Industrial Management & Data Systems: Volume 120 Issue 3

Forecasting container throughput with long short-term memory networks

Sonali Shankar, P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan, Sushil Punia, Surya Prakash Singh

Better forecasting always leads to better management and planning of the operations. The container throughput data are complex and often have multiple seasonality. This makes it…

Social-media-based risk communication for data co-security on the cloud

Jean Pierre Guy Gashami, Christian Fernando Libaque-Saenz, Younghoon Chang

Cloud computing has disrupted the information technology (IT) industry. Associated benefits such as flexibility, payment on an on-demand basis and the lack of no need for IT staff…

Content marketing in e-commerce platforms in the internet celebrity economy

Ruibin Geng, Shichao Wang, Xi Chen, Danyang Song, Jie Yu

With the popularity of social media and, recently, live streaming, internet celebrity endorsements have become a prevalent approach to content marketing for e-commerce sellers…

Analyses of factors influencing Chinese repeated blood donation behavior: Delivered value theory perspective

Xu Chen, Shuyao Wu, Xinyu Guo

The purpose of this paper is to link subjective data obtained from a questionnaire survey with blood donation behavioral data, constructs a conceptual model of the factors that…

Inducing stock market lexicons from disparate Chinese texts

Futao Zhao, Zhong Yao, Jing Luan, Hao Liu

The purpose of this paper is to propose a methodology to construct a stock market sentiment lexicon by incorporating domain-specific knowledge extracted from diverse Chinese media…

A novel facility location problem for taxi hailing platforms: A two-stage neighborhood search heuristic approach

Hong Ma, Ni Shen, Jing Zhu, Mingrong Deng

Motivated by a problem in the context of DiDi Travel, the biggest taxi hailing platform in China, the purpose of this paper is to propose a novel facility location problem…

Improving assessment capability for accounts receivable pool financiers: An empirical investigation

Xiao Song, Hao Ying, Xiande Zhao, Lujie Chen

The accounts receivable pool (ARP) is an e-invoice management system that provides suppliers with easy access to financial service. The purpose of this paper is to focus on the…

Impact of product description and involvement on purchase intention in cross-border e-commerce

Jian Mou, Wenlong Zhu, Morad Benyoucef

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of product description and involvement on purchase intention in a cross-border e-commerce (CBEC) setting from a…

Perceived trustworthiness in using B2B digital services

Heli Hallikainen, Saku Hirvonen, Tommi Laukkanen

The purpose of this paper is to examine how the perceived trustworthiness of a B2B service provider relates to a business customer’s intention to use digital services from that…

Design of Blockchain-based Precision Health-Care Using Soft Systems Methodology

Ravi Sharma, Charcy Zhang, Stephen C. Wingreen, Nir Kshetri, Arnob Zahid

The purpose of this paper is to describe the application of soft systems methodology (SSM) to address the problematic situation of low opt-in rates for Precision Health-Care (PHC).