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How customer digital orientation drives supplier green and low-carbon efforts: The roles of supplier dependence and common ownership 客户数字化导向如何推动供应商的绿色低碳努力：供应商依赖和共同所有权的作用

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International Journal of Production Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109680

Yiran Chen , Shaopeng Cao

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Agency selling or reselling? Differentiated medication pricing in a healthcare platform with consultation 代理销售还是转售？基于会诊的医疗平台差异化药品定价研究

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International Journal of Production Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109639

Shaofu Du , Hengjia Bao , Tengfei Nie

{"title":"Agency selling or reselling? Differentiated medication pricing in a healthcare platform with consultation","authors":"Shaofu Du , Hengjia Bao , Tengfei Nie","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109639","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109639","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The rapid evolution of Internet healthcare has enabled online healthcare platforms to enter the healthcare market, where they typically operate under two predominant agreements: agency selling agreements and reselling agreements. Considering the diverse patient demands for medications of varying quality, these platforms strategically introduce medication suppliers with differentiated quality levels to enhance market coverage. This study examines how an online healthcare platform influences patients’ medication choices through a consultation fee and differentiated medication prices under two agreements within a game-theoretic model. Our findings indicate that when the quality differentiation between medications is small, the strategy for introducing medication suppliers varies significantly across different agreements. Moreover, the healthcare platform is more likely to adopt an agency selling agreement and introduce a high-quality supplier when the commission rate and cost of medications are both relatively high, which can result in an increased patient surplus. Surprisingly, we demonstrate that a greater differentiation in medication quality does not always benefit the platform when introducing a high-quality supplier. The study provides strategic insights into how a healthcare platform can effectively balance and enhance both its profitability and patient surplus through careful management of medication quality differentiation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":14287,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Production Economics","volume":"286 ","pages":"Article 109639"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144134599","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}

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The dynamics of specialised housing construction in a time of human resource shortages in long-term care services 在长期护理服务人力资源短缺的情况下，专业住房建设的动态

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International Journal of Production Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109670

Marija Bogataj , David Bogataj , Samo Drobne

{"title":"The dynamics of specialised housing construction in a time of human resource shortages in long-term care services","authors":"Marija Bogataj , David Bogataj , Samo Drobne","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109670","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109670","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Human resources for long-term care (LTC) systems and funding to produce appropriate facilities for long-term care requirements are in limited supply all over Europe. These two shortages are especially noticeable in rural locations, where the human resources required for the care of senior citizens are not as readily available, and demand is increasing rapidly. According to Feng's paper on the fuzziness of travel-to-work areas (TTWAs), the fuzzy set method and the CURDS approach (fuzzy evaluation of travel-to/work areas), enriched with the results of the gravity model, can be used to evaluate labour shortages and suggest the action to attract new caregivers. Governmental organisations and educational research institutions have extensively used TTWAs but have never combined them with a GM to attract new workers. This research aims to examine the fuzziness of commute-to-work zones and improve this feature by adding housing and salary elements to the gravity model as attractors for optimal dynamics. In the article, we demonstrate how, given limited funding and shortage of public building space, we can choose between investing in new LTC facilities and providing human resources for care. By investing in long-term care community houses and providing sufficient human resources, we show how to meet the demands of the LTC while adhering to demographic projections through goal programming. To schedule the necessary dynamics of the construction of the specialised housing units for older residents spread out across municipalities in a functional region, the fuzzy assessment of human resource availability in the Local Action Group (LAG) Haloze in Slovenia is presented. From this, the necessary dynamics of production of housing units for LTC residents and recruiting new staff are estimated, with a minimal inventory of unused units.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":14287,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Production Economics","volume":"287 ","pages":"Article 109670"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144231836","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}

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Retailers’ parallel importation and service provision in a supply chain: Incentives and impacts 供应链中零售商平行进口与服务提供：激励与影响

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International Journal of Production Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109678

Hai Li , Jing Shao , Stuart X. Zhu , Xiaoliu Xiang

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Can FICO scores be used to explain managerial decision making?: Evidence from a supply-chain resilience experiment FICO分数可以用来解释管理决策吗？：来自供应链弹性实验的证据

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International Journal of Production Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109675

