Industrial Management & Data Systems: Volume 118 Issue 4

Cost-sharing models for green product production and marketing in a food supply chain

Qinghua Zhu, Xiaoying Li, Senlin Zhao

The purpose of this paper is to explore the coordination mechanism of cost sharing for green food production and marketing between a food producer and a supplier who both…

Recommending valuable ideas in an open innovation community: A text mining approach to information overload problem

Hanjun Lee, Keunho Choi, Donghee Yoo, Yongmoo Suh, Soowon Lee, Guijia He

Open innovation communities are a growing trend across diverse industries because they provide opportunities of collaborating with customers and exploiting their knowledge…

Usefulness, funniness, and coolness votes of viewers: An analysis of social shoppers’ online reviews

In Lee

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationships between five characteristics of social shoppers’ online reviews (the number of all reviews made by a reviewer, the…

A device to monitor fatigue level in order-picking

Martina Calzavara, Alessandro Persona, Fabio Sgarbossa, Valentina Visentin

In order-picking activities, the performance of the system can be influenced by different variables such as the order to be fulfilled, the distance to be covered or the experience…

I hope and I continue: Integrating the concept of hope into the expectancy-disconfirmation framework

Yi Ding

Continued usage of information systems (ISs) is highly critical to a firm’s sustained success. The expectancy-disconfirmation framework has been effective in explaining…

Integration of a text mining approach in the strategic planning process of small and medium-sized enterprises

Claudia Vásquez Rojas, Eduardo Roldán Reyes, Fernando Aguirre y Hernández, Guillermo Cortés Robles

Strategic planning (SP) enables enterprises to plan management and operations activities efficiently in the medium and large term. During its implementation, many processes and…

Identifying and recommending user-interested attributes with values

Yun-Shan Cheng, Ping-Yu Hsu, Yu-Chin Liu

To retain consumer attention and increase purchasing rates, many e-commerce vendors have adopted content-based recommender systems. However, apart from text-based documents, there…

Multi-period dual-sourcing replenishment problem with option contracts and a spot market

Nana Wan, Xu Chen

The spot market has been gradually recognized as an important alternative purchasing source. To maintain a flexible replenishment strategy, call, put and bidirectional option…

A novel method to solve sustainable economic power loading dispatch problem

Lingling Li, Yanfang Yang, Ming-Lang Tseng, Ching-Hsin Wang, Ming K. Lim

The purpose of this paper is to deal with the economic requirements of power system loading dispatch and reduce the fuel cost of generation units. In order to optimize the…

Service supply chain integration: the role of interpersonal relationships

Bill Wang, Yuanfei Kang, Paul Childerhouse, Baofeng Huo

The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of interpersonal relationships (IPRs) in service supply chain integration (SSCI) in terms of strategic alliance, information…

Examining the key determinants towards online pro-brand and anti-brand community citizenship behaviours: A two-stage approach

T.C. Wong, Mohamed Yacine Haddoud, Y.K. Kwok, Hongwei He

The purpose of this paper is to propose a research model to identify the key determinants and examine their impact towards online pro-brand and anti-brand community citizenship…

Process of innovation knowledge increase in supply chain network from the perspective of sustainable development

Dan Zhang, Ching-Hsin Wang, Dengpan Zheng, Xianyun Yu

The purpose of this paper is to extend prior supply chain research by describing the process of innovation knowledge increase in supply chain network. More specifically, this…

Modelling online user behavior for medical knowledge learning

Daifeng Li, Andrew Madden, Chaochun Liu, Ying Ding, Liwei Qian, Enguo Zhou

Internet technology allows millions of people to find high quality medical resources online, with the result that personal healthcare and medical services have become one of the…

Mediating role of managing information technology and its impact on firm performance: Insight from China

Aboobucker Ilmudeen, Yukun Bao

Managing IT with firm performance (FM) has always been a debatable topic in literature and practice. Prior studies examining the above relationship have reported mixed results and…

Co-query volume as a proxy for brand relatedness

Sulah Cho

The purpose of this paper is to utilize co-query volumes of brands as relatedness measurement to understand the market structure and demonstrate the usefulness of brand…