International Journal of Production Economics

1991 - 2026

Continuation of Engineering Costs and Production Economics.

Current editor(s): Stefan Minner

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Volume 298, issue C, 2026

Is more informative information better? Considering consumer returns under product fit uncertainty

Guiyang Zhu and Mabel C. Chou

Robust optimization of sustainable omnichannel closed-loop food supply chain network: Integrating blockchain, IoT, and biofuel production

Satyajit Bhunia, Soumen Kumar Das, Cheng-Hung Wu, Vincent F. Yu and Sankar Kumar Roy

Promoting virtual power plant investments: Energy vs. capacity subsidies

Jiageng Liu, Peng Zhou, Zhengjun Li and Lumiao Li

Adapting sales and operations planning to engineer-to-order complexity: a multifaceted information processing approach to managing uncertainty and equivocality

Hafez Shurrab and Patrik Jonsson

AttenMfg: An attention network based optimization framework for sensor-driven operations & maintenance in manufacturing systems

Iman Kazemian, Murat Yildirim and Paritosh Ramanan

Resilient and sustainable manufacturing supply chain design considering the synergy of resilience strategies under disruption uncertainties

Jingze Chen, Hongfeng Wang, Chee-Chong Teo and Junwei Wang

Fostering circular economy capabilities through digital- and circular-oriented strategies for boosting triple bottom line performance

Wantao Yu, Chee Yew Wong, Roberto Chavez, Mark A. Jacobs and Trevor Cadden

Buying on the upstream and downstream of the retailers: Market resilience, self-regulation, and heteronomy during a disaster

Jiuh-Biing Sheu, Hsin-Tsz Kuo and Thomas Choi

Joint optimization of opportunistic maintenance and repair channels assignment for continuous process manufacturing systems subject to stochastic durations and epistemic uncertainty

Zhaoxiang Chen, Zhen Chen, Di Zhou, Tangbin Xia and Ershun Pan

Economic policy uncertainty and global supply chain fragmentation: An importing country perspective

Yaxing He, Qing Zhu and Song Wang

Impact of carbon tariffs on multinational firm’s sourcing strategies

Xiang Li, Qiuyu Guo and Pengwen Hou

Credit linkage and resilience mechanism Differentiation: The dual pathways of commercial credit peer effects on organizational resilience in Chinese firms

Linjing Yang and Yunshu Tang

Retailers’ optimal ordering decisions under a doorstep exchange service: An economic order quantity model

Wenjie Zhao and Pengkun Wu

Does artificial intelligence enhance the circular bioeconomy's decarbonization potential? A quasi-experimental evidence

Jianxian Wu

Designing a circular supply chain network for electric vehicle batteries: An improved robust possibilistic programming approach

AmirMohammad Ahmadi Nezhad, S. Ali Torabi and Amir Ghasemi

Supplier financing for green transformation: When trade credit fails and energy performance contracts succeed under carbon regulation

Ruxia Lyu, Zhitang Li and Reza Zanjirani Farahani

Carbon deterministic decision-making for remanufacturing systems under uncertainty

Conghu Liu, Yu Cao, Xiqiang Xia, Huiying Mao, Cuixia Zhang, Guangdong Tian and Zhiwu Li

Do large language models enlarge demand? Optimal channel structures and multi-agency mode in online retailing

Shengan Yu, Mengdi Zhang, Xiaofan Wu, Zhiheng Zhao and George Q. Huang

A finite dominating set approach for the multi-item multi-period order allocation problem under all-unit quantity discounts and blending ratios

Fuhad Ahmed Opu, Moddassir Khan Nayeem, Hamid Najafzad and Omar Abbaas

Volume 297, issue C, 2026

Coordination between public and private health care providers in a dual-vaccine market

Fengjiao Chang, Chi To Ng, Feng Wu, T.C.E. Cheng, Fengtian Chang and Mingyao Sun

Unlocking the potential of blockchain in enterprise upgrading: Insights from resource orchestration theory

Qiang Lu, Wanfei Lu and Zheng Tao

Distributionally robust pre-positioning strategies for relief supplies with two ordering opportunities

Huali Sun and Chenxin Ma

Analytics for smarter planning of retail operations

Pedro Amorim, Fredrik Eng-Larsson and Alexander Hübner

Control of a production–inventory system optimized with LQR for dynamic demand management

Verónica Olvera, Cuauhtémoc Guerrero and Esther Segura

The effect of customer and supplier concentration on firm productivity: The moderating role of the firm's dominant position in the supply chain network

