International Journal of Production Economics

1991 - 2026

Continuation of Engineering Costs and Production Economics.

Current editor(s): Stefan Minner

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Volume 295, issue C, 2026

Role of artificial intelligence in financial leasing: Assessing bias and real-time value

Wenyi Zhang, Feng Yang, Ziming Wang, Chen Bi and Dawei Wang

Involving suppliers in a low-carbon supply chain: The role of symbolic awards

Junjun Liu, Yuxiao Chen and Qinghua Zhu

Financing capital-constrained manufacturers: The impact of credit rating under carbon trading

Tianyu Cheng, Wenli Wang and Jin Xiao

When does food become surplus? A game theoretical model for philanthropic partnerships in food supply chains

Sinan Salman, Suzan Alaswad, Imen Nouira and Ramzi Hammami

Hybrid MILP-deep reinforcement learning approach for reusable container flows in the automotive industry

Eduardo Guzmán, Beatriz Andrés and Raúl Poler

Side by Side or “Get Out of My Way!”—Examining the Impact of Picker Blocking and AGV Assistance in Picker-to-Parts Order-Picking Systems

Jonas Koreis and Matthias Klumpp

Automation, augmentation, or dual AI strategies for superior product line performance: the functional subsidiarity challenge

Yancy Vaillant, Esteban Lafuente and Ferran Vendrell-Herrero

When to use large language models for digital manufacturing in supply chains?

Bing Qing Tan, Kai Kang and Ray Y. Zhong

Business optimization for digital manufacturing: A fine-tuned large language model approach

Pivithuru Thejan Amarasinghe, Su Nguyen, Yuan Sun, Arisian, Sobhan (Sean) and Damminda Alahakoon

Optimal fulfillment and transshipment strategies in omnichannel retailing with cross-channel returns

Yuchi Guo and Armagan Bayram

Is it wise for cross-border e-commerce platforms to bear estimated imported charges on behalf of consumers?

Huiling Song, Xinwei Dong, Mingwu Liu, Bo Xiang and Qinxia Chen

Greener to Share? Green logistics service sharing decision at the E-commerce platform

Yixuan Feng, Jia Song, Yongrui Duan and Jiazhen Huo

The sustainable reverse inventory-routing problem with time windows and simultaneous pickup and delivery

Chaima Zormati, Tarik Chargui, Abdelghani Bekrar and Abdessamad Ait El Cadi

Facilitation mechanisms for supply chain resilience-oriented inputs: a digitalization and enterprise alliance based perspective

Gang Tian, Ziying Chen, Ziyi Xia, Hasnain Abbas and Weihua Liu

Towards a post-irrevocable payment undertaking era: Dynamic credit limits in supply chain finance

George Shapiro, Volodymyr Babich and David Wuttke

Collaborative information and capacity sharing: Strategies for managing uncertain demand with competitors

Jianghua Wu, Luyao Li and Yuhong He

Orchestrating blockchain for sustainability-oriented supply chains: Empirically exploring the strategic role of technology providers in emerging countries

Elhoussaine Wahyana, Lamiae Benhayoun and Néstor Fabián Ayala

Operation and maintenance of digital platform network ecosystems: A digital integration-enabling mechanism

Qian Xue, Juan He and Xianglin Jiang

Integrating generative artificial intelligence into the smart device ecosystem

Bin Shen, Yiwen Sun and Jianing Zhang

How does city-level differentiated pricing improve electric vehicle battery recycling efficiency? Evidence from dual-price signals of China

Zhonglin Ma, Chao Wang and Guida Xu

A new solution for sustainable manufacturing: The dynamics of digital twins and carbon futures under emission reduction targets

Jianhua Xiao, Junning Li, Siyuan Ma, Shuyi Wang and George Q. Huang

Why and how do corporate lean programs change? A punctuated equilibrium perspective

Torbjørn Netland, Mark Grothkopp, Matteo Rossini, Thomas Friedli and Alberto Portioli Staudacher

Green fuzzy scheduling approach of hydraulic cylinder manufacturing workshop based on nonlinear grey wolf optimizer incorporating simulated annealing

Xixing Li, Yongjun Ma, Rui Wu, Hongtao Tang and Yibing Li

Blockchain-enabled green Loans: Mitigating greenwashing through inventory and emission signaling

