Journal of Modelling in Management: Volume 13 Issue 2

Optimal decisions and coordination strategy of a capital-constrained supply chain under customer return and supplier subsidy

Gongbing Bi, Ping Chen, Yalei Fei

The purpose of the paper is to explore impacts of financing and supplier subsidy on capital-constrained retailer and the value of returns subsidy contract under a situation where…

Procedural fairness concerns in supply chain with retailer promotional effort

Tengfei Nie, Hualin Liu, Yilun Dong, Shaofu Du

The existing literature has a lack of modeling of procedural fairness concerns in the supply chain level. This paper aims to investigate how procedural fairness concerns affect…

Metrics of product modularity: lessons learned from case companies

Ahm Shamsuzzoha, Sujan Piya, Mahmood Al-Kindi, Nasr Al-Hinai

Modular product development is a turning table concept in terms of benefits and impact in manufacturing companies. It offers added benefits to the companies with respect to reduce…

Managing a retailer’s dual-channel supply chain under price- and delivery time-sensitive demand

Subrata Saha, Nikunja Mohan Modak, Shibaji Panda, Shib Sankar Sana

This paper aims to explore optimal pricing policies and characteristics of a two-level dual-channel supply chain under price- and delivery time-sensitive demand. Besides price of…

Within-group common benchmarking the environmental efficiency in China with data envelopment analysis

Chaoxin Cheng, Sheng Ang

Economic growth of China in the past decades has caused rapid increase in energy consumption and environmental deterioration. Therefore, it is critical to make an environmental…

Investment portfolio formation via multicriteria decision aid: a Brazilian stock market study

Marcio Pereira Basilio, Jéssica Galdino de Freitas, Milton George Fonseca Kämpffe, Ricardo Bordeaux Rego

The purpose of this paper is to identify how multicriteria decision aid (MCDA) can assist the investment portfolios formation, increasing the reliability of decision-making.

Modeling multiple levels of targets in operational efficiency evaluation with DEA

Xia Long, Qiong Xia

Researchers have noticed that in efficiency assessment, some attributes exhibit specializations including non-discretionary, non-controllable or undesirable. This paper aims to…

A game theoretic approach to optimal pricing of flights and passengers at congested airports

Ata Allah Taleizadeh, Moeen Sammak Jalali, Shib Sankar Sana

This paper aims to embark a mathematical model based on investigation and comparison of airport pricing policies under various types of competition, considering both per-passenger…

Assembly line balancing problem: A comparative evaluation of heuristics and a computational assessment of objectives

Masood Fathi, Dalila Benedita Machado Martins Fontes, Matias Urenda Moris, Morteza Ghobakhloo

The purpose of this study is to first investigate the efficiency of the most commonly used performance measures for minimizing the number of workstations (NWs) in approaches…

Toward a national participation index for developing countries in the global value chains: A graph theoretic modelling approach

Faisal Ahmed, Pravin Kumar

The purpose of this paper is to identify factors which influence participation of developing countries in the global value chains (GVC) and to present a mathematical modeling…

Technology transfer in prescription drug market

Xing Li, Minyue Jin

Many people in developing countries are suffering from serious diseases, such as HIV and tuberculosis. On the other hand, drug patents impact the availability of the drug for…