International Journal of Production Economics

1991 - 2025

Continuation of Engineering Costs and Production Economics.

Current editor(s): Stefan Minner

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Volume 130, issue 2, 2011

Affiliation/dissociation decision models in demand and capacity sharing collaborative network pp. 135-143

Sang Won Yoon and Shimon Y. Nof

Order assignment considering buyer, third-party logistics provider, and suppliers pp. 144-152

Hong Seng Woo and Soroosh Saghiri

Optimal algorithms for single-machine scheduling with rejection to minimize the makespan pp. 153-158

Lingfa Lu, C.T. Ng and Liqi Zhang

Firm and employee effects of an enterprise information system: Micro-econometric evidence pp. 159-168

Derek Jones, Panu Kalmi and Antti Kauhanen

Vendor-managed inventory in a global environment with exchange rate uncertainty pp. 169-174

Jun-Yeon Lee and Louie Ren

Game theoretic pricing and ordering decisions with partial lost sales in two-stage supply chains pp. 175-185

Cai, Gangshu (George), Wen-Chyuan Chiang and Xiangfeng Chen

More firms, more competition? The case of the fourth operator in France's mobile phone market pp. 186-195

Louis de Mesnard

Cost relationships in stochastic inventory systems: A simulation study of the (S, S-1, t=1) model pp. 196-202

Jack C. Hayya, Uttarayan Bagchi and Ranga Ramasesh

Dynamic group instantaneous replacement policies for unreliable Markovian service systems pp. 203-217

Gia-Shie Liu

Optimization of livestock feed blend by use of goal programming pp. 218-223

Zoran Babic and Tunjo Peric

Variable parameter and double sampling charts in the presence of correlation: The Markov chain approach pp. 224-229

Antonio Fernando Branco Costa and Marcela Aparecida Guerreiro Machado

Group scheduling and due date assignment on a single machine pp. 230-235

Shisheng Li, C.T. Ng and Jinjiang Yuan

The service-profit chain: An empirical analysis in high-contact service industries pp. 236-245

Rachel W.Y. Yee, Andy C.L. Yeung and T.C.E. Cheng

Applying multi-start simulated annealing to schedule a flowline manufacturing cell with sequence dependent family setup times pp. 246-254

Shih-Wei Lin, Kuo-Ching Ying, Chung-Cheng Lu and Jatinder N.D. Gupta

An empirical analysis on the influence of risk on relationships between handling of product returns and customer loyalty in E-commerce pp. 255-261

Ramakrishnan Ramanathan

Optimising age-replacement and extended non-renewing warranty policies in lifecycle costing pp. 262-267

Shaomin Wu and Phil Longhurst

Selecting the best clustering variables for grouping mass-customized products involving workers' learning pp. 268-276

Michel J. Anzanello and Flavio S. Fogliatto

Volume 130, issue 1, 2011

An organizational theoretic review of green supply chain management literature pp. 1-15

Joseph Sarkis, Qinghua Zhu and Kee-hung Lai

Which utilization and service level lead to the maximum EVA? pp. 16-26

Klaus Altendorfer and Herbert Jodlbauer

Optimal policy for a mixed production system with multiple OEM and OBM products pp. 27-32

Bin Zhang

The impact of ISO 9000 and EFQM on the use of flexible work practices pp. 33-42

Alberto Bayo-Moriones, Javier Merino-Díaz-de-Cerio, Sergio Antonio Escamilla-de-León and Rejina Mary Selvam

Supply chain flexibility, uncertainty and firm performance: An empirical analysis of German manufacturing firms pp. 43-53

Ulf Merschmann and Ulrich W. Thonemann

Industrial upgrading, exploitative innovations and explorative innovations pp. 54-65

Arash Azadegan and Stephan M. Wagner

Optimizing inventory policy for products with time-sensitive deteriorating rates in a multi-echelon supply chain pp. 66-76

Kung-Jeng Wang, Y.S. Lin and Jonas C.P. Yu

Multi-objective models for lot-sizing with supplier selection pp. 77-86

Jafar Rezaei and Mansoor Davoodi

Robust optimization models for the discrete time/cost trade-off problem pp. 87-95

Öncü HazIr, Erdal Erel and Yavuz Günalay

Reliability deployment in distributed manufacturing chains via closed-loop Six Sigma methodology pp. 96-103

Tongdan Jin, Balaji Janamanchi and Qianmei Feng

Returns with wholesale-price-discount contract in a newsvendor problem pp. 104-111

Jing Chen

The appropriateness of the poolability assumption for multiproduct technologies: Evidence from the English water and sewerage utilities pp. 112-117

Anna Bottasso, Maurizio Conti, Massimiliano Piacenz and Davide Vannoni

Economic production quantity model for randomly failing production process with minimal repair and imperfect maintenance pp. 118-124

Gwo-Liang Liao and Shey-Huei Sheu

A multi-objective dynamic scheduling approach using multiple attribute decision making in semiconductor manufacturing pp. 125-133

