Industrial Management & Data Systems: Volume 121 Issue 4

Guest editorial

Jie Wu, Ron Fisher

Performance of China's rural supply chain finance: from the perspective of maximization of intermediate output

Xiaohong Liu, Yue Du, Jiasen Sun, Rui Yang, Feng Yang

To dilute the financial difficulties in agricultural production and operation, the Chinese government has actively explored and developed rural supply chain finance (RSCF) service…

A blockchain-driven cyber-credit evaluation approach for establishing reliable cooperation among unauthentic MSMEs in social manufacturing

Jiajun Liu, Pingyu Jiang

Social manufacturing has emerged. It aims to integrate the manufacturing resources of micro- and small-scale manufacturing enterprises (MSMEs) and help MSMEs cope with the…

How monetary policies and ownership structure affect bank supply chain efficiency: a DEA-based case study

Yelin Hu, Bingjing Li, Ying Zha, Douqing Zhang

The banking industry plays a key role in China's financial industry. In the past decade, the speed of the development of China's commercial banks has gradually declined…

Centralized selection of standardized modular containers: a multi-criteria method considering freight behavior and shipper segment

Xiang Ji, Bingru Guan, Guowei Liu

Selection of standardized modular containers (SSMC) is counted as one of the most important driving factors that ensure the Physical Internet (PI) to realize the varieties of…

A data-driven and network-aware approach for credit risk prediction in supply chain finance

Mohammad Rishehchi Fayyaz, Mohammad R. Rasouli, Babak Amiri

The purpose of this paper is to propose a data-driven model to predict credit risks of actors collaborating within a supply chain finance (SCF) network based on the analysis of…

A data envelopment analysis approach by partial impacts between inputs and desirable-undesirable outputs for sustainable supplier selection problem

Mohammad Nemati, Reza Farzipoor Saen, Reza Kazemi Matin

The objective of this paper is to propose a new data envelopment analysis (DEA) model for assessing sustainability of suppliers with partial impacts between inputs, desirable…

Agricultural loan efficiency in centralized bank supply chains with fairness concern: a DEA-based analysis

Jianguo Zhuo, Yuwei Hu, Min Kang

Due to the rapid development and innovation in the Internet-based technology, conventional banks are under pressure and have to compete with Internet-based finance. This has made…

Impact of data-driven online financial consumption on supply chain services

Lei Li, Yaxuan Dai, Yudong Sun

Employing big data analysis tools, this study examines the significance of supply chain integration affecting online financial consumption, analyzes the online financial…

Data-driven approach to find the best partner for merger and acquisitions in banking industry

Qingyuan Zhu, Xingchen Li, Feng Li, Alireza Amirteimoori

Merger and acquisitions (M&A) is a process of restructuring two or more companies into one, a process that occurs frequently in many companies. Previous studies on M&A mainly paid…

Assessing the efficiency of financial supply chain for Chinese commercial banks: a two-stage AR-DEA model

Guangcheng Xu, Zhixiang Zhou

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate Chinese commercial banks efficiency based on different non-performing loans in the process. Moreover, we identified the difference among…

Analysis of two financing modes in green supply chains when considering the role of data collection

Nenggui Zhao, Qiang Wang

More and more attention has been paid to the financing of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and environmental protection. Many literatures have done detailed research on…

Bank supply chain efficiency analysis based on regional heterogeneity: a data-driven empirical study

Yu Jiang, Mingjun Li, Panpan Xia

Banking is the key industry to guarantee the core leading role of finance in the process of economic development. It is important to study the bank efficiency and optimal…