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{"title":"A Multiobjective Multiperiod Efficient Portfolio Selection Approach for Positive and Negative Returns Using RDM-DEA Under Credibilistic Framework","authors":"Arun Kumar;Sanjay Yadav","doi":"10.1109/TEM.2024.3437160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2024.3437160","url":null,"abstract":"There are abundant applications of data envelopment analysis (DEA) for efficient portfolio selection, though in a single-period environment. However, portfolio selection is a multiperiod process involving long investment horizons. Subsequently, owing to changing market conditions, investors often rebalance their portfolios based on the performance of each asset and the portfolio as a whole. Besides, assets' performance constituting the multiperiod portfolio changes from one period to the next. Consequently, assets may yield positive or negative returns in one or more periods. Hence, it is imperative to deal with negative returns in a multiperiod framework for a multiobjective multiperiod efficient portfolio selection (MOMPEPS). To this end, this article proposes a two-stage credibilistic MOMPEPS approach. A multiperiod range directional measure DEA model is employed in Stage-I for evaluating the period-wise and overall efficiency of assets having both positive and negative returns. In Stage-II, a MOMPEPS model is proposed for maximizing the terminal wealth, overall efficiency, and minimizing the cumulative risk of the portfolio subject to several realistic constraints. The max-min approach solves the proposed model and presents several efficient portfolios for different investment schemes characterizing investors' attitudes. A comprehensive numerical illustration demonstrates and validates the proposed approach.","PeriodicalId":55009,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management","volume":"71 ","pages":"14114-14125"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142083902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Unpacking the Relationship Between Circular Economy and Interorganizational Collaboration: An Exploratory Study and an Analytical Framework","authors":"Silvia Lisi;Benito Mignacca;Michele Grimaldi;Marco Greco","doi":"10.1109/TEM.2024.3437772","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2024.3437772","url":null,"abstract":"Collaboration among different organizations could be a vital enabler of a circular economy (CE). However, few studies examine the role of interorganizational collaboration in CE initiatives. Particularly obscure is the relationship between different types of interorganizational collaboration and specific CE initiatives. This article explores such a relationship in the automotive sector through a content analysis of 73 nonfinancial reports disseminated by the world's largest automakers in 2021 and 2022. This article shows that focal firms primarily leverage interorganizational collaboration with suppliers to implement CE initiatives, mainly recycling and reducing initiatives. Focal firms relatively often collaborate with multiple actors and customers to implement CE initiatives, particularly recycling initiatives. Of note, collaboration with universities and research institutes plays a minor role in CE initiatives, assuming only a relatively higher relevance in CE initiatives with the highest degree of circularity. Last, this article provides a novel analytical framework to examine the relationship between interorganizational collaboration and CE.","PeriodicalId":55009,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management","volume":"71 ","pages":"14083-14097"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10621635","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142021661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fintech and Entrepreneurship: An Assessment Model to Evaluate Policy Instruments for Fintech Adoption by Small and Medium Enterprises","authors":"Deemah Alassaf;Tugrul Daim;Marina Dabić;Saeed Alzahrani","doi":"10.1109/TEM.2024.3435919","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2024.3435919","url":null,"abstract":"Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are the engines that drive economic development. However, they face inferior conditions and challenges when it comes to their access to broad financing channels. Hence, financial technologies (Fintech) solutions offer promising potential for improving SMEs’ access to finance. While researchers and practitioners have been promoting Fintech as a potential financial safeguard for SMEs’ needs, evidence shows an inadequate adoption rate of SMEs to such solutions and a lack of a comprehensive view of the Fintech adoption. Therefore, this research aims to provide a comprehensive examination of Fintech policy instruments and analyze their effectiveness in increasing the adoption of Fintech by SMEs through evaluating the essential policy targets impacting the adoption of Fintech and assessing their weights and priorities. This research is built upon a comprehensive literature review and experts’ insights. The hierarchical decision modeling methodology is used to identify the relative importance of those factors proposing a policy evaluation tool to assess the effectiveness of policy instruments on increasing Fintech adoption. This research presents the identification of 17 distinct policy targets that fall within four main perspectives along with their relative weights. To test the practicality and value of the research, a case study of the policy instrument effectiveness, the Saudi Arabian regulatory sandbox, was conducted to illustrate how the model could be used to identify the policy instrument's actual performance in terms of influencing SMEs adoption of Fintech, identify the instrument's strengths and weaknesses, and offer recommendations on how to improve to increase the policy instrument's effectiveness in increasing the adoption of Fintech by SMEs.","PeriodicalId":55009,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management","volume":"71 ","pages":"14046-14062"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142013446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Remanufacturing Strategy of Closed-Loop Supply Chain Under the Constraint of Recycling and Remanufacturing Target: Integrating Carbon Footprint and Social Welfare","authors":"Haowei Zhang;Yang Lv;Justin Zuopeng Zhang","doi":"10.1109/TEM.2024.3433539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2024.3433539","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores optimal remanufacturing strategies in a closed-loop