{"title":"How to Enhance Regional Innovation Ecosystem Resilience in China? A Configuration Analysis Based on Panel Data","authors":"Heng Chen;Zhilin Zhang;Chaoran Lin","doi":"10.1109/TEM.2024.3453971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2024.3453971","url":null,"abstract":"In an era characterized by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity, external risk disturbances can be mitigated by bolstering the resilience of regional innovation ecosystems. This approach has emerged as the key strategy for fostering regional innovation and achieving high-quality development in China. Utilizing asymmetric configuration theory and methodologies, this article investigates multiple complex pathways through which the resilience of regional innovation ecosystems can be enhanced. Specifically, drawing from asymmetric innovation theory, we developed a research framework for analyzing the configuration of innovation ecosystem resilience (IER). Then, we utilized panel data qualitative comparative analysis to examine the configurations for high and nonhigh IER. The findings reveal that 1) there is a time effect on the necessity of most conditions for both high and nonhigh IER, with a high marketization level being the only necessary condition for high IRE, and that 2) a negligible temporal influence is observed in the configuration analysis results for high and nonhigh IER, and three stable pathways for high IER and four for nonhigh IER have been determined. This article provides valuable insights and references for improving relevant policies or adjusting innovation strategies to enhance regional IER in China.","PeriodicalId":55009,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142246448","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":"Exploring the Push and Pull Factors in Scientific Mobility","authors":"Jie Ren;Viju Raghupathi;Wullianallur Raghupathi","doi":"10.1109/TEM.2024.3453387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2024.3453387","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding the increase in the local/global mobility of scientists is critical from academic/practical perspectives. This research study focuses on the “push/pull” factors that influence highly educated individuals to migrate to other countries. Using the Open Researcher and Contributor ID database, we examine the association between different aspects of culture and economic conditions as push/pull factors. By exploring over 6000 doctoral researcher migration records from 194 countries, we investigate how the interaction between a migrant's home country characteristics (push factors) and immigrant country characteristics (pull factors) affects their migration. The findings show that migration behavior is correlated with the culture and income of immigrant countries. Immigrants are more likely to move to countries that are culturally similar to their home country. The high-income/individualistic nature of “sending” and “receiving” nations interacts with one another and motivates individual talents to migrate further. Policy implications include mitigating brain drain and encouraging skilled migration for innovation/economic growth.","PeriodicalId":55009,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142320397","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}
Margarida R. Santos;Fernando A. F. Ferreira;Neuza C. M. Q. F. Ferreira;Elias G. Carayannis
{"title":"“How Can More be Done With Less?”: Investigating Frugal Innovation Determinants Using Design Thinking and Interpretive Structural Modeling","authors":"Margarida R. Santos;Fernando A. F. Ferreira;Neuza C. M. Q. F. Ferreira;Elias G. Carayannis","doi":"10.1109/TEM.2024.3453938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2024.3453938","url":null,"abstract":"In the world today, innovation is an essential component of daily life. Companies deal with innovation on a regular basis to maximize their use of resources and form the foundations for competitive advantages over the competition. However, many firms currently face difficulties in terms of scarce resources and financial constraints, which have forced organizations to seek out new innovations that not only deliver good results but also require fewer natural and financial assets. Frugal innovation has, thus, been playing a significant role in companies’ success and growing in importance as this concept and its various practical applications have become more fully defined. Frugal innovation's practical aspects are still insufficiently addressed by the literature, which shows a lack of clarity about possible determinants of this approach and the ways they are interconnected. This study develops a multicriteria model using two problem structuring methods—design thinking and interpretive structural modeling—to clarify the issues that arise during frugal innovation. The results reflect the input of a group of experts linked to corporate innovation and/or small and medium-sized enterprises. The findings were subsequently analyzed and validated by a specialist who did not participate in the group work in order to make the analysis system more empirically robust. The proposed model provides a holistic view of determinants of frugal innovation, which can help companies understand and analyze these factors and engage in successful decision-making processes.","PeriodicalId":55009,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142320521","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":"Tackling Tensions Between Project Owner and Project Manager in Benefits Realization of Public Projects: A Paradox Perspective","authors":"Ning Sun;Yan Ning;Yadi Li","doi":"10.1109/TEM.2024.3454165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2024.3454165","url":null,"abstract":"The project owner and manager are responsible for project benefits realization and project delivery, respectively. While the project owner and manager are of close interdependence, they face paradoxical tensions. This poses significant