxiao Sun, Xiaona Zheng, Lihua Chen and Tao Huang

Remanufacturing authorization strategy for competition among OEM, authorized remanufacturer, and unauthorized remanufacturer

Qin Zhou, Chao Meng and Kum Fai Yuen

An integrated Delphi-MCDM-Bayesian Network framework for production system selection

Vishwas Dohale, Angappa Gunasekaran, Milind Akarte and Priyanka Verma

Determinants of the transition towards circular economy in SMEs: A sustainable supply chain management perspective

Piera Centobelli, Roberto Cerchione, Emilio Esposito, Renato Passaro and Shashi,

To outsource or not to outsource? Warranty service provision strategies considering competition, costs and reliability

Hongfu Huang, Feng Liu and Peng Zhang

Make-to-order supply chain coordination through option contract with random yields and overconfidence

Lingling Wang, Yong Wu and Shengqiang Hu

Strategic introduction of marketplace platform and its impacts on supply chain

Dan Shi, Meiqi Wang and Xiang Li

Evaluating Blockchain requirements for effective digital supply chain management

Gülçin Büyüközkan, Gizem Tüfekçi and Deniz Uztürk

Optimal credit period and ordering policy with credit-dependent demand under two-level trade credit

Gongbing Bi, Pingfan Wang, Dujuan Wang and Yunqiang Yin

Machine learning and optimization models for supplier selection and order allocation planning

Samiul Islam, Saman Hassanzadeh Amin and Leslie J. Wardley

Volume 241, issue C, 2021

Human-AI collaboration in route planning: An empirical efficiency-based analysis in retail logistics

Dominic Loske and Matthias Klumpp

Artificial intelligence applications in supply chain management

Mehrdokht Pournader, Hadi Ghaderi, Amir Hassanzadegan and Behnam Fahimnia

Joint inventory and pricing control with lagged price responses

Yang Li and Feng Liu

Impact of deep-tier visibility on effective resilience assessment of supply networks

Elham Taghizadeh, Saravanan Venkatachalam and Ratna Babu Chinnam

Joint quality and pricing decisions in lot sizing models with defective items

Zsuzsanna Hauck, Boualem Rabta and Gerald Reiner

Mobile procurement platforms: Bridging the online and offline worlds in China's restaurant industry

Remi Charpin, Min Kyung Lee and Ting Wu

Measures of greenness: An empirical study in service supply chains in the UAE

Mehmood Khan, Mian M. Ajmal, Angappa Gunasekaran, Abdulla H. AlMarzouqi and Bader Khamis AlNuaimi

‘Lean 4.0’: How can digital technologies support lean practices?

Fabiana Dafne Cifone, Kai Hoberg, Matthias Holweg and Alberto Portioli Staudacher

The value of integration of full container load, less than container load and air freight shipments in vendor–managed inventory systems

Luca Bertazzi, Sarem Deilami Moezi and Francesca Maggioni

Operations strategy for supply chain finance with asset-backed securitization: Centralization and blockchain adoption

Ciwei Dong, Chenyi Chen, Xiutian Shi and Chi To Ng

Assessing the business values of e-commerce and information technology separately and jointly and their impacts upon US firms' performance as measured by productive efficiency

Winston T. Lin, Yueh H. Chen and Chia-Ching Chou

Dynamic decision making in a mixed market under cooperation: Towards sustainability

Arka Mukherjee and Margarida Carvalho

Financing and carbon emission reduction strategies of capital-constrained manufacturers in E-commerce supply chains

Juanjuan Qin, Huiping Fu, Ziping Wang and Liangjie Xia

Production-intralogistics synchronization of industry 4.0 flexible assembly lines under graduation intelligent manufacturing system

Mingxing Li and George Q. Huang

A decade of engineering-to-order (2010–2020): Progress and emerging themes

Violetta Giada Cannas and Jonathan Gosling

Corporate social and environmental irresponsibilities in supply chains, contamination, and damage of intangible resources: A behavioural approach

Mauro Fracarolli Nunes, Camila Lee Park and Hyunju Shin

Will bots take over the supply chain? Revisiting agent-based supply chain automation

Liming Xu, Stephen Mak and Alexandra Brintrup

Volume 240, issue C, 2021

Valuing supply chain performance within and across manufacturing industries: A DEA-based approach

G.J. Hahn, M. Brandenburg and J. Becker

Willingness-to-cede behaviour in sustainable supply chain coordination

Xiao-Xue Zheng, Deng-Feng Li, Zhi Liu, Fu Jia and Benjamin Lev

Measuring spatial access to the recovery networks for WEEE: An in-depth analysis of the Italian case

Giuseppe Bruno, Antonio Diglio, Renato Passaro, Carmela Piccolo and Ivana Quinto

Exploring systemic factors creating uncertainty in complex engineer-to-order supply chains: Case studies from Norwegian shipbuilding first tier suppliers

