Kybernetes: Volume 50 Issue 8

Financing a capital-constrained supply chain: factoring accounts receivable vs a BCT-SCF receivable chain

Dan Tang, Xintian Zhuang

Blockchain-driven supply chain finance (BCT-SCF) has recently been receiving increased global attention. A number of business programmes have been carried out using this approach…

Developing a scale of social commerce service quality: an exploratory study

Mona Jami Pour, Fateme Ebrahimi Delavar, Ghazale Taheri, Sanaz Kargaran

Following the emergence of Web 2.0 technologies, social commerce has been viewed as an inseparable part of today’s business environment. Social commerce is a recent version of…

A non-instantaneous inventory model of agricultural products considering deteriorating impacts and pricing policies

Md. Rakibul Hasan, Abu Hashan Md Mashud, Yosef Daryanto, Hui Ming Wee

External factors such as improper handling, extreme weather and insect attacks affect product quality. It is most obvious in fruit products which have a high deterioration rate…

An optimization approach for traveling purchaser problem with environmental impact of transportation cost

He-Yau Kang, Amy H.I. Lee, Yu-Fan Yeh

The traveling purchaser problem (TPP) has gained attention in academics to deal with different variants in real business world. This study aims to study a green TPP with quantity…

Decision and coordination of a low-carbon supply chain considering environmental tax policy on consumers

Chuanxu Wang, Qiaoyu Peng, Lang Xu

This paper aims to explore how upstream supply chain companies will control the carbon emissions and price decisions of products when the government implements environmental tax…

Pricing and inventory decisions in a manufacturer-Stackelberg supply chain with deteriorating items

Anwar Mahmoodi

Integrated decision of pricing and inventory control for a deteriorating product is known as a good practice in revenue management discipline. The purpose of this paper is to…

Simulation of stakeholders’ consensus on organizational technology acceptance (case study: Internet of Things)

Ali Sarkeshikian, Mohhamadali Shafia, Amir Zakery, Alireza Aliahmadi

In the organizational technology acceptance (TA) decision-making process, stakeholders have many divergence opinions. Sometimes, an opposing stakeholder of a decision can stop the…

Complexity management of corruption in Iran’s oil industry applying soft system dynamics methodology (SSDM)

Mahnaz Hosseinzadeh, Marzieh Samadi Foroushani, Ou Tang, Mohammad Reza Mehregan

Oil is the natural resource recognized as the most important source of revenue in oil-dependent countries and is most often referred to as being susceptible to corruption owing to…

Regimes of collective logic

Ilya A. Surov, Vlada V. Ignateva, Andrey Y. Bazhenov

The study aims to reveal regularities of collective decision in groups of varying cooperativity and to investigate the influence of individualism–collectivism cultural dimension…

The service strategy of customer-intensive services under advertising effects

Wentao Zhan, Minghui Jiang, Chengzhang Li

Customer-intensive services refer to the service that a provider needs to invest in customers with high patience and experience. Within a certain rate range, the slower service…