supply chain under government-mandated recycling and remanufacturing targets. Two models are proposed: Model O, featuring the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) managing both product streams, and Model T, with a third-party remanufacturer and the OEM in a leadership role. Utilizing the Stackelberg game-theoretic approach through the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) condition, the study reveals that the remanufacturing strategy depends on the unit remanufacturing cost. The cost is divided into two intervals with a distinct strategy based on whether the OEM has remanufacturing capability. In both models, firms exceed recycling and remanufacturing targets in profitable intervals and meet minimum targets in compliance intervals, but with different boundaries. Model O and Model T employ distinct decision-making mechanisms to achieve recycling and remanufacturing targets. Comparative analysis indicates that aggregate supply chain profit in Model T is lower than that in Model O. Social welfare is influenced by the economic impact of carbon emissions; Model O shows higher welfare when the impact is significant, and Model T surpasses it when the impact is insignificant. This study provides insights into effective remanufacturing strategies that consider recycling and remanufacturing targets, unit remanufacturing costs, and the economic impact of carbon emissions.","PeriodicalId":55009,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management","volume":"71 ","pages":"14258-14270"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142152099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Management Respond to Negative Feedback: AI-Powered Insights for Effective Engagement","authors":"Aytac Gokce;Mina Tajvidi;Nick Hajli","doi":"10.1109/TEM.2024.3432457","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2024.3432457","url":null,"abstract":"The reputation of a business is significantly influenced by online reviews, with negative feedback having the potential to harm a brand's image and dissuade potential customers. To safeguard their image and convert dissatisfied users into loyal ones, businesses must formulate effective strategies for managing negative reviews. This study investigates response strategies aimed at enhancing the relationship between people and organizations among dissatisfied users upon their return. Using AI as a methodology by leveraging machine learning in our research, we managed to achieve remarkable accuracy using only response attributes to predict there is an increase in subsequent ratings of dissatisfied return customers. The study reveals that specific actions taken or planned in response to a user's complaint, a statement accepting responsibility for service failures, and a request for direct contact through phone or email can positively impact user loyalty and elevate subsequent ratings from returning dissatisfied customers. However, there is a noteworthy negative correlation between the length of the response text and the subsequent rating from returning customers. These findings not only provide theoretical insights but also have practical implications, underscoring the value of machine learning and data analytics in effective reputation management.","PeriodicalId":55009,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management","volume":"71 ","pages":"13983-13996"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141985957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Does Online Ride-Hailing Affect Car Purchasing Intention Under the Sharing Economy?","authors":"Fuli Zhou;Dongge Si;Sunil Tiwari;Panpan Ma;Ming K. Lim","doi":"10.1109/TEM.2024.3431677","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2024.3431677","url":null,"abstract":"Car purchasing intentions are related to changes in urban motor vehicle ownership changes, which further affect urban mobility, livability, and sustainable development. The exploration of car purchasing intention investigation is crucial to help better understand future urban transportation and the adjustment of planning and management strategies. Driven by Internet-based techniques and business innovation, online ride-hailing has transformed the traditional traveling mode, which may bring some changes to private car consumption. Previous publications mainly investigated the characteristic portraits of online ride-hailing users and the influential factors while failing to probe into the potential influences of online ride-hailing on private car consumption intention. This study tries to shift our eyes to the influential mechanism of online ride-hailing on car purchasing intention by employing an extended theory of planned behavior (TPB) considering perceived value, perceived risk, and environmental awareness factors. The questionnaire survey is designed and 519 research data samples are collected by online questionnaire. The partial least squares structural equation model is formulated to validate the proposed hypotheses based on the formulated expanded TPB, aiming to scrutinize the influential paths of online ride-hailing on car purchasing intention. Results indicate that the purchasing intention of consumers is positively related to their attitude and subjective norms, while it is not correlated with perceived behavioral control. Both attitudes and subjective norms play a mediation role during the potential influence of perceived value, perceived risk, and environmental awareness on consumers’ purchasing intention. Besides, the heterogeneity analysis tests are also conducted to investigate the discrepant influential mechanisms for different consumers’ demographic characteristics. This study extends academic research on consumer behavior by investigating the influential mechanisms of online ride-hailing on car purchasing intention, as well as providing strategic implications for local government and industrial sectors.","PeriodicalId":55009,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management","volume":"71 ","pages":"11703-11717"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141964792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Linear Optimization Modeling for Smart Specialization in Primary Sectors of a Developing Country","authors":"Mehdi Fatemi;Sepehr Ghazinoory;Shohreh Nasri;Mahdi Pakzad","doi":"10.1109/TEM.2024.3432107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2024.3432107","url":null,"abstract":"Different regional innovation profiles have forced policymakers to engage in innovation policymaking at the subnational level. As a regional approach, smart specialization has recently