Erlend Alfnes, Jonathan Gosling, Mohamed Naim and Heidi C. Dreyer

A scalable real-time solution strategy for supply chain management of fresh produce: A Mexico-to-United States cross border study

Fernando Lejarza, Ioannis Pistikopoulos and Michael Baldea

Diversify or concentrate: The impact of customer concentration on corporate social responsibility

Minghao Zhu, Andy C.L. Yeung and Honggeng Zhou

The implications of contract timing on a supply chain with random yield

Zhong Zheng, Zhiyuan Chen and Sinem Kinay Savaser

An investigation on the effect of inter-organizational collaboration on reverse logistics

Livio Cricelli, Marco Greco and Michele Grimaldi

Outsourcing strategy in the presence of the customer returns

Dan Li, Jing Chen and Yi Liao

Surprising supply chain disruptions: Mitigation effects of operational slack and supply redundancy

Arash Azadegan, Sachin Modi and Lorenzo Lucianetti

The moderating effect of managerial discretion on blockchain technology and the firms’ innovation quality: Evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms

Tachia Chin, Wannan Wang, Meng Yang, Yunlong Duan and Yantai Chen

Customer satisfaction service match and service quality-based blockchain cloud manufacturing

Binni Wang, Pong Wang and Yiliu Tu

Stochastic coherency in forecast reconciliation

Kandrika F. Pritularga, Ivan Svetunkov and Nikolaos Kourentzes

Environmental orientation, external environmental information exchange and environmental performance: Examining mediation and moderation effects

Roberto Chavez, Mohsin Malik, Hadi Ghaderi and Wantao Yu

Blockchain-based digital twin sharing platform for reconfigurable socialized manufacturing resource integration

Ming Li, Zhi Li, Xidian Huang and Ting Qu

Integration of Industry 4.0 technologies into Total Productive Maintenance practices

Guilherme Luz Tortorella, Flavio S. Fogliatto, Paulo A. Cauchick-Miguel, Sherah Kurnia and Daniel Jurburg

Efficient and truthful multi-attribute auctions for crowdsourced delivery

Fei Xiao, Haijun Wang, Shuojia Guo, Xu Guan and Baoshan Liu

External knowledge search, opportunity recognition and industry 4.0 adoption in SMEs

Riccardo Ricci, Daniele Battaglia and Paolo Neirotti

Supply chain finance: The role of credit rating and retailer effort on optimal contracts

Giovanna Lo Nigro, Giovanni Favara and Lorenzo Abbate

Product sales probabilistic forecasting: An empirical evaluation using the M5 competition data

Evangelos Spiliotis, Spyros Makridakis, Anastasios Kaltsounis and Vassilios Assimakopoulos

Remanufacturing authorization strategy for an original equipment manufacturer-contract manufacturer supply chain: Cooperation or competition?

Qin Zhou, Chao Meng, Kum Fai Yuen and Jiuh-Biing Sheu

Quality choice for product recovery considering a trade-in program and third-party remanufacturing competition

Senlin Zhao, Zhuangzhuang You and Qinghua Zhu

Promoting supplier's environmental innovation via emission taxation

Bosung Kim, Sang Won Kim and Kun Soo Park

Freight transportation planning in platform service supply chain considering carbon emissions

Qihuang Mei, Jianbin Li, Evrim Ursavas, Stuart X. Zhu and Xiaomeng Luo

Statistical analysis of family based dispatching rules and preemption

Hao Jing, Lijuan Sheng, Chaorui Luo and Choonjong Kwak

On the validity and practical relevance of a measure for structural complexity

Mozart B.C. Menezes, Diego Ruiz-Hernández and Yen-Tsang Chen

Smart product service system hierarchical model in banking industry under uncertainties

Ming-Lang Tseng, Tat-Dat Bui, Shulin Lan, Ming K. Lim and Abu Hashan Md Mashud

Pricing and quality setting strategy in maritime transportation: Considering empty repositioning and demand uncertainty

Mehdi Najafi and Hossein Zolfagharinia

Curling linearity into circularity: The benefits of formal scavenging in closed-loop settings

Pierluigi Zerbino, Alessandro Stefanini, Davide Aloini, Riccardo Dulmin and Valeria Mininno

Routing analyses for call centers with human and automated services

Benjamin Legros

Consumer willingness to pay for bio-based products: Do certifications matter?

Piergiuseppe Morone, Rocco Caferra, Idiano D'Adamo, Pasquale Marcello Falcone, Enrica Imbert and Andrea Morone

Proactive environmental strategy and performances of third party logistics providers (TPLs): Investigating the role of eco-control systems

Issam Laguir, Rébecca Stekelorum and Jamal El Baz

Multi-agent reinforcement learning-based dynamic task assignment for vehicles in urban transportation system

Wei Qin, Yan-Ning Sun, Zi-Long Zhuang, Zhi-Yao Lu and Yao-Ming Zhou