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Exploring the Role of Government Affiliation on Corporate Clean Energy Consumption: A Legitimacy Perspective 政府隶属关系在企业清洁能源消费中的作用：一个合法性视角

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IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management Pub Date : 2025-03-07 DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2025.3567800

Wei Liu;Yingbo Xu;Ruxi Wang;Junjie Liu

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Risks in On-Demand Service Platform Operations: The Innovative Framework With SET Strategies 按需服务平台运营的风险：SET战略的创新框架

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IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management Pub Date : 2025-03-06 DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2025.3567473

Lu Yang;Tsan-Ming Choi;Xiutian Shi

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Learning-Based Bundling Strategy for Two Products Under Uncertain Consumer's Valuations 消费者价值不确定下基于学习的两种产品捆绑策略

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IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management Pub Date : 2025-03-06 DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2025.3567326

Lang Fang;Jiafu Tang;Zhendong Pan

{"title":"Learning-Based Bundling Strategy for Two Products Under Uncertain Consumer's Valuations","authors":"Lang Fang;Jiafu Tang;Zhendong Pan","doi":"10.1109/TEM.2025.3567326","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2025.3567326","url":null,"abstract":"Should a firm engage in bundling to boost revenue when consumer's valuations of products are heterogeneous and uncertain? In recent years, technological advances have made it possible for firms to use large amounts of available data to make decisions under demand-side information uncertainty. However, it remains unclear exactly how they can dynamically optimize bundling and pricing decisions by learning from uncertain consumer's valuations. To answer this question, in this article, we study the bundling and pricing decisions of a monopoly firm offering a basic product and a premium product over finite <italic>T periods. We first analyze the equilibrium outcomes of pure component strategies and pure bundling strategies (PBSs) under deterministic consumer's valuations. We then introduce a learning-based bundling strategy (LBBS) framework to make decisions dynamically over time. It employs Thompson sampling to estimate the fractions of low-valuation consumers (LVCs) of two products, allowing the firm to adjust its decisions based on updated beliefs about consumer's valuation distributions. We demonstrate the robust performance of the LBBS and show the interesting findings. That is, the fraction of LVC of premium product, the ratio between high and low valuation of basic product, the ratio of low valuation and the ratio of high valuation of two products wield significant influence on the adoption of bundling strategy and its possibility. These findings offer practical guidance to firm's practitioners regarding when and which PBS to adopt and how to improve PBS decisions according to the fractions of LVC of products. We also extend the model to uniform distribution of consumer's valuations and correlated consumer's valuations to test our results.","PeriodicalId":55009,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management","volume":"72 ","pages":"1970-1982"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144139951","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}

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Portfolio Scenarios for Interrelated Projects 相互关联项目的组合场景

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IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management Pub Date : 2025-03-05 DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2025.3548532

Vipin Agrawal;Jaya Singhal;Kalyan Singhal

{"title":"Portfolio Scenarios for Interrelated Projects","authors":"Vipin Agrawal;Jaya Singhal;Kalyan Singhal","doi":"10.1109/TEM.2025.3548532","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2025.3548532","url":null,"abstract":"Most papers on the selection of portfolios of interrelated projects employ mixed-integer programming optimization, data envelopment analysis, and heuristics, along with a few other methods. Although optimizing models do allow the user to find both the optimal and other solutions through sensitivity analysis, they tend to exclude portfolios that might be more desirable because of a combination of quantitative and qualitative criteria. For all practical purposes, these methods do not consider the entire set of <italic>possible portfolios, which could be or is assumed to be large. These possible portfolios consist of two groups: those that are not feasible because of mutually exclusive relationships between projects and those that are feasible. Our focus in this article is to identify all feasible portfolios such that the resulting set does not include any portfolio that contains projects with mutually exclusive relationships. We deploy a compatibility matrix that incorporates both the complex interactions and the extent to which projects are mutually exclusive or mutually complementary. We then generate a complete and inclusive set of project portfolio scenarios in which no single portfolio contains mutually exclusive projects. The resulting set generally has a manageable number of project portfolios. We then analyze the complete spectrum of project interactions with mutual exclusivity at one end, complete complementarity at the other, and project independence at the midpoint. Our deceptively simple method can stand alone or be used in conjunction with almost any of the existing methods. This article describes our innovative conceptual framework, which we believe could exert broad influence over managerial practice.","PeriodicalId":55009,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management","volume":"72 ","pages":"1154-1162"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143800779","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}