received attention in various contexts, focusing on stimulating innovation according to each region's existing capabilities and prospects. Although this strategy benefits developing countries with vast cultural and geographical diversity, they have yet to adopt it. After reviewing regional innovation models to identify various variables affecting regional innovation, this article presents a linear optimization model for the division of work in industry, mining, and agriculture among the regions of a country and then implements it in Iran as a case study. Since the results of implementing the model match the findings of previous regional studies, the credibility of the mathematical optimization for smart specialization is verified.","PeriodicalId":55009,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management","volume":"71 ","pages":"13890-13904"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141965778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Digital Transformation and Green Operations: A Successful Entrepreneurial Journey at Portobello Shop","authors":"Alessandro Margherita;Ariane Espindola;Patricia de Sá Freire","doi":"10.1109/TEM.2024.3431700","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2024.3431700","url":null,"abstract":"The combination of digital technologies and green transition is creating unprecedented opportunities to generate new entrepreneurial initiatives addressing environmental sustainability. Although digital and green endeavors have been extensively investigated in the last years, new scholarly discussions and practical evidence are required to clarify the intertwined dynamics among the two areas of organizational innovation. This article presents a real case of strategy definition and action for integration of green and digital initiatives to build an excellence-oriented and sustainable business model. The analyzed organization is Portobello, the largest coating company in Brazil. The study method included interviews with managers, direct author's participation, and access to secondary company data. The company's operations and logistics, with related product development and commercial implications, are investigated to bring evidence about 1) the innovative entrepreneurial philosophy and skills showed by managers to undertake the organizational transformation; 2) the digital solutions developed to drive excellence and sustainability into business operations; 3) the multidimensional impact in terms of ESG performance and sustainability KPIs. The article stimulates new academic discussion on how the digital transition drives more sustainable businesses. From a practitioner's perspective, the work provides experience-based insights on how to successfully conduct a digital and green manufacturing journey.","PeriodicalId":55009,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management","volume":"71 ","pages":"11786-11795"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141965068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Online Firestorms in Twitter: Exploring Risks to Large Infrastructure Projects From Digital Communities","authors":"Nigel Williams;Johan Ninan;Young Hoon Kwak","doi":"10.1109/TEM.2024.3432712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2024.3432712","url":null,"abstract":"Large infrastructure projects can often cause disruptions with those outside the immediate project area experiencing negative effects. Twitter (now X) and its ensuing online firestorms are ways these project community make themselves heard and influence the project and its societal outcome. Using the case study of the High Speed Two large infrastructure project in the U.K., this article retrieves over 950 000 tweets regarding the project from 2013 to 2019, and using dynamic topic modeling classifies 10 instances of online firestorms over this period covering environmental impacts, legislative dynamics, budget of the project, performance of the project, etc. We then theorize how online firestorms are practiced in large infrastructure projects, discussing the different topics considered in them, their sociomateriality, their difficulty in sustaining, how they can be recreated with similar new issues, how it is used as a persuasive tool, how they can change the project, and how they can be used for risk management. The findings help project managers by enabling them to understand social risks in projects and take proactive steps in addressing them.","PeriodicalId":55009,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management","volume":"71 ","pages":"13963-13974"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141966225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Complex Diffusion of Electric Vehicles: A Dominant Design Perspective","authors":"Petra Nylund;Alexander Brem","doi":"10.1109/TEM.2024.3428841","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2024.3428841","url":null,"abstract":"The electric vehicle industry is staggering along an arduous path to dominant design and subsequent mass-market reach. We examine technology-specific factors that influence the emergence of a dominant design and posit that the technologies most central to technological and regional innovation are also those furthest away from establishing a dominant design. We find support for our hypothesized model in a panel data analysis of 2958 electric vehicle patents representing the development of 72 technologies over ten years. These technologies are even less likely to have a dominant design when they are complex, i.e., they have many components or interactions. However, for technologies with high innovation performance, the impact of complexity is inverted. Then, technological centrality, i.e., centrality in the technology system, paired with complexity make technologies more likely to converge toward a dominant design. Conversely, technologies with local centrality in a specific region, are more convergent and less complex. These serial interrelations among the antecedents of dominant design provide a more detailed understanding of market-based standardization than previously available. On a practical level, more innovation reduces the barriers generated by complexity. Thus, joint industry-level efforts may be useful to overcome persistent hurdles in the technology life cycle, such as those currently experienced by the electric vehicle industry.","PeriodicalId":55009,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management","volume":"71 ","pages":"11629-11637"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141965047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}