Yiseon Choi , Noah Dormady

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A supervised learning-based optimization for container pre-loading problem 基于监督学习的集装箱预装问题优化

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International Journal of Production Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109648

Woo-sung Kim , Mihyeong Song , Mincheol Jeong , Seung Hwan Jung

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A sustainable supply chain finance ecosystem: A review and conceptual framework 可持续的供应链金融生态系统：回顾与概念框架

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International Journal of Production Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109676

Ziling Liao , Lorenzo Bruno Prataviera , Abhijeet Ghadge , Ismail Abushaikha

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Why do manufacturers launch virtual NFT products? The role of aspirational inventory levels 制造商为什么要推出虚拟NFT产品？期望库存水平的作用

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International Journal of Production Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109673

Wenqian Zhu, Di Fan, Shuhan Wang

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Comparative analysis of crowdfunding and bank financing: The effect of market uncertainty 众筹与银行融资的比较分析：市场不确定性的影响

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International Journal of Production Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109657

Mingzhao Tang , Tian-Hui You , Bing-Bing Cao

{"title":"Comparative analysis of crowdfunding and bank financing: The effect of market uncertainty","authors":"Mingzhao Tang , Tian-Hui You , Bing-Bing Cao","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109657","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109657","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Faced with financial dilemmas, firms have long relied on bank financing as a prevalent and trusted solution. Recently, however, crowdfunding has emerged as an innovative alternative, enabling capital-constrained firms to raise funds from diverse investors. This study explores the optimal financing strategy for such firms under market uncertainty and evaluates pricing decisions across different financing strategies, including bank financing and crowdfunding. Our results reveal that under crowdfunding, market uncertainty may lead to either overfunding or underfunding, which in turn necessitates different pricing strategies. Crowdfunding is not entirely barrier-free for firms, as its accessibility often hinges on setup costs. In contrast, under bank financing, market uncertainty may hinder firms from generating enough revenue to cover the principal and interest on the bank loan, potentially leading to bankruptcy. Similarly, bank financing is also constrained by setup costs. Finally, by comparing crowdfunding and bank financing, our findings suggest that there is no one-size-fits-all solution. Firms must consider dynamic factors, including platform commission, interest rate, and setup costs, when selecting the most appropriate financing strategy. This approach ensures that the choice aligns with both the market conditions and the unique situation of firms. Additionally, in the extensions, we modify the crowdfunding financing mechanism and introduce a hybrid financing strategy designed to further alleviate financing difficulties for firms. These findings provide actionable insights for firms navigating uncertain financial environments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":14287,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Production Economics","volume":"286 ","pages":"Article 109657"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144070488","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}

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The cyclic inventory routing problem with environmental considerations: Model, solution procedure, and insights 考虑环境因素的循环库存路线问题：模型、解决方案过程和见解

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International Journal of Production Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109652

Anass Kajji , Tarik Aouam , Asmae El Mokrini , Birger Raa

{"title":"The cyclic inventory routing problem with environmental considerations: Model, solution procedure, and insights","authors":"Anass Kajji , Tarik Aouam , Asmae El Mokrini , Birger Raa","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109652","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109652","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper introduces and studies the Cyclic Inventory Routing Problem with Environmental (CIRP-E) considerations which plans the distribution from a single depot to multiple customers with the objective of minimizing the average cost of transportation, inventory, fuel, and carbon emissions subject to constraints related to demand satisfaction, vehicle and storage capacities, and driving hours limitations. CIRP-E integrates strategic fleet sizing, tactical route design, lot sizing and speed selection, together with operational vehicle scheduling. We derive analytical results for vehicle speed and cycle times, and study how they affect fleet sizing and vehicle scheduling. These results and insights are then exploited to develop heuristics which are embedded in a powerful two-phase metaheuristic solution approach for CIRP-E. The first phase designs vehicle routes and decides on vehicle speed and cycle times to minimize the total cost rate. The second phase takes the designed routes as input and decides on fleet sizing and scheduling of deliveries, while adjusting vehicle speeds and cycle times. Computational experiments show that the proposed solution approach adequately trades-off the various cost components and outperforms different adaptations of a state-of-the-art solution method for the classical cyclic inventory routing problem.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":14287,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Production Economics","volume":"287 ","pages":"Article 109652"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144084472","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}

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