Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

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Volume 94, issue C, 2024

A socio-economic and quality-oriented optimal fruit supply chain network design in a multi-market and multi-product environment: A real case study

Ahvan Javanmardan, Hêriş Golpîra and Vahid Baradaran

Socioeconomic inequalities in hospital access for prostate cancer before and after COVID-19

Jinglin Wen, Rita Santos, Luigi Siciliani and Andrew Proctor

Skills in online job ads: An analysis of Italian regions

Francesca Giambona, Adham Kahlawi, Lucia Buzzigoli, Laura Grassini and Cristina Martelli

The functional distance-based approach: An application on long-term Metropolitan Development

Francesca Fortuna, Alessia Naccarato and Luca Salvati

A neutrosophic WENSLO-ARLON model for measuring sustainable brand equity performance

Karahan Kara, Galip Cihan Yalçın, Elif Akagün Ergin, Vladimir Simic and Dragan Pamucar

Higher education or scientific research: Which one contributes more to China's green innovation?

Xiaoxiao Zhou, Mengyu Jia, Wenqing Li, Xin Zhao, Andrea Gatto and Xiaowei Ma

What can green finance do for high-quality agricultural development? Fresh insights from China

Xiao Yuan, Jinlong Zhang, Jing Shi and Jiachen Wang

Using machine learning for NEETs and sustainability studies: Determining best machine learning algorithms

Muhammet Berigel, Gizem Dilan Boztaş, Antonella Rocca and Gabriela Neagu

Availability simulation and transfer prediction for bike sharing systems based on discrete event simulation

Yu Zhou, Yang Chen, Shenyan Liu and Gang Kou

Export diversification dimensions and performance: Analysis and industrial policy insights from Italian territories over Covid-19 shocks

Elisa Barbieri, Luigi Capoani, Sebastiano Cattaruzzo and Giancarlo Corò

A dynamics model of the emergency medical supply chain in epidemic considering deprivation cost

Wenqiang Shi, Jie He, Mingyue Wang and Fang Yang

Shutting down to save lives: A regression discontinuity analysis of non-essential business closure

Alessio Gaggero, Ángela Mesa-Pedrazas and Ángel Fernández-Pérez

The more the better? How degree programs’ variety affects university students’ churn risk

Cristian Usala, Ilaria Primerano, Francesco Santelli and Giancarlo Ragozini

Political electoral cycles and evolution of Italian health care system financing. A long run perspective

Fabio Fiorillo and Stefano Lucarelli

Vulnerability of fresh agricultural products supply chain: Assessment, interrelationship analysis and control strategies

Manyi Yang, Shaojian Qu, Ying Ji and Dabo Abdoulrahaman

Water markets and water inequality: China's water rights trading pilot

Jichuan Sheng, Qian Cheng and Hongqiang Yang

Waste consumption of bio-degradable products through a secondary supply chain

Muhammad Waqas Iqbal, Asif Iqbal Malik and Muhammad Babar Ramzan

How to locate services optimizing redundancy: A comparative analysis of K-Covering Facility Location models

Edoardo Fadda, Daniele Manerba and Roberto Tadei

The effect of COVID-19 pandemic on the efficiency of training and research hospitals in Turkey

Bayram Şahin, Tuna Aybike Göktaş, Ferdane Betül Bölükbaşı and Feyza Şenay Ulaş

Evaluating the performance of intercity road freight transport: Double-frontier parallel network cross-efficiency model

S.S. Ganji, Erfan Babaee Tirkolaee and Rasul Jahed

Environmental performance evaluation in the forest sector: An extended stochastic data envelopment analysis approach

Alireza Amirteimoori, Asunur Cezar, Majid Zadmirzaei and Andres Susaeta

Supplier selection for emergency material based on group exponential TODIM method considering hesitant fuzzy linguistic set: A case study of China

Liyi Liu, Yan Tu, Wen Zhang and Wenjing Shen

New business model and local governance in supporting social and environmental solutions: A social network analysis to evaluate the Italian local action group's “Terra è Vita” role

Donato Morea, Mario Tani, Andrea Mazzitelli and Gianpaolo Basile

The effect of pricing policies on students’ use of university canteens

Lucio Masserini, Matilde Bini and Valentina Lorenzoni

Integrating technological and strategic analysis: Evaluating the key determinants of transportation sustainability in taipei Mass Rapid Transit using the Rough-Fermatean DEMATEL approach

Huai-Wei Lo, Tzu-Yi Fang and Sheng-Wei Lin

Evaluation of technology transfer performance for Chinese universities based on a dual-game cross-efficiency model

Xiaolei Chen, Zhongcheng Guan, Guoliang Yang, Hao Pan and Xi Xiong

Revisiting the critical success factors of entrepreneurship to promote Chinese agriculture systems: A multi-criteria decision-making approach

Yongming Tao, Farhan Muhammad Muneeb, Peter Fernandes Wanke, Yong Tan and Amir Karbassi Yazdi