challenges for project benefits realization. Thus, in this article, we aim to explore the evolution of paradoxical tensions between the project owner and manager in public projects. Qualitative research is drawn with 22 interviews (13 individual and 9 group interviews involving 59 interviewees) and 3 real-life cases. This research presents a paradox framework that encapsulates owner–manager tensions at three project phases, coping strategies, and the resulting tension dynamic cycle (i.e., vicious cycle or temporary balance). This study extends project management literature by revealing multiple-phase and dynamic tensions between the project owner and manager from the paradox perspective and proposing strategies to address tensions for project benefits realization.","PeriodicalId":55009,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142324253","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":"Progress and Prospects of 3-D and 4-D Printing in Sustainable Development: A Scientometric Review","authors":"Sandeep Kumar Sood;Yogveer Singh Lamba;Ashutosh Kumar Singh","doi":"10.1109/TEM.2024.3452952","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2024.3452952","url":null,"abstract":"The convergence of 3-D and 4-D printing, with sustainable development has emerged as a critical research focus in the past decade. This convergence has generated a substantial body of literature, necessitating a thorough examination of the current state of knowledge. Therefore, this study employs a scientometric approach to analyze the recent decade literature retrieved from Scopus and Web of Science databases, across four application areas: food and agriculture, automotive industry, biomedical and health, and building and construction. This study provides a detailed review of publication trends, geographical distribution, international collaborations, and document cocitation within each application area. It offers insights into the collaborative landscape and intellectual structure of the current research domain. The inference reveals that the biomedical and health area of research has a high level of academic and industrial interests. The United States, the United Kingdom, India, and China have shown substantial individual and collaborative research efforts in the current area of research. In addition, the analysis highlights prominent research topics such as nonthermal food processing technologies, socially sustainable supply chain management, selective laser sintering, and corneal regeneration. This research emphasizes the prospects of 3-D and 4-D printing to drive sustainable innovation and development across multiple domains.","PeriodicalId":55009,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142246498","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}
Seyed Parsa Parvasi;Ata Allah Taleizadeh;Arijit Bhattacharya;Rojin Moradi
{"title":"Optimal Financial Decisions and Pricing Strategies in Competitive Manufacturing Supply Chains","authors":"Seyed Parsa Parvasi;Ata Allah Taleizadeh;Arijit Bhattacharya;Rojin Moradi","doi":"10.1109/TEM.2024.3452590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2024.3452590","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the impact of financing methods and pricing competition on supply chain operations. It focuses on a domestic manufacturer competing with a foreign competitor to maximize retail market gains, with options for financing including banks, bonds, and crowdfunding. Game-theoretic models are used to explore participants’ behavior in the supply chain, considering three power structures: a Nash game and two Stackelberg games with alternating leadership. Results reveal that domestic manufacturers prefer financing options with flexible interest rates, such as crowdfunding, or low-interest alternatives such as bonds, when facing rising production costs or reduced competitiveness (when the foreign manufacturer holds a leader position). This preference impacts retailers, potentially leading to reduced product prices, benefiting retailers. Also, increasing initial capital prompts the domestic manufacturer to prefer bank methods. Interestingly, a higher budget and quality do not always guarantee higher profitability and can result in additional costs (for instance, in Nash game structure), depending on power structure type and market size. Furthermore, with increased price sensitivity, crowdfunding becomes less viable, leading to a preference for bank and bond financing. This can conflict with retailers’ optimal financial choices, highlighting the complexity of financial decisions in supply chains and their crucial role in global competition.","PeriodicalId":55009,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142320479","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}
Shuaishuai Fu;Weida Chen;Yongming Zhang;Dandan Wang;Ligang Shi
{"title":"Does Implementing Hybrid Carbon Asset Pledge Financing Benefit Production and Emission Reduction for Emission-Dependent Engineering Machinery Remanufacturing?","authors":"Shuaishuai Fu;Weida Chen;Yongming Zhang;Dandan Wang;Ligang Shi","doi":"10.1109/TEM.2024.3445883","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2024.3445883","url":null,"abstract":"With the development of carbon finance, carbon asset pledge financing (CAPF) not only revitalizes the carbon assets of enterprises, but also conducive to reduce the financial pressure on enterprises. For the capital-constrained and emission-dependent engineering machinery remanufacturer, since both remanufacturing and carbon emission reduction (CER) require huge investment, the situation exists where CAPF cannot completely solve the enterprise's shortage of funds. Therefore, this article proposes a hybrid carbon asset pledge financing (HCAPF) model that combines CAPF and bank loan financing, and introduces the HCAPF into production operations of remanufacturing, investigating the emission-dependent remanufacturer's production and CER decisions under HCAPF. The results show that: 1) A higher carbon asset pledge rate will help reduce the environmental impact and improve the output and profits of remanufacturers under HCAPF. However, whether the emission price volatility is conducive to production and reducing environmental impact depend on the threshold of the CER rate. 2) Under HCAPF, implementing CER under different remanufacturing strategies has different influences on the quantity of products. Besides, the CER is not always beneficial for the environment and whether an increasing CER rate can increase the remanufacturer's profit is determined by the emission advantage of remanufactured products. 