Industrial Management & Data Systems: Volume 124 Issue 1

Does Internet usage make middle-aged and older adults feel healthier? Mediating role of social engagement

Wenlong Liu, Wangjie Li, Jian Mou

This study explores whether and how Internet usage improves the subjective health of middle-aged and older adults by analyzing the mediating role of social engagement and…

Optimal employment model for an entrant platform in on-demand service market

Ling Zhang, Nan Feng, Haiyang Feng, Minqiang Li

For an entrant platform in the on-demand service market, choosing an appropriate employment model is critical. This study explores how the entrant optimally chooses the employment…

The role of interoperability and inter-side benefits on merchants' e-wallet adoption: the case of Peruvian nanostores

Christian Fernando Libaque-Saenz, Claudio Ortega, Michelle Rodriguez-Serra, Mario Chong, Salvador Lopez-Puente-de-la-Vega

Although e-wallet adoption has grown in recent years, there are some countries like Peru with low penetration rates. Contrary to prior studies that focused on customers' adoption…

A multi-depot pollution routing problem with time windows in e-commerce logistics coordination

Mengdi Zhang, Aoxiang Chen, Zhiheng Zhao, George Q. Huang

This research explores mitigating carbon emissions and integrating sustainability in e-commerce logistics by optimizing the multi-depot pollution routing problem with time windows…

Preparing for Industry 5.0: a methodology for avoiding corporate amnesia

Ramona Diana Leon, Raúl Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Juan-José Alfaro-Saiz

This research sought to identify the best strategy for avoiding corporate amnesia in the context of the Industry 5.0 and an aging society.

Market reactions to drugs price reduction during COVID-19 distress in an emerging economy: value creation through CSR

Gopal Kumar, Felix T.S. Chan, Mohit Goswami

The coronavirus (COVID-19) is the worst pandemic in recent memory in terms of its economic and social impacts. Deadly second wave of COVID-19 in India shook the country and…

An incentive mechanism contract model to coordinate a vaccine supply chain under demand uncertainty

Dheeraj Chandra, Vipul Jain, Felix T.S. Chan

The increasing prevalence of a wide range of infectious diseases, as well as the underwhelming results of vaccination rates that may be traced back to problems with vaccine…

Virtual reality in retailing: a meta-analysis to determine the purchase and non-purchase behavioural intention of consumers

Satyam Mishra, Anubhav Mishra, Ashish Dubey, Yogesh K. Dwivedi

The purpose of this meta-analysis is to encapsulate the outcomes and generate meaningful conclusions by examining the factors that influence consumers' purchase and non-purchase…

Analysis of software promotion strategies in product-service integrated supply chains

Kai Li, Lulu Xia, Nenggui Zhao, Tao Zhou

The purpose of this paper is to compare the pricing decisions and earning potential of the software supplier and the smart device manufacturer in different software promotion…

The effects of supply chain governance on supply chain resilience based on information processing theory

Qiang Lu, Yu Jiang, Yu Wang

This study investigates the impact of supply chain governance (SCG, which includes relational governance and contractual governance) on supply chain resilience (SCR) using the…

Enhance consumer experience and product attitude in E-commerce live streaming: based on the environmental perspective

Xixian Peng, Jiaqi Ren, Yutong Guo

E-commerce live streaming (ELS) has become a new and important shopping channel. Although previous studies have provided insightful findings on how to engage consumers in ELS…

A content-based metric for social media influencer marketing

Sue-Ting Chang, Jia-Jhou Wu

The study aims to propose an instrument for measuring product-centeredness (i.e. the extent to which comment content is related to a product) using word embedding techniques as…

Continue staying in online health platforms or not: the moderating role of threat appraisal

Ping Li, Siew Fan Wong, Shan Wang, Younghoon Chang

This study aims to study the mechanisms and conditions of users' intention to continue to use online health platforms from an information technology (IT) affordance perspective.

An industry 4.0 adoption in the circular economy application hierarchical model: driver, enable and barrier aspects

Asma-Qamaliah Abdul-Hamid, Mohd Helmi Ali, Lokhman Hakim Osman, Ming-Lang Tseng, Ahmad Raflis Che Omar

This paper aims to contribute significantly to the empirical investigations on adopting Industry 4.0–circular economy in the Malaysian palm oil industry. The paper also aims to…

A novel virtual-communicated evolution learning recommendation

Yi-Cheng Chen, Yen-Liang Chen

In this “Info-plosion” era, recommendation systems (or recommenders) play a significant role in finding interesting items in the surge of online digital activity and e-commerce…

Assessing user benefits and privacy concerns in utilitarian and hedonic mobile augmented reality apps

Hong Qin, Alsius David, Ahasan Harun, Md Rasel Al Mamun, Daniel Peak, Victor Prybutok

The application of mobile augmented reality (MAR) for enhancing user experiences and consumer patronizing intention has been the focus of recent MAR literature. Few studies…