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A metric for the asymmetry in matched-pair data for buyer–supplier dyads 买卖双方配对数据不对称的度量

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International Journal of Production Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109653

ManMohan S. Sodhi

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Skill-and-Knowledge Sharing HUB-CI model for resilient production systems 弹性生产系统的技能和知识共享中心- ci模型

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International Journal of Production Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109681

Praditya Ajidarma , Shimon Y. Nof

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Greenwashing in ESG information disclosure: An intertemporal signaling game approach ESG信息披露中的“漂绿”：跨期信号博弈方法

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International Journal of Production Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109674

Xiaoyuan Xu , Zhiguo Li , Fengling Liu

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A digital twin framework integrated with a mixed proactive-reactive model for human milk supply chain planning 一个集成了混合主动-反应模型的数字孪生框架，用于母乳供应链规划

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International Journal of Production Economics Pub Date : 2025-05-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109683

Seyyed-Mahdi Hosseini-Motlagh , Mohammad Reza Ghatreh Samani , Milad Rahmani

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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

{"title":"Can FICO scores be used to explain managerial decision making?: Evidence from a supply-chain resilience experiment","authors":"Yiseon Choi , Noah Dormady","doi":"10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109675","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109675","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We present the results of a controlled experiment using a national sample of C-suite executives from mid-cap businesses in the United States. The experiment evaluates key production decisions in the context of repeated catastrophic events to mimic a naturalistic risk environment (e.g., natural disasters) impacting business supply-chains. When faced with a catastrophe, a firm's ability to acquire needed production inputs can be substantially limited, and the experiment evaluates the effect of advisory information and disaster exposure on resilience investment decisions and business performance over time. Treatments vary resilience advisory information presented to executives to inform their resilience investment decisions. We evaluate the role of individual credit (FICO scores of the executive) in explaining how executives respond. Findings indicate that FICO score is highly robust in explaining managerial resilience decisions. Executives with a sub-prime credit score are about twice as responsive to advisory recommendations, even when that advisory information is inaccurate. Contrariwise, executives with a strong FICO score adhere to resilience guidance only conditional on its historical record of accuracy. The results provide an initial indication that FICO scores may be a predictive screening mechanism for staffing key risk- or resilience-related business functions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":14287,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Production Economics","volume":"288 ","pages":"Article 109675"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144491861","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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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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