Industrial Management & Data Systems: Volume 122 Issue 2

Personalized content recommendation in online health communities

Hangzhou Yang, Huiying Gao

Recommending suitable content for users of online health communities (OHCs) is critical for overcoming information overload problem and facilitate medical decision making, but…

The dynamics of cryptocurrency market behavior: sentiment analysis using Markov chains

Kwansoo Kim, Sang-Yong Tom Lee, Saïd Assar

The authors examine cryptocurrency market behavior using a hidden Markov model (HMM). Under the assumption that the cryptocurrency market has unobserved heterogeneity, an HMM…

Environmental efficiency of Xiangjiang River in China: a data envelopment analysis cross-efficiency approach

Qingxian An, Zhaokun Cheng, Shasha Shi, Fenfen Li

Environmental performance becomes a key issue for the sustainable development. Recently, incremental information technology is adopted to collect environmental data and improve…

The effects of socio-technical integration on sustainability practices: a supply chain perspective

Shuo Shan, Yongyi Shou, Mingu Kang, Youngwon Park

This study aims to investigate sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) through the lens of socio-technical system (STS) theory. Specifically, it examines the individual and…

Artificial intelligence in safety-critical systems: a systematic review

Yue Wang, Sai Ho Chung

This study is a systematic literature review of the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in safety-critical systems. The authors aim to present the current application…

Understanding Ant Forest continuance: effects of user experience, personal attributes and motivational factors

Muhammad Ashfaq, Qingyu Zhang, Abaid Ullah Zafar, Mehwish Malik, Abdul Waheed

Technology has emerged as a leading tool to address concerns regarding climate change in the recent era. As a result, the green mobile application – Ant Forest – was developed…

The role of key online reviews in affecting online hotel booking: an empirical investigation

Dong Zhang, Pengkun Wu, Chong Wu

The importance of online reviews on online hotel booking has been widely acknowledged. However, not all online reviews affect consumers equally. Compared with common online…

Low-carbon VRP for cold chain logistics considering real-time traffic conditions in the road network

Qinyang Bai, Xaioqin Yin, Ming K. Lim, Chenchen Dong

This paper studies low-carbon vehicle routing problem (VRP) for cold chain logistics with the consideration of the complexity of the road network and the time-varying traffic…

How does information integration enhance SMEs’ credit quality: the mediating role of supply chain capabilities

Yaqin Yuan, Linlin Liu, Liu Liu

This paper aims to investigate the relationship between information integration, supply chain capabilities and credit quality of small and middle enterprises (SMEs) in supply…