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Volume 355, month 12, 2025

Operations research applications in climate change and green transformation: technological innovation, institutional power, and sustainable supply chain governance pp. 1-18

Malin Song, Sachin Kumar Mangla, Alessio Ishizaka, Konstantinos P. Tsagarakis and Zhensheng Li

Life cycle assessment of car energy transformation: evidence from China pp. 19-38

Lei Li, Chunlin Yue, Shaojun Ma, Xiaoyu Ma, Feng Gao, Yilin Zheng and Xiufeng Li

Explore the environmental benefits of new energy vehicles: evidence from China pp. 39-58

Chi-Wei Su, Xi Yuan, Xuefeng Shao and Nicoleta-Claudia Moldovan

Examining the causal factors of the electric vehicle adoption: a pathway to tackle climate change in resource-constrained environment pp. 59-85

Harshad Sonar, H M Belal, Cyril Foropon, Ramkrishna Manatkar and Vandana Sonwaney

Pricing and green investment strategies for electric vehicle supply chain in a competitive market under different channel leadership pp. 87-122

Ziaul Haq Adnan, Kaustov Chakraborty, Surajit Bag and Jy S. Wu

Can subsidies promote electric vehicles’ sustainable development? A general equilibrium perspective on substituting enterprises for government pp. 123-146

Linling Zhang, Shuangqun Li, Xiu Cheng and Jichao Geng

Exploring drivers of eco-innovation in manufacturing firms’ circular economy transition: an awareness, motivation, capability perspective pp. 147-182

Zhenyuan Liu, Shuihua Han, Meiqi Yao, Shivam Gupta and Issam Laguir

The green innovation effect of the city’s green supply chain pilot: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment pp. 183-209

Shulin Xu, Feimei Liao and Yinghao Sun

Evaluating circular economy and smart technology adoption barriers in the Indian textile and apparel industries using neutrosophic ISM pp. 211-251

Vishwas Dohale, Priya Ambilkar, Vijay Bilolikar, Balkrishna Eknath Narkhede, Ashwani Kumar and Anil Kumar

Barriers for adoption of green supply chain management in cement industry: an interpretive structural modelling (ISM) approach pp. 253-286

Varun Chotia, Swati Soni, Girish Jain and Armando Papa

Low carbon policy: a green agriculture supply chain perspective pp. 287-319

Jiaxiang Zhu, Yangyan Shi, Yong Wu and V. G. Venkatesh

A three-stage game model of plastic circular supply chain management in the context of cap-and-trade and plastic packaging regulations pp. 321-354

Yuxiao Chen and Qinghua Zhu

Integrated fuzzy total interpretive structural modeling and partial least squares structural equation modeling to understand resource efficient circular supply chains pp. 355-389

Sanjeeb Roy, Syed Mithun Ali and Mohammad Alghababsheh

Environmental efficiency evaluation of China’s coal-fired electricity supply chain enterprises with large-scale datasets: an enhanced build hull algorithm pp. 391-418

Jie Wu, Chao-Chao Zhang, Jun-Fei Chu, Guang-Cheng Xu and Ying-Hao Pan

Sustainability measurement of combined cycle power plants: a novel fuzzy network data envelopment analysis model pp. 419-459

Mohammad Tavassoli and Reza Farzipoor Saen

Synergy level measurement and optimization models for the supply-transmission-demand-storage system for renewable energy pp. 461-497

Shiwei Yu, Limin You, Shuangshuang Zhou and Juan Yang

Effectiveness of production-oriented carbon reduction projects: evidence from the top 1000 energy-consuming enterprises program pp. 499-536

Shuai Shao, Le Xu, Lili Yang and Dianfan Yu

Does implementation of a environmental protection tax reduce energy consumption: evidence from China pp. 537-553

Xing Li, Shulin Xu and Yunjun Xiong

An advanced data analytic approach for reallocating green gas emissions in cap-and-trade context pp. 555-578

Reza Farzipoor Saen, Zohreh Moghaddas and Majid Azadi

Why is efficiency improvement ineffective in alleviating energy poverty? The nonnegligible rebound effect pp. 579-598

Penghu Zhu and Boqiang Lin

Is enhanced information and communication technology efficiency a powerful weapon for carbon unlocking? The case of China pp. 599-625

Congyu Zhao, Kangyin Dong and Xiucheng Dong

Multi-period electricity distribution network investment planning under demand coincidence in the smart grid pp. 627-650

Lenard Rüde, Gunther Gust and Dirk Neumann

A multi-objective model for the assessment of potential environmental risk using big data covering air quality pp. 651-666