Shiqing Yao, Zhibin Jiang, Na Li, Huai Zhang and Na Geng

Volume 129, issue 2, 2011

Production flow analysis--Cases from manufacturing and service industry pp. 233-241

Ari-Pekka Hameri

Maximizing production rate and workload smoothing in assembly lines using particle swarm optimization pp. 242-250

Andreas C. Nearchou

Impact of lean manufacturing and environmental management on business performance: An empirical study of manufacturing firms pp. 251-261

Yang, Ma Ga (Mark), Paul Hong and Sachin B. Modi

Integration of financial statement analysis in the optimal design of supply chain networks under demand uncertainty pp. 262-276

Pantelis Longinidis and Michael C. Georgiadis

Supplier development and the relationship life-cycle pp. 277-283

Stephan M. Wagner

Role of forecast effort on supply chain profitability under various information sharing scenarios pp. 284-291

Xiaowei Zhu, Samar K. Mukhopadhyay and Xiaohang Yue

Market evaluations of dimensions of design quality pp. 292-301

Philippos I. Karipidis

Inventory management with advance supply information pp. 302-313

Mehmet Sekip Altug and Alp Muharremoglu

Modeling the effect of patient choice on the performance of open access scheduling pp. 314-327

Xiuli Qu and Jing Shi

Learning from suppliers in the aerospace industry pp. 328-337

Claudia Rebolledo and Jean Nollet

Electronic books: To "E" or not to "E"? A strategic analysis of distribution channel choices of publishers pp. 338-346

Guowei Hua, T.C.E. Cheng and Shouyang Wang

Volume 129, issue 1, 2011

Supplier selection and purchase problem with fixed cost and constrained order quantities under stochastic demand pp. 1-7

Ju-liang Zhang and Ming-yu Zhang

Optimum design of a new VSS-NP chart with adjusting sampling inspection pp. 8-13

Wenhui Zhou and Zhaotong Lian

A Pareto approach to multi-objective flexible job-shop scheduling problem using particle swarm optimization and local search pp. 14-22

Ghasem Moslehi and Mehdi Mahnam

Outsourcing versus joint venture from vendor's perspective pp. 23-31

Yongma Moon, Tao Yao and Bin Jiang

Integrated product specifications and productivity decision making in unreliable manufacturing systems pp. 32-42

A. Hajji, F. Mhada, A. Gharbi, R. Pellerin and R. Malhamé

Outsourcing and production scheduling for a two-stage flow shop pp. 43-50

Xiangtong Qi

Timing decisions of new product preannouncement and launch with competition pp. 51-64

Meng Su and Vithala Rao

Inventory decisions for substitutable products with stock-dependent demand pp. 65-78

Euthemia Stavrulaki

Due date assignment in repetitive projects pp. 79-85

Amir Azaron, Brian Fynes and Mohammad Modarres

A Markov model of liquidity effects in reverse logistics processes: The effects of random volume and passage pp. 86-101

William Wilcox, Philip A. Horvath, Stanley E. Griffis and Chad W. Autry

On a general periodic preventive maintenance policy incorporating warranty contracts and system ageing losses pp. 102-110

Jun Wu, Min Xie and Tsan Sheng Adam Ng

Capacity flexibility allocation in an outsourced supply chain with reservation pp. 111-118

Y. Boulaksil, M. Grunow and J.C. Fransoo

Meta-standards, financial performance and senior executive compensation in China: An institutional perspective pp. 119-126

Chris K.Y. Lo, Andy C.L. Yeung and T.C. Edwin Cheng

Simulation modeling and analysis of due-date assignment methods and scheduling decision rules in a dynamic job shop production system pp. 127-146

V. Vinod and R. Sridharan

A tabu search algorithm for the relocation problem in a warehousing system pp. 147-156

Lu Chen, André Langevin and Diane Riopel

A survey of the application of fuzzy set theory in production and operations management: 1998-2009 pp. 157-168

Bo K. Wong and Vincent S. Lai

Analysis of the newsboy problem with fuzzy demands and incremental discounts pp. 169-177

Shih-Pin Chen and Yann-Horng Ho

An efficient heuristic for medium-term planning in shampoo production pp. 178-185

Cédric Mocquillon, Christophe Lenté and Vincent T'Kindt

On delineating supply chain cash flow under collectionrisk pp. 186-194

Chih-Yang Tsai

Short life-cycle deteriorating product remanufacturing in a green supply chain inventory control system pp. 195-203

Chun-Jen Chung and Hui-Ming Wee

Supply chain focus dependent supplier selection problem pp. 204-216

Gangaraju Vanteddu, Ratna Babu Chinnam and Oleg Gushikin

The effect of advertising on the distribution-free newsboy problem pp. 217-224

Chih-Ming Lee and Shu-Lu Hsu

A queueing-inventory system with two classes of customers pp. 225-231

Ning Zhao and Zhaotong Lian