Jing Liang

Effective mitigation policies for disaster operations management in Manufacturing Closed Loop Supply Chains: Insights for transition from unknown-unknowns to known-unknowns

Efthymios Katsoras, Patroklos Georgiadis and Dimitrios Vlachos

Exploring AI adoption in manufacturing: An empirical study on effects of AI readiness

Heidi Heimberger, Djerdj Horvat, Angela Jäger and Frank Schultmann

Considering cost and convertibility during the design of reconfigurable manufacturing systems

Mari Chaikovskaia, Audrey Cerqueus and Alexandre Dolgui

Platform aggregation in two-sided markets

Yaoyao Ku, T.C. Edwin Cheng and Peng Wu

Corporate digital transformation and carbon mitigation: Chain effects and evidence from China

Xiujie Deng, Yuhan Huang, Wanting Fu and Xuedong Liang

Multi-agent reinforcement learning-based resilience reconfiguration approach of supply chain system-of-systems under disruption risks

Wei Ding, Zhenjun Ming, Guoxin Wang, Yan Yan and Deyi Zhang

Do green firms select and terminate supply chain partners based on sustainability criteria? International evidence

Yasir Shahab, Ammar Ali Gull, Muzhar Javed and Tanveer Ahsan

Navigating through STORMS: A review of supply chain resilience practices

Priyabrata Chowdhury, Booi H. Kam, Say Yen Teoh and Paul Childerhouse

Logistics service strategy under competing e-tailers: Sharing or not sharing?

Yanning Li, Lingchen Huang and Xiangfeng Chen

Towards fairness in multi-tier supply chains: Mechanisms of perception differences and pathways to alignment

Adegboyega Oyedijo, Ying Yang, Temidayo Akenroye, Tarik Saikouk and Tabish Zaman

Quantum group decision-making approach for green supplier selection featuring virtual character-involved consensus mechanism and interference effect

Zhuang Ma, Weimin Ma, KaiXin Gong, Hui Zhang and Yan Tu

Managerial beliefs and human-artificial intelligence collaboration in supply chain: A configurational perspective

Nagendra Kumar, Rajeev Ranjan Kumar and Alok Raj

Beyond substitution: How virtual representations stabilize operational paradoxes in new product development

Danilo Pesce, Gabriele Aimonino and Paolo Neirotti

Aged products spillover effect and the value of holding inventory under stochastic demand: the case of Port wine

Miguel Lunet, Marjolein Buisman, Fábio Neves-Moreira and Pedro Amorim

The impact of risk propagation on the robustness of R&D networks: A higher-order interaction perspective

Hui Liu, Die Shen, Chenhao Du, Jintao Lu, Min Guo and Jianhong Lin

How can firms leverage responsible artificial intelligence to build competitive advantages? The role of supply chain justice and complexity

Lixu Li, Ruitian Shi, Ruijie Zhang and Lujie Chen

Convey or conceal? How operations managers make sense of sharing knowledge in multi-plant networks

Maricela C. Arellano and Torbjørn Netland

Impact of supplier instability on supply chain financing: A social systems theory perspective

Ke Du, Fu Jia, Lujie Chen and Ying Yang

A novel resilience measurement model for supply chains based on risk propagation

Xiaoyan Gu, Yi Yang, Jun Li, Xingfen Wang, Jianping Li, Dengsheng Wu and Xin Long Xu

Recovering store brand supply from disruption: AI-LLMs-enabled procurement collaboration

Mengqi Liu, Rui Huang, Ke Liang and Huamin Wu

Deriving near-optimality conditions using approximation procedures for an inventory control system with lost sales

Ruud H. Teunter, M Zied Babai and Aris A. Syntetos

Enhancing supply chain resilience through digital twin-enabled risk management: The role of logistic service coordination and distribution network efficiency

Saumyaranjan Sahoo, Ashwani Kumar, Sachin Kumar Mangla and Ali Emrouznejad

Auction bidding when the cost is rising

Panos L. Lorentziadis

Sustainability assessment of express packaging products: An integrated model and a case study in China

Lijia Yang, Xianfeng Wu and Tianshuai Xie

Why one perspective is not enough: theory-data alignment for dyadic, triadic, and network studies in supply chain management

Andrea S. Patrucco, Laharish Guntuka, Prabhjot S. Mukandwal and Emel Aktas

Risk-averse RMS balancing and planning under uncertain demand and processing times

Feifeng Zheng, ChenChao Zhu, Huaxin Qiu and Ming Liu