Industrial Management & Data Systems: Volume 120 Issue 5

Patterns of IT use: the impact on green supply chain management and firm performance

Shenyang Jiang, Zhaojun Han, Baofeng Huo

This study aims to explore how different patterns of IT use influence different types of green supply chain management (GSCM) with customers, and in turn, environmental and…

A dual systems model of online impulse buying

Haiqin Xu, Kem Z.K. Zhang, Sesia J. Zhao

Consumers often communicate with other consumers and perform impulse buying behavior on social commerce websites. Based on stimulus-organism-response framework and dual systems…

Corporate social responsibility and innovation: a comparative study

Haidi Zhou, Qiang Wang, Xiande Zhao

The purpose of this study was to examine how firms' corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies affect their innovation performance via two mediating variables, employee…

Analysis of customers' return behaviour after online shopping in China using SEM

Danping Lin, Carman Ka Man Lee, M.K. Siu, Henry Lau, King Lun Choy

The purpose of this paper is to examine the potential impacts of various variables on product return activities after online shopping. Previous studies on customer behaviour have…

Social capital affects job performance through social media

Yung-Shen Yen, Mei-Chun Chen, Chun-Hsiung Su

This study aims to explore the impact of social capital on job performance when workers interact with coworkers through social media in organizations.

Interfirm networks and search-transfer problem: the role of geographic proximity

Dong Wu, Xiaobo Wu, Haojun Zhou, Mingu Kang

This paper represents an empirical study of how geographic proximity influences the search advantage and the transfer problem of interfirm networks.

Effects of technical IT capabilities on organizational agility: The moderating role of IT business spanning capability

Peiran Gao, Jinlong Zhang, Yeming Gong, Haitao Li

The purpose of this research is to investigate how critical managerial IT capabilities, such as IT business spanning capability, interact with two pivotal types of technical IT…

Understanding cloud computing success and its impact on firm performance: an integrated approach

Abul Khayer, Yukun Bao, Bang Nguyen

This study aims to investigate the determinants of successful implementation of cloud computing and, further, examines how cloud computing success influences firm performance.

Inventory management of perishable health products: a decision framework with non-financial measures

Linh Nguyen Khanh Duong, Lincoln C. Wood, William Yu Chung Wang

This research proposes a decision framework for using non-financial measures to define a replenishment policy for perishable health products. These products are perishable and…

Inventory financing a risk-averse newsvendor with strategic default

Tianyun Li, Weiguo Fang, Desheng Dash Wu, Baofeng Zhang

The paper aims to explore the optimal strategies of inventory financing when the risk-averse retailer has different objectives, in the presence of multi-risk, i.e. demand risk…