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{"title":"From networked control systems to supply chain cyber-security: A redundant channel approach for FDIA mitigation","authors":"Yi Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109893","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109893","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>With the deeper integration of supply chains (SCs) and communication technologies, modern SCs are now facing cyber-security threats, particularly due to the increased connectivity and data vulnerabilities within networked environments. This study investigates the impacts of the cyber-attack, i.e. the false data injection attack (FDIA) on the SC and designs countermeasures to the FDIA. First, a novel SC framework is established from the control-theoretic perspective. The role of each member in the SC is conceptualized in accordance with the definition of the networked control system. Second, the FDIA is regarded as a distinctive SC risk, which is characterized by the malicious manipulation of transmitted data and the destruction of its authenticity. Third, the redundant channel strategy is employed to provide reliable communication channels that are free of cyber-attacks for emergency suppliers and temporary warehouses exchanging data with the decision centre. Furthermore, mixed integer programming models are proposed to determine countermeasures and optimize cyber-security investments. Through simulation-based analysis, the synergistic impacts of the FDIA on the SC performance under different cyber-attack intensities and different customer behaviours are examined. The results illustrate the efficacy of the proposed strategies in mitigating the adverse effects of the FDIA and improving SC resilience. The findings enhance the understanding of SC managers regarding the adoption of recovery strategies to mitigate cyber-attack risks. Moreover, the outcomes can be instructive for cyber-attackers when launching the FDIA in the SC context.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":14287,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Production Economics","volume":"294 ","pages":"Article 109893"},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145760865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Direct selling, reselling or hybrid? Manufacturer's sales channel strategies in the context of online product reviews","authors":"Zhenghua Deng ,&nbsp;Xumei Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109883","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109883","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Online product reviews (OPRs) exert a significant influence on consumers' purchasing decisions and play a crucial role in shaping the profitability of firms within supply chains. This study delves into the complexities of a manufacturer's optimal sales channel strategy in the context of OPRs. We analyze three sales channel modes: (a) maintaining both online and traditional channels (Dual-Channel Mode, Mode D), (b) abandoning the direct channel to focus on the traditional resale channel (Traditional-Only Channel Mode, Mode SR), and (c) abandoning the traditional channel to focus on the online direct channel (Direct-Only Channel Mode, Mode SM). We develop game-theoretical models to analyze the interplay between the manufacturer's channel choices and the retailer's pricing strategies. Our analysis reveals that when the effectiveness of OPRs is substantial, the manufacturer tends to favor either Mode SM or Mode D. In contrast, when OPRs are less influential, Mode SR generally yields greater benefits. Interestingly, we find that increased OPR accuracy does not necessarily result in clear-cut advantages for the manufacturer. Specifically, when OPR accuracy is low, the manufacturer prefers Mode SR; however, when OPR accuracy increases, Mode D tends to lead to greater profitability. We extend our model to examine channel cost differentiation, multiple competing retailers, and endogenous online review manipulation. Our primary findings remain robust across these extensions. Our study provides valuable insights for manufacturers when determining their optimal channel strategies in the presence of OPRs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":14287,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Production Economics","volume":"293 ","pages":"Article 109883"},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145735693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Systems thinking for climate change and modern slavery mitigation in supply chains: Insights from panarchy theory","authors":"Mahnaz Hosseinzadeh ,&nbsp;Marzieh Samadi Foroushani ,&nbsp;Reza Alikhani","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109901","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109901","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Modern slavery (MS) remains a pervasive and underexplored challenge in global supply chains (SCs), deeply intertwined with climate change, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and resource insecurity. Addressing this dual crisis is vital not only for achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 8 (decent work) and SDG 13 (climate action), but also for advancing low-carbon SC operations and progress towards net-zero emissions commitments. This study employs panarchy theory to examine the multi-level socio-ecological dynamics of MS, focusing on its bidirectional relationship with climate change and the Water–Food–Energy (WFE) nexus. Using system dynamics modelling, we analyse how interventions across SC, political-economic, and planetary levels can disrupt MS while mitigating systemic vulnerabilities caused by climate change and reducing emissions intensity and addressing carbon lock-in within a high-emissions upstream oil