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Optimal Pricing and Launching Strategy for Quality-Differentiated Products in the Presence of Online Reviews 在线评论下质量差异化产品的最优定价与推出策略

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IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management Pub Date : 2025-03-05 DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2025.3562634

Yang Wang;Zhenzhong Guan;Lin Feng

{"title":"Optimal Pricing and Launching Strategy for Quality-Differentiated Products in the Presence of Online Reviews","authors":"Yang Wang;Zhenzhong Guan;Lin Feng","doi":"10.1109/TEM.2025.3562634","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2025.3562634","url":null,"abstract":"Online reviews substantially affect the launching strategies of quality-differentiated products as subsequent consumers could directly or indirectly infer the experience level of either version based on reviews. We construct a two-period model to investigate these strategies considering the sentiment ratio (i.e., consumers weigh more on negative reviews than positive ones). Our findings indicate that in the presence of online reviews, continuing to offer both versions benefits the seller, though discontinuing the previously introduced version may increase surplus for customers and society. We analytically derive the optimal launching strategies, and highlight the significance of the sentiment ratio, the quality and the quality-differentiated levels on the decision-making. Interestingly, the strategy of introducing the low-version followed by the high-version can be optimal under a low sentiment ratio. We also disclose the impact of online reviews on dynamic pricing. In addition, we reveal the conditions under which managers could maximize the value of online reviews. Finally, several extended cases are explored to verify the robustness of the main results. Our research not only contributes to literature but also offers practical insights for managers to dynamically adjust prices and strategically alter the launching strategies considering the impact of online reviews.","PeriodicalId":55009,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management","volume":"72 ","pages":"1909-1923"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144131665","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}

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Factoring Financing: A Critical Factor in Channel Choice and Performance in E-Commerce Supply Chains 保理融资：电子商务供应链渠道选择与绩效的关键因素

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IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management Pub Date : 2025-03-05 DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2025.3567050

Tiantian Li;Jianwen Luo

{"title":"Factoring Financing: A Critical Factor in Channel Choice and Performance in E-Commerce Supply Chains","authors":"Tiantian Li;Jianwen Luo","doi":"10.1109/TEM.2025.3567050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2025.3567050","url":null,"abstract":"As e-commerce platforms play an increasingly important intermediary role in supply chains, manufacturers must decide between two sales models offered by platforms: business-to-consumer (B2C), where manufacturers sell directly to consumers, and business-to-business-to-consumer (B2B2C), where manufacturers sell to a platform that markets products to consumers. Manufacturers operating in the B2B2C channel typically sign <italic>profit-margin-guarantee (PMG) contracts requiring them to ensure minimum profit margins for the platform under specified conditions. While providing manufacturers with sales opportunities, this exacerbates the financial burden on small- and medium-sized manufacturers (SMEs) with limited capital. This article explores the optimal financing decisions and sales channel choices for manufacturers under the factoring financing (FF) model, where manufacturers sell their accounts receivable to a factor entity to alleviate liquidity constraints. We find: 1) The initial accounts receivable level significantly influences manufacturers’ sales channel choice—when accounts receivable are low, the B2B2C channel's PMG contracts may not be advantageous for manufacturers, but when they are high, dual-channel operations (B2C and B2B2C) may benefit the platform, although manufacturers’ gains might be limited. 2) Higher FF ratios do not consistently enhance manufacturers’ performance, as overreliance on financing can increase operational risks. 3) Although conventional wisdom suggests that manufacturers should lower wholesale prices to mitigate the pressures of PMG contracts, platforms can foster beneficial arrangements by reducing the PMG rate, which improves supply chain efficiency. We develop a theoretical framework for channel choice, contract design, and financing strategies, providing actionable insights for SMEs to optimize e-commerce supply chain operations.","PeriodicalId":55009,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management","volume":"72 ","pages":"2018-2034"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144185924","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}

