International Journal of Production Economics

1991 - 2026

Continuation of Engineering Costs and Production Economics.

Current editor(s): Stefan Minner

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Volume 299, issue C, 2026

Information fusion in consumer complaints: A LLM-Guided topic model for product quality improvement

Ling Yan, Chenghao Fan, Kening Liu, Linhan Ouyang and Yuanyuan Gao

Lead time distribution in a small manufacturing system with unreliable machines and finite buffers

Chuan Shi and Stanley B. Gershwin

Quality and contract design for platform brands under two-sided information asymmetry

Huaqing Hu, Shuxiao Sun, Gaoyan Lyu and Baofeng Huo

Closed-loop decision-making framework for electric vehicle battery recycling: Synchronizing reverse logistics network optimization with disassembly line design

Fuli Zhou, Menghan Zhu, Sunil Tiwari, Yandong He and Ming K. Lim

Nonlinear dynamics analysis and chaos control of price game among automobile manufacturers

Dan Zhao, Su-ya Jia, Wen-wu Li, Yi-meng Sun, He-ping Wang and Jin-huan Tang

Examining the link between supplier diversification and ESG practices: An opportunity-motivation-ability perspective

Jia Ren, Shuo Shan, Fuzhen Liu and Kee-hung Lai

Navigating the Trade-offs: The nonlinear effects of digital transformation on supply chain resilience through efficiency and transparency

Bingmei Gu and Yudan Kong

Navigating platformization tensions in manufacturing: An organizational ambidexterity perspective

Jacopo Manotti, Valeriia Skliarenko and Giorgio Locatelli

Deposit financing for capital-constrained electric vehicle manufacturer in the presence of default risk and information asymmetry

Chaorui Huang, Hoi-Lam Ma, Xin Wen, Song-Man Wu and Sai-Ho Chung

Multi-agent deep reinforcement learning for ordering and inventory allocation in a decentralized two-echelon dual-channel supply chain

Qiang Zhou, Yefei Yang, Fangfang Ma and T.C. Edwin Cheng

Persuading eco-conscious consumers by disclosing environmental quality information

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

Toward more efficient formal recycling of electric vehicle batteries: a choice-driven game-theoretic approach

Jing Lin, Xingjun Huang, Yun Lin, Feng Liu, Lin Zhou and Fuli Zhou

Unraveling cross docking: Operations performance, demand variation, and fulfillment mechanism

Yongrui Duan, Zhang, Xingyue (Luna), Yuliang Yao and Jiazhen Huo

Integrating large language models for data-driven adaptive decision support in floriculture production: Managing contextual heterogeneity

Claire Y.T. Chen, Edward W. Sun, Chloe Y.H. Huang and Siyuan Lu

Product return service and customer repurchase on the B2B platforms: The contingent roles of logistics capability and competition intensity

Jiaxin Du, Wei Wang, Meng Chen and Hefu Liu

Supply chain learning in the Australian food industry: the impact of digital transformation

Guilherme Luz Tortorella, Mohsin Malik, Andrea Trianni, Matthew Pepper, Roberto Vassolo, Fausto Garcia, Juan Pablo Cosentino and Diego Norena-Chavez

From support to marketization: Electricity–Carbon–Green certificate market coordination reshaping new electricity system under dual price-difference settlement mechanism

Cui Linyu, Wang Bangjun and Wang Yue

A blockchain-enabled circular economy framework for lifecycle optimization and incentivized recycling of solar panels

Amit Vishwakarma, Adolf Acquaye, Angappa Gunasekaran, Rohit Sharma and Masoud Khakdaman

Backward channel decentralization vs integration: Roles of market coverage and emission abatement under competition

Suzhen Liang, Adilson Borges, Junsong Bian, Yunchuan Liu and Xiaohang Yue

Predicting supplier sustainability performance: The importance of the supply network

Christian Wagner, Stephan M. Wagner and Christoph G. Schmidt

Integrated demand forecasting and reinforcement learning for order point optimization in inventory planning

Georg Schett, Claudia Ehrig, Benjamin Schwendinger, Ursula Neumann, Nico Beck, Florian Stadler and Fazel Ansari

A graph-based heuristic for the non-stationary stochastic lot-sizing problem under penalty costs

Xiyuan Ma, Roberto Rossi and Thomas Welsh Archibald

Advances in production economics: Insights, challenges, and future directions

Olga Battaïa, Hing Kai Chan and Kevin W. Li

Green manufacturing certification and outward foreign direct investment: A supply chain network capability perspective

Jianxin Wang, Jiating Xie and Fengkun Shi

Supply chain sorcery: A practical approach to measure and demystify performance-based contracts

David R. Nowicki, John M. Dickens and Wesley Randall

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