SC. Drawing on a case study of the Azadegan oil field, near the Hawizeh Marsh on the Iran-Iraq border, the research demonstrates the global relevance of resource exploitation and socio-ecological vulnerability. Our findings highlight WFE security as a critical lever for reducing labour exploitation by mitigating population vulnerability. However, isolated SC-level policies or MS-focused initiatives prove insufficient. Instead, integrated approaches that combine international climate action, WFE resource management, and systemic governance reforms are essential. By extending panarchy theory to address negative SC phenomena and incorporating hybrid policy designs, this research shows how decarbonisation policies (e.g. flaring elimination, carbon taxation and renewable energy investment) can be combined with WFE and governance reforms to simultaneously reduce forced labour risk and GHG emissions in oil SCs. The study thus provides actionable insights for integrating social justice, low-carbon operations and climate change mitigation into SC management in support of net-zero goals as well as decent work targets in SCs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":14287,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Production Economics","volume":"293 ","pages":"Article 109901"},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146170079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Coordination of supply chain contracts on blockchain platforms","authors":"Limian Ci,&nbsp;Liyuan Zhang,&nbsp;Yonghong Wu,&nbsp;Benchawan Wiwatanapataphee","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109908","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109908","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>To promote the application of blockchain technology in the supply chain, this paper examines a model consisting of a manufacturer and a retailer, with the manufacturer acting as the leader. Game models are established under four different scenarios: the manufacturer independently bears the blockchain application costs, shares the costs with the retailer, negotiates revenue sharing through the Nash bargaining mechanism, and shares revenue through centralised decision-making. The optimal coordination mechanism is identified by analysing the equilibrium in each scenario. Compared to the scenario where the manufacturer bears the costs independently, under the cost structure studied, the cost-sharing contract cannot change the situation where supply chain members take their own marginal profits as their decision-making goal, resulting in coordination failure; the revenue-sharing contract under the bargaining mechanism can increase the overall profit of the supply chain but may reduce the retailer’s profit. In contrast, revenue-sharing based on centralised decision-making can yield the highest profits for all parties. Interestingly, when consumers are insensitive to information quality, an increase in the initial information level may reduce consumer welfare and even lower social welfare. This study provides valuable insights for supply chain members on coordinating contract mechanisms to support the use of blockchain technology.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":14287,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Production Economics","volume":"293 ","pages":"Article 109908"},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146170174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An evolution analysis of living streaming governance: Deceptive advertising and non-compliant operation","authors":"Baoli Shi ,&nbsp;Xiangfeng Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpe.2026.109916","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijpe.2026.109916","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The live streaming e-commerce industry has experienced rapid development, emerging as a pivotal channel for consumer purchasing and brand marketing. Nonetheless, this growth has concurrently revealed a spectrum of challenges, including deceptive advertising by streamers, non-compliant operational practices by merchants, and difficulties in effective governmental regulation. This study develops an evolutionary game-theoretic model encompassing three key stakeholders: streamers, merchants, and the government, with the objective of elucidating the stable evolutionary strategies of each agent as well as the overall system dynamics. Furthermore, the analysis investigates the impact of merchant return policy and consumer search behavior on the system’s evolutionary trajectory and convergence velocity. The findings uncover a nuanced incentive mechanism linking streamers’ truthful advertising to merchants’ compliance behaviors. Notably, truthful advertising does not uniformly promote compliance: when profits derived from compliant operations surpass those from non-compliant activities, truthful promotion may paradoxically amplify merchants’ incentives to act non-compliantly; conversely, if compliant profits are comparatively lower, truthful advertising tends to encourage compliance. Additionally, we also show that a higher commission rate for the streamer tends to induce merchants’ non-compliance behavior, however, a lower commission rate might strengthen merchant compliance incentive. The results further reveal asymmetric sensitivities among participants: merchants exhibit greater responsiveness to variations in governmental penalties than to changes in commission rates, while streamers display heightened sensitivity to commission rate adjustments and factors related to deceptive advertising. Lastly, we find that while the emergence of return policy and consumer search does not alter long-term equilibria, it significantly affects the speed of reaching different equilibrium outcomes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":14287,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Production