Yinghao Pan, Zhixiang Zhou and Jie Wu

Renewable energy technology adoption in building a sustainable circular supply chain and managing renewable energy-related risk pp. 667-692

Rahul Mishra, Rakesh D. Raut, Mukesh Kumar, B. Koteswara Rao Naik and Sunil Luthra

Solar events and the US energy sector: a novel sectoral spillover GVAR approach introducing indirect GIRFs (IGIRF) pp. 693-719

Theodoros Daglis, Konstantinos N. Konstantakis, Panos Xidonas, Panayotis G. Michaelides and Constantin Zopounidis

Evaluating Energy Security using Choquet Integral: analysis in the southern E.U. countries pp. 721-763

Amelia Bilbao-Terol, Verónica Cañal-Fernández and Carmen Gónzalez-Pérez

Examining the avenues of sustainability in resources and digital blockchains backed currencies: evidence from energy metals and cryptocurrencies pp. 765-782

Sitara Karim, Muhammad Abubakr Naeem, Aviral Kumar Tiwari and Sania Ashraf

Integrating social sustainability into supplier evaluation using data envelopment analysis pp. 783-803

Sharma Aashi and R. Rajesh

A joint sustainable order-packing vehicle routing optimisation for the cold chain e-fulfilment pp. 805-828

Y. P. Tsang, Haoran Ma, K. H. Tan and C. K. M. Lee

Unlocking circular business model avenues to achieve net-zero emissions: a model-driven approach grounded on inter-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets pp. 829-866

Somesh Agrawal, Mohit Tyagi, Sachin Kumar Mangla and R. K. Garg

The greenwash era is over, now performance matters: a Z-Number analysis of critical success factors and performance outcomes to achieve resource efficient digital circular supply chain management practices pp. 867-899

Naveen Virmani, Vaishali Agarwal, Anil Kumar and Sunil Luthra

How Does Digital Intelligence Technology Enhance Supply Chain Resilience? Sustainable Framework and Agenda pp. 901-923

Huamin Wu, Guo Li and Hong Zheng

Analyzing sustainability risks associated with blockchain technology implementation in the sustainable supply chain of construction industry: a fuzzy-based MCDM approach pp. 925-950

Zhenjing Gu, Muhammad Irfan, Atul Kumar Singh, H. K. Ramaraju, Saeed Reza Mohandes and Yunpeng Guan

Improving triple bottom line (TBL) performance: analyzing impacts of industry 4.0, lean six sigma and circular supply chain management pp. 951-982

Saumyaranjan Sahoo and Arvind Upadhyay

Sustainable healthcare supply chains with telemedicine: price and service rate decisions pp. 983-1013

Xinmou Zhang, Yuanzhao Tang, Sandun C. Perera, Jian-Jun Wang and Tao Cai

Sustainable farming practices adoption in agriculture supply chain: the role of indirect support versus cost subsidy pp. 1015-1040

Mohit Ray, Ajit Pratap Singh and Suresh Kumar Jakhar

Examining the path of urban–rural industry convergence and its impacts on farmers’ income growth: evidence from Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China pp. 1041-1067

Keqiao Su, Ruixue Wang, Ze Han, Jiancheng Chen and Xiangzheng Deng

The effects of different fairness reference points on supply chain members' collaborative innovation pp. 1069-1098

Huimin Liu, Hui Hao, Zengqing Wei, Jingyun Su, Yaping Qu and Bangzhu Zhu

Sustainable infrastructure, energy projects, and economic growth: mediating role of sustainable supply chain management pp. 1099-1130

Shahid Mahmood, Pooja Misra, Huaping Sun, Adeel Luqman and Armando Papa

Multi-objective home healthcare routing and scheduling problem based on sustainability and “physician–patient” satisfaction pp. 1131-1173

Gang Du and Wendi Li

Suboptimal food products in Indonesia: a sustainable consumption behavior choice experiment and unveiling the attributes with a causality approach pp. 1175-1221

Chih-Cheng Chen, Faradilah Hanum, Tat-Dat Bui, Ming K. Lim and Ming-Lang Tseng

Green technology opening, imitation, and investment: firms’ strategic technology choices in competitive markets pp. 1223-1269

Shaofu Du, Chenyang Gou and Wenzhi Tang

How religious norms influence firms’ environmental innovation? Evidence from China pp. 1271-1291

Zhongju Liao, Xiufan Zhang and Yufei Wang

Sustainable supply chain innovation pathways in the context of digitalization and the circular economy: an operations research approach pp. 1293-1311