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Blockchain and Machine Learning in the Green Economy: Pioneering Carbon Neutrality Through Innovative Trading Technologies 区块链和绿色经济中的机器学习：通过创新交易技术开拓碳中和

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IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management Pub Date : 2025-03-04 DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2025.3547730

Fan Yang;Mohammad Zoynul Abedin;Petr Hajek;Yanan Qiao

{"title":"Blockchain and Machine Learning in the Green Economy: Pioneering Carbon Neutrality Through Innovative Trading Technologies","authors":"Fan Yang;Mohammad Zoynul Abedin;Petr Hajek;Yanan Qiao","doi":"10.1109/TEM.2025.3547730","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2025.3547730","url":null,"abstract":"In response to the pressing imperative of combating climate change on a global scale, a new era of carbon neutrality is steadily emerging. Achieving carbon neutrality is critical, and in the digital economy, technology-driven business models are essential for reducing carbon emissions through effective carbon emission trading systems. However, current research on carbon emission trading suffers from inadequate privacy protection, low efficiency in data sharing and model construction, as well as insufficient capabilities in automated and autonomous model building. Therefore, this study focuses on utilizing blockchain and automated machine learning for data sharing and modeling to enhance carbon neutrality. First, we design the architecture of the system and the mechanism for storing data on the blockchain. We then devise methods for storing and trading carbon emission transactions on the blockchain and construct the process for issuing carbon credits. In addition, our proposed method incorporates neural architecture search to develop a carbon trading price forecasting model. By leveraging data augmentation for carbon emission price time series and utilizing triplet loss for model training, we enhance the reliability and security of carbon trading investment through accurate price forecasting. The experimental results further demonstrate the robust performance and precision of our carbon emission price forecasting module. Consequently, our approach provides efficient carbon emission trading services to businesses and individuals, offering a robust solution for global carbon emission reduction and the achievement of carbon neutrality.","PeriodicalId":55009,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management","volume":"72 ","pages":"1117-1139"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143800781","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}

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Sticky Information Technology Investment: Theory and Empirical Evidence 粘性信息技术投资：理论与实证

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IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management Pub Date : 2025-03-03 DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2025.3547691

Peng Liang;Hasan Cavusoglu;Nan Hu

{"title":"Sticky Information Technology Investment: Theory and Empirical Evidence","authors":"Peng Liang;Hasan Cavusoglu;Nan Hu","doi":"10.1109/TEM.2025.3547691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2025.3547691","url":null,"abstract":"This article provides a new way of thinking about managerial discretion in information technology (IT) investment decisions. We delve into the existence, antecedents, and consequences of sticky IT investment behavior, an understudied managerial deliberate resource commitment decision in response to changes in sales. Guided by downsizing theory, we initially theorize and find that IT investments exhibit stickiness: IT investments move downward less for sales decreases than they move upward for equivalent increases. Then drawing upon agency theory, adjustment costs theory, and managerial expectations theory—which influence managers’ motivation for downsizing—we predict and demonstrate that managers’ empire-building incentives, their avoidance of adjustment costs, and their optimism regarding future sales strengthen their engagement in sticky IT investments. Furthermore, we introduce and operationalize three novel measures of firm-specific IT investment stickiness that reflect slack IT resources during sales downturns, respectively, capturing the influence of empire-building incentives, adjustment costs, and managerial optimism. Built on these measures, we uncover that the degree of stickiness in a firm's IT investments offers additional insights into predicting future performance, growth in future IT labor, and growth in future sales. Overall, our work formulates an integrative conceptual framework for understanding sticky IT investment that incorporates the presence and antecedents of managers’ asymmetric IT investment decisions, as well as the implications of firm-specific sticky IT investment for forecasting future corporate outcomes. We discuss these findings and their practical and theoretical implications in detail.","PeriodicalId":55009,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management","volume":"72 ","pages":"1010-1026"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143698224","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}