3) The remanufacturing strategy has different impacts on the operation of remanufacturers under HCAPF. For the remanufacturer with/without CER, the complete remanufacturing strategy is more beneficial for increasing profits.","PeriodicalId":55009,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142143779","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":"Identification of Sustainable Convergence Technology for Batteries via Multiplex Link Prediction (August 2024)","authors":"Dong Hyun Lim;So Young Sohn","doi":"10.1109/TEM.2024.3451154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2024.3451154","url":null,"abstract":"To meet the continuously increasing demand for batteries in electrical devices, solutions in terms of theoretical capacity, safety, and reusability are required. Therefore, it is important to investigate the development trends of sustainable battery technologies by forecasting technological convergence concerning these three aspects. However, no lithium-based battery-related studies have analyzed the fusion of technologies regarding multiple aspects. In this article, we proposed a multiplex network to identify the sustainable convergence of lithium-based battery technologies. We utilized the patents filed at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The proposed multiplex network consists of three layers representing co-occurrence networks of international patent classification codes for storage, safety, and recycling technologies of batteries, respectively. Specifically, we focused on the technological convergence of the lithium-ion battery, the most influential energy storage solution for electronic products, and the lithium-based solid-state battery, which can be applied to recently emerging robust safety and energy-intensive products. The result of the article suggests future battery technology areas that consider three aspects. This article is expected to contribute to presenting guidelines for sustainable technology development to stakeholders in the complexly characterized battery industry.","PeriodicalId":55009,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142172636","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":"Pricing Decisions for an On-Demand Crowdsourced Delivery Platform With Differentiated Service Levels","authors":"Ying Dai;Shan He;Zujun Ma","doi":"10.1109/TEM.2024.3450574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2024.3450574","url":null,"abstract":"Motivated by the diverse services provided by various on-demand service platforms to satisfy customers’ different needs, we investigate the pricing of an on-demand crowdsourced delivery platform (CDP) with differentiated service levels. Using a multinomial logit model, we propose a two-sided market framework for investigating the pricing decisions of a CDP with two differentiated service levels under a general variable commission scheme and a fixed-rate commission scheme. The results show that 1) the two-sided pricing mechanism (price and wage decisions) allows the supply to match the demand for different service levels, except when the CDP adopts a fixed-rate commission scheme; and 2) depending on the magnitude of the fixed commission rate, adopting a fixed-rate commission scheme has different impacts on the equilibrium outcomes. We also extend our model by including the commission scheme and multiple service levels. The results show that 1) the CDP can achieve a higher optimal profit under the courier classification scheme than under a benchmark variable commission scheme, and 2) offering senders and couriers diversified service levels benefits the CDP. This article provides CDP practitioners with a quantitative tool for pricing for service-level menus.","PeriodicalId":55009,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142173992","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":"Has China's Carbon Emissions Trading Policy Induced Energy Conservation and Emissions Reduction in the Power Sector?","authors":"Wei Shi;Yue-Jun Zhang;Jing-Yue Liu","doi":"10.1109/TEM.2024.3450523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2024.3450523","url":null,"abstract":"China's carbon emissions trading (CET) policy is a major market-oriented environmental policy that promotes energy conservation and emissions reduction. However, it is still in the initial stage of development, and its effectiveness is still highly controversial. Therefore, this article employs the difference-in-differences and event study methods to determine whether China's CET policy can promote energy conservation and emissions reduction in the power sector based on a comprehensive dataset containing power enterprise, power sectoral, and provincial data from 2005 to 2021. The results indicate that China's CET policy has significantly reduced CO\u0000<sub>2</sub>\u0000 emissions in the power sector by 12.4% during the sample period, but it has no significant effect on energy conservation; in addition, China's CET policy has not exerted an expectation effect on energy conservation and emissions reduction in the power sector but has a three-year lag effect; finally, investing in renewable power generation has become the primary measure for power sector to respond to CET regulations.","PeriodicalId":55009,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142173945","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}