Industrial Management & Data Systems: Volume 123 Issue 1

Guest editorial: Digital transformation strategy and impacts during emergency situations

Samuel Fosso Wamba, Maciel M. Queiroz, Kim Hua Tan, Baofeng Huo

Manufacturing strategy 4.0: a framework to usher towards industry 4.0 implementation for digital transformation

Vishwas Dohale, Priyanka Verma, Angappa Gunasekaran, Milind Akarte

The role of industry 4.0 (I4.0) technologies for organizations to achieve a competitive advantage and mitigate disruptive emergency situations are well exhibited in literature…

Organizational resilience under COVID-19: the role of digital technology in R&D investment and performance

Feiyang Guan, Wang Tienan, Liqing Tang

This study aims at the sudden outbreak of COVID-19, which had an unprecedented negative impact on the Chinese economy, with firms being affected most. Firms differ in terms of…

A study on the changes in the ICT industry after the COVID-19 pandemic

Chang-Gyu Yang

The aim of this paper is to explore the changes in the ICT and global value chains (GVCs) after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Manufacturing servitization in the digital economy: a configurational analysis from dynamic capabilities and lifecycle perspective

Jun Zhan, Ziyan Zhang, Shun Zhang, Jiabao Zhao, Fuhong Wang

Despite servitization being widely regarded as an essential catalyst to improve manufacturing firms' survival and competitiveness, how to attain servitization remains debatable…

Unleashing the potential of digital technologies in emergency supply chain: the moderating effect of crisis leadership

Rameshwar Dubey

The stakeholders are now demanding more visibility and role clarity in the emergency supply chain to improve collaborative efforts. Using a contingent resource-based view (C-RBV)…

A digital transformation-enabled framework and strategies for public health risk response and governance: China's experience

Ching-Hung Lee, Dianni Wang, Shupeng Lyu, Richard David Evans, Li Li

Under uncertain circumstances, digital technologies are taken as digital transformation enablers and driving forces to integrate with medical, healthcare and emergency management…

Impulse purchases during emergency situations: exploring permission marketing and the role of blockchain

Achint Nigam, Abhishek Behl, Vijay Pereira, Shreya Sangal

The paper explores how consumer behavior for purchasing impulse products changed in the complex and disruptive (emergency) situation of the COVID-19 pandemic when the customer is…

Can intelligent manufacturing empower manufacturing? – an empirical study considering ambidextrous capabilities

Na Lu, Wei Zhou, Zhi Wu Dou

Intelligent manufacturing has attracted extensive attention from national strategy, academic research and enterprises' practices. The purpose of this study is to investigate the…

Determinants of blockchain adoption as decentralized business model by Spanish firms – an innovation theory perspective

Loha Hashimy, Geetika Jain, Emili Grifell-Tatjé

Large attention surrounds identifying the meaningful blockchain business model on financial services, while a little focus about non-financial organizations and solutions in terms…

Nexus among blockchain visibility, supply chain integration and supply chain performance in the digital transformation era

Cheng Ling Tan, Zhongkai Tei, Sook Fern Yeo, Kee-Hung Lai, Ajay Kumar, Leanne Chung

Digital transformation (DT) in the semiconductor industry goes beyond traditional business operations and supply chain management (OSCM) to the digital world. Despite significant…

Risk management of supply chains in the digital transformation era: contribution and challenges of blockchain technology

Komal Rauniyar, Xiaobo Wu, Shivam Gupta, Sachin Modgil, Ana Beatriz Lopes de Sousa Jabbour

The high degree of likely disruption challenges organizations at all levels to develop and implement innovative strategies. Ensuring supply chain continuity even during emergency…

Determinants of big data analytics adoption in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)

Parisa Maroufkhani, Mohammad Iranmanesh, Morteza Ghobakhloo

The study challenges the assumption of independence among Technological, Organizational and Environmental (TOE) factors and investigates the influence of TOE factors on Big Data…

Evaluating the effectiveness of drones in emergency situations: a hybrid multi-criteria approach

Justin Zuopeng Zhang, Praveen Ranjan Srivastava, Prajwal Eachempati

The paper aims to build a customized hybrid multi-criteria model to identify the top three utilities of drones at both personal and community levels for two use cases…

Digital transformation to mitigate emergency situations: increasing opioid overdose survival rates through explainable artificial intelligence

Marina Johnson, Abdullah Albizri, Antoine Harfouche, Salih Tutun

The global health crisis represents an unprecedented opportunity for the development of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. This paper aims to integrate explainable AI into…

Analysis and impact of COVID-19 disclosures: is IT-services different from others?

Adrija Majumdar, Pranav Singh

There is ambiguity regarding whether coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a boon or bane for the IT services industry. On the one hand, it has created opportunities, especially…