International Journal of Production Economics

1991 - 2026

Continuation of Engineering Costs and Production Economics.

Current editor(s): Stefan Minner

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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

Volume 296, issue C, 2026

Strategic return-exchange promotions with customer loss aversion in omnichannel operations

Chenchen Ge and Jianjun Zhu

How to prevent the contradiction in the allocation of carbon emission quota and energy quota? Evidence from a modified DEA model

Yaxian Wang, Yanxi Zhou, Tomas Baležentis and Dalia Streimikiene

ESG disclosure synergy mechanism between shipper and carrier under demand uncertainty

Na Li, Jiaguo Liu, Jian Li and Jihong Chen

Is pursuing multiple certifications beneficial for firms? A firm risk perspective

Kangkang Yu, Cheng Qian, Pavel Castka, Qiwen Huang and Qiuhuan Lin

COVID-19 and supply chain disruptions: A novel perspective using a network of payments in Brazil

Thiago Christiano Silva, Carlos Eduardo de Almeida and Benjamin Miranda Tabak

Exploring framing and spillover effects in sustainable logistics provider selection: Role of attentional biases

Anupama Prashar

Robust multi-manned mixed-model assembly line balancing with dynamic task assignment considering product mix uncertainty

S. Ehsan Hashemi Petroodi, Simon Thevenin, Sergey Kovalev and Alexandre Dolgui

Design of a trade-in and performance-based warranty considering time-varying covariates

Xin Wang, Yang Cai, Anshu Dai and Xun Zhang

Subsidization and service enhancement: Which benefits the two-sided platform?

Jie Wei and Xinru Zhang

Impacts of heterogeneous autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) on smart manufacturing

Sai-Ho Chung, Qing Zhang, Hoi-Lam Ma, Xin Wen and Yige Sun

Integrated decision of release and patch planning for warrantied smart products considering hardware–software interaction

Le Gao, Anshu Dai, Avinash Kumar Shrivastava, Zhen He and Shuguang He

Wholesale price confidentiality under demand uncertainty in competing supply chains

Chu Zhang and Junjie Wu

Partial reservation policy for cost-effective inventory management incorporating customer preferences

Jung Woo Baek

The Scheduled Joint Replenishment Problem

Miguel Chastre, Albert H. Schrotenboer, Christina Imdahl and Tom Van Woensel

LLM-enabled carbon emissions abatement in green production: Single or double hedging?

Jiangyu Tong, Yue Zhai and T.C.E. Cheng

Impact of power structure on probabilistic selling in supply chains

Mengying Zhang, Zihao Zhang, Zhennan Yuan and Huan Yu

Blockchain-embedded carbon emission allowance pledge financing: Resolving maturity mismatch with machine trust and collateral flexibility

Ting Yang, Chaoqun Ma, Xianhua Mi, Hui Li and Dongqing Chen

Incorporating human reliability analysis into project buffer management: A novel approach for enhancing project performance

Junguang Zhang, Xi Wang and Estrella Díaz

Performance evaluation of two-stage network systems with tradable intermediate measures: An application to China's steel industry

Junfei Chu, Yanhua Dong and Fangqing Wei

Modeling price regulation in pharmaceutical supply chains under panic buying during public health emergencies

Zhaofang Mao, Yueran Zhao, Yuqiong Jiang and Jie Miao

The art of sustainable supply chain management: Inspiring supplier behavior through managerial practices and justice

Li Cui, Ziyi Wang, Lin Wu, Lujie Chen and Chenho Chao

Digital twin-enabled nested Q-learning for multi-layer production planning and inventory control

Erickson Liang and Kuo-Hao Chang

Antecedents of hospital resilience: integrating resources, capabilities, and contingencies

Cristina De Luca, Roberta Pellegrino and Nunzia Carbonara

Data-driven lead time forecasting and promising for an online retail platform

Tengfei Zhang and Xiaoping Xu

Can artificial intelligence serve as an accelerator for carbon reduction in supply chains within China's manufacturing sector? — Evidence from the national new generation artificial intelligence innovation and development pilot zones

Jianhua Yin, Chunguang Zhou, Xiaotong Yan, JinZuo Kan and TianYu Dong

A three-tier framework for regulated closed-loop supply chains: Low carbon operations and climate change mitigation

Busra Bayrak, Tsan-Ming Choi, Shu Guo and Yue Chen

Decarbonisation and firm financial performance: The roles of supply chain transparency and resilience

Michael Wang, Yang Liu, Duanyang Geng, Manoj Dora and Alex Hill

Perceived influence structures of resilience capabilities in agri-food supply chains and the role of big data analytics: Insights from a fuzzy hybrid decision model

Alireza Asgari, Morteza Alaeddini, Philipp C. Sauer and Paul Reaidy

Human-Centric Order Batching and Allocation When Picking With Robot Teammates in the Warehouse

Xiaowei Li, Guowei Hua, T.C.E. Cheng and Shuai Liu

Bridging theory and practice in AI-driven supply chains: Prioritizing LLM adoption challenges and SCOR-based applications

Harshad Sonar, Nikhil Ghag and Isha Sharma