Economics","volume":"293 ","pages":"Article 109916"},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146170168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pricing and sequencing differentiated products for strategic consumers under demand uncertainty","authors":"Seong-joon Kim ,&nbsp;Seong Jin Ahn ,&nbsp;Mihyeong Song ,&nbsp;Seung Hwan Jung","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109905","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109905","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Pricing and the introduction of new products are critical decision-making challenges that can significantly impact a firm’s competitive marketing capabilities. Particularly when there exists demand uncertainty, these decisions become even more complicated due to consumers’ strategic behavior, such as delaying purchases to wait for season-off sales at discounted prices. This paper examines how such forward-looking behavior among consumers influences a firm’s key decisions regarding product introduction sequencing, pricing, and production. Our work demonstrates that demand uncertainty exacerbates price distortion due to cannibalization effects. More importantly, we show that production must follow a newsvendor-type logic where early sales information improves later production decisions. Furthermore, our findings challenge the conventional wisdom in the marketing literature. Specifically, we show that under demand uncertainty, the principle established in classic marketing literature — introducing a high-end product first is preferable to launching a low-end product — does not always hold. In particular, the optimal sequence depends on market conditions: upward sequencing can dominate when vertical differentiation is strong, while the preferred strategy is to introduce the product serving the more volatile segment later, especially when the correlation effect is pronounced. This paper offers new insights beyond the conventional marketing perspective by incorporating production and inventory considerations, showing how sequencing, pricing, and production decisions jointly shape firms’ strategies under demand uncertainty and strategic consumer behavior.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":14287,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Production Economics","volume":"293 ","pages":"Article 109905"},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146170241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Lean and organizational resilience: A discussion","authors":"Guilherme Tortorella ,&nbsp;Maneesh Kumar ,&nbsp;Matthias Thürer ,&nbsp;Tyson R. Browning ,&nbsp;Peter Hines ,&nbsp;David Romero ,&nbsp;Andrea Furlan","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109897","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109897","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Lean is widely regarded as a strategic management approach to increase competitiveness by systematically eliminating waste through the active involvement of employees. Nevertheless, during low-probability, high-impact disruptive events, many organizations utilizing Lean face severe negative implications, which raise doubts about Lean's effectiveness. This article aims to discuss how Lean impacts organizational resilience based on the concepts proposed by Biringer et al. (2013), who defined resilience capability through three categories: absorptive capability, adaptive capability, and restorative capability. Extensive debates among the authors and a narrative literature review were conducted, allowing for a deeper discussion and the formulation of research propositions. By discriminating the effects of Lean adoption across different capabilities, we can disentangle the Lean-resilience relationship. Overall, we argue that organizations with higher levels of Lean implementation may be able to adapt and restore more easily from severe disruptive events than organizations with lower implementation levels. In turn, organizations with lower levels of Lean implementation might present greater organizational slack that favors the absorption of the implications caused by such disruptions, which is less expected in high-Lean organizations. Our study disentangles the inherent paradox or tension in the relationship between Lean and resilience, showing that a time dimension is introduced by the different capabilities that explain the differing impacts of Lean. This leads to opportunities for further investigation of Lean and organizational resilience.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":14287,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Production Economics","volume":"293 ","pages":"Article 109897"},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145788635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Channel selection for the manufacturer considering online firestorms in social commerce era","authors":"Yuhong Liu ,&nbsp;Lu Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109891","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109891","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Social commerce platforms integrate social interactions with e-commerce, presenting brand manufacturers with new distribution avenues. These platforms empower manufacturers to carry out digital content marketing but also subject them to increased uncertainty, particularly online firestorms, where the rapid spread of negative information harms brand reputation and performance. This paper employs differential game theory to investigate optimal pricing and marketing strategies across different channel expansion strategies, including no expansion (Strategy N), expansion to a new traditional e-commerce platform(Strategy TT), and expansion to a social commerce platform(Strategy TS), and