Industrial Management & Data Systems: Volume 123 Issue 4

Guest editorial: The role of Industry 4.0 in enabling circular economy

Lujie Chen, Woon Kian Chong, Guoquan Liu

The impact of government subsidies on build-operate-transfer contract design for charging piles in circular economy

Peiqi Ding, Weili Xia, Zhiying Zhao, Xiang Li

Build-operate-transfer (BOT) contracts are widely used in the construction and operation of charging piles for new energy vehicles worldwide and stipulate that governments grant…

Remanufacturing production decisions considering product life cycle and green consumers' scale in the circular economy

Bohai Liu, Qi Song, Handong Zheng, Yaoyao Ma, Kai Li

In this paper, the authors aim to study the optimal strategy of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) considering both consumer segmentation and upward substitution of…

Understanding circular economy adoption by SMEs: a case study on organizational legitimacy and Industry 4.0

Leven J. Zheng, Yuanyuan Anna Wang, Hsuan-Yu Lin, Wei Liu

This paper explores how Industry 4.0 facilitates small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in emerging markets to gain and maintain organizational legitimacy from the government…

Drivers and outcomes of circular economy implementation: evidence from China

Yina Li, Yuzhou Hu, Lixu Li, Jiayan Zheng, Ying Yin, Shaoling Fu

Although the circular economy is widely regarded as an essential strategy for firms, the present understanding of the drivers and outcomes of circular economy implementation is…

Enhancing online-to-offline delivery efficiency facilitated by Industry 4.0: a personnel configuration perspective

Hongyan Dai, Yan Wen, Weihua Zhou, Tingting Tong, Xun Xu

The overuse and scarcity of resources emphasize the importance of the circular economy. The technology facilitated by Industry 4.0 stimulates the implementation of the circular…

How do different Industry 4.0 technologies support certain Circular Economy practices?

Zhimei Lei, Shanshan Cai, Li Cui, Lin Wu, Yiwei Liu

Uncovering the relationship between Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technologies and circular economy (CE) practices is critical not only for implementing CE but also for leveraging I4.0 to…

Industrialisation, ecologicalisation and digitalisation (IED): building a theoretical framework for sustainable development

Yongjiang Shi, Jialun Hu, David Tianxin Shang, Zheng Liu, Wei Zhang

In the past two decades, manufacturing has witnessed significant transformations alongside ecological challenges. Meanwhile, industrial 4.0 digital technologies have accelerated…