Industrial Management & Data Systems: Volume 119 Issue 9

Contract coordination optimization of a multi-power supplier-single dominant grid supply chain in hybrid electricity market

Zhenning Zhu, Lingcheng Kong, Jiaping Xie, Jing Li, Bing Cao

In the hybrid electricity market, renewable energy power generator faces the uncertainty of power market demand and the randomness of the renewable energy generation output. In…

“Dominance by birthright”? Reconfiguration of firm boundaries to acquire new resources and capabilities

Jin Hooi Chan, David Reiner

The purpose of this paper is to examine pre-entry resources and capabilities (R&Cs) of de alio and de novo entrants in an emerging industry. Then, the authors investigate how…

Social media usage and employee’s job performance: The moderating role of social media rules

Rana Muhammad Sohail Jafar, Shuang Geng, Wasim Ahmad, Ben Niu, Felix T.S. Chan

This era is an era of social media (SM); thus, it is an essential tool for communication among individuals and organizations. The excessive use of SM by employees has raised many…

A model-driven decision approach to collaborative planning and obsolescence for manufacturing operations

Swee Kuik, Li Diong

The purpose of this paper is to present the model-driven decision support system (DSS) for small and medium manufacturing enterprises (SMMEs) that actively participates in…

Trust in the sharing economy: the AirBnB case

Efpraxia D. Zamani, Jyoti Choudrie, George Katechos, Yaping Yin

The purpose of this paper is to examine sharing economy online marketplaces with the aim of understanding how trust perceptions form and get communicated through sharing economy…

The role of online leadership in open collaborative innovation: Evidence from blockchain open source projects

Wen Mu, Yiyang Bian, J. Leon Zhao

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the roles of online leadership in open collaborative innovation success by extending functional leadership theory in the context of…

Turning responsible purchasing and supply into supply chain responsiveness

Jie Yang, Hongming Xie, Guangsheng Yu, Mingyu Liu

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether responsible purchasing (relational commitment and supplier evaluation) and responsible supply (supplier firm information…

Exploring the antecedents of social network service fatigue: a socio-technical perspective

Lin Xiao, Jian Mou, Lihua Huang

Despite the various benefits of social networking services (SNSs), users have begun to experience fatigue in recent years, as evidenced by a decline in active user numbers. This…

Impact of social support and presence on swift guanxi and trust in social commerce

Jun Fan, Wangyue Zhou, Xue Yang, Boying Li, Ying Xiang

Swift guanxi and trust can influence consumers’ decision making in social commerce. What factors will influence the formation of swift guanxi and trust between buyers and sellers…

Optimization of the simultaneous pickup and delivery vehicle routing problem based on carbon tax

Gaoyuan Qin, Fengming Tao, Lixia Li, Zhenyu Chen

In order to reduce logistics transportation costs and respond to low-carbon economy, the purpose of this paper is to study the more practical and common simultaneous pickup and…

Examining the efficiency of IT applications and bank performance

Kwame Owusu Kwateng, Joseph Agyei, Kofi Amanor

Banking institutions have vigorously pursued the integration of information and communication technology in modern banking services. Unfortunately, empirical support demonstrating…