Malin Song, Sachin Kumar Mangla, Alessio Ishizaka, Konstantinos P. Tsagarakis and Weiliang Tao

Machine learning-based mathematical model for drugs and equipment resilient supply chain using blockchain pp. 1313-1387

Sachin Yadav and Surya Prakash Singh

Equilibrium in platform service supply chain network with quality and innovation considering digital economy pp. 1389-1418

Yongtao Peng, Bohai Chen and Chien-Chiang Lee

Sustainable successes in third-party food delivery operations in the digital platform era pp. 1419-1455

Hau-Ling Chan, Ting-Ting Cheung, Tsan-Ming Choi and Jiuh-Biing Sheu

Flexible supply-demand matching mechanism for C2B crowdsourcing logistics platforms with heterogeneous environment-inclined merchants pp. 1457-1481

Shanyong Wang, Shiqiang Li, Haonan He and Qi Zhou

Digitalization drives green transformation of supply chains: a two-stage evolutionary game analysis pp. 1483-1502

Wei Fan, Xinhang Wu and Qizhi He

Exploration of applications with ChatGPT for green supply chain management pp. 1503-1536

Linjiang Zhou, Xiaochuan Shi, Zepeng Wang, Chao Ma and Lihua Gao

Small and medium-sized enterprises as technology innovation intermediaries in sustainable business ecosystem: interplay between AI adoption, low carbon management and resilience pp. 1537-1586

Mélanie Roux, Soumyadeb Chowdhury, Prasanta Kumar Dey, Emilia Vann Yaroson, Vijay Pereira and Amelie Abadie

Data-driven decadal climate forecasting using Wasserstein time-series generative adversarial networks pp. 1587-1605

Ahmed Bouteska, Marco Lavazza Seranto, Petr Hajek and Mohammad Zoynul Abedin

Causality of total resource management in circular supply chain implementation under uncertainty: a context of textile industry in Indonesia pp. 1607-1647

Tat-Dat Bui, Jiun-Wei Tseng, Hania Aminah, Jovi Sulistiawan, Mohd Helmi Ali and Ming-Lang Tseng

Building risk mitigation strategies for circularity adoption in Indian textile supply chains pp. 1649-1684

Ashutosh Mishra, Gunjan Soni, Bharti Ramtiyal, Mayank Dhaundiyal, Aalok Kumar and P. R. S. Sarma

Causality of circular supply chain management in small and medium-sized enterprises using qualitative information: a waste management practices approach in Indonesia pp. 1685-1726

Ming-Lang Tseng, Shu-Xian Li, Ming K. Lim, Tat-Dat Bui, Muhamat Ridho Yuliyanto and Mohammad Iranmanesh

Analysing product attributes of refurbished laptops based on customer reviews and ratings: machine learning approach to circular consumption pp. 1727-1749

Animesh Ghosh, Devanshu Pathak, Prabha Bhola, Debraj Bhattacharjee and Uthayasankar Sivarajah

Barriers to product return in a circular supply chain: a case from a retailing industry pp. 1751-1785

Seyed Hamid Hashemi Petrudi and Hojatallah Sharifpour Arabi

Assessing the potential of plastic waste management in the circular economy: a longitudinal case study in an emerging economy pp. 1787-1809

Samuel Fosso Wamba, Muriel Fotso, Elaine Mosconi and Junwu Chai

Hybrid combinatorial remanufacturing for PCB-based products in reversed supply chain pp. 1811-1849

You Shang, Sijie Li, Xin Yan and Yiwen Bian

Closed-loop supply chain decisions considering carbon tax policy under the recycler’s risk aversion pp. 1851-1876

Bengang Gong, Zihao Li, Jinshi Cheng and Xiaoqi Zhang

Advancing circular supply chain management in the steel industry: an RFID-enabled blockchain framework for sustainability pp. 1877-1903

Sandip Rakshit, Nazrul Islam and Tripti Paul

Differential game analysis of recycling mode and power structure in a low-carbon closed-loop supply chain considering altruism and government’s compound subsidy pp. 1905-1955

Ziyuan Zhang and Liying Yu

Optimal strategy for secondary use of spent electric vehicle batteries: sell, lease, or both pp. 1957-1987

Fangbing Liu, Jizi Li, Justin Z. Zhang, Zeping Tong and João Ferreira

Dual-objective optimization of a green closed-loop supply chain in steel industry considering quantity discount pp. 1989-2015