analyzes the optimal strategy for a manufacturer already operating on a traditional e-commerce platform. Our results show, firstly, that when the occurrence probability and damage rate of online firestorms are high, both the manufacturer and the platform implement restoration strategies to counteract the firestorms, which may contribute to the enhancement of platform goodwill in the long run. In contrast, when the occurrence probability or damage rate is less significant, they employ resilience strategies to minimize negative consequences. Secondly, when the fixed cost of channel expansion is low and the commission rate is low, Strategy TS yields higher profits for the manufacturer. As the commission rate increases, Strategy TT becomes more advantageous and emerges as the preferred option. When either the fixed cost is high or the commission rate is excessively high, the manufacturer tends to favor Strategy N. Finally, expanding via Strategy TT may enhance the profitability of the incumbent platform, achieving a win-win situation for both parties.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":14287,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Production Economics","volume":"293 ","pages":"Article 109891"},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145880665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Welfare effects in the dominant market with price discrimination under differential information protection policies","authors":"Jiaquan Yang ,&nbsp;Yihui Zhu ,&nbsp;Yingfei Cheng","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109909","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109909","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The widespread adoption of big data and artificial intelligence (AI) challenges regulatory authorities with issues such as price discrimination, driving the need for targeted policy responses. This study examines the welfare effects of price discrimination in a competitive e-commerce market, where a dominant platform is endowed with substantial market scale and robust data utilization capabilities and competes with a smaller platform under differentiated information protection policies. Analytical results reveal that the No Information Protection (NIP) policy maximizes consumer surplus while minimizing platform profitability, a finding that contradicts the conventional view that unregulated markets would boost platform profitability via price discrimination at the cost of consumer surplus. Notably, neither the Voluntary Information Protection (VIP) policy, the Mandatory Information Protection (MIP) policy, nor the NIP policy can maximize platform profitability and consumer surplus simultaneously, highlighting the necessity of trade-offs in policy design. More specifically, to optimize social welfare, regulatory authorities should implement mandatory information protection controls for dominant platforms with lower data utilization capabilities, while refraining from regulating those with higher capabilities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":14287,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Production Economics","volume":"293 ","pages":"Article 109909"},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146170172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Eliminating environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks in a closed-loop supply chain with a non-profit organization","authors":"Xiaoyan Xu ,&nbsp;Bin Shen ,&nbsp;Tana Siqin","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109898","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109898","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Integrating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations into closed-loop supply chains introduces complex challenges and therefore, makes it crucial to understand and mitigate ESG-related risks. This paper employs a game-theoretical model to examine how a closed-loop supply chain can mitigate ESG risks. The supply chain comprises a green manufacturer and a retailer, with the potential engagement of a recycling non-profit organization (NPO) and a quality assessment agency. We compare three operational mechanisms, i.e., (i) no remanufacturing, (ii) self-collection, and (iii) NPO-collection, from an ESG perspective. We further extend the model to examine the cases of mandatory information disclosure, a retailer collection scheme, and competing manufacturers. From an <em>environmental</em> perspective, remanufacturing helps reduce risks of resource inefficiency and environmental impact. Self-collection (resp. NPO-collection) performs better for low-pollution (resp. high-pollution) products. From a <em>social</em> perspective, high “local community engagement” may incur risks. Results show that only when the production cost is high and the information acquisition cost is small, it is wise for the manufacturer to engage with both the NPO and the community's quality assessment agency. From a <em>governance</em> perspective, we examine transparency-related risks and find that mandatory (resp. voluntary) disclosure is preferred when the production cost is high, while voluntary disclosure is preferred when the production cost is low. Our findings supplement the extant literature by extending the value of remanufacturing beyond traditional economic and environmental perspectives, explicitly addressing ESG risks and providing managerial implications for decision makers and policymakers to support the sustainable development of the closed-loop supply chain.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":14287,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Production Economics","volume":"293 ","pages":"Article 109898"},"PeriodicalIF":10.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146170178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}