Xia Bing, Li Jian and Ma Qi

Live-streaming encroachment and blockchain resistance in online retail channels

Jialuo Wang, Changhong Li and Yifan Shi

Volume 294, issue C, 2026

Towards sustainable development: ESG incentive effect of China's Intelligent Manufacturing Pilot Demonstration Policy

Shuangcheng Luo, Qi Kang, Qiulan Qian, Jie Cheng and Zhiqiao Xiong

Exploring the impact of blockchain technology adoption on sustainable supply chain performance

Fakhar Shahzad, Younes Ben Zaied, Qingyu Zhang and Ming-Lang Tseng

The impact of design rework on engineer-to-order lead-time dynamics

Yuxuan Zhou, Mohamed Naim, Jonathan Gosling and Xun Wang

The impact of global value chain embeddedness on decarbonization in sunset industries

Xiongfeng Pan, Cong Zhen, Sachin Kumar Mangla, Shivam Gupta, Imran Ali and Malin Song

Industry 4.0 digital technologies and international performance: The role of family management in Italian firms

Paolo Neirotti, Andrea Ricci and Matteo Tubiana

Performance measures of industrial symbiosis with inventory

Vito Albino, Luca Fraccascia and Devrim Murat Yazan

Enhancing intellectual property identification and valuation in manufacturing through digital twins

Marcos Eduardo Kauffman, Marcelo Negri Soares, Tengfei Long, Lara Harris, Jarbas Rodrigues Gomes Cugula, Welington Junior Jorge Mazato and Kathy Zhang

Blockchain-enabled predictive digital twin approach for healthcare: Enhancing accuracy and performance with federated learning

Marco Repetto, Cinzia Colapinto, Raja Jayaraman, Francesco Appio and Davide La Torre

Coordination of a dual-channel e-commerce platform supply chain with fairness concerns and financial constraints

Xiaohu Qian, Min Huang, Mingqiang Yin, Jiahua Zhang and Yunxia Li

Loss leader strategy in the live streaming considering cross-product and cross-channel spillover effects

Jia Song, Yiting He and Yongrui Duan

Dual-fairness optimization for supply chain profit and emissions reduction distribution under carbon cap-sharing mechanism

Chang Lyu and Songsong Liu

A data-driven Component Risk Matrix to assess supply chain disruption risk

Thomas De Backker, Anouck Vercammen and Robert Boute

Online platform-based reverse logistics network design for mobile phones with resilience capability: Stochastic programming and Benders decomposition

Yong Liu, Weidong Chen and Junyuan Qiu

Unveiling dynamics in agricultural supply chain: A transformer-enhanced framework for commodity price modeling

Zelong Yi, Zhuomin Liang, Tongtong Xie, Yelin Fu and Yun Liu

Product line design in the presence of generative AI technology

Yu Jiang and Wei Lu

Managers' perception of supply chain risk and total factor productivity of enterprises: Opportunity-seeking or loss-aversive?

Zhaohui Zhu, Longchao Huang and Wensheng Huang

Impact of carbon quota allocation on outsourced remanufacturing supply chain: Designing a coordination mechanism

Xiqiang Xia, Jun Chen and Kannan Govindan

Unfolding AI’s strategic role in humanitarian supply chains: A fuzzy cognitive model aligned with SCOR-oriented performance and policy roadmapping

Behzad Masoomi, Maryam Radman and Majid Rafiee

Spatial evolution and influencing factors of new retail supply chain networks: Freshippo case study

Ershen Zhang, Guoen Wang, Pengliang Hu and Yajuan Zhou

Supply chain structure and blockchain deployment strategies in competing supply chains

Tingting Wang, Shan Chang, Guoping Hu and Victor Shi

From networked control systems to supply chain cyber-security: A redundant channel approach for FDIA mitigation

Yi Yang

Decision models for on-premises parcel lockers service revenue management

Seyed Sina Mohri, Hadi Ghaderi, Reza Zanjirani Farahani, Neema Nassir and Russell G. Thompson

The impact of financialization on firm resilience: A supply chain perspective

Yinan Qi and Fei Liu

Return policy selection and blockchain technology adoption decision in a supply chain with quality information disclosure

Haijiao Li, Ye Yao and Guoqing Zhang

Effect of BOPS implementation for omnichannel retailing with contingent free shipping policy

Ning Li