Xiongfeng Pan and Shucen Guo

Assessing the impact of EU policies on recycling supply chain: a system dynamics perspective on advancing packaging recycling capacity pp. 2017-2069

Tiep Nguyen, Truong Van Nguyen, Li Zhou, Quang Huy Duong and Petros Ieromonachou

Game model of transnational green supply chain management considering government subsidies pp. 2071-2092

Su Yi and Guo Wen

Pricing policies for green energy-saving product adoption and government subsidy pp. 2093-2123

Danyang Xu, Jiancai Wang, Wenhui Zhao and Xiang Zhang

Dynamic decision-making for carbon emission reduction in the electricity supply chain under different allowance allocation schemes pp. 2125-2169

Qianjiao Xie, Debin Fang and Menglan Li

Reducing supply chain carbon emissions in consideration of energy service companies under the cap-and-trade mechanism pp. 2171-2198

Jiasen Sun, Pengpeng Yuan and Guo Li

Consumer environmental preference information sharing with green manufacturer’s short video platform-selling pp. 2199-2221

Wei Lu, Jie Wu and Xiang Ji

Multi-tank joint replenishment problem with overlapping time windows in refined oil distribution pp. 2223-2252

Xiaofeng Xu, Ziru Lin, Wei Zhang and Wanli Yi

Supply chain socially sustainability practices and their impact on supply chain performance: a study from the Indian automobile industry pp. 2253-2277

Satyendra Kumar Sharma, Sajeev Abraham George, Praveen Ranjan Srivastava, Fauzia Jabeen and Cisem Lafci

Engaging and motivating crowd-workers in gamified crowdsourcing mobile apps in the context of logistics and sustainable supply chain management pp. 2279-2309

Abhishek Behl, Nirma Jayawardena, Vijay Pereira, Fauzia Jabeen, Kokil Jain and Manish Gupta

Adoption of industry 4.0 technologies for decarbonisation in the steel industry: self-assessment framework with case illustration pp. 2311-2350

Ruchi Mishra, Rajesh Kr Singh and Angappa Gunasekaran

Productivity evaluation of urban water supply industry in China: a metafrontier-biennial cost Malmquist productivity index approach pp. 2351-2371

Minzhe Du, Bing Wang, Zhongfei Chen and Liping Liao

Sustainable operations in electric vehicles’ sharing: behavioral patterns and carbon emissions with digital technologies pp. 2373-2396

Bin Zhang, Yi Yi, Chavi Chi-Yun Fletcher-Chen, Pengyu Zou and Zhaohua Wang

Capturing attitudinal characteristics of decision makers in multi-criterion sorting problems for performance evaluation of sustainable and circular suppliers pp. 2397-2422

Huchang Liao and Zhi Wen

Obviating some of the theoretical barriers of analytical hierarchy process by a revised eigenvector method: a case study in sustainable supplier selection pp. 2423-2477

Hossein Azizi, Reza Farzipoor Saen and Majid Azadi

Investigation of key performance indicators for performance management of the manufacturing industry in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic pp. 2479-2522

Sajneen Akter Munmun, Md. Abdul Moktadir, Sunil Tiwari, Mohammad Zoynul Abedin and Charbel Jose Chiappetta Jabbour

A new evaluation technique based on DEA, prospect theory and ER approach: assessment of airports pp. 2523-2561

S. S. Ganji, Abbas Mardani, Dong Ling Xu and Saeb Heidarighadikolaei

UN sustainable development goals and management of non-instantaneous deteriorating items: a literature review and applications framework pp. 2563-2629

Pratik Maheshwari, Sachin Kamble, Amine Belhadi and Satish Kumar

Should we keep the tradition or follow the trend? The optimal live-streaming e-commerce mode selection in a sustainable and circular supply chain under competition pp. 2631-2659

Junbin Wang, Yangyan Shi, Victor Shi and V. G. Venkatesh

Diffusing sustainable supply chains: a hybrid evolutionary game theory and system dynamics approach pp. 2661-2726

Fatemeh Yaftiyan, Hannan Amoozad Mahdiraji, Mahnaz Hosseinzadeh and Demetris Vrontis

Centralization or decentralization? The effect of managerial ability on supply chain concentration pp. 2727-2748

Jun Li, Xi Chen, Chengyuan Wang and Ying Wang

Sustainable supply chains with socially undesirable and intermediate outputs: evidence from Chinese agricultural cities pp. 2749-2773

Yunguo Mu, Jean-Philippe Boussemart, Zhiyang Shen and Michael Vardanyan