Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

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Volume 105, issue C, 2026

Invest in African countries? Evaluation of risk based on the cloud model

Min An, Bo Qiu, Jiahao Zhang, Mingyue Teng and Shanshan Xie

Long-term workforce planning for home healthcare11This project was not funded. All the data used in the study is contained in the paper

Ding, Yanyue (Lillian) and Jonathan F. Bard

The quality of rural industry development: Conceptual connotation, logical construction and measurement evaluation

Di Su and Guogang Wang

Global agricultural carbon emission efficiency: Using machine learning techniques to reveal driving factors and forecast future trends

Wei Wang, Xiaodong Pei, Hongtao Jiang, Mumah Edwin and Yangfen Chen

Corruption risk indicators in public procurement: Definition and evaluation with organised crime data

Marianna Siino, Stefano Iezzi and Mario Gara

A biblio-ecological study on sustainable land planning research: Evidence from machine learning methods

Giovanna Morelli, Antonia Rosa Gurrieri, Carlo Drago, Andrea Gatto and Cosimo Magazzino

The role of corporate governance in shaping environmental performance: Exploring industry differences

Paolo Agnese, Francesca Romana Arduino, Emma Bruno and Giovanni Ferri

Responsible use of artificial intelligence and the mitigation of corporate greenwashing: The role of executive oversight

Na Jiang, Ge Wu, Weiyong Zou and Xiaodong Chen

Can forestry carbon sink pledge financing improve the quality of forest management?

Xiao Xu, Tao Pang, Hongjun Peng and Wenting Sun

Robot adoption and firm risk-taking: Evidence from China

Mingxue Xu and Xu Zhang

Quantity or efficiency? The impact of AI adoption on firm innovation: Evidence from Chinese listed companies

Huifang Cheng, Shengbin Lin and Chenxiang Hong

Does artificial intelligence bind labor market power? Evidence from listed manufacturing firms in China

Yanyan Gao and Li Wan

Convergence analysis of the tax burden and economic development in OECD countries: a causality analysis

Fernando Isla-Castillo, Ana Patricia Montes-Caparrós and José M. Domínguez-Martínez

How does generative artificial intelligence promote firms’ key core technological innovation?

Jun Liu, Junwei Chen, Ying Zhao, Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest and Melody C. Song

Pre-disaster reserve planning under multi-stakeholder collaboration: A two-phase strategic analysis

Yaling Li and Wenzhu Liao

Circular economy and waste management: A literature review in perishable supply chain management

Prafulla Kumar Manoharan, Sanjiv Kumar Tiwari and Vinay Sharma

How does digitalization affect the urban-rural income gap? A study using panel fsQCA and NCA in developing economies

Yulong Jie, Shuigen Hu, Siling Zhu and Jue Wang

A clustering framework proposal for defining neighborhood-scale dynamics: Evidence from São Paulo, Brazil

Aida Paula Pontes de Aquino, Emílio Bertholdo, Gabriel Maggio de Moraes and Karin Regina de Castro Marins

Corrigendum to “Dynamic interplay of sports, social, and economic factors in the English premier league: A network DEA approach” [SEPS 104 (2026) 102430]

Yixin He, Siwei Xiao, Marios Kremantzis, Aniekan Essien, Umair Tanveer, Ali Emrouznejad and Shamaila Ishaq

Preparing for a rainy day? The impact of firms' aging perception on AI innovation

Fei Hao, Min Ji, Sanfeng Zhang and Yuzhuo Qiu

Governing the long game: How can artificial intelligence help little giants achieve long-term value?

Jingkun Bai and Guimin Qu

Navigating barriers to GenAI adoption in public administration: A systematic evaluation and policy roadmap

Rajat Goyal, S.G. Deshmukh and Nomesh Bolia

Public funding and firm innovation: evidence from Germany

Emma Bruno, Rosalia Castellano and Gennaro Punzo

The impact of social and green territorial factors on energy poverty: a Capability Approach analysis for Italy

Chiara Grazini

Impact of robust decision strategies in the public sector on the profitability of plastic recycling

Jun Seop Lee and Byung Do Chung

Assessing anti-insurgency and religious violence mitigation policies using interval-valued Fermatean fuzzy hybrid group decision-making

Rajdip Mahajan, Abhijit Baidya, Pinki Majumder and Uttam Kumar Bera

Optimizing a new robust location-pricing problem in agricultural economy by customized bi-level algorithm

Yaxi Zhang and Yankui Liu

Optimization of food grain movement for the public distribution system: Case of a hilly region

Shallu Bhasin, Ankit Sood, Shivam Sharma, Priya Jacob and Nomesh Bolia

Marketing public policy in the digital age: Government strategies for effective new media engagement under marketing 4.0

Pei-Hsuan Tsai, Chih-Jou Chen and Yi-Sheng Lu

Exploring the sustainable fixed income market: A clustering-based approach with evidence from Italy and France

Giovanna Ferraro, Alessandro Ramponi and Saverio Storani

Green total factor productivity growth of China's agricultural sector: A new metafrontier biennial Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index

Fangqing Wei, Jiarui Wu, Qiong Xia and Feng Yang

Identifying and analyzing the behavioral structure of stakeholders involved in sugar beet cultivation and management of water resources in Lake Urmia

Seyed Reza Es'haghi, Hamid Karimi and Pouria Ataei

Breaking club barriers: Can artificial intelligence crack the collaborative innovation black hole among cities?

Qingfeng Luo

Machine learning models to measure the importance of Geopolitical Tensions on Trade

Costanza Bosone and Paolo Giudici

Stimulate synergistic efficiency of pollution-carbon Co-control in the digital era: The role of digital trade in cities

Fengxiu Zhou, Lei Li and Chien-Chiang Lee

A practical decision support tool for aerial coordinators in wildfires: Planning helicopter operations

Marta Rodríguez Barreiro, María José Ginzo Villamayor, Fernando Pérez Porras, María Luisa Carpente Rodríguez and Silvia María Lorenzo Freire

The impact of intelligent computing centers construction on urban new-quality productivity: An empirical study based on 287 prefecture-level cities in China

Chen Keyue and Wang Ximu

A sustainable assessment framework for cross-regional ecological governance: Integrating socio-ecological system and complex network approaches

Guangdong Wu, Yingjian Ren, Binxin Yang, Lei Sun, Jiawen Li and Rui Shi

How to assess national decarbonization policies? A dynamic framework for evaluating energy efficiency and CO2 emissions in OECD nations aligned with the SDGs

Hadi Shabanpour, Scott N. Lieske, David Wadley, Paul Dargusch and Reza Farzipoor Saen

Government subsidies and market competition in digital transformation of cultural and tourism enterprises: An evolutionary game theory and empirical study

Lina Sui and Xuening Wang

From data to decisions: A Need-Weighted optimization framework for evidence-based urban planning

Francisco Benita

Water as collateral, water as risk: Impact of environmental disruption and intangible risk on water right financing

Wenyi Zhang, Dawei Wang, Feng Yang and Chen Bi

Balancing profitability and resilience to earthquake-induced isolation: A multi-objective optimization for drone depot location

Yusuke Takahashi and Hiroki Takahashi

An empirical investigation of the trade-off between effectiveness and equity in resource allocation problems

Ohad Eisenhandler, Joachim Meyer and Michal Tzur

Best of both worlds? How does artificial intelligence foster inclusive growth in China

Ying Liu, Pengfei Song and Hongyun Huang

Assessing regional digitalization in Europe: A spatial composite index approach

Simone Mazzaferro, Alfredo Cartone, Paolo Postiglione and Andrea D'Isidoro

A dual-model EV closed-loop supply chain: Optimal strategy and policy analysis

Fan Wu, Gengzhao Zheng and Jinjun Tang

Emergency supply delivery planning for cooperation between GRV and UAV

Zhijie Sasha Dong, Wang Li, Wusheng Liu and Tianqi Gu

Balancing effectiveness and equity in the face of uncertainty: The case of humanitarian lateral transshipments

Reut Noham and Ohad Eisenhandler

Measuring the effectiveness of fiscal policy in multidimensional poverty reduction

Maria Emma Santos, Nora Lustig and Maximiliano Miranda-Zanetti

A two-stage stochastic approach to location, production, and inventory planning with demand uncertainty

Omar Boussouf, Amina Lamghari, Issmail El Hallaoui, Mayssoun Messaoudi and Nizar El Hachemi

Enhancing healthcare of remote regions: Optimizing mobile healthcare units planning with intermediate depots

Jiawei Shi, Jiliu Li and Zili Zhang

Towards sustainable and equitable accessibility for rural communities: An optimization model for an integrated passenger and freight transportation system with parcel lockers

Derya Parmaksız, M. Ali Ülkü, Bahareh Mansouri, Armağan Özbilge and Doğukan Toktaş

Socially responsible pharmaceutical supply chains for equitable access

Inês Duarte, Bruna Mota, Tânia Pinto-Varela, Ana Amaro, Samuel Moniz and Ana Paula Barbosa-Povoa

A bi-level decision framework for strategic planning in urban solid waste management

Krystel Rodríguez, José-Fernando Camacho-Vallejo, Rosa G. González-Ramírez and Juan G. Villegas

Digital-intelligent transformation and“Dual Improvement”of corporate green innovation quantity and quality: Evidence from China

Yiqing Zhou, Qiting Li, Jia Chen, Kengcheng Zheng and Baoliu Liu

Behind the screen: A comprehensive framework for digital work metrics and data integration

F. Demaria, A. Papana Dagiasis, M. Cavicchioli and T. Fabbri

Reverse supply chain recycling decisions via Pigovian theory: A value heterogeneity perspective

Xingwei Li, Yi Zhang and Junlin Zhu

The impact of AI technology collaboration network embeddedness on urban digital innovation resilience: A resource orchestration theory perspective

Neng Shen, Xiaofei Shang and Jingwen Zhou

A mathematical model of economic growth with transaction costs: Time-series evidence from the Italian Mezzogiorno

Rosa Ferrentino and Luca Vota

Sentiment analysis and NFT transaction dynamics

Giorgia Rivieccio, Giovanni De Luca and Tatiana Khvatova

Monitoring agency health: Utility elicitation of charitable agencies in a food bank network

Tanzid Hasnain, Irem Sengul Orgut and Julie Simmons Ivy

Environmental pressure measurement: A composite and discriminant approach

Tommaso Filì, Enrico Musso and Martina De Anna

Technological relatedness and innovation geography: A patent-based analysis beyond industrial districts

Alessio Bumbea, Giuseppe Espa, Annamaria Giuffrida and Andrea Mazzitelli

Wellbeing under formal and informal institutions: Envisioning barriers and drivers of digital service ecosystems in rural Italy

Edoardo Baradello, Rosanna Salvia, Roberta Pecoraro, Luca Salvati and Giovanni Quaranta

Planning for sustainability: A new data-driven index of environmental performance

Arianna Agosto, Alessandro Bitetto, Paola Cerchiello and Yana Kostiuk

Integrating food insecurity mapping and equitable resource allocation for foodbank redistribution in an end-to-end decision support framework

Fuzail Dawood and Jan H. van Vuuren

A comprehensive review of data envelopment analysis approach in agricultural production efficiency

Guo-liang Yang, Zhi-li Zhan and Fang-ping Shang

Mapping climate change awareness through spatial hierarchical clustering

Gianpaolo Zammarchi and Paolo Maranzano

Artificial intelligence and socio-economic transformation

Jun Liu and Shunfeng Song

A new distributional based indicator to measure energy poverty in Italy

Alfonso Carfora, Gloria Polinesi, Maria Cristina Recchioni, Francesca Mariani and Mariateresa Ciommi

Robust interactive and interpretable hierarchical PCA: Applications to crime data

Marco Tolla, Marco Riani, Paolo Mariani and Corrado Crocetta