International Journal of Production Economics

1991 - 2026

Continuation of Engineering Costs and Production Economics.

Current editor(s): Stefan Minner

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Volume 301, issue C, 2026

Carbon offset market and cap-and-trade: Firm behavior, market dynamics, and policy design

Meihan Chen, Xiangyun Chang, Zhengwei Sun, Ramzi Hammami and Imen Nouira

The impact of carbon price uncertainty on a multinational corporation’s operational decisions under the carbon border adjustment mechanism

Tao Zhou, Zemin Zhang, Kai Li and Bohai Liu

Impact of collaborative robots on psychosocial stressors on aging workforce in manufacturing systems

María Luisa Cantonnet and Juan Carlos Aldasoro

The Orders Beyond MLOR (OBM) clause: Enhancing flexibility in retailer–supplier agreements for perishable products

Maria João Santos, Margarida Carvalho, Pedro Amorim and Sara Martins

Both learning and unlearning are rewards? Exploring diffusion mechanisms of artificial intelligence-driven green innovation based on complex network evolutionary game

Ziming Zhang, Mingxing Zheng, T.C. Edwin Cheng, Qingyun Yang and Qin Su

Blockchain-powered agricultural production and insurance: A game-theoretic model for fraud prevention and smart compensation

Behzad Maleki Vishkaei, Maria Alice Trindade and Pietro De Giovanni

Efficiency evaluation considering structural heterogeneity in China's provincial logistics industries: A network slacks-based measure approach

Linlin Zhao, Jiaze Lv, Dawei Wang and Feng Yang

Agency selling or reselling? Impact of live streaming suppliers’ fairness concerns on supply chain decision-making

Guangye Xu, Jiachen Shi and Xiaotong Li

Impact of blockchain on supply chain finance system considering information transaction costs

Subhajit Pramanick, Sushil Kumar Dey, Kaustav Kundu and Prasun Das

Supervised machine learning models for predicting stochastic production line performance metrics: explainability of analytical features

Mehmet Ulaş Koyuncuoğlu

Bridging knowledge boundaries: When overlapping suppliers enhance buyer innovation through technological breadth

Syed Haider Ali Bukhari, Faisal Khurshid and Alan Kai-ming Au

Partial understanding or full comprehension: Should platform deploy large language model to bridge consumer perception biases?

Gang Du, Yifang Ding, Zhipeng Wang and Xiaohang Yue

Data monetization strategy of two-sided platform concerning privacy concerns: Protection or compensation

Shuai Ling, Zhixin Deng and Jiyuan Guo

Supply strategies in live stream supply chains: The role of market overlap

Shaofu Du, Yuzhu Guo, Junsong Bian and Xiaolong Guo

Navigating the complex landscape of asymmetrical investments and relational dilemmas in buyer-supplier relationships: A dyadic perspective

Antony Paulraj, Byung-Gak Son and Nachiappan Subramanian

Note on abundance or scarcity for the Wicksellian production function, or, When does an AC-curve become U-shaped?

Robert W. Grubbström

Analyzing barriers to AI-HI integration for food loss and waste reduction: A multi-actor study of food supply chains

Zhengyan Yang, Wei Zhong Wang, Yu Chen, Dursun Delen and Muhammet Deveci

Building resilient product portfolios in B2B manufacturing: A multi-criteria decision-making framework for managing disruptive factors

Till Gramberg, Aron Burgel, Andreas Eggert and Thomas Bauernhansl

Impact of return shipping insurance in live-streaming retailing

Yan Zhou, Xue Zhao, Shuai Liu and Feng Tao

Integrating returnable and disposable packaging to balance efficiency, resilience, and sustainability in automotive supply chains

Jesús García-Arca, Mar Vazquez-Noguerol, Borja Ponte and J. Carlos Prado-Prado

Enabling empowerment over exploitative specialization: The role of total productive maintenance in precarious work contexts

Maria Joao Coelho Guedes, Mateus do Rego Ferreira Lima, Elliot Bendoly, Pankaj Patel and Daniel Bachrach