How does circulation industry agglomeration help close the income gap between urban and rural areas? — Evidence from China

Fengyu Qi, Dong Guo, Yaping Xu, Xiaoxue Liu, Pengzhen Liu and Youzhi Xie

Sustainable or not sustainable pension fund: This is the question. The case of environmental social governance policies in the Italian pension system

Paolo Agnese, Francesco De Masi, Pasqualina Porretta and Fabrizio Santoboni

A cross-country analysis of decision-making factors influencing tourists’ shift towards circular destinations in EU-27

María del Mar Alonso-Almeida, Carlo Giglio and Gianpaolo Iazzolino

Paratransit services and socio-economic planning: A review uncovering critical insights and developmental pathways

Atanu Bhuyan and Vivek Roy

Impact of financial reform on urban resilience: Evidence from the financial reform pilot zones in China

Nana Jiang, Wei Jiang, Yanfei Wang and Jinning Zhang

Distributional effects of expressway access on rural entrepreneurial activities in China

Lin Xie, Shaozhuang Wang and Lingxiao Yan

Regional differences, dynamic evolution, and obstacle factors of cultivated land ecological security in China

Chien-Chiang Lee and Anqi Qian

Efficiency and benchmarks for photovoltaic power generation amid uncertain conditions

Yuya Nakamoto, Shogo Eguchi and Hirotaka Takayabu

Volume 93, issue C, 2024

Psycho-social conditions of urban communities in the complexity of waste management: Are awareness and waste banks the main solution?

Nining Indroyono Soesilo and Muhammad Alfarizi

Welfare maximization in stable sharing services

Pietro Salmaso

Resilience, efficiency fluctuations, and regional heterogeneity in disaster: An empirical study on logistics

Longfei Xue, Yeming Gong, Bingnan Yang and Xianhao Xu

How can sociological theories provide legitimacy to eco-efficiency evaluations? Embark on a journey toward understanding

Yuan Cui, Hao Pan, Yi-Di Huang and Guo-liang Yang

Digital dividend or divide: The digital economy and urban entrepreneurial activity

Xiaoyang Zhao and Zongyuan Weng

Urban expansion effects on real estate ecosystems: Identification and neutrosophic analysis of causal dynamics

Inês C. Correia, Fernando A.F. Ferreira, Constantin Zopounidis and Neuza C.M.Q.F. Ferreira

Inner areas matter: A place-sensitive approach for the identification of the Daily Life Spaces in the Italian Abruzzo region

Fabiano Compagnucci and Gabriele Morettini

Lives or livelihoods: A configurational perspective of COVID-19 policies

Jomon A. Paul, Xinfang Wang and Aniruddha Bagchi

Unlocking the potential of surplus food: A blockchain approach to enhance equitable distribution and address food insecurity in Italy

Mengting Yu, Ludovica Principato, Marco Formentini, Giovanni Mattia, Clara Cicatiello, Leonardo Capoccia and Luca Secondi

Evaluation of intercity road passenger transportation using a novel double-frontier game-regret-cross-efficiency

S.S. Ganji, Alireza Dehghani and Shahrouz Fathi Ajirlu

Competition, value-based prices and incentives to research personalised drugs

Laura Levaggi and Rosella Levaggi

A cooperative vehicle routing problem with delivery options for simultaneous pickup and delivery services in rural areas

Ruijuan Zhang, Ying Dai, Fei Yang and Zujun Ma

Exact and heuristic approaches for the Modal Shift Incentive Problem

Adriano Masone, Vittorio Marzano, Fulvio Simonelli and Claudio Sterle

Two-stage stochastic program for environmental resettlement decision-making

Buket Cilali, Kash Barker, Andrés D. González and Ahti Salo

Socio-economic determinants of pricing water for domestic use: A comparison of blocks and linear tariffs

Andrea Caravaggio, Luigi De Cesare and Andrea Di Liddo

Multi-directional Robust Benefit of the Doubt model: An application to the measurement of the quality of acute care services in OECD countries

Francesco Vidoli, E. Fusco, Giacomo Pignataro and Calogero Guccio

Evaluation of undergraduate academic programs through data envelopment analysis and time-to-degree estimates at Spanish public universities

Manuel Salas-Velasco

Securitization for common health

Francesco Ciardiello, Emilia Di Lorenzo, Massimiliano Menzietti and Marilena Sibillo

Insurance business and social sustainability: A proposal

Valeria D'Amato, Emilia Di Lorenzo, Gabriella Piscopo, Marilena Sibillo and Annarita Trotta

Large-scale school building infrastructure improvement: The case of the city of Cali, Colombia

Rafael Fernández, Andrés Calvo, Juan Francisco Correal, Dina D'Ayala and Andrés L. Medaglia

International capital flows and sustainable development goals: The role of governance and ICT diffusion

Sana Slimani, Anis Omri and Abdessalem Abbassi

Sustainable tourism in China: Visualization of low-carbon transitions at three tourist attractions across three occasions

