Industrial Management & Data Systems: Volume 119 Issue 3

A comparative study on industrial spillover effects among Korea, China, the USA, Germany and Japan

Yong-Ki Min, Sang-Gun Lee, Yaichi Aoshima

Starting from industry 4.0 in Germany and followed by the New Strategy for American Innovation in the USA and the smartization strategy in Japan, developed countries are pushing…

A green vehicle routing model based on modified particle swarm optimization for cold chain logistics

Yan Li, Ming K. Lim, Ming-Lang Tseng

This paper studies green vehicle routing problems of cold chain logistics with the consideration of the full set of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and an optimization model of…

The influence of chief data officer presence on firm performance: does firm size matter?

Yu Nie, John Talburt, Serhan Dagtas, Taiwen Feng

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between the chief data officer’s (CDO) presence and firm performance, and the moderating effect of firm size.

The optimization of pricing strategy for the wind power equipment aftermarket service

Lingcheng Kong, Ling Liang, Jianhong Xu, Weisi Zhang, Weijun Zhu

Although the wind power industry has been booming in China during the last decade, the development of wind turbine aftermarket service is still lagging behind, which seriously…

Kit preparation for mixed-model assembly: efficiency impact of confirmation methods

Patrik Fager

Confirmations are applied in kit preparation for mixed-model assembly to promote quality, but research that explains the impact on time efficiency has been lacking. The purpose of…

Developing intuitionistic fuzzy seasonality regression with particle swarm optimization for air pollution forecasting

Chung-Han Ho, Ping-Teng Chang, Kuo-Chen Hung, Kuo-Ping Lin

The purpose of this paper is to develop a novel intuitionistic fuzzy seasonality regression (IFSR) with particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithms to accurately forecast air…

Joint optimal decision of the shared distribution system through revenue-sharing and cooperative investment contracts

Qiang Wei, Sheng Li, Xinyu Gou, Baofeng Huo

The rapid development of e-commerce has caused not only explosive growth of the express delivery industry, but also ever-greater operational pressures. Models from the sharing…

The effect of IT ambidexterity and cloud computing absorptive capacity on competitive advantage

Younghoon Chang, Siew Fan Wong, Uchenna Eze, Hwansoo Lee

Founded on the concept of organizational ambidexterity and the competing value model, the purpose of this paper is to develop an information technology (IT) ambidexterity…

Strategic information sharing and competition under cap-and-trade regulation

Man Yu, Erbao Cao

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether truthful information sharing can be achieved via informal cheap talk in a competitive setting, and how carbon emission…

Critical success factors in ERP upgrade projects

Christian Barth, Stefan Koch

In the last years the penetration of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems within small, medium and large organizations increased steadily. Organizations are forced to adapt…

Malicious web domain identification using online credibility and performance data by considering the class imbalance issue

Zhongyi Hu, Raymond Chiong, Ilung Pranata, Yukun Bao, Yuqing Lin

Malicious web domain identification is of significant importance to the security protection of internet users. With online credibility and performance data, the purpose of this…