Cash or upgrade? Trade-in and remanufacturing strategies in a dual-market e-platform supply chain

Kebing Chen, Hui Wang and Ginger Y. Ke

Scalable state change detection for stimulus-aware digital twins

Abhishek Tiwari and Vibhor Pandhare

Channel strategy to launch community group-buying channels for instant retail platforms

Chenchen Zhao, Jianghua Wu and Zepeng Wang

Strategic interactions of platform information sharing and supplier encroachment in a multi-tier supply chain

Nenggui Zhao, Jing Wang and Panpan Xia

A decision support system to dynamically align supplier portfolio management decisions and actions across levels and time horizons

Pamela Danese, Marco Formentini, Pietro Romano and Marco Boem

Strategic interactions and operational efficiency in supply chain networks: A game-theoretic network directional distance function approach

Sheng-Wei Lin

Research on China's new energy vehicles industry chain game under tariff uncertainty

Yanxin Liu, Haoyu Wang and Xin Cai

Unlocking the catastrophe mechanism in fresh produce E-commerce supply chain coalitions: An integration of stochastic evolutionary game and catastrophe theory

Xiaochao Wei and Yanfei Zhang

Resilient supplier selection and order allocation under disruption risk over a Wasserstein ambiguity

Xin Li, Xuan Vinh Doan and Juergen Branke

Disruption-resilient lot-sizing and scheduling using multimodal deep reinforcement learning and distributionally robust evaluation

Mohammad Asghari, Mohamad Y. Jaber, Cory Searcy and Hamid Afshari

Industrial internet platform–enabled supply chain low-carbon transformation: A two-stage evolutionary game approach

Xiang Li, Zibo Lin and Yu Cao

Competitive pricing and cooperation mode strategies on E-commerce platforms with reference price effect

Ningning Wang, Jing Li and Lin Wei

Profitability transparency in power-imbalanced supply chains: Higher retailer payoffs, weaker relationship continuation

Guy Barokas, Oded Ravid and Nelly Bart

Operational readiness for responsible technological transformation in textile SMEs: A conceptual framework and maturity model to support sustainable decision-making in production environments

Israel Naranjo, Rocio de la Torre, Llanos Cuenca and Andrés Boza

Volume 300, issue C, 2026

A two-stage robust optimization approach for resilient supplier selection and order allocation under disruption risks

Guyu Dai, Yang Zou and Renqian Zhang

Collaborative quality improvement in supply chains with recall risk: Evaluating cost- and revenue-sharing contracts

Amir Jafarzadeh, Salma Karray and Nader Azad

Coordinating supply chains with order smoothing and cooperative game theory

Geng Cui, Stephen M. Disney, Naoto Imura and Katsuhiro Nishinari

Manufacturer’s risk control strategies for price fluctuations with financial constraints

Jie Wang, Kang Fu, Benedict Jun Ma and Weili Xue

Reinforcement learning lens: Unlocking the power of information sharing to boost project-level supply chain resilience

Guofeng Ma, Lirong Quan, Tianyi Liu and Xinming Pan

An incentive- and policy-responsive model for formal-channel entry of retired EV batteries: A macro-micro framework with normalized reverse logistics scale

Zhonglin Ma, Chao Wang, Chenshuo Li and Cheng Zhao

Build or reconfigure? Capacity planning under regulatory and demand uncertainty with demand forecast updates in the pharmaceutical industry

Chung-Chi Hsieh and Keng-Tung Chang

An integrated scheduling model for single-machine systems considering fatigue dynamics, speed control, maintenance, and learning-based performance

M.N. Darghouth, A. Kolus and A.M. Attia

Evaluating the ecosystem facilitating agriculture technology adoption in emerging economies

Shiril Saju and Nishant Kumar Verma

Incentive contract design with endogenous information acquisition in a low-carbon supply chain

Yao Luo, Shuna Wang and Wei Xiao

Knowledge graph fusion with large language models for accurate, explainable manufacturing process planning

Danny Hoang, David Gorsich, Matthew P. Castanier and Farhad Imani

Untangling the impact of process innovation on supply chain resilience: the moderating roles of corporate social responsibility and digital technology adoption

