Journal of Modelling in Management: Volume 13 Issue 1

Inventory models for joint pricing and greening effort decisions with discounts

Syed Asif Raza, Mohd. Nishat Faisal

This paper aims to develop efficient decision support tools for a firm’s environment protection by using greening effort while yet improving profitability by utilizing pricing and…

Supply chain scheduling and routing in multi-site manufacturing system (case study: a drug manufacturing company)

Mohammad Ali Beheshtinia, Amir Ghasemi, Moein Farokhnia

This study aims to propose a new genetic algorithm for solving supply chain scheduling and routing problem in a multi-site manufacturing system. The main research question is…

Double moderated mediation models: problems and (part) remedies

George Chryssochoidis

Researchers in management regularly face modelling issues that involve double-moderated mediation models. Here, the author illustrates how to conceptualise, specify and…

A two-period pricing model with hunger marketing strategy

Lili Yu, Juzhi Zhang

This paper aims to investigate the effect of hunger marketing strategy on supply chain pricing and coordinate the supply chain through a two-period pricing model.

Evaluating two-stage holistic production systems using novel CSDEA approach

Dujun Zhai, Minyue Jin, Jennifer Shang, Chenfeng Ji

The purpose of this paper is to apply data envelopment analysis (DEA) techniques to the collective decision-making environment to appraise two-stage production process under…

Modeling brand resonance score (BRS) – an application in financial services

Ande Raja Ambedkar, Punniyamoorthy Murugesan, N. Thamaraiselvan

The experts in industry and academicians value brand resonance is the prerequisite factor in the firms of financial services. In this regard, the purpose of this paper is to model…

Employing fuzzy ANP for ranking the personality of international brands in the sports shoe industry

Javad Khazaei Pool, S. Mohammad Arabzad, Sobhan Asian, Milad Fahimi, Reza Verij Kazemi

This paper aims to provide a quantitative basis to analytically determine the ranking of the brand personality of Adidas, Asics, Nike, Puma and Saucony brands among Iranian…

Vendor-managed inventory in the joint replenishment problem of a multi-product single-supplier multiple-retailer supply chain: A teacher-learner-based optimization algorithm

Seyed Hamid Reza Pasandideh, Seyed Taghi Akhavan Niaki, Pejman Ahmadi

In this paper, the joint replenishment problem is modeled for a two-level supply chain consisting of a single supplier and multiple retailers that use the vendor-managed inventory…

An extension of case-based decision theory by using Dempster–Shafer theory of evidence

Fei Du, Feiyan Liu

This study aims to propose a new decision-making method by integrating case-based decision theory and the Dempster–Shafer theory of evidence.

An interpretive structural modeling approach to advertisement effectiveness in the Indian mobile phone industry

Prateek Maheshwari, Nitin Seth, Anoop Kumar Gupta

The mobile phone industry in India is highly competitive, fast paced and technology-driven. In such a hyper competitive era, effective advertising is considered a key success…

Analysing the impact of different classical controller strategies on the dynamics performance of production-inventory systems using state space approach

Huthaifa AL-Khazraji, Colin Cole, William Guo

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of applying two classical controller strategies, including two proportional (P) controllers with two feedback loops and one…

A multi-objective location-allocation model in mass casualty events response

Mahsa Pouraliakbarimamaghani, Mohammad Mohammadi, Abolfazl Mirzazadeh

When designing an optimization model for use in a mass casualty event response, it is common to encounter the heavy and considerable demand of injured patients and inadequate…