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Untangling the Nonlinear Impact of Digital Innovation on Operational Efficiency 解开数字创新对运营效率的非线性影响

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IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management Pub Date : 2025-03-02 DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2025.3566115

Jie Deng;Jing Dai;Jinan Shao;Wuyue Shangguan

{"title":"Untangling the Nonlinear Impact of Digital Innovation on Operational Efficiency","authors":"Jie Deng;Jing Dai;Jinan Shao;Wuyue Shangguan","doi":"10.1109/TEM.2025.3566115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2025.3566115","url":null,"abstract":"In the digital era, digital innovation incorporating emerging digital technologies has profoundly revolutionized firms’ operations management. While digital innovation helps firms optimize operational processes and thus improves their operational efficiency, it also impairs operational efficiency by disrupting existing operating practices and routines. To disentangle this dilemma, this study combines the disruptive innovation literature and dynamic capability theory to explore the nonlinear impact of digital innovation on operational efficiency. Employing a dataset of 1527 Chinese listed firms from 2008 to 2019, we find that there is a U-shaped relationship between digital innovation and operational efficiency. Furthermore, different types of functional experiences in top management teams (TMTs) exert varying effects on this U-shaped relationship. Interestingly, throughput functional experience (i.e., production and manufacturing experience) in TMTs flattens the U-shaped digital innovation–operational efficiency linkage, whereas output functional experience (i.e., R&D, marketing, and sales experience) in TMTs steepens this curvilinear linkage. This research extends the growing literature on digital innovation by providing novel insights into the comprehension of the U-shaped digital innovation–operational efficiency relationship. Moreover, this study uncovers the distinct moderating roles of different types of functional experiences in TMTs, guiding firms to overcome the hurdle of digital innovation and harness more benefits from it.","PeriodicalId":55009,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management","volume":"72 ","pages":"1954-1969"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144139952","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}

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Enabling and Inhibiting Leadership Behaviors in Continuous Improvement 持续改进中的领导行为激励与抑制

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IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management Pub Date : 2025-02-28 DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2025.3546696

Bart A. Lameijer;Corine T. Boon;Desirée H. van Dun;Deanne N. den Hartog

{"title":"Enabling and Inhibiting Leadership Behaviors in Continuous Improvement","authors":"Bart A. Lameijer;Corine T. Boon;Desirée H. van Dun;Deanne N. den Hartog","doi":"10.1109/TEM.2025.3546696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2025.3546696","url":null,"abstract":"Leaders play a key role in continuous improvement (CI) implementations. However, the research on CI-enabling versus CI-inhibiting leadership behaviors remains fragmented. Our research reviews empirically validate and extend the understanding of CI leadership behaviors by examining low versus high maturity and capability building versus value maximization CI implementations. After providing a literature review focused on leadership behaviors that affect CI implementation processes, we did expert interviews to see whether informants recognized these behaviors. Then, we did a survey among 144 key informants to empirically validate the relative importance of CI leadership behaviors and the moderating effect of CI implementation archetype and maturity level. Robustness analyses comprised instrument variable-based endogeneity treatment and secondary data-based common method bias assessment. No overall direct relationship was found between <italic>“command-and-control” behaviors and CI implementation success, although these behaviors did have positive effects depending on the type of CI implementation. Also, “<italic>inspirational role modeling, coaching, and empowering” behaviors relate positively to implementation success, especially in low-maturity CI implementations, regardless of their archetype. Unexpectedly, <italic>“serving” behaviors were found to relate negatively to implementation success and were mostly relevant for low maturity and economically driven CI implementation archetypes. The results provide a prioritization of significant CI leadership behaviors and a novel measurement tool. We show how these leadership behaviors are contextually contingent upon different CI implementation situations. This mixed-methods study answers calls for more systematic scientific attention to the social components of CI implementation.","PeriodicalId":55009,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management","volume":"72 ","pages":"1231-1247"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143860958","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}

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