Lingjia Li, Shuo Shan, Leran Li and Xingzhi Jia

When will too many lightning deals scorch performance? Operational perspectives from Amazon's product sales

Pingping Tang, Charles L. Munson and Zhezhu Wen

Artificial intelligence-enabled generative design for additive manufacturing inventory pooling: An economic and environmental sustainability analysis in aviation spare parts supply chain

Zeinab Farshadfar, Siavash H. Khajavi and Kari Tanskanen

Authority-enterprise equilibrium-based incentive strategy to address conflicts within emergency materials resilient manufacturing

Jiuping Xu, Yuhan Li, Chuandang Zhao, Jianglin Ma and Fangfang Yu

Collaboration in parcel locker networks—A cooperative game for the joint placement of lockers

Fabio Mercurio, Loe Schlicher, Sonja U.K. Rohmer and Tom Van Woensel

From efficiency tool to system enabler: An evolutionary study of AI-driven transformation in smart manufacturing systems

Weihong Xie, Juan Yu, Rongkang Chen, Zhongshun Li and Diwen Zheng

The interaction between national brand owner’s outsourcing strategy and retailer’s store brand encroachment strategy in the presence of supply uncertainty

Xiankun Peng and Yuting Pang

Customer-side governance in engineer-to-order procurement: Evidence from capital equipment projects

Nikolas Käkelä

Integrated job shop and transportation scheduling under time-of-use electricity pricing and human-robot interactions

Kader Sanogo, Malek Masmoudi, Abdelkader Mekhalef Benhafssa and Sahnoun, M’hammed

Supply chain selection for battery-swapping electric vehicle manufacturers under price-quality competition with battery-charging electric vehicle manufacturers

Yanlin Li, Lei Fang, Kannan Govindan, Baofeng Huo and Qiaoyun Yun

Horizontal collaboration in multi-firm, multi-echelon supply chain networks

Mohammadreza Hassani and Masoumeh Kazemi Zanjani

ESG uncertainty and carbon emission reduction: Evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms

Li Yin, Keying Wu, Dong Xu and Jing Dai

Adapting supply chains to climate change through climate innovation: A socio-technical systems perspective

Baofeng Zhang, Jianjun Lu, Dakuan Qiao and Jiawei Xu

Do female leaders foster circular economy: The role of operations and supply chain management factors

Sihui Li, Fu Jia, Xiaoyin Zheng and Yu Xiong

The new energy vehicle’s research and development competition with technology uncertainty under dual credit policy

Zhiying Tao, Jianbin Li, Jihong Zhang and Zhaohua Wang

The 1% problem: LLM orchestration for rare event detection in manufacturing supply chains

Justin Dang, Joshua Della Vedova and Yanyan Yang

Targeting strategy of pricing and service investment in two-sided capacity-sharing platforms under mixed network externalities

Longfei He, Xiao Zhang, Baofeng Huo, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama and Xiaohang Yue

Pricing decisions under black-box environments: An agent-based approach for competitive waste treatment systems

Junfei Hu and Zhe Tian

Integrated planning of production, predictive maintenance, and workforce training in smart factories

Benedikt Kern and Masoumeh Kazemi Zanjani

Should traditional brands embrace live streaming? Optimal pricing strategy in a context of product returns

Xiaoya Han, Linhao Dong and Li Hu

Adaptive robust optimization for sustainable assembly line design under product evolution

Tourandokht Karimi, S. Ehsan Hashemi-Petroodi and Simon Thevenin

Collaborative Social Responsibility as a signal: Mitigating CSR-washing through operational task reallocation

Siyi Wang, Menger Tu, Feng Yang and Manman Wang

Combating consumer distrust in remanufacturing: strategic certification and competitive choices in a closed-loop supply chain

Qiangfei Chai, Yiming Li and Xintong Chen

Operationalizing Quality-II in infrastructure engineer-to-order supply chain production systems: A configurational maturity framework

Peter E.D. Love, Jane Matthews, Weili Fang, Denis Leonard, Gavin Ford and Regis Signor