Fang Hu, Thomas Li-Ping Tang, Yuanpeng Chen and Yubo Li

A comparative multidimensional evaluation of parameters and alternatives for transformation of sustainable cement production in Pakistan

Muhammad Khurram Ali, Alishba Nasir, Kainat Jamil Abbasi and Muhammad Sajid

The spatiotemporal trends of urban-rural green spaces and their heterogeneous relationships with population and economic vitality: Evidence from the Red River Delta, Vietnam

Quang Cuong Doan

The influence and spatial effects of high-speed railway construction on urban industrial upgrading: Based on an industrial transfer perspective

Kehan Shi and Jinfang Wang

Evaluating the nonlinear association between PM10 and emergency department visits

Andrea Bucci, Francesco Sanmarchi, Luca Santi and Davide Golinelli

A systematic review of operations research and management science modeling techniques in the study of higher education institutions

Aghdas Badiee, Mohammad Moshtari and Gemma Berenguer

The value relevance of voluntary disclosure through social media platforms: Evidence from European Union listed firms

Riccardo Macchioni, Martina Prisco and Claudia Zagaria

Assessing the performance of Peruvian education system from a governance perspective

Marco De la Cruz and Anna Mergoni

Social transfer policies and child poverty in European countries: Evaluating policy alternatives through a multiobjective programming model

Sandra González-Gallardo, Elena Barcena-Martin, Salvador Pérez-Moreno and Mariano Luque

A scientometrics-based journal Management framework: A strategic move

Vincenzo Basile, Shahryar Sorooshian and Lucia Pizzichini

Stochastic resource reallocation in two-stage production processes with undesirable outputs: An empirical study on the power industry

Alireza Amirteimoori, Reza Kazemi Matin and Amir Hossein Yadollahi

Fair and effective vaccine allocation during a pandemic

Güneş Erdoğan, Eda Yücel, Parinaz Kiavash and F. Sibel Salman

Global public good provision in emergency states: A model of (asymmetric) yardstick competition between rent-seeking governments

Giuseppe Di Liddo and Annalisa Vinella

Complex role of individual digital skills and eHealth policies in shaping health policy

Lucia Leporatti and Marcello Montefiori

Effectiveness and efficiency in access to reliable electricity: The case of East African countries

René Nsabimana, Sergio Perelman, Barnabé Walheer and Mbangala Mapapa

Enhancing hospital benchmarking: A multidimensional approach to quality assessment in Portugal

Alexandre Vilar Ricardo, Ana Sara Costa and José Rui Figueira

The expenditure composition and trade-offs in local government budgets

Panagiotis Iliopoulos and Kristof De Witte

Identifying and minimizing critical driving range thresholds for electric vehicles in intercity networks

Jiapei Li and Chi Xie

A new approach for measuring poverty or social exclusion reduction in European NUTS 2 regions

Alfredo Cartone, Luca Di Battista and Paolo Postiglione

Targeting the “poorest of the poor”: A multi-scale approach

Ligia Vizeu Barrozo, Mirela Barros Serafim, Lucas Antonio Cividanes Gomes, Gabriela Guimarães Uhrigshardt, Nathália Ferraz Alonso Martins, Thalita Ferreira de Oliveira, João Francisco Resende and Edson Amaro Junior

Digital divide, gender gap, and entrepreneurial orientation: How to foster technology adoption among Pakistani higher education students?

Cristian Barra, Mara Grimaldi, Amina Muazzam, Orlando Troisi and Anna Visvizi

Health insurance and height inequality: Evidence from European health insurance expansions

Joerg Baten, Alberto Batinti, Joan Costa-Font and Laura Radatz

The use of voluntary health insurance in the access to specialist care: Evidence from the Italian NHS

Elenka Brenna and Maria Daniela Giammanco

Mathematical programming-based heuristic for highway patrol drone scheduling problem

Shinwon Choi, Minseo Lee, Hyejin Park and Jinil Han

A multi-objective optimization model for planning emergency shelters after a tsunami

Christian Sotelo-Salas, Carlos A. Monardes-Concha, Francisco Pérez-Galarce and Rosemarie Santa González

Shades of grand corruption among allocative efficiency and institutional settings. The case of Italy

Saverio Di Giorno, Ivano Dileo and Francesco Busato

Quantyfing the impact of the water security index on socio-economic development in EU27

Monica Laura Zlati, Valentin-Marian Antohi, Romeo-Victor Ionescu, Catalina Iticescu and Lucian Puiu Georgescu

Alleviating loneliness during COVID-19: The impact of neighbor cohesion and social connections in England

Piera Bello, Cinzia Di Novi, Gianmaria Martini and Caterina Sturaro

Foreword for the special issue: “Decision-Making Models for Common Goods in Environmental, Health, and Logistics Contexts”

Michela Chessa, Francesco Ciardiello, Ricardo Martinez, Ana